Anxiety, OCD, & Panic Therapy

When you attempt to eliminate risk from your life, you eliminate along with it, your ability to function.
- Fred Penzel

Severe anxiety - whether it be in the form of OCD, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, or Generalized - can be debilitating. It can feel impossible to stay present, to keep relationships, to leave the house, to experience new or different environments, to eat, or even feel normal body sensations without distress.

In the pursuit of safety, you feel your world getting smaller and smaller.

Whether you’ve been struggling for years or this is a new development - you’re not alone. There is hope.

Let’s Break it Down

My approach to anxiety, panic, & OCD therapy.

Anxiety, panic, & OCD symptoms feel different to each person and usually focuses around the things you care about. I use a blend of assessments to give us a good picture of how the effects of anxiety - like avoidance - is showing up in your life.

We will discuss what diagnosis - or none at all, if preferred (see FAQ on diagnosis) - fits and then design your own personalized goals in therapy.

I am trained to use various modalities specifically researched to treat anxiety, panic, & OCD symptoms, regardless of your choice to pursue a diagnosis. Some of my most used are: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP), Inference Based Therapy (ICBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed Parts Work, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), and Somatic/Experiential interventions. These modalities focus on changing your relationship to anxiety, calming the autonomic nervous system, providing crucial empowering psychoeducation, and can utilize safe & compassionate exposure techniques.

I will always approach exposure work with what works for you and will never ask you to do something that I have not done before or would not be willing to do myself. Please read more on Exposure & Response Prevention here.