Mind-body support for the restless, doubtful mind.
Anxiety Therapy in Boulder and Online Across Colorado
You’re exhausted.
A body that stopped cooperating. A future that looks nothing like the one you planned. A loss that was never tended to. It’s a lot to carry.
For many, anxiety is often what moves in alongside big life changes or in the wake of difficult experiences that carry unprocessed pain. The doubt, the grief, and the fear all get tangled together until they feel like one inseparable knot. Together, we’ll explore what the worry and self-doubt are actually trying to say and where that tension is truly coming from. In time, your mind and body can then begin the steady journey toward peace and safety again, so that you can meet hard days and uncertain moments with a little more steadiness and self-trust.
Some of what I hear most often from the people who find their way to me:
“I'm exhausted always waiting for the other shoe to drop. I used to trust that things would be okay. I don't anymore.”
“I'm so tired of my own thoughts. They feel so stupid and irrational. I don’t know why I can’t just relax and enjoy myself.”
"On the outside I probably seem fine. On the inside my mind feels so busy and loud."
"Ever since my [health] diagnosis, every new symptom sends me into a spiral. I don't feel safe in my own body anymore."
"I've tried therapy before. It helped a little, but the anxiety always comes back."
"I cancel plans, avoid situations, say no to things, and then end up just feeling worse about myself."
"Since losing them I feel anxious all the time. Like something bad is always about to happen."
"I've been like this for so long, I don't even know what it would feel like to actually rest and relax."
"Everyone else seems to handle this stuff fine. I don't know why I can't."
If any of these sound familiar — you're in the right place.
First, a few important things to know about anxiety.
Anxiety is not a character flaw. It is your nervous system doing what it was designed to do: protect you. The problem isn't that you have anxiety. The problem is that somewhere along the way, your threat response got calibrated too high—maybe from past trauma or stress—and now it's firing when it doesn't need to.
Anxiety and avoidance are a cycle. The more we avoid the things that make us anxious, the more anxious we become. It makes sense that you've been doing it because avoidance brings real short-term relief. But it also quietly shrinks your world, and that has a cost.
You are not your anxiety. It can feel so loud and so constant that it starts to feel like just who you are. It isn't. It's a pattern, and patterns can change.
Getting better doesn't mean never feeling anxious again. It means anxiety stops running the show. It means you can feel it, and still do the thing anyway. It means you get your life back.
— TYPES OF ANXIETY I WORK WITH
Anxiety shows up differently for everyone, and not all of it looks the way people expect. I work with the full range.
＋ Generalized Anxiety
＋ PTSD-related Anxiety
＋ Panic Attacks & Panic Disorder
＋ Health Anxiety
＋ Anticipatory Grief
＋ Perfectionism
＋ High-Functioning Anxiety
＋ Social Anxiety
＋ Anxiety with Depression
＋ Burnout & Chronic Stress
— HOW I CAN HELP
We’ll help you build the skills and self-trust to face the unknown, while also helping your nervous system heal and reset.
Working With Your Mind
Anxiety is your nervous system doing exactly what it was built to do. Scan for danger, keep you safe, and protect you from any future harm. Drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and somatic Internal Family Systems (IFS), we’ll get curious about the patterns keeping you stuck. This deeper work will not only give you the tools to better respond to uncertainty with greater compassion and intention, but also shift who you are in relationship to your anxiety.
Listening to Your Body
Anxiety doesn't just live in your mind. It also lives in your body. Integrating somatic therapy, mindfulness, and other mind-body practices, we'll work directly with your nervous system, learning to be with the physical sensations of anxiety without being overwhelmed by them, gently interrupting the patterns that keep your body stuck in high alert, and rebuilding a felt sense of safety that becomes your baseline rather than something you have to chase.
Whether your anxiety has been with you your whole life or something recently pushed you past your limit, I am here to help you find your way back to yourself.
How It Works
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A real conversation, no pressure, no commitment. You share what you've been dealing with, I share how I work, and we both get a sense of whether this might be the right fit.
If you decide to move forward, sessions are 50 minutes. We can meet weekly or every other week depending on what works best for you. I offer in person therapy at The Grove in Boulder or online anywhere in Colorado.
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In the beginning, sessions will focus on building trust and mapping out how your anxiety actually lives in your body. Instead of just trying to "shut it down," we work to identify the physical cues, so you can recognize anxiety as it arrives. We’ll also explore the origins and role of this tension: what is it trying to protect you from, and what are its deepest fears? By understanding where these patterns originated, you can then learn how to better work with your unique brain and system, rather than against them.
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Once rapport and understanding are established, and you feel ready, we’ll move into the active work of shifting your relationship to uncertainty and change. We focus on practicing tangible skills to regulate your nervous system and manage "what if" thoughts in real-time. We move beyond just "holding it together" to making meaningful, values-based changes, helping you show up with a sense of steadiness and confidence that feels sustainable and real.
READY TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP?