What is anxiety?
Anxiety is the brain's threat detection system - useful when there's real danger but exhausting in day-to-day life. For many people, anxiety becomes persistent and shows up across all areas of life, big and small.
What it looks like
For some people anxiety shows up as avoidance, procrastination or overthinking. Sometimes it's physical like having a ball in the throat or tightness in your chest. Sometimes it comes out with rituals like handwashing or even repeatedly asking for reassurance. Anxiety comes out in many ways.
What we treat
Generalized anxiety, panic disorder, OCD, social anxiety, health anxiety, performance anxiety, specific phobias, and stress and burnout.
If restricted eating or ARFID is also part of what you're navigating, see our ARFID and selective eating page.
How we work
For anxiety and OCD, there are evidence-based approaches. We follow them. Treatment is structured, practical, and active. You won't just talk about anxiety, you'll work on it.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps you identify the thought patterns and behaviors that keep anxiety going and change them. You'll learn practical skills to challenge thoughts and respond differently to situations that trigger anxiety.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) takes a different angle than CBT. Rather than challenging anxious thoughts, you learn to have them without being controlled by them and keep moving toward what matters to you.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is the gold-standard treatment for OCD and specific phobias. It involves gradually facing what you fear while resisting the urge to avoid or seek reassurance. It's demanding but it works.
Values Work is important too. Identifying - reminding yourself - of what matters most to you can give you the push to take tough actions to move through the anxiety.
What to expect
We start with a thorough assessment. We want to understand what's driving your anxiety, how it's showing up, and what's kept it going. From there we build a path forward together.