Anxiety Therapy in Plano, TX

Is This You?

Maybe you are constantly worried about something at work, school, or in your recovery. Maybe the worry never fully turns off, even when you tell yourself to relax. Maybe you have tried breathing exercises, positive thinking, meditation, or apps, and they helped for a little while, but the anxiety always comes back.

Maybe you have been to therapy before and it helped, but the relief never seemed to last. Maybe you are tired of being told to just think positively or breathe deeply. Maybe you are afraid that if you let yourself feel the anxiety fully, you will fall apart.

Maybe you are here because what previously worked for you no longer sustains you. You need something deeper. You are looking for understanding, not just coping.

Anxiety is trying to tell you something important. This is a place to listen.

What This Often Looks Like

• Generalized Worry: Constant concern about work, school, recovery, relationships, or the future that never fully quiets.
• Panic Attacks: Sudden, overwhelming fear with physical symptoms like racing heart, shortness of breath, dizziness, or a sense of doom.
• Social Anxiety: Fear of judgment, embarrassment, or rejection in social situations. Avoiding gatherings, speaking up, or meeting new people.
• Health Anxiety: Persistent worry about physical symptoms or fear of serious illness despite medical reassurance.
• Performance Anxiety: Intense pressure to succeed, fear of failure, or perfectionism that paralyzes rather than motivates.
• Overthinking and Rumination: Replaying conversations, decisions, or worries over and over without resolution.
• Avoidance Behaviors: Pulling back from situations, people, or opportunities because the anxiety feels too overwhelming to face.
• Physical Symptoms: Difficulty sleeping, tension headaches, digestive issues, muscle tightness, or chronic fatigue.

How We Work Together

I bring myself honestly into the room with you. No performance. No clinical distance.

My primary approach is relational psychodynamic and attachment based. This means we are not just going to talk about coping strategies or positive thinking. We are going to look at where your anxiety came from, what it is protecting you from, and what it is trying to tell you.

For many clients, previous therapists used CBT only. I do incorporate CBT into my work to help you stabilize and build practical tools. But then we go deeper.

We look at your attachment style. How your upbringing impacted you. How your attachment patterns are currently impacting your levels of anxiety. When we understand why we are having anxiety, it enables us to regulate and address the triggers in a lasting way.

The underlying question I am trying to help you answer is this: what is the underlying need that needs to be met in this moment of high anxiety? Is it safety? Security? Control? By identifying these core needs, we can begin to work through them and provide you with tools to address them when anxiety is triggered in the future.

Anxiety may actually be a self-fulfilling prophecy in your life. Since we tend to recreate our childhood dynamics in our adulthood, many people think anxiety is something happening to them when it may be that they are recreating an environment that is not healthy. This is on a case by case basis, but understanding this framework is essential.

We will use affect attunement and attachment work to help you understand how your body responds to triggers, identify those feelings, process them, and regulate your nervous system. If you had parents who were anxious, how have you recreated what is known and safe, yet harming you now? We often recreate what feels normal to us in order to feel safe. Identifying these patterns is extremely important.

What You Can Expect

Sessions are direct, honest, and grounded in real life, not theory or judgment. Anxious clients who trust the process and stick with therapy often find:

• A deeper understanding of their anxiety, not just what triggers it, but why it showed up in the first place
• The ability to recognize anxiety earlier, catching it before it spirals
• Better regulation of their nervous system
• Healthier relationships, breaking the patterns that recreate anxious dynamics
• Reduced overthinking and rumination
• Freedom from avoidance, gradually facing what you have been avoiding with support
• A new relationship with your anxiety, not as an enemy to defeat, but as a signal

Getting Started

• Step 1: Free Consultation. We will talk for 15 minutes to see if this feels like a fit. No pressure. No commitment.
• Step 2: First Session. We will talk through what brought you in, where you are stuck, and what you are hoping for.
• Step 3: Ongoing Work. Steady, honest sessions at a pace that respects where you are starting from.

Taking the First Step

I hear you. You may have tried therapy before and it did not stick. You may have tried breathing exercises, apps, meditation, or positive thinking and still feel anxious. You may be afraid that if you let yourself feel the anxiety fully, you will fall apart.

Here is what I want you to know: you are not broken. You were trained from an early age to respond the way you do. Neurons and brain chemistry can change. It takes time and work, but it is possible.

I do want to say that I do not think we can always think our way out of anxiety. We are biological creatures with real physical reactions to our environments. Having the right perspective may not calm down your bodily reaction. But it does help us know where the anxiety is coming from, how it is impacting our bodies, and give us data to know how we may be able to soothe our anxiety in a healthy way.

I am not just going to tell you to think positively. I am not going to hand you a worksheet and send you on your way. I am going to help you better manage your anxiety by establishing a secure attachment with you. This allows us to have the relational equity for deep and challenging conversations that spur growth and healing.

It takes courage to admit you cannot do it alone. It takes even more courage to actually reach out and ask for help. That courage is already in you. You just need a place to let it out. I know money is a concern, time is a concern, and it is scary to talk to a stranger about your deepest fears. I will meet you where you are, and we will go at your pace. If I am not the right fit, I will help you find someone who is.

You do not need to have this figured out before you show up. Let us start with a free 15 minute consultation.