About
Anxiety is often treated as a thinking problem with thoughts to challenge and worries to reframe. But anxiety is first a body state: a nervous system oriented toward threat, scanning for danger, bracing for what's next. That's why you can understand your anxiety completely and still feel it just as strongly. Insight alone doesn't change the physiology that's generating it.
I'm a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), EMDR-trained, and psychodynamically oriented, which means I work at the level where anxiety lives: in the body, and in the early relational patterns that taught your nervous system vigilance was necessary. Much of what I see also shows up as chronic burnout and unresolved trauma. This looks like high-functioning anxiety, over-responsibility, and a body that's chronically braced even when things are objectively fine. These often share the same roots, so I don't treat them in isolation.
I work with adults ready to go beneath coping strategies and toward a nervous system that can actually rest.
Areas I work with
- Generalized anxiety
- Panic attacks
- Trauma
- PTSD
- Burnout
Approach
I integrate Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, and depth-oriented, relational therapy. Rather than starting with your anxious thoughts, we start with what your body is doing right now, meeting the bracing, the activation, and the parts of you still on alert. We work slowly and titrate carefully, building your capacity for regulation before going into more difficult material. You're never asked to relive or narrate everything in detail; SE and EMDR work with what's present in the body, not just the story.
Alongside the somatic work, I bring a psychodynamic lens to the early experiences and relational patterns that shaped your nervous system's baseline, looking at why vigilance, over-functioning, or people-pleasing may have once felt necessary. The goal isn't just symptom management. It's a genuine shift in your baseline, from chronic activation to real ease.