Calm. Nurture. Transform.
Anxiety Therapy
in-person in Lafayette and Walnut Creek, CA
virtual in San Francisco Bay Area and across CA & PA.
“We are nervous beings, in nervous nations, at an increasingly nervous time.”
- Jen Seriano, author of Nervous.
Perhaps you don’t know how to feel settled. Everyday tasks feel more difficult than they need to be.
Perhaps “what-ifs” thoughts blizzard - constantly undermining your actions and connections. Second guessing yourself is the norm.
Perhaps the incessant worries & doubts shower your mind. You can’t help but to do everything-and-nothing well, to opt-out of tasks or activities.
Perhaps you feel scared and tense - nauseous or achy in your pit. This inner jitteriness, tenseness, and the worn-out-ness are all-over.
Perhaps you don’t know when your heart is going to jump out of your chest. Sometimes you can barely catch your breath. Perhaps it happens way too often, leaving you weathered, lost, and confined.
You are tired of the persistent cloud of fear or catastrophe about everything!
You notice the impact of anxiety in all area of your life - work, relationships, friendships, home, and everywhere!
Don’t let anxiety be a relentless storm
that wears you down & washes you out.
Let’s befriend anxiety with your whole body.
I specialize in mindfulness and somatic therapy
- tools and skills to let anxiety be one of many phenomenons -
not the only ONE!
Imagine…
Our sessions can be a growing refuge to:
-> Catch your breath.
-> Slow down & befriend.
-> Observe and be witnessed in what you are feeling and experiencing.
-> Notice the roots of their singular or repeated patterns and occurrences.
-> Bring compassion and movement to the critical and doubtful inner voices.
-> Let go of fixation of what can’t be changed or controlled.
Experience shifts…
from:
repeated worries
perfectionism & catastrophizing
either/or thinking
immediate reactivity
tossed and battered by ups & downs of life
keeping things from simmering over
to:
new and growing peace
intentional response to your present
rest, daydream, and nourish into yourself, family, & community
growing ability to feel strong emotions, and back to settling
spoken richness & embodied presence with all parts
compassion for the complexity noticed and experienced
Get in touch
Return to the aliveness of your backbone, your beating heart!
Discover renewal today!
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
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My approach to anxiety therapy is holistic, mindful, and somatic-based - centering Somatic Experiencing therapy. Please check out my methods page for more details.
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Roots of anxiousness can predate here-and-now:
pre-natal experiences
enduring social or economic challenges your family faced
cultural oppression
Conditions here-and-now can also exacerbate anxiousness:
ongoing life and work stressors
social media and 24 hours news consumption
environmental degradation and catastrophes happening.
When we experience persistent anxiety, it can indicate that your body is stuck in a threat response pattern of fight, flight, or freeze. Your body and autonomic nervous system may have become habituated to a past painful stressor or experience that the body has stored to react to even now.
Or, there can be real stressors here and now that need your attention and skillful response. We can develop clarity and build capacity and tools for both.
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You find yourself overly concerned about everyday matters, worrying thoughts persisting or worsening.
You find yourself with strong urges to keep busy so bad things won’t happen.
You feel more and more isolated over time.
You don’t know how to settle or ground.
You are having panic attacks, whether with unknown causes or familiar ones.
Jitteriness, tension, or physical discomfort are getting the best of you. This can be a safe, exploratory space to process, to release, and to return unconditional care to you!