Anxiety therapy

Anxiety is often your nervous system’s flight response—the body’s way of trying to escape or outrun a perceived threat. Even when you’re not in real danger, your system can get stuck in survival mode, leaving you with racing thoughts, restlessness, tightness in your body, or even moments of shutdown.

Somatic therapy helps by working with both mind and body so your system can relearn the difference between real threat and everyday stress. As your nervous system settles, anxiety symptoms begin to ease. You’ll have more room for connection, clarity, and choice in how you move through daily life.

For many people, Somatic Experiencing and other body-based therapies offer an effective way to reduce anxiety by addressing the nervous system directly. If you’re looking for support in Florida or Illinois, this mind-body approach can help you move beyond just “managing” anxiety and toward lasting change.

Traditional talk therapy often focuses on thoughts, patterns, and the meanings you make from experiences. That can be helpful, but for many people with anxiety, insight alone doesn’t shift how the body keeps responding.

Somatic therapy for anxiety, including Somatic Experiencing, adds a body-based focus. Together, we pay attention to what’s happening in the moment—your breath, posture, impulses, and sensations—and help your nervous system complete stress responses instead of staying stuck in them. This is what allows anxiety to ease at a deeper level.

I also bring in integrative mental health principles, considering lifestyle factors like sleep, nutrition, and movement. This mind-body approach creates more capacity and resilience over time, especially when anxiety has felt overwhelming or persistent.

Yes. Anxiety does not have to define your life. While it’s normal to feel anxious at times, living with constant worry, tension, or overreactions doesn’t have to be your “normal.”

From a nervous-system perspective, anxiety is often linked to the flight response—your body preparing to escape from danger, even when no real threat is present. Through somatic therapy for anxiety, your system can relearn how to shift out of that state and return more easily to regulation. That means faster recovery after anxious moments, more clarity in your thinking, and more choice in how you respond.

In my online therapy practice, I work with clients across Florida and Illinois, including South Florida communities like West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, and Fort Lauderdale. Using gentle mind-body practices, we focus on building your capacity for stress so that you’re less likely to spiral or shut down and more able to stay steady when life feels overwhelming.

Over time, many people find that this work creates space not only for relief but also for growth. They reconnect with themselves, their relationships, and their goals, and life begins to feel fuller and more connected again.

I work with adults experiencing generalized anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, health anxiety, performance stress, trauma-related anxiety, chronic stress, and nervous system dysregulation.

If your anxiety shows up in the body, such as tightness in the chest, stomach discomfort, muscle tension, or numbness, somatic therapy can be especially helpful. This approach includes both mind and body, supporting your system in ways that go beyond traditional talk therapy.

Through gentle mind-body practices, we help your nervous system recognize safety, ease patterns of reactivity, and build capacity to handle stress with more resilience and clarity.

There’s no one-size-fits-all answer, because every nervous system and every story of anxiety is different.

I work with clients in weekly sessions, since consistency is what allows your system to build trust and create lasting change. Some people who come in with a specific trigger notice important shifts within a few months. But many of the people I work with are carrying long-term stress, complex anxiety, or trauma, and they’re ready for deeper healing. For this kind of work, a year or more of consistent therapy is often where the real transformation happens.

During our time together, we’ll bring both mind and body into the process—working with your nervous system to reduce anxiety, and creating space for emotional processing, insight, and growth. This helps you not only find relief from anxiety symptoms, but also build resilience that stays with you long after therapy ends.

Sessions are currently online only.

Somatic therapy translates well virtually, since the work is based on what’s happening in your body and nervous system, not on physical proximity. I guide you through the same somatic awareness practices I would in person, and they work just as effectively through video.

Being in your own space can even support the work. You might feel more comfortable settling into your favorite chair, keeping grounding items nearby, or having a pet close. These simple things often help your nervous system feel safer and more open to change.

Online therapy also makes it easier to stay consistent. You don’t have to commute, and you can access support whether you’re in West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Fort Lauderdale, or anywhere else in Florida or Illinois.

Sessions are $200 for 55 minutes.

Payment is due at the time of each session. I accept credit or debit card, HSA, and Zelle.

If you’re interested in adding the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) or Rest and Restore Protocol (RRP), these are offered as additional services with their own pricing. You can read more on the SSP page and RRP page, or we can talk together about whether either is a good fit for you.

I don’t accept insurance, but I can provide a monthly superbill if you’d like to submit for out-of-network reimbursement. Some clients are able to get partial reimbursement, depending on their plan.

You’ll always know the cost up front. Under federal law (the No Surprises Act), you’re entitled to a Good Faith Estimate of the expected cost of services. If you ever receive a bill $400 or more above that estimate, you can dispute it.