IN-PERSON IN NORTH DALLAS / PLANO & ONLINE ACROSS TX
Anxiety Therapy in North Dallas / Plano, TX
Stop treating every thought like a problem to solve and start trusting yourself to handle what comes next.
This is more than just worry—it’s all-consuming.
The loop is endless: you say “yes” to things you don’t have time for, overstretch yourself to get it done, convince yourself you didn’t do enough…and then you’re back to saying “yes” to make up for “missing the mark.”
Because somewhere along the way, your brain learned that staying on top of everything is how you stay okay.
So when you’re not filling every possible second with something you can accomplish, you’re scanning for the next thing that could go wrong. Or the anxiety gets so loud that you shut down completely—avoiding the email, the decision, or the thing you know you need to deal with because you don’t even know where to start.
Your best friend’s text seemed a little off. Your partner was quiet this morning. You lost your patience with the kids. Suddenly, your brain has opened an investigation into whether everyone is mad at you and if you’re actually terrible at all of this.
There’s no real off switch. Your nervous system has a brick on the gas pedal, while your brain keeps insisting that one more lap around the problem might finally make you feel better.
You’re physically at dinner with your partner, but mentally replaying the conversation you had last week. You’re playing with your kids while running through tomorrow’s to-do list. You finally get a quiet moment to yourself—and somehow use it to worry about whether you’re wasting it.
You keep trying to think your way into feeling more in control. Instead, you’re thinking your way right out of your own life.
My Approach
Real talk, real tools, zero toxic positivity.
01 First, we stop calling it “just how you are.”
Always prepared. Always early. Always thinking three steps ahead. The person everyone can count on because you will figure it out. Some of the things you’ve come to think of as personality traits may actually be ways your anxious brain has learned to keep you safe.
So, we start by getting curious about where anxiety is hiding in your everyday life. Not just when you feel obviously anxious, but when you’re over-preparing for the meeting, rereading the text for the fourth time, or lying awake at 2 a.m. replaying something you said at dinner and wondering if they’re mad at you, think you’re weird, or took it completely the wrong way.
Because anxiety doesn’t always look dramatic, I’m especially interested in the version hiding behind overthinking, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and looking completely fine while your brain is doing the absolute most.
02 We figure out what keeps your brain stuck.
Once you can see the patterns, we can start understanding what’s underneath them. Maybe control feels safer than uncertainty. Maybe slowing down makes you wildly uncomfortable. Maybe some part of you genuinely believes that if you stop scanning, fixing, and preparing, everything will fall apart.
We’re not here to judge those strategies. (They probably made sense at some point.) We’re here to decide whether they still deserve this much control over your life.
03 Then, we practice something that works at 2:17 p.m. on a Tuesday.
I’m not sending you home with a 45-minute wellness routine you have neither the time nor desire to do.
We’ll build practical ways to interrupt the spiral when you’re sitting in the elevator before a big meeting, driving home after a bad day, or resisting the urge to reread your texts and emails when you get home.
And because your life changes from week to week, therapy will, too. We’ll work with what’s happening in real time—not force you through a fixed program because that’s what we were “supposed” to talk about that day.
Anxiety therapy can help you…
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A thought is brain activity, not a verdict on reality. Learn to notice what your brain is doing without turning every thought, feeling, or what-if into something you need to solve.
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Because “just relax” has never once worked. We’ll look at what’s driving the overthinking, self-pressure, and constant need to stay one step ahead.
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Life is chaotic, people are unpredictable, and there will always be another thing on the list. Build ways to regulate and take care of yourself that work in your actual life—not the Instagram version.
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I’m not talking a bunch of positive affirmations you don’t believe, but a way of speaking to yourself with enough neutrality and respect that one mistake, awkward interaction, or imperfect decision doesn’t become evidence that you’re failing.
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Interrupt the second-guessing, apologizing, people-pleasing, and “Wait, did I do the wrong thing?” loop so you can make grounded choices and trust yourself enough to stand behind them.
THERAPY FOR ANXIETY IN NORTH DALLAS / PLANO, TEXAS
More being where your feet are, less being wherever your brain thinks you need to be.
Questions?
FAQs
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You don’t need to be falling apart for anxiety to be taking up too much space in your life. Maybe you’re still going to work, taking care of everyone, meeting deadlines, and checking everything off your to-do list—you’re just using a ridiculous amount of mental energy to do it.
If your brain rarely gives you a break, you’re organizing your life around avoiding anxiety, or you’re tired of looking “fine” while working this hard to feel fine, that’s enough.
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Knowing why is helpful. It’s also not the same thing as knowing what to do when you’re stuck in the same anxious loop you’ve already analyzed to death.
We can absolutely use the insight you already have—we just won’t stop there. We’ll work on recognizing the pattern while it’s actually happening, regulating what’s going on in your body, and practicing a different response until knowing better starts turning into doing something differently.
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Perfect. You don’t need to show up with a diagnosis, a five-point agenda, or a beautifully articulated explanation of your inner world. That’s literally part of my job.
You can start with “I don’t know, I’m just exhausted,” or “Everything is technically fine, but I don’t feel fine.” We’ll get curious together and start making sense of it from there.
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Because anxiety isn’t a Yelp review of how good or bad your life is.
You can love your partner, have great friends, be killing it at work, adore your kids—and still have a nervous system that’s gotten really good at sniffing out something to worry about. Sometimes things going well can even give an anxious brain more to protect, maintain, or potentially lose.
The goal isn’t to convince yourself that you shouldn’t be anxious. It’s to understand what your anxiety is doing and help your brain and body learn that they don’t need to stay on high alert just because there’s something worth caring about.
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We start with a free 10-minute phone consultation—no paperwork, no commitment. If it feels like a good fit, we’ll schedule your first session. I offer both in-person sessions in Dallas and Plano and telehealth appointments throughout Texas. Sessions are 50 minutes, and we’ll discuss frequency on the phone or during our first session.
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I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 4,000+ hours clinical training hours and six years of clinical experience in psychiatric emergency and inpatient settings, followed by nearly a decade in private practice. I use approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Exposure and Response Prevention to help women understand what their anxiety is doing… and change how they respond to it.