Anxiety Therapy in Tampa

Anxiety is exhausting in a way that is hard to explain to people who have not lived with it. You can look completely fine from the outside — holding down a job, showing up for people, getting things done — while your mind runs a constant background check on everything that could go wrong.

I work with adults whose anxiety has stopped being occasional and started being the water they swim in.

What anxiety actually looks like

It is not always the obvious version. Often it shows up as:

  • Overthinking a conversation for hours after it ended
  • Difficulty falling asleep because your brain finally has nothing else to do
  • Physical symptoms — a tight chest, a clenched jaw, stomach trouble — with no medical cause
  • Saying yes to things you do not want to do because the discomfort of saying no is worse
  • Needing to be certain before you can act, and never quite getting there
  • Irritability that surprises you, and then guilt about it

Anxiety is very good at looking like personality. Many people spend years thinking they are simply a worrier, or high-strung, or bad at relaxing.

How I work with anxiety

Anxiety thrives on avoidance. The relief you get from checking, reassurance-seeking, or backing out of something feels good in the moment and teaches your brain that the thing really was dangerous. Most of the work is about interrupting that loop.

Depending on what you are dealing with, that can involve:

  • Cognitive behavioral work — learning to notice the thought before you have already believed it
  • Exposure-based approaches — building tolerance for uncertainty in small, deliberate steps rather than waiting to feel ready
  • Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) — a structured approach that can move quickly when anxiety is tied to a specific memory or event
  • Solution-focused work — identifying what is already working and doing more of it

I am direct about what I think is going on and why. You will not spend a year wondering what the plan is.

What the first few sessions look like

The first session is mostly me getting the shape of things — what brought you in, how long it has been going on, what you have already tried. By the second or third session we usually have a working plan. If I do not think I am the right fit, I will tell you and help you find someone who is.

Is it anxiety, or is it OCD?

These get confused often, including by clinicians. If your anxiety involves intrusive thoughts you find disturbing, or rituals you feel compelled to complete, it is worth reading about OCD and ERP — the treatment is meaningfully different.

Licensed in four states

I see clients in person in Tampa and online throughout Florida, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Washington. Online sessions are held over a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform.

Getting started

I offer a free 15-minute consultation so you can ask questions and get a sense of whether we would work well together. There is no pressure and no obligation.

Request a free 15-minute consultation — or read more about how to get started.