Empirically Supported Strategies to Manage Your Anxiety

I provide highly effective treatment for a wide range of anxiety disorders and related conditions using cognitive behavioral therapy. I place a high value on continuing education to provide up-to-date interventions that are shown by research to work for your problems.

Your personalized anxiety treatment plan

Treatment is personalized to your individual problems and the underlying mechanisms that are maintaining symptoms. I treat the whole person. Treatment plans reflect the complexity of each individual and the problems they are experiencing, including co-occurring problems like depression.

Treatment starts with a thorough diagnostic evaluation and a detailed assessment of your problem areas to understand the underlying mechanisms that are maintaining the anxiety problem. Just like your doctor tracks your blood pressure and heart rate, I implement measurement-based care or routine outcome monitoring of symptoms to make sure that we're making progress towards your goals and that the treatment we're doing is helpful.

Treatment goals for anxiety: Envisioning the life you want

Envision what you would like to be able to do as a result of treatment. How is anxiety getting in the way of your life? We start by setting specific, attainable treatment goals.

We incorporate your values and what is most important to you through the goal-setting process to start on a path towards meaningful change.

How does therapy work?

Cognitive behavioral therapy is an active, present-focused, and goal-oriented treatment. We have more control over the present than we do about the past, so treatment is present-focused to help you get unstuck and move towards meaningful change.
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Therapy takes work. It is an active process involving regular practice outside of session. By experiencing temporary discomfort, you will have increased confidence in your ability to manage anxiety and the situations involved. Our goal is that you feel more confident to handle whatever comes your way in pursuit of leading a rich, meaningful, and fulfilling life. ‍

NEW: Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE)

If your child is struggling with anxiety or OCD and your efforts to help have not been working (or have made it worse), SPACE may be an effective treatment method for you. This is a parent-led treatment that involves making changes in areas that parents have control over while increasing the child's skills and abilities to manage uncomfortable situations and feelings - all without controlling the child. It is centered upon parents supporting their child by reducing accommodations, expressing validation of how difficult a situation may be, and conveying confidence in their ability to manage those feelings. Over time, this increases a child's ability to face uncomfortable situations.

Learn more about the several different anxiety problems I work with and how I treat them here.