Anxiety & Depression
You Don’t Have to Keep Carrying Everything on Your Own
When Everyday Life Starts to Feel Heavy
Anxiety and depression do not always look the way people expect. Anxiety may appear as constant worry, racing thoughts, irritability, physical tension, or the feeling that you can never fully relax. Depression may show up as exhaustion, disconnection, low motivation, or losing interest in the people and activities that once mattered.
These experiences can affect your work, relationships, sleep, confidence, and ability to feel present in your own life. Counseling can help you understand what is underneath these symptoms, develop healthier ways of responding to them, and gradually reconnect with a greater sense of stability, meaning, and possibility.
You Might Recognize
Constant worry or overthinking · Feeling tense, restless, or unable to relax · Racing thoughts or expecting something to go wrong · Low energy and difficulty getting started · Losing interest in activities or relationships you once enjoyed · Irritability or feeling emotionally overwhelmed · Trouble sleeping or sleeping more than usual · Difficulty concentrating or making decisions · Avoiding responsibilities, people, or situations · Feeling disconnected, hopeless, or unlike yourself · Being highly self-critical or feeling that you are falling behind
How We Work With Anxiety and Depression
Our work begins by understanding how anxiety and depression are affecting your life and what may be keeping them in place. Together, we explore emotional patterns, relationships, life experiences, habits, stressors, and the ways your body and nervous system respond when you feel overwhelmed.
Depending on your needs, counseling may draw from relational and psychodynamic therapy, cognitive-behavioral strategies, mindfulness, nervous-system regulation, and body-aware approaches. We may work on challenging unhelpful thought patterns, improving emotional regulation, establishing supportive routines, reducing avoidance, strengthening relationships, and helping you engage more fully with the parts of life that matter to you.
The goal is not to eliminate every difficult emotion. It is to help you feel less controlled by anxiety and depression, more connected to yourself, and better able to move through life with confidence and flexibility.
Feeling Better May Take Time — But You Don’t Have to Take the Next Step Alone
Schedule a free consultation to learn how counseling can help with anxiety and depression.