Do you feel like your mind and body are always on alert—waiting for something to go wrong?
Maybe your mind won’t stop scanning for danger, looping through intrusive thoughts, worst-case scenarios, or worrying about your health, your children, or things you can’t control.
You might struggle with panic attacks, health anxiety, OCD or intrusive thoughts, perfectionism, phobias, or chronic overthinking. Or maybe anxiety shows up physically—racing heart, nausea, tension, difficulty sleeping, or feeling exhausted but wired.
You may look high-functioning on the outside, but inside, you feel overwhelmed and depleted.
You’ve tried coping strategies. You’ve tried pushing through. You’ve tried telling yourself there’s nothing to worry about.
But your mind and nervous system keep sounding the alarm.
You don’t have to keep living in constant mental and physical overdrive.
Anxiety Can Show Up in So Many Ways
You don’t have to be having panic attacks or avoiding your life to be struggling with anxiety. Sometimes it’s obvious. Other times, anxiety has been part of your life for so long that it simply feels like the way you are.
You may be struggling with:
- Chronic worry and overthinking
- Panic attacks or fear of having another one
- Health anxiety and fear around physical symptoms
- OCD, intrusive or unwanted thoughts
- Specific fears or phobias
- Social anxiety
- Perfectionism and fear of making mistakes
- Constantly anticipating what could go wrong
- Difficulty tolerating uncertainty or feeling out of control
- Replaying conversations and second-guessing yourself
- Physical symptoms of anxiety
- Trouble relaxing or sleeping
- Feeling easily overwhelmed, irritable, or overstimulated
Whatever anxiety looks like for you, the goal isn’t simply to learn how to live around it. It’s to understand what keeps it going and begin changing the patterns that allow it to have so much power.
Your Mind and Nervous System Are Connected
Anxiety isn’t only about what you think. It’s also about what your brain and body have learned to interpret as threatening.
Sometimes the cycle begins with a thought: What if something goes wrong?
Other times, it begins with a physical sensation, uncomfortable feeling, or situation that causes your nervous system to sound the alarm before you’ve even had time to think.
Then the cycle builds. You worry, avoid, check, seek reassurance, overprepare, or try to regain control. These things may make you feel better temporarily, but they can also unintentionally reinforce the anxiety.
Effective anxiety therapy means working with both the mind and the nervous system so you can respond differently when that alarm goes off.
My Approach to Anxiety Therapy
I help women move from feeling constantly anxious, overwhelmed, or on alert toward feeling calmer, more confident, and more in control of how they respond to stress.
Rather than relying on one technique, I use an individualized approach that may incorporate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), nervous-system regulation, integrative wellness, and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) depending on what is driving your anxiety.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT helps us identify the thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety going.
We may work on catastrophizing, overthinking, perfectionism, reassurance seeking, avoidance, fear of uncertainty, or the belief that you need to feel completely certain or in control before you can feel okay.
The goal isn’t to convince yourself that nothing bad could ever happen. It’s to help you stop treating every uncomfortable thought, feeling, or possibility as something you need to solve.
Nervous System Regulation
Sometimes you understand exactly why your anxiety doesn’t make sense—and your body reacts anyway.
Nervous-system work can help you recognize when your body is becoming activated and learn ways to regulate that response without becoming afraid of the sensations themselves.
The goal isn’t to stay calm all the time. It’s to help your nervous system become more flexible and better able to return to baseline after stress.
Integrative Wellness
Your mental health doesn’t exist separately from the rest of your life.
Sleep, nutrition, movement, hormones, chronic stress, relationships, workload, boundaries, and opportunities for rest and recovery can all influence how anxious or resilient you feel.
As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with additional training in Integrative Wellness, I can help you look at the bigger picture and identify realistic changes that support your emotional and physical well-being.
This isn’t about giving you another list of things you need to do perfectly.
It’s about helping you create a life that better supports the way you want to feel.
When Anxiety Is Connected to Something Deeper
Not every anxious person has unresolved trauma, and you don’t need to identify with the word trauma for us to work together.
But sometimes there is an experience behind the anxiety.
A frightening medical experience may contribute to health anxiety. A panic attack in a particular place may lead to fear of returning there. A difficult relationship, loss, accident, pregnancy or birth experience, or other painful event may continue to trigger a strong reaction long after it has ended.
When something from the past seems to be keeping your nervous system stuck in the present, I may incorporate Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART).
ART is a brief, evidence-based approach that incorporates some of the most effective elements used in therapies such as EMDR while using a structured process to help change the way distressing memories, images, and sensations are experienced.
Sometimes we don’t need to keep talking about why something bothers you.
We need to help your brain stop responding as though it is still happening.
What Could Life Feel Like Without Anxiety Running the Show?
The goal of therapy isn’t to become someone who never worries, never feels uncomfortable, or never experiences stress.
It’s being able to notice an anxious thought without getting pulled into it for hours.
Feeling something uncomfortable in your body without immediately assuming the worst.
Making decisions without endlessly second-guessing yourself.
Handling uncertainty without trying to prepare for every possible outcome.
Doing things you’ve been avoiding because of fear.
Resting without your mind immediately searching for the next problem.
And trusting that when anxiety does show up, you know how to handle it.
Hi! I’m Rebecca
As a licensed therapist since 2010 and coach trained in integrative wellness, my expertise lies in transforming women’s lives to alleviate anxiety.
Beyond incorporating cognitive behavioral therapy and coping skills, I concentrate on comprehensive changes across health, lifestyle, and schedules. I also offer accelerated resolution therapy to quickly and efficiently resolve trauma and other mental health concerns.
As someone who understands the struggles of managing anxiety, I’m here to guide you through these shifts, fostering a holistic transformation for a more balanced and anxiety-free life. Let’s work together to simplify and create a path towards tranquility amid life’s demands.
Anxiety disorders and concerns I work with include:
- Generalized anxiety
- Panic attacks and panic disorder
- Health anxiety
- OCD and intrusive thoughts
- Phobias and specific fears
- Social anxiety
- Perfectionism
- Chronic stress and overwhelm
- Anxiety related to life changes or relationships
- Physical and nervous-system symptoms of anxiety
I also specialize in trauma and perinatal/postpartum mental health. If either of those is the primary reason you’re seeking therapy, you can learn more on my dedicated Trauma Therapy + Accelerated Resolution Therapy and Perinatal, Postpartum + Motherhood Therapy pages.
Ready to Feel More Like Yourself Again?
Anxiety may have convinced you that you need to eliminate every risk, solve every problem, or finally feel completely certain before you can relax.
You don’t.
Therapy can help you change the patterns keeping anxiety going, feel safer in your own mind and body, and build confidence in your ability to handle whatever comes next.
You don’t need to know exactly why you’re anxious or which type of therapy you need before reaching out.
That’s what we can figure out together.
Ready to get started?
Reach out to schedule your first session and learn more about online anxiety therapy for women in Massachusetts.
Some people do not meet criteria for an anxiety disorder, but still want to build a life with less stress. My coaching programs or creative tools might be a great way to get there.
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