Therapy for Anxiety
Finding Peace Through Parts Work and Creative Integration
Transform your relationship with anxiety through Internal Family Systems, expressive arts therapy, and depth-oriented psychotherapy. Online Therapy for Anxiety for emotionally curious adults seeking integrative healing.
Therapy for Anxiety That Honors Your Inner Complexity
Living with anxiety as a sensitive, creative soul can feel like carrying an orchestra of worried voices, each playing their own urgent melody. Perhaps you wake each morning with that familiar tightness in your chest, the racing thoughts that spiral into elaborate worst-case scenarios, or the persistent sense that something indefinable is wrong. For emotionally attuned individuals in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, anxiety often feels more intense—as if your sensitivity amplifies every worry into an overwhelming symphony.
I offer online therapy for anxiety that goes beyond symptom management to explore the deeper "why" behind your anxious patterns. Through my integrative approach combining Internal Family Systems (IFS), expressive arts therapy, and depth-oriented psychotherapy, I help emotionally curious individuals transform anxiety from an overwhelming force into a pathway toward self-understanding and integration.
Internal Family Systems Therapy for Anxiety: Meeting Your Protective Parts
In my therapy practice working with anxiety, I view anxious symptoms not as problems to eliminate, but as communications from protective parts of yourself that deserve compassion and understanding. Using Internal Family Systems therapy, we'll gently explore the different parts contributing to your anxiety—perhaps the perfectionist part that fears making mistakes, the hypervigilant part scanning for danger, or the controller part trying to manage every possible outcome.
This parts work approach to anxiety reveals that beneath these protective strategies often lie younger, more vulnerable parts carrying unprocessed emotions or past wounds. Rather than fighting against anxiety, we create space to understand what these parts are trying to protect you from. This depth-oriented exploration helps you discover not just how to manage anxiety, but why it emerged in your unique inner system.
Through our online therapy sessions, you'll learn to:
Identify and befriend different anxious parts with curiosity rather than judgment
Understand the protective intentions behind anxiety symptoms
Develop compassionate dialogue with parts that have been running on outdated programming
Access your core Self—that calm, curious, creative center that can lead your internal system
Creative Arts Therapy for Anxiety: Expression Beyond Words
Traditional talk therapy for anxiety can feel limiting for intuitive, artistic individuals who experience the world through multiple sensory channels. My expressive arts therapy approach to anxiety treatment offers alternative pathways to understanding and transforming anxious energy. This creative exploration isn't about making "good" art—it's about giving form to feelings that transcend verbal expression.
In our online Therapy for Anxiety sessions, you might:
Paint or draw the texture, color, and shape of your anxiety
Write dialogues between different anxious parts of yourself
Use movement to express and release anxious energy trapped in your body
Create collages representing your relationship with worry and fear
Engage in guided imagery to visualize and transform anxiety
Between sessions, I provide personalized parts therapy prompts and creative exercises designed to deepen your self-connection. These practices help you maintain an ongoing dialogue with your inner world, making our Therapy for Anxiety work sustainable and deeply integrated into your daily life.
Depth Psychotherapy for Anxiety: Exploring the Roots
My depth-oriented approach to Therapy for Anxiety recognizes that anxious patterns often have roots extending far beneath conscious awareness. Together, we'll explore the underground rivers of family dynamics, cultural conditioning, ancestral patterns, and early experiences that shaped your relationship with safety and danger.
This depth psychotherapy work for anxiety involves:
Exploring how family systems and attachment patterns influence current anxiety
Understanding cultural and generational trauma that may amplify anxious responses
Examining the symbolic and metaphorical dimensions of anxiety symptoms
Discovering how past experiences created the protective strategies you use today
Integrating shadow aspects that anxiety might be guarding against
This isn't about endlessly analyzing the past, but rather understanding how historical experiences shaped your inner system's protective responses. Through this gentle excavation, always paced to respect your nervous system's capacity, we create opportunities for profound healing and transformation.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety: Building a Values-Driven Life
While healing anxiety's roots is essential, I also help you build practical skills for living fully even when anxiety visits. Through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) principles integrated into our anxiety treatment, we'll explore how to make space for anxious feelings without letting them limit your life's expansion.
Our ACT-informed therapy for anxiety focuses on:
Developing psychological flexibility to move through anxiety rather than avoiding it
Identifying your core values and what truly matters to you
Learning to unhook from anxious thoughts without fighting them
Building committed action toward meaningful goals despite anxiety's presence
Cultivating self-compassion when anxiety feels overwhelming
Online Therapy for Anxiety for Life Transitions and Languishing
Many emotionally sensitive individuals seek Therapy for Anxiety during periods of transition or when feeling stuck in patterns of languishing. Whether you're navigating career changes, relationship shifts, creative blocks, or existential questions about purpose and meaning, anxiety often intensifies during these liminal spaces.
My specialized approach to anxiety during life transitions includes:
Understanding how change activates protective anxiety responses
Exploring parts that resist change versus parts ready for growth
Creating rituals and practices to honor endings and beginnings
Developing trust in uncertainty and the unknown
Transforming anxiety about the future into curiosity about possibilities
What to Expect from Online Therapy Sessions for Anxiety
Beginning therapy for anxiety with me starts with a consultation where we explore what support you're seeking, what you've already discovered on your healing journey, and whether we're a good therapeutic fit. During this initial conversation, you'll get a felt sense of what working together might feel like—the pace, the depth, the creative possibilities.
If we decide to work together, I conduct a comprehensive intake over our first three sessions, exploring different aspects of your life including family, cultural, social, medical, and mental health history. This helps me understand the full context of your anxiety and how different parts of your experience interconnect. Together, we'll identify three to five guiding goals for our Therapy for Anxiety work.
I typically meet with clients weekly at a scheduled time, providing consistency and continuity that supports deep work. Our online therapy format allows you to engage in this vulnerable work from the safety and comfort of your own space, whether you're in Sonoma County, Seattle, New York, or anywhere else you call home.
Your Unique Path to Anxiety Healing
Every person's relationship with anxiety is as unique as their fingerprint, shaped by individual history, sensitivity, creativity, and inner constellation of parts. In our work together, I honor this uniqueness by tailoring our approach to what resonates most deeply with your soul. There's no one-size-fits-all solution—only the path that feels authentic and sustainable for you.
I work with adults and young adults who are ready to move beyond surface-level anxiety management into profound, integrative healing. If you're someone who:
Craves understanding the deeper "why" behind anxiety
Values creative and expressive approaches to healing
Seeks to integrate different parts of yourself into wholeness
Wants therapy that honors your sensitivity and complexity
Is ready for gentle yet transformative inner work
Then this Therapy for Anxiety approach may resonate with you.
Begin Your Anxiety Healing Journey Today
If you're ready to transform your relationship with anxiety through creative, depth-oriented, and integrative therapy, I invite you to reach out. Together, we'll create a therapeutic space where anxiety becomes a teacher rather than a tormentor, where your sensitivity is honored as a gift, and where all parts of you are welcomed with curiosity and compassion.
Contact me today to schedule your consultation and discover how online Therapy for Anxiety can support your journey toward integration, healing, and authentic self-expression. Let's explore how we can work together to transform anxiety from an overwhelming force into a guide toward deeper self-understanding and wholeness.
