anxiety Therapy
Specializing in generalized anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism, and people pleasing
Are you always waiting for the other shoe to drop, even when nothing's actually wrong?
Maybe you feel like you’re always worried about something. Even in calm moments, you may note this undercurrent of dread or uncertainty. And in stressful situations, you might experience symptoms like panic attacks, nightmares, intrusive thoughts, and more.
Anxiety is a multifaceted, complex concern that exists on a large spectrum. It can ebb and flow based on what’s happening in your life. Some people with anxiety have an underlying sense that, “it will always be this way. I will always be anxious.” Others believe their symptoms will disappear at some point or naturally resolve if a certain circumstance changes.
Anxiety can also come with a great deal of shame. You might fear that you’re too sensitive, dramatic, or intense. If others have discounted your feelings, those fears may feel even more pronounced. Both of these experiences can actually perpetuate more anxiety.
While anxiety exists in many forms, anxiety symptoms represent prevailing themes of worrying about losing control or fearing that something catastrophic will happen. The good news is there’s so much hope. While there’s no cure for anxiety, many of my clients experience tremendous relief from their treatment. Therapy helps reduce how debilitating and consuming your symptoms feel. It also provides immense safety and guidance if old triggers resurface.
Anxiety looks different for everyone.
Whether your anxiety shows up as constant worry, perfectionism, social dread, or panic — or some combination of all of them — you’re in the right place.
Generalized Anxiety
Maybe your anxiety doesn’t follow a specific pattern. It just exists…everywhere. For example, you might feel that sinking dread when someone is upset with you. Then, you feel worried as you drive to work, panicking that you’re running late. You then might feel anxious as you try to fall asleep, causing you to toss and turn for hours. It can seem like, even if one stressor resolves, the anxiety simply jumps to a new host. You might not even know what you're anxious about — just that the feeling never fully goes away.
Generalized anxiety is exhausting in a particular way, because there's no obvious target to address. That's exactly what therapy helps with.
In therapy, we’ll work on:
Identifying your specific triggers and early warning signs
Learning to recognize anxiety in your body before it escalates
Building somatic and grounding tools that work for you specifically
Addressing the underlying patterns keeping anxiety in place
You don't have to white-knuckle through this anymore.
Social Anxiety
Social anxiety isn't shyness. It's a deep, exhausting vigilance — constantly monitoring how you're being perceived, dreading judgment, rehearsing what you'll say, replaying what you said. It can make connection feel terrifying even when you desperately want it.
We are wired to seek connection from others, but people with social anxiety experience tremendous fears about judgment and rejection. These worries may stem from old trauma, but they can be reinforced through avoidance patterns and other relationship problems. Regardless of the origin, social anxiety makes it hard to authentically show up as yourself in social settings.
Often, social anxiety is rooted in earlier experiences — moments where it wasn't safe to be seen, where your authentic self was rejected or dismissed. Those old wounds don't just go away. They show up every time you walk into a room and feel like everyone is watching.
In therapy, we’ll work on:
Understanding where the fear of judgment actually comes from
Gently building tolerance for social discomfort without avoidance
Somatic tools to regulate your nervous system in the moment
Practicing showing up as yourself — not the curated, managed version
ready to feel different?
Anxiety therapy at Sage Talk Therapy is available in-person in White Plains, NY and online throughout New York and Connecticut.
Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder
Panic attacks are one of the most disorienting experiences anxiety can produce. Your body goes into full threat-response mode — racing heart, shortness of breath, the overwhelming sense that something is very wrong — and your mind has no idea why.
Panic attacks are both scary and exhausting, especially when they occur unexpectedly. Even after they pass, the fear of the next one can start reshaping your life. Panic attacks may lead to panic disorder, a specific condition that refers to experiencing recurrent panic attacks. If you've been avoiding situations, places, or activities because of panic attacks, that avoidance is worth addressing — because it tends to shrink your world over time.
In therapy we’ll work on:
Understanding what's triggering your panic at a nervous system level
Developing a clear, practiced plan for when panic arises
Reducing the overall stress load that makes panic more likely
Healing the shame that often comes with panic disorder
High-Achieving Anxiety and Perfectionism
You're productive. Accomplished. The person everyone counts on. And privately, you're running on fear.
Perfectionism isn’t really about high standards; its about what you believe will happen if you don’t meet them. Its often rooted in fear — the fear of failure, disappointing people, of losing control. you may worry about how others perceive you, you may worry about the discomfort of sitting in stillness, and you may also worry about falling behind if you don’t achieve everything you desire to accomplish.
Many high-achieving clients I work with have never considered that their drive is connected to anxiety, because it looks so functional from the outside.
But you know what it costs you. The inability to rest. The constant comparison. The sense that nothing you do is ever quite enough.
In therapy we’ll work on:
Understanding the fear-based roots underneath the high-achieving drive
Genuinely honoring the part of you that has needed to be perfect/achieving
Exploring what it would feel like to slow down — and what gets in the way
Addressing trauma that may have tied your worth to your performance
Building a relationship with yourself that doesn't depend on output
Ready to stop managing and start healing?
My approach
Anxiety therapy at Sage Talk Therapy is integrative, meaning I don't follow a single rigid framework. I draw from what the research shows actually works — and I attune that to what works for you.
I use:
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)— to process the underlying experiences that keep anxiety patterns locked in place. If your anxiety is rooted in past experiences, EMDR works at the level where those experiences live: in your nervous system, not just your thoughts.
Somatic Therapy — to help you recognize and shift how anxiety shows up in your body, building genuine nervous system regulation rather than just mental reframing.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) — to understand the parts of you that anxiety is trying to protect, and work with those parts rather than against them.
CBT and DBT tools — for concrete skills in challenging anxious thought patterns and managing emotional reactivity in real time.
You won't get the same session every week. You'll get therapy that moves.
FAQs
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Generalized anxiety, social anxiety, health anxiety, panic attacks, perfectionism, and anxiety tied to trauma or past experiences. I also work with people who don't fit a clean diagnosis — if you feel chronically overwhelmed, stressed, or worried, that's enough. You don't need a label to benefit from therapy.
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Early sessions are about getting the full picture — understanding your history, what you've already tried, and what you actually want to feel different. From there, sessions vary. Some are processing-focused, using EMDR or somatic work. Others are more skill-building or exploratory. The through-line is that we're always working toward something real, not just talking in circles.
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It looks different for every client. For some, it's a quieter mind — less overthinking, fewer spirals. For others, it's a different relationship with anxiety — being able to feel it without being ruled by it. For others still, it's the ability to show up in relationships, work, and daily life without so much effort and fear. We'll define what success means for you.
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No. You don't need to have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, and you don't need to wait until things get worse. If anxiety is getting in the way of how you want to live, that's reason enough.
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I'm a therapist, not a prescriber — so medication isn't something I offer directly. But I work collaboratively with psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners when medication is part of a client's treatment plan, and I'm happy to discuss that as part of our work together.
You've been holding it together long enough.
Relief is possible.
Anxiety therapy at Sage Talk Therapy is available in-person in White Plains, NY and online throughout New York and Connecticut.
If you're ready to stop managing and start actually feeling better, I'd love to connect.
