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Anxiety & Individual Therapy in Salt Lake City, UT
Anxiety Therapy in Salt Lake City, UT
You understand why you overthink. You’re just tired of still doing it.
Therapy for thoughtful, self-aware adults who are tired of overthinking, people-pleasing, perfectionism, self-doubt, and always feeling like they need to hold everything together.
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Anxiety doesn’t always look like panic attacks.
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Sometimes it looks like replaying a conversation hours after it ended. Saying yes when you desperately want to say no. Checking someone’s tone to make sure they aren’t upset with you. Feeling guilty when you rest. Or believing you’re only doing okay when everyone around you is happy with you.
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From the outside, you may look calm, capable, and put together.
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Inside, your mind rarely slows down.
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You’ve probably spent a lot of time trying to understand why you feel this way.
You may even know exactly where some of these patterns began.
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But knowing why hasn’t necessarily helped you stop.
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That’s where our work begins.
Anxiety Therapy in Salt Lake City Could Be Right For You If…
You might find yourself:
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Replaying conversations and wondering whether you said the wrong thing
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Constantly anticipating what could go wrong
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Second-guessing decisions you already made
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Feeling responsible for other people’s moods or emotions
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Saying yes because disappointing someone feels worse than overextending yourself
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Feeling guilty when you set a boundary or choose yourself
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Measuring your worth by how productive, helpful, successful, or needed you are
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Struggling to relax because your mind is always moving to the next thing
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Feeling emotionally exhausted from being the person who keeps everything together
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Repeating relationship patterns you already understand but can’t seem to change
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And maybe the most frustrating part is that you’re already self-aware.
You’ve read the books. You’ve listened to the podcasts. You’ve journaled about it. You may have even been in therapy before.
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You understand the pattern.
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You just don’t want to keep living inside it.
Why Insight Hasn’t Been Enough
Understanding yourself matters.
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But insight alone doesn’t always create change.
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You can know that you’re people-pleasing and still feel panicked when someone is disappointed in you.
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You can understand that perfectionism is exhausting and still feel like making a mistake means you’ve failed.
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You can recognize that you’re seeking reassurance and still feel compelled to ask, “Are we okay?”
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Often, these patterns developed for a reason.
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At some point, overthinking may have helped you feel prepared. Being useful may have helped you feel valued. Keeping the peace may have helped relationships feel safer.
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The problem is that strategies that once protected you can eventually become the very things keeping you anxious, disconnected, and exhausted.
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In therapy, we won’t only ask, “Why am I like this?”
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We’ll also work on helping you respond differently when those old patterns show up.
Anxiety Therapy in Salt Lake City That Goes Deeper Than Coping Skills
Coping tools can be helpful.
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Sometimes you need strategies to quiet your mind, regulate overwhelming emotions, or get through a particularly stressful week.
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But I don’t want therapy to stop there.
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Anxiety is often doing something for us.
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It may be trying to prevent rejection. Keep you from making mistakes. Help you stay prepared. Protect a relationship. Or make sure you never disappoint anyone.
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When we understand what your anxiety is trying to protect you from, we can begin working with the deeper pattern instead of fighting the symptom over and over again.
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The goal isn’t simply to become better at managing anxiety.
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It’s to build enough trust in yourself that anxiety no longer has to work so hard.
My Approach to Anxiety Therapy in Salt Lake City
Therapy with me is collaborative, compassionate, and practical.
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We’ll make space to understand where your patterns came from, but we won’t stay stuck analyzing the past.
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We’ll also pay attention to what happens in your everyday life now: the conversations you replay, the boundaries you avoid, the situations that trigger self-doubt, and the relationships where you find yourself slipping back into old roles.
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Depending on your goals, our work may include:
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Understanding what fuels your anxiety and overthinking
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Exploring perfectionism and the pressure to constantly get things right
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Identifying people-pleasing and approval-seeking patterns
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Building boundaries that feel clear rather than harsh
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Strengthening a sense of self-worth that isn’t dependent on achievement
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Exploring attachment and relationship patterns
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Learning how to respond differently to difficult emotions
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Becoming more comfortable with uncertainty
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Working with conflicting or protective “parts” of yourself
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Practicing skills that help change show up outside the therapy room
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My approach draws from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), IFS-informed parts work, mindfulness, and other evidence-based approaches.
You don’t need to know which approach you need before coming in.
We’ll decide together what makes the most sense for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Many of the people I work with feel like their minds are constantly analyzing, anticipating, or replaying.
You may revisit conversations, imagine worst-case scenarios, question your decisions, or feel like you always need to be one step ahead.
We’ll work on both what is happening in those moments and what may be driving the need to stay so mentally “on.”
Because insight and change are not the same thing.
You may completely understand where a pattern came from while still having an automatic emotional response when something triggers it.
Therapy can help you move beyond intellectually understanding your patterns and begin practicing different emotional and relational responses when they actually show up.
No.
You don’t have to be in crisis or have a particular diagnosis to benefit from therapy.
You might simply be tired of overthinking everything, feeling chronically stressed, struggling to set boundaries, or living with a level of self-doubt that is taking up too much space in your life.
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I offer in-person anxiety therapy in Millcreek, just outside Salt Lake City, as well as virtual therapy for clients throughout Utah.
There isn’t one timeline that works for everyone.
Some people come to therapy to work through a particular challenge or transition. Others want more time to explore longstanding patterns involving anxiety, relationships, perfectionism, or self-worth.
We’ll regularly check in about what you’re working toward and whether therapy continues to feel useful.
You Don’t Have to Keep Overthinking
Your Way Through This
You’ve probably spent a long time trying to figure this out on your own.
You don’t need another book to read or another reason to be harder on yourself.
Therapy can give you a place to slow down, understand what keeps pulling you back into the same patterns, and practice something different.
If you’re ready to feel more grounded in yourself, more secure in your relationships, and less controlled by anxiety, I’d be glad to talk with you.
