Anxiety Therapy for Residents of New Haven, CT

Welcome

Living in New Haven can feel like you’re always switching gears. Work, school calendars, traffic, social plans, noise, and the steady pulse of the city. If anxiety has been tagging along, you might look capable on the outside while your body stays tense and your mind stays busy underneath. Maybe you’re calm in public, then your brain goes into analysis mode the second you get home. Maybe sleep turns into a nightly negotiation. Maybe you’re handling everything, but you don’t feel settled.

For a lot of people, anxiety isn’t one dramatic moment. It’s the constant internal management. The mental rehearsal before a conversation. The pressure to keep up. The “what if” loops that show up in line at the store, during a meeting, or the second the room gets quiet. Over time, that pattern can wear you down, focus gets worse, irritability goes up, your body feels jumpy or exhausted, and relationships start feeling harder than they should.

Online therapy gives you support without adding extra hassle. I offer secure online anxiety therapy for adults across Connecticut, including New Haven. Sessions stay practical and grounded. We’ll map what your anxiety does, then build tools you can use in real moments, not only when life is calm.

You will receive a response in two business days.

Online therapy, when privacy matters

If you don’t want a waiting room or you need therapy to fit into a busy week, online sessions keep things simple.

We’ll plan your setup so privacy feels realistic, even with roommates, partners, family, or a thin-walled building.

Common options clients use:

• headphones plus a white-noise app outside the door

• a consistent time window when your space is naturally quieter

• a parked car for uninterrupted time

• a short buffer before and after session so your body can settle

You don’t need a perfect home setup to start. We’ll problem-solve what works.

What tends to stir anxiety in Connecticut

Connecticut often carries an unspoken expectation to stay functional. Anxiety ramps up when your nervous system is under strain, but your schedule doesn’t let up.

Patterns that fuel anxiety for many people include:

• winter light changes that throw off mood and sleep

• cost-of-living pressure and constant planning

• packed schedules and limited recovery time

• workplace and academic expectations that feel nonstop

• family roles that keep you “on duty” even when you’re tired

Therapy helps you turn those pressures into a clearer plan, so your system isn’t stuck reacting all week.

A New Haven day-to-day snapshot

New Haven anxiety often shows up in the movement. Navigating traffic and parking. Switching between campus energy, downtown errands, and the pressure to be somewhere on time. The social layer of a city where you can be around people constantly and still feel isolated.

Some people notice anxiety in the body first, racing heart, chest tightness, stomach flips, restlessness, tension headaches. Others notice it as mental noise, constant analysis, replaying conversations, checking email too often, planning every detail, then feeling irritated when the plan doesn’t keep you safe.

City life can also keep your nervous system activated without you realizing it. Noise, unpredictability, and the pace of the day can make it harder to come down at night. Therapy helps you build downshift skills you can use during the day, so you’re not trying to fix everything at bedtime.

What sessions look like

Sessions stay structured enough to create change, and flexible enough to fit your real life.

In our work together, we usually:

• map your anxiety cycle, triggers, thoughts, body signals, coping moves

• use CBT tools to reduce spirals, perfectionism, and overthinking

• add nervous system regulation so your body calms faster, not hours later

• practice skills for specific moments, before difficult conversations, after conflict, during nighttime worryн

• build routines that hold up with your schedule, not routines that require a new personality

If you want additional body-based support, I also offer polyvagal-informed tools and the Safe and Sound Protocol. We’ll only use those if they match your goals and your bandwidth.

LGBTQ+ affirming therapy in New Haven

You deserve therapy where you don’t have to filter your life. Bring gender, sexuality, dating, relationships, family dynamics, identity questions, or faith shifts without being asked to translate your experience.

Affirming care also means taking the stress of being perceived seriously. If you’ve spent years monitoring how you’re read, how you speak, or what feels safe to share, your anxiety makes sense. Therapy helps you build steadiness without asking you to shrink.

Specialties

FAQs

Is online anxiety therapy available for people in New Haven, CT?

Yes. I work with adults across Connecticut through secure online therapy, including New Haven and nearby areas. Online sessions are often easier to maintain when work, school, or life pace makes commuting to therapy unrealistic.

We’ll plan for privacy in a grounded way. If your home setup isn’t ideal, we’ll talk through options like headphones, white noise, a parked car, or a consistent time window. We’ll also build a short pre-session and post-session routine so you’re not jumping straight from stress into therapy and back again.

What approaches do you use for anxiety, and what happens in session?

I blend CBT strategies with nervous system regulation. CBT helps you work with worry loops, catastrophic thinking, and the mental habits that keep anxiety loud. Nervous system tools help when anxiety shows up physically, tension, nausea, panic sensations, shutdown, sleep disruption.

Early on, we map what your anxiety does. What triggers it, what your body does, what your mind predicts, and what you do to cope. Then we test tools in real situations so you’re not collecting ideas you never use. You’ll leave sessions with a small repeatable plan.

What does therapy look like when anxiety shows up in your body?

When anxiety hits physically, it can feel scary and confusing. In therapy, we focus on early signals because that’s where regulation tools work best.

We’ll identify your body’s “first tells,” jaw clench, shoulder lift, breath changes, stomach drops, restlessness, dizziness, urge to escape. Then we practice skills that match your pattern. The goal isn’t to force calm. The goal is to reduce bracing and shorten recovery time.

Do you help with burnout and high-functioning anxiety patterns?

Yes. High-functioning anxiety often looks like being capable while feeling internally keyed up or exhausted. You might meet deadlines and keep up socially, then crash at night with irritability, sleep trouble, numbness, or constant worry.

Therapy focuses on sustainability. We look at what your nervous system has learned to do to stay in control and what it costs you. Then we build changes that hold up: boundaries that don’t blow up your relationships, recovery habits that fit your schedule, and practical ways to step out of all-or-nothing cycles.