Anxiety Therapy for Residents of Washington, CT

Welcome

If anxiety has you stuck in overthinking, body tension, or a constant sense that you’re behind, online therapy can help you feel steadier without needing your life to get quieter first.

I offer secure online therapy for adults across Connecticut, including Washington and the surrounding area. Sessions are practical, paced, and focused on tools you can use in real life.

You will receive a response in two business days.

Online therapy, when privacy matters

In a smaller town, privacy can feel like a real barrier to getting help. Online therapy removes the waiting room piece and lets you choose a setup that feels safe and workable.

We’ll plan your session setup like a real-life problem, not a test you have to pass.

Options many clients use:

• Headphones plus a white-noise app outside the door

• A parked car for quiet and uninterrupted time

• A consistent time window when the house is naturally calmer

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

We also build a simple plan for the awkward moments: what to do if someone walks in, what to do if you lose privacy mid-session, and how to protect your progress when life is loud.

What tends to stir anxiety in Connecticut

Connecticut carries a steady pressure to keep up and keep it together. Anxiety often ramps up when your nervous system is running on stress, but your life keeps demanding performance.

Common stressors include:

• Seasonal shifts and short winter days, with mood and sleep disruption

• Commutes, appointments, and constant time math

• High expectations at work, school systems, or in family roles

• Cost-of-living stress and the mental load of planning around it

• A social norm of looking fine, even when you feel fried

These stressors don’t mean anything is wrong with you. They mean your system is responding to strain. Therapy helps you build steadier responses so stress stops running the show.

A Washington day-to-day snapshot

Washington has a calm reputation, but anxiety doesn’t disappear in quiet places. It often shows up in the transitions and the in-between.

You might notice anxiety:

• While driving Route 202, Route 47, or Route 109, especially when you’re running late or anticipating a hard interaction

• When errands stack up and your brain tries to turn the whole day into one high-pressure mission

• In community visibility, where you’re more likely to run into people you know, and being perceived feels like pressure to be “on”

• During winter stretches when daylight is short and routines get squeezed

• In the evening when things slow down and your mind starts replaying conversations, scanning for problems, or planning for the next day

A lot of people cope by staying productive, staying pleasant, staying busy. Then they crash later with doom-scrolling, numbness, irritation, or sleep anxiety. Therapy helps you notice the pattern earlier and build recovery into your day, so relief doesn’t depend on hitting empty.

What sessions look like

We keep the work grounded and skills-based, with enough structure to create change.

In sessions, we typically:

• Map your anxiety pattern (triggers, thoughts, body signals, coping moves)

• Use CBT tools to loosen worry loops, rumination, and perfectionism

• Add nervous system regulation so your body settles faster, not hours later

• Practice tools for specific moments (before a hard conversation, after conflict, during a night spiral)

• Build routines that fit your actual week, not an ideal plan you can’t maintain

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

LGBTQ+ affirming therapy in Washington

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

Affirming care also means taking stress seriously when it comes from being watched, judged, misunderstood, or expected to make other people comfortable. Those experiences shape anxiety patterns. We’ll work with them directly, with respect and without pushing you faster than your system is ready for.

Specialties

FAQs

Is online anxiety therapy available for people in Washington, CT?

Yes. I work with adults across Connecticut through secure online therapy, including Washington and nearby towns. Online sessions help when driving time, weather, work schedules, or privacy concerns make in-person therapy harder to maintain.

We’ll plan for privacy in a realistic way. If home isn’t private, we’ll problem-solve options like a parked car, headphones, white noise, or a consistent time window. We’ll also create a simple “before and after” routine so you’re not stepping into session in full speed mode, then snapping back into your day feeling raw.

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

I blend CBT strategies with nervous system regulation. CBT helps with the thinking side: “what if” spirals, worst-case predictions, perfectionism, and constant mental checking. Nervous system tools help with the body side: tension, nausea, panic sensations, shutdown, and sleep disruption.

Early on, we map your anxiety cycle. What sets it off, what your body does, what your mind predicts, and what you do to cope. Then we test tools in a practical way so you’re using skills in the moments you need them, not only when you feel calm. You’ll leave sessions with a small plan you can repeat, not a long list you’ll avoid.

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

When anxiety hits physically, it can feel confusing, like your body is sounding an alarm while your mind scrambles to explain. In therapy, we focus on the earliest signals because that’s where tools work best.

We’ll identify your body’s first tells, like jaw tension, shoulder lift, breath changes, stomach drops, restlessness, dizziness, or a sudden urge to escape. Then we’ll practice regulation skills that match your pattern. The goal isn’t to force calm. The goal is to reduce how often your system has to brace, and to recover faster when stress shows up.

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

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

Therapy focuses on sustainability, not motivation. 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 backfire, recovery habits that fit your schedule, and practical ways to step out of all-or-nothing cycles.

We also work with guilt and fear of letting people down, since those patterns often keep anxiety stuck even when you know what would help.

What makes your therapy LGBTQ+ affirming?

Affirming therapy means you don’t have to educate your therapist or minimize your life to make the room comfortable. You can bring identity, relationships, family dynamics, dating, faith shifts, and community stress without the conversation turning into a debate.

We’ll treat your experience as real and relevant, and we’ll keep the work respectful, practical, and paced around safety.