Depression & Anxiety

Depression and anxiety rarely show up the way people expect. Sometimes it's not sadness or panic — it's exhaustion. Numbness. A running commentary in your head that never lets up. A body that's tired in a way sleep doesn't fix.

For a lot of the people I work with, depression and anxiety are what happens when you've spent years managing everyone else's needs, staying two steps ahead of conflict, or holding it together so no one has to worry about you. Your mind became your safest place — which means you're probably very good at understanding your struggles and not very practiced at feeling them. We'll work with both. Insight matters, but so does what's happening in your body, your breath, your nervous system, in real time. Using somatic and mindfulness-based tools alongside relational work, we slow things down enough for you to actually feel what's underneath the anxious spiral or the flat, heavy days — grief, fear, anger, longing — instead of just managing it from the neck up.

You don't have to earn your way out of this by thinking harder. Sometimes the way through is quieter than that.