What I treat
Contents
Four chapters, one conviction: the symptom made sense once. Naming what it was for is how it loosens — and how the days start belonging to you again.
Read in order, or start with the page that sounds like your week.
Anxiety
Anxiety rarely announces itself as anxiety. It shows up as the rehearsed conversation, the fourth read of a two-line email, the Sunday-night dread, the racing heart in a meeting that is objectively fine.
Worry is usually vigilance that has outlived its usefulness — a nervous system that learned, somewhere, that letting its guard down wasn’t safe. We work on two levels at once: settling the day-to-day symptoms, and understanding what the vigilance was originally hired to do.
When the threat the anxiety is scanning for finally has a name, it tends to lose its grip on everything else.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
OCD is exhausting in a way that’s hard to explain to anyone who hasn’t lived it. The thought arrives uninvited — about contamination, harm, morality, order — and brings a doubt so loud that checking, washing, counting, or silently reviewing feels like the only way to breathe.
The relief the ritual buys is real, and it’s also the trap: every compulsion teaches the doubt that it was right to shout. In our work, we take the obsessions seriously without obeying them — looking at what the intrusive thoughts attach to, why these themes and not others, and how to meet the doubt without handing it the rest of your day.
People with OCD are often deeply ashamed of thoughts that in no way reflect who they are. That shame lifts remarkably fast in a room where nothing you say is met with alarm.
Depression
Depression is not sadness, exactly. It’s more like the color draining out — the things that used to matter going quiet, the effort of pretending to be fine becoming its own full-time job.
Depression often carries information: about losses that were never fully grieved, anger that had nowhere to go, or a way of measuring yourself that no one could survive. We go looking for that information together, at a pace that respects how little energy depression leaves you.
Supportive work matters here too — some weeks the session is simply the place where you don’t have to perform being okay. The color does come back. It usually arrives quietly, one ordinary morning at a time.
Trauma & PTSD
Trauma has a long memory. Something that happened years ago — a single event, or a childhood’s worth of them — can still set the terms for how safe you feel, how close you let people get, how loudly your body reacts to things that shouldn’t be threats.
The work is never about forcing you back through what happened. It’s about building enough safety, in the relationship and in your own body, that the past can become something that happened to you rather than something that keeps happening.
We move at your pace, always. Trust is not a precondition for starting — it’s something the work itself builds.
Also within the practice
First responders
A dedicated part of the practice. Police, fire, EMS, dispatch — the calls that stay, the culture of not talking, the whiplash between adrenaline and paperwork.
Sports performance
When the body is trained and the mind gets in the way: performance anxiety, slumps, identity tangled up in results.
School issues
For students at every level — when perfectionism, avoidance, or anxiety turns school into a thing that’s happening to you.
