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What anxiety feels like for different people

Discover what anxiety may feel like for different groups of people, including emotional and physical symptoms that commonly occur.

April 3, 2025
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Beginning

Recently, I have spoken with a number of people who reached out seeking therapy for the first time. We all have coping skills for dealing with life’s day to day stressors,

July 22, 2020

Expanding Our Collective Consciousness

Imagine an alien accidentally teleported to your neighborhood and started exploring your favorite stomping grounds. What would they…see?…hear?…smell?…taste?…feel?What conclusions would they draw about their new environment?

June 21, 2020

Learning to Check In with our Stress and Anxiety Levels

Let’s be real, a lot of us are feeling super stressed right now. During our everyday lives, we handle stress and anxiety in different ways. However, on an anxiety scale of 1-10, a lot of us start around a 2 or a 3 on most days rather than a 6 or a 7. Right now, with the amount of added stressors due to COVID-19, a lot of us feel like our stress and anxiety is closer to a 6 on the regular.

May 1, 2020

Therapy is not….

Over the last decade, therapy has become more common and less stigmatized in popular culture. Millennials and Gen Z are talking more openly than their parents’ and grandparents’ generations did about their experiences with depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses. This destigmatization has certainly saved lives.

May 1, 2020

Fear and Security: Queer Cohabitation in Quarantine

Since the call to social distance began over a month ago, I have been working remotely with a number of my partnered LGBTQIA+ (hereafter queer) patients, most of whom are isolating with their significant others. In some instances, this has been a fairly smooth transition, with both partners

April 14, 2020

A Time to Stand and To Stare — Earth’s Vacation & Our Time-Out

Earth has compelled us into our corners right now, on a time-out, and from there we each have to decide whether to turn left back onto the path we have mindlessly trotted down for years, the path that brought us here, or turn right and chart a new path. Left is the past, and with it a relentless need for more, a comfort in speaking with our thumbs instead of our voices,

April 8, 2020

The Healing Power of Humor

Research shows that laughter provides physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual benefits, which can increase resilience. As we approach our fourth week of quarantine and social distancing, it is important to recognize how humor unites people by strengthening our relationships as we navigate the challenges around the pandemic.

April 8, 2020

How to Manage Living With Someone Who Does Not Take COVID-19 as Seriously As You Would Like Them To

In these uncertain times, it is easy to feel intensely anxious and stressed. Will I lose my job? Are grocery stores safe? Will my relationships suffer? What if I get sick? Some find themselves projecting their fears far into the future and assuming the worst.

March 29, 2020

Cutting To The Core: Overcoming Shame

Regular shame vs. core shame. Everyone experiences shame. It’s the excruciating feeling that signals we fell short of who or what we wanted to be in the eyes of another.

November 7, 2019

Understanding Attachment Needs

Pain is a given in life. We lose people, become disappointed, and encounter rejection. Yet there is something to be learned in all these situations that makes us stronger.

November 6, 2019

Dealing With Difficult Emotions

Pain is a given in life. We lose people, become disappointed, and encounter rejection. Yet there is something to be learned in all these situations that makes us stronger. Unlike pain, which is inevitable

November 6, 2019

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