Specialty · Anxiety & Depression
Not a flaw to fix. A signal worth understanding.
Anxiety and depression often mean something is wrong — not with you, but with how your life is fitting together right now.
Anxiety and depression are among the most common reasons people come to therapy — and among the most misunderstood. They are not weaknesses of character or evidence that something is fundamentally broken in you. They are, more often than not, intelligent responses to difficult circumstances, relationships, or inner conflicts — responses that were adaptive once and have outlasted their usefulness.
Anxiety says: something matters and feels uncertain. Depression often says: something important has been lost, or you’ve been running on empty for a long time. The symptoms are real, the suffering is real, and they also contain information worth paying attention to.
The goal isn’t to feel better. It’s to live better.
Kierkegaard called anxiety “the dizziness of freedom” — the vertigo of knowing things could be otherwise, that your choices matter, and that you can’t be certain how they’ll turn out. That doesn’t make it comfortable, but it means there’s something underneath worth listening to rather than simply quieting.
In ACT, the counterintuitive insight is that the struggle to get rid of difficult feelings is often what keeps them in place. The therapeutic move isn’t to defeat those experiences — it’s to hold them differently while staying in motion toward what matters.
Where the work focuses
ACT
Rather than fighting anxious or depressive thoughts, ACT helps you hold them differently — making room for difficulty while staying in motion toward what you value.
DBT Skills
Distress tolerance and emotion regulation skills build the capacity to handle intense emotional states without making them worse.
CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy targets the thought patterns and behavioral cycles that maintain anxiety and depression. Practical and evidence-based.
Behavioral Activation & Meaning Work
Together we identify what matters to you and build toward it — even incrementally — reconnecting behavior with values.
Something in you is still looking for a way forward.
That’s worth something. A free 15-minute consultation is a low-stakes first step.