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Therapy for Anxiety and Obsessive Overthinkers
In person in Edmond, OK | Online throughout Oklahoma and Vermont
Want a straightforward breakdown of how I help with anxiety, obsessive overthinking, and OCD? You can read the structured overview here.
Your mind is exhausting you.
Not because there's something wrong with you. But because you have a brain that is exceptionally good at generating doubt and you've been pushing your way through it, probably for years.
You can hold a perfectly reasonable thought in one hand and a spiraling "but what if" in the other, and know logically that the worry doesn't make sense — and still not be able to make it stop. That gap between knowing and feeling is one of the most frustrating places a person can live.
Does any of this sound familiar?
You replay conversations long after they're over, scanning for what you said wrong. You make a decision and feel relief for about 45 seconds before the second-guessing begins. You've Googled your symptoms at 1am. You've wondered if something is physically wrong with you — and maybe a doctor told you it's "just anxiety," which was somehow more frustrating than helpful. You've even had thoughts that really scared you, like "What if I did something horrible and I don't remember it?" Sometimes, it feels like your mind is torturing you with everything that could go wrong, or with everything it thinks is wrong with you.
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The anxiety isn't general. It's specific and sharp. It's about whether you're good enough, sure enough, certain enough. Whether you're making the right choice, loving the right person, living the right life.
And underneath it all is the exhausting wish for your brain to just stop.
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Want to understand more about why standard approaches often fall short for this kind of anxiety? Read more here
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What's actually happening — and what can change
The kind of anxiety I specialize in treating isn't just nervousness or stress. It's the kind that gets caught in a loop — where seeking reassurance temporarily relieves the doubt but ultimately feeds it, where the "what ifs" are never fully answerable because certainty isn't something the mind can manufacture on demand.
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Here's something that might reframe how you see it: anxiety isn't your enemy. It's a messenger. The racing thoughts, the physical symptoms, the obsessive doubts — these are signals from deeper parts of yourself, often protecting you from emotions or truths that feel too big to face directly. Rather than treating them as something to battle, we'll learn to get curious about them instead. What is this thought protecting me from feeling? That question alone can begin to shift everything.
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I use Inferential CBT (I-CBT), a specialized approach developed specifically for obsessive and intrusive thinking — not standard CBT repackaged. I-CBT works by addressing the reasoning process behind the doubt, not just the content of the worry. It's one of the most targeted, evidence-based tools available for this kind of anxiety, and relatively few therapists are trained in it.
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I also work from a nervous system lens. Your anxiety isn't just a thought problem — it lives in your body, too. Part of our work together is helping you build a different relationship with the physical signals your nervous system sends, so that anxiety stops feeling like a threat and starts feeling like information.
What working together looks like
We'll start with a thorough intake — I want to understand not just your symptoms but the whole context of your life and what's driving this. From there, we'll work at a pace that fits you, using a combination of I-CBT, possibly EMDR when trauma is part of the picture, and practical tools you can use between sessions.
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The goal isn't to eliminate uncertainty from your life — that's not possible, and any approach that promises it is selling you something. The goal is to get you to a place where uncertainty no longer controls you. Where you can make decisions without spiraling. Where your mind is a place you can rest in again.
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Want to understand what your nervous system is actually doing? Read this blog post.
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Wondering what therapy actually looks like for overthinkers? Read more here.