ANXIETY & EXISTENTIAL UNEASE

If you're dealing with anxiety, you've probably already tried to think your way out of it. You’ve analyzed the triggers, practiced the breathing exercises, read the articles, maybe even tried to logic yourself into feeling differently. And still—the hum persists.

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That’s because anxiety isn’t a personal failure or a lack of coping skills. It’s rarely just a symptom to control. More often, anxiety is a signal—a messenger from inside pointing toward something you haven’t yet been able to see, feel, or name.

In depth-oriented therapy, we’re less interested in silencing anxiety and more interested in listening to it.

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What Anxiety Is Trying to Tell You

Anxiety is frequently a clue—an emotional code we decode together. The work often begins with questions like:

What is the anxiety pointing toward? Sometimes anxiety is the voice of an unlived life. A self you haven’t allowed. A longing you’ve quieted. A conflict between who you are and who you’ve been trying to be. Anxiety can form around possibilities that feel dangerous simply because they are unknown.

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What are you protecting yourself from?
Anxiety isn’t random. It serves a purpose. For many, it’s a defense against vulnerability, disappointment, anger, or grief. It may have protected you in the past, and it may still feel safer than what lies underneath.Where did this pattern begin?

It's also often passed down through family systems—absorbed from unspoken fear, chronic vigilance, or the emotional atmosphere of your early environment. Even if the original threat is long gone, the nervous system remembers. Therapy helps trace what belongs to you, what belongs to the past, and what’s still living unexamined inside you.

 

Anxiety often sits on top of other emotions—rage that feels unacceptable, grief you didn’t have space for, desire you don't yet know how to claim, loneliness that feels too revealing. Sometimes the work isn’t about “reducing anxiety” at all, but making room for the emotions that have been exiled beneath it.

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Some forms of anxiety don’t have a clear trigger, and it feels more like existential unease—a deeper restlessness that doesn’t respond to techniques or quick fixes because it’s tied to meaning, identity, and the experience of being alive.

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How Therapy Helps

In our work together, we approach anxiety as information—emotional, psychological, relational, and often somatic.

We pay attention to:

• how anxiety shows up in your body

• the stories you’ve inherited about safety, worth, and control

• the parts of you in conflict with each other

• the unconscious meanings that shape your reactions

• your capacity to feel without becoming overwhelmed

• the deeper truths trying to surface through the tension

 

Instead of treating anxiety as the enemy, we work to understand its logic. Anxiety often loosens not through suppression, but through being met, understood, and integrated into a fuller experience of self.

The goal isn’t simply to feel less anxious—it’s to feel more whole, more grounded, more aligned with your inner life.