You Might Recognize Yourself Here:

• You overthink conversations, choices, or what others might think of you.
• You can’t relax, even when things are going well.
• Your body is often tight, jittery, or achy.
• You lose sleep worrying about what might happen.
• You avoid situations that trigger the anxiety, even when you wish you could show up.

Why Anxiety Sticks Around

Anxiety isn’t just “nervousness.” Your mind and body are holding patterns of information — images, thoughts, emotions, and behavioral rules — that were laid down during stressful or threatening experiences. These patterns can get triggered by situations that resemble the original ones, even if you’re safe now.

Anxiety often leads to avoidance — putting off a conversation, a task, or a decision to get momentary relief from the discomfort. It works in the short term, but over time it backfires, leaving the situation unresolved and the anxiety stronger. Sometimes anxiety even shuts down your motivation and makes you feel tired, as if your mind and body are saying, “If we don’t act, we can’t fail or get hurt.”

Sometimes these patterns are linked to a clear event, such as an accident, loss, or sudden change. When that’s the case, the anxiety may be part of a trauma response. If that sounds like you, read more about how I help people heal trauma here.

Talk therapy can bring insight into how your anxiety developed and how it’s affecting you. For real relief, you need to resolve the patterns of information that keep your mind and body on high alert.

That’s what I help people do. Using gentle, fast-acting Energy Psychology methods, we can dissolve these stored patterns without you having to re-live the most difficult experiences. Often, even the smallest touch on a memory — like dipping a toe in the water — is enough to create meaningful change.

Different Types of Anxiety — and How They Begin

While anxiety can show up in many forms, the way it’s wired into your system often depends on the experiences that shaped it.

Generalized Anxiety

Generalized anxiety can feel like your mind is always on, scanning for what might go wrong. It often develops from growing up in unpredictable or stressful environments — where staying alert felt necessary for safety. You may have learned to expect problems and brace for them before they happen.

Social Anxiety

Social anxiety is more than shyness. It’s a fear of being judged, embarrassed, or rejected, often rooted in experiences like being bullied by peers, excluded from groups, or criticized by caregivers. Your system learned that social situations carry a real risk of harm — and that lesson still plays out, even years later.

Work-Related Anxiety

Work-related anxiety can show up before presentations, deadlines, evaluations, or any task where you feel pressure to deliver — whether at your job, in school, or in personal projects. It often grows from repeated messages — explicit or implied — that you’re not good enough, or that what you do will never be enough. This can come from parents, teachers, bosses, or other authority figures, and it trains your body to associate producing or sharing your work with fear.

Health Anxiety

Health anxiety can feel like a constant search for signs that something is wrong — checking symptoms, researching illnesses, and struggling to believe reassurance. It can develop after experiencing a sudden illness yourself, losing someone to illness, or growing up in an environment where health crises loomed large.

Panic Attacks

Panic attacks are sudden, intense surges of fear that can bring pounding heart, shortness of breath, dizziness, or a feeling of losing control. They can be linked to past experiences where you felt trapped, powerless, or in danger — even if you couldn’t name it as trauma at the time.

What Life Can Feel Like After Healing Anxiety

• Calm confidence in situations that once triggered worry.
• The ability to relax and enjoy the present moment.
• More energy, focus, and freedom in your daily life.
• No longer feeling controlled by “what-if” thinking.