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Anxiety Therapy in Massachusetts & Rhode Island

CBT, Exposure Therapy, and EMDR-informed treatment for overthinking and high-functioning anxiety in older teens and adults

Is your mind always running ahead to everything that could go wrong?

Maybe you replay conversations for hours after they happen, convinced you said the wrong thing. Or you lie awake running through tomorrow’s to-do list, mentally preparing for every possible outcome. You’ve tried to just relax — and it doesn’t work. Because for you, worry isn’t a habit you can talk yourself out of. It feels necessary. Like if you stop preparing, something will go wrong.


Living with generalized anxiety can feel exhausting in a way that’s hard to explain to others. From the outside, you look like you have it together. You’re responsible, capable, and high-functioning. But on the inside, your mind is working overtime — and it has been for as long as you can remember.

Whatever it is that you’re experiencing, you’re beginning to notice the impact in every part of your life:

  • Spending hours overthinking decisions, conversations, or situations you can’t control
  • Struggling to be present — always mentally somewhere else, preparing for what’s next
  • Feeling tense, restless, or physically exhausted even when nothing is technically wrong
  • Avoiding situations, conversations, or responsibilities because the anxiety feels too overwhelming
  • Relying on reassurance from others — or from constant researching and checking — for relief that never lasts
  • Lying awake at night with a mind that won’t quiet down

You may be here because you’re exhausted from anxiety calling the shots. You want to feel calmer, more present, and able to enjoy your life without your mind constantly pulling you back into worry.

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Generalized anxiety doesn’t have to define your life.

It may feel like this is just how your brain works — like anxiety is part of your personality and always will be. But anxiety is not who you are. It’s a pattern your nervous system learned, and patterns can change.

With the right approach, you can learn to relate to anxious thoughts differently, reduce the intensity of worry over time, and start living in a way that feels less controlled by fear of what might happen.

Together, we’ll focus on practical, evidence-based strategies designed to give you lasting results. My goal is not just to help you cope, but to help you create real change.

In therapy, I’ll help you:

  • Understand what’s keeping your anxiety going — and why willpower and positive thinking haven’t been enough
  • Identify the thought patterns, avoidance behaviors, and reassurance-seeking that maintain the worry cycle
  • Build a different relationship with anxious thoughts so they lose their grip over time
  • Gradually face the uncertainty and situations you’ve been avoiding, so anxiety stops shrinking your life
  • Process past experiences that may be fueling your current anxiety at a level that talk therapy alone doesn’t reach
  • Develop lasting tools — not just coping strategies — so you can keep moving forward after therapy ends
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Most anxiety treatment teaches you to manage.
This is different.

I treat generalized anxiety using a combination of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), exposure-based strategies, and EMDR — tailored to what’s actually driving your anxiety.

CBT helps you identify the thought patterns and beliefs that keep the worry cycle going, and develop a different relationship with anxious thoughts so they no longer carry the same weight.

Exposure therapy — which we’ll use when avoidance is part of what’s maintaining your anxiety — helps you gradually face the situations, uncertainties, and triggers you’ve been working around, so anxiety loses its power over your choices.

For some people, anxiety isn’t just about the present. It’s rooted in earlier experiences — moments of criticism, unpredictability, loss, or feeling unsafe — that trained the nervous system to stay on high alert. When that’s the case, I integrate EMDR to process those past experiences so they no longer fuel today’s anxiety the way they currently do.

Whether through virtual therapy sessions across Massachusetts and Rhode Island — including the greater Providence, Boston, Worcester, and Attleboro areas — or in-person therapy at my office in North Attleboro, MA, we’ll create a plan that works for your life.

You don’t have to spend your life bracing for what’s next.

With the right support and tools, freedom from constant worry is possible. Therapy can help you move from exhausted and on edge to grounded, present, and actually living your life.

Let’s find a format that works for your life so you can take the next step forward.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is generalized anxiety therapy just about learning to think more positively?

No, and if positive thinking worked, you'd have figured that out already. Therapy for generalized anxiety goes much deeper than reframing thoughts. We work on understanding why your nervous system stays in worry mode, changing your relationship with anxious thoughts, and gradually reducing the avoidance and reassurance-seeking that keeps anxiety going. The goal is lasting change, not a better inner monologue.

What's the difference between normal worry and generalized anxiety?

Everyone worries sometimes. With generalized anxiety, the worry is persistent, difficult to control, and often jumps from one concern to the next — work, health, relationships, the future. It tends to feel necessary, like you have to worry to stay prepared. And it often comes with physical symptoms like tension, fatigue, or difficulty sleeping, even when there's no clear cause.

I've tried therapy before and it didn't help. Why would this be different?

Many people with anxiety have seen therapists who used a more general supportive approach, which can feel helpful in the moment but doesn't always change the underlying patterns. My approach is structured and active, using CBT and exposure-based strategies specifically designed to address how anxiety works, not just how it feels. If past experiences are part of what's driving your anxiety, we can address those directly with EMDR.

How long does anxiety therapy take?

It depends on the severity and history of your anxiety, but most clients begin to notice meaningful change within 12–20 sessions. My approach is focused and goal-oriented — the aim is to get you to a place where you have the tools to manage on your own, not to keep you in therapy indefinitely.

How do we get started?

Reach out through my contact page to schedule a free 15-minute phone consultation. We'll talk about what you're experiencing and whether my approach feels like a good fit. There's no commitment, no pressure — just a conversation.