Therapy for Anxiety
& Stress.
Worry and stress that don't let up.
High-functioning anxiety in Ohio
Your mind doesn't
fully turn off.
You're the one who triple-checks the email before sending it, preps for the meeting that didn't need prep, and can't always tell whether you're okay or just convincing everyone that you are.
Inside, it's a different story: you're replaying an email you sent three hours ago, running through tomorrow's meeting before you've finished dinner, or lying awake certain you forgot something even though you can't say what.
Anxiety doesn't always look like obvious panic. Sometimes it's the person everyone counts on, smiling through a meeting while running through everything that could still go wrong.
Therapy for anxiety & stress in Worthington & Columbus, Ohio
You've probably built a whole system for managing it: color-coded calendars, over-preparing for things that didn't need it, saying yes before you've had time to think it through. But managing isn't the same as feeling at ease, and the effort it takes to keep everything running is exhausting in a way that's hard to explain to anyone who doesn't feel it.
Anxiety like this doesn't stay in your head. It shows up as tension in your shoulders by mid-afternoon, sleep that doesn't actually rest you, and half-following a conversation because part of your mind is already on tomorrow's to-do list.
We draw on evidence-based approaches including CBT and EMDR, chosen based on what's driving your anxiety rather than a one-size-fits-all script. In practice, that might mean untangling a specific worry loop, working through an experience that still has a charge to it, or simply learning to notice the moment your body tenses before your mind catches up.
Anxiety & chronic stress
You may recognize
yourself here.
Anxiety doesn't always look the way people expect, and the symptoms can be physical, mental, or both. For a lot of people, it just feels like their personality: a nervous system that's been running too hard for too long, mistaken for who they are.
For many people, anxiety is connected to deeper patterns of perfectionism and people-pleasing, or to earlier experiences that shaped how safe the world feels. We can work with all of it.
- Your mind races even when you're trying to rest or sleep
- You overthink decisions, conversations, and things you said or did
- You feel responsible for managing everything and everyone around you
- Your body feels tense, wired, or physically exhausted even when nothing is wrong
- You struggle to fully relax, even when you finally have time to
- You're always anticipating what could go wrong, even when things are going fine
- You tell yourself to just be present, to enjoy this, to stop overthinking, and somehow can't
- Sudden waves of panic: a racing heart, a tight chest, or a feeling that something is wrong even when nothing is
- You avoid calls, meetings, or social plans you'd normally be fine with, and can't always explain why
For many people, anxiety is connected to deeper patterns of perfectionism and people-pleasing, or to earlier experiences that shaped how safe the world feels. We can work with all of it.
What keeps anxiety going
This runs deeper
than overthinking.
It's in your body, your habits, the patterns you've built over years to feel safe and in control. Many people have been carrying this for so long they've stopped questioning it, and it's fair to wonder whether change is even possible.
Sometimes anxiety traces back to a specific stressor, or to earlier experiences that shaped how your nervous system reads risk and safety. For a lot of people, though, it built up slowly, over years of high stakes and never quite feeling like enough.
Whatever the source, the result tends to be the same: a nervous system that doesn't know how to power down. And the very strategies that helped you cope, staying busy, staying productive, staying in control, can end up being what keeps the anxiety running.
Therapy offers a way to understand what's maintaining the anxiety and start to gently shift your relationship to stress, so you can respond instead of just reacting.
You don't have to stop caring to stop being ruled by the worry.
Therapy for anxiety here is collaborative and tailored. CBT helps you notice and shift the thought patterns that keep the worry cycle going. EMDR can help when anxiety is rooted in specific past experiences your body hasn't fully let go of. Mindfulness-based practice gives you a way to be in your body without the constant hypervigilance. We go at your pace, and we follow what feels most relevant to your experience.
Over time, many people notice they're not on edge as often, and can actually be where they are instead of five steps ahead of it. They can sit with their family without part of their mind somewhere else. They can rest without feeling like they should be doing something. Many describe it as finally feeling like themselves again, minus the constant background risk assessment.
Getting started
When you're ready to begin.
Reach Out
Connect through the contact form, or reach out directly by email or phone. Every message is read and responded to by Linnea personally.
Free Consultation
We'll meet for a complimentary consultation to talk about what's bringing you here, answer your questions, and see if working together feels like a good fit.
Begin Therapy
If it feels right, we'll schedule your first session — in person in Worthington or via telehealth across Ohio — and start building the support you're looking for.
You're in the right place
Less time in your head.
More time actually living.
Most of the people I work with are the ones everyone else relies on: the physician who's first to arrive and last to leave, the manager who tracks everyone's deadlines but her own limits, the friend who's always available except to herself. Slowing down doesn't feel optional when so much seems to depend on you not stopping.
For a lot of my clients, anxiety has been the background hum of their life for so long they'd stopped noticing it, until the day they realized how much they'd been missing: conversations they weren't really in, evenings they can't remember because their mind was already three tasks ahead.
You don't have to hit a wall to ask for help. And if you have, that's okay too. You just have to be ready to be present for your own life.
Take the first step
You don't have to keep
running on empty.
Reach out and we can talk through what's bringing you here.
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