Obsessive compulsive disorder can be exhausting, especially when your mind keeps demanding certainty about things that may never feel fully knowable. You might find yourself stuck in your head, checking, replaying conversations, seeking reassurance, avoiding triggers, researching, confessing, or trying to “figure out” whether a thought means something about who you are or what might happen in the future.

OCD is not just about being neat or particular. It often shows up as intrusive thoughts, intense doubt, mental review, fear of harm, relationship uncertainty, moral or religious fears, health concerns, contamination fears, or a constant need to feel “sure”. Research shows that when you work on changing your relationship with uncertainty and reducing compulsions, you can break the OCD loop and make decisions based on what you want, instead of fear.

Anxiety can make your life feel smaller, even when you’re doing everything you can to hold it together. You might look calm on the outside while internally running through worst-case scenarios, overpreparing, avoiding decisions, or feeling like you can’t relax or be present or get out of your head.

I work with people experiencing generalized anxiety, perfectionism, panic attacks, phobias, social anxiety, health anxiety, and the kind of chronic overthinking that makes even simple choices feel complicated. Therapy can help you understand what your anxiety is trying to protect you from, build skills for responding differently, and practice doing meaningful things even when anxiety is present.

PTSD and trauma can leave you feeling like the past is still too close, even when part of you knows you’re safe now. You might notice yourself feeling on edge, easily startled, emotionally numb, overwhelmed, disconnected from your body, flooded by memories, or pulled into shame, fear, or self-blame that feels hard to reason your way out of.

Sometimes PTSD shows up as avoiding certain places, people, conversations, sensations, or reminders. Other times, it looks like overfunctioning, people-pleasing, irritability, difficulty trusting yourself, or feeling like your nervous system is always scanning for what could go wrong.

In therapy, we’ll approach painful memories and old survival patterns with care, structure, and respect for your pace. Healing from PTSD can involve turning toward parts of your story that have felt overwhelming, avoided, or stuck. We will never push you past your limits, but we will help your mind and body process what happened in a more grounded way. Over time, the goal is for the past to feel less present, less consuming, and less in charge of how you move through your life now.