Anxiety

Anxiety is one of the most broadly used terms in mental health, and I find that it often serves as a catch-all for many different forms of uneasiness that deserve more specific attention.

For some people, anxiety is very close to excitement, a buzzing energy that lives in the chest or the head, almost electric. For others, it is pure dread: a heaviness that sits low in the body, in the gut or the pelvis, with nothing resembling excitement at all. And then there are forms that do not fit neatly into either category.

The common thread is a body that does not feel safe. A nervous system that is running, scanning, bracing, anticipating, because at some point, it learned that letting its guard down was dangerous.

Rather than treating "anxiety" as one thing, I work with your specific experience of uneasiness. Where does it live in your body? What triggers it? What does it feel like, not what do you think about it, but what does the sensation actually feel like?

From there, the Capacity for Self Method™ addresses multiple layers:

• The nervous system: Through cranial sacral therapy and breathwork, I help your system downregulate from its chronic alert state. This is not relaxation, it is teaching your body what safety feels like again.
• The protector parts: The "anxious part" of you is often a protector that learned its job a long time ago. Somatic parts work helps it step back, not by overriding it, but by showing it that the grounded Self can handle what is here.
• The held charge: Anxiety often has a physical signature, jaw tension, shallow breathing, a tight solar plexus. Myofascial release and gentle bodywork help discharge the physical holding.

Sessions are calm and unhurried. I start by simply asking what is present for you today, not a diagnosis, just what you notice in your body right now.

Some clients feel a significant shift in their anxiety within the first session. For others, the process is more gradual as deeper layers reveal themselves. There is no standard timeline, because your experience of anxiety is unique to you.

The goal is not to eliminate anxiety. It is to build enough capacity that your system no longer needs to run.

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