Anxiety Therapy in Brooklyn & Queens, NY
Anxiety therapy in Brooklyn and Queens, NY for adults experiencing chronic stress, racing thoughts, panic attacks, and nervous system dysregulation. Our trauma-informed, integrative approach helps you regulate anxiety, reduce overwhelm, and feel more grounded in your daily life. In-person sessions available in Williamsburg and Ridgewood, with virtual therapy offered throughout New York State.
Quick Facts: Anxiety Therapy
- Who this is for: Adults experiencing anxiety, chronic stress, racing thoughts, panic attacks, overwhelm, or nervous system dysregulation
- Common concerns addressed: Feeling “on edge,” panic attacks or chest tightness, trouble sleeping or focusing, constant worry or second-guessing, avoiding situations due to anxiety
- Therapeutic approaches used: Mindfulness and somatic awareness, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting, EMDR, psychoeducation, psychodynamic therapy, relational therapy
- Session options: In-person therapy in Williamsburg (Brooklyn), in-person therapy in Ridgewood (Queens), and virtual therapy throughout New York State
- Consultation option: Free 15-minute phone consultation
If your mind won’t stop racing, if you're always bracing for the worst, or if you're exhausted from trying to hold it all together, this isn’t just stress. It might be anxiety.
Anxiety can feel like overthinking everything, second-guessing yourself constantly, or lying awake at night even when you're beyond tired. It might show up as tension in your chest, a sense of doom you can’t explain, or snapping at people you love when you're just overwhelmed.
You don’t have to keep pushing through it alone.
You don’t have to live in constant fight-or-flight.
Therapy can help you slow it all down, make sense of what’s happening inside, and begin to feel more grounded in your body and your life.
What Does Anxiety Feel Like in Daily Life?
Anxiety can be loud and obvious, or quiet and constant. It shows up differently for everyone, but some common experiences include:
Feeling “on edge” all the time
Racing thoughts you can’t shut off
Panic attacks or chest tightness
Trouble focusing or sleeping
Worrying about things that “shouldn’t” be a big deal
A constant sense that something bad is about to happen
Avoiding situations that feel overwhelming, even ones you used to enjoy
If any of this sounds familiar, you're not broken. Your nervous system may just be trying to protect you in ways that no longer serve you.
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. ”
How Does Anxiety Therapy Help?
Anxiety is more than a mental loop, it’s a full-body experience. Therapy offers a space where you can start to understand your patterns, regulate your nervous system, and develop tools that actually work in your real life.
What's underneath the anxious thoughts
How your body responds to stress (and how to calm it)
The roots of your anxiety, whether from trauma, family patterns, or current stressors
How to gently shift the way you respond to uncertainty and fear
What Happens in Anxiety Therapy?
What Is Our Approach to Anxiety Therapy?
We take a trauma-informed, integrative approach that meets you where you are.
Mindfulness and somatic awareness to help you feel more present and safe in your body
Internal Family Systems (IFS) to explore the different “parts” of you, like the overachiever, the worrier, or the inner critic, and help them soften
Brainspotting and EMDR, powerful brain-based tools to process anxiety and stress held in the body
Psychoeducation so you can better understand how anxiety impacts your brain and nervous system
You don’t have to perform in therapy. You don’t need to have the “right” words. You just need space to show up as you are, and feel supported as you find your way back to yourself..
Local and Virtual Sessions Available
We offer anxiety therapy in person both at my Williamsburg office as well as my office in Ridgewood Queens, serving clients in neighborhoods like Bushwick, Park Slope, Brooklyn, and Crown Heights.
If you’re not able to make the commute or prefer the comfort of your own space, We also offer secure telehealth therapy throughout New York State.
How Does Anxiety Therapy Work?
1. Consultation
Start with a free 15-minute phone consultation to talk through what’s been happening and ask questions about the process. This is a low-pressure way to see if working together feels like a good fit.
2. Understanding Your Anxiety
In early sessions, we explore how anxiety shows up in your thoughts, body, and relationships. We look at patterns, triggers, and the ways your nervous system responds to stress.
This helps build a shared understanding before moving into deeper work.
3. Processing and Skill Building
Using approaches like mindfulness, somatic awareness, Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, Brainspotting, psychodynamic, and relational therapy, we begin working with the roots of anxiety.
This may include regulating your nervous system, processing stored stress, and shifting long-standing patterns.
4. Integration into Daily Life
As insight and regulation increase, we focus on how these changes translate outside of therapy.
The goal is not just talking about anxiety, but feeling more grounded in your body and more steady in your daily life.
5. Ongoing Support
Therapy continues at a pace that feels supportive and sustainable. Some people work short-term around specific stressors. Others stay longer to deepen self-understanding and integration.
We adjust the work based on what feels most useful to you.
Why Choose MindfulSelf Therapy for Anxiety?
Our approach is informed, integrative, and nonjudgmental. We understand that creatives often process the world with heightened sensitivity, deep emotional nuance, and unique internal rhythms.
Psychodynamic therapy to explore your inner world and self-narratives
Mindfulness-based practices to help you reconnect to the present moment
Somatic work to support nervous system balance and embodied healing
Relational therapy to address how connection (or disconnection) is shaping your sense of safety and belonging
What we will draw from:
We’re not just therapists, we’re collaborators in your self-discovery, here to support your voice, vitality, and creative integrity.
FAQs About Anxiety and Therapy
Do I have to have a diagnosis to start therapy?
Not at all. You don’t need a label to get support. If something feels off, that’s reason enough to reach out.
What if I’ve tried therapy before and it didn’t help?
That’s more common than you think. We use modalities that go beyond talk alone, like somatic work and EMDR and Brainspotting, to address the body’s role in anxiety.
Can therapy help with panic attacks?
Yes. Together, we can build tools to regulate your nervous system, reduce panic symptoms, and explore what’s contributing to the fear underneath.
Is anxiety therapy effective?
Anxiety therapy can help you better understand how anxiety shows up in your thoughts, body, and relationships. By working with patterns, triggers, and nervous system responses, therapy supports more regulation and steadiness over time.
The focus is not just symptom reduction, but building awareness and sustainable change.
Sources
American Psychological Association (APA) - Anxiety
https://www.apa.org/topics/anxiety
How to Start
If you’ve been living with anxiety for so long that it feels like your “normal,” you deserve to know that it doesn’t have to be this way.
Therapy can help you reclaim your calm, your clarity, and your sense of control.
We invite you to:
Book a free 15-minute phone consultation
Ask questions about how therapy works
Tell us a little about your creative world, or nothing at all, we'll meet you wherever you are