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Somatic therapy for high-functioning anxiety, hypervigilance, and burnout — in person near Richmond, Virginia, or online across Virginia and Washington, DC.
High-functioning anxiety rarely looks like anxiety. It looks like preparation, responsiveness, excellence. From the outside you're thriving — a demanding career, people counting on you, everything handled. Inside, your system never powers down: scanning for what could go wrong, rehearsing conversations, unable to truly rest even on vacation.
Years of chronic workplace stress and high-pressure environments train the nervous system to treat ordinary life as an emergency. Over time that shows up as irritability, unexplained physical tension, sleep that doesn't restore, and a creeping numbness — the body's last resort when it can't keep bracing.
Willpower can't fix a physiological state. That's why my approach works with the body directly, through Somatic Experiencing®, alongside Inner Relationship Focusing for the inner drivers — the "shoulds" that keep the pressure on.
Hypervigilance — always on, unable to truly rest
Chronic irritability or a short fuse that doesn't feel like you
Physical tension, jaw clenching, stomach issues, or unexplained pain
Burnout that a vacation doesn't touch
Feeling disconnected from your body — like living from the neck up
Sessions are available at my ADA-accessible office in Henrico, minutes from Richmond, VA, or by secure video anywhere in Virginia and Washington, DC — a practical option for busy professionals.
