Specialties
Anxiety
Anxiety is a body preparing for something that isn't here.
What this looks like
You rehearse conversations that haven't happened.
Your chest stays tight for no reason you can name.
You're fine on the outside and braced underneath.
How Rapid Resolution Therapy approaches it
Rather than managing symptoms with coping tools, RRT goes after what the mind is still treating as a live threat.
The conversation is direct and often lighter than people expect. You keep your footing the whole way through.
What anxiety is doing
Anxiety is an alarm. It's answering something the mind still treats as a threat, even when the threat is long gone or never quite arrived. The alarm itself is working. It's just aimed at the wrong moment.
That's why logic and reassurance rarely switch it off. You can know the plane is safe, the meeting will be fine, the test result is probably nothing, and your body carries on as if none of that were true. The alarm doesn't live in the part of you that reads statistics.
Sometimes it builds into sudden surges. If that's closer to what you deal with, I've written a separate page on panic attacks.
Why coping skills aren't the whole answer
Breathing, grounding, counting things in the room. These help in a spike, and I'm not going to tell you to stop using what works. But they're a way of riding the wave. They rarely change the loop underneath that keeps generating waves.
A lot of people come to me tired. They've got the tools, they use them every day, and the effort of staying calm has become its own job. The aim here is different: to work with what's setting the alarm off, so calm isn't something you have to hold together by hand.
How anxiety shows up in the body
A tight chest. A stomach that won't settle. Sleep that's shallow or late. Restlessness, jaw clenching, a heart that picks up speed for no reason you can find. Anxiety is rarely just a thinking problem.
Physical symptoms deserve a proper look from a doctor, especially chest pain, breathing trouble or anything new. Get those checked first. Therapy can run alongside medical care, never instead of it.
Where CBT and mindfulness fit
RRT is the center of how I work, but I'm also trained in cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based approaches. When a practical CBT tool or a moment of present-focused noticing would help, I'll use it.
What you won't get is a binder of worksheets. The work happens in session. And if the anxiety is tangled up with overwork, it's worth reading about stress and burnout too.
What working on it can look like
We start with what you'd like to be different. Maybe it's the knot before every work call, or the three a.m. loop about money, or the way a text from a certain person sets your heart going. We don't need the whole history. We need a place to begin.
From there the work is a conversation aimed at the part of you that's still sounding the alarm. People sometimes expect to spend the session talking about how anxious they are. Usually we spend it on something more useful than that. You're welcome to ask questions the whole way through, and to tell me when something doesn't fit. The alarm itself is explained in plain language in fight, flight or freeze, explained.
The alarm isn't broken. It's just still going off for something that already passed.
Questions people ask
No. Medication decisions stay with your prescriber. I don't prescribe, and I won't ask you to change anything. If you're thinking about changes, talk to the doctor or psychiatrist who manages them.
That's very common. You don't need to know where it came from for us to work with it. We start with how it shows up now, and the rest often becomes clearer along the way.
It might at the start, and that's fine to say out loud. We can go slowly, you can turn your camera angle however you like, and the first few minutes are just about settling in.
Not sure if what you're carrying fits here?
A free 15-minute call is the simplest way to find out.
Rapid Resolution Therapy is a therapeutic approach, not a guarantee of specific results and not a substitute for medical care. Every person's experience is different and individual outcomes vary.
Peace can become your default — not something you fight for every morning.