Anxiety Therapy in Hobart
When your mind won’t switch off, even when everything seems fine.
You find yourself overthinking conversations, anticipating what could go wrong or struggling to switch off. Therapy can help you understand your anxiety and find new ways to respond.
Anxiety and overwhelm aren’t character flaws. They’re signals.
You're always scanning, always alert, and always one step ahead, trying to prevent the next disaster or earn your place by overfunctioning. On the outside, you look competent and completely together. Privately your nervous system is running an endless loop of hypervigilance and self doubt.
Patterns you experience
The 3am racing thoughts
Waking up in the middle of the night replaying conversations, checking whether you sounded like too much, or worrying about things outside your control.
The over explaining reflex
Building extensive logical cases to justify basic decisions, people pleasing to maintain peace, and feeling guilty the moment you set a boundary.
The physical weight
Chest tightness, shallow breathing, chronic neck tension, and a stomach that feels perpetually knotted.
The exhaustion of carrying it all
Giving everything to your job, your family, or your clients, leaving you completely drained with nothing left for yourself.
Therapy for depression and anxiety in North Hobart that goes deeper than generic advice
You might already know how to challenge anxious thoughts or calm yourself when things feel overwhelming. But understanding your anxiety doesn’t always change how you experience it.
In therapy, we can look beyond managing symptoms to explore the experiences, relationships and patterns that may be contributing to your anxiety, and work towards change that lasts beyond the therapy room.
Specialised approach streams
Beyond standard therapist stress management
We don't just talk about coping mechanisms. I help you look at the underlying survival patterns keeping your body in constant alert.
Integrated depression and anxiety help
When you're exhausted from hypervigilance, your nervous system eventually crashes into numbness or shutdown. I work with both ends of that cycle.
Genuine connection over clinical distance
As a lived experience practitioner, I bring real human presence, warmth, and honest challenge into the room so you feel met rather than clinically assessed.
The emotional shutdown
When overwhelm peaks, you crash into brain fog, feeling checked out or floating above your life just to get through the day.
Frequently asked questions about anxiety therapy
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When your nervous system stays locked in hypervigilance, your brain equates rest with danger. That internal drive to overperform isn't laziness or a lack of confidence. It's an old survival strategy telling you that your worth depends on being useful.
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Absolutely. High functioning anxiety often manifests as a constant fear of being exposed or judged. We look at why you feel like you have to prove your validity, helping you quiet the internal critic without sacrificing your standards.
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Second guessing is your body trying to predict conflict before it happens. In session, we address the root attachment patterns so you can set clear boundaries without spiralling into guilt or replaying conversations for days.
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Yes, because logic doesn't regulate a dysregulated nervous system. I move beyond cognitive reframing to work somatically with EMDR and attachment therapy, teaching your nervous system that you're safe right now.
How we work together
The 15 minute discovery call
A low pressure conversation to talk through what you're experiencing, answer your questions, and see if we're the right fit.
The deep work
Whether in person in North Hobart or online, we get straight into relational and somatic work using evidence based approaches like EMDR and attachment therapy.
Tangible progress
We track your shifts over time using structured progress support, giving you a clear living record of how far you've come.
Ready to stop running on empty?
You don't have to carry everyone else's emotional weight alone. Let's connect through a dedicated anxiety therapy session in North Hobart or via telehealth across Australia wide.
Private billing practice | Self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants welcome