By Lindsay Hanson | June 11th, 2026
First, I want to acknowledge that anxiety can feel awful. It can be debilitating, overwhelming, and completely out of your control. It can seem like it shows up at any moment, and that can feel incredibly scary.
What makes it even harder is that people often respond with things like, “Just calm down” or “Don’t be so anxious.” But if anxiety were something you could simply think your way out of, you would have done that already.
Anxiety often leads us into patterns of coping that can become painful in our lives. We may try to control our environment, our relationships, or ourselves in hopes of preventing the anxiety from showing up. Over time, this can strain relationships and cause our world to become smaller and smaller.
I believe anxiety is often the body’s way of coping with deeply unprocessed emotions, experiences, and trauma. And trauma doesn’t always mean something dramatic or catastrophic happened. Sometimes it’s the accumulation of many small hurts—the paper cuts of life—that never had the chance to be fully felt, processed, and healed.
My work is about slowing things down. Together, we create a little more safety in the relationship and a little more safety in your body so we can gently get to the root of what’s causing so much distress. When we begin to understand and be with what’s underneath the anxiety, real healing becomes possible.