I work with adults who are navigating internal patterns that feel overwhelming, confusing, or hard to shift — especially when reactions, urges, or emotions feel automatic, out of proportion, or stuck in familiar loops.
Anxiety and Stress Reactivity
When your system goes into overdrive quickly, or when small stressors feel much bigger than they “should,” leaving you overwhelmed inside.
Internal Conflict
The experience of “part of me wants to… and part of me won’t,” leaving you stuck between competing internal pulls.
Self-criticism, Perfectionism, or People-Pleasing
Patterns that once protected you but now create pressure, exhaustion, or confusion about what you truly want.
Avoidance, Withdrawing, or Dissociation
Strategies that show up when stress or emotion feels too much, or when your system tries to keep you safe by shutting down.
Repeating Relationship or Life Patterns
Cycles you can recognize but can’t seem to change, even when you understand them logically.
Trauma Responses
Fight, flight, freeze, fawn, submit, collapse, hypervigilance, startle reactions, going blank, or feeling overwhelmed faster than expected.
Addictive Patterns or Numbing Behaviors
Substance use, emotional eating, compulsive scrolling, overworking, or other habits that bring short-term relief but long-term distress.
Cravings, Urges, and Ambivalence About Change
The push–pull of wanting recovery or growth while something inside reaches for familiar coping.
Emotional Overwhelm or Emotional Shutdown
Feeling “too much” all at once, or feeling disconnected, numb, or checked out.