Shifting how you relate to your thoughts and feelings, rather than spending your life trying to change them. If you are living with chronic anxiety, panic, or non-stop worry, you have likely already tried everything to make it stop. You’ve probably tried to argue with your thoughts, distract yourself, or force yourself to "think positive." The reason those strategies feel so exhausting is that they are based on a flawed premise: that you have to fix or eliminate anxious thoughts before you can live your life.
Offering both Telehealth and in person treatment across Georgia, my practice uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Metacognitive Therapy to help you stop fighting your internal experiences and start moving forward.
The Problem Isn’t the Thought. It’s How You Relate to It.
Many traditional therapies focus on changing the content of your thoughts—proving your worries wrong or replacing negative ideas with realistic ones. In my practice, we do things differently. We don't try to change what you think or feel. Instead, we change your relationship to those thoughts and feelings. To understand how this works, we look at your mind through two evidence-based lenses:
Metacognitive Therapy (Thinking About Your Thinking): Anxiety thrives because of how much importance you give to your thoughts. When a worry pops into your head, your brain treats it like an emergency blueprint that requires hours of analysis. Metacognitive therapy teaches you to notice the worry, but decline the invitation to analyze it. You learn that a thought is just a brief mental event, not a command or an objective threat.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Instead of waiting for anxiety to completely vanish before you go to that social event, apply for that job, or set a boundary, ACT teaches you psychological flexibility. We identify what you genuinely care about (your values) and give you the skills to take your anxiety along for the ride, rather than letting it drive the car.