01 OF 06 SPECIALTIES
Anxiety & overthinking.
Therapy for the 2am brain that won't quit. Telehealth across New York State.
01 WHAT IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE
Anxiety isn't a personality trait.It's a nervous system stuck on alert.
It's 2am. You're Googling "is this normal" again. You've replayed a conversation from three days ago, mentally drafted tomorrow's to-do list, and imagined at least four worst-case scenarios for a meeting that hasn't happened yet.
Or maybe it's the other version — the one where you can't make yourself care about anything. Your life looks fine on paper but everything feels flat. You're going through the motions, but the motions feel like they're happening to someone else.
Sometimes it's both. At the same time. Fun.
Most people who come to me for this don't say the word "anxiety" first. They say things like:
- “I just can’t turn my brain off at night. Like at all.”
- “I’ll spend hours replaying a conversation I had two days ago.”
- “Every time I send a text I’m convinced I worded it wrong and someone is mad at me.”
- “My chest gets tight and I don’t even know why — I’m not even thinking about anything.”
- “I’m just so tired. Of all of it.”
- “I cancel plans I actually wanted to go to because the idea of leaving the apartment feels like too much.”
Some of these are anxiety. Some are adjacent — overthinking, hypervigilance, the quiet dread that lives underneath everything even when nothing's wrong on paper. We figure out which is which. Then we figure out what's underneath.
And then there's the NYC of it. The pace that doesn't let you slow down. The financial anxiety that runs in the background 24/7. The pressure to be crushing it professionally, socially, personally — all at once, all the time.
02 WHY WHAT YOU'VE TRIED ISN'T WORKING
You're not failing at anxiety.The advice you're getting just isn't enough.
You've probably tried the things — the breathing exercises, the meditation app, the journaling, the well-meaning advice that boils down to relax. Maybe a previous round of therapy gave you some tools but didn't change the underlying thing. Maybe a few approaches have helped take the edge off but left the engine running.
None of those are wrong. They just don't reach the root: anxiety isn't a thinking problem you can outsmart. It's a nervous system pattern with a history. You can't think your way out of it because thinking is often the engine that runs it.
“You don't need to hit rock bottom to deserve support. If something hurts, it hurts. That's reason enough.”
03 HOW WE'D ACTUALLY WORK ON THIS
Slowly. Honestly. With actual attention.
The first thing we'd do is figure out what your specific anxiety is doing — what triggers it, what soothes it, what it's protecting you from. Not in a worksheet way. In a "let's actually look at last Tuesday and figure out what was happening" way.
From there we'd work on a few different layers at once: nervous system regulation (so your body knows it's safe), thought patterns (so your brain stops running the same loops), and what's underneath (so the anxiety stops needing to do the job it's currently doing).
I'm direct without being harsh, and I'll push back when you need it. We'll move at the pace your nervous system can actually handle — not the pace your overthinking wants to go.
04 WHAT YOU MIGHT NOTICE
“What clients tend to notice first isn't that the anxiety stops. It's that they stop being afraid of it. The 2am brain still shows up sometimes. But it doesn't run the day anymore.”
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05STARTING
If this sounds like the right fit,let's talk.
The 15-minute consult is where we figure out if we're a good match. No commitment. If I'm not the right person, I'll help you find someone who is.
You send a note.
Takes a minute. Tell me what’s bringing you in, or just say "hi, I want to talk." No intake form, no questionnaire.
We do a 15-minute call.
No cost, no commitment. We see if it’s a fit. If it’s not, I’ll help you find someone it is.
We book a first session.
Evenings and weekends available. Telehealth from anywhere in New York State.
Or email Angela@nystateofmindtherapy.com
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