Anxiety & Overwhelm
Therapy for deep feelers and highly sensitive people in San Clemente, CA
When it all feels like way too much
The bills have to be paid, the laundry desperately needs to be done, and you need to get to work on time, hopefully with some food in your stomach. You scroll past something horrible on your phone and can’t get it out of your mind. Your doctor wants more tests, and now your thoughts are spiraling - there’s probably something wrong. You replay something you said at dinner last night and wonder if everyone noticed… and if they’re still thinking about it today. Plus, how are you supposed to manage when simply pushing a shopping cart across those bumpy sections outside the grocery store sets your teeth on edge?
Sometimes it can feel like the volume on all of life has been turned up way too high.
Believe me, I get it, because I’ve been there too. Many of the people I work with share a similar pattern. They feel things deeply. They notice more. Their minds don’t just move on; they process, reflect, and revisit - sometimes over and over again. What psychologist Elaine Aron describes as being a highly sensitive person can feel like moving through the world with a nervous system that takes everything in at full blast.
When that high level of sensitivity meets a fast-paced, overstimulating world, it can start to feel like everything is just… too much.
Beneath all of this noise, there is something in you worth listening to. But we have to listen differently.
Quieting the static
That’s where therapy comes in. We have to become still enough to hear what is calling to you from a deeper place. Beneath the noise of an anxious mind, there is often a quieter wisdom within you—one that can be hard to access when life feels loud, fast, and overwhelming. Part of this work is creating space to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with your own inner knowing. When your mind is racing, that is not always easy to do alone. I can help with that, and it is one of the things I most love about this work. Together, we can begin to slow the pace, soften the overwhelm, and understand what your system is actually responding to, so that you can move through life with more steadiness, clarity, and self-trust.