Lakeway and Bee Cave are fast-growing communities where a lot is happening at once: families putting down roots, professionals navigating demanding careers, and people moving through major life transitions. Under the pace of daily life, OCD and anxiety can quietly take hold, creating mental loops that are hard to turn off.
You might find yourself replaying conversations, worrying constantly about what could go wrong, checking things repeatedly, seeking reassurance, or feeling responsible for preventing something bad from happening. Some people try to push intrusive thoughts away, only to have them come back even stronger. Over time, these patterns can become exhausting and start to interfere with work, relationships, parenting, school, and everyday life. OCD and anxiety are highly treatable with the right approach.
PROVEN APPROACHES
How therapy can help.
I specialize in evidence-based treatment for anxiety and OCD, using approaches that help retrain the brain’s response to fear and uncertainty. These approaches focus on changing patterns that keep anxiety going and helping people build a different relationship with intrusive thoughts, worry, and discomfort.
The gold-standard treatment for OCD. ERP helps you practice facing intrusive thoughts, feared situations, and uncertainty without doing the rituals or compulsions OCD demands. Over time, this helps your brain learn that you can handle the discomfort without checking, avoiding, or seeking reassurance.
A practical approach that helps people respond differently to difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on what matters most.
CBT helps you notice the thoughts, beliefs, and behavior patterns that keep anxiety and OCD stuck. In therapy, this may include identifying anxious predictions, understanding avoidance loops, and practicing more flexible ways to respond when worry, doubt, or intrusive thoughts show up.
Anxiety Concerns
I Help With
People come to therapy for many different anxiety-related concerns. Some struggle with constant worry or overthinking that feels difficult to turn off, while others experience panic attacks, perfectionism, or a persistent fear of making mistakes. Social anxiety is also common, showing up as fear of judgment, difficulty in social situations, or a tendency to replay interactions afterward wondering if you said the wrong thing. Anxiety can also show up as difficulty quieting the mind, feeling overwhelmed by everyday decisions, or chronic stress and burnout. Therapy can help you step out of these patterns and build a calmer, more flexible relationship with uncertainty.
For anxiety-specific support, I offer anxiety therapy in Lakeway and Bee Cave for worry, panic, avoidance, social anxiety, perfectionism, and high-functioning anxiety.
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OCD &
Intrusive Thoughts
OCD often involves intrusive thoughts paired with behaviors or mental rituals meant to reduce anxiety. Some people feel responsible for preventing harm or making sure nothing bad happens, while others experience intrusive thoughts about relationships, morality, or causing harm. These thoughts can lead to patterns such as checking, reassurance seeking, or mentally reviewing situations in an effort to feel certain or safe. Although these experiences can feel frightening or isolating, OCD is highly treatable with structured approaches such as Exposure and Response Prevention.