Therapy for Anxiety
At Moving Forward Staying Present, we offer anxiety therapy in Portland, Oregon for people navigating overwhelm, stress, panic, overthinking, and nervous system activation. We also have specific training in OCD based anxiety.
Anxiety can take up space in your body, your thoughts, your relationships, and your sense of possibility. It may show up as racing thoughts, difficulty sleeping, tightness in your chest, overthinking conversations, preparing for every possible outcome, or feeling like your insides are moving faster than the world around you. While anxiety can be with us throughout life, it can sometimes become unmanageable without support and skill development.
Anxiety can feel like:
Racing or looping thoughts
Feeling tense, restless, or on edge
Difficulty relaxing
Overpreparing or overanalyzing
Panic or sudden waves of fear
Trouble sleeping
Feeling highly functional on the outside and overwhelmed inside
Rumination
Worries ‘something bad will happen’
Fatigue
Psychomotor Agitation
Disrupted sleep
Poor appetite
Hypervigilance
Excessive worries
Fears cannot control
Decreased capacity to handle stressors
Fixated on thought outcome
How Therapy Helps
Therapy for anxiety gives you a steady space to slow down, understand what your anxiety is trying to protect, and build more choice in how you respond. Together, you and your therapist may explore the stories, experiences, relationships, and body-based patterns that shape your anxiety.
This work can help you understand triggers for anxiety, reduce shame around anxious responses, build tools for calming your nervous system, and create more space between thought and reaction.
Our Approach
Our therapists may draw from CBT, mindfulness, ACT, ERP, Sensory-motor, Self-Compassion Training, somatic awareness, trauma-informed therapy, narrative therapy, and DBT-informed regulation skills. The work is collaborative and grounded in what you need: insight, practical tools, emotional processing, nervous system support, or some combination of these.
Our therapy office is located in the Sellwood neighborhood of SE Portland. We also offer telehealth across Oregon.
