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.

Ready to start your healing journey?Request a consult call.

If this sounds like the kind of support you’re looking for, schedule a consult and we’ll help connect you with the right anxiety therapist.

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GETTING HERE

Location:

Our office is located in the Sellwood neighborhood of Southeast Portland at 8083 SE 13th Ave, Suites 2 & 4. Your therapist will specify which suite they are in. Come on upstairs to the second floor, but please keep in mind we are not ADA accessible.

Parking:

There is plenty of free street parking in front of the building as well as in the lot in the back of the building, just behind OnPoint Credit Union (13th and Tacoma St). Park in a spot NOT labeled OnPoint Credit Union and walk up the stairs at the back of the building. Find your Suite: 2 or 4.

Public Transport:

From downtown

  • Take the southbound #40 bus towards Tacoma, get off at SE Tacoma & 13th, or

  • Take the southbound MAX orange line towards Milwaukie, get off at SE Bybee Blvd and transfer to the northbound #40 bus towards Swan Island. Get off at SE Tacoma & 13th.

From Concordia, Grant Park, Buckman, Hosford-Abernathy, etc.

  • Take the southbound #70 bus towards Milwaukie, get off at SE 17th & Tacoma. Walk four blocks west to SE 13th & Tacoma.

  • From anywhere else:

  • Google Maps can provide useful routes that include bus schedules.

By Bike:

From anywhere along the Willamette

  • Take the Willamette Greenway Trail along the river to the Sellwood Bridge, cross the bridge and take Tacoma St to SE Tacoma & 13th.

  • Take the Springwater on the Willamette, turn off and take Spokane St to Spokane & 13th.

From anywhere else