• Generalized anxiety disorder

• Panic disorder

• Agoraphobia

• Social Anxiety Disorder

• Illness Anxiety Disorder

• Separation Anxiety Disorder

For a fuller explanation of why diagnostic labels do not capture nearly enough, please check out this blog here. That said, you came to this page for a reason! You have likely come across some vocabulary already to describe what you or a loved one is experiencing. Here are some of the common things I see folx for:

• Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders (excoriation disorder, trichotillomania, body dysmorphic disorder, hoarding disorder)

• Specific phobias (e.g. vomiting, spiders, small spaces, etc.)

• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related disorders

• Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome / First Episode Psychosis

Now, in non-diagnostic terms, here are some of the things people are struggling with that I help folx work on:

• Obsessional doubt

• Difficulty tolerating uncertainty, change or lack of control

• Intrusive thoughts and images

• Poor sleep quality

• Painful memories and/or nightmares

• Fear of body reactions

• Fear of dying

• Fear of being rejected or judged

• Fear of the past repeating itself

• Difficulty trusting others or trusting yourself

• Existential fears

• Rituals and avoidance

• Worrying about worst case scenarios

• Superstitious and/or magical thinking

• Getting access to gender affirming care

• Getting and staying organized

• Poor self-image

• Body focused repetitive behaviors like skin-picking, hairpulling, nail-picking and others

• Low self-confidence

• Impact of emotional abuse

• Impacts of discrimination and minority stress

• Parenting or caregiver stress

• Life transitions

• Seeing or hearing things other people don’t