Anxiety Therapy in NYC
Rediscover Your Calm
Anxiety can make everyday moments feel like uphill battles. Your mind races, your body tenses, and rest feels out of reach. Find relief through therapy that helps you calm your thoughts, regain balance, and feel like yourself again.
Looking to ease your anxiety? Complete the form below to set up your free consultation and connect with care that truly supports you.
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No obligation. Just a supportive, 15‑minute call.
LEL Therapy primarily serves clients in NY, with one of our therapists also licensed in FL, MA, NJ, and CT. To receive care through LEL Therapy, you must reside in one of these states. Although we’re an out-of-network provider, we make the process easy by issuing superbills you can send to your insurance for reimbursement.
It’s natural to feel stuck or uncertain when anxiety takes hold. I’ll help you develop practical tools to manage your thoughts, soothe your body’s stress response, and create more balance and confidence in your life.
Lauren Larkin, LMHC
Is anxiety keeping you stuck in cycles of overthinking, tension, or self-doubt?
Anxiety isn’t just feeling worried. It can take over your thoughts, tighten your body, and make simple moments feel overwhelming. For many, it’s a constant undercurrent shaped by past experiences, life transitions, or the pressure to always hold it all together. You might be high-achieving, caring, and dependable for everyone else, yet still feel anxious, burnt out, and unsure how to slow down.
Our anxiety therapy services are designed for individuals in New York City who are tired of doing everything “right” and still feeling on edge or disconnected. Maybe your mind replays conversations endlessly, jumps ahead to every worst-case scenario, or makes it hard to be fully present. You don’t need a diagnosis to seek help. If anxiety is making it difficult to enjoy your life, relationships, or inner peace, that’s reason enough to reach out.
Our goal is to connect you with a therapist who truly understands your experience. From the first conversation, we create a space where you feel safe, understood, and supported. Together, we’ll help you find calm, clarity, and a renewed sense of balance in your life.
Do You Identify With These?
I’m constantly overthinking or second-guessing myself.
I feel emotionally exhausted and often end up crying or crashing by the end of the day.
I find myself obsessing over work emails, social interactions, or small mistakes.
I struggle to make decisions, whether big or small.
I get caught in all-or-nothing thinking like “What if I ruin everything?” or “Did I make the right choice?”
I experience panic symptoms such as a racing heart, shortness of breath, dizziness, or difficulty focusing.
I feel disconnected from myself, my relationships, or my surroundings.
I reach my goals but feel nothing when I get there.
I’m always looking ahead to the next milestone and rarely feel present.
I feel constant pressure to be productive, perfect, or always “on.”
You don’t have to experience all of these to benefit from therapy. Your experience is valid even if it doesn’t look like someone else’s.
We provide virtual therapy for clients across New York. Contact us today to schedule your first session and begin your path toward feeling calm, supported, and confident in yourself.
Are you questioning if you really need anxiety therapy?
You don’t have to wait until you’re falling apart to deserve help. If anxiety is affecting your ability to feel joy, rest, connection, or peace, it’s enough. Nothing is “too small” to bring to therapy. Therapy may be helpful if your anxiety makes it hard to feel grounded or present, if you feel paralyzed when making decisions, if your life looks “together” on the outside but feels disconnected on the inside, or if you’re tired of being in your head and want to be back in your life.
If you think you might need support, you likely do. You’re deserving of support!
Our Approach to Virtual Anxiety Therapy in NYC
Anxiety therapy at LEL Therapy gives you something you rarely offer yourself — room to pause, breathe, and ask, “How am I really doing?” We don’t just focus on symptoms. As relational therapists, we explore the story beneath your anxiety, where it comes from, what it protects you from, and how to help you build a life that feels meaningful, not just manageable.
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We start by exploring the roots of your anxiety, whether family dynamics, attachment wounds, perfectionism, cultural or societal pressure, trauma, or emotional neglect. Anxiety is often a protective response, not a personal failure. Understanding where it began allows you to meet yourself with compassion rather than self-criticism.
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Next, we focus on helping your mind and body feel safer. Using practices from CBT, mindfulness, breathwork, and somatic therapy, we teach you how to regulate anxious thoughts, reduce panic symptoms, and gently ground yourself when your nervous system feels overwhelmed without shutting down or spiraling.
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Anxiety often pulls you into “shoulds” and away from who you actually are. Together, we help you identify your core values and explore where you're living out of alignment with them. This work helps you reconnect with you, not the anxious version trying to keep everything under control.
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The therapeutic relationship becomes a safe place to practice new ways of showing up, from communicating needs, setting boundaries, making decisions, to taking up space without perfection. Over time, these practiced patterns begin to translate into real-life relationships and choices.
Therapeutic Modalities We Use
We tailor therapy to your needs by integrating evidence-based and relational approaches that support the mind, body, and nervous system.
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We show up as real humans. We’re honest, warm, and present. Healing happens in safe, trusting relationships, and we model that with you in the therapy room.
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CBT helps you recognize and reframe anxious thought spirals, challenge worst-case-scenario thinking, and respond to stress with more balanced, grounded beliefs.
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These approaches help you reconnect to your body, regulate your nervous system, and gently return to the present moment, especially when anxiety pulls you into the future.
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We help you build a personalized toolbox with practical strategies for coping with anxiety in everyday life, from decision-making to emotional overwhelm.
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We support you in discovering what genuinely matters to you and making small, meaningful shifts toward a life guided by values rather than fear, perfectionism, or external expectations.
What to Expect During Virtual Anxiety Therapy:
In our sessions (online throughout NYC and New York State), you’ll experience a blend of reflection, practical tools, emotional processing, and gentle accountability. We move at your pace. We’ll never force you into discomfort, but we also won’t let anxiety run the show. Therapy becomes a place to feel seen, think clearly, soften your nervous system, and make choices from alignment instead of fear.
Why Work With LEL Therapy?
We get it because we’ve lived it.
Our therapists aren’t just trained in anxiety treatment. Many of us have navigated our own versions of high-functioning anxiety. We know how hard it is to slow down. We know what it’s like to chase achievement and still feel unfulfilled.
We bring our human selves into the therapy room. That means no stuffy therapist vibes, no worksheets unless you ask for them, and no pressure to show up as anything other than who you are.
We’ll meet you where you are and walk with you as you reconnect with your life, your joy, and your most authentic self.
Do I have to give up my drive to heal from anxiety?
Not at all. You don’t need to abandon ambition to find peace. At LEL Therapy, we believe you can have both: goals and grounding. Success and self-trust. Achievement without anxiety being the engine. You don’t have to hustle for your worth to be worthy.
Special Considerations
If your anxiety is severe or persistent, we may recommend collaborating with a psychiatrist to explore medication options. We’ll always discuss this with care and never push you in any direction you’re not comfortable with. Our priority is your well-being, and we’ll walk with you to find the right support for your unique needs.
Let’s find peace — not perfection.
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