Anxiety Therapy in NYC
Who is Anxiety Therapy for?
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Who is Anxiety Therapy for? |
Our Anxiety Therapy services are designed for individuals in New York City who are exhausted from doing everything “right” and still feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or constantly in their head. You may be high-achieving, caring, organized, and dependable for everyone else—but underneath, you feel anxious, burnt out, and unsure how to slow down. You don’t need a diagnosis to get help. If anxiety is making it difficult to enjoy your life, relationships, or inner world—that is reason enough to reach out.
Maybe you’re navigating early adulthood, pressured to choose the “right” career, relationship, or life path. Maybe your mind replays conversations endlessly or jumps ahead to every possible worst-case scenario. You might feel like you’re always five steps ahead mentally, but you’re not actually present in your life. If your anxiety keeps you doing instead of being, pushing instead of resting, therapy can help you reconnect to yourself.
Common Signs of Anxiety We Support:
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.
Constant overthinking or second-guessing yourself
Emotional exhaustion, crying easily, or crashing at the end of the day
Obsessing over work emails, social interactions, or small mistakes
Difficulty making decisions—big or small
All-or-nothing thinking: “What if I ruin everything?” “Did I make the right choice?”
Panic symptoms—racing heart, shortness of breath, dizziness, difficulty focusing
Feeling disconnected from yourself, your relationships, or your surroundings
Achieving your goals—but feeling nothing when you get there
Living for the next milestone, rarely feeling present
A constant pressure to be productive, perfect, or “on”
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.
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.
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.
We are therapists who are humans and humans who are therapists.
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We are therapists who are humans and humans who are therapists. ✦
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.
Ready to get started?
Because peace is possible.
Other Services Offered:
In addition to specializing in anxiety, NYC’s LEL Therapy specializes in treating eating disorders and food / body image issues. We offer relationship therapy, whether that be couples therapy, navigating platonic relationships or familial relationships. We specialize in trauma therapy. And we treat anxiety and general mental health conditions. We would love to help you on your mental health journey. Reach out for a free consultation today!
Wanting more tips on navigating anxiety while living a fast-paced, driven life? Check out these blog posts on all things anxiety:
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