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Anxiety Counseling and Therapy Services in Tempe for Adults

Tempe Therapist Taana Abbitt, LCSW Helps High Functioning Professionals Calm Anxiety and Trust Themselves Again

Are you looking for a Tempe therapist? My practice offers anxiety counseling in Tempe, trauma therapy, and phobia treatment for adults who feel stuck in patterns of nervous system overdrive.

“What you seek, is already seeking you.” -Rumi

You wake up already tense. Before your feet hit the floor, your mind is running.

What did I forget? What am I going to mess up today? How am I going to get through all of this? You don’t just feel stressed. Part of you is already on alert. Scanning. Planning. Trying to stay one step ahead of what could go wrong.

You show up. You get things done. People rely on you. Even on your hardest days, you still push through. But inside, It feels like you are barely holding everything together. You may look around and quietly wonder: Why does life seem easier for everyone else? 

Anxiety counseling in Tempe can help your nervous system finally slow down.

I help people who are used to holding everything together on the outside move from constant anxiety and nervous system overdrive toward feeling calm, grounded, and able to trust themselves again, by working at the rare intersection of EMDR, somatic therapy, and parts work.

Many of the people I work with are high functioning professionals who don’t feel that way on the inside. They have spent most of their lives being the responsible one. You show up, take care of others, and do what needs to be done, even when you are exhausted.

You replay mistakes late at night, worry about disappointing people, and feel like your nervous system is stuck in fight or flight. Sometimes the pressure feels so intense, you just freeze and can’t get anything done. Emotions can feel overwhelming or unpredictable, which can leave you questioning yourself and wondering why life feels harder for you than it seems for everyone else.

Many clients come to therapy worried they will be judged or misunderstood.

Therapy offers a place where you can begin to understand these patterns, calm your nervous system, and experience something many clients have not felt in a long time: A growing sense that you can trust yourself.

Clients often describe becoming more aware of their internal patterns, less driven by catastrophic thinking, and more able to check in with themselves and follow through on what they need.

They begin setting boundaries more confidently and feel more comfortable being themselves in relationships and social situations.

Clients move from seeking constant external approval to feeling more grounded, self-aware, and comfortable in their own skin.

Clients often tell me I am welcoming, warm, grounded, caring, and gentle during the therapeutic process, and my peaceful office space mirrors that.

Clients tell me they experience therapy with me as a space that feels safe, grounded, and paced in a way that allows them to explore deeper patterns without becoming overwhelmed.

With more than 25 years of clinical experience, I specialize in working at the rare intersection of EMDR, somatic therapy, and nervous system healing.

This integrative approach allows us to work not only with thoughts and emotions, but also with the deeper nervous system patterns that keep anxiety, trauma, and phobias in place.

Using advanced EMDR, parts work such as ego-state and Internal Family Systems approaches, and Sensorimotor psychotherapy, we help your nervous system process experiences that may still be influencing how you respond to life today.

Read more about working with Taana Abbitt (EMDR Therapist) or EMDR Therapy.