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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? Are you struggling with anxiety, overwhelming stress, or emotions that feel difficult to control? My practice offers anxiety counseling in Tempe, trauma therapy, and phobia treatment for adults who feel stuck in patterns of nervous system overdrive.

Does this sound like you?

You already feel exhausted from trying to hold everything together.

Finding a therapist is one more thing that feels overwhelming.

You woke up already bracing yourself for the day.

Your mind started running through everything you need to do and everything that might go wrong. You felt that unease in your stomach. Your chest felt tight. Your neck and shoulders are permanently tense.

But you push through anyway. You always do.

From the outside your life may look successful. You show up. You get the job done. People rely on you.

But inside, your mind never really slows down.

Inside, you feel like you are barely holding things together.

It feels like you are stuck in fight or flight.

It feels like everyone can handle life better than you can.

At work you quietly wonder if someone will eventually realize you do not belong there.

At home you want to be patient and present with your family, but sometimes anxiety and feeling overwhelmed takes over. You fear you’re going to mess up your kids.

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

Many of the people I work with are high functioning professionals who 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 stress today.

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