Therapy for Anxiety & Burnout
Therapy for Teens, Adults, & Couples experiencing anxiety & burnout
In-Person in Adams Point, Lake Merritt, Grand Lake, Oakland
Virtually in San Francisco Bay Area & across California
You've been holding it together for a long time.
Does your mind ever really turn off? Maybe It replays conversations, runs through worst case scenarios, catches every detail everyone else missed. You hold yourself to a standard that keeps moving, because if you're perfect enough, maybe nothing will go wrong.
But instead of feeling in control, you feel paralyzed.
On the outside, you're getting through it. You show up, you perform, you hold it together. On the inside, something is always buzzing. And after years of pushing through — through the anxiety, through the pressure, through the expectation — you hit a wall. The motivation disappears. The things that used to matter stop mattering. And the despair of not being able to pull yourself out of it feeds right back into everything you've been carrying.
It's a loop. And you're exhausted from being inside it.
This is where the exhale starts.
Does this sound like you?
Your mind is always working — replaying conversations, anticipating problems, scanning for what might go wrong
You appear calm and capable on the outside while quietly running on fumes underneath
Your body carries what your mind won't — tension, fatigue, disrupted sleep
You've achieved a lot by most measures and still feel like you're one mistake away from losing it all
Rest feels impossible, or like something you have to earn first
The motivation you used to rely on is gone, and you can't remember what it felt like to want things
You keep waiting to feel like yourself again, but you're not sure you remember who that is
Getting through the day takes everything you have, and there's nothing left for the life you actually want
I work with anxious and burned out teens, adults, and couples who are:
High-achieving and high-functioning — holding everything together while quietly falling apart
First-generation, South Asian, Asian, or multicultural adults carrying family sacrifice and expectation
Burned out from years of performing competence in environments not designed for them
Navigating perfectionism, chronic self-criticism, and the exhaustion of never feeling like enough
Struggling with people-pleasing and the guilt that follows any attempt to change
Teens navigating academic pressure and first-gen family expectations
Ready to understand where the exhaustion is actually coming from
Imagine feeling like…
What you can expect
Your anxious thoughts are not in the driver's seat
You can ground yourself in moments of intense stress without it taking everything you have
Avoidance starts to shrink — the emails get sent, the calls get made, the things get done
Work and life stop bleeding into each other quite so much
The motivation starts to come back, slowly and then more steadily
You can hold yourself with more compassion and less judgment
Life feels guided by your values, not fear or the need to prove something
You feel more present — in your relationships, in your body, in the life you've been working so hard to maintain