Anxiety Therapy
"Once I reach this next milestone, I’ll finally be able to relax.”
But even when things are going well, there’s something new to worry about. You’re exhausted from overthinking, needing a second opinion on small decisions, and replaying conversations days later. Anxiety is feeling harder to manage, affecting your relationships, your work, and how you feel about yourself.
Individual therapy in-person in Miami Beach and online throughout Florida.
Soulstice Miami offers individual therapy for anxiety to adolescents and adults, in person in Miami Beach and online throughout Florida. Our approach to anxiety therapy is integrative, evidence-based, and relational. Below, you can explore what sessions may look like, the modalities we draw from, and how to get started.
Understanding Anxiety
You may be keeping up with responsibilities while still finding it difficult to unwind. Work stress follows you home, relationship concerns take up more of your attention, and the things you’ve tried haven’t brought the relief you hoped for. You’ve read the books and tried the routines, but even self-care has started to feel like another thing to get right.
Anxiety can also involve physical symptoms, including muscle tension, restlessness, and trouble sleeping. Panic attacks can also involve a racing heartbeat. Source Concentrating can feel harder when your mind keeps returning to what’s worrying you. Source
You don’t need a formal diagnosis to seek support. At Soulstice Miami, we want to understand what you’ve tried, what has helped, and where you’re still feeling stuck.
We begin with an assessment that considers your concerns, health, relationships, and experiences, using structured questionnaires when helpful. This helps us understand the broader picture and tailor anxiety therapy to your needs and goals.
The Ways Anxiety Shows Up
Anxiety can show up in many different ways, and symptoms can overlap across various anxiety disorders. You may recognize yourself in more than one of the concerns below.
As soon as one worry settles, another takes its place. You might find yourself preparing for problems that haven’t happened, struggling to concentrate, or lying awake going over tomorrow. For some people, persistent worry is part of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). NIMH: Generalized anxiety disorder
Even after hours of effort or compliments from others, your work never feels good enough. Small mistakes stay with you, and you find yourself asking for another opinion before making decisions. Taking a break brings guilt about what you should be doing.
You’re keeping up with responsibilities while feeling anxious, exhausted, or disconnected from yourself. High-functioning anxiety describes this experience; it isn’t a formal diagnosis. Learn more about our high-functioning anxiety therapy.
You may worry that someone is losing interest, seek reassurance, or put their needs ahead of your own because you’re afraid of pushing them away. The uncertainty can make it hard to focus. These are a few ways relationship anxiety, people-pleasing, and anxious attachment can overlap.
You may worry about being judged, feel anxious before social situations, or avoid them altogether. When that fear is persistent, intense, and interferes with daily life, it may be part of social anxiety disorder. WHO: ICD-11 diagnostic manual
How We Work Together
Anxiety therapy is a space to slow down and explore how anxiety shows up in your thoughts, body, and everyday life. We take time to understand the thoughts you return to, how you tend to respond, and what you’d like to be different in your everyday life. You don’t need to prepare anything or have it all figured out.
Our anxiety treatment approach is integrative, relational, and trauma-informed. We take a holistic approach, drawing on attachment-informed and somatic-informed perspectives to understand your experiences, relationships, and the connection between mind and body. Mindfulness practices encourage curiosity and less judgment toward what you’re experiencing. Together, we develop a treatment plan around your needs and goals, adjusting as we learn what helps.
Our somatic-informed work explores how your body responds to stress and how past experiences may shape those responses. You might notice yourself bracing, feeling on edge, or going numb when things become overwhelming. Together, we notice these patterns at your pace and explore practices that support nervous system regulation. The aim is to build your capacity to experience a range of emotions, stay connected to yourself, and find your footing again through everyday ups and downs.
Part of you may want to rest, while another insists you haven’t done enough. Or you may want to speak honestly but worry about disappointing someone. In parts work, we approach these inner conflicts with curiosity, exploring what different parts of you may need or be trying to protect. Together, we work toward greater self-understanding and more choice in how you respond.
You might put off a meaningful conversation or wait to feel more confident before trying something new. We may incorporate elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which emphasizes acceptance, mindfulness, and action guided by personal values. Together, we explore ways to make room for anxious thoughts and feelings while taking steps toward what matters to you. Arch et al.: CBT and ACT trial
Our values-based and mindfulness-informed work can include clarifying your priorities and choosing a manageable next step, without needing anxiety to disappear first.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for anxiety. The World Health Organization recommends brief, structured interventions based on CBT principles for adults with generalized anxiety disorder or panic disorder. WHO: CBT-based interventions
At Soulstice, we may incorporate elements of CBT to explore how thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and behaviors interact. We consider how your experiences may have shaped these thought patterns and responses, and how they affect you now. We may help you challenge negative thought patterns by examining anxious predictions, considering other perspectives, and practicing different responses, while taking your experiences and current circumstances into account.
The discomfort that can come with anxiety may lead you to hold back from conversations, activities, or opportunities connected with what you want for yourself. Exposure therapy involves approaching feared situations or sensations to test anxious predictions and practice responding without relying on avoidance. Arch et al.: CBT and ACT trial
At Soulstice, we may draw on elements of exposure as one part of our integrative, trauma-informed approach. This might look like sharing work without repeatedly revising it or gradually practicing public speaking. We choose steps together based on your goals, considering safety, your past experiences, and your emotional and physical responses along the way.
Anxiety is a natural response to uncertainty and possible threats, but understanding that doesn’t make it feel any easier to manage. You can’t always choose the thoughts, feelings, or physical sensations that show up. In therapy, you can practice different ways of responding, so anxiety has less say in the choices you make.
Together, we notice what happens when you feel anxious and what you do next. We explore coping skills that fit those moments, drawing from approaches such as dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT). This might include finding ways to manage intense emotions, tolerate uncertainty, or express what you need. We practice together and adjust based on what feels useful in your daily life.
Our approach to anxiety therapy is trauma-informed. Whatever you’re seeking therapy for, your autonomy remains central. We develop your treatment plan together, guided by your needs, goals, preferences, and feedback. We also discuss the pace of the work and make adjustments along the way.
When anxiety is connected to distressing past experiences, we may integrate Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) into treatment. EMDR is an established treatment for PTSD. It combines work with specific memories and bilateral stimulation, such as guided eye movements or alternating taps or sounds, with the aim of reducing distress associated with those memories.
Preparation is part of EMDR. Before memory processing begins, we develop ways to manage distress and stay connected to the present, and assess readiness together. There is no fixed timeline: preparation and processing are tailored to your needs, with regular check-ins about how you’re responding.
When relationships feel uncertain, you might seek reassurance, put someone else’s needs ahead of your own, or pull away to protect yourself. In our relationship-focused therapy in Miami Beach, we explore these relationship patterns and what you’d like to experience differently.
Our attachment-focused work considers how past experiences may shape your expectations around closeness, trust, and rejection. We also consider what’s happening in your relationships now, including whether your needs and boundaries are respected.
Together, we work toward feeling more secure in connection without losing sight of yourself. This may include expressing needs, setting limits, and working through the anxiety or guilt that follows. Therapy also offers space to practice speaking honestly and working through misunderstandings, including those that arise between us.
Room for Something Different
Managing anxiety starts with identifying what you want to be different. Emotional well-being might mean being able to rest without guilt, feel more present with people you care about, or make decisions without hours of second-guessing.
Depending on your needs, your goals might include:
Respond to uncertainty without repeatedly checking, seeking reassurance, or preparing for every possible outcome.
Participate, connect, or speak up with less attention on how others might judge you.
Finish a task, tolerate a mistake, or take a break without feeling you have to earn it.
Express needs, set boundaries, and change relationship patterns that no longer serve you.
Recognize what brings up anxiety and develop ways to feel more grounded in the present.
Make choices with less self-doubt and build resilience through responding to setbacks, seeking support, and trying again.
Anxiety can start to feel like who you are, especially when it’s been running the show for a while. But it doesn’t define you. We take time to understand your experiences, relationships, and the emotional challenges you’re facing, along with what you want for yourself. Together, we tailor your anxiety treatment plan to your needs, goals, and preferences.
Finding Your Fit
The right therapist for you should have relevant experience and provide a supportive environment. You deserve a welcoming space where you can speak honestly, ask questions, and share concerns. You can ask about their credentials, advanced training in anxiety treatment, and how they choose evidence-based approaches. Compassionate care also means taking your concerns seriously when something isn’t helping.
At Soulstice Miami, we can help you find a clinician whose specialties and approaches fit your needs. Your free consultation gives you time to talk about what’s bringing you in and ask about treatment, fees, and availability. You don’t need to know which therapist or type of therapy you want before reaching out. Our guide to anxiety treatment options can help you compare approaches and prepare questions.
Location & Practical Details
We offer therapy for anxiety to adolescents and adults, in person at our office at 1111 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL 33139, or online throughout Florida. Virtual therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into your schedule. During your free consultation, we’ll talk about which format fits your needs, answer your questions, and help you get started.
We are a private-pay practice and do not accept insurance directly. Individual sessions are $250 to $300 for 50 minutes. We can provide a superbill that you can submit to your insurance company for possible out-of-network reimbursement.
We offer a free 15-minute consultation to hear what you’re looking for, share more about our approach, and answer your questions, including about fees. It’s a conversation about how we might support you, with no pressure to commit to sessions.
The Support You Need
Anxiety may be your main reason for seeking therapy, but other things might be weighing on you too. We take time to understand what’s affecting your daily life and what you’d like support with, keeping your priorities at the center of your treatment plan. If something falls outside our expertise or you could benefit from additional care, we’ll talk it through with you and help you explore your options.
At Soulstice Miami, we offer individual talk therapy for anxiety through a trauma-informed approach that draws on somatic and attachment-informed practices. Sessions are available in Miami Beach and online throughout Florida.
We don’t prescribe medication or provide medication management. If you’re interested in exploring medication alongside therapy, we can talk about connecting with a qualified prescriber.
If you need more support than individual appointments can provide, ask about the level of care as well as the therapy method. Intensive outpatient programs provide more structured mental health care than routine office visits, without an inpatient stay. CMS: Intensive outpatient care
Residential treatment involves living at a treatment program. Inpatient care typically involves staying overnight in a hospital or connected program for 24-hour care. These are different arrangements. SAMHSA: Types of treatment
Soulstice provides individual psychotherapy. During the consultation, we can discuss whether that service fits what you need. Our practice
WHO: ICD-11 Diagnostic Manual (2024). Diagnostic descriptions and boundaries; pp. 266–267, 271, 280, 284.
WHO: CBT-Based Interventions (2023). Recommendation for adults with GAD or panic disorder.
NICE: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, NG116. Recommendation 1.6.20; EMDR treatment procedures, not a guaranteed mechanism or outcome.
Florida Board: Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern. Intern registration and supervision requirements.
SAMHSA: Trauma-Informed Approaches. The agency's framework and care principles.
VA/DoD: PTSD Guideline (2023). Recommendation 8; EMDR recommendation specific to PTSD.
CMS: Intensive Outpatient Program Services. Definition of a more intensive outpatient level of care; no Soulstice coverage or availability claim.
Florida Board: Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Official professional credential category.
Arch and colleagues: CBT and ACT Trial (2012). Original research; treatment protocols, not guaranteed outcomes.
NICE: Generalised Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder, CG113. Assessment and care options; recommendations 1.2.6–1.2.7 and 1.2.17–1.2.19.
SAMHSA: Types of Mental Health Treatment. Residential and inpatient care distinctions; no claim about a specific Miami program.
Practice details link to Soulstice Miami's service, contact, and clinician pages. We also offer complex PTSD therapy in Miami Beach for those whose anxiety connects with long-term or repeated trauma.
About
Our clinicians support people navigating anxiety, trauma, attachment wounds, and relationship concerns. This might include persistent worry, feeling constantly on alert, or finding it difficult to feel secure with others. Get to know our team below. If you’re unsure where to start, we’re happy to hear what you’re looking for and help you find a clinician.
MS, LMHC, EMDR
Hayden specializes in anxiety, trauma, relationship patterns, and attachment wounds. Her warm, collaborative style draws on EMDR, parts work, and somatic- and attachment-informed approaches.
MSW, LCSW, EMDR Trained
Jessica supports adults who feel worn down by keeping everyone else’s needs ahead of their own, avoiding conflict, or pushing through when they’re overwhelmed. She draws on EMDR and somatic and attachment-informed approaches to explore these patterns and help clients reconnect with their own needs.
M.S., RMHCI
Emma supports adolescents and adults with anxiety, trauma, and relationship concerns. Her warm, curious approach explores recurring patterns, closeness, and how stress affects the body.
MA, MSW, LCSW
EMDR Trained
Emily supports people navigating relationship anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and boundary-setting. Her warm, direct approach combines reflection with methods such as EMDR, parts work, and somatic- and attachment-focused therapy.
Our team includes licensed therapists and a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern. LMHC means Licensed Mental Health Counselor; RMHCI means Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern. Florida's regulator identifies these as distinct professional categories, and registered interns work under qualified supervision. Florida Board: LMHC Florida Board: RMHCI If you are looking for a therapist in Miami for anxiety and trauma, this page describes how our practice approaches that work.
Tell us a little about what you are looking for. We will follow up to arrange your free consultation.
A phone or video call to talk through what is bringing you in, ask about our approach, fees, and availability, and discuss how we might support you.
Learn more about working with a therapist in Miami for trauma and anxiety.
In person at our Miami Beach office on Lincoln Road, or virtually anywhere in Florida. Many clients do a mix of both.
A brief description cannot settle that question. For suspected generalized anxiety disorder, assessment considers symptoms, distress, daily functioning, and other health concerns. Bring what you have noticed; you do not need to diagnose yourself before asking for a consultation. NICE: Anxiety assessment and treatment
Our main areas of focus include persistent worry, perfectionism, high-functioning anxiety, relationship anxiety, anxious attachment, and social anxiety.
Panic attacks can occur with panic disorder, PTSD, or other mental health conditions. Panic disorder involves repeated, unexpected panic attacks followed by ongoing worry about further attacks or changes in behavior because of them. Cleveland Clinic: Panic attacks and panic disorder Specific phobias involve intense fear of particular objects or situations, often leading to avoidance. WHO: Anxiety disorders
During your consultation, we can discuss what you’re experiencing and whether our services can meet your needs. If another provider’s expertise would be more appropriate, we can help you explore those options.
Our anxiety therapy is integrative, relational, and trauma-informed. Sessions may include exploring relationship patterns, noticing how stress shows up in your body, or understanding conflicting feelings through parts work. We may also use mindfulness-based practices and values work to support changes that matter to you. Together, we decide what fits your needs and adjust as we learn what helps. Our anxiety therapy approach
We offer individual therapy rather than group therapy or support groups. If you’re considering those options, we can discuss how they might fit alongside the support you’re seeking.
We do not promise a fixed timeline. We check in regularly about the work and the pace, and discuss what feels useful and what you want to keep working on.
You can bring up distress even if you are still meeting your responsibilities. Assessment for generalized anxiety considers distress as well as functioning, not just how someone appears from the outside. The consultation is a place to discuss what you are experiencing and whether our service fits. NICE: Anxiety assessment and treatment
The VA/DoD guideline recommends EMDR for PTSD, and the American Psychological Association conditionally recommends it for adults with PTSD. These recommendations do not establish that EMDR treats every anxiety presentation. During the consultation and assessment process, you can ask why a particular approach is being considered for you. VA/DoD: PTSD treatment guideline
The recommendations cited here address different conditions: WHO recommends CBT-based interventions for adults with generalized anxiety disorder or panic disorder; VA/DoD recommends EMDR as an option for PTSD. These recommendations do not provide a head-to-head ranking for your situation. We can discuss the reason for a proposed approach with you. WHO: CBT-based interventions VA/DoD: PTSD treatment guideline
Your first anxiety therapy session gives us time to talk about what’s bringing you in, how anxiety has been affecting you, and what you’d like support with. We’ll also discuss what you’ve tried and the approaches we might consider. You can ask questions and share at a pace that feels manageable.
Yes. We offer in-person anxiety therapy in Miami Beach and online anxiety therapy throughout Florida for adolescents and adults. Clinician availability varies by age group and session format, and we can discuss the options during your free consultation.
We don’t take insurance directly, though some clients are able to receive out-of-network reimbursement using a superbill, which we’re happy to provide.
You don't have to have the words for it yet. You can start with what you have noticed, what feels difficult, or what you hope might be different.
We offer therapy for individuals struggling with anxiety, in person in Miami Beach and online throughout Florida. Your initial 15-minute consultation is free, and reaching out can be a first step toward healing today. Practice and consultation details
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