Anxiety Therapy · Boca Raton & Delray Beach, FL
Anxiety that doesn't match the situation.
For women in Boca Raton and Delray Beach who can run their lives, careers, and relationships from the outside - and still feel an alarm system going off inside that no one else can see.
Training & supervision
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EMDR-trained
EMDRIA-approved basic training curriculum
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AEDP-trained
AEDP Institute
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IFS-informed
Internal Family Systems
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MS, Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Master's level clinician
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Practicing under qualified supervision
Supervised by Karin Witte, LMHC #MH13488
Currently practicing at Genesis Counseling, Boca Raton & Delray Beach.
What is anxiety therapy in Boca Raton?
Anxiety therapy in Boca Raton is psychotherapy that works with both the cognitive and nervous-system layers of anxiety - overthinking, panic, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and high-functioning anxiety. Many women who seek this work function beautifully on the outside while the mind does not stop running, the body stays braced, sleep is shallow, and relaxing feels suspicious. Most anxiety treatments work at the cognitive level, challenging thoughts and building coping skills; these help, but they tend to plateau because the deeper layer of anxiety does not live in thought. This work uses EMDR for the experiences that taught the nervous system to brace and somatic awareness for the body-level pattern that keeps the alarm system online, attending to thoughts, body, and relational patterns at the same time. Hannah Lee, RMHCI, integrates EMDR, somatic, and trauma-informed approaches under qualified Florida supervision, serving women in Boca Raton and Delray Beach, FL and via secure telehealth across Florida.
What anxiety looks like
The version most people don't see.
Most of the women I see don't fit the clinical picture of anxiety. They aren't in crisis. They function - often beautifully. They're the people other people lean on. From the outside, no one would guess.
Internally, it's different. The mind doesn't stop running. The body stays braced. Sleep is shallow. Decisions get over-analyzed. The capacity to enjoy ordinary things has narrowed. Relaxing feels suspicious. There's a quiet, persistent sense that something is about to go wrong, even when nothing is.
That's anxiety doing its job a little too well. And once it has been doing its job for a long time, willpower and coping skills alone rarely turn it off.
What I work with
High-functioning anxiety
You're competent, capable, and quietly exhausted. Perfectionism, people-pleasing, and over-preparation are masking a baseline of activation that never really comes down.
Panic & somatic anxiety
The body version - racing heart, tight chest, sense of impending threat with no obvious cause. Often misread as a physical problem before being recognized as the nervous system's emergency response.
Overthinking & rumination
The conversations you replay, the decisions you keep revisiting, the loops the mind runs at 3am. Insight alone usually doesn't break them because they aren't an information problem.
Social & relational anxiety
The version that shows up in specific situations - conflict, vulnerability, being seen, being chosen, being asked for more than you have. Usually older than it looks.
How I work with anxiety
Below the cognitive layer.
Most anxiety treatments work at the cognitive level - challenging thoughts, reframing fears, building coping skills. These help. They also tend to plateau, because the deeper layer of anxiety doesn't live in thought.
My work integrates EMDR for the experiences that taught your nervous system to brace, somatic awareness for the body-level pattern that keeps the alarm system online, and emotional processing for the layer underneath the "I'm fine" performance.
We work with thoughts AND the nervous system AND the body AND the relational patterns at the same time. That's what produces change that holds.
Common questions about anxiety therapy
Do I need medication?
Medication is a separate decision and one I don't make. Some clients work in therapy alongside a prescriber; others don't. We'll talk through what fits your situation.
How long does anxiety therapy take?
It depends on what's underneath. Newer, situation-specific anxiety often resolves in a few months. Anxiety with deeper roots in trauma or attachment takes longer.
Will you just give me coping skills?
Some, when they're useful. But coping is for managing anxiety. The actual work is helping your system not need to produce so much of it in the first place.
Can we do telehealth?
Yes. Many of my anxiety clients prefer it - they can be in their own space, which often makes the work more accessible, not less.
Where sessions happen
In person in Boca Raton and Delray Beach, or secure telehealth across Florida.
Boca Raton
6971 N Federal Hwy, Suite 206
Boca Raton, FL 33487
Delray Beach
3100 S Federal Highway, Suite C
Delray Beach, FL 33483
An invitation
Curious if this approach would fit?
The free 15-minute consultation is a low-pressure way to ask questions and get a sense of how I work.
No commitment. Pick a time, I'll call you.
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