Therapy for Anxiety and OCD
When anxiety strikes…
Your breath shortens, your heart races, and your mind loops endlessly, scanning for danger or trying to solve something that can’t be solved.
It shows up as a deep restlessness in your chest or a pit in your stomach, turning ordinary tasks into uphill battles.
Without meaning to, your thoughts just make it worse. Trying to out-think the anxiety or predict every outcome only fuels the spiral.
Therapy TikTok or AI may offer temporary relief and the illusion of comfort, but they can’t offer the presence and true connection your nervous system needs.
Without real connection, anxiety has nowhere to land.
MHC-LP Sentient Psychotherapist
“I work with adults and couples struggling with anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism, relationship stress, and the pressure of trying to meet everyone else’s expectations.”
Social anxiety keeps you second-guessing every interaction.
Career pressure makes you feel like nothing you do is ever enough.
Fear of the future traps you in endless what-ifs.
Family expectations leave you torn between being yourself and disappointing the people you love.
Anooshka is an anxiety specialist at Sentient who helps you understand what’s fueling your anxiety, break free from obsessive thought loops, and stop letting fear and self-doubt make your decisions for you.
Chronic anxiety and OCD aren’t just “normal stress.” In today’s world, they’re symptoms of disconnection, isolation and an overwhelmed nervous system. When your anxiety is off the charts, compassionate therapy emotionally calms your racing thoughts.
Therapy for OCD at Sentient Psychotherapy
Bri Vigorito M.SEd (they/them)
MHC-LP Sentient Psychotherapist
“I’specialize with LGBTQ+ college students, professionals, and creatives with OCD, stress and panic getting in the way of their day-to-day lives and relationships.”
OCD isn’t just anxiety turned up a notch. It’s getting trapped in a relentless cycle of intrusive thoughts, fear, doubt, and the desperate need for certainty.
While anxiety makes you worry about what might happen, OCD can convince you that you need to do something, mentally or physically, to prevent it.
For queer individuals, OCD can latch onto identity, sexuality, relationships, and the fear of being judged, rejected, or misunderstood. The harder you try to make the thoughts disappear, the louder they often become.
Bri Vigorito offers LGBTQ+-affirming therapy that helps you recognize these patterns without shame and build a different relationship with uncertainty.
Less fighting your mind. More living your life.
Anxiety and OCD can take over your life, filling your head with worry, doubt, intrusive thoughts, and an exhausting need to feel certain or in control.
At Sentient, we use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you stop fighting your thoughts and emotions and start changing your relationship with them.
Our in-person approach gives you a real human relationship where you can practice sitting with discomfort, facing uncertainty, and responding differently when anxiety shows up.
And because therapy isn’t one-size-fits-all, we take the time to understand how your identity, culture, sexuality, relationships, and lived experiences shape what you’re going through.
Anooshka and Bri are just two of our therapists who combine evidence-based treatment with deeply personal, identity-affirming care to help you loosen the grip of anxiety and OCD and reclaim the parts of your life they’ve been stealing.
The goal isn’t to never feel anxious again.
It’s to trust yourself, connect more deeply with others, and build a life where fear and doubt no longer get to run the show.
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The only thing you have to lose is wondering "what if?"