Therapy for Anxiety and Overwhelm

The nervous system that learned to move fast can learn to have more room.

Use this before or during your intake session. Mark what resonates, write in your own words, and bring it with you. Goals are shaped with your therapist — this is a collaborative starting point, not a commitment or a diagnosis.

What may sound familiar

Check anything that feels true right now — not as a diagnosis, just as a starting place for conversation.

I see what’s reasonable but still feel swept up in urgency
Anxiety lives in my body and relationships — not just racing thoughts
I want more space between trigger and response

Therapy can help

Mark what you’d like therapy to help with. These become draft goals you can refine with your therapist.

Understand how anxiety shows up in my body and relationships
Build regulation that stays with emotion instead of bypassing it
Interrupt reactive patterns at their roots
Practice choice and presence when intensity rises, at my pace

My own goal

Start here

In your own words

What would need to shift for therapy to feel worth it?

In a few months, what would “better” look or feel like in daily life?

Anything else you want your therapist to know going into intake?