Glutamate and GABA: The Brain’s Neurochemical Gas and Brakes in Anxiety and OCD

Anxiety, Inside Your Brain, OCD, Panic Disorder, Phobia

Inside Your Brain: Neuro-Informed Therapy Welcome to Inside Your Brain, a series where we break down the fascinating neuroscience behind anxiety, phobias, OCD, and relationships—and show how therapy can help you change the way your brain responds. Each post connects brain science to practical strategies so you can better understand what’s happening in your mind, […]

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Safe Harbor OCD Therapy Group–Enrolling Now

Anxiety, Event, Group Therapy, OCD

Safe Harbor OCD Group Therapy is a structured, supportive OCD group for adults in Washington State seeking effective, research-based treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD can feel disorienting, isolating, and overwhelming—but with the right tools and support, meaningful relief and freedom are possible. This virtual group offers a safe, steady space to build skills, confidence,

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Naming Anxiety: What Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea Teaches Us About Anxiety and OCD Therapy

Anxiety, OCD, Panic Disorder, Phobia

Learning to name anxiety can open up new ways of understanding and relating to it. This is work I support in therapy with teens and adults at Harbor Light Mental Health in Bellingham, Seattle, and throughout Washington State via secure telehealth. The Power of Naming in Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea Often, fiction mirrors reality. Few

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The Brain’s Faulty Fact-Checker: Understanding the Orbitofrontal Cortex in Anxiety and OCD

Anxiety, Inside Your Brain, OCD, Panic Disorder, Phobia

Inside Your Brain: Neuro-Informed Therapy Welcome to Inside Your Brain, a series where I break down the fascinating neuroscience behind anxiety, phobias, OCD, and relationships—and show how therapy can help you change the way your brain responds. Each post connects brain science to practical strategies so you can better understand what’s happening in your mind,

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The Dopamine Glue: How Anxiety Therapy and OCD Treatment Break the Bond

Anxiety, Inside Your Brain, OCD, Phobia

Inside Your Brain: Neuro-Informed Therapy Welcome to Inside Your Brain, a series where I break down the fascinating neuroscience behind anxiety, phobias, OCD, and relationships—and show how therapy can help you change the way your brain responds. Each post connects brain science to practical strategies so you can better understand what’s happening in your mind,

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The Anxious Amygdala: How Fear Gets Stuck in the Brain (and How Therapy Can Rewire It)

Anxiety, Inside Your Brain, OCD, Panic Disorder, Phobia

Inside Your Brain: Neuro-Informed Therapy Welcome to Inside Your Brain, a series where I break down the fascinating neuroscience behind anxiety, phobias, OCD, and relationships—and show how therapy can help you change the way your brain responds. Each post connects brain science to practical strategies so you can better understand what’s happening in your mind,

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Your Insula is Talking—Should You Listen? How Brain Signals Affect Anxiety, Panic, Phobias, and OCD

Anxiety, Inside Your Brain, OCD, Panic Disorder, Phobia

Inside Your Brain: Neuro-Informed Therapy Welcome to Inside Your Brain, a series where I break down the fascinating neuroscience behind anxiety, OCD, and relationships—and show how therapy can help you change the way your brain responds. Each post connects brain science to practical strategies so you can better understand what’s happening in your mind, why

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Feelings like a Freight Train: Facing Overwhelming Emotions | Anxiety & OCD Therapy in Washington

Anxiety, OCD, Panic Disorder, Phobia

Learn how to manage intense emotions like anxiety, fear, and overwhelm—without letting them control your life. Explore urge surfing and emotional regulation skills with a Washington anxiety therapist. When Big Emotions Take OverBig emotions—fear, anxiety, sadness, anger—can feel like a freight train barreling toward you, threating to plow you over. They hit fast and hard

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