Anxiety and Depression – When Life Feels Too Much, or Too Empty

Two Sides of the Same Struggle

Anxiety and depression are often spoken about separately, but in real life, they frequently live together. You might wake with a racing mind and go to bed feeling heavy. You might feel too much and nothing at all. You might be full of thoughts, plans, and panic—and still find it hard to get out of bed.

Whether your experience leans more toward worry or toward emptiness, I don’t see it as a problem to be solved. I see it as a message—an attempt by your system to make sense of something that has felt overwhelming, missing, or stuck.

In this space, we don’t rush to fix. We listen.

Anxiety – A Nervous System on High Alert

Anxiety isn’t just in your head—it lives in your whole body. It can feel like tightness, buzzing, restlessness, a sense of impending doom, or a relentless inner critic. You might overthink, overprepare, avoid conflict, or try to control your surroundings in order to feel safe.

In our work, we explore what your anxiety might be trying to protect you from. We begin to understand the logic behind it—not to reinforce it, but to see where it came from and how it might soften. Your worry has a history. When we trace it, we start to loosen its grip.

Depression – More Than Just Sadness

Depression isn’t always dramatic. Sometimes it’s a flatness. A sense that life has lost its colour. A disconnection from meaning, joy, or the ability to care. You might find yourself isolating, going through the motions, or wondering if things will ever feel different.

In therapy, we make space for that too. We don’t try to cheer you up or offer false hope. We sit with what’s real. Often, depression carries unheard grief, suppressed anger, or a backlog of emotional labour that has gone unrecognised. Our work is to bring those parts into the light—gently, steadily, without judgment.

A Relational Approach

Rather than using techniques to reframe your thoughts, I offer something different: a space where you can be with what you feel, without needing to change it right away. Through a steady, compassionate relationship, we begin to understand how these patterns formed—and what it’s like to be with another person without editing, pleasing, or performing.

So much of anxiety and depression is rooted in disconnection—from others, from self, from safety. In our sessions, we begin to rebuild that sense of connection.

You Don’t Have to Pretend Anymore

Many people who come to me for anxiety or depression look fine from the outside. They’re capable, thoughtful, even outwardly successful. But inside, they’re barely holding it together. If that’s you, I see you.

You don’t have to minimise your pain here. You don’t have to be productive, insightful, or positive. You just need to show up—and we’ll meet what’s there, together.

If you're longing for a space where your struggle is not only seen but truly understood, I’m here.