Therapy for Anxious Overachievers

You’re Doing It All — and It’s Quietly Unraveling You

You’ve mastered the art of holding it all together — but inside, you’re unraveling. This page is for the professionals, perfectionists, and people-pleasers who feel like they’re barely keeping up with the pressure they’ve grown used to.

Offering therapy for anxious overachievers in Oklahoma — using EMDR, parts work, somatic therapy, and intensives to support real, lasting change.

When High Functioning Isn’t the Same as Feeling Okay

You’re the one others count on. The fixer, the planner, the person who always gets it done. From the outside, you look composed, capable, and successful. But inside, you’re exhausted. Your mind won’t shut off. Your chest is tight. You’re constantly analyzing what went wrong or what needs to happen next. And no matter how hard you push, it never feels like enough.

You’ve built a life on being productive and reliable — but the pressure is relentless. You keep up the performance because slowing down feels like falling apart. Rest feels dangerous. Stillness is uncomfortable. Even when you try to relax, your brain is still scanning, solving, preparing.

This isn’t just stress. It’s a deep disconnection from your own needs.

What Anxiety Looks Like for Overachievers

Anxiety doesn’t always look like panic attacks or spirals. For high-functioning adults, it often hides behind the doing:

  • Constant mental checklists you can’t turn off

  • Replaying conversations, fearing you said the wrong thing

  • Second-guessing every decision, even small ones

  • Feeling like your body is always bracing for something bad

  • Trouble sleeping, staying asleep, or waking up unrested

  • A need to overprepare, overdeliver, or stay in control

  • Pushing through exhaustion and ignoring your limits

You may not even call it anxiety. Maybe it just feels like “how you are.” But underneath the productivity is a nervous system that never gets to settle.

And sometimes, all that internal pressure builds until it erupts into panic:

  • Racing heart, tight chest, difficulty breathing

  • Feeling dizzy, detached, or like you’re losing control

  • A sense of impending doom, even when nothing’s wrong

Panic attacks can feel like a betrayal — like your body is turning against you. And the fear of another one only adds more pressure to hold it together.

Driven, Capable — and Quietly Falling Apart

Many of my clients are high-capacity professionals: attorneys, educators, entrepreneurs, executives, mental health providers, and others who carry significant responsibility. They’re used to being the strong one, the go-to person, the one who doesn’t need help. But somewhere along the way, they lost touch with their own humanity.

You might feel:

  • Like you’re constantly performing — even when you’re alone

  • Terrified to stop, because everything might fall apart

  • Disconnected from joy, pleasure, or even basic needs

  • Afraid that if you let your guard down, everything will unravel

Therapy offers a space to take the mask off. To stop performing. To stop bracing.

To listen to the parts of you that are asking for care.

How Therapy Helps Anxious Overachievers

You don’t need another to-do list. You need a space to slow down and tell the truth about what’s not working. In our work together, we’ll:

  • Identify the unconscious patterns driving your anxiety and perfectionism

  • Use EMDR and parts work to address the deeper roots — not just manage symptoms

  • Explore the protective roles you’ve taken on (like the achiever, the fixer, the caretaker)

  • Learn somatic tools to calm your body and regulate your nervous system

  • Set boundaries that honor your capacity — without guilt

  • Build self-compassion, even when you’re not “doing”

Therapy isn’t about doing more. It’s about learning to be with yourself differently.

This Work is for You If…

  • You’re successful on the outside but feel lost or empty inside

  • You’re constantly overwhelmed but can’t seem to stop

  • You’ve been called “high-strung,” “intense,” or “driven” — and it’s wearing you down

  • You’re afraid to rest, slow down, or need anyone

  • You feel like you’ve forgotten how to be a person, not just a role

There’s nothing wrong with being competent, responsible, or high-achieving. But you deserve a life that’s not built entirely on pressure.

Therapy Intensives for Anxious Overachievers

Sometimes weekly sessions aren’t enough to break old cycles. I offer Breakthrough Therapy Intensives — custom private-pay programs that allow us to go deeper in a more focused timeframe. These intensives are ideal if you’re:

  • Burned out and can’t stretch therapy out over months

  • In a major life transition or identity shift

  • Wanting more clarity and emotional movement than weekly sessions allow

Each intensive is tailored to your goals and your pace — with space to do the deeper work your nervous system has been asking for.

Why Seeking Peace Counseling

I specialize in working with high-capacity adults who are tired of holding it all together. My approach is grounded, relational, and emotionally attuned. I integrate EMDR, parts work, somatic therapy, and attachment-based support — not just to manage anxiety, but to understand what it’s been protecting you from.

If you’re ready to stop performing and start feeling, this work is for you.

You Don’t Have to Prove Anything Here

You’ve spent enough time trying to earn your worth through doing. This is a place where you don’t have to impress, explain, or fix anything.

Just come as you are.

That’s more than enough.