When Your Mind Won’t Slow Down

You might feel like your mind is always working overtime.

You replay conversations.
You analyze decisions long after they have passed.
You imagine worst case scenarios and then try to prepare for all of them.
You Google symptoms, double check sensations, or seek reassurance, only to feel briefly calmer before the worry returns.

Sometimes the thoughts feel intrusive or unsettling. Other times they feel logical, convincing, and impossible to ignore.

No matter the form, the result is often the same. Mental exhaustion, difficulty focusing, and a sense that your mind is running you instead of the other way around.

For many people, these patterns are closely connected to health anxiety, where physical sensations or medical concerns trigger cycles of worry and mental checking.

Overthinking Isn’t the Problem. The Cycle Is.

Many people assume the problem is the thoughts themselves.

If I could just stop thinking like this, I would be fine.

But chronic worry, rumination, and intrusive thoughts are usually part of a larger pattern involving:

• monitoring for threat or certainty
• trying to think your way out of discomfort
• seeking reassurance or answers
• mentally reviewing to prevent mistakes
• judging yourself for not being able to stop

These responses make sense, especially if you value responsibility, awareness, or control.

Unfortunately, they often keep the worry loop going.

Health anxiety therapy focuses on changing how you respond to thoughts, rather than trying to eliminate them.

How I help

I’m a licensed therapist in New York State and the founder of Teletherapy AG, a virtual therapy practice serving adults throughout New York.

I provide health anxiety therapy in NY through virtual sessions that focus on practical, skills based strategies. The goal is not simply to talk about worry, but to change how you respond to internal experiences.

Therapy with me focuses on learning new ways to relate to anxiety, panic, worry, and uncertainty so they no longer dictate your choices or limit your life.

In our work together, we pay close attention to patterns such as worry, mental checking, symptom monitoring, and reassurance seeking, and how these responses can unintentionally keep anxiety going.

My work is grounded in the Unified Protocol, an evidence based approach that focuses on the common patterns underneath many emotional experiences.

Rather than treating concerns as separate problems or relying heavily on labels, we look at the shared processes that keep difficult emotional experiences going, including avoidance, overthinking, emotional reactivity, and harsh self judgment.

This type of health anxiety therapy is structured and skills based. It is not a spiritual approach, not a somatic only therapy, and not a space for venting without direction.

Instead, therapy focuses on understanding how emotions work and practicing new ways to respond to them, even when feelings feel intense or uncomfortable.

You do not have to be perfect.
You just have to be willing to learn.

Sessions are collaborative, grounded, and practical. We slow things down, examine patterns with clarity, and build skills you can actually use in everyday life.

I am also a first generation West Indian New Yorker 🇹🇹🇧🇧🗽. That lived experience shapes how I show up in the therapy space. There is no pressure to code switch here or fit into a version of therapy that does not feel authentic to you.

Clients often tell me, “I’ve never thought about my emotions this way before.”

That shift, from feeling overwhelmed by internal experiences to understanding how they work, is often where meaningful change begins.

What You Work On in Therapy

In health anxiety therapy, we focus on helping you:

• notice worry and intrusive thoughts without escalating them
• reduce reassurance seeking and mental checking
• interrupt rumination loops
• increase tolerance for uncertainty
• respond to thoughts without treating them as threats
• decrease harsh self judgment around thinking patterns

The goal is not to control your thoughts, but to change the role they play in your life.

What Shifts Over Time

Clients often notice that:

• thoughts feel less urgent or sticky
• worry takes up less mental space
• reassurance seeking decreases
• decision making becomes easier
• confidence grows in handling uncertainty
• self trust increases

Thoughts may still appear, but they no longer dictate behavior or drain emotional energy.

Next Steps

If you feel stuck in cycles of anxiety, worry, or self criticism and want to learn new ways to respond, support is available.

I offer health anxiety therapy for adults across New York State through virtual sessions.

You can schedule a free 15 minute consultation to see if this approach feels like a good fit.

➡️ Visit the contact page to get started.