Regulate your physiology, retrain the anxious brain, and face your anxiety in the service of what matters.
Anxiety Treatment in Arlington, VA
In-person and online therapy for residents of D.C., MD, VA and most other states.
Feeling like anxiety has taken over you life?
Anxiety can show up in many ways—overthinking, difficulty sleeping, tension in your body, or a racing heart that seems to come out of nowhere. Whether it’s tied to specific situations or always humming in the background, anxiety can leave you feeling exhausted, disconnected, and unsure how to cope.
If you find yourself stuck in patterns of worry, fear, perfectionism, or constant “what ifs,” you’re not alone—and therapy can help.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Types of anxiety I can help with:
Generalized anxiety
Health anxiety / hypochondriasis
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Death anxiety
Existential anxiety
Social anxiety
Public speaking / performance anxiety
Specific fears and phobias
Panic attacks / panic disorder
Work-related stress / anxiety
Persistent worry or unease
WHAT WE’LL DO TOGETHER
Therapy for anxiety can help you to:
Understand underlying factors
Gain insight and work through underlying issues fueling your anxiety. Better notice triggers, compassionately and non-judgmentally understand their origins, and access to choice in how to respond to them.
Build effective coping skills
Cultivate an anxiety-relieving toolkit that you can use now and for the rest of your life. Learn ways to relax and more effectively talk back to your internal critic. Drop behaviors that are making your anxiety worse. Start facing your fears and feel confident again.
Start enjoying life more
Clarify your values and what’s truly important to you. Step out of anxiety and into patterns of behavior that move you closer to the person you want to be. Embrace a life where anxiety doesn’t run the show. Recognize that you do, and start seeing changes for the better.
Hi, I’m Dr. Victoria Bathe, an Arlington, VA-based licensed psychologist.
I specialize in treating generalized anxiety, OCD, panic, and other specific fears.
My style is warm, collaborative, humorous at times, and grounded in evidence-based approaches like:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
I’m not a therapist who only listens or asks how things make you feel. I will provide tools, give my perspective when I think it will be helpful, and strive to ask thoughtful questions to help you challenge yourself.
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses identifying and modifying maladaptive thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety. You’ll learn relaxation techniques and problem-solving skills, engage in behavioral experiments to test anxious beliefs, and be better able to cope with anxiety and uncertainty in the long term.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps you to face your anxiety in the service of what matters. You’ll learn ways to disentangle yourself from anxious thoughts, be more present, accept what is and what is not within your personal control, and free up wasted energy that can be put toward creating the life you actually want.
Exposure Therapy and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) involve approaching rather than avoiding anxiety-provoking situations to gain mastery over fears. You’ll engage in exposure exercises and let go of unhelpful rituals and/or safety behaviors that tend to make your anxiety worse. You may imagine yourself in a feared situation (“imaginal exposure”), watch material on videos, or encounter it in real life (“in-vivo exposure), or purposefully bring on physiological sensations associated with anxiety (“interoceptive exposure”) to learn that you can handle it. Exposures are conducted both in and outside of the office, depending on the nature of your anxiety. You’ll lean how to deal with repeated, unwanted, and intrusive thoughts, so that their frequency subsides and life becomes enjoyable again.
“Living safely is dangerous.”
— Irvin Yalom
Ready for anxiety to take a back seat so you can start living your life more fully?
Let’s work together!