Therapy for anxiety & depression.
You don’t have to keep pushing through this alone.
Does this sound familiar?
You wake up with a knot in your chest before the day has even started. You smile at work, check off your to-do list, and hold everything together, but inside, it feels like you’re barely keeping your head above water.
Maybe the anxiety shows up as…
…overthinking — replaying conversations, catastrophizing outcomes, or never quite being able to turn your mind off
Maybe the depression feels like…
…a quiet flatness: going through the motions, feeling disconnected from things that used to matter, wondering why it’s so hard to feel okay when your life looks fine from the outside.
For many of the women I work with…
…anxiety and depression don’t always look the way people expect. They look like high achievement. They look like “kept together.” They look like being the person everyone else leans on, while quietly running on empty.
You might be here because…
Your mind races at night even when your body is exhausted
You feel a persistent low mood or emotional numbness you can’t quite shake.
Worry and “what ifs” follow you through every part of your day.
You’ve been described as a worrier, a people-pleaser, or someone who’s “too hard on yourself”.
You’re tired of managing symptoms and ready to understand where they come from.
You want to feel present, grounded, and genuinely okay, not just functional.
In our work together…
…we’ll slow down and get curious about what’s really driving the anxiety or depression. We don’t just look the surface symptoms, but the patterns, beliefs, and experiences underneath them.
Therapy isn’t about giving you a list of coping strategies to white-knuckle your way through life. It’s about building a genuine understanding of yourself so that relief becomes sustainable.
The Methods Behind The Work
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Think of CBT as learning to fact-check your own mind.
When anxiety or depression is running the show, your thoughts tend to be louder, harsher, and more catastrophic than reality actually warrants.
CBT helps you slow down and notice those thought patterns (the spiraling, the worst-case scenarios, the inner critic) and gently challenge whether they're as true as they feel.
Over time, you get better at catching those patterns before they take over your whole day.
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This isn't about meditating your problems away.
Mindfulness in therapy is about building your capacity to be present with what's actually happening (in your body, your thoughts, your emotions) without immediately reacting to it or running from it.
For anxiety especially, so much of the suffering comes from fighting the feeling rather than the feeling itself.
Mindfulness teaches you how to create a little space between the thought and your response to it. That space is where real choice lives.
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Your body keeps score long before your mind catches up.
Somatic work means paying attention to how anxiety and depression show up physically (the tight chest, the held breath, the heavy limbs, the jaw that won't unclench). Rather than just talking about your feelings, we also learn to work with your nervous system directly.
When your body learns it's safe, your mind follows. This approach is especially powerful for people who feel like they "know" what's wrong but still can't seem to feel better.
A note from Desiree.
I know what it's like to carry more than you show. As a Black Latina woman who has navigated high-pressure spaces while managing the weight of expectations, from others and from myself, anxiety and depression aren't abstract concepts to me. They're experiences I understand from the inside.
That personal knowing shapes the way I show up in the therapy room. I'm not here to hand you a worksheet and send you on your way. I'm here to sit with you in the hard parts, help you make sense of what's underneath the symptoms, and walk alongside you as you build a life that actually feels livable, not just manageable.
I hold a M.Ed. in Counseling Development and am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate. My approach is trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and grounded in the belief that healing is both possible and deserved for every woman who walks through this door.
I am so honored to go on this journey with you!
