Betsy Nettleton, PsyD(She/Her/Hers)

Specialties

Anxiety - Sometimes anxiety is internal: worry that won't quiet, dread before ordinary situations, panic that arrives without warning. Sometimes it lives in interactions: leaving conversations unsettled, never quite sure how you came across. And sometimes it's harder to locate, it’s just a formless sense that something terrible is coming, without being able to say what.

Depression - A heaviness that doesn't lift. You go through the motions. Somehow the things that used to matter stopped mattering, and you're not even sure when that happened. Good things arrive but don't feel good, or the feeling is just gone almost as soon as it comes. Sometimes there's sadness. Often it's just bleakness, like something that used to have color has gone grey.

Sensitivity - Reactions that feel outsized, a tendency to register everything intensely, whether it is noise, physical sensation, the emotional temperature of a room. The world feels genuinely loud in ways others don't seem to notice, and nobody around you quite gets why you're so affected. There’s just not much of a buffer between you and everything coming in. It can feel like too much, and also strangely isolating, because the experience is so hard to explain to someone who doesn't have it.

Imposter syndrome - A persistent sense of not quite being yourself. You're performing. It might not even feel entirely fake, more like a version of you that's been turned up to meet what the situation requires. But there's still a waiting to be found out, and it's exhausting. There's a distance between how you feel on the inside and who you feel you have to be in the world, and a quiet longing to just be able to put that down.

Rumination - The thought or worry you can't stop returning to. The conversation you keep replaying. Or maybe the conviction that if you just think about it a little more you'll finally figure it out. Rumination is often an attempt to control something that feels uncontrollable, or to resolve something that just won't resolve, because not knowing feels unbearable.

Relationship issues - So much of what makes life feel meaningful happens in relationships. But relationships can also be a source of tremendous pain. The same patterns keep showing up: with partners, family, friends. You find yourself in situations you didn't choose and can't quite get out of. You want something from people but can't quite say what that might be. Or, you feel alone, even when you're not.