Scott Menasco, LMFT, PhD

If you’re dealing with anxiety, overthinking, or relationship stress, it’s usually not because something is “wrong” with you. It’s because your system learned how to adapt without the kind of support it actually needed. So you figured out ways to cope—pushing things down, staying in your head, over-functioning, second-guessing yourself.

Those strategies work… until they don’t.

At some point, they start creating the very problems you’re trying to get out of—more anxiety, more self-criticism, more tension in relationships.

Therapy here isn’t about endlessly analyzing your past or trying to “think” your way out of things. It’s about getting underneath those patterns and working directly with your experience—so you can actually understand what’s driving your reactions and shift them from the inside out.

We’ll also look at how you’ve learned to disconnect from what’s real for you in order to feel secure with other people. As that changes, you stop second-guessing yourself as much. You say what you mean. Your relationships feel more solid, more honest, and a lot less exhausting.