By the time anxiety has a name -- a specific worry about a deadline, a relationship, a health scare -- it has usually already been happening for a few seconds without one. The racing heart, the tight chest, the sudden alertness came first. The story about why came after.

While a diagnosis is a cluster of symptoms that cause someone distress, it rarely gets at the underlying issues creating and maintaining the distress. My work, as I see it, is about identifying and alleviating the root causes of distress.