Anxiety & Depression
Individual and Couples Therapy in Eugene, Oregon
You’re Tired of Fighting with Yourself
Your mind won’t slow down. Or lately, you can’t seem to get going at all. Anxiety and depression look different from person to person, and sometimes they show up together.
The entire day goes to worrying about what needs to get done, and you’re too overwhelmed to start. When it ends, you go through everything you didn’t accomplish, one item at a time. The hours you spent dreading the list never make the count.
You replay conversations long after they’ve ended, and you worry about disappointing people, making the wrong decision, or falling behind. Even when everything seems to be going well, your mind is already searching for the next thing to worry about.
When Your Exhaustion Comes First
On the heavier days the thinking goes quiet and something duller takes over: the exhaustion, the missing motivation, the growing distance between what you want to do and what you have the energy for. You tell yourself you should be doing more, handling things better, or feeling differently than you do.
You remember what it felt like to be excited about something, or simply to enjoy your day without everything feeling like another responsibility. You want that back.
Why You Can’t Win the Argument with Yourself
You hold yourself to expectations you’d never place on someone else, and nothing you do moves them. The more overwhelmed you feel, the harder it becomes to meet them, and the harder you are on yourself, the more difficult everything seems to get. It’s an exhausting cycle.
The criticism stays because it’s doing a job. It feels like the only thing keeping you honest, so quieting it feels like agreeing to care less, and it survives every promise to be gentler with yourself. The argument opens again the next morning.
Let a Mistake Stay a Mistake
Imagine making a mistake without turning it into a judgment about your worth. An unfinished to-do list that doesn’t feel like evidence you’ve failed. Waking up and feeling more connected to your life, rather than immediately overwhelmed by everything waiting for you.
Learn to Hear a Thought without Obeying It
In therapy, we’ll explore how your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and experiences influence one another. Where did the idea that you always have to be productive come from?
We’ll also work on ways to respond differently. That looks like learning to recognize anxious thought patterns without automatically believing them, breaking overwhelming tasks into manageable steps, developing ways to regulate intense emotions, or reconnecting with activities and relationships that matter to you.
Some sessions involve processing something difficult. Others are for practicing a new skill, examining a belief that isn’t serving you, or planning for a situation you’re facing. We’ll find the approach that makes sense for you.
Start Speaking to Yourself Differently
The goal isn’t to never feel anxious, sad, or overwhelmed again. Those emotions are part of being human. It’s to develop a different relationship with those experiences, so they stop rearranging your day.
You can learn to approach yourself with understanding instead of constant criticism. If you’re ready to explore what life could look like with less self-doubt and more self-compassion, I’d love to support you.
Schedule a free 20-minute consultation.
Email cayla.letasse@gmail.com or message (925) 200-1561.
You Just Need Somewhere to Start
You don't have to arrive with everything figured out.
Whether you're exhausted from fighting yourself, tired of fighting with the person you love, or realizing you've spent so much time showing up for everyone else that you've lost track of yourself, we can start figuring out what keeps you here and what could move you forward differently. That starts with a free 20-minute consultation.
Next Sunday evening can look different than the last one.