Anxiety therapy
Find calm, clarity, and confidence within yourself in Palm Beach, Florida, Virtual Florida and Virtual Connecticut
You may look calm on the outside but feel constantly “on” inside — your mind racing, your body tense, your sleep light and restless. Hello, Anxiety!
Perhaps you’ve learned to hide it well — holding everything together for your family, work, or relationships — yet your system never seems to rest.
You might notice that you:
Feel easily overstimulated or irritable
Wake up already anxious or exhausted
Overthink, replay conversations, or worry about the future
Experience tightness in your chest, jaw, or stomach
Struggle to slow down even when you want to
Feel like your nervous system is running your life
If this sounds familiar, you’re not broken — your nervous system has simply been doing too much for too long.
Anxiety isn’t a flaw; it’s a sign your body is trying to stay safe — even when the threat is long past.
A Body-Based Approach to Anxiety Relief
More than just coping skills — real regulation from the inside out
HI!, I am Jennifer Goggin, LPC, LMHC, SEP- You can call me Jen—In my work as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and Licensed Psychotherapist, I help you move beyond managing anxiety and start truly healing it.
Rather than focusing only on thoughts or behavior, we listen to the wisdom of the body — the heartbeat, breath, tension, and sensations that reveal where your system is stuck in over-activation.
Through this integrative process, you’ll learn how to:
Recognize early signals of stress before overwhelm takes hold
Re-train your nervous system to find balance and safety
Reconnect with your body as an ally, not an enemy
Build tolerance for calm and presence without losing focus
Somatic experiencing (SE)
Regulating anxiety through the body’s natural rhythms
Somatic Experiencing gently works with your body’s physiology to release stored stress and calm the fight-flight response.
By learning to notice subtle physical cues — like breath, muscle tone, or tingling — you begin to guide your body back toward ease and groundedness.
Clients often describe feeling:
Relief from chronic tension or hypervigilance
More energy yet deeper rest
Increased ability to pause before reacting
A new sense of inner safety and trust
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Shifting anxious thoughts and building emotional flexibility
Anxiety often brings looping thoughts — What if…?, Did I say the wrong thing?, Something bad will happen.
Through CBT, we explore and reframe these thought patterns, helping you separate facts from fears.
You’ll learn to:
Challenge catastrophic thinking
Replace “what-ifs” with grounded awareness
Build confidence in your ability to handle uncertainty
Develop practical tools for managing triggers
Combined with somatic awareness, CBT creates balance — your mind and body begin to work together instead of against each other.
Inner Child & Parts Work
Healing the roots of worry and over-responsibility
Many high-functioning adults who struggle with anxiety once learned to be hyper-vigilant children — scanning for danger, reading others’ moods, striving to be “good.”
Through Inner Child and Subpersonality Work, we gently reconnect with the younger parts that still feel they have to control everything to stay safe.
You’ll learn to:
Offer comfort to your inner protector
Release perfectionistic pressure
Develop self-soothing and boundaries
Feel peace even when things aren’t perfect
As these parts soften, anxiety loses its grip — replaced by calm confidence and authentic presence.
Motivational Interviewing & Strength-Based Work
Empowering you to move from fear to trust
When anxiety makes you doubt yourself, motivation and self-trust can fade.
Through a collaborative, strength-based process, I help you reconnect with your resilience and natural capacity to handle life’s challenges.
Together we’ll:
Identify what truly matters to you
Clarify goals aligned with your values
Build self-belief through small, sustainable steps
Replace avoidance with curiosity and courage
You don’t need to “push through” anxiety — you’ll learn to work with it, understanding its message and guiding it toward calm action.
What Healing from Anxiety Feels Like
Results clients often experience
Over time, clients notice:
Less physical tension and fewer panic symptoms
Improved focus, sleep, and mood regulation
Freedom from constant overthinking
A stronger sense of control and safety
More ease in relationships and decision-making
Healing isn’t about eliminating anxiety completely — it’s about regaining your ability to choose calm, presence, and joy.
Anxiety Therapy in Palm Beach + Virtual for Florida & Connecticut
Sessions are available in person across Palm Beach and virtually for clients throughout Florida and Connecticut.
Therapy is collaborative, gentle, and grounded — meeting you where you are, at the pace your nervous system can handle.
Whether you experience generalized anxiety, panic, social anxiety, or high-functioning stress, you can learn to feel safe in your body and confident in your life again.
Begin Your Journey Toward Calm
Your nervous system can learn peace again.
If anxiety has been running your life, you don’t have to face it alone.
Let’s help your system unwind, your mind clear, and your body rediscover rest.
FAQS on Anxiety Therapy
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Talk therapy focuses on thoughts. I focus on your nervous system, where anxiety actually lives. Using Somatic Experiencing®, we help your body come out of fight-or-flight so your mind can finally breathe and then it makes sense to focus on thoughts because there is less “charge.”
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Yes. I offer Virtual Florida and Virtual Connecticut sessions that work beautifully with somatic tools and can see people in person, on a limited basis in Palm Beach area.
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It can. You could have been too activated in your nervous system. If you tried EMDR, perhaps it was too activating for you because it initially starts with some narrative or story that can charge some people’s systems.
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IYes. When your nervous system settles, nighttime anxiety, racing thoughts, and sleep disruptions often ease significantly. Keep in mind, hormones and gut issues can contribute to sleep as well!
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Description text goes hereI work with adults experiencing generalized anxiety, panic attacks, high-functioning anxiety, chronic worry, and anxiety that shows up physically. My anxiety therapy blends somatic therapy and nervous-system regulation so you feel relief at the root—not just temporary coping.
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It can happen within a few sessions. SE is subtle. You need to trust me, as you do with any therapist, and trust the process, so it’s really up to you.
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Absolutely. High-functioning anxiety often hides behind overworking and feeling “never enough.” Somatic work calms the internal pressure so you can finally exhale.
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Yes. Much anxiety is trauma-driven, and Somatic experiencing® is one of the most effective approaches for trauma-based anxiety.
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I work with adults experiencing generalized anxiety, panic attacks, high-functioning anxiety, chronic worry, and anxiety that shows up physically. My anxiety therapy blends somatic therapy and nervous-system regulation so you feel relief at the root—not just temporary coping.
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Yes. I offer Virtual Florida and Virtual Connecticut sessions that work beautifully with somatic tools. I also offer in person session, on a limited basis, in Palm Beach, Florida.