Panic, Trauma, and Shadow Work Therapy for Adults
Whether you're looking for relief, healing from the past, or deeper self-understanding, there's more than one way forward.
A Dash of Mindfulness Psychotherapy
Individual therapy for anxious adults in Virginia & Texas
So, Your Brain Has Some Notes
Let’s be real for a moment.
Anxiety can be uncomfortable, exhausting, and sometimes downright frightening. But what if it’s telling you something worth paying attention to?
Sometimes, anxiety shows up when you’ve spent years pushing yourself to do more, get it right, or keep everyone happy. Sometimes, it’s connected to something that happened to you—an experience that changed how you see yourself, other people, or the world. And sometimes, the life you’ve built no longer fits who you’re becoming.
These experiences may look different, but they can share an invitation: to slow down, get curious, and look beneath the surface.
Rather than spending all your energy trying to quiet what you feel, we can explore what’s contributing to it. What have you learned to believe about yourself? What are you working so hard to avoid? What parts of yourself have you had to set aside to become the person you are today?
You don't have to be in crisis to benefit from looking deeper, but if you are, let yourself sit with that fact for a moment.
Whether you're seeking relief from panic, working through the effects of trauma, or ready to explore who you might become beyond the identity you've always known, there's room to discover something new.
Sometimes, the things that are hardest to sit with can lead us toward a fuller understanding of ourselves—and possibilities for living that we couldn't quite see before.
Panic & Perfectionism Therapist
Andrea Marburger, LCSW
I'm Andrea, and I'm glad you're here.
I became a therapist because I know how powerful it can be to have a place where you can put everything on the table, get curious about what you're carrying, and figure out what comes next.
Sometimes we reach a point when the way we've been doing things no longer works quite like it used to. Maybe something has happened that changes how you see yourself or the world around you. Maybe you've spent years trying to get things right, keep everything together, or be the person everyone else needs you to be. Or maybe you're starting to wonder what else is possible when you look at yourself and your life a little differently.
Whatever brings you here, you don't need to have a clear picture of what needs to change or where you'll end up. You just need to be willing to take a closer look. We can start there.
Not sure if we’re a good fit?
A brief consultation gives us a chance to talk about what you’re looking for, answer questions about telehealth, and decide whether working together makes sense.
Therapy Services in Virginia & Texas
Panic & Perfectionism
Long term therapy for high-achieving adults
What looks like ambition from the outside can sometimes be driven by anxiety, perfectionism, or the feeling that you are never quite doing enough. This can leave you feeling like you're spinning a bunch of plates at once—constantly pushing yourself to do more, get it right, or keep everyone else happy. What happens when they all drop? It can feel like everything is imploding all at once: you feel hot, you start to shake, you can’t breathe, and then you question if that feeling will ever stop—what if it doesn’t stop?
You need to slow down and invest in an ongoing therapeutic relationship rooted in trust, curiosity, and compassion so that you can feel truly seen and recover from these experiences. During weekly or biweekly sessions we will examine how years of being hard on yourself, struggling to slow down, overthinking decisions, or mitigating any possibility of disappointing someone have developed in clinical symptoms of anxiety, and even panic.
Long term therapy will help provide you with symptom relief and ongoing psychological improvement.
Cognitive Processing Therapy
Short term treatment for PTSD
Trauma has hijacked your life and it is time to get it back. In the aftermath of something horrible happening, everything can change. Trauma can change the way you see yourself, other people, and the world around you. The clients I work with describe their life as turned upside down and the person they once were as lost. Right now, you feel stuck, but it doesn’t have to stay this way.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a structured path towards understanding how trauma has changed your story. Together we’ll examine the beliefs that developed around what happened, make space for the emotions that come with it, and work toward a more balanced understanding of the past so you can move forward with your future.
Over 12 weekly sessions, we’ll work through a focused protocol designed to help you process what happened so that you can recover the person that feels lost.
Psychotherapy Intensives
A shadow work journey
Something is keeping you from realizing your best self. We spend years constructing identities that help us survive, belong, succeed, and make sense of our lives. Eventually, some of those identities stop fitting.
You may have considered therapy could help move the needle, but committing to months of weekly sessions doesn’t feel quite right. The shadow work journey is a structured three hour therapeutic experience that can jumpstart growth towards the next version of you. Long term therapy isn’t what you need. Instead consider making room for a one time intensive that fits into your schedule and timeline. For many people investing in just one afternoon of focused therapeutic work can make all the difference.
A Psychotherapy Intensive can be a place to explore what happens when you’re willing to shed an old version of yourself—and explore you want to build in its place.
“When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.”
Pema Chodron