Support for Anxiety

If anxiety is affecting your focus, relationships, or sense of safety, you don’t have to manage it alone. Therapy at Branch Lane helps you understand the roots of anxiety and build steadier ways of responding to stress.

You Don’t Have to Live With Constant Worry

Anxiety can feel like being constantly on edge. Your thoughts may race, your body may remain tense, and there’s often a persistent sense that something must be controlled, prevented, or managed. Even when life feels “normal,” the worry rarely fully eases, making rest and ease seem out of reach.

Therapy provides a space to explore what the anxiety is signaling — the fears, expectations, or internal pressures that keep your mind on high alert. Instead of just trying to quiet the symptoms, we focus on understanding what your anxiety is communicating. Over time, this clarity can help you relate differently to your thoughts and sensations, loosen rigid patterns, and move through life with more ease and choice.

Anxiety Can Look Different for Everyone

While each person experiences anxiety uniquely, common signs often include:

  • Racing thoughts or difficulty focusing

  • Persistent worry about everyday situations or the future

  • Physical tension, headaches, stomach issues, or rapid heartbeat

  • Difficulty sleeping or staying present

  • Avoidance of situations that feel overwhelming or unpredictable

  • Self-criticism or feeling “not enough” in daily life

Understanding the sources of anxiety is often the first step toward easing its hold and reclaiming a sense of balance.

How We Help With Anxiety

Therapy provides a safe, supportive environment where you can notice the thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations that contribute to anxiety. This awareness allows you to explore patterns without judgment and understand how they may be affecting your daily life.

In sessions, we work collaboratively to develop practical strategies for responding to anxiety rather than reacting automatically. This may include grounding techniques, mindfulness exercises, or approaches to gently shift unhelpful thought patterns. Over time, these practices can reduce distress and help you feel more in control of your reactions.

The goal of therapy is not just temporary relief — it’s about building resilience and learning skills that extend beyond the sessions. By understanding what drives your anxiety and experimenting with new ways of responding, you can gradually feel more present, centered, and confident in your ability to handle life’s challenges.

Anxiety Isn’t Just Nervousness

Anxiety often intersects with multiple areas of life, including:

• High-pressure work or academic environments

• Major life transitions or uncertainty about the future

• Relationship stress or conflicts

• Perfectionism, self-criticism, or pressure to “keep it together”

• Past experiences or trauma that amplify worry

• Sleep disruptions or chronic physical tension

Therapy helps uncover how these factors interact and gives you strategies to respond in ways that feel safe and grounded.

meet your counselors

I'm Erica Oppenheimer

I am a licensed clinical social worker offering therapy for adults who are struggling with anxiety, uncertainty, or a sense of disconnection. Many of the people I work with feel stuck in patterns they can’t fully explain. They may find themselves repeating the same emotional responses or caught in relationships that feel unsatisfying or confusing.

My work is grounded in the belief that symptoms are meaningful. Anxiety, perfectionism, emotional paralysis—these are not just problems to be managed but expressions of something deeper, often rooted in earlier experience or unconscious conflict. In therapy, we create the conditions for those patterns to reveal themselves, so they can be understood and worked through, not just pushed aside.

I offer a space where your thoughts, dreams, and frustrations can be explored freely and seriously. This allows for more lasting change. As we begin to uncover what has remained hidden, many people find that life opens up in new and unexpected ways. The goal is not to become someone else, but to make more sense of who you already are and to find new ways of living that feel more authentic.

LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) (California, New York, Florida)

I'm Priyanka Parikh

Priyanka Parikh is a licensed clinical psychologist with over a decade of experience supporting adults navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, insomnia, and major life transitions. Her clinical foundation was shaped within the Veterans Affairs system, where she worked across primary care mental health, PTSD treatment, residential programs, and integrated medical settings.

Her therapeutic style is collaborative, steady, and clear. Dr. Parikh draws from evidence-based approaches including CBT, CPT, ACT, Motivational Interviewing, and mindfulness-based interventions, offering care that is structured enough to support meaningful change while remaining flexible and responsive to each client.

At Branch Lane, Parikh provides a space where clients feel understood and supported as they work toward greater clarity, resilience, and balance. She is deeply committed to culturally responsive, inclusive care and values the full context of each client’s experiences, identities, and story.

Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Over 10 years of experience in trauma-informed and integrated care settings

Trilingual in English, Gujarati, and Hindi

I'm Robin Chilton

Robin Chilton is a Licensed Master Social Worker who specializes in supporting women through life transitions, motherhood, and the emotional complexities that often accompany change. She works with individuals experiencing anxiety, mood concerns, trauma, infertility, loss, perinatal and postpartum mood disorders, and the challenges of parenting across stages of life.

Her clinical approach is collaborative, attuned, and grounded in psychodynamic and relational frameworks, while integrating cognitive-behavioral strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing when helpful. Robin views symptoms not simply as problems to fix, but as meaningful signals that invite careful listening and understanding. She strives to create a reflective, safe space where clients can explore their emotional patterns and develop insight.

Robin’s work is informed by extensive experience in early childhood mental health, trauma-informed care, and family systems. She has served as a lead consultant with New York City child welfare services, providing clinical consultation, training, and case guidance. She has also worked in schools and therapeutic programs supporting children, parents, and families navigating grief, behavioral challenges, and stress from developmental and environmental pressures.

Lead consultant for NYC Child Welfare Services

Extensive experience in trauma-informed care and early childhood mental health

Skilled in integrating psychodynamic, relational, and cognitive-behavioral approaches

How to Get Started?

Reach Out for a Consultation

Begin with a brief consultation to share what’s been bringing you to therapy, ask questions, and get a feel for how we work. This conversation is a chance to be heard without judgment and to see whether Branch Lane feels like the right fit for you.

Tell Us More About Your Goals

Once you decide to move forward, you’ll receive a short set of intake forms to help us understand your background, current concerns, and what you’re hoping for from therapy. This information allows us to approach your first session with care and intention.

Begin Therapy

Whether you meet with us online or in person, therapy starts by creating a supportive, collaborative space. Together, we work to understand what’s been contributing to your difficulties and develop an approach that supports clarity, steadiness, and meaningful change over time.

You Don’t Have to Navigate This Alone

If you’re ready to better understand what’s been shaping your experience and explore new ways of relating to yourself and your life, we’re here to help. Therapy at Branch Lane offers a thoughtful, collaborative space to begin this work at a pace that feels right for you.

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