You wake up already tense.

Your mind is scanning ahead before your feet hit the floor—reviewing your to-do list, replaying yesterday’s conversations, bracing for the next thing to go wrong.

You move through your day with precision: emails answered, deadlines met, everything handled. From the outside, it looks like you’ve got it together. But inside, there’s a constant buzz. A pressure. A fear of letting something slip.

You second-guess your decisions. You replay what you said. You try to anticipate every outcome so you’ll never be caught off guard. You have to stay in control—because what happens if you don’t?

This is what high-functioning anxiety can look like. It hides behind achievement, reliability, and the phrase “I’m just wired this way.”

It’s not overreacting. It’s not being dramatic. And it’s not just “stress.”

It’s your nervous system stuck in overdrive.

You’re allowed to stop white-knuckling your way through.

At Rooted Therapy, we work with adults whose anxiety has become their default setting—especially those who’ve been praised for how well they manage everything, even as they feel like they’re barely holding on.

Anxiety isn’t just in your head—it lives in your body. And it’s not the presence of anxiety that creates suffering; it’s the relentless need to resist, control, or outsmart it.

This is where therapy comes in…

We take a trauma-informed, relational approach—drawing from ACT, IFS, somatic therapy, and existential work—to help you:

• Understand the deeper fears driving your need for control

• Unhook from perfectionism and anxiety-based decision making

• Build capacity to tolerate uncertainty and emotion

• Learn what calm actually feels like in your body

• Reconnect with freedom, spontaneity, and rest

This isn’t about becoming “fearless.” It’s about no longer letting fear run your life.

You’re not too much—you’ve just been carrying too much for too long.

You’ve survived by staying ahead, staying on top, staying in control. But you don’t have to keep living on high alert.

Schedule a free consultation for anxiety therapy in Houston or anywhere in Texas. Let’s create space for stillness, safety, and a sense of ease that doesn’t feel performative.