Relationship Anxiety Therapy
For Anxiety, Depression & Burnout
You don’t have to just manage anxiety, you can heal it. Our therapists treat the root cause, not just the symptoms. Results in 8–12 sessions.
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- Anxiety is a survival adaptation, not a personal failing.
- Shakti treats anxiety through nervous system-based, culturally attuned therapy, not generic coping scripts
- Approaches include somatic therapy, IFS, Brainspotting, and mindfulness, tailored to what’s actually driving the anxiety.
- Available in-person in Culver City and Redondo Beach, or virtually across California.
Mental disorders are now the leading cause of non-fatal disease burden globally.
This is not a personal failing. It is a public health reality. Anxiety disorders alone increased by 63% between 1990 and 2023. Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide are living with a mental disorder right now. And 71% of that burden could be reduced with the right treatment.
Global Disease Burden (DALYs)
Source: IHME Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
Mental health = #1 non-fatal disease burden globally
1.2B
people worldwide living with a mental disorder as of 2023, more than ever recorded
63%
increase in anxiety disorder burden globally between 1990 and 2023, the largest rise of any mental health category
17%
of all years lived with disability globally were due to mental disorders in 2023, more than heart disease or cancer
71%
of global anxiety disorder burden could be avoided if people with anxiety accessed optimal treatment
19%
of U.S. adults experience an anxiety disorder in a given year
1 in 3
U.S. adults will experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their life
11K+
therapy sessions provided by Shakti Therapy
5.0★
Google rating from 75+ verified client reviews
7
languages spoken across our therapy team
In-person + Virtual
Culver City, Redondo Beach & all of California
Prevalence data: National Institute of Mental Health & NAMI (updated 2025)
Understanding Anxiety at the Root
Anxiety therapy helps you understand what your anxiety is trying to protect you from, while giving you practical tools to calm your body, challenge fear-based thoughts, and build a stronger relationship with yourself.
At Shakti Therapy, anxiety treatment is personalized. We do not treat anxiety like a generic symptom checklist. We look at the whole picture: your thoughts, body, relationships, culture, family system, work pressure, trauma history, and the deeper patterns that keep your nervous system on alert.
Our anxiety therapists support clients in Culver City, Redondo Beach, and virtually throughout California.
Anxiety Symptoms
Anxiety does not always look like panic. Sometimes anxiety looks like being the responsible one. The high achiever. The one who handles everything. The one who keeps it together until your body finally says, “I cannot keep doing this.”
You may know logically that you are okay, but your body does not feel okay. That is why anxiety therapy has to work with more than thoughts. It has to include the nervous system, the body, and the deeper stories your mind has learned to believe.
Anxiety can show up as
- Overthinking every decision
- Racing heart or tight chest
- Panic attacks
- Fear of disappointing people
- Feeling unsafe when nothing is wrong
- Perfectionism and control
- Irritability or emotional shutdown
- Fear something bad is about to happen
- Restlessness, unable to relax
- Stomach pain, nausea, digestive issues
- Trouble sleeping
- Avoiding conflict
- Constantly needing reassurance
- People-pleasing
- Feeling disconnected from your body
- Exhaustion from holding it together
What Causes Anxiety?
There is rarely one single cause. Anxiety develops from a combination of biology, life experiences, nervous system patterns, relationships, culture, and stress. At Shakti Therapy, we help you understand the roots instead of blaming yourself for the symptoms.
01
Nervous System Overwhelm
When your nervous system has been under pressure for too long, it can get stuck in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Everyday situations feel threatening even when there is no immediate danger. You feel like you are always scanning, preparing, anticipating, fixing, managing, or bracing.
02
Trauma or Unresolved Stress
Past trauma, childhood stress, emotional neglect, family instability, medical trauma, racial trauma, or relationship wounds can keep the body in survival mode. Even when the event is over, the body may still respond as if danger is present.
03
Family and Cultural Expectations
For many of our clients, anxiety is not just personal. It is cultural. Achievement pressure, family expectations, immigrant survival patterns, silence around mental health, perfectionism, shame, religious expectations. In some families, anxiety gets mislabeled as “being responsible.” Therapy helps you separate what is yours from what you inherited.
04
Perfectionism and Control
Anxiety often tries to create certainty. It tells you that if you plan enough, fix enough, achieve enough, or stay ahead of everything, you will finally feel safe. But the more you try to control everything, the more exhausted you become.
05
Relationship and Attachment Wounds
Anxiety can show up in relationships. You may fear rejection, abandonment, conflict, emotional distance, or being misunderstood. This can lead to overexplaining, chasing reassurance, shutting down, or losing yourself in other people’s needs.
06
High-Functioning Exhaustion
You look completely capable from the outside. You perform at work, in relationships, in every room you walk into. But the cost inside is real. High-functioning anxiety is anxiety that has learned to hide behind achievement, and it is one of the most common presentations we see in Los Angeles.
Types of Anxiety We Treat
At Shakti Therapy, we support clients dealing with many forms of anxiety. Each one requires a different understanding and approach.
Generalized Anxiety
Persistent worry, tension, overthinking, and feeling like your mind will not shut off.
Panic Attacks
Sudden waves of intense fear, racing heart, shortness of breath, dizziness, shaking, or fear that something is seriously wrong.
Social Anxiety
Fear of judgment, embarrassment, being seen, being rejected, or not knowing how to act in social situations.
High-Functioning Anxiety
Looking calm and capable on the outside while feeling overwhelmed, tense, and exhausted inside.
Relationship Anxiety
Fear of abandonment, uncertainty, rejection, conflict, or not being enough in relationships.
Health Anxiety
Persistent worry about your body, symptoms, illness, safety, or medical uncertainty.
Founder and Entrepreneur Anxiety
Decision fatigue, pressure, burnout, loneliness, imposter syndrome, and the emotional intensity of building something while trying to hold yourself together.
Postpartum Anxiety
Intrusive thoughts, fear something bad will happen, identity shifts, sleep disruption, overwhelm, and the pressure to be a "good mother."
Cultural Identity Anxiety
Anxiety connected to belonging, family expectations, bicultural identity, intergenerational trauma, shame, or feeling caught between worlds.
“We treat your nervous system, your story, and your culture, together.”
How Anxiety Therapy Works at Shakti
Our work is not about forcing you to “just calm down.” That does not work because anxiety is not just mental. Anxiety lives in the body, the nervous system, the stories you carry, the roles you play, and the meanings you have assigned to past experiences.
At Shakti Therapy, anxiety treatment is integrative and personalized. We look at the whole picture, not just the surface symptoms.
Evidence-Based
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT helps you identify anxious thought patterns, challenge distorted beliefs, and build healthier responses to fear. This can be especially helpful when anxiety shows up as catastrophic thinking, perfectionism, avoidance, reassurance-seeking, or self-doubt.
One of the most well-researched treatments for anxiety, with large effect sizes confirmed across multiple meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials.
Body-Based
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy helps you notice where anxiety lives in your body and teaches your nervous system how to return to safety. This may include grounding, breathwork, body awareness, movement, and nervous system regulation practices.
Anxiety is not just mental. The body holds it. The body has to be part of healing.
Parts-Based
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS helps you understand the parts of you that worry, protect, control, avoid, people-please, or panic. Instead of fighting these parts, we help you understand what they are trying to do for you and how to lead yourself with more compassion and clarity.
Rated effective for improving general functioning and well-being by SAMHSA’s National Registry for Evidence-based Programs.
Trauma Processing
Somatic Therapy
Brainspotting can help access and process unresolved emotional material that may be stored beneath conscious awareness. This can be helpful when anxiety feels connected to trauma, body memory, or emotional activation that talk therapy alone has not fully resolved.
An emerging modality with a growing evidence base. Studies show symptom reductions comparable to EMDR in published trauma research.
Regulation and Presence
Mindfulness and Breathwork
Mindfulness helps you observe anxious thoughts without becoming consumed by them. Breathwork helps regulate the body and signal safety to the nervous system. These are tools you carry everywhere, and they work at the physiological level where anxiety actually lives.
Culturally responsive mindfulness integrated with Eastern philosophical traditions when relevant to the client’s background.
Clinically Screened
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
For some clients, when clinically appropriate, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy may support anxiety connected to depression, trauma, PTSD, burnout, or stuck emotional patterns. Ketamine therapy is not the first step for everyone, and it requires proper screening.
Peer-reviewed research supports lasting reductions in anxiety and PTSD symptoms at 3 and 6 months post-treatment in eligible clients. PubMed, 2024.
How Effective Is Anxiety Therapy?
Anxiety therapy can be highly effective, especially when treatment is matched to the person’s symptoms, nervous system, history, and goals. At Shakti Therapy, we do not see anxiety as a personality flaw. We see it as information.
Your anxiety is showing us where your system learned fear, control, pressure, protection, or hypervigilance. Therapy helps you understand those patterns and build new ones so anxiety no longer runs your life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Large effect sizes across anxiety disorders, consistently outperforming waitlist and treatment-as-usual controls in multiple meta-analyses.
Individual CBT for generalized anxiety shown superior to waitlist (SMD 1.62) in a 2024 network meta-analysis of 52 randomized controlled trials. Source: Liu et al., Translational Psychiatry, 2024
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
In a 2021 clinical trial, 92% of participants with PTSD no longer met diagnostic criteria after 16 sessions of IFS therapy.
Source: SAMHSA National Registry for Evidence-based Programs; Hodgdon et al., Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 2021
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
Peer-reviewed research shows lasting and meaningful reductions in anxiety, depression, and PTSD at 3 and 6 months post-treatment in eligible clients.
Source: Psychedelic Medicine, 2024 (PubMed). Long-term durability remains an active area of research.
Treatment Effectiveness for Anxiety
Effect size comparison across evidence-based modalities (higher = stronger research support)
Effect sizes from published meta-analyses. g = Hedges’ g statistic. Source: Liu et al., 2024; Brainspotting Research Library. Outcomes vary by individual, symptom severity, and treatment consistency.
“The goal is not to never feel anxious again.”
The goal is to feel more steady, more connected to yourself, and more capable of moving through life without your nervous system constantly hijacking you.
Treatment outcomes vary by individual, symptom severity, and consistency of care. Research cited reflects published study findings, not guarantees of individual results. Your therapist will discuss realistic expectations with you directly.
Anxiety vs. Depression
Anxiety and depression often overlap, but they do not always feel the same. Understanding the difference helps you get the right support.
Anxiety often feels like
Fear, urgency, restlessness, overthinking, panic, or the sense that something bad might happen. Your nervous system is stuck in preparation mode, scanning for threats even when you are technically safe.
Heaviness, numbness, hopelessness, low motivation, disconnection, or the sense that nothing matters. You may feel like you are watching your life from behind glass rather than living it.
Some people experience both at the same time. You may feel wired and exhausted. Overwhelmed and numb. Restless but unable to act. Scared but shut down. That is why therapy needs to look at the full picture, not just one symptom.
When Should You Seek Therapy for Anxiety?
- You feel anxious most days
- You avoid things because of fear
- You have panic attacks
- You feel disconnected from your body
- You cannot relax without guilt
- You overthink everything
- You feel responsible for everyone else's emotions
- You are constantly exhausted from holding it together
- Your life looks fine, but you do not feel fine
- You have tried coping alone and it is not working
You do not have to wait until anxiety becomes unbearable.
Therapy can help when anxiety is affecting your sleep, relationships, work, body, self-worth, or ability to feel present in your life.
You do not need to prove that your pain is “bad enough.” If anxiety is taking up too much space in your life, that is enough reason to get support.
Therapy is most powerful when you arrive while you still have the bandwidth to do the work. You do not have to be in crisis to deserve care.
Why Choose Shakti Therapy for Anxiety?
Sessions start at $199. Superbills available for out-of-network reimbursement.
Culturally Responsive Care
We understand anxiety shaped by family expectations, immigration stories, intergenerational trauma, identity, shame, achievement pressure, and silence around mental health. You do not have to explain the cultural layers from scratch.
Mind-Body-Spirit Healing
We work with your thoughts, emotions, body, nervous system, and deeper sense of self. Healing is not just about symptom reduction. It is about coming back to yourself at the level where the anxiety actually lives.
Evidence-Based and Holistic
Our anxiety therapy may include CBT, somatic therapy, IFS, mindfulness, Brainspotting, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy when clinically appropriate. Modalities that serve the person, not a one-size-fits-all protocol.
Local and Accessible
In-person in Culver City and Redondo Beach, or virtual anywhere in California. Care that fits into a life that doesn't slow down for appointments.
Data-Driven Progress
We track what's actually shifting — not just how a session felt, but whether the nervous system patterns underneath are changing over time.
Trusted Team
Over 11,000 sessions delivered. 6,000 lives impacted. 7 languages spoken. 75 plus five-star reviews. A multilingual, multicultural team trained in the complexity of what it means to be human in this city.
A team that actually gets it.
Our therapists are multilingual, multicultural, and trained in the complexity of what it means to be human in Los Angeles. Navigating ambition, identity, family, and survival all at once.
You should not have to explain your background to your therapist. We specialize in South Asian, Asian American, Latinx, and First-Gen family dynamics so you can start where it matters most.
11K+
Sessions delivered
5.0★
Google rating
7
Languages spoken
6K+
Lives impacted
Start Anxiety Therapy in Culver City or Redondo Beach
You do not have to keep living in survival mode. Anxiety may be familiar, but it does not have to be the place you live from. At Shakti Therapy, we help you understand your anxiety, regulate your nervous system, reconnect with your body, and build a life that feels less driven by fear and more rooted in clarity, confidence, and self-trust.
South Bay Location
Redondo Beach, CA
4230 Overland Ave
Culver City, CA 90230
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions people bring when first exploring anxiety therapy at Shakti.