Online Anxiety & Perfectionism Therapy
Evidence-Based Care for High-Functioning Anxiety and Chronic Overthinking
Anxiety and perfectionism so often travel together, and both respond to focused, evidence-based treatment. Dr. Jennifer Im, PhD offers structured therapy that targets the cognitive and behavioral cycles keeping anxiety alive.
If you are reading this, you likely already know the feeling: a mind that will not stop scanning. Anxiety and perfectionism keep you running a constant background check on yourself, what you might have said, what could go wrong, whether you are doing enough, while everyone around you assumes you have it together. For high-functioning, accomplished people, this is often invisible to the outside world and exhausting on the inside.
Anxiety operates independently of the evidence. No track record of competence ever quiets it for long, because perfectionism keeps moving the standard just out of reach: if I do it perfectly, nothing bad will happen. The relief never quite arrives, and the cost is chronic tension, difficulty resting, and a sense that you can never fully exhale.
This is not a character flaw, and it is not who you are. It is a learned pattern, and learned patterns can be changed. As a Columbia-trained psychologist, I use evidence-based anxiety therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and DBT-informed skills, to identify the specific cognitive and behavioral cycles sustaining your anxiety and give you concrete tools to interrupt them.
Treatment is goal-oriented and measurable. Each session has a clear focus, the skills you learn translate into daily life, and we track progress so you always know the work is moving. The goal is not to eliminate every worry, but to build a life where genuine ease and high standards can finally coexist. Available through secure online sessions across 40+ states.
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