Areas of Clinical Focus

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.

Overview

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.

Focus areas
Generalized AnxietyHigh-Functioning AnxietyPerfectionismChronic WorryPanicSocial AnxietyCognitive Behavioral TherapyACT
Frequently Asked

Your questions, answered

Yes, it is a central focus of this practice. High-functioning anxiety describes people who appear successful and composed while privately managing relentless worry, over-control, and self-criticism. Treatment targets the perfectionism and chronic scanning underneath the visible competence, so relief reaches the part of you no one else sees.
Self-management often means white-knuckling through symptoms. Evidence-based anxiety therapy works upstream, identifying the thought patterns and avoidance behaviors that feed anxiety and systematically rewiring them, so the relief is structural and lasting rather than temporary.
Primarily CBT to restructure anxious thinking, ACT to build psychological flexibility and reduce the grip of perfectionism, and mindfulness and DBT-informed skills for in-the-moment regulation. The blend is tailored to you rather than applied from a template.
Many clients feel meaningful relief within the first few months of focused weekly work. Anxiety responds well to structured treatment, and because the work is skills-based, you start leaving sessions with tools you can use immediately.
Yes. Strong research shows video-based therapy produces outcomes equivalent to in-person care for anxiety. Sessions are available securely online across 40+ states.

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