Quieting the Loop
Therapy for Overthinking and Rumination
Overthinking feels productive right up until you notice you have been on the same thought for forty minutes and are no closer to anything.
Signs You Are Stuck in the Loop
If several of these sound familiar, you are in exactly the right place. None of them need to be severe to be worth bringing to a session.
- Rehearsing conversations that already happened
- Researching a decision long past the point of usefulness
- Waking at night with your mind already mid-sentence
- Needing certainty before you can move
- Mistaking worry for preparation
How We Work on This Together
01
Noticing the Loop Early
The skill is catching rumination in its first minute rather than its fortieth. We practice recognizing your specific tells.
02
Changing Your Relationship to Thoughts
Not every thought needs answering. We work on letting thoughts be present without being obeyed.
03
Deciding and Moving
We build a workable process for decisions so you can act without waiting for a certainty that never comes.
Approaches I Draw From
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Sessions are held online over a confidential, HIPAA-compliant platform and are available to residents anywhere in North Carolina.
Questions People Ask
- Is overthinking the same as anxiety?
- It is often part of anxiety, though plenty of people ruminate without meeting criteria for an anxiety disorder.
- Will I stop being thoughtful?
- No. The aim is thinking that ends in a decision instead of a loop.
- How do sessions work?
- All sessions are held online, over a confidential, HIPAA-compliant platform, and are available to residents anywhere in North Carolina.