Anxiety & Trauma Therapy | Online in Minnesota
for Sensitive, Insightful, & Overwhelmed Adults
Heal old wounds and feel more connected, confident, and at ease.
Does this sound like you?
You are highly attuned to everyone and everything going on around you, at all times - and therefore feel chronically overwhelmed and anxious.
You feel stuck in patterns of conflict & dissatisfaction in your relationships - with your partner, your parents, your friends, your boss… and even with yourself. It feels like you exist just to meet other people’s expectations.
You carry a heavy burden that - no matter how much talk therapy or coping skills you’ve tried - you’re not able to put down.
You feel responsible for ensuring everyone’s comfort and happiness.
You find yourself either over-functioning and unable to be still, or shut down and paralyzed by overwhelm.
Your nervous system is often dysregulated and on the edge of burnout.
You cry easily and feel things deeply - and can't switch it off. Due to your deep care and empathy, you tend to experience others’ suffering as your own. People have called you everything from too sensitive to over-dramatic.
Your childhood was imperfect, and perhaps confusing and painful at times. You feel that these experiences are still impacting you today, but don’t know how to actually heal them.
You are ready to:
stop feeling so overwhelmed by your own emotions (or other people’s emotions) - and instead find a way to embrace and move through them
build a deeper connection with yourself, others, and the world
feel more at ease and regulated in your nervous system
Welcome. I’m Anna Borell, a Minnesota therapist specializing in anxiety & trauma.
I help sensitive, caring, and insightful people - like you - do deep, healing work that transforms your relationship with yourself and others.
As a trauma-focused, systems-oriented therapist, I can help you:
reframe your sensitivity as a superpower, rather than as a flaw - while working through the challenges that come with being a sensitive person in this world
connect the dots between past & present, exploring how earlier environments shaped your survival strategies & protective patterns
access more ease, confidence, and capacity to regulate your nervous system
understand the impact of the systems you reside within & interact with (i.e., capitalism) - since life doesn’t happen in a vacuum
If you’ve done the work of talking, coping, and analyzing your problems before, but it didn’t really cut it - I get it.
This is where we go deeper. We’ll pick up where your last therapy (or self-help book) left off, and tend to old wounds that need healing and integration.
If this resonates with you, I’d love to meet you and hear your story.
Virtual Therapy in Minnesota
To participate in virtual therapy, all you need is a private space & reliable Internet connection. Whether you’re located in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, Rochester, Bloomington, or anywhere else in Minnesota, we can work together. Here’s how I might support you in our sessions:
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If you’ve ever said something like, “Part of me feels this way, another part of me feels that way…” - you’re already familiar with the idea of Internal Family Systems, or parts work.
We’re made up of parts that try to help us survive and navigate the world - such as overfunctioning parts, anxious parts, depressed parts, or parts carrying burdens from the past. Sometimes, the way our parts think, feel, and act, can get in the way of how we want to show up today.
In our sessions, I’ll help you map out and understand your parts. This allows you to improve your relationship with self & tend to the deeper wounds that some parts may be protecting.
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) can help you excavate stuck traumas held in the body, and release negative beliefs about yourself. This trauma-focused modality is particularly helpful for cerebral & intellectual folks, as the structured nature of EMDR gets you out of your head, and lets your brain do the work of processing for you.
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Somatic Experiencing helps you build awareness of your body - in a gentle, non-intrusive way - and understand what your sensations & emotions are communicating to you. Using this somatic information, we can figure out what needs your attention and regulate the nervous system from there.
My clients are…
Highly sensitive people
Adults stuck in cycles of people-pleasing & over-functioning
Socially conscious humans
Ready to begin?
Contact me to schedule your free 15-min consultation. We’ll connect; I’ll answer any questions, and we’ll confirm if I’m the right therapist for you.
We’ll meet for sessions on a consistent basis, building depth in our therapeutic relationship & momentum toward your goals.
Across time, you’ll feel more connection to yourself, others, and the world - and more ease & regulation in your nervous system.