J.T. Brown

I have been practicing social work for 17 years. I predominately use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy but also integrate some dimensions of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. My specialties include anxiety/panic, insomnia, relationships and depression. If you have anxiety, I suspect you have found arguing with yourself, telling yourself not to be anxious, and trying to force yourself not to think about it have all been ineffective strategies. What makes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy different is its goals: instead of trying to change the content of your thoughts and feelings, it seeks to change your relationship to your thoughts and feelings. Only by responding differently to anxiety can we begin to take off the emotional tags that keep the anxiety-producing narrative stuck in the hippocampus. Our journey together will be learning to open up to discomfort and send our brain a different message that allows for less emotional reactivity to our experiences.