Does this sound familiar?
✔ You're insightful. Self-aware. Emotionally intelligent.
✔ You've read the books. Listened to the podcasts. Done the self-work.
✔ And yet your mind still won't shut off.
✔ You are the one who keeps things running and takes care of everyone else.
✔ Your brain is constantly managing to-do lists, responsibilities, and the needs of everyone around you.
✔ You find yourself feeling anxious, even when everything around you seems okay.
✔ Making space for your own needs often feels uncomfortable, guilt-inducing, or even selfish.
✔ You worry about disappointing others, making mistakes and sometimes wonder if you’re secretly falling short.
✔ Even when life looks successful on the outside, it rarely feels calm or peaceful on the inside.
✔ You want to slow down, be more present, and enjoy your life—but you don't know how to turn off the pressure.
The Hidden Cost of Over-Functioning
You may have spent years believing your worth was tied to achievement, productivity, taking care of others, or getting everything right.
Whether shaped by childhood trauma, emotional neglect, family expectations, or a culture that glorifies hustle and self-sacrifice, these patterns often begin as ways to feel safe, valued, or accepted.
While they may have helped you succeed, they often come at a cost.
A cost that can show up as:
Anxiety and overthinking
Burnout and exhaustion
Chronic stress
Difficulty relaxing or slowing down
Guilt when resting
People-pleasing and poor boundaries
Difficulty asking for help or prioritizing your own needs
Feeling disconnected from yourself
Tension in your jaw, neck, and shoulders
Stress headaches, digestive issues, or fatigue
Chronic pain and other mind-body symptoms
For many people, slowing down doesn't feel relaxing—it feels risky.
You may know you need rest, balance, and boundaries, yet part of you believes something bad will happen if you let go, ask for help, disappoint someone, or make space for yourself.
The strategies that once helped you survive may now be keeping you stuck.
And now your mind and body are asking for something different—something more sustainable.
You Don't Have to Live
in Survival Mode
Together, we'll work toward helping you:
✔ Feel less anxious and more at ease
✔ Feel safer and calmer in your body
✔ Stop feeling responsible for everyone and everything
✔ Learn to set boundaries without guilt
✔ Stop measuring your worth by productivity, achievement, or how much you do for others
✔ Heal the effects of trauma, chronic stress, and burnout
✔ Reduce tension, overwhelm, and nervous system overload
✔ Learn to trust yourself and your own needs
✔ Create a life that feels balanced, meaningful, and sustainable
Why Insight Alone
Isn't Always Enough
If you've ever thought:
"I know exactly why I do this... so why can't I stop?"
You're not alone.
Many of the clients I work with are incredibly insightful. They understand where their anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or over-functioning comes from.
Yet they still find themselves stuck in the same patterns.
That's because survival mode isn't just a mindset—it's a nervous system state.
Years of chronic stress, trauma, family pressure, or constantly having to perform can teach the brain and body to stay on high alert.
Real change happens when we move beyond simply understanding the pattern and begin helping the mind and body experience something different.
Therapy for What You're Going Through
Therapy for
Anxiety, Burnout &
Perfectionism
For anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism, burnout, and chronic stress. Together, we'll help you quiet the
constant pressure and
feel more at ease
Therapy for
Trauma &
Childhood Wounds
For childhood trauma emotional neglect, attachment wounds, family expectations, and patterns that continue to shape your life today.
Therapy for
Chronic Pain &
Mind-Body Symptoms
Using Pain Reprocessing
Therapy, somatic approaches, and neuroscience-informed techniques to calm the nervous system and reduce fear around symptoms
A Space Where You
Can Show Up Fully
As Yourself
I PROUDLY PROVIDE LGBTQIA+ AFFIRMING,
SEX POSITIVE, AND BODY POSITIVE THERAPY
Whether you're exploring identity, navigating relationships, healing from trauma, managing anxiety, or simply looking for a space where you don't have to explain or defend who you are, you are welcome here.
My practice is grounded in respect, authenticity, and the belief that healing happens when people feel safe enough to show up as their whole selves.
Meet Your Anxiety & Burnout Therapist
Serving Anxious and Burned Out Adults Throughout Los Angeles & California
Hi I'm Emily!
I'm Emily Dillon, Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I'm an expert in anxiety and trauma treatment, and fellow recovering perfectionist and over-functioner!
For most of my life, I believed achievement, productivity, and having it all together were the path to happiness and fulfillment. On paper, I was doing well. Underneath, I was anxious, exhausted, overworked, in constant pain, and operating in survival mode.
As a therapist, business owner, and mom of three, I understand how easy it is to lose yourself while carrying so much responsibility.
Like many of my clients, I learned how to function at a very high level while ignoring what my mind and body were trying to tell me. My own healing journey taught me that insight alone isn't enough.
Understanding the brain, nervous system, and mind-body connection changed everything for me.
I learned that healing wasn’t about becoming more productive or getting everything right—it was about creating safety, balance, and a different relationship with myself.
Now I am helping others do the same.
Kind Words From Clients
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"Has always been an amazing therapist for me to work with. Understanding, kind, reaffirming, reassuring. Offers a clear, straightforward, embracing perspective to processing what comes up. Laid back and conversational in our sessions. Engaging. Works within my needs and the flow of whatever comes up for that session."
"Emily was easy to jive with. She is relaxed and very caring, a good listener, and has opened my mind to new perspectives."
"The intuitive way they follow the course of information shared and respond accordingly is helpful in promoting progress. I feel engaged with, listened to, and validated. In fact, Emily makes a point of validating and affirming decisions, feelings, and behaviors. I feel like I'm having a friendly safe discussion with a person who listens carefully."
"Even though our age gap maybe as much as 30 years i feel she really understands me and my life experiences. She’s casual and friendly and puts you at ease"
7 Verified 5-Star Reviews on Zocdoc
Ready to Create a More Sustainable Life?
You may have spent years taking care of everyone else, pushing through stress, or trying to hold it all together.
Therapy offers an opportunity to reconnect with yourself, create lasting change, and build a life that feels more balanced, meaningful, and sustainable.
