Founded by Inna Khazan, Ph.D. A Harvard-trained Licensed Clinical Psychologist.
Leading Expert in Biofeedback.
84 State St, Suite 570
Boston, MA 02109
Anxiety Treatment in Boston and Online
Helping You Regain Calm, Clarity, and Control Using Proven Methods
Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or exhausted by anxiety? You're not alone—and you're not out of options. At Boston Center for Health Psychology and Biofeedback (BCHPB), we specialize in helping clients reduce anxiety and restore emotional balance using science-based, personalized therapy.
This page explains how we approach anxiety treatment and what you can expect from working with our team. You can also explore our our unique approach, conditions we treat, clinical team, and practice environment.
📞 Ready to take the next step? Contact us or call 617-231-0011 to schedule your free 15-minute consultation. As a boutique, private-pay practice, we offer the kind of personalized attention and flexibility that larger, insurance-driven clinics often can’t. Many of our clients tell us this model leads to greater clarity, deeper progress, and care that feels fully focused on them. (You may be eligible for partial reimbursement if you have out-of-network benefits.)
💭 When Anxiety Takes Over
Are you tired of trying to control your anxiety? Do you feel stuck, overwhelmed, and unable to achieve your goals in life? Are fear and self-doubt sabotaging your relationships or getting in the way of your career? Maybe you’ve been fighting to get control of your emotions, but the harder you try, the more hopeless and powerless you feel. As much as you want to reduce stress and anxiety, focusing on it only exacerbates your symptoms. You may ask yourself: What do I have to do to conquer my anxiety?
If you’re dealing with anxiety, you may find yourself getting stuck in endless worries, what-ifs, and questions that have no answers. Perhaps you struggle with shortness of breath, fast heart rate, lightheadedness, nausea, restlessness or agitation, and difficulty thinking straight. Every time you get stressed, it’s as if your mind and body are betraying you, making you panic in situations where it’s essential to stay balanced.
Additionally, you may find yourself avoiding activities that are important to you, like applying for a job, going out with friends, or taking a trip you’ve always dreamed of. If you’re overly concerned with failing or thinking people will judge you, you probably feel more comfortable avoiding your hopes and dreams altogether.
The paradox of anxiety is that the harder you try to control it, the more out of control it usually gets. That’s why it’s so important to seek help. Anxiety treatment with Boston Center for Health Psychology and Biofeedback is a chance to reduce stress by coming to terms with the present moment and responding to stressors in a healthy way.
🧠 Anxiety: Widespread, but Terribly Misunderstood
Struggling with anxiety does not mean you are broken or a failure. Everyone experiences anxiety and can benefit from learning how to manage it. After all, almost 20-percent of adults in the United States suffer from an anxiety disorder.
Knowing the different types of anxiety is essential. The most common forms include generalized anxiety (related to multiple areas of life), health anxiety (worrying specifically about your health), panic disorders (sudden and extreme sensations of fear), obsessive-compulsive disorder (repeated thoughts or images that create fear), and social and performance anxiety (fear of being or performing in front of others and public speaking in particular). Additionally, there are a wide range of specific phobias—such as fear of crowds, heights, air-travel, needles, and certain animals—that can cause you to panic and affect your ability to enjoy life.
Many people are afraid that they’ll be seen as weak for seeking help. They are often told to just be “strong” and “suck it up,” as if they should be able to control how they think and feel. As a result, anxiety is often seen as a personal failing rather than a result of genetics, brain chemistry, unresolved trauma, or a symptom of the human condition.
Believing that anxiety is a personal issue naturally leads to believing you can manage it alone. But since anxiety stems from issues outside your control, healing requires getting support.
🛠️ How We Help: Our Evidence-Based Approach to Anxiety
Anxiety treatment can help you regulate your stress and live a full, meaningful life. Our culture worships success and achievement. Therapy is a time to put aside these pressures and stop struggling with what you can’t control. It’s a time to disengage from unproductive efforts to combat anxiety and embrace what is important in life.
At the Boston Center for Health Psychology and Biofeedback, our goal is to give you skills for responding to anxiety in a healthy way, allowing you to seize on opportunities for growth and overcoming fear.
The first session is devoted to getting to know you and your unique situation and making sure you are comfortable with your therapist. Together, we will look at how anxiety affects your ability to live the kind of life you want. More importantly, we will explore what hidden purpose anxiety serves in your life—after all, anxiety usually stems from a need for protection and safety. Understanding this protective function will help you learn to regulate your emotions so that they don’t overwhelm you.
One of the first things we want you to understand is that whatever you are experiencing is not your fault or a personal failing. On its own, your body is unable to shut down anxiety because the part of the nervous system that drives stress-activation does not have a way to turn itself off. And although the part of the nervous system that drives relaxation is designed to hold stress-activation in check, this mechanism often becomes dysregulated. As a result, stress activation goes unchecked and the relaxation part of the nervous system is not strong enough to optimize it.
That’s why we draw from an approach called Biofeedback, which aims to help you strengthen your ability to regulate stress levels. The goal of Biofeedback is to create a healthier balance between the relaxation and stress-activation parts of your nervous system. This way, you will be able to meet the challenges at hand through helpful physiological activation rather than reacting to them with anxiety.
Additionally, we may utilize mindfulness-based skills like meditation and breathing strategies to help you psychologically respond to your stressors in a healthy way. The basic goal of mindfulness is to help you become aware of the present moment and allow it to be as it is without getting stuck in unproductive efforts to change what’s not changeable. This pause will allow you to choose how to respond to difficult moments rather than react automatically in unhelpful ways. Instead of trying to change the present itself, you will learn skills for changing the things that are in your control.
These science-backed methods teach you how to work with your thoughts, body, and behavior in ways that reduce symptoms and help you reconnect with what matters most. With our support, you can learn to regulate your emotions and your nervous system more effectively and live a full, meaningful life in spite of anxiety. All of our counselors are personally trained and supervised by Dr. Inna Khazan and have had years of experience helping clients find relief from their anxiety.
🗂️ What to Expect in Therapy
Anxiety treatment at Boston Center for Health Psychology and Biofeedback helps you become more aware of what you’re experiencing and make space for those experiences—rather than avoid or suppress them.
With your therapist, you'll identify unhelpful patterns and learn more effective ways to respond to difficult thoughts and emotions. This work is grounded in your values—your goals, your identity, and the kind of life you want to live.
You’ll build skills to regulate both your emotions and physiology, supported by a trusted therapist every step of the way.
❓ You may have some concerns about anxiety treatment…
I’ve done therapy in the past and it didn’t help.
We do things differently. Instead of merely talking through anxiety, we give you concrete skills that you can use anywhere. We also train your mind and body to function differently, so that when you find yourself in a difficult situation, the mind and body will work with you rather than against you. This approach sets us apart from many practices that tend to focus more exclusively on thoughts and feelings or on simply solving each problem as it comes along without giving you long term skills you can use on your own. The skills we teach will last you a lifetime.
Therapy is for people with serious problems. I should be able to get over anxiety myself.
Just because someone appears to have bigger problems than you, does not mean that you shouldn’t get help for the challenges you’re facing. Anxiety therapy is for anyone who wants to lower their stress levels and achieve their goals. You don’t need to wait until your anxiety is “serious” to seek help.
I’m worried that anxiety treatment will be too expensive.
Yes, therapy is an investment, but it’s a temporary expense that can equip you with skills that last a lifetime. You will not need to work with your therapist forever. Once you have the coping skills to regulate your stress effectively in day-to-day life, you can apply them consistently until they become like second nature for you. In the end, the payoff of bettering your mental health for years to come outweighs the monetary cost of going to counseling.
At BCHPB, clients receive personalized, science-based care delivered by clinicians trained and supervised by Dr. Inna Khazan. Our approach is focused, effective, and built to help you make meaningful progress — in a calm, private setting or from the comfort of your home.
👉 Ready to take the next step? 📞 Call 617-231-0011 or fill out our contact form below to schedule a free 15-minute consultation. Limited openings available — secure your spot today.
