Anxiety Therapy · Cary, NC
It doesn’t feel like anxiety. It feels like resentment.
You watch everyone around you enjoying the moments you worked so hard to create — and wonder why you can't.
You're not falling apart. You're holding everything together so carefully that your body has started to protest. The frustration, the irritability, the resentment toward people you genuinely love — that's anxiety. It just doesn't look the way you expected it to.
You find yourself irritated at your partner for things that shouldn't be a big deal, and you're not sure why it bothers you so much.
WHAT’S ACTUALLY HAPPENING
Anxiety lives in the gap between what you're trying to control and what you actually can.
When we feel responsible for how others behave, whether a partner comes through, whether our kids cooperate, whether things go smoothly, we pour enormous energy into trying to manage outcomes that were never ours to manage. That gap, between what we're trying to hold and what we actually can, is where anxiety lives.
The work isn't about trying harder to manage everything. It's about learning to come back to your own experience and releasing the energy you've been spending everywhere else.
The link between anxiety and control in high-achieving women
You used to love your work. Now you're going through the motions and wondering if something is wrong with you.
You have time to rest but your mind won't slow down. You can't relax even when nothing is actively wrong.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
You're not an anxious person. You're just responsible for everything.
Most of the women I work with don't come in saying they have anxiety. They come in saying they're exhausted, irritable, or quietly resentful of people they genuinely love. They've worked hard to build a good life and can't figure out why they're not enjoying it.
Your body is sending signals — tight chest, stomach knots, headaches — that don't have a medical explanation.
WHAT CHANGES
What women notice first when this work starts to land.
Words for patterns
You start to see what's happening instead of just feeling buried by it. That recognition changes things faster than any coping strategy.
Words for the pattern
You start to see what's happening instead of just feeling buried by it. That recognition changes things faster than any coping strategy.
WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE
This isn't about managing anxiety better. It's about understanding what's driving it.
We meet weekly, in person in Cary, NC. Consistent, contained, built around what's actually happening in your life right now.
Sessions focus on small, specific shifts, not sweeping changes that feel impossible before you've even started.
You'll develop your own language for what's happening so you can see the pattern instead of feeling run by it.
A sense of options
Instead of pushing through, you start to notice you have a say in how things go. That's where the hope comes from.
This isn't a space where I tell you what to do. It's a space where you figure out what you actually want.
Most clients notice a shift within the first few months, not because the hard things disappear, but because they stop feeling responsible for all of them.
I work with professional women in Cary and the greater Raleigh area, Monday through Thursday.
Less reactivity
A pause appears where there didn't used to be one. You stop feeling like everything requires an immediate response.
MEET MEGAN
Megan Giroux, LCSW
I've spent 14 years in private practice helping driven, capable women who've already tried everything they know how to try. I won't hand you another strategy to push harder with. I'll help you find your way back to the answers that are already inside you.
READY TO START?
You've been figuring things out for everyone else for a long time. This is the work you do for yourself.
The first step is a free 15-minute consultation. No pressure, no commitment, just a conversation to see if this is the right fit.
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Schedule
Free 15-min consultation
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Connect
Learn about each other to see if we are a good fit.
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Begin
Weekly in-person sessions
Therapy for Women in Cary, NC
In-person appointments available
140 Preston Executive Drive, Suite 100B, Cary, NC 27513
Hours
Monday- Thursdays
9:00 am-3:30 pm
Phone
616-209-8060