Hi, I'm Robert!

You’ve probably done what you were told. You’ve breathed through attacks, reminded yourself it isn’t dangerous, maybe read everything you could find about panic. And the attacks kept coming. I saw the same thing over and over in the people I worked with.

Honestly, I think “just breathe” is one of the most overused pieces of advice for panic. It works in the moment, but your body learns that the feeling was something to escape from, so the next attack comes just as hard.

What frustrated me most was how rarely anyone had been told that the checking and avoiding is what keeps the panic coming back.

What I do instead comes from two places: a large body of peer-reviewed research on panic, and what I saw actually change things for hundreds of patients.

First I go through what’s actually happening in your body, down to your breathing and your blood, and why the symptoms show up on a calm evening, at 3am, or in situations that make no sense. Once you see how it works, a racing heart stops feeling like proof that something is wrong with you.

Then you work on the pattern itself. Step by step, you go back to the sensations and situations you’ve been avoiding, so your body gets the chance to learn they’re safe. The breathing work comes last, as a long-term change, and not as something you lean on in the middle of an attack.