Specialized Anxiety Therapy
Evidence-based anxiety treatment, delivered with a whole-person perspective
Specialized Anxiety Therapy, Grounded in Evidence-Based Care
At Cedar Rose Counseling & Wellness, I provide specialized therapy for women experiencing anxiety, OCD, social anxiety, perfectionism, and overthinking.
My approach is grounded in evidence-based treatment while recognizing that anxiety doesn't exist in isolation. Your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, relationships, and physical experience can all influence how you experience anxiety. Therapy is an opportunity to understand these patterns and develop a different way of responding to them.
My goal isn't to teach you how to eliminate every uncomfortable thought or feeling. It's to help you develop the flexibility and confidence to experience difficult internal experiences without allowing them to dictate your choices.
I Don't Believe You Have to Solve Every Thought
Anxiety often tells us that if we could just think about something long enough, find the right answer, eliminate uncertainty, or understand ourselves perfectly, we would finally feel okay.
But trying harder to control our internal experience can sometimes keep us stuck.
Through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), I help clients develop a more flexible relationship with their thoughts and emotions. Rather than treating anxiety as something that must always be eliminated, we work toward responding to it differently while continuing to move toward the people, relationships, and experiences that matter most.
This doesn't mean ignoring anxiety or simply accepting that it will always control your life.
It means learning that you can experience difficult thoughts and emotions without automatically doing what anxiety asks of you.
What To Expect From Therapy
My clients often come to therapy feeling overwhelmed, exhausted from constantly managing their anxiety, and frustrated that nothing seems to create lasting change.
After working together, they often feel:
Calm and grounded in their bodies
Confident in understanding their triggers and responses
Connected to what truly matters to them
Equipped with tools that actually work long-term
Less controlled by anxious thoughts and more present in their lives
Throughout your time in therapy, we will:
Understand anxiety - Where is your anxiety actually coming from? What patterns in your nervous system, your thoughts, your body are keeping you stuck?
Connect the dots - How is anxiety impacting your body, your relationships, your work, your sleep, your sense of self? What's the connection between your physical health and mental health?
Build lasting skills - You'll learn evidence-based techniques rooted in ACT,CBT,ERP and mindfulness—but more importantly, you'll understand why they work so you can use them confidently throughout your life.
Honor your body's wisdom - You'll learn to interpret your body's stress response as information, not something to fight. Because it's only when we accept the presence of anxiety that we can find true freedom from it.
“I don't want therapy to be a mystery to you. I'll teach you the science behind what we're doing so you leave feeling empowered, not dependent on therapy” - Katie McLauglin, MA LPCC-S
Evidence-Based Treatment With a Whole-Person Perspective
My primary therapeutic framework is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). I also incorporate mindfulness-based strategies and other evidence-based interventions from Cognitive behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) based on your individual needs.
For clients experiencing OCD, I use Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the evidence-based treatment approach specifically designed for OCD. ERP is integrated within an ACT framework to help clients practice responding differently to intrusive thoughts, uncertainty, anxiety, and compulsive urges.
Throughout therapy, I want you to understand not only what we're doing, but why we're doing it.
You won't simply be given a list of coping skills to use when anxiety becomes overwhelming. We'll work together to understand the patterns maintaining your anxiety and practice new ways of responding to them.
Who I Work With
I primarily work with women experiencing:
Anxiety and chronic worry
Overthinking and rumination
OCD and intrusive thoughts
Social anxiety
Perfectionism
Stress and burnout
Anxiety related to relationships, performance, and everyday life
Many of my clients are thoughtful, verbal processors who have spent a great deal of time trying to understand themselves. They often know why they feel anxious but aren't sure how to stop getting caught in the same cycles.
Therapy can provide a place to slow those cycles down, understand what's happening, and begin practicing a different response.
I'm Katie McLaughlin, a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and the founder of Cedar Rose Counseling & Wellness.
I've been practicing clinically since 2018 and have owned my own specialty counseling practice since 2021. Over the years, I've become increasingly specialized in the treatment of anxiety disorders and the many ways anxiety can show up in everyday life.
I particularly enjoy working with thoughtful, driven women who are insightful about themselves but often find that insight alone hasn't stopped the overthinking, self-doubt, perfectionism, or anxiety.
Many of the women I work with are high-achieving and deeply invested in their relationships, education, careers, and personal growth. They may look like they're doing well from the outside while internally feeling exhausted by their own minds.
I created Cedar Rose to provide a thoughtful, specialized space for this kind of work.
Cedar Rose is intentionally small. I keep my caseload limited so that I can provide thoughtful, individualized care rather than building a large practice with a high volume of clients. I primarily offer virtual therapy throughout Ohio, with limited in-person appointments available in West Chester.
My hope is that Cedar Rose feels like a place where you don't have to perform, have everything figured out, or arrive with the perfect explanation for what's happening.
You can simply come as you are, and we'll begin from there.
Ready to Take the Next Step?
If you're looking for specialized anxiety or OCD therapy in Ohio, I invite you to learn more about my approach and explore whether Cedar Rose may be a good fit for you.