Mr Jack Szary

Anxiety and stress. Constant scanning for what might go wrong, a mind that won't shut off, difficulty relaxing even when nothing is wrong. We look at what keeps the alarm running, then build skills that lower it rather than talk you out of it. OCD. Intrusive thoughts, compulsions, reassurance-seeking, and the doubt loop that eats hours. I use evidence-based methods to help you respond differently to intrusive thoughts instead of arguing with them or obeying them. Burnout and work stress. Time off rarely resolves burnout, because burnout isn't ordinary tiredness. It builds when survival-mode habits keep running long after the emergency that required them. We work on what drives the depletion: overfunctioning, difficulty declining requests, and rest that never feels permitted. Men's mental health. If therapy has never seemed built for you, that's a fair conclusion to have drawn from most of it. I work with men who learned to solve rather than feel and are finding that solving has stopped covering it. The work is direct and practical. Depression in high performers. Often this doesn't look like depression. It looks like meeting every obligation while feeling flat about things that used to matter, and finding that accomplishment doesn't register the way it used to. Perfectionism and self-esteem. Standards you'd never apply to anyone else, criticism that runs on a loop, and achievement that doesn't change how you see yourself. Life transitions. Career changes, relationship shifts, relocations, new roles. Change you chose can be as disorienting as change you didn't. Interpersonal patterns. Conflict that repeats across different relationships, boundaries that hold until they're tested, and dynamics you can name but not interrupt.