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Individual psychotherapy for adults

Therapy for perfectionism and overcontrol.

When getting it right has stopped feeling good.

You may not think of yourself as a perfectionist. You may think of yourself as the one who remembers, prepares, notices, follows through, catches mistakes, and prevents everyone from having a terrible afternoon.

From the outside, that can look like competence. Inside, it can feel like an exhausting private bureaucracy.

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The rules can be useful, and still take too much.

  • Overpreparing for ordinary tasks or delaying them until you can do them perfectly.
  • Rechecking work that was already complete.
  • Treating preferences as arguments that need a full defense.
  • Feeling disproportionately distressed by mistakes, criticism, or other people’s disappointment.
  • Becoming indispensable and privately furious about it.
  • Knowing exactly why a pattern exists and still being unable to stop doing it.

I am interested in what the rule is trying to prevent.

We look at the stakes your mind assigns to mistakes, what happened when you needed help, and how family, work, religion, neurotype, culture, or earlier chaos shaped the pattern.

The point is not less discernment or lower standards. It is having more than one available response when fear starts presenting itself as responsibility.

What may become more possible.

  • Making decisions without exhausting every hypothetical.
  • Recovering from mistakes without turning them into a character assessment.
  • Letting another person do something differently without taking over.
  • Resting before your body makes the decision for you.
  • Keeping the standards you value and loosening the rules you never consciously chose.

The practical details.

Private-pay individual therapy with one therapist from the first conversation onward. The standard fee is $200 per psychotherapy session, typically 50–55 minutes; reduced-fee spots are limited and availability varies. In person in Downtown Round Rock, Texas, with telehealth across Texas.

Who you will work with.

Leila Anderson, LMFT-S, is a Texas Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor with an MMFT from Abilene Christian University. Her background includes residential treatment, crisis care, executive clinical leadership, program design, and treatment planning.

Questions.

What if perfectionism is one reason I am successful?

Then we take that seriously. Therapy can examine whether success currently requires more punishment, rigidity, or exhaustion than you want to keep paying.

Does this include people-pleasing and chronic over-responsibility?

Often. Perfectionism and overcontrol can involve managing other people’s reactions, becoming indispensable, or preventing conflict by needing less and doing more.

Can perfectionism connect to trauma, religion, or neurodivergence?

Yes. The connections differ from person to person; we look at the actual function and history of the pattern rather than applying one explanation to everyone.