Anxiety & Uncertainty Therapy · Online, in English

Your anxiety isn't random. It's aimed at something specific you don't know yet

Professional psychological support, in English — from someone who thinks the way you do. This isn't the general alarm, and it isn't the habit of bracing for bad news: it's the anxiety that shows up because you genuinely don't know what happens next — with your papers, with a contract that might or might not renew, with someone far away whose day-to-day you can't see. A space to name the specific unknown behind it, without translating yourself first.

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When you can't just wait and see

This anxiety isn't a mood. It's your body reacting to a question that doesn't have an answer yet.

Your chest tightens and you can't point to why — until you notice it happens right around the time you check your email for news on your papers, or the day before a contract renewal date, or after too many days without hearing from someone back home. That's not a coincidence, and it's not anxiety in the abstract: it's your body responding to a real gap in information, a specific question you can't answer yet about what happens next. For people living between two countries, those gaps stack up in ways a life lived in one place, one language, doesn't usually generate — a visa status that depends on someone else's timeline, a job contract that renews one year at a time, a parent or sibling far away whose day-to-day only reaches you in fragments.

In session, I work from a simple idea that holds up: anxiety equals uncertainty, and the bigger the uncertainty, the bigger the anxiety. So instead of teaching you a breathing technique and stopping there, we trace each wave of anxiety back to the specific question your body is actually asking. Once that question has a name and a real size — instead of existing as a shapeless cloud of worry — it stops being able to paralyze you the way it did before.

Ricardo De Castro King — Clinical Psychologist

Who's with you

I'm Ricardo, and you won't be alone in this

I'm a clinical psychologist with more than 15 years working with people carrying anxiety they can't fully explain, trained in systemic family therapy. I'm Colombian, based in Barranquilla, and I see clients online. But before any title, I'm someone who understands what it's like to hold two languages and two worlds at once. Many of the people I work with in English think in Spanish first — they're waiting on a visa decision, working under a contract that gets renewed one year at a time, or checking in on a parent's health from a distance they can't close. You don't have to explain that part to me first.

This kind of anxiety is easier to work through with someone next to you. If this feels like the moment, let's take the first step together — at your pace, no pressure.

Master's in Systemic Family Therapy

Universidad Simón Bolívar

Clinical Psychologist

15+ years of clinical experience

University Professor

16 years teaching psychology

Clinical Approach

Systemic-relational

Licensed Psychologist · Professional License 106127 (COLPSIC, Colombia)

Ricardo is licensed as a psychologist in Colombia (Professional License 106127) and works with international clients in private practice. He does not prescribe medication. Rules on cross-border online therapy vary by country and by state, so it's worth checking what applies where you live — and this never replaces local emergency care.

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Where this shows up

Three signs there's an unresolved question behind your anxiety

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Everything's fine... except it isn't

Objectively, things are going better than before. But something won't let you settle — a low hum underneath the good news.

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You wake up anxious at 3am

Heart racing, no clear reason you can point to. Your body already knows something your mind hasn't put into words yet.

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You live abroad, and this piece isn't yours to solve alone

A visa in process, papers waiting on someone else's desk, a status you can't hurry along no matter what you do. The heaviest uncertainty is the one you can't resolve by yourself.

My approach

This is how I work with uncertainty-driven anxiety in therapy

I work from a systemic-relational approach: I don't treat your anxiety as a switch to turn off, but as something shaped by your story, your relationships, and the real, unresolved questions you're carrying — so the change reaches the root instead of patching the surface.

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Naming the question, not just the feeling

We don't stop at calming your body down. We trace each spike of anxiety back to the specific unknown behind it — the paperwork, the contract, the phone call that hasn't come — so you know exactly what you're carrying, instead of a shapeless sense of dread.

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Your body speaks too

Uncertainty lives in the body: breathing, tension, sleep interrupted at 3am. We work with that too, so calm isn't only an idea in your head — it's something you actually feel, even while a question stays open.

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Learning to act without the answer yet

The goal isn't to have every uncertainty resolved before you can rest. It's for you to keep deciding, resting, and living your day even while a real question — the one only time or someone else's timeline can answer — stays open.

A distinction that matters

Not all anxiety runs on the same fuel

Anxiety can look almost identical from the outside — the tight chest, the racing thoughts — while running on very different fuel underneath. Telling them apart usually changes where the work in session actually starts.

Signal	General anxiety	Chronic worry	Anxiety about the unknown
What sets it off	No single clear trigger — the alarm fires broadly, even at rest.	Good news, oddly enough — followed by the reflex to ask what if it doesn't hold.	A real question with no answer yet: a pending status, a renewal date, a silence from someone far away.
What's actually happening	An alarm system that learned to trigger too easily.	An old pattern still replaying a threat that already passed.	Your body reacting to a genuine gap in information that hasn't closed yet.
What it's not	Not weakness.	Not pessimism.	Not irrational — it's about something real that just hasn't resolved.
What helps most	Retraining the alarm and calming the body.	Updating an outdated pattern with current, real information.	Naming the specific unknown and learning to hold it without needing it solved today.

Most people carrying two languages and two countries in their head live with more than one of these at once. This page is specifically for the third: the anxiety that has a real, nameable unknown behind it — one that hasn't closed and may not close for a while. If your anxiety feels more like a general alarm or a habit of bracing even after the news is good, those are their own conversations, and worth having too.

How we start

A clear first step, no pressure

You book your assessment session

Message me on WhatsApp or leave your details in the form. We'll set up a first 60-minute video-call session, at a reduced rate (50% off).

We get to know your situation

In that first session I listen to your story, what's still unresolved, and how it shows up in your body and your day to day. No rushed diagnoses, no jargon — just understanding, together, what you need.

We shape the process together

You decide with real information, not blindly. If it feels right for you, we agree on a process built around you. If not, I'll still point you toward what you need.

Common questions

Before you book, some things worth answering

How is this different from your general anxiety therapy?

General anxiety is the broader alarm response — one that can fire even when nothing specific is happening. This page is for a narrower, very common case: anxiety that has a real, nameable unknown behind it — pending papers, a contract that might not renew, a family member far away you can't check on directly. The work here starts by naming that specific question, not by treating the alarm as unexplained.

Is this the same as chronic worry?

They're related but not the same. Chronic worry is often an old pattern still bracing for a threat that already passed — it shows up even after good news. Anxiety about the unknown is a response to something genuinely still open right now. If your worry keeps running after there's nothing left to resolve, chronic worry may be the closer fit; if it's tied to a real question that hasn't been answered yet, this page is.

What if the uncertainty is real and won't be resolved for months — like my immigration status?

Then part of it is genuinely unresolved, and therapy won't pretend otherwise — I'm not going to tell you an open, real situation is "just in your head." What we can work on is how much room that uncertainty is allowed to take over the rest of your day while it stays open, and what's actually yours to do versus what only time, a government office, or someone else's decision can resolve.

Can naming the uncertainty actually make it feel less overwhelming?

Yes — that's usually the first shift people notice. An anxiety that feels like a shapeless cloud is exhausting because it seems to be about everything at once. Once it has a specific, real-sized question behind it, it becomes something you can actually think about, plan around, and set down when you're not actively dealing with it — instead of something that follows you all day.

Your first step

Start with an assessment session

A first session to meet each other and shape your process. Reduced rate, so you decide with real information, not out of obligation.

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