Overthinking Therapy · Online, in English

You keep replaying the same scene, and it never gets you anywhere new

Professional psychological support for overthinking, in English — from someone who thinks the way you do. For the 2am replay of a conversation you had in your second language, wondering if you sounded off. A space to find the question underneath the loop, without translating yourself first.

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When the detail won't let go

Overthinking isn't caring too much. It's your mind choosing a detail it can control over a question it can't yet face.

You reread the message. You reconstruct the conversation word by word. You notice who read it, who didn't respond, who was online and said nothing. The detail is concrete and manageable, so your mind grabs onto it — and stays there, for days, without arriving anywhere new. For a lot of people living in a second language and a second country, that loop gets sharper: replaying a conversation you had in English, translating your own words back to yourself afterward, wondering if something got lost in the version that came out of your mouth that a native speaker would never have to double-check.

Therapy doesn't tell you to "just stop thinking about it." That doesn't work, because your mind picked the detail on purpose — as a stand-in for a bigger question that feels too exposed to look at directly. The work is finding that question, and finding it is what actually closes the loop.

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 who get stuck replaying the same scene, 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 migrated, or grew up shuttling between countries, or spend real energy each day checking whether their second language said what they meant it to say. You don't have to explain that part to me first.

A loop is easier to interrupt 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 and researching psychology

Systemic-Relational Approach

Evidence-based

Licensed Psychologist · Professional License 106127 (COLPSIC, Colombia)

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Where this shows up

Not a mood. A pattern, with its own triggers

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The conversation you keep re-reading

You go back to the chat, replay the tone of a specific sentence, wonder if a phrase in your second language landed the way you meant it. Days pass and nothing new gets added.

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Small signals under a microscope

Who was online, who read it and didn't reply, who liked someone else's post. The signal is tiny and specific — which is exactly why it's easier to stare at than the bigger question waiting behind it.

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Living far from home turns up the volume

When the people who matter most are a flight away, one chat can end up carrying the weight of an entire relationship — and every word in it gets re-examined accordingly.

My approach

This is how I work with overthinking in therapy

I work from a systemic-relational approach: I don't treat the loop as a bad habit to break through willpower. I treat it as a mind protecting itself from a question it isn't ready to face directly — and I help you get there on purpose, instead of by accident at 2am.

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The detail isn't ignored — it's heard first

I let you tell the whole story, in full, because the account carries real information the loop is trying to protect. We don't skip past the detail to get to "the point" faster than you're ready for.

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Where I interrupt, and why

When the story starts circling — repeating with small variations instead of adding anything new — I name it out loud and stop it there. Not out of impatience. Because staying in the loop is its own kind of harm, and the cut is what makes room for the real question.

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Getting to the question underneath

The goal isn't a quieter version of the same worry about the same detail. It's naming what the detail has been standing in for — usually something closer to fear, need, or grief than to "who read what."

A method, not a mood

The Redirect: how a session actually interrupts the loop

This is the move I use most often with overthinking, and it has three named parts. I'm describing what happens in the room — not a promise of an outcome, a description of the process.

The Full Account

You tell it start to finish — no rushing, no summarizing for you. The story carries real information, and the loop needs to be heard once before it can be understood.

The Loop Point

I mark out loud, specifically, where the story stops adding anything new and starts repeating itself with small variations — the exact sentence or detail it keeps circling back to.

The Question Underneath

We name what that detail has been standing in for — not "who read what," but the fear or need underneath it: am I still wanted, did I say too much, does this still hold the way it used to.

For people carrying two languages, step three often lands on a very specific worry: not just "did they understand me," but "did the version of me that speaks English come across as clearly as the one who thinks in Spanish." Naming that directly usually does more than another hour of re-reading the same chat.

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 you've been replaying, and how the loop shows up in 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

Is overthinking the same thing as rumination?

In practice, they describe the same pattern from two angles. "Overthinking" is usually how people name it themselves — replaying, analyzing, checking. "Rumination" is closer to the clinical word for the same loop. I use whichever term matches how it actually shows up for you, because the label matters less than what the loop is protecting you from.

Why can't I just decide to stop thinking about it?

Because "stop thinking about it" asks you to fight a thought your mind picked on purpose, as a safer place to stand than the question underneath. Telling yourself to stop usually just adds a second loop — now you're also monitoring the first loop. The Redirect works differently: it goes looking for the question the detail was protecting, instead of arguing with the detail itself.

Does this happen more because I think in two languages?

For a lot of the people I work with, yes — there's an extra layer running underneath. Beyond replaying what someone said, you're also checking your own English: did that sentence come out the way you meant it, did a word choice sound off, would someone who grew up with the language have said it differently. That's one more detail available to get stuck on, and one more reason the loop can run longer before it reaches the real question.

How many sessions before the loop actually stops?

There's no fixed number — it depends on how many real questions the loop has been standing in for. What usually changes first isn't how often the thought shows up, but how much power it has over your day, and how quickly you can name the question underneath it yourself, without needing the session to get there. That shift is what we're working toward from the first conversation.

Your first step

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