Tracy Foose

Dr. Tracy Foose is reframing how we understand anxiety—not as a frailty, but as the biological scaffolding of empathy, humility, and restraint. While the world worries that anxiety is destroying us, she argues it’s the only thing still holding us together.

Before founding her anxiety-focused psychiatry practice, Dr. Foose served for nine years as Director of the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Program at UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. She continues to teach at the UCSF School of Medicine and is a recipient of both the Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award and Residents’ Association Excellence in Teaching Award.

With multiple guest appearances on NPR and talks at schools, universities, professional and medical organizations, Dr. Foose brings diverse audiences an evidence-based, compassionate reframe of anxiety as an adaptive strength—introducing the highly anxious as the moral sentinels of our time. She earned her M.D. from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed her residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.