Anxiety therapists in Fairfield, Alabama AL
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Anxiety or Fears
Cindy Yu
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Anxiety or Fears (or sometimes also with panic) can be viewed as such a "scary monster" because we could not predict when it comes and when it goes, because we felt like it it uncontrollable or unknown. I have extensive experiences with helping my clients to manage and regain control, change it from unknown and known, so it is no longer the "scary monster" but an emotion that can be predictable and manageable.
3 Years Experience
Online in Fairfield, Alabama (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Alena Porter
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, NCC
Anxiety and specific fears or phobias are often learned behaviors from our family of origin. With the use of cognitive behavioral, emotion-focused, and EMDR therapy. We can work together to untangle those anxious or fearful thought patterns and retrain your brain to problem solve instead of becoming anxious.
6 Years Experience
Online in Fairfield, Alabama (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Rachael Keyser
Psychologist, PsyD
I offer a compassionate, nonjudgmental space where you can explore your fears and worries while learning effective strategies to regain control. Whether you're dealing with generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic attacks, or overwhelming stress, I can help you develop tools to manage symptoms and reduce their impact.
6 Years Experience
Online in Fairfield, Alabama
Anxiety or Fears
Jayson L. Mystkowski
Psychologist, Ph.D., ABPP
While Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT) is highly effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders (e.g., Panic Disorder, Social Phobia, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder), clinicians do see some “return of fear,” or partial relapse, in some patients due to a variety of factors. Over the past two decades, treatment researchers, with whom Dr. Jayson Mystkowski had the pleasure of working with at UCLA for over 10 years, have studied “return of fear” and discovered some key variables that may optimize the effects of learning during CBT for anxiety disorders (Craske et al., 2008).
First, evidence suggests that focusing on tolerating fear versus eliminating fear yields better clinical outcomes in the long term. Namely, teaching clients that fear and anxiety are normal feelings, rather than attempting to “down-regulate” such feelings all the time, is more realistic and seems to engender “hardier” clients. Second, helping clients to generate an expectancy that “scary things will not happen,” is very powerful. To do this, it is important for clinicians to create more complex exposure exercises (i.e., tasks in which a client confronts a stimulus of which they are afraid), using multiple feared stimuli instead of one at a time. Then, the lack of a feared outcome becomes particularly surprising and memorable for a client and fear reduction is more potent. Third, increasing the accessibility and retrievability of non-fear memories learned during treatment are powerful factors in mitigating against a return of fear. Craske and colleagues demonstrated that exposure to variations of a feared stimulus, using a random schedule across multiple contexts or situations, is more effective than exposure to the same stimulus, on a predictable schedule, in an unchanging environment. The former paradigm, it is argued, creates stronger non-fear memories that are easier for a client to access when subsequently confronting feared objects or situations outside of the therapy context, than the later scenario.
In sum, clinicians have long been aware that some fear or anxiety returns following very successful CBT treatment. As mentioned above, there are some clear, empirically supported ways to modify the therapy we provide to further help clients generalize the gains made in therapy sessions to the real world.
20 Years Experience
Online in Fairfield, Alabama
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Ruth Viehoff
Psychologist, PsyD, HSPP
I offer CBT-focused therapy to help you better cope with worry, anxiety, panic, and overwhelm. Often with anxiety, we start to avoid things that cause discomfort or unpleasant emotions. My goal is to help you re-engage with things you have stepped away from due to anxiety and panic. Through therapy, we'll work to understand how patterns of behavior can keep you stuck in anxiety spirals, and find a way forward where you can focus on the things that matter to you.
11 Years Experience
Online in Fairfield, Alabama