Anxiety therapists in Monroeville, Alabama AL
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Anxiety or Fears
Gabrielle Bowen
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LICSW, MSW
Evening and weekend appointments available! - Are you having a lot of worries throughout the day that feel uncontrollable? Are you staying up late at night thinking about things that stress you? Anxiety is one of the most common issues I help my clients to manage. Through learning more about how anxiety works and some skills to manage it, we can help you to start living your life again without anxiety getting in the way.
4 Years Experience
Online in Monroeville, Alabama (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
B Well Counseling Center
Psychologist, PhD, LPC, LMFT-A, LPC-A, LCSW-S
Our clinicians have vast experience working with anxiety symptoms in clients of all ages. Our clinicians use CBT and other evidence methodologies such as Exposure and Response Prevention to help clients decrease symptoms of anxiety.
28 Years Experience
Online in Monroeville, Alabama
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Lyndsay Elliott
Psychologist, PsyD.
Anxiety and managing emotions is a primary speciality. Treatment is tailored to your specific issue and needs.
19 Years Experience
Online in Monroeville, 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 Monroeville, Alabama (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Sari Fleischman
Psychologist, PsyD
We treat anxiety using a variety of approaches including CBT and psychodynamic therapy. We will explore how past experiences and relationships have impacted your experience to understand the root cause of anxiety and help to learn new coping strategies to manage symptoms in the present.
10 Years Experience
Online in Monroeville, Alabama (Online Only)