Anxiety therapists in Warren, Arkansas AR
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Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Stephanie Best LLC
Psychologist, PhD, HSP-P
When we are nurtured, we have the power to soar!
I'm a Licensed Clinical Psychologist on a mission to help high-achieving, anxious, whole-hearted women rediscover their brilliance, by teaching them how to liberate themselves from their fears and move toward what truly matters. At Dr. Stephanie Best LLC, I use a powerful mind-body approach to guide clients in un-hooking from difficult thoughts and feelings, clarifying how they yearn to show up in the world, and developing skills to nurture their wellness so they can thrive! Backed by exceptional training, personal experience, and 20+ years of clinical work, I partner with clients to empower them to create change that is both meaningful and long-lasting. Contact me today if you're ready to start living a courageously authentic life, prioritize your wellness, and reconnect with your purpose!
14 Years Experience
Online in Warren, Arkansas (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Steven J. Hanley
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Whether you occasionally worry yourself into a sleepless night or are homebound by debilitating panic, having a trusted professional to talk with about your anxieties can be a source of relief and comfort. Together we can work toward understanding the origins of your fear.
21 Years Experience
Online in Warren, Arkansas
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 Warren, Arkansas
Anxiety or Fears
Norma J. Perez
Psychologist, PhD
"What If" thoughts trigger anxiety and fears. Most "What If" thoughts never come true, yet you probably spend so much time ruminating on them. I teach you how to explore and challenge your "What If" thoughts by looking at the data or evidence to counter those negative stressful thoughts. I also teach you strategies to calm your body so that it can get out of the "fight or flight" state.
20 Years Experience
Online in Warren, Arkansas
Anxiety or Fears
Joe Groninga
Psychologist, PsyD, LP
I have been treating anxiety symptoms for many years. Therefore, it's an area in which I have particular experience. You and I will examine the component parts of your symptoms such as emotions, behaviors, and thoughts. We’ll then examine how these parts are connected and how they impact each other. I’ll help you create changes to one or more of these parts to achieve your desired symptom relief. Helping people break free from their anxiety is one of the primary reasons I became a psychologist.
19 Years Experience
Online in Warren, Arkansas