Anxiety therapists in Guadalupe, California CA
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Anxiety or Fears
Christopher Schamber
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
My approach in dealing with anxiety is simple. First, we will work together to develop coping skills to reduce the intensity of the anxiety you're experiencing. There is no single technique that will work with everybody, but I often find mindfulness is one of the quickest ways to turning down the volume on your anxiety. Once you get some relief, we will work together to really examine what's bothering you, where it came from, and how to move forward.
8 Years Experience
Online in Guadalupe, California (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Eric van der Voort
Psychologist, PsyD, CST, CSWT
Anxiety is a normal and adaptive emotion we all experience from time to time. However, persistent generalized worry should not be written off as part of a healthy human experience. Problematic anxiety can affect your work and school performance, prevent you from connecting with loved ones, have you imagining all the awful “what-if” scenarios, and leave you second-guessing yourself. Anxiety can also make you irritable, disrupt your sleep, and even take a physical toll on you over time. Physical symptoms, such as a racing heart, sweaty palms, or tightness in the chest are common. At its worst, some people experience debilitating panic attacks.
If you have been struggling with anxiety, the good news is that it can be treated with evidence-based therapies. Imagine going to that social event, your job, or school, and not being consumed with fear or apprehension. What if you could be comfortable in your own skin? I’d say that’s a “what if” scenario worth thinking about.
9 Years Experience
Online in Guadalupe, California (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Christine Jones
Psychologist, Psy.D.
There are effective treatments for many types of anxiety and phobias. In therapy, you will be working with Dr. Jones to identify and address specific fears as well as the first and worst past events linked to the fears, if present.
22 Years Experience
Online in Guadalupe, California
Anxiety or Fears
Hiroko Saeki, MA, LMFT, RDT
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Drama Therapist
Is your anxiety or fear getting in your way of living a fulfilling life? I would love to help you. Our mind might keep focusing on what causes us anxiety and fear at times, to the point we feel paralyzed in life. Together, let's find ways to reduce your anxiety or fear to a manageable level—so you can start engaging with others and the world around you more fully, in the present moment.
9 Years Experience
Online in Guadalupe, California
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 Guadalupe, California (Online Only)