Anxiety therapists in Imperial, California CA
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Anxiety or Fears
Janee Young
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I focus on mindfulness and coping skills to foster relaxation. I integrate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to address unhealthy thinking patterns. Together, we'll navigate your anxiety, cultivating resilience and confidence for a more balanced and fulfilling life.
8 Years Experience
Online in Imperial, California (Online Only)
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 Imperial, California
Anxiety or Fears
Dana Fogel-Stark
Therapist, M.S., LMFT
My primary specialty has been working with Anxiety Disorders. I use Evidence-Based Therapy to treat obsessive worries and ruminations, physical manifestations of anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, social anxiety, and struggles with perfectionism/performance anxiety. CBT and DBT appear to be highly effective in treating anxiety disorders.
28 Years Experience
Online in Imperial, California
Anxiety or Fears
KIM RICHARDSON LINDLEY
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, LPCC, I CADC II
Navigating the spectrum of anxiety and fear from a perspective of which kinds of anxiety and fear are helpful and keep us safe, and which kinds can feel unmanageable and need more support is truly worthwhile and meaningful work.
15 Years Experience
Online in Imperial, California
Anxiety or Fears
Andrea Guttman
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I specialize in supporting women manage and overcome anxiety and/or fears, whether they manifest as general worry, panic attacks, or specific phobias. My approach is compassionate and practical, focusing on understanding the root of the anxiety and providing effective strategies to help you regain control. Together, we’ll explore techniques for reducing anxiety, building resilience, and developing a greater sense of calm. My goal is to support you in navigating your fears, enhancing your well-being, and living a more balanced and fulfilling life.
6 Years Experience
Online in Imperial, California (Online Only)