Anxiety therapists in East Grand Forks, Minnesota MN
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Anxiety or Fears
New Leaf Counseling and Wellness
Psychologist
With a specialized focus on anxiety, my expertise lies in offering therapeutic interventions that address the multifaceted aspects of anxiety disorders. I guide individuals toward managing symptoms, cultivating resilience, and reclaiming control over their lives. My approach fosters a collaborative and supportive therapeutic relationship, empowering clients to navigate their anxiety with clarity, confidence, and lasting resilience.
23 Years Experience
Online in East Grand Forks, Minnesota
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 East Grand Forks, Minnesota (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Safer Spaces Therapy Services, LLC
Psychologist, Psy.D.
I specialize in treating anxiety and fears using a combination of psychodynamic, interpersonal, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and EMDR approaches. Anxiety can manifest as excessive worry, restlessness, racing thoughts, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, and physical symptoms like a racing heart or shortness of breath. These methods help clients understand the underlying issues contributing to their anxiety, improve their relationships, and develop effective coping strategies to reduce symptoms and enhance overall well-being.
4 Years Experience
Online in East Grand Forks, Minnesota (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Chuck Gray, Ph.D.
Psychologist
Rather than limit counseling to only one approach, I offer my clients what I think is best specifically for them from a wide array of expert approaches in my marriage and other counseling. In addition to leading seminars to train other professionals in marriage counseling, I have benefited by receiving extensive professional training from most of the leading marriage counseling experts in the country, including but not limited to John Gottman, Susan Johnson, John Gray, Harville Hendrix, Virginia Satyr, Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson, Gary Brainard, Frank Pittman, Shirley Glass, Janice Abrahms Spring, and Neil Jacobson. In conducting counseling, I am fortunate to be able to choose from numerous resources including principles from Gottman's research, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Mars & Venus Counseling, Imago Therapy, Positive Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Systems Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Rogerian Therapy, Integrative Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Reality Therapy, Rational Emotive Therapy, Gestalt Techniques, NLP, and EMDR. I also offer counseling tools that I personally developed here in Houston.
37 Years Experience
Online in East Grand Forks, Minnesota
Anxiety or Fears
Peg Roberts
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Anxiety is a very uncomfortable emotion and sometimes it feels out of control. Or maybe you struggle with panic. I can help with several therapy approaches to diminish the intense feelings and find peace. Often getting help to set boundaries will make a huge difference in anxiety. You take your power back.
26 Years Experience
Online in East Grand Forks, Minnesota (Online Only)