Anxiety therapists in Worthington, Minnesota MN
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Anxiety or Fears
Cameron Staley
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Anxiety can be debilitating but also responds well to treatment. I provide practical strategies for navigating anxiety concerns and developing a plan to pursue your values.
12 Years Experience
Online in Worthington, Minnesota (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 Worthington, Minnesota
Anxiety or Fears
Dan Walinsky
Psychologist, PhD
When working with anxiety or fears, my goal is to provide some relief for symptoms while also helping you to develop a more in depth understanding of your own anxiety. For many people, this work will involve components of mindfulness work, while also working to shift your relationship with your anxiety.
2 Years Experience
Online in Worthington, Minnesota
Anxiety or Fears
Peg Beattie MA, LPCC
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPCC
I use a combination of mindfulness and CBT.
20 Years Experience
Online in Worthington, Minnesota
Anxiety or Fears
Daniel Johnson
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPCC, NCC
My approach is based on the belief that it is healthy to feel anxiety about life's ultimate concerns- a sign that people care about their existence. Seen as a partner, anxiety can become as if a buoy guiding you and marking important aspects of the your life in need of examining.
4 Years Experience
Online in Worthington, Minnesota (Online Only)