Anxiety therapists in Hamlet, North Carolina NC
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Anxiety or Fears
Dr. L. Pittman
Psychologist, Ph.D.
I have worked throughout my career to help individuals (children, adolescents, and adults) manage aspects of anxiety that are significantly impacting their functioning and well-being. I further help them identify strengths that can help them focus on what they have control over, and gain skills to manage their anxiety. This sometimes involves referral to and/or collaboration with a medication prescriber for comprehensive care and maximization of management of symptoms.
21 Years Experience
Online in Hamlet, North Carolina (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Dina H. Harth
Psychologist, Ph.D.
I have specialized training in working with individuals with many forms of Anxiety and experience working with couples in which one or both partners have Anxiety. Using empirically supported approaches, we work together to create an individualized plan to help you reduce anxiety that is either acute or chronic and has biological &/or situational causes.
29 Years Experience
Online in Hamlet, North Carolina
Anxiety or Fears
Ross Kellogg, LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Individual, Marriage, and Family Therapist (LMFT)
Anxiety is fear that has gotten out of control and may even be taking away some of your freedom. I will support you with an eclectic approach tailored to you to address your concerns, decrease your anxiety symptoms, and to give you the freedom of not having to avoid triggers in your daily life.
10 Years Experience
Online in Hamlet, North Carolina (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 Hamlet, North Carolina
Anxiety or Fears
Allison Freeman
Counselor/Therapist, LCMHCA
My therapeutic approach involves delving into the roots of anxiety, aiming to understand the underlying factors that contribute to heightened fears and worries. I create a safe and empathetic space where clients can explore the origins of their anxiety, recognizing that it often stems from deeper sources.
In our sessions, we collaboratively investigate patterns, triggers, and past experiences that may be influencing the intensity of anxiety. By gaining insight into your deeper emotions, beliefs, and thought patterns associated with anxiety, we move towards replacing long-held fears with updated information.
My focus is on empowering clients to respond differently to anxiety by developing coping mechanisms, challenging irrational beliefs, and learning to accept and allow the emotion to move through them. Through a process of exploration and education, we will replace fears rooted in uncertainty with a more nuanced and informed understanding of the challenges they face.
13 Years Experience
Online in Hamlet, North Carolina