Anxiety therapists in Rio Grande City, Texas TX
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Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Yanet Vanegas
Psychologist, PsyD
Leveraging my expertise in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), I have effectively treated anxiety disorders by collaborating closely with clients. Together, we identify and challenge the maladaptive thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to their anxiety. Through structured sessions and tailored homework assignments, I guide clients in developing essential coping strategies, such as relaxation techniques, exposure therapy, and cognitive restructuring, to help them manage and overcome their anxiety.
8 Years Experience
Online in Rio Grande City, Texas (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 Rio Grande City, Texas
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Derek Turesky - ESA Letter & ESA Evaluation
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Anxiety is one of the primary focus areas of my practice. I have significant experience helping many patients suffering with generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety, and adjustment issues. I will work with you to develop insight into the origins of your anxiety. We will learn about the mind body connection. I will help you learn how to use mindfulness skills to change the way you process anxiety related bodily sensations. We will explore the power of your thoughts in perpetuating anxiety and learn powerful techniques to help free yourself from negative anxiety thoughts about the future and the past. We will give you the tool set necessary for positive change and create a roadmap for living a more full and meaningful life.
12 Years Experience
Online in Rio Grande City, Texas (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Dri Edwards
Licensed Professional Counselor, MEd, LPC
I can teach you coping skills which help you manage your thoughts and your body sensations to help reduce your anxiety and fear.
7 Years Experience
Online in Rio Grande City, Texas
Anxiety or Fears
DISTINCT 1 therapy
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, Somatic EMDR Practitioner
Somatic EMDR therapy guide clients to overcome anxiety and fears.
4 Years Experience
Online in Rio Grande City, Texas