Anxiety therapists in Finley, Washington WA
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Anxiety or Fears
Tracy L. Morris
Marriage and Family Therapist, MS LMFT
My approaches to anxiety range from narrative to mindfulness-based to behavioral, all working from a collaboration with the client based on their prior therapeutic experiences, their beliefs, and their capacities.
9 Years Experience
Online in Finley, Washington
Anxiety or Fears
Kevin Rodas
Psychiatric Nurse/Therapist, Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
At my practice, we will craft a comprehensive treatment plan that respects and values your input. My goal is to build a warm and genuine therapeutic relationship with you, where you feel heard and supported. I specialize in treating anxiety and fears.
11 Years Experience
Online in Finley, Washington
Anxiety or Fears
Shannon Stringer
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
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Online in Finley, Washington
Anxiety or Fears
Max Tsymbalau MS, LMHC | Seattle Anxiety and Trauma Therapist
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC
If you are prone to feel overwhelmed by fear, anxiety, or panic, it is often largely due to parts of you being stuck in past experiences where you felt fear or terror. Oftentimes, your overwhelm is due to you feeling powerless in the presence of your anxiety. I will work to help you explore your relevant past history, as it relates to your feelings of fear, and I will also help you build inner strength to hold your own in the presence of inner anxiety or panic.
10 Years Experience
Online in Finley, Washington (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 Finley, Washington (Online Only)