Anxiety therapists in Ellensburg, Washington WA
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Anxiety or Fears
Ian J Whitelaw
Hypnotherapist, M.Sc. CHT
Men face serious concerns with anxiety or fear - of not being enough, smart enough, rich enough or resourceful enough - the old patterns that are imprinted on the psyche require great care, non judgement or shaming - just a safe environment for the man to recognize how the story has affected him and I provide methods to improve thoughts and actions.
4 Years Experience
Online in Ellensburg, Washington
Anxiety or Fears
Family Dynamics Counseling Services, INc
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC, CDPT, CCTP
Over 10 years experience working with Anxiety/Panic Attacks
13 Years Experience
Online in Ellensburg, Washington
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 Ellensburg, Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety or Fears
Dustin Kerrone
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I find that for most of us, we heal best when we can feel completely accepted without judgment or critique by another, and then learn for ourselves how to value the full range of our own emotions. By relaxing our self-control and increasing self-compassion, feelings can get unstuck and flow more freely, generating new vitality, action, and wonder.
18 Years Experience
Online in Ellensburg, Washington (Online Only)
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 Ellensburg, Washington (Online Only)