Anxiety therapists in Grand Junction, Colorado CO
Anxiety or Fears
Megan Kearns
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC,LAC
I believe we all have anxiety, its just a matter of how much we learned to cope through it when we were young, or if we were never given skills/tools to manage it and its started consuming our mental space. We can work on developing tools and skills to manage how much mental space we give up to our anxiety.
4 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Tara Roper
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Do you find yourself worrying and feeling restless? Anxiety can feel scary and painful at times, but it is possible to overcome. Together, we can find the right tools and coping techniques.
6 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Juliette Osborne, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC
Psychiatric Nurse/Therapist, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC
At PJO Health Services, I specialize in anxiety and fear management and provide compassionate care as well as practical solutions. I use personalized treatment plans to help clients understand their triggers, develop coping strategies, and regain control of their lives. Through therapy and support, I help people overcome obstacles, reduce anxiety, and live more peacefully. With my dedicated guidance and expertise, you can take the first step toward a brighter, more peaceful future.
15 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Jackie Ma
Psychologist, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
Having health concerns can lead to anxiety or worsen pre-existing anxiety. Anxiety may also worsen your symptoms, such as pain. You may also be understandably worried about the impact of your health concerns on your functioning, relationships, finances, etc, and find that you are having a difficult time managing these worries. My goal is to support you in managing your anxiety using effective and evidence-based treatments such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
1 Years Experience
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