Anxiety therapists in Bethel, Connecticut CT
Soulful Psychology
Psychologist, LCSW
Anxiety can be paralyzing to self, to life, to those around you- together we can address what is happening in both the present but also the past, to calm some of the sense down and start to heal, in long lasting ways, what feels perhaps, broken.
6 Years Experience
Riesa Minakan
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Anxiety is an issue that anyone can relate to however, when it gets in the way of functioning it can really be debilitating. My work focuses on the core issue that drives the anxiety and learning to work through feeling fears and learning that fears will not kill you however, giving into them can be very limiting.
18 Years Experience
Alistair Highet
Licensed Psychoanalyst, MA, LP, NCPsyA
We will look at the deep origins of your fears and anxieties, and by bringing them to surface, help put them in perspective
24 Years Experience
Daniel Snow
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Anxiety can rule a person's life- restricting what they do or say, who they talk to, what they do, and where they go. It becomes a prison of our own making, though it can feel like an overpowering force to be avoided. There are tools and skills to free one's self of anxiety and the limitations it places, though it does take a real intention to change one's relationship to anxiety, once and for all.
19 Years Experience
Natalie Wisdom
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Did you know anxiety is one of the most common mental health struggles affecting many people. Everyone experience anxiety we are able to help you identify triggers to your anxiety and teach you copings skills to help you live a fulfilled life.
17 Years Experience
Courtney Nahow
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC, LPC
Anxiety can cause us to avoid the things in life we once loved doing. I aim to help clients learn their anxiety triggers, learn effective ways to manage anxiety symptoms and overcome avoidance. I love helping clients build a coping skills tool box to practice in between therapy sessions. I use my own experience with overcoming anxiety to help others heal their anxiety as well.
8 Years Experience
Sala Psychology
Psychologist
We work with individual struggling with general anxiety and stress, social anxiety, obsessive and compulsive disorder, specific phobias, panic disorder, and health anxiety. We use exposure therapy, which research shows is the most effective approach.
3 Years Experience
Matthew G. Mandelbaum
Psychologist, Phd, MSEd, MA
For intelligent, sensitive people with histories of anxiety, I help you learn to me mindful in the present and utilize your agency to make your life work.
11 Years Experience
Natalie Cometa
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I have worked with many people experiencing a wide range of anxieties, including phobias, social anxiety, health anxiety, and anxiety about getting older.
10 Years Experience
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