Anxiety therapists in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California CA
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Donald Dufford
Psychologist, Ph.D. Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Director, Anxiety Treatment Services
We specialize in providing specific treatment for all types of anxiety, panic, phobias and fears. Treatment modalities include Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), EMDR, Hypnotherapy, Meditation, Mindfulness (ACT) and Psychotherapy. Individual Therapy, Support Group and Home Visits are available.
38 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Regina Lazarovich
Psychologist, PhD
I specialize in helping people who struggle with panic attacks, social anxiety, health anxiety, generalized anxiety, and phobias.
Anxiety:
You’ve always been a worrier and it’s helped you set and achieve your goals. Lately though, it’s interfering with your work and personal life. It feels like you spend all your time worrying about your career or health or relationships, and less time enjoying those things.
Anxiety doesn’t always look like worrying, sometimes it can show up as disturbed sleep, stomach problems, or irritability. Some people procrastinate, others overwork. Anxiety can even come in the form of specific phobias: intense fears of objects or situations that make your heart race and your stomach drop.
With Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), I’ll teach you skills for working with unhelpful thoughts and behaviors so you can reclaim your life from anxiety and move towards the nourishing connections you crave.
Panic Attacks & Agoraphobia:
You’re feeling anxious, frustrated, and confused by your experience of sudden rushes of fear accompanied by worry that you’re having a heart attack, dying, going insane, losing control, having a nervous breakdown, or fainting. During these episodes your heart feels like it’s about to burst out of your chest, you feel short of breath, your mouth is dry, you may also be sweating, trembling, shaking, nauseous, hot or cold, dizzy, lightheaded, numb or tingly, and feeling detached from yourself or from reality. These episodes of intense fear are called panic attacks.
Your life may have gotten smaller as you have started avoiding or feeling very anxious in situations because you worry that you might have another panic attack and feel trapped, helpless, or embarrassed. For example, you may fear being in open or enclosed spaces, crowded places, standing in line, or using public transit. Avoiding situations from which escape might be difficult or where help may be unavailable is called agoraphobia.
Panic attacks and agoraphobia are symptoms of panic disorder. Panic disorder traps you in a vicious cycle that begins when you believe the accompanying physical sensations are dangerous. Over time, these beliefs place more attention on physical symptoms which triggers more fear, which perpetuates the panic cycle.
With Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), I’ll teach you skills for working with thoughts and behaviors so you can break the panic cycle.
12 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Gwendolyn Evans, PhD
Psychologist, PhD
Is your heart suddenly racing, you're breathing fast, and you can hardly think straight? Have these episodes have been increasing as you tell yourself bad things could happen? You're having anxiety almost every day now. I can help you get back in control of that "fight or flight" part of your brain that feels "panicky." Let me share with you amazing Energy Psychology techniques and traditional CBT cognitive dialogue techniques to banish unreasonable thoughts that drive Anxiety and Fear.
30 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Altagracia "Grace" Akopyan
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT #145795
Have you ever felt as if you had a mental block? This block prevents you from moving forward, thinking about something else and most of all changing your emotions. When someone gets in a negative downward spiral and find it very difficult to get out of it is probably because you don’t know how to. This might sound crazy, but most people who suffer with anxiety and depression start out in this same mental state that I just described. As a california marriage and family therapist and professor, I teach psychotherapists how to help clients who are in this exact mental state. There’s a cognitive behavioral therapeutic approach known as CBT that touches on something called distortions. The best way that I can explain the distortions is by having you think of those disgusting negative messages that replays in your head. This message often makes you feel horrible, worthless, stuck and like there’s no point. CBT allows you to take back control of those distortions in order to help you change your mindset to reduce or get rid of that anxiety. Feel free to schedule a session with me to see if I will be a good fit for you.
10 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
S. Abigail McCarrel : Welcome Home Family Therapy
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, DCSW
Fear and anxiety originate in the most primitive levels of the brain. We come into this world with very strong survival instincts genetically encoded over the eons to make sure that we survive as a species. The problem is, however, our society has evolved much more quickly than our brains. As a result, we are consistently tricked by our brains into believing that there is a mortal threat, when there is none. These primitive sensations are interpreted by the feeling part of our brain as a danger sign, and we act accordingly. In our work together, folks will be learning strategies, including brain balancing movements, to integrate those primitive reflexes and calm down the stress response. The result is a steadier state, where one can accurately assess and respond with just the right amount of arousal to match the situation. Fear and anxiety decrease as the brain grows stronger and more connected.
35 Years Experience