Anxiety therapists in Los Angeles, California CA
Anxiety or Fears
Janee Young
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I focus on mindfulness and coping skills to foster relaxation. I integrate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to address unhealthy thinking patterns. Together, we'll navigate your anxiety, cultivating resilience and confidence for a more balanced and fulfilling life.
8 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Paula E. Bruce, Ph.D. & Associates, A Psychological Corporation
Psychologist, Clinical and Forensic Psychology
Anxiety and fears can be paralyzing. We offer a safe, containing space for you to develop coping skills to manage and reduce anxiety and fears that restrict your current functioning.
28 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Christopher Schamber
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
My approach in dealing with anxiety is simple. First, we will work together to develop coping skills to reduce the intensity of the anxiety you're experiencing. There is no single technique that will work with everybody, but I often find mindfulness is one of the quickest ways to turning down the volume on your anxiety. Once you get some relief, we will work together to really examine what's bothering you, where it came from, and how to move forward.
8 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Samer Fawaz
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., AMFT
Anxiety and fear are paralyzing emotions that stop us from growing . They are rooted in feeling uncertain about issues we are dealing with in life. I am committed to helping you build tools that will allow you to not only face your anxiety and fear but also to become more comfortable with it when it’s happening. The reality is that a healthy amount of anxiety is sometimes necessary for us to be productive—when our anxiety takes over it can do the opposite by paralyzing us into inaction.
4 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Philip Starkman
Registered Psychotherapist, MSW, RSW
In my practice, I provide a supportive space for clients dealing with anxiety or fear, combining a range of holistic strategies and psychotherapeutic tools to address each individual's needs. Techniques like Mindfulness, the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Role-Playing are complemented by guidance on wholesome lifestyle choices—including nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene, meditation, yoga, and Tai Chi. These integrated approaches help clients understand the roots of their anxiety, manage symptoms, and develop coping strategies that promote a sense of calm and control. Focusing on the connection between mind, body, and lifestyle, we work together to reduce the intensity of fear and anxiety, enhancing overall well-being and quality of life. My role is to guide and empower you on this journey, providing the tools and insights needed to embrace a more peaceful, balanced, and fulfilling life.
53 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Ryan Muldoon
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, AMFT
Coping with anxiety can be very challenging, but there are helpful techniques available to assist in managing it. After the fog of anxiety clears, we can pinpoint the underlying cause of the issue and work towards minimizing its impact.
3 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Alan Jacobson, Psy.D.
Psychologist, Licensed Psychologist, Nationally Registered Health Service Provider
I work with people who experience social anxiety, fear of flying, fear of public speaking, or general heightened anxiety. I integrate many proven and powerful techniques depending on your needs and preferences. Therapy for anxiety, phobias, and fears can provide relief, courage, and new insights. The cornerstone treatment is CBT, but we will work in other approaches to best meet your needs.
23 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Quinn Knox
Marriage and Family Therapist, AMFT, Trauma-Informed
The overwhelming majority of my clients have anxiety and fears. I am a firm believe that getting to the root of where there anxiety and fears come from and also working on thought-stopping and redirecting/reframing techniques can be supportive to those suffering from anxiety and fears.
3 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Marco Fekrat
Psychologist, Psy.D.
Our work will be focused on helping you relieve whatever anxieties are preventing your life from being as full and vibrant as possible.
13 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
John Vargas
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., AMFT, APCC
Anxiety is complex and characterized by constant worry, fear, and nervousness.
3 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Joshua Werblin
Psychiatrist, MD
Providing evidence-based treatments for anxiety disorders, empowering individuals to manage symptoms and regain control of their lives.
20 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Jadah Petty
Psychologist, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Many people experience worries and anxiety and seeking therapy for these concerns offers a great opportunity to make change. Using cognitive behavioral and acceptance and commitment therapy strategies, I will help you understand what brings on anxiety, how your thoughts might be unhelpful, and give you specific strategies to manage your anxiety.
5 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Amanda Palen LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Anxiety and fear can be threefold: past, present, future anxiousness and worry. I consider all three as we work together to understand the origin and way in which these are showing up in life. We work together to utilize coping skills and integration skills to understand how these show up for you.
6 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Stephanie Brumfield
Therapist, MSW, ASW, PPSC
In my practice, understanding and addressing anxiety and fears involves a holistic approach that recognizes these experiences as deeply intertwined with the nervous system's response to both past and present traumas. This perspective acknowledges that anxiety often signals unresolved issues demanding attention, guiding us towards a journey of healing and connection with our authentic selves.
Central to our therapeutic work is the regulation of the nervous system, a critical step in creating a foundation for processing traumas and alleviating the physical and emotional manifestations of anxiety. By fostering a state of calm and safety within the body, we open pathways for individuals to explore the deeper sources of their anxiety and fears, which often stem from unprocessed traumas and the disconnection from their true selves.
Together, we embark on a process of gently uncovering and working through these traumas, aiming to understand their impact and integrate these experiences in a way that promotes healing and resilience. This journey is not just about managing symptoms but about transforming the relationship with anxiety and fear, viewing these emotions as part of a larger narrative of self-discovery and personal growth.
By re-establishing a connection to the authentic self, individuals are empowered to navigate their lives with a renewed sense of clarity, purpose, and inner strength. This reconnection also facilitates a deeper understanding of one's needs, desires, and boundaries, leading to more fulfilling relationships and a life that truly reflects one's values and aspirations.
Through this compassionate and depth-oriented approach, anxiety and fears are transformed from overwhelming challenges into opportunities for profound healing and self-realization, paving the way for a life lived with greater peace, authenticity, and empowerment.
6 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Susan Stone
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
"Anxiety is the worst!" Paralyzing, distracting, exhausting. Anxiety can be specific to one area of life or generalized so that it feels like it's about everything. Treatment starts with understanding what anxiety is about and where it comes from, then taking mindful aim at managing the issues that ignite anxiety to cultivate calm and control. I am dedicated to helping individuals gain resilience by empowering themselves to cope with more confidence and less worry. We'll work together to track down the issue that's triggering anxiety; then, we will address it so you are freed up to make choices. Let's talk about what's nipping at - or trying to devour - you. Together, we'll find ways to tame anxiety.
34 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Carl H. Shubs
Therapist, Ph.D.
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39 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Matthew Kijak, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Anxiety can be like a heavy fog, clouding our vision and weighing us down. But, as a therapist, I believe that together we can navigate through this fog and find the path to inner peace. By delving into the root causes of your anxiety and exploring practical strategies, we can work collaboratively to find a sense of calm amidst the chaos. Together, drawing from the wisdom of Eastern philosophy, mindfulness practices, and ancient stoic principles, we can explore new ways to calm the mind and the soul. This journey towards inner peace and self-discovery is something we'll undertake together, as equals, walking side by side.
6 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Elaine Skoulas
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., LMFT
Oftentimes anxiety and fear can control your life. With a closer examination and understanding of underlying negative beliefs and techniques to regulate the nervous system, together we can help to alleviate symptoms of anxiety using cognitive restructuring and the mind-body connection.
9 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Fiorella Chujutalli
Marriage and Family Therapist, MS, AMFT
Anxiety can really get in the way of the life you want to live. During therapy, I will provide a supportive and confidential space for you to explore and address the root causes of your anxiety and fears. I use evidence-based interventions, tailored to the unique needs of each client, to foster effective coping strategies and to enhance emotional resilience.
3 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