Anxiety therapists in San Francisco, California CA
Anxiety or Fears
Valeriya Pestrikova
Marriage and Family Therapist
My approach aims to explore the deep-seated emotional roots of your anxieties, providing tailored strategies that empower you to face and overcome your fears. Whether it's social anxiety, specific phobias, or pervasive worry, I'm here to help you navigate these challenges in a safe and supportive environment, promoting resilience and a more peaceful life.
2 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
choicetherapy
Psychologist, Psy.D.
I enjoy helping individuals face their fears in a kind and compassionate way.
18 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
David J. Kest
Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified IMAGO Relationship Therapist, MFT, and EMDR
Studied advanced CBT skills since 1998 and native Americans traditions along with Mindfulness practices since 1990.
31 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Vanessa Wolter Holistic Therapy
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
I have extensive experience working with anxiety. I help clients understand that their anxiety is a way they have protected themselves. And once we understand what it’s trying to protect them and why I then offer other ways of supporting the underlying vulnerability that don’t get in the way of moving toward the life they want.
11 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Christina Charlotin
Psychologist, Psy.D.
I specialize in working with adults who experiences challenges related to anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, social phobia and specific phobias.
12 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Eric van der Voort
Psychologist, PsyD, CST, CSWT
Anxiety is a normal and adaptive emotion we all experience from time to time. However, persistent generalized worry should not be written off as part of a healthy human experience. Problematic anxiety can affect your work and school performance, prevent you from connecting with loved ones, have you imagining all the awful “what-if” scenarios, and leave you second-guessing yourself. Anxiety can also make you irritable, disrupt your sleep, and even take a physical toll on you over time. Physical symptoms, such as a racing heart, sweaty palms, or tightness in the chest are common. At its worst, some people experience debilitating panic attacks.
If you have been struggling with anxiety, the good news is that it can be treated with evidence-based therapies. Imagine going to that social event, your job, or school, and not being consumed with fear or apprehension. What if you could be comfortable in your own skin? I’d say that’s a “what if” scenario worth thinking about.
9 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Lisa Andresen
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Is your anxiety productive sometimes? Fears of what others think of you or worrying about letting others down can fuel working long hours, over-preparing, and perfectionist tendencies. However, anxiety can also lead to procrastination, a harsh inner critic, running the tape of past conversations on repeat, over-eating, or troubles sleeping. Sometimes the worries seem endless and the angst leads to physical discomfort, neck/shoulder tension, and stomach pains. Fortunately, research shows CBT can improve anxiety symptoms within 8-12 sessions.
7 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Tandra Froehlich Childress
Marriage and Family Therapist, ATR, LMFT
Living in a high stress society has increased the amount of anxiety and fear experienced by many. In treating anxiety, I help individuals face fears, build coping skills, and change their perspective on stress.
8 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Elizabeth Davis
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, AMFT, APCC
Specializing in anxiety, I offer compassionate guidance to individuals facing overwhelming worry and stress. Through a collaborative approach, I help clients identify triggers, challenge negative thought patterns, and develop coping skills to manage symptoms effectively. For example, I incorporate mindfulness techniques and relaxation exercises to promote emotional regulation and build resilience in navigating daily stressors.
2 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Lynn E. O'Connor
Therapist, PhD
Working with clients suffering from anxiety, I provide supportive and educational psychotherapy while --in collaboration with my clients-- introducing them to exposure and response prevention methods. I usually encourage clients to obtain a medical evaluation to consider psychotropic medications, such as serotonergic agents. Integrating methods from CBT, the biological sciences, and humanistic perspectives, as a student of Buddhism, I also offer experience with mindfulness meditation and other contemplative approaches in conjunction with self-compassion in accordance with clients' interests.
32 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Nicole Bermensolo
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., AMFT
The tools that I'll provide you with are tools that I have been perfecting over my career helping people just like you. I have dozens of them. My goal for you is to have at least five different tools and techniques that you can carry with you at all times. So no matter where you go, you'll always have access to discreet exercises that can quickly create relief. I am direct and solution focused. We'll work collaboratively to address the anxiety attacks that are bothering you right now. We'll start with what's going on in the moment and how to get control over your body and thoughts. For the past 10 years, my practice has been focused on helping people get rid of anxiety. I have attended trainings that teach leading edge techniques. We'll address what's going on in your brain when you feel anxious and how to get in touch with different parts of your brain to find relief. We'll discuss what happens to your body when fear takes over so you can learn how to quickly calm down. You'll gain resilience so that attacks don't continue in the future.
5 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Patty Murray
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Anxiety often manifests in physiological symptoms, so often it is useful to work with the body (implement breath work, movement, and embodied mindfulness) to help ease anxiety symptoms.
7 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Taylor Swing
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Sometimes we feel stuck in the same loop, thinking about the same things, making the same decisions. Have you struggled to sleep at night or get things done because you’re ruminating about a thought or situation? Do you struggle to make decisions or constantly worry about making the right one? Not sure how to address a conflict? You're not alone, sometimes our anxiety can become overwhelming. I can support you in learning effective coping skills, challenging your thoughts, and changing your thinking patterns to help you reach your goals in the space of therapy.
8 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Anxiety Eliminated
Hypnotherapist, Certified Hypnotherapist and Health Coach, MBA
i have a 95% success rate with healing anxiety. There are key dietary components which must be assessed and, in hypnosis, are very easy to fix. Once the body is stabilized, we go on to identify childhood challenges and traumas that are related to the anxiety. These issues are released by being pulled out by their roots by a specialized combination of releasing and hypnotherapy techniques.
Anxiety or Fears
Anders Greenwood
Psychologist, Psy.D, Ph.D.
I enjoy helping clients accept and like themselves, organize around strengths, achieve greater emotional presence, think clearly, and let go of shame, guilt and old habits of emotional survival. I believe therapy should lead to better decisions, as well as improved quality of life and relationships.
21 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Stephen B. Lewis Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapist, CHt
Using hypnosis I help train your mind to direct the power of your imagination towards relaxation instead of worry. The connections from your mind to your body that can cause physically exhausting reactions to irrational fears or phobias can instead be used to calm your mood, relax your body, and clear your mind.
7 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Helen Star, MFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT, SEP
Trauma can live in the body unaddressed for a lifetime. It impacts every aspect of the person’s experience, from health concerns to psychological instability to insecurities in achieving life goals. Working through trauma is the single most important piece in establishing a more harmonious life perspective. Adults often can’t identify the source of their anxieties because it is buried in childhood experience. Or, they know the source, but addressing the impact of trauma has been elusive.
Whether you identify a single traumatic experience in your life or you experience the result through a highly strung nervous system, trauma can be addressed through working with the sensations of the body.
I was originally trained in Somatic Psychotherapy and have over 25 years of working with the language of the body. This is done through mindful observation of the body’s experience in the here and now and through expressive art and movement therapy as well as talking through the event itself. The resolution comes from a place of self-love and resiliency is built by building support in one’s life.
33 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Molly Schmidt
Therapist
Suffering from anxiety can be debilitating and overwhelming. I'm here to help you uncover the roots of your anxiety and implement new ways to cope with life's stressors. I lean on body-based practices, breathwork, and mindfulness techniques to manage symptoms of anxiety.
4 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Corina Bair
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
It feels like we all have anxiety at this point, right? So let's get down to it. I have years of experience working with teens, young and middle-aged adults in overcoming the symptoms of anxiety - whether that is due to social, personal, work, every day life, or just something you've always had. Assisting my clients with building insight and understanding into your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors is an essential part of my therapy practice, and provide evidence-based practice tools that you can use outside of therapy as well.
I am passionate about providing a safe, compassionate, and welcoming space where you can be open about your worries so we can work through them together. Click that contact button and we can schedule a free consultation call today!
9 Years Experience