Online Social Anxiety therapists in Orcutt, California CA
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Social Anxiety
Mary Gonzalez
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
If social situations leave you feeling anxious, self-conscious, or emotionally drained, you're not alone. Social anxiety is more than shyness—it can involve an intense fear of being judged, criticized, rejected, or embarrassed. You may avoid speaking up in meetings, meeting new people, attending social events, or expressing your thoughts because you're worried about saying or doing the "wrong" thing. Over time, this fear can impact your relationships, career, confidence, and overall quality of life.
At Holding Space Therapy, we provide compassionate, evidence-based treatment to help you understand and overcome social anxiety. Together, we'll explore the thoughts, beliefs, and past experiences that contribute to your anxiety while developing practical tools to reduce fear and build confidence in social situations. Using approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), mindfulness, exposure-based strategies, and trauma-informed care, we'll work to identify and challenge unhelpful thought patterns, reduce self-criticism, regulate physical symptoms of anxiety, and strengthen your ability to navigate social interactions with greater ease. If past experiences such as bullying, emotional abuse, rejection, or trauma have contributed to your anxiety, EMDR may also be incorporated to help process those experiences and reduce their ongoing emotional impact.
Our goal isn't to change who you are or make you more outgoing than you want to be. Instead, therapy helps you feel more comfortable being your authentic self, communicate with greater confidence, establish healthy relationships, and participate more fully in the experiences that matter most to you. You deserve to live without constantly worrying about what others think. With the right support, you can develop lasting confidence, reduce anxiety, and create meaningful connections while staying true to yourself.
6 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA (Online Only)
Social Anxiety
Matthew Bishop
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Doctorate in Behavioral Health Leadership
Social anxiety can make everyday interactions feel overwhelming or dangerous. In therapy, I help clients practice new ways of handling these situations, challenge anxious thoughts, and gradually build confidence in social settings.
10 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA
Social Anxiety
Melanie Goetz
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I hope you can take a moment to celebrate your success in reaching out to start a new relationship. In working with social anxiety, we'll consider the exceptions in your life—the times when you have connected with strangers, when you’ve entered into a new social environment, when you’ve stayed longer at a social event. We’ll bring curiosity to what made those experiences exceptional for you. We’ll then bring those differences, as well as, newly learned skills into corrective experiences in the therapy room and the least risky environments for you outside of therapy. We will likely use EMDR and somatic therapy approaches to work through the engrained difficult messages and bodily experiences of social anxiety from your past to increase your confidence in your capacity for present and future social connections.
10 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA
Social Anxiety
G. Roman Gupta, LCSW
Therapist, LCSW
I have been practicing for almost 20 years and I have a strength-based, trauma-informed, culturally aware, LGBTQ+ affirmative, sex positive, kink positive, poly affirming, feminist perspective. I have trained and practiced in a variety of treatment methods that offer us a variety of ways to meet your goals whether as an individual, couple, or family.
18 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA
Social Anxiety
Elizabeth Nims
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
I specialize in treating social anxiety, helping clients break the pattern of avoidance due to fear. Learning skills to calm anxious thoughts, increase self-esteem, and help to reconnect with others.
7 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA
Social Anxiety
Rising Pines Counseling Services
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
I support individuals who feel anxious in social situations or fear judgment from others. Therapy focuses on confidence-building, skill development, and reducing avoidance patterns.
11 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA (Online Only)
Social Anxiety
Karina Larios
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Are you experiencing panic attacks or fears that are limiting how you wish to show up in your life? I lead this work with one of my core values, importance of human relationships and community, as we gently explore ways to help decrease the fear to get you living a life that feels more connected in a meaningful way. My approach is compassionate, encouraging, and gradual, always honoring my client's pace.
6 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA (Online Only)
Social Anxiety
Stuart Kaplowitz / Serene Pathways Counseling
Counselor/Therapist, MFT
Social anxiety can keep us disconnected and without our needs being met. There is a process and support we can help with
33 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA
Social Anxiety
Kim Salinger
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, MBA, MSN, PMHNP, FNP, AHN
Social anxiety can make everyday interactions feel stressful or exhausting, often leading to avoidance, self-doubt, or fear of judgment. I provide integrative psychiatric care that looks at both emotional and physical contributors to social anxiety, including nervous system sensitivity, sleep, and overall health. Visits focus on understanding how social anxiety shows up for you, offering guidance and medication support when appropriate, with the goal of helping you feel more comfortable, confident, and at ease in social settings.
14 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA
Social Anxiety
Dr. Jen Bachtold
Psychologist, Ph.D., Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor-II (CADC-II), Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Specialist in Anger Management
As a licensed psychologist specializing in social anxiety, I am dedicated to helping individuals overcome the challenges of social anxiety disorder and build confidence in social situations. My approach is grounded in evidence-based therapies and personalized strategies to support mental health, enhance social skills, and improve overall quality of life.
11 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA (Online Only)
Social Anxiety
Dr. Mandi Maycumber
Therapist, PsyD, LPCC, LMHC, SUDP
I have experience working with and facilitating groups for individuals struggling with debilitating social anxiety.
13 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA
Social Anxiety
Empowered Wellbeing, Decolonizing Intersectional and Integrative Complex Trauma & Dissociation Recovery Support
Life Coach, view my credentials online at: www.recoveringfromwithin.com/credentialslongform
Social Anxiety and Social Anorexia cases have had documented increase with lower practice of intimacy in our current culture. In addition, social isolation registers in the same part of the brain that processes pain and we are biological beings that need social engagement for health and stasis. CPTSD and intensive health needs can contribute to a sense of growing isolation or challenges with over stimulation, limiting social interactions. There could be grief due to that or ease if it aligns with a neurobiology that doesn't prefer social interactions in person. There are many creative ways to connect these days. Utilizing Havening, Brainspotting, Polyvagal Theory, Safe and Sound Protocol, IFS, Attachment Theory, and optionally Energy Work to address adrenal fatigue, clients may stretching into experiences of more social engagement and working through trauma or anxiety along the way. This work combines a sensitive understanding of social systems and the pressures that come with adapting to them. Additionally, clients can gain safe practice with communication utilizing NVC and other communication and relationship models.
15 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA (Online Only)
Social Anxiety
Greta Klaber
Marriage and Family Therapist, Ma, LMFT
When working with social anxiety, I take a thoughtful, body-centered approach to help you better understand how anxiety shows up and what it’s trying to communicate. Together, we track your internal experience and develop tools for self-regulation—supporting your nervous system in moments of activation. We also explore the deeper beliefs that may underlie your anxiety, including fears around judgment, worth, or belonging. Through a combination of somatic awareness, parts work, and cognitive tools like reality testing, we begin to shift how you relate to social situations and build more flexibility, confidence, and connection in your day-to-day life.
9 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA
Social Anxiety
Su Boudreau, LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Domestic Violence Counselor
Social anxiety can inhibit clients from living their life to the fullest or to their full capacity. I have helped clients to overcome their social anxiety by identifying the triggers and finding coping skills to better manage their anxieties.
11 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA (Online Only)
Social Anxiety
Barbara Lynn Allen
Hypnotherapist, MS. CCHT. DCEP
I offer expertise in energy psychology, clinical hypnotherapy, energy medicine and wise, empathic counseling for men, women, couples and teens. Our work together will relieve your anxiety, depression, PTSD, addictions and more while building inner strength for your life, work and relationships.
37 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA
Social Anxiety
J. Rosalyn Diehl
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, MA, LMHC, LPPC, LPC
Social anxiety can make everyday interactions feel stressful, overwhelming, or exhausting. You may find yourself overthinking conversations, worrying about being judged, avoiding social situations, or feeling self-conscious even in routine interactions. Therapy can help you understand the thoughts and patterns that fuel anxiety, build confidence in social settings, and develop practical strategies for managing discomfort. Together, we'll work toward helping you feel more comfortable being yourself, strengthening self-confidence, and creating more meaningful connections with others.
12 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA (Online Only)
Social Anxiety
Chloe Lankshear
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.Ed, Ed/S, LMFT
If you get very stressed about social situations, either before or after, you'll be spending a lot of energy and brain power on all your internal self-talk around this. Sometimes that can make you act awkwardly or not be able to be as natural and confident as you'd like to be. We can work on changing your self-talk together so that you are better able to be more in the moment and can be freer and more accepting of yourself.
12 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA (Online Only)
Social Anxiety
Tanya Samuelian
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.S., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
You may appear composed in social or professional settings, but inside, you’re second-guessing every interaction or avoiding connection altogether. Social anxiety in high-achieving individuals is often masked by success and control. I help clients move beyond self-doubt and fear of judgment—toward more ease, presence, and authentic confidence in both personal and professional relationships.
11 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA
Social Anxiety
Iva Taylor Hypnosisbloom Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapist, CHt. Certified Hypnotherapist, Life Coach
"Social situations shouldn't be a source of dread. I specialize in helping individuals overcome social anxiety and build genuine confidence in social settings. Together, we'll address the root causes of your anxiety, challenge negative thoughts and beliefs, and develop practical coping skills to manage anxiety and build meaningful connections. You'll learn to navigate social situations with greater ease, comfort, and authenticity, freeing you to enjoy life to the fullest."
2 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA (Online Only)
Social Anxiety
Chris Doorley
Marriage and Family Therapist, AMFT, MA
Different from generalized anxiety, social anxiety has specific catalysts and situations that cause it to heighten or worsen. There are methods that make lessening and managing those feelings of discomfort and overwhelm and minimize the catalysts so that you can feel like you are making the choices in your life, instead of feeling like anxiety is making all the choices for you.
8 Years Experience
Online in Orcutt, CA
Social Anxiety therapists in Orcutt, California Statistics
Social Anxiety therapists in Orcutt, California average 15 years of experience and charge around $206 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Social Anxiety (100%), Anxiety or Fears (91%), and Depression (79%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$206
Gender ID
| 64% |
Female |
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| 30% |
Male |
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| 4% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 64% |
In Person and Online |
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| 36% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Social Anxiety |
| 91% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 79% | Depression |
| 78% | Stress |
| 77% | Self Esteem |
| 72% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 62% | Loss or Grief |