Anxiety therapists in Costa Mesa, California CA
Anxiety or Fears
Provia Psychology
Counselor/Therapist, LMFT, LCSW, AMFT, APCC
We understand that those struggling with anxiety need a safe, validating, and empathetic therapeutic relationship. This is of utmost importance, and can give you the space you need to explore novel avenues of healing and growth.
7 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Burdetta Honescko Psy D
Marriage and Family Therapist, Bachelors in Elelmentary Education, Master for Azusa Paific in Counseling, Psy D in Psychology
Fear distorts out rational thinking, it can paralize you and keep you from moving forward. When we cling to distorted thoughts we limit our options, feel hopeless, depressed or anxious. The challenge is to change your thought patterns and begin to see life through a new reality.
26 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Ms. Carol Jean Timmons
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
It is generally accepted that anxiety and fear focus on future concerns. Some fears are valid probabilities and some are simply possibilities, but all fears must be managed - or they can rob us of our ability to cope with our concerns. Therapy provides an opportunity to face our anxieties by gaining a different outlook, developing a plan, and learning skills to cope with the uncertainties of life.
32 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Micha Noble, MA
Pre-Licensed Professional, AMFT
I understand that those struggling with anxiety need a safe, validating, and empathetic therapeutic relationship. This is of utmost importance, and can give you the space you need to explore novel avenues of healing and growth.
3 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Adrienne Clements
Counselor/Therapist, MA, LMFT
Are you struggling with persistent worries, fear and self-doubt? Does it feel like you can’t do anything right, and you’ll never have the job, relationship or life that you crave? Perhaps you frequently feel as though you aren’t good enough and you don’t fit in with the successful, vibrant people around you. Or maybe you’re struggling with racing, obsessive thoughts about keeping up at work, maintaining a healthy relationship, raising happy children and meeting all of the other expectations that others have for you. I know how overwhelming anxiety can be. I also know that you need not be alone in your suffering, and you don’t have to be alone on your path to lasting relief. We can walk through this together. With help, there is hope for a more engaged, fulfilled life.
11 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Inner Wisdom Psychotherapy Associates, INC.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
We use cutting edge treatment to address underlying causes of anxiety and fears and the somatic manifestation in the body.
27 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Jean Wolfe Powers
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., L.M.F.T., International Life Coach, A.C.C.
Anxiety and fear is growing internally especially if you were already feeling anxious. My expertise with anxiety disorders and trauma can really help put balance in your life.
36 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Renée Rising Sun Peyton
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Anxiety can be debilitating and make our lives small, holding us back from the experiences we deserve. Therapy can be extremely effective in helping you cope with and ultimately overcome the anxiety and worries that can consume our lives.
24 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
Dr. David Shapiro
Psychologist, California Licensed Psychologist (License# PSY17495)
Anxiety is a very common issue I assist clients in gaining mastery of. A foundational assumption I follow is that it is helpful to assist clients in engaging with their fears rather than denying them, or invalidating them. This understanding is supported by research in a variety of areas, including behavioral therapy, which has shown that in order to desensitize an anxious response individuals benefit from exposure so long as it is done in way that the person is not overwhelmed. From a Cognitive Therapy perspective I have also come to appreciate that very often people's anxieties are fueled by extreme interpretations and beliefs they may be having related to the fear or anxiety. From Mindfulness approaches I have come to understand the value of shifting into an observer position through observing and describing, and I have come to appreciate how this ability represents developing greater integration of the mature executive functions of the frontal lobe with the primitive survival impulses of the limbic system. The ways that I make use of these understandings with each client vary based upon the difficulties they are having with anxiety and fear, but overall I tend to support my clients in finding healthy ways to settle themselves down physiologically and then helping them to engage with their fears, the related thoughts and beliefs they have, and to not be held back from taking actions that are in their best interests based upon fears. Sometimes this involves helping clients learn meditative skills. Sometimes it involves helping them to plan out and then carry out steps in confronting fears. Sometimes it involves reprocessing traumas or anxiety producing situations in a controlled way. Sometimes it involves working with them to find new ways of thinking. Usually, in fact, I find that a combination of these is most helpful but again this is guided by each client, their situation, preferences, strengths, etc.
24 Years Experience