Anxiety therapists in Exeter, California CA
Anxiety or Fears
Ilah Brock - Central Valley Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapist, C.Ht
Anxiety is a daily issue with most anyone in this time right now. There are social anxieties, test anxiety, any kind of anxiety that you experience can easily be collapsed. We discuss what that is and what you prefer it to be instead.
7 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
H. Yamel Medina
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
EMDR, CPT, ACT, evidence based somatic therapy options
18 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Robert Holaway
Psychologist, Ph.D.
I have specialized in the treatment of anxiety and fear for over 20 years. I practice evidence-based psychotherapy (including CBT and ACT) and integrate these treatments with a warm, pragmatic, and goal-oriented approach. My goal is to help you overcome your fear and anxiety and live a more fulfilling and meaningful life free of suffering.
16 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Lila Wallace
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LFMT
Anxiety is very common today, and can have many causes. We’ll identify the roots of your anxiety, review coping skills that work best for you, and use strategies that are easy and effective for anxiety.
12 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