Anxiety therapists in Koreatown, California CA
Anxiety or Fears
Lucy Cotter
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT
My clients are empowered to reclaim their lives from 'anxiety' and 'fear' and live out their preferred stories.
19 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
David Strah
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Through several therapeutic techniques, I have helped several clients reduce and overcome their anxiety.
Anxiety or Fears
Lauren Blalock
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Anxiety is both common and often debilitating. It can be more than just fear of future events/circumstances as many would have you believe. I imagine that anxiety is present for many of your current moments and often stops you from living your ideal life. I approach working with anxiety by first helping you gain tools to manage it’s effects on your day-to-day life. Next, we will take a look at what’s really at the cause of your anxiety and see how we might move forward.
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
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
Sean Sprigle
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC
I have significant experience and success in treating these issues using an approach that I have personally developed over the recent years.
7 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Tracy Sondern
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., AMFT #135825
Anxiety is a part of our primal warning system. It lets us know that danger is approaching and kicks in our fight or flight response, so that we can run from a wild animal and not be eaten. Past trauma can live in us and unconsciously trigger a flood of emotion in reaction to something seemingly unrelated. I want to help you identify your triggers and why they are happening. I’ll help you recognize signals like tightness in the chest or a knot in the stomach and then give you tools to ground yourself. Learning to self-regulate and control your level of anxiety can make a world of difference to how you experience life. I want to support and guide you to an easier way of being.
3 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Stephanie Sandoval - COLLECTIVE SPACE THERAPY
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
It's okay to not be okay. We are living in a world with so many unknowns and uncertainty. With extensive training and experience working in a Los Angeles-based group practice, my specializations include expertise in anxiety and phobias. I offer a 15 min free consultation, feel free to reach out to see if we're a good fit!
9 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
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