Anxiety therapists in Laguna Beach, California CA
Anxiety or Fears
The Mindful Life with Lori Kahn
Life Coach, Certified Integrative Coach, Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Certified Neurofeedback
Working with Anxiety or Fear with mindfulness tools and techniques allows us to experience the "feeling"s without making meaning and identifying with those feelings as "who we are" rather than what we feel. Often when we begin to notice the feelings, allow them to be there without judgment but with curiosity and observation we can see how impermanent they are and they begin to be manageable.
16 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
Nancie Kohlenberger
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Anxiety and fears: We all have things that make us anxious. Anxiety is the most common issue in psychotherapy. I see myself as an expert in this area having 20 years of experience working with individuals with these issues.
23 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Leonard Szymczak
Counselor/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
I have helped countless clients overcome anxiety through anti-anxiety techniques including mindfulness, hypnosis, and cognitive behavioral techniques.
44 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Orange County Health Psychologists, Inc.
Psychologist, PsyD
Our providers can assist with anxiety, PTSD, OCD, trauma, phobias, panic attacks, and more.
11 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Karen Rippy - Relationship Expert - office and online: Family, couple/marriage, extended family, students).
Marriage and Family Therapist, Ph.D., LMFT
Anxiety comes in many forms. I will assist you in understanding and resolving unreasonable anxiety and fears. Online therapy good for those with social anxiety.
39 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Lyndsay Elliott
Psychologist, PsyD.
Anxiety and managing emotions is a primary speciality. Treatment is tailored to your specific issue and needs.
19 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
Anxiety or Fears
TREATMENT AND TOOLS FOR TRAUMA
Licensed Psychoanalyst, PH.D., IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND NEUROSCIENCE, CERTIFIED PSYCHOANALYST, PSY.A, & LICENSED PSYCHOANALYST
Generalized Anxiety Disorder includes anxiety attacks and panic attacks. Both responses by the mind/brain/mind initiate the body's HPA axis sending stress hormones cascading through the body. My treatment involves the use of supplements (unique to each patient) and not drugs, talk therapy, mediation, and the development of healing flow activities. The goal is to lessen the impact of the sympathetic nervous system and to bring the parasympathetic nervous online to calm a person's mind/brain/body.
34 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Carla DeFraine
Therapist, M.Ed, Ph.D.
I trained at Harvard and Vanderbilt, I have a sense of humor, and I am dedicated to the people who enter my office. If things were fine the way they are you would not need me, so be prepared to be challenged, and be prepared to work hard. I will be with you every step of the way.
34 Years Experience