Anxiety therapists in Los Angeles, California CA
Anxiety or Fears
Janee Young
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I focus on mindfulness and coping skills to foster relaxation. I integrate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to address unhealthy thinking patterns. Together, we'll navigate your anxiety, cultivating resilience and confidence for a more balanced and fulfilling life.
8 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Philip Starkman
Registered Psychotherapist, MSW, RSW
In my practice, I provide a supportive space for clients dealing with anxiety or fear, combining a range of holistic strategies and psychotherapeutic tools to address each individual's needs. Techniques like Mindfulness, the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Role-Playing are complemented by guidance on wholesome lifestyle choices—including nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene, meditation, yoga, and Tai Chi. These integrated approaches help clients understand the roots of their anxiety, manage symptoms, and develop coping strategies that promote a sense of calm and control. Focusing on the connection between mind, body, and lifestyle, we work together to reduce the intensity of fear and anxiety, enhancing overall well-being and quality of life. My role is to guide and empower you on this journey, providing the tools and insights needed to embrace a more peaceful, balanced, and fulfilling life.
53 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Ashanti Marshall
Therapist, LPCC
I help clients understand the root of their anxiety. I help clients find healthy coping tools to manage their anxiety. I help clients overcome anxiety by utilizing therapeutic approaches such as CBT.
10 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
Ricardo Peña
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I always feel very confident when I am approached by a new client who suffers from anxiety, fear, phobia or panic attacks. I have helped so many people with these problems and everyone was able to completely eliminate these painful feelings within a matter of weeks.
7 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Daniel Lazar
Marriage and Family Therapist, AMFT, MA, MBA
Many men don't like to admit they're stressed or scared. So they hold it in until the feelings become too much to handle. They may tumble into depression, substance abuse, and impulsivity. I help men stop that slide. We explore their relationship with stress and fear, suss out their triggers, and tailor ways to manage these feelings with tools and insights.
2 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
Michael Pezzullo
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Anxiety is one of the most complain problems that clients bring into therapy. Anxiety is one of the most uncomfortable feelings. I provide clients with tangible skills, such as mindfulness and distress tolerance, to decrease anxiety right away.
7 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Carole Goguen
Psychologist, PsyD, Night Owl Psychotherapy
We will explore unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to your anxiety. We will also address your interpersonal relationships and resolving conflicts that can contribute to feeling anxious.
26 Years Experience
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
Carl H. Shubs
Therapist, Ph.D.
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39 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Matthew Kijak, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Anxiety can be like a heavy fog, clouding our vision and weighing us down. But, as a therapist, I believe that together we can navigate through this fog and find the path to inner peace. By delving into the root causes of your anxiety and exploring practical strategies, we can work collaboratively to find a sense of calm amidst the chaos. Together, drawing from the wisdom of Eastern philosophy, mindfulness practices, and ancient stoic principles, we can explore new ways to calm the mind and the soul. This journey towards inner peace and self-discovery is something we'll undertake together, as equals, walking side by side.
6 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Sandra Davis
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I focus on persistent feelings such as worry, physical arousal or edginess, and avoidance which can trigger an array of negative feelings that interfere with daily functioning. I work through thinking, feeling, thought and behavior patterns that negatively impact symptoms of anxiety.
28 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Elaine Skoulas
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., LMFT
Oftentimes anxiety and fear can control your life. With a closer examination and understanding of underlying negative beliefs and techniques to regulate the nervous system, together we can help to alleviate symptoms of anxiety using cognitive restructuring and the mind-body connection.
9 Years Experience
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
Julie Anderson
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Using Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), I can assist you in understanding and managing your paralyzing fears, anxiety, and panic attacks.
24 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Victoria Miller
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Anxiety brings overwhelm, stress, racing heart, and worry. You may find yourself avoiding the things you most want to do or trying desperately to do anything to get things to change. I will help you ground your fears, cope with stress, and explore new ways to control the emotions and behaviors causing unease and distress in your life. Together we will uncover the underlying causes of your worries and fears, look at situations in new, less frightening ways and develop better coping and problem-solving skills. I can help you develop the tools you need to overcome anxiety.
18 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Lynn E. O'Connor
Therapist, PhD
Working with clients suffering from anxiety, I provide supportive and educational psychotherapy while --in collaboration with my clients-- introducing them to exposure and response prevention methods. I usually encourage clients to obtain a medical evaluation to consider psychotropic medications, such as serotonergic agents. Integrating methods from CBT, the biological sciences, and humanistic perspectives, as a student of Buddhism, I also offer experience with mindfulness meditation and other contemplative approaches in conjunction with self-compassion in accordance with clients' interests.
32 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Jillian Luz
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, ATR
I have experience supporting clients in identifying, challenging, and replacing unhelpful, unwanted, and maladaptive anxious thought patterns.
9 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Jonathan Kruger Therapy
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
According to research we have upwards of 70,000 thoughts a day. Most of them pass through us without so much as a “second thought”, but all are informing a sense of how we feel about ourselves, about the world we live in, about the abundance or the scarcity in our lives.
Our thoughts create our feelings and vice versa. For so many of us, “feelings” become an overwhelming, incapacitating part of our existence. What if you didn’t fear feelings? What if you had a clearer understanding of what thoughts had informed those feelings? These feelings and thoughts, which create anxiety, depression, worries, concerns or obsessions etc., can and must be dissected and understood. With insight and understanding comes relief. Situational pressures, breakups, job loss or confusion, a sense of purposelessness, become existential crisis.
In my work with individuals we closely examine the myriad of thoughts that pass through you daily. How do they make you feel? How do they inform your behaviors? It can occur in opposite as well. “I got a feeling he didn’t like me”. The feeling set up thought patterns of insecurity. Which comes first? How? Why? With empathy, insight and understanding, I work with clients to intervene in this process so that you are not just a firestorm of thoughts and feelings, but rather a mindful creation of what you want to feel. Making choices of what you want to think. What do you choose to believe about yourself? What is the narrative you have created for your life and is it accurate? Unpacking childhood memories and life experiences, understanding attachment complexities and desensitizing traumatic events that occur within our lives become primary objectives in the work. Processing in a more adaptive, healthy response with these relationships, traumas and experiences follow.
Together, with love, compassion and understanding, I gently help my clients discover how to live their best and fullest life, expressing the most authentic representation of self that one can be.
11 Years Experience