Anxiety therapists in Universal City, California CA
Anxiety or Fears
Doug Wilson
Psychologist, Clinical Psychologist
I have extensive experience in working with folks who experience overwhelming fear, anxiety, and obsessive tendencies.
12 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
Tanya Samuelian
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.S., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Anxiety, a persistent state of worry, can consume our thoughts with irrational or unlikely events. However, anxiety is not simply a "mood disorder." It is a complex interplay of biology, psychology, and society. This is where psychotherapy comes into play, creating a compassionate and understanding environment to alleviate worries and stresses. Trust me, leaving anxiety untreated is not an option.
Anxiety takes various forms: generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, and specific phobias. Regardless of its appearance, anxiety significantly impacts our daily lives and relationships.
Through therapy, we will collaborate to uncover the underlying causes of your anxiety and develop personalized coping strategies. We will explore relaxation techniques, challenge negative thoughts, and address any past traumas or triggers. And you know what? We will also delve into the importance of setting healthy boundaries. Boundaries are crucial for positive relationships and mental well-being, yet many of us struggle due to past experiences or societal pressures.
Together, we will understand and embrace our personal boundaries while learning how to effectively communicate them. Trust me, this process can work wonders, reducing anxiety and enhancing overall well-being. Let's embark on this journey together!
9 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Ann Britt
Marriage and Family Therapist, Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, MCC
Need help conquering your anxieties and fears with personalized tools and techniques? I can help you cope with excessive worry, nervousness, or stress; intense discomfort in social settings (social anxiety); sudden and intense feelings of panic (panic disorder). Let's work together to help you take charge of your life.
42 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Jennie Steinberg - feminist, queer-affirming therapist
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, LPCC, PMH-C
I want to help you mitigate your feelings of anxiety, fearfulness, or overwhelm. When I support clients dealing with anxiety, it's not about identifying that your thoughts or feelings are "wrong"; instead, it's about tapping into your own resiliencies in order to manage these feelings and thrive in a hard world. For support in befriending your feelings and managing your anxiety, reach out. I look forward to meeting you soon!
17 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Ingrid Solano
Psychologist, PhD
I work with both adults and adolescents on an individual basis. Individual psychotherapy helps clients deal with particular issues, symptoms, and stressors. My goal is to provide a safe, non judgmental space for you to explore who you are, how you relate to others, and what supports you on your journey to become your best self. I lean into, listen, understand, and enhance authentic expression. Together we create a collaborative process of transformation. What that means and what that looks like is different for everyone...
I offer evidence-based therapies from a curious, nonjudgmental philosophy. No matter where you have been, evidence-based therapies focus on changing the now. I strive to help my clients experience the world mindfully, and in accordance with their personal values. Through our work in cultivating an affirming, authentic, and non-judgmental therapeutic relationship, I provide support while we collaboratively deconstruct what is causing distress in your life and preventing you from being your most effective and authentic self. Individual therapy facilitates insight and growth, becoming more effective at actualizing your values, and building more authentic relationships with yourself and with others.
While there are many forms of therapy you can pursue, my expertise is in time-limited, evidence-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (CBT), the Unified Protocol for emotional disorders, and third wave CBT such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Mindfulness based interventions. (I do have experience in, and practice, an eclectic arrangement of other modalities as well-- when applicable or specifically requested.) We explore thoughts, beliefs, and understanding, while also prioritizing behavioral processes that focus on your contexts and the functions of how you relate to your internal experiences. CBT is designed to help individuals notice and shift their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in order to get relief from painful emotions such as anxiety and sadness.
Third wave interventions also promote well-being through developing coping skills, personal values, and metacognition that complement traditional CBT interventions. I provide flexible, customizable approaches that look different with each patient. I empower my clients to discover their strength, clarity, creativity, autonomy, resilience, motivation, and confidence in meeting whatever happens next. I provide individualized tools to use in everyday decision-making that will help those changes last. With these modalities I treat individuals who are impacted by depression, anxiety, life transitions, relationship distress, burnout, divorce, loss, uncertainty, stigma, and other life experiences, diagnoses, and stressors. We explore the sources, experiences, and beliefs that impact how you relate with the world and implement change in your life. You are the expert on you, but are you your most effective and content self?
11 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
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
Anxiety or Fears
Joel M. Liebowitz
Psychologist, Ph.D.
I am a licensed clinical psychologist and have been practicing for 45 years. I work with my clients in an interactive way helping them to find real world solutions to their issues and problems.
40 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