Anxiety therapists in View Park-Windsor Hills, California CA
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. LaQuesha Robinson
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, LPCC
In my practice, I offer specialized support for individuals dealing with anxiety or fears, recognizing that these feelings can profoundly impact daily life and well-being. Understanding that anxiety is not a one-size-fits-all experience, I focus on personalized therapeutic approaches that address your unique situation. Through a blend of cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness practices, and stress-reduction techniques, we'll work together to identify triggers, understand the underlying causes of your anxiety, and develop effective strategies for managing symptoms. My goal is to empower you with the skills to regain control over your thoughts and emotions, fostering a sense of calm and confidence in navigating life's challenges. Whether you're facing generalized anxiety, specific phobias, social anxiety, or panic attacks, my practice provides a safe, empathetic space for exploration, healing, and growth.
12 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Hiroko Saeki, MA, LMFT, RDT
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Drama Therapist
Is your anxiety or fear getting in your way of living a fulfilling life? I would love to help you. Our mind might keep focusing on what causes us anxiety and fear at times, to the point we feel paralyzed in life. Together, let's find ways to reduce your anxiety or fear to a manageable level—so you can start engaging with others and the world around you more fully, in the present moment.
9 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. William K. Grevatt
Licensed Psychoanalyst, Ed.D. (CA Medical Board License #RP 227)
My approach to therapy as a Jungian analyst is to listen deeply to discover the unique person that you are and the problems you are facing. In a safe, caring, and supportive setting we will utilize dream analysis, journaling, and other creative work to help guide you back to the wisdom within.
20 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dan Fink
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Anxiety is often unsupported excitement. We are energized when some part of us believes we need to take action. Much of the time, it's not clear what the action needs to be or there is no clear action available, so the energy gets trapped in a loop and becomes anxiety. Let's map this process in your own experience and see what we learn together.
15 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Francia Telesford
Registered Social Worker, MSW, ACSW, CLE, PMH-C
As someone who has experienced anxiety and the fog of postpartum depression, I have learned what tools work for me and am happy to help others figure out what works for them. Everyone is different in the way they experience trauma and stress, but we all share the common need to feel more at peace. I have worked with clients with anxiety for over 20 years in various settings from foster care, hospital, non profit and private practice.
14 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
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
Lori Karny
Therapist, LCSW Psychotherapist
Do you suffer symptoms of anxiety? Stress? Sleepless. Worried? Do you feel disconnected— effective psychological support can help you identify personal and additional coping strategies and resources.
35 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Joshua A. Goldstein
Psychologist, Psy.D.
Anxiety, fears, and worries can be useful and purposeful experiences at times. But sometimes it becomes too much and there is clearly something else fueling these issues. Together, we can figure this out and address the issues at their core.
10 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Vicki D. Coleman (Dr. Vicki), The Anger Doctor
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCPC, LPCC, LPC, LMFT, LCSW, CCMHC, QMHP, MAC, DAC, SAP, CAMF, BCC, HS-BCP
Identify the antecedents of fear and anxiety.
34 Years Experience