Anxiety therapists in Rocky Ford, Colorado CO
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Alex Littleton
Psychologist, Licensed Psychologist
We specialize in gold-standard approaches for all things anxiety & OCD. These approaches include CBT, ACT, ERP, DBT, and trauma-informed treatments, and can be used to treat a wide variety of psychological issues.
8 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Wellcova Health Services
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
There are several different anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders can also make it hard to breathe, sleep, stay still, and concentrate. Your specific symptoms depend on the type of anxiety disorder you have. By scheduling an intake appointment, we can assess what specific symptoms are present, and use CBT, DBT, ACT, TFCBT, and solution focused therapy to treat your symptoms.
17 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Kendrick Lutz
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Anxiety and/or fear can be incredibly challenging emotions to navigate alone. They can lead to excessive worry, panic, and avoidance, negatively impacting our daily lives and relationships. As a therapist, I can help clients understand and overcome their anxiety and fears, so they can develop effective coping strategies and live the life they deserve. I can help clients work through their deepest concerns, develop the skills, and alleviate their symptoms through a cognitive behavioral treatment approach. Whether you're dealing with generalized anxiety, social anxiety, phobias, or trauma-related issues, my private practice provides a safe and compassionate space to heal and grow.
28 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Brett Swords
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Anxiety can be overwhelming and get in the way of what is important to us. I specialize in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based approaches for anxiety, which are evidence-based treatments that are proven to work. Together, we will address thoughts and behaviors that may be feeding your anxiety.
16 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