Anxiety therapists in North Stamford, Connecticut CT
Anxiety or Fears
Sala Psychology
Psychologist
We work with individual struggling with general anxiety and stress, social anxiety, obsessive and compulsive disorder, specific phobias, panic disorder, and health anxiety. We use exposure therapy, which research shows is the most effective approach.
3 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Courtney Nahow
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC, LPC
Anxiety can cause us to avoid the things in life we once loved doing. I aim to help clients learn their anxiety triggers, learn effective ways to manage anxiety symptoms and overcome avoidance. I love helping clients build a coping skills tool box to practice in between therapy sessions. I use my own experience with overcoming anxiety to help others heal their anxiety as well.
8 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Matthew G. Mandelbaum
Psychologist, Phd, MSEd, MA
For intelligent, sensitive people with histories of anxiety, I help you learn to me mindful in the present and utilize your agency to make your life work.
11 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Natalie Cometa
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I have worked with many people experiencing a wide range of anxieties, including phobias, social anxiety, health anxiety, and anxiety about getting older.
10 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
Greta Cowles Consulting
Life Coach, LMFT, SEP, PIT, Trauma Stress Studies
Anxiety and fears addressed through cognitive and somatic approaches to regulate the nervous system and remove the anxiety.
11 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Michelle Peacock
Psychologist, PhD
Anxiety and fears involve intolerance of uncertainty and thoughts of worst-case-scenario predictions. Avoiding and escaping situations and the physical and emotional feelings only make anxiety worse. CBT is an empirically-validated, effective treatment for anxiety and fears.
19 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Susan Lobosco Benner
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Anxiety can have many underlying causes. We will work together to identify causes while also using tools, such as mindfulness and ART, to enable you to better manage anxiety on a daily basis. As we work through the underlying causes, the goal is to reduce anxiety's overall impact on your life.
30 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Julia Simmons
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Fear, anxiety and social anxiety have become the new normal in this time of uncertainty about what our futures will hold. New information contradicts old facts inciting fear and mistrust. The routines we held onto for consistency and safety have disappeared. We feel anxious, stressed and nervous. Our thoughts are racing. Does this sound like you? If so, I hear you and I'm with you.
There are ways I've learned and would like to teach you to help yourself return to an equilibrium and find a sense of peace again. I believe in using concrete strategies and a holistic approaches to help you return to your life feeling calmer and braver.
12 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Monica Bergnes
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Together we can reduce your anxiety and free you from the fears that hold you back. Often, fears and anxieties started as attempts to find equilibrium and stay safe, in therapy you can learn to trust yourself and find new ways to feel safe.
11 Years Experience