Anxiety therapists in Chattanooga, Tennessee TN
Anxiety or Fears
Ken Knoechel - Effective Mindset
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC
Right now, I imagine there are some tears in your eyes, or maybe a painful achiness in your mind that seems relentless. You might have tried all the coping skills and bounced around to different therapists, BUT NOTHING EVER SEEMS TO HELP! I will help you calmly and confidently take control of your mind. It usually takes me about a month (4 sessions) to bring my clients to places that resolve resilience in their lives. You can expect good things after meeting with me for a while. I hope to see you soon.
8 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Glyndora Condon LPC of Heal and Hope Counseling Services, LLC
Licensed Professional Counselor, Masters, Marriage and Family Therapy; Licensed Professional Counseling
Many mental health issues spawn first in fear. As a person suffers with anxiety and fear without relief, they often are crippled and or act out. Most often, diet and identifying thought distortions and then teaching how to stop and to re frame negative thoughts will help individuals be empowered.
8 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Natassia Johnson
Psychologist, Ph.D., LPC
Anxiety/Fears can drastically restrict your breadth of experiences. Let's explore the roots of your anxiety and fears to reduce their power in your life.
1 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Jeffrey Huttman
Psychologist, Ph.D.
As a licensed psychologist, I specialize in treating anxiety and related difficulties. I utilize an eclectic blend of CBT, DBT, mindfulness and relaxation techniques to help guide those struggling to feel relief.
21 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