Anxiety therapists in Longview, TX
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Anxiety
Melinda Switzer - Beauty for Ashes Trauma Therapy and Treatment
Counselor/Therapist, Melinda Switzer, MA, LPC, NCC
Anxiety and Fear can be very overwhelming, but it can be manageable through psychoeducation, coping skills, support, and a mentally healthy outlook on life. Anxiety and fear can also be managed through medication management, but not all clients need medication to manage their anxiety and fear. I have been working with clients who are struggling with this for several years.
5 Years Experience
In-Person Near Longview, TX
Online in Longview, TX
Anxiety
Helen Godfrey
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, NCC, BCC, LPC
We all have automatic thoughts. We will explore the thoughts that are helping you and explore the thoughts that aren't helpful.
12 Years Experience
Online in Longview, TX (Online Only)
Anxiety
Rachel Losoff
Psychologist, PhD
As a licensed psychologist, I specialize in treating anxiety using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a highly effective, evidence-based approach. My practice focuses on helping clients identify and challenge anxiety-provoking thoughts, develop coping strategies, and gradually face feared situations to reduce avoidance behaviors. Through our collaborative work, clients learn to manage their anxiety symptoms, build resilience, and regain control over their lives, leading to lasting positive change and improved overall well-being.
18 Years Experience
Online in Longview, TX (Online Only)
Anxiety
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.
22 Years Experience
Online in Longview, TX (Online Only)
Anxiety
Jason Branson, LPC, BCPC, CMHIMP, CGE, C-DBT, CMNCS
Counselor/Therapist, Psychotherapist
Fear tells us that a threat looms and to be on guard. Too much fear or anxiety robs us of the ability to have joy. It keeps us in fight/flight mode, causing a cortisol - the stress hormone - dump. Long-term, this puts our bodies in a constant state of low-grade inflammation, which underlies disease.
27 Years Experience
Online in Longview, TX
Anxiety therapists in Longview, TX Statistics
Anxiety therapists in Longview, TX average 16 years of experience and charge around $191 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (79%), Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (35%), and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) (32%).
Average years in practice
16 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$191
Accept insurance
45%
Offer sliding scale
35%
Gender ID
| 65% |
Female |
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| 32% |
Male |
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| 2% |
Non-Binary |
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| 1% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 55% |
In Person and Online |
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| 45% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 79% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 35% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 32% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 30% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
| 26% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 26% | Behavioral Therapy |
| 26% | Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) |
Ages Served
| 99% | Adult |
| 68% | Young Adult |
| 50% | Senior |
| 43% | Teen |
| 19% | Children |
Client Focus
| 52% | Women |
| 35% | Men |
| 34% | LGBTQ+ |
| 24% | Christian |
| 24% | Military / Veterans |