Anxiety Treatment
Anxiety treatment can be difficult to find. We've made it easy. AnxietyClinics.com is a network of therapists and other professionals able to treat anxiety conditions.
Articles From Our Therapists
Anxiety: When a Useful Emotion Becomes a Problem - By Dr. Carol Low
How To Overcome Panic Attacks - By Roger Tilton, Ph.D.
Cognitive-behavior therapy has been shown in numerous studies to be the treatment of choice for overcoming panic disorder. The reason it is so effective is because it is based on an accurate understanding of what causes and maintains panic attacks. This makes it a much more specific and powerful approach than more general approaches such as relaxation or other types of psychotherapies, and in terms of lasting results it is far more effective than psychotropic medication...
Creating Resilience - Understanding your brains reaction to stress - By Sara Denning, Ph.D.
Chronic Anxiety causes changes in the part of the brain known as the Amygdala. Your daily dose of stress also causes fatigue in the Medial Prefrontal cortex. This information should sound frightening. So now that you are worried about all the things you usually are, you can add on worrying about what the worry is doing to your brain...
Using Your Experience of Anxiety to Reduce Future Symptoms - By Sara Denning, Ph.D.
As you are experiencing stress at lower levels you can use current symptoms to create behavioral change. Understanding the original confusion behind your stress response is a key to creating better resilience for future stress of the same type...
Anxiety: Friend or Foe? - By Terry Tempinski, Ph.D.
If you are feeling anxious, panicky or consumed with worry to the point of not being able to focus, concentrate, sleep, or comfortably interact with others, please don't get caught up in what I call identifying with a diagnosis such as "anxiety disorder" or "panic disorder". Diagnoses are merely tools mental health professionals use to describe a cluster of symptoms. Symptoms of anxiety are much like a fever, which we know indicates that we have an infection of some type. If we define our problem as merely a fever and only treat the fever, we run the risk of overlooking the cause of the fever, thus prolonging our recovery...
The ABC's of Psychotherapy - By Terry Tempinski, Ph.D.
Deciding to pursue therapy, finding a therapist, making that first call and keeping that appointment are, from my perspective, huge and courageous steps. Moreover, these initial steps are usually taken partially in the dark, so to speak. You do not know this person, you have no clue as to whether they can help you, and here you are deciding to lay out for them intimate details about your personal life and struggles...
Anxiety Treatment Information
Treating anxiety usually requires one of the following measures, or a combination thereof:
Cognitive Therapy:
Cognitive Therapy focuses on learning to separate realistic and unrealistic thoughts. By doing so, the therapist and patient are working together in an attempt to alter unwanted and alarming thoughts.
Behavioral Therapy:
Behavioral Therapy focuses on learning to cope with difficult situations. The goal in behavioral therapy is to ultimately reduce unwanted behavior.
Relaxation:
Practices such as exercise and breathing retraining help the patient gain the ability to utilize coping mechanisms for the stressors that contribute to their anxiety.
Anxiety Medication:
When used in addition to other forms of treatment, anti-anxiety medication can be a short or long term option to help ease severe symptoms so that other forms of therapy can be more beneficial.
What To Expect From Anxiety Treatment
Anxiety disorders are believed to be caused by a combination of biological and environmental factors. Most are treatable with professional aid. Depending on the severity of the disorder, treatment plans can vary for each individual. Treatments are generally customized for each patient because it is not abnormal for a sufferer to have more than one diagnosis. Although each situation is unique, the same common practices and combinations of techniques are used as a guideline in the majority of treatments.
Insurance For The Treatment Of Anxiety
Some therapy providers accept insurance and some do not. Some providers may accept insurance but not your insurance, or your insurance company may not cover your therapy. It is import to contact both your insurance provider and your therapists to find out if your visits will be covered by insurance.
Disclaimer
AnxietyClinics.com provides the anxiety treatment directory for informational purposes only. We cannot warrant the therapy of any particular practioner listed on our website, nor should information on our site be used for any purpose other than locating a therapist.
Understanding Therapist Designations
As our directory grows we will be cataloging therapists based on their credentials. Therapists listed on our website may hold any number of degrees awarded to mental health professionals. We encourage you to contact therapists listed on the website directly to inquire about their full scope of practice.
While our therapists have experience in treating anxiety, they may also treat a wide variety of other psychological conditions. We recommend contacting your therapist of choice directly to learn about their full scope of practice.