Anxiety
Cognitive reprocessing and desensitization (sometimes called exposure therapy) helps decrease the amount of worry or fear that a stimulus (e.g. heights, sounds, scents) triggers. Contact me about guided imagery and bilateral processing (tapping or eye movement) – therapy tools that help rewrite the mental script of traumatic experience.
Anxiety can take many shapes and patterns – perhaps you find yourself faced with a persistent, unshakable fear? Do you experience flashbacks or physical triggering? Maybe you find your anxious thoughts ‘daisy-chain’ in some way, building one on another. To find out more about your anxiety, see this self-assessment tool.
All of us confront fears that loom large at times – we benefit from facilitation to face our fears. Therapy helps you identify the emotional underpinnings of your anxious thought patterns, gaining mindfulness and creating space for inner peace.
I recommend combining careful attention to the shape of your thoughts and feelings along with healthy grounding and coping, relaxation and mindfulness practices to manage anxiety. It is often helpful in resolving anxiety to look under the hood of irrational thoughts for the emotional meaning underneath.
Contact me to learn more about self-acceptance and its role in change, reprocessing, and healthy coping to prevent overwhelming anxiety.
Dealing with Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Thoughts, PTSD, Sleeplessness, or Panic? Call Dr. Douglass at (415) 215-4796.
I am a postdoctoral psych assistant (PSB 34300) to Dr. Gary Stolzoff, UCSF Clinical Professor (PSY 6841).
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