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Exposure Therapy in Jacksonville, Florida

Exposure Therapy in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida Psychologist and

Phobia Treatment Expert

 

Dr. D’Arienzo, Jacksonville Florida Psychologist, provides Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy. He specializes in the treatment of anxiety and panic related conditions such as driving phobia and bridge phobia. Please contact our office if you or a loved one needs assistance in overcoming these conditions. Dr. D’Arienzo will create a program specific to the identified fear in graded steps. He will be with you along the way and will get you back on the road, highway, and over the bridge. 

 

What Is Exposure Therapy, And How Is It Used For The Treatment Of Anxiety Disorders?

Question: What is exposure therapy, and how is it used for the treatment of anxiety disorders?

Answer: Exposure therapy is aimed at maladaptive, excessive, or unreasonable anxiety. That is, for example, someone with OCD will touch a doorknob, and they’ll think, “Oh, if I touch this doorknob, I might get a disease like HIV.” So again, the anxiety is out of proportion to the actual experience. The intention in exposure therapy is to get your brain to signal you in a more accurate way. In an anxiety disorder, your anxiety system is giving you misinformation. It’s giving you information that you’re in danger when you’re in fact not in danger.

So exposure therapy — the idea is that we have you systematically confront your fears: go into those situations that are causing you anxiety. The idea is that you don’t leave that situation and you don’t do anything to protect yourself. It’s a really difficult treatment because your anxiety actually feels like it’s increasing in the moment, and it is increasing in the moment.

As that bad thing doesn’t happen, the feared consequence doesn’t happen, your brain starts to learn something new — “Oh, bad things don’t happen in the situation the way that I thought” — and your anxiety naturally starts to come down on its own — we call this habituation. And that’s what we think is helpful in the treatment of anxiety disorders.

So with repeated exposures to those kinds of situations — where you go into the situation, you don’t escape, you don’t protect yourself — your anxiety will go down on its own, and you’ll have less anxiety in future similar situations.

Jeff Szymanski, Ph.D., Dir., Psychological Services, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Institute, McLean Hospital April 16, 2008 (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/AnxietyTreating/story?id=4665240#.Twz5p2_-_AY)

 

 

 

Ponte Vedra Beach Psychologist, Jacksonville Psychologist Provides Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy

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