Is your anxiety the same as if someone was running at you with a machete?” That’s how Melissa Tyler, the executive program ...

Exposure therapy is the most widely used method for phobias, helping people face fears gradually instead of avoiding them. This approach has revolutionized how mental health professionals tackle ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a mental health condition. Obsessions include recurring, distressing thoughts of ideas that cause anxiety and compulsions are physical or ...

I recently published a post on myths about exposure therapy. As soon as it went live, I remembered several other myths I’d forgotten. But this happens to everyone. This post will cover those ...

Exposure therapy, in which patients gradually face the things and situations they fear, is among the most effective treatments for anxiety disorders, yet it remains underutilized (Pittig, Kotter, & ...

Many strategies used to treat anxiety disorders have shaped eating disorder interventions. Exposure therapy, for example, is frequently applied to help individuals face fears driven by persistent, ...

Imagine easing a fear of heights by getting over a phobia of spiders. That might sound odd, but it works, researchers report. Folks who use exposure therapy to overcome one phobia can find themselves ...

"The treatment that we're delivering , called exposure based CBT or cognitive behavioral treatment, that's really the gold standard for youth with anxiety," said Dr. Jennifer Freeman, the director of ...

A comparatively quick treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, in which a patient writes about traumatic experiences in five supervised 30-minute sessions, is as effective as the therapies most ...