GAD, panic, social, OCD, phobias — and the modalities that move them.
What works first-line for each anxiety presentation, the worksheets clients actually fill out, and worked cases that show the formulation.
The therapies most relevant to this topic.
Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interlocking — change one and the others move.
Stop fighting your inner experience; start moving toward what matters.
Approach what you fear; resist the ritual; let the brain relearn safety.
An 8-week group program that uses mindfulness to prevent depressive relapse.
Build the capacity for self-compassion in clients dominated by shame and self-criticism.
First-line picks and clinical guidance for the presentations under this topic.
Chronic worry across multiple life domains, often with intolerance of uncertainty.
GAD is driven by worry as a strategy — clients believe it prepares or protects them. Treatment targets worry behavior, intolerance of uncertainty, and avoidance, alongside relaxation and metacognitive beliefs about worry itself.
Recurrent panic attacks plus fear of future attacks; often with agoraphobic avoidance.
Panic is maintained by catastrophic misinterpretation of body sensations (I'm dying, going crazy) and by avoidance/safety behaviors. Interoceptive exposure — deliberately producing the sensations — is the core intervention.
Fear of negative evaluation that drives avoidance, safety behaviors, and post-event rumination.
Treatment targets self-focused attention, safety behaviors, and avoidance of feared social situations. Behavioral experiments that drop safety behaviors are more effective than habituation alone.
Intrusive obsessions paired with compulsions that temporarily relieve anxiety and reinforce the loop.
OCD is maintained by the compulsion, not the thought. Treatment that reduces compulsions (overt and mental) breaks the cycle and lets new safety learning form. Medication (SSRIs at higher-than-depression doses) often adjuncts therapy in moderate-to-severe cases.
Marked, persistent fear of a specific object or situation, with avoidance.
Single-session exposure-based treatment (Öst) achieves clinically meaningful gains in many specific phobias. The active ingredient is exposure with inhibitory learning maximizers.
Excessive worry about having a serious illness, checking and reassurance-seeking behaviors.
Treated as an OCD-spectrum / anxiety problem. Cognitive misappraisal of body sensations + checking/reassurance behaviors maintain the disorder. ERP-style work targets the safety behaviors directly.
Free, printable, Quick-Send to clients.
Plain-language explainers you can share or open together in session.
Anonymized vignettes with formulation across 2–3 modalities.
Step-by-step walkthroughs.