CBT for Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Randy Weiss Therapy specializes in treating adults 25+ who have anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, unwanted thoughts, and insomnia.
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably been suffering from anxiety for a long time. Randy Weiss Therapy is dedicated to helping adults understand why you developed anxiety, what keeps it going and how you can overcome it using evidence-based treatment strategies that get results once and for all!
When I began Randy Weiss Therapy, I was more of a generalist. But after a while I began to see how overwhelmed my clients felt from anxiety and panic attacks and how much it encroached on their lives.
As I gained expertise in treating anxiety problems with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, I was impressed by how rapidly my clients got relief from their symptoms. Nothing gives me more satisfaction than seeing the look of hope in a client’s eyes when he or she learns there is a treatment that can help them get their life back.
My Specialty
I am a certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapist
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an evidenced based, scientifically proven method of therapy that helps you understand how anxiety and panic affect your thoughts, emotions and behavior and impair your quality of life.
It is an extremely effective treatment for overcoming many anxiety problems, including panic attacks, social anxiety, OCD, chronic worry and insomnia.
Professional Affiliations and Training
Treatment For
Panic attacks often occur out of the blue and trick you into believing that you’re having a serious medical problem – – like a heart attack.
The key to overcoming panic attacks is learning why you don’t have to fear them and then practicing a different response to your symptoms that will calm things down!
Treatment For
Social Anxiety is the fear that others will judge you negatively and reject you in some way. Your beliefs cause a great deal of anticipatory anxiety and lead you to avoid socializing, dating, educational goals and job opportunities. Fortunately, this pervasive anxiety disorder is treatable.
Treatment for Social Anxiety encompasses 3 key aspects: correcting your thoughts to be more objective; practicing techniques to focus your attention and manage your anxiety, and conducting experiments to disprove your “fear-come-true” scenarios, or help you cope with them if they do occur.
Treatment For
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a worry problem. It’s a bad case of the ”What Ifs” characterized by jumping to worst case scenarios, which causes or worsens physical symptoms like insomnia, headaches, muscle tension, gastrointestinal problems.
Treatment for GAD entails getting a different relationship to your thoughts. By that I mean learning when your worry thoughts are worth paying attention to – – and when you are better off treating them like spam!
Treatment For
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) means that you have random, unwanted, disturbing thoughts that cause you to doubt yourself and question if you would actually do the things that come into your mind.
The thoughts make you feel anxious, ashamed, guilty. So you react by engaging in behaviors, called rituals, to try and rid yourself of the terrible thoughts and gain a feeling of certainty. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work. In fact, your frantic efforts only make things worse.
Treatment For
People with chronic insomnia have developed unhelpful sleeping habits that are working against them by undermining the body’s natural “drive” to sleep. These habits, combined with misconceptions about the impact of insomnia on functioning, fuel a vicious cycle of worry about not sleeping followed by frantic attempts to make up sleep.
CBT for insomnia (CBT-I) comprises several key components. First, you will learn how you got there and what you’re doing that is perpetuating your insomnia. Second, I’ll teach you how to gather sleep data so we get an accurate picture of what’s going on. Then, we will target for change your specific sleep-interfering behaviors to restore your body’s normal desire for sleep.
How I Treat
CBT teaches you to recognize the distortions in your thinking that cause you to feel anxious, angry, sad. By learning how to make your thoughts more objective and realistic, you can feel much more relaxed, neutral, content.
In a nutshell, CBT helps you get a more balanced perspective on situations that are causing you emotional distress.
How I Treat
All anxiety disorders cause you to avoid – – places, situations, social interactions. To get better, you must go toward what you fear. But. . . there is a right way and a wrong way to do exposure. I’ll teach you the correct way to practice doing what you’ve been avoiding by using techniques to manage your fearful thoughts and physical sensations.
Exposure therapy is widely recognized to be the most efficient, effective method for overcoming anxiety.
How To Get Started
I offer a free phone consultation to discuss your situation, answer your questions and tell you how I would approach treating your problem.