What is Specific Phobia ?

Specific phobias may cause both physical and psychological distress. Triggers, such as places or things you're avoiding because of your anxiety and fears. Include how you've tried to deal with these triggers, and factors that make the situation better or worse. Key personal information, including any major stresses or recent life changes.

Phobia symptoms

• Traumatic experiences
• Substance abuse
• Being raised by adults with phobia or anxiety

Treatment for Specific Phobia

Our phobia treatment plans are centered on helping you develop the necessary coping skills to overcome your phobia. Treatment often includes EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), a method that has proven effective for treating anxiety and trauma. We also use exposure therapy which is a behavioral treatment method that involves gradual exposure to the source of your phobia while providing strategies for overcoming the symptoms that this exposure provokes.

Physical health plays a significant and often underemphasized role in the development of phobias. Severe anxiety produces a lot of stress in the body which can lead to other health problems such as adrenal fatigue or elevated blood pressure. We use functional medicine to restore your physical health to its optimal state. To do so, we develop an individualized schedules that can help to significantly reduce symptoms of both anxiety and phobias when combined with adequate rest, nutrition, and lifestyle counseling.Our psychiatrist can also prescribe medication to treat the phobia, however, we would only do so if our holistic treatment has proven ineffective.