SAN JOSE & SANTA CRUZTreatment for Specific Phobias in San Jose & Santa Cruz
Intense fear and avoidance of a particular object or situation — such as dogs, spiders, elevators, flying, or medical and dental visits — characterizes a specific phobia. It's common for individuals to have multiple specific phobias.
At a Glance
- Common triggers
- Heights, elevators, injections, animals, flying
- Typical duration
- 6 months or more if untreated
- Treated with
- CBT, exposure therapy, EMDR
- Format
- In-person or telehealth
What Are the Symptoms of Specific Phobia?
Specific Phobia is characterized by marked fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation, such as flying, heights, elevators, enclosed spaces, storms, water, insects, animals, injections, seeing blood, choking, or vomiting.
What Are the Causes of Specific Phobia?
There is no one single cause of Specific Phobia. Negative or traumatic encounters with the feared object or situation sometimes, but not always, precede the development of a specific phobia. Risk factors include negative childhood adversity, physical and sexual abuse, parental over-protectiveness, and parental loss and separation, as well as behavioral inhibition and negative emotions or neuroticism. There may be a genetic susceptibility to a certain category of specific phobia.
How Can You Treat Specific Phobia?
Anxiety Treatment Services provides integrative and comprehensive therapy for Specific Phobia including individual therapy, group support and behavioral fieldwork. Modalities include Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy including guided imagery practice and real-life desensitization/graduated exposure therapy, Psychotherapy, EMDR, and Meditation/Mindfulness.
Now is the time to live phobia free.