Exposure Therapy
Exposure Therapy
Exposure Therapy
Exposure therapy is a comprehensive form of cognitive behavioral therapy in which you gain gradual exposure to things, activities, and situations you fear. Exposure therapy helps you to confront your fear with the help of your therapist in a structured environment.
Rise Well Behavioral provides comprehensive exposure therapy where you can experience a safe environment so you can overcome your underlying, or even exposed, fears, and lead an improved and healthy lifestyle.
Core Skills of Exposure Therapy
The success of exposure therapy requires the expertise of both psychotherapists and the patient. Here is a basic guide to the core skills for this therapeutic journey.
Fear identifications, including triggers and causes
Fear hierarchy, from least to most stressful and distressing
Effective habituation training for anxiety to decrease naturally
Cognitive abilities to identify the possible challenges and solutions
Assuring consistency and repetition until the fear loses and the person gains confidence to overcome it.
Conditions Treated with Exposure Therapy
Anxiety Disorders
Obsessive and Compulsive Disorders (OCD)
Specific Behavioral Traits
What are the Benefits of Exposure Therapy?
Exposure therapy is, undoubtedly, one of the most effective psychotherapies for managing mental health disorders. It is a clinically proven therapy that uses grounded techniques to restore mental well-being.
Improvement in Quality of Life:
By effectively managing the unaddressed and underlying fears, you can experience improvement and significant positivity and gain overall confidence in your everyday life.
Overcoming Phobias:
Phobias are an extensive category of fears that can affect the personality. Hence, by treating these phobias, you can lead a fearless and stress-free life.
Regulates Emotional Intelligence:
With the comprehensive approaches of exposure therapy, you can develop a sense of emotional intelligence, which will help you in understanding and handling emotions.
Process Trauma:
With the help of exposure therapy, you can process the traumatic events and grief that contribute to distress and relapse.
What to Expect During Treatment?
Exposure therapies are based on comprehensive systematic techniques that not only gradually expose the person to their fears but also help them in understanding and managing them effectively.
- Initial thorough assessment, discussing fears, signs, symptoms, triggering points, and causes.
- Creating a fear hierarchy, listing possible fear-inducing ideas, activities, and situations, from least affecting to significantly anxiety-provoking.
- Starting gradual exposure to fear with the assistance of your mental health expert, starting from the least affected ones.
- The exposure is repeatedly practiced again and again until the fear, stress, and anxiety are dropped, and you learn to cope with it.
- Finally, exposure and management to a high level and significant fear of things, thoughts, circumstances, and activities.
Ready Yourself for Healing
Brandie Petet
Provider Alston is very kind and attentive. She listens very well, and she is very concerned about your medications working their best. I highly recommend her.
Melissa Bailey
Excellent dr to manage ADD. They are caring and take time to truly understand and do what’s best for the individual patient. Rebecca & Christine continually go the extra mile for patients.
Louanne Dickenson
Therapist listened to my situation and issues. Knowledgeable of condition and how to help me
Chérie King
Kai is a great practitioner and I receive excellent care from her. Televisits work smoothly and are so convenient
Frequently Asked Questions
How does exposure therapy help reduce fear or anxiety?
Exposure therapy works by gaining experience with the ideas, activities, situations, and things you fear. By getting a slow understanding, your brain comprehends that the concept was not harmful, and slowly you overcome the fear and its associated anxiety and stress.
How long does exposure therapy take to work?
The duration of exposure therapy with Rise Well Behavioral depends on the type of fears and the severity of the person’s condition. For example, if a person is having mild anxiety, exposure therapy, they will start to notice changes in the first few sessions. However, long-term PTSD can take months to experience behavioral changes.
Can exposure therapy be done online or virtually?
Yes, absolutely! Rise Well Behavioral performs exposure therapy sessions virtually. We conduct in-depth discussions about the fears, causes, symptoms, and associated triggering points and rule out their solutions.
Do I need medication along with exposure therapy?
Not necessarily. The therapies at Rise Well Behavioral can be provided without any medication management. However, the medications are prescribed under the supervision of an expert mental health professional.
