Exposure therapy
Anxiety and avoidance keep each other going: what you avoid stays scary. With exposure you deliberately confront, at a safe and built-up pace, the situations, memories or sensations you avoid.
Anxiety and avoidance keep each other going: what you avoid stays scary. With exposure you deliberately confront, at a safe and built-up pace, the situations, memories or sensations you avoid.
You experience that the anxiety subsides on its own and that you can handle it. With imaginal exposure this happens with traumatic memories: recalling, reliving and processing.
- Effective for anxiety, panic, phobia and OCD
- Built up at your pace, never rushed
- Also as imaginal exposure for trauma
Symptoms for which Exposure therapy is often used
Whether this treatment suits you is something we decide together during the intake. See per symptom which forms we use.
Always applied with an eye for your context
What is helpful differs from one world to another. At AndersGGZ we apply every treatment in a culturally sensitive way, with attention to your language, cultural values and the people around you. We don't impose our interpretation, but explore together what is right for you.