What we treat
Advancing Treatments. Improving Outcomes.
Our approach to assessment and treatment is supportive and evidence-based, which means that the treatments we use are shown to be effective based on scientific data and represent the gold standard psychological treatments for a variety of mental health concerns.
Our treatment center is staffed by several clinical psychologists who have extensive experience and expertise in treating children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety and related disorders.
Our clinicians contributed to several landmark studies which evaluated various treatments for childhood and adolescent emotional and behavioral health disorders (anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, ADHD, tics, and Tourette’s syndrome) by completing rigorous training and certification needed to serve as investigators, diagnosticians, and treatment specialists for large-scale multicenter randomized controlled treatment studies.
Anxiety and Related Disorders
Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders affecting children, adolescents, and adults. In addition to anxiety, we are trained to treat a broad range of behavioral health issues and specialize in treating the following disorders:
- Separation anxiety disorder
- Generalized anxiety disorder
- Social anxiety disorder
- Selective mutism
- Phobias
- Emetophobia
- Panic attacks, panic disorder & agoraphobia
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Depression
- Tics and Tourette’s syndrome
- Co-occurring chronic pain conditions (e.g., headaches, stomachaches)
What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is a basic human emotion that is necessary to ensure survival (by alerting us to potential dangers) and success (by motivating us to prepare for important tasks). This type of anxiety is helpful and adaptive when it occurs at the right time and at the appropriate level of intensity.
When anxiety is irrational (i.e., not related to a real threat), developmentally inappropriate, exaggerated, chronic, and interferes with functioning, it is considered excessive and may be a sign of a bigger problem.
It is estimated that more than 20% of American children, adolescents, and adults experience this type of problematic anxiety. In addition to the extreme distress and negative impact on mood, excessive anxiety can interfere with an individual's education, occupation, parenting, relationships, self-esteem, and recreational activities. Excessive anxiety prevents people from doing what they need - and want - to do.
Although these disorders are associated with significant impairment in functioning, they are highly treatable. Decades of research show that the most effective treatments include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and/or medication, in particular the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Your treatment team will present intervention options that account for factors such as age/developmental status, symptom severity and co-occurring illness, and treatment history. Referrals for medication evaluations will be provided as needed.