Carl Wells Therapist

Commonsense Anxiety Reduction

Have you given up hope that you can free yourself of terribly painful anxious feelings? Help is readily available to help you to put an end to your suffering. Do you suffer anxiety that won’t go away, whether in many situations, or only certain ones? Although highly effective treatments are available from experienced therapists you might have given up hope that you could conquor these devastating emotions that rob you of the peace and quality of life you deserve.

Do you agonize over what maintains your suffering? Chances are that you are doing what comes ‘naturally’ and that you are doing the best you know how and for very good reasons. I mean you are striving for peace and security, a very good reason! But the way out of this mess requires doing some things that might very well seem as if they are the very worst way out.

Often, in treating new patients I am filled with compassion when they tell me they are scared to death of dwelling on or getting swallowed up by anxiety if they choose to purposely study their anxious thoughts and communicate them to me so I can provide the most effective treatment. I find that learning the best tools to rapidly gain control over anxiety involve being willing to experiment with disclosure of your fears at your own pace will lead to amazing improvement.

Even though there are very good workbooks, such as Padesky and Greenberg’s MIND OVER MOOD I believe most people need he guiding hand of a therapist to help them through the process of using these well researched methods that have helped many people conquor anxiety.

I welcome your comments and questions and I will reply to issues and questions that would help others.

Carl Wells, Therapist