What Does Anxiety Therapy Look Like? (Episode 45)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
"What does anxiety therapy look like?"
"What goes on in a session with an anxiety specialist?"
"How can I find the right therapist for me?"
This week Drew and Josh address these questions, including a really interesting 12-minute mock therapy session to start the episode. Josh plays the therapist while Drew is the client struggling with panic and extreme levels of anxiety. It's role play, but it does give a reasonable idea of what a first session with an anxiety specialist might look and sound like.
The guys also talk about different modalities in therapy (treatment styles or methods), the value of being able to bring different therapy concepts to bear on different problems, and the need to have at least some level of connection and relationship with a therapist to get the most from the endeavor.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Josh and Drew. My name is Danielle and I am from New Market, Ontario. You can use my name. First off, I want to say thank you for all of the information and resources that you provide in your podcast. It is extremely helpful. I am an anxiety suffer now for many years. |
| 0:21.5 | I was just wondering if you could do an episode, almost mimicking what a therapy session |
| 0:27.8 | would look like when you are addressing anxiety, OCD, worries. |
| 0:34.1 | It's really hard to kind of get past that bull crap meter in your mind and addressing those |
| 0:42.6 | core beliefs and those core fears. Welcome to Disordered. This is episode 45 entitled, |
| 0:52.0 | what does an anxiety therapy session look like? Or what does anxiety therapy look like? I am Drew Lin Salata. I am a therapist in training in the U.S. in the state of New York, specializing in anxiety and anxiety disorders. I am an author and a podcaster on this topic and a former sufferer of anxiety and depression myself for many years. And I'm Joshua Fletcher, also known as anxiety. |
| 1:11.5 | Josh. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm a psychotherapist based in Manchester in the UK, author, content creator, and co-host |
| 1:18.6 | of this podcast. |
| 1:19.6 | Welcome back. |
| 1:21.0 | That's a really good question. |
| 1:23.3 | What does anxiety therapy look like? |
| 1:25.3 | There's many different kind of types of therapy, but we thought we're going to open this episode today by |
| 1:32.3 | demonstrating what I would do as a therapist. I'm trained in CBT and humanistic counseling |
| 1:40.3 | And when I yeah, we're going to demonstrate what we do now. Drew, would you like to be the client today? |
| 1:46.7 | I will totally be the client. |
| 1:48.2 | By the way, it's Academy Award season. |
| 1:49.8 | So those of you who have connections, please submit this performance for the consideration |
| 1:54.6 | of the Academy. |
| 1:55.6 | It's going to be good. |
| 1:56.6 | Well, we're both going to be kind of performing. |
| 2:00.4 | I'll try and not say jokes and stay in roll. |
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