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Intense fear and avoidance of a particular object or situation such as dogs, spiders, elevators, flying, medical or dental visits, etc.
Specific Phobia is characterized by marked fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation such as flying, heights, elevators, enclosed spaces, storms, water, insects, animals, injections, seeing blood, choking or vomiting.
There is no one single cause of Specific Phobia. Negative or traumatic encounters with the feared object or situation sometimes, but not always, precede the development of specific phobia.
Risk factors include negative childhood adversity, physical and sexual abuse, parental over protectiveness and parental loss and separation as well as behavioral inhibition and negative emotions or neuroticism.
There may be a genetic susceptibility to a certain category of specific phobia.
Anxiety Treatment Services provides integrative and comprehensive therapy for Specific Phobia including individual therapy, group support and behavioral fieldwork.
Modalities include Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy including guided imagery practice and real life desensitization/graduated exposure therapy, Psychotherapy, EMDR, and Meditation/Mindfulness.