Anxiety therapy over the previous couple of decades of hardly improved up until now. A large advancement as attended Havening treatment, this anxiety treatment allows the anxiety expert to help the client make changes that were utterly impossible before. Havening therapy is very similar to Exposure therapy.

Let's take a look at a couple of ways exposure can help an anxiety disorder.

In two ways exposure can be very helpful. If you have problems with people staring at you or avoiding you when you are in public situations it may be a great help to be in front of those situations or people slowly.

If you have phobia of heights it is possible that being on the roof or on a tall building can help reduce your phobia. The reason is that you are completely exposed to the fear. Once you are on a tall building or on a roof you are forced to face your fear.

In both cases you are exposed to your fears. Your doctor will tell you that you have to expose you to your fears, but that you should be in control. You should know what you can bear, and you should know what your limits are.

You should not force yourself. You should allow the therapist to help you learn the limits of your fear. In both situations the way the exposure therapy works is that you gradually go further and further into the thing that scares you. You may find that the fear only gets weaker after you do it, but you must keep going. The fears should get weaker and weaker until you can bear it no more. The moment you stop exposure therapy your phobia will rise to the top again.

When you first start with exposure therapy you may find that it has no effect at all. You may feel as if your heart is still beating. Then you go back to your doctor and they will prescribe you the medication and you will go on your way with your phobia suppressed.

The very important thing is to stick with your therapist. , if you choose a good therapist for phobia therapy you will get results.. If you don't choose a good therapist and simply dash off some notes to see a different one every week or month you will never get over your phobia and it will never go away. This is a bad method and not a good method.

You may find that you have to do some very intense exposures to get over your phobia. It may take a long time, or it may happen in a few sessions. I know a way that works very effectively. The key is to give yourself time and to be patient and thorough. The exposure is the key.

Get a piece of paper and write down everything that you feel when you are near the thing that you fear most. Now go and sit in front of your fear. Now keep feeling all that you feel.

Just sit and go in front of your fear and experience the fear. At this stage if you go and sit in front of your fear again you may feel it starting to slow down again.

At this point you should stop exposure therapy. But you should still write down everything you feel. Don't leave any part out. Don't hesitate to write about the whole ordeal. At this stage you can move on to stage two.

Stage Two:

At this point you should move onto stage two. Don't do exposure therapy again. You will have to move onto the stage of CBT.

CBT:

CBT or cognitive behavioural therapy is another one of those therapeutic methods that have been used for a long time. The problem is that it's hard to explain to a person who has a phobia that they should do this therapy to change their mind.

* Show them how thoughts work. They work on your brain. If you have a phobia of cats they will make your brain think cats are bad.

* Explain how a thought makes you perceive things. You must change how you think or how you perceive things before you can have a change in your phobia.

* Use a phobia as an example. You can use the fear of cats. When you read this you will see that a thought made you perceive cats as bad. This is how phobias form.

* You must learn that when you have a thought about a phobia you make your brain think something negative about it. The question is how do you stop this from happening. The answer is to change the way you think.

The things that you must learn in CBT are very complex and very technical. This should not deter you from trying to cure your phobia.

If you have phobia of heights it is possible that being on the roof or on a tall building can help reduce your phobia. The moment you stop exposure therapy your phobia will rise to the top again.

If you choose a good therapist for phobia therapy you will get results. Just sit and go in front of your fear and experience the fear. The problem is that it's hard to explain to a person who has a phobia that they should do this therapy to change their mind.