While each treatment program is individualized, your program is likely to consist of one or more of the following treatments: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy; EMDR; and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. We have found that by integrating these three clinically proven psychotherapy procedures, we can maximize treatment effectiveness. Sometimes one approach is all a client needs to overcome [...]
We will spend the first two to three sessions really getting to know you. At your initial consultation, you’ll share with your therapist the problems you are having, and what you’d like to be different. Your therapist will share with you their sense of how much they’ll be able to help you, and you’ll get [...]
The Anxiety Treatment Center was developed by the staff at Gallatin Psychotherapy, Inc. and is led by John Wimberly, Ph.D. to deliver the best that psychotherapy has to offer for the treatment of anxiety. Gallatin Psychotherapy, Inc. is a group psychotherapy practice owned by Lori Marchak, LCPC and John Wimberly, Ph.D. The center is located [...]
Practicing emotional and social skills is just as important as physical exercise for improving your overall wellness. Just as you might head for Peet’s Hill rather than Sacajawea Peak when you are just starting a physical exercise program, it’s important to know your “mental fitness” level in selecting the mental health exercises right for you. [...]
An important source of our self-esteem and our ability to be personally effective lies in our attachment system. Our attachment system is a built-in, biological system that drives us to seek and maintain close relationships with others, and to seek others’ protection and comfort when we feel threatened or distressed. From the time we are [...]
An estimated 16.4% of Americans have an Anxiety Disorder within any given year. -US Surgeon General, 1999 Two-thirds of people with diagnosable mental disorders do not seek treatment. -US Surgeon General, 1999 Most cases of anxiety disorder can be treated successfully by appropriately trained health and mental health professionals. -American Psychological Association, 2008 What is [...]
The aim of EMDR treatment is to achieve the most profound and comprehensive treatment effects in the shortest period of time -EMDR International Association EMDR was more successful than Prozac in achieving substantial and sustained reductions in anxiety and depression. -Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, January 2007 The speed at which change occurs during EMDR contradicts [...]
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) was developed by psychologist Marsha Linehan in the 1970’s and 1980’s and published in 1993. Trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (CBT), Linehan found CBT insufficient to help severely troubled clients who met diagnostic criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), a mental health condition then considered by many psychotherapists too difficult to [...]
A meta-analysis of 31 controlled studies show both CBT and medications are effective in the treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder. This meta-analysis showed CBT was more effective at reducing symptoms of depression, and at maintaining benefits following treatment (Gould, Otto, Pollack & Yap, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 1997). Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (CBT) were [...]
