Where to go for treatment for social anxiety disorder?

Hi Linnea,

Sebastiaan here

I’ve suffered from social anxiety disorder for over 5 years and am now completely healed. I have no social anxiety anymore. This is possible for you as well. And for anyone reading this for that matter…

I’ve experienced almost all of the possible options for therapy and would like you to give you the best two out there.

One of the ways -which your doctor probably advised you- is CBT.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is based on the premise that thoughts cause feelings. And that your feelings affect your behavior. The therapy uncovers negative thinking, irrational beliefs and unwanted behaviors that cause your negative emotions.

These negative thoughts, beliefs and behaviors first get identified. Once that’s achieved the approach is to replace these with more rational, positive ones.

This in turn changes the way you think about social situations that give you anxiety. And as a result you’ll feel better, can think more clearly, and make better decisions.

Aside from that, CBT teaches you how to control the physical symptoms of your anxiety through various relaxation and breathing exercises.

And CBT also focuses on exposure therapy.

This is where you will systematically desensitize yourself to social situations you fear.
Together with your therapist you think of a social situation that you might fear.

For example saying hi to a colleague. Before facing the situation in real life you work with your therapist to minimize the amount of anxiety you experience when thinking about the fearful situation.

Then once you feel confident enough to face it in real life, you take the step and “expose” yourself to the situation.

Once you feel comfortable doing that, you go on to the next step. You slowly but surely expose yourself to more and more social situations. But you get less anxious and more and more confident the more situations you are able to face.

An additional form of social anxiety treatment in CBT is group therapy for social anxiety.

Here you practice role-playing and other methods to improve your social skills. This lessens your anxiety as you feel more competent and confident in your social abilities.

CBT is the most recognized form of therapy and will get you results. However, the downside is that it is expensive and that it is hard and challenging work. Plus you are not guaranteed to completely recover…

A program that you doctor might have referred you to (I’m not related to this program) is this one:

http://www.socialanxietyinstitute.org/international.html

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The second form of therapy -which I have experienced and am certified in- is called EFT. This stands for Emotional Freedom Technique.

It’s a psychological form of accupuncture yet instead of using needles you use the finger tips to stimulate specific meredian points on the body. It’s a weird looking technique, yet in the hands of a skilled professional extremely effective. We’re talking above 95% success rates here!

I was extremely skeptical in the beginning myself as well, but I have applied it to myself successfully, have undergone training and have healed over a hundred people of several different emotional issues. Including social phobia’s…

I have struggled for years and have worked very hard and intensively trying to solve my social anxiety using all sorts of psychology approaches, herbs, affirmations, hypnosis, NLP etc.

And I made progress with them for sure. But after years of trying very hard I only solved maybe 40% of my social anxiety. EFT helped me within months to clear the remaining 60%.

Trust me, this stuff really works.

The premise of EFT is that “the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.”

And when you tap on specific meridian points on your body while being focused in on your “problem”, the disruption in your energy system gets balanced out and due to that the negative emotions disappears.

I know, you now probably think I lost it…

…Or that I’m some weird airy-fairy woo-woo guy that believes in ghosts and fairy tales.

But seriously, this weird technique is an amazing form of social anxiety treatment. In fact, I believe it to be the most effective form of social anxiety treatment out there.

It’s fast, painfree and extremely effective. You experience relief and will feel better after only one session (though completely overcoming your SAD takes several more sessions).

I have a video on youtube where I explain how it works and where I guide you through the process.
You might want to have a look and try it for yourself. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jnlu1DaHLo# )

I offer a coaching package called “Social Anxiety to Social Confidence Guaranteed” on my site. Here I coach you 1 on 1 via skype (getting coached from the comfort of your own home and the ease of sitting behind your PC) to social confidence within 3 months. Guaranteed.

For the exact details, go here:

http://www.social-anxiety-solutions.com/cure-social-anxiety.html