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SCHEMA THERAPY: A DEPTH APPROACH FOR AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER

Avatar photo By Laura Johnson, LMFT, A-CBT February 2, 2016

What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?
Avoidant Personality Disorder (avoidant PD) can be thought of as a more extreme and pervasive type of social anxiety that cuts across many parts of your life. For example, if you have social anxiety, you may have specific social fears such as public speaking, dating, making phone calls, fear of authority figures,… Continue reading

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How to Get Help for Social Anxiety

The National Social Anxiety Center (NSAC) is an association of independent Regional Clinics and Associates throughout the United States with certified cognitive-behavioral therapists (CBT) specializing in social anxiety and other anxiety-related problems.

Find an NSAC Regional Clinic or Associate which is licensed to help people in the state where you are located.

Places where NSAC Regional Clinics and Associates are Based

ARIZONA: Phoenix ● CALIFORNIA: Long Beach ● Los Angeles ● Newport Beach / Orange County ● Newport Beach Associate ● San Clemente / Orange County ● San Diego ● San Francisco ● Santa Barbara ● Silicon Valley / San Jose ● COLORADO: Denver ● CONNECTICUT: Avon ● DELAWARE: Coastal Delaware ● DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Washington, DC ● FLORIDA: South Florida ● IDAHO: South Central Idaho ● ILLINOIS: Chicago ● Chicago Associate ● IOWA: Des Moines ● KENTUCKY: Louisville ● MARYLAND: Baltimore ● Montgomery County ● MASSACHUSETTS: Western Massachusetts ● MICHIGAN: Kalamazoo ● MISSOURI: St. Louis ● NEW JERSEY: North Jersey ● NEW YORK: Brooklyn ● New York City ● Staten Island ● NORTH CAROLINA: Asheville / Western North Carolina ● PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia ● Pittsburgh ● TEXAS: Houston / Sugar Land ● Dallas ● VIRGINIA: Northern Virginia Associate

Social Anxiety Self-Help Books by NSAC Therapists

Overcoming Shame-Based Social Anxiety & Shyness: A CBT Workbook
by Larry Cohen, LICSW, A-CBT
— NSAC cofounder and Chair
— Representing NSAC District of Columbia

Social Anxiety for Dummies by Laura Johnson, LMFT, LPCC, A-CBT
— Representing NSAC Silicon Valley / San Jose

Click here for more information about these and other CBT books by NSAC therapists.

Standing Up for Marginalized Persons

There is rising violence, abuse and discrimination in the United States directed against Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Asians, Muslims, women, LGBTQ persons, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. The National Social Anxiety Center (NSAC) stands for the welfare, dignity and equality of all people, regardless of individual differences and societal standards. In all our clinical and educational work, NSAC stands against racism, antisemitism, misogyny, homophobia and all other forms of bigotry and abuse.
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