Thirty-Minute Therapy for Anxiety

Many books on treating anxiety include extensive exercises and practice worksheets and offer dozens of therapeutic techniques for getting worry and fear under control. Those who lack the time or patience to work through these books are left to their own devices and continue suffering with anxiety, even though there are simple ways to alleviate stressful and potentially debilitating worry, panic, and fear.Thirty-Minute Therapy for Anxiety is a simple solution, a pocket guide designed to appeal to those readers seeking trustworthy, instant advice for healing their anxiety or helping to ease the anxiety of a loved one. This book follows the unique Thirty Minute Therapy series format. In about one hour, readers learn the essentials about anxiety: what causes and contributes to anxiety symptoms, how to stop them, and how to keep them from coming back. Then, readers have the option of exploring each topic further through exercises they can do to practice the cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness and acceptance techniques they have learned. Depending on how much each reader relates to the topic at hand, he or she may choose to delve further into the topic, or simply proceed to the next chapter. Readers seeking even more practice exercises and examples will appreciate the Thirty-Minute Therapy for Anxiety supplemental material available online exclusively to readers. This three-level approach allows readers to tailor their experience of reading the book to their specific needs and interests.