Effective Health Anxiety Treatment
Drawing on the latest scientific research and our over 30+ years of combined experience in treating anxiety, Dr. Josh Spitalnick and Michael Stier, LCPC, LPC created this site to bring together resources from leading evidence-based approaches to understanding and treating health anxiety, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP).
Do you struggle with never-ending concerns about your health or find yourself trapped in the cycle of researching medical symptoms online (cyberchondria)? Do you monitor your blood pressure or oxygen levels excessively or make frequent trips to urgent care or the ER when you think you are in a medical crisis? Is seeking reassurance about your symptoms from anyone who will listen creating more problems than it is solving? If these scenarios sound all too familiar, than this site is for you and the 4-10% of the population who battle health anxiety. There is, however, another way…
Instead of spending the rest of your life living IN fear of your health concerns, it is our hope that this site will help you embrace living WITH fear while building more purpose, joy, and intentionality in the life you desire and deserve. It’s time to become an anxiety specialist and, once and for all, Overcome Your Health Anxiety.