While the therapy is noted to be for anxiety, I was very satisfied in that the therapist wanted to learn about me, and not just my anxiety. Which I guess you would figure would be necessary to understand the anxiety, but it felt like a whole person not just a whole problem approach. Thank you.
Overall I had a great experience. My therapist understood my perspective and what I had gone through and applied that to his plan for helping me. I didn’t feel like I got stock anxiety tips. We also related well and I believe he adapted his approach based on my personality and situation.
Dr. Stein approached my situation very professionally. We had about a dozen sessions which were very helpful in my situation and allowed me to find the way to tackle the uncertainty that was causing anxiety. I strongly recommend Dr Stein.
I am a man in my later 20s who struggled with debilitating body image issues. I was living with this pain for over six years. Each year I progressively got worse as I kept feeding into my OCD rituals. Which in turn gave me a burst of short term relief but overall was driving me away from long-term relief and mental wellness. After having a conversation with my uncle and my sister I mustered up the courage to get professional help. I then contacted Anxiety Solutions and I spoke with Mike Stein and told him what I was dealing with. He was gracious and considerate. He then told me that exposure therapy would be the route to go. Which if you have OCD sounds like the most terrifying thing in the world. I immediately trusted him and could tell he was legit. I met up with Dr. Gaus and we instantly hit it off literally within three sentences he spoke to me. I felt comfortable, inspired, and ready to face my fears. I’m super happy I worked with him not only is he well educated on anxiety and OCD he’s an all-around amazing human being. In his practice he was serious in the right moments along with adding humor to put things into perspective. It was so easy for me to open up to him, he just created that environment. When we got into the exposure therapy, not gonna lie it was pretty scary at first but he guided me through how to mentally cope with my thoughts through the experience. It was magical to be able to get exposed and see the strength I have in myself that my anxiety/OCD told me didn’t exist all these years. Take that “anxieties”! I would have conversations with Dr. Gaus That were super insightful on how to view things to be mentally healthier and also we’d just be cracking jokes about the exposures. There were times where I was laughing so hard with the jokes we were coming up with. I never thought that would be a part of my healing, it was literally so fun. Who knew therapy could be fun. After 4.5 sessions Dr. Gaus helped lead me to be a man with mental health and new techniques to go about dealing with my anxieties. I feel so much stronger than I did before I came in. There are things I’m able to do now that I would’ve never felt I’d be able to do. It’s incredible I’m better. Thank you Dr. Tom Gaus. All in all I would definitely recommend Anxiety Solutions based on my experience and I hope that if you’re reading this and you have OCD that you find the strength and inspiration to overcome fears and anxieties you deal with as well.
I am so thankful for the help my son received. His therapist helped our family through a very unexpected, challenging time. My son was very comfortable talking with her. She had a positive approach which helped normalize the anxiety symptoms my son was experiencing. I am so thankful we found Anxiety Solutions.
Week by week I found my OCD and anxieties slowly fade and ultimately made a full recovery to my normal self. The thing I liked most about Dr. Stein was I felt he truly understood my OCD/anxious mind.
I found the videos to be extremely helpful, easy to understand and full of effective strategies.
This video series really resonated with me and went a level deeper than previous treatments I’ve tried… it had a huge impact on helping to ease my worry and form an understanding about my thought patterns.
Fantastic videos and the content has helped me cement ways to manage and reclaim my life back from years of worry and pointless overanalyzing.