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"If you have a phobia, including a social phobia, where you feel anxious about blushing, public speaking or eating in public \u2013 behaviour therapy can be most helpful. It will not do much delving into your past, or concern itself much with your thoughts; instead it will concentrate on eradicating the difficulty in a practical way.  To do this, the therapist will first help you develop appropriate skills to deal with difficult situations and then adopt a step-by-step approach to help you conquer your fears.  For example, if you&amp;#039;re afraid of eating and drinking in public, the therapist will give you little techniques to help you reduce your anxiety, but will then encourage you to face your problems.  Sometimes the therapist may suggest things you think are impossible or weird, but it&amp;#039;s done with your mental health in mind.  How behaviour therapy works Let&amp;#039;s suppose you are someone who&amp;#039;s so terrified of knocking over a glass of wine in a posh restaurant that you never go out to eat. Your therapist will teach you breathing techniques to help reduce your panic. He or she might then ask you to go, or may even go with you, to a cheap and cheerful caf\u00E9 and encourage you to knock over your cup of tea.  Terrifying though this will feel to you, you&amp;#039;ll quickly see that nothing awful happens.  Step-by-step, you&amp;#039;ll be encouraged to go to more upmarket caf\u00E9s, then restaurants \u2013 until eventually you may well be asked to knock over a glass of red wine in some really swanky place. Once you&amp;#039;ve faced up to your fear, it will cease to have any hold over you. Then you&amp;#039;ll be able to go out to restaurants, happy in the knowledge that though it&amp;#039;s most unlikely you&amp;#039;ll knock anything over, if you do, it won&amp;#039;t be the cataclysmic event you once thought.  Obviously, I&amp;#039;m simplifying what happens in this treatment. But I hope you get the picture.  This is usually a short-term form of therapy. It can feel tough, but it&amp;#039;s also lively and often quite funny.  Other types of therapy  Psychotherapy Coaching  Cognitive analytic therapy  Cognitive therapy Gestalt therapy Person-centred therapy Psychodynamic therapy Rational emotive behaviour therapy  Last updated 12.09.2013 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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