Anxiety Therapy | CBT DBT | Life Solutions of Dallas-Fort Worth

Dr. Davenport is happy to help you or your anxious child, teen, or young adult break free from worry, doubts, and fears utilizing compassionate research-based methods to assess and address your specific needs!

Identify Your Needs, Make a Plan, and Set Goals

You will start with a thorough clinical interview to identify what’s truly going on. Monte strives to get a good understanding of needs by asking questions to identify specific symptoms, causes, and effects of your anxiety and fear.

Once your specific needs are identified, he will work with you to develop treatment goals and a structured plan. Dr. Davenport’s primary goal is to help you break free from your emotional reactions utilizing the latest research-based methods to address your unique needs. His goals for you include helping you develop skills needed to overcome your worries, doubts, & fears using the following structured approach.

Understand Anxiety and Your Stressors

Next, you will learn how anxiety works, how to rate the intensity of your anxiety, and how to identify your stressors.

Understand that anxiety is brain-based by learning about the role of the amygdala, hippocampus, and frontal lobe in anxiety. The goal is to recognize that you are not causing the brain chemistry that causes your anxiety, but you can develop skills to cope with it.
Learn to rate the intensity of your anxiety on a simple scale to develop self-awareness, improved communication with others, and a better understanding of what you can do to help yourself.
Learn to identify the stressors that produce anxiety so you can make plans to address them. If it is hard to recognize these, don’t worry!: there are still many ways to address your needs.

Learn to Change Your Focus to Calm Down

Next, you will learn ways to calm yourself down when you are anxious and fearful. These strategies allow you to slow down and get ready to think.

Using Calming Strategies to help you calm yourself down when you are “feeling out of control” and slow down the progression of feelings and actions when you are not.
Using Distress Tolerance Skills to help you not make things worse by doing something you might regret later.

Once you’ve calmed down, then you can change your focus to changing your thinking and problem solving.

Learn to Change Your Thinking

Changing your thinking involves just that: thinking differently. Learning to use the following strategies allows you to think more realistically. This is where the best and longest lasting changes occur in your battle against anxiety.

Using “Realistic Thinking” strategies can help you identify and change the unrealistic thoughts and beliefs behind your fearful anxieties by considering realistic evidence and alternatives.
Asking “Distressed Thinking” Questions can help you reduce the specific types of unrealistic distressing thoughts you usually experience including all-or-nothing, over-generalizing, exaggerating, mind-reading, labeling, negative filtering, and “shoulda-coulda” thoughts.
Changing “Self-Defeating Thoughts” allows you to develop more effective rational beliefs about yourself. Dealing with these often perfectionistic thoughts involves first identifying those thoughts, then asking a specific type of question to defend yourself and develop more realistic beliefs.

Learn to Change Your Actions

Once you have learned to calm down and change your thinking, then you can focus on changing your actions using a structured approach to problem solving and developing skills to change your actions.

Developing Problem Solving Skills helps you learn to make and implement a plan to address the specific situations that make you anxious, depressed, or angry. This involves identifying the size of the problem, thinking about what you can change about the problem, and then using a guided set of questions to develop solutions.
Developing “Assertive Problem Solving Skills” allows you to calmly address and confidently improve any relationship problems associated with your worried thoughts and feelings.
“Exposure and Replacement” strategies allow you to face specific fears one small step at a time utilizing the skills you have learned.
“Executive Functioning Skills” can help address any day-to-day problems associated with your feelings at home, at school, and in life. For example, if you procrastinate as a result of anxiety, you could benefit from learning ways to improve the executive skill “Task Initiation.” If you act before thinking about the consequences, you could benefit from developing improved “Response Inhibition.”

Change Your Life!

Put all these strategies together, and you can change your life for the better. Call 817.421.8780 to take the first step to freedom from anxiety, fears, and doubts.

Life Solutions of Dallas-Fort Worth

Break Free From Anxiety!

Dr. Davenport is happy to help you or your anxious child, teen, or young adult break free from worry, doubts, and fears utilizing compassionate research-based methods to assess and address your specific needs!

Identify Your Needs, Make a Plan, and Set Goals

You will start with a thorough clinical interview to identify what’s truly going on. Monte strives to get a good understanding of needs by asking questions to identify specific symptoms, causes, and effects of your anxiety and fear.

Understand Anxiety and Your Stressors

Next, you will learn how anxiety works, how to rate the intensity of your anxiety, and how to identify your stressors.

Understand that anxiety is brain-based by learning about the role of the amygdala, hippocampus, and frontal lobe in anxiety. The goal is to recognize that you are not causing the brain chemistry that causes your anxiety, but you can develop skills to cope with it.

Learn to rate the intensity of your anxiety on a simple scale to develop self-awareness, improved communication with others, and a better understanding of what you can do to help yourself.

Learn to identify the stressors that produce anxiety so you can make plans to address them. If it is hard to recognize these, don’t worry!: there are still many ways to address your needs.

Learn to Change Your Focus to Calm Down

Next, you will learn ways to calm yourself down when you are anxious and fearful. These strategies allow you to slow down and get ready to think.

Using Calming Strategies to help you calm yourself down when you are “feeling out of control” and slow down the progression of feelings and actions when you are not.

Using Distress Tolerance Skills to help you not make things worse by doing something you might regret later.

Once you’ve calmed down, then you can change your focus to changing your thinking and problem solving.

Learn to Change Your Thinking

Changing your thinking involves just that: thinking differently. Learning to use the following strategies allows you to think more realistically. This is where the best and longest lasting changes occur in your battle against anxiety.

Using “Realistic Thinking” strategies can help you identify and change the unrealistic thoughts and beliefs behind your fearful anxieties by considering realistic evidence and alternatives.

Asking “Distressed Thinking” Questions can help you reduce the specific types of unrealistic distressing thoughts you usually experience including all-or-nothing, over-generalizing, exaggerating, mind-reading, labeling, negative filtering, and “shoulda-coulda” thoughts.

Changing “Self-Defeating Thoughts” allows you to develop more effective rational beliefs about yourself. Dealing with these often perfectionistic thoughts involves first identifying those thoughts, then asking a specific type of question to defend yourself and develop more realistic beliefs.

Learn to Change Your Actions

Once you have learned to calm down and change your thinking, then you can focus on changing your actions using a structured approach to problem solving and developing skills to change your actions.

Developing “Assertive Problem Solving Skills” allows you to calmly address and confidently improve any relationship problems associated with your worried thoughts and feelings.

“Exposure and Replacement” strategies allow you to face specific fears one small step at a time utilizing the skills you have learned.

Change Your Life!

Put all these strategies together, and you can change your life for the better. Call 817.421.8780 to take the first step to freedom from anxiety, fears, and doubts.