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Do You Want to Fight a Phobia?
Consider virtual reality exposure therapy with a Harrisburg, NC therapist
Are you struggling with a phobia? You shouldn't have to do it alone. You deserve to have help during this process.
In Harrisburg, NC, Soul Care Counseling and Consulting, PLLC can be here for you. Take advantage of our virtual reality exposure therapy today. This is a type of exposure therapy, which helps you build tolerance to the subject of your phobia or multiple phobias.
Which phobias can you treat?
Soul Care Counseling and Consulting recommends this therapy for severe phobias. We can create situations involving your phobia that can't be recreated in a traditional therapist's office.
This is an ideal therapy for phobias of things like:
- Flying
- Driving
- Spiders
- Small spaces
- Small animals
When you participate in virtual reality exposure therapy, you'll interact with a digital representation of the subject of your phobia. You'll do this with a collaborative plan with your therapist. To begin, call 704-890-8333 for a free consultation.
We don't recommend this treatment for people with motion sickness, seizure disorders, traumatic brain injuries, migraines or difficulty watching 3D movies.
VR SERVICE SECTION
Care Counseling and Consulting, PLLC, uses virtual reality technology to compliment Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Virtual Reality Therapy (VRT) creates an immersion of simulated environments that can be used to help manage symptoms of conditions such as anxiety, PTSD, and phobias. VRT allows clients to confront and work through fears and anxieties in a controlled, safe environment, which can helps with desensitization to triggers that result in avoidance behaviors. The effectiveness of virtual reality therapy is backed by 30 years of scientific research. Virtual reality therapy (VRT) assist clients with distraction, attention focusing, coping skill strategies, and exposure therapy where clients are gradually exposed to feared stimuli. Various studies have shown that VRT can promote a sense of presence and trigger bodily responses similar to in vivo exposure.
VR HOMEWORK SECTION
In addition to incorporating virtual reality technology into mental health therapy sessions, you will also have the option to purchase a homework add-on package which includes an app that can be downloaded on your smartphone and used with a cardboard VR headset as you practice techniques such as deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, mindfulness, and visualization in a controlled, immersive environment. Practicing these skills between sessions improves continuity of care, and outcomes. The homework add-on allows the client to gain tailored VRT interventions as homework as well as allows for self training to increase skill development.
