ERP is a treatment method for various anxiety disorders. During ERP, you will create a list of fears, whether that be thoughts, situations, and/or physical sensations. It can also include what you wish to return to–places, situations, behaviors, etc. you’ve avoided as a result of your anxiety. Then, in a gradual and collaborative manner, you will be guided to face those fears through exposure to them. You get to decide what exposures you feel open to trying. The goal is that they feel meaningful to you and that they are tolerable enough for you to learn something from the experience. You will be able to teach yourself your feared outcomes do not always occur, and if they do occur to some extent, you will likely learn you can tolerate them better than you anticipate. ERP can help you gain confidence in ways you never knew possible. It can be life changing when people are willing to put in the work. ERP is an effective treatment for OCD, social anxiety, panic, and phobias.

ACT is about creating a more fulfilling life by accepting what's outside your control (thoughts and feelings) and focusing on what you can control (your actions). ACT helps each person focus on what would make their lives most meaningful and satisfying. Often clients feel like they get back to living fuller lives, reconnecting with all the things that makes them who they are. This is proven to increase life satisfaction more than symptom reduction alone. It allows people to feel more in control even in their hardest moments. ACT helps increase the amount of ways you can respond to any given situation and helps people to stop treating their thoughts as facts. Sometimes this approach is helpful when people feel they've tried other forms of therapy and still are not satisfied with their lives or progress.

DBT acknowledges that there are aspects in our lives that we will benefit from accepting as well as areas where we can focus on making changes. DBT believes we can practice both acceptance and change simultaneously. DBT includes the following skill focuses: mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotion regulation. DBT is great for someone looking for active strategies to apply in their everyday life.

CBT believes people can better manage their emotions by intervening in their thinking patterns and behaviors. CBT is empirically supported for the treatment of anxiety and depression. It’s great if you want to learn how to manage troubling thoughts and change behaviors in a concrete and skills based way. For individuals who are able to challenge their thoughts, CBT is an amazing tool. For others whose thinking is more ruminative, thought challenging may feel like a never ending loop. For these people, it may be more helpful to apply an ACT approach.