Anxiety Disorders covers the spectrum—GAD, panic, social anxiety, specific phobias, and illness anxiety—through assessment, exposure-based psychotherapy, and careful pharmacology. This page focuses on what changes outcomes: functional targets, behavioural activation, and staged exposure with relapse-prevention built in. If you’re evaluating options like an anxiety conference, you’ll find stepwise care for first-line therapy, augmentation, and medication tapers, with adaptations for youth, perinatal, and older adults. We stress differential diagnosis with OCD, PTSD, bipolarity, and substance effects, and we show how to protect sleep and reduce avoidance so gains generalize beyond clinic visits.

Implementation requires precision and persistence. Exposure hierarchies, interoceptive exercises, and social tasks are paired with motivational supports and digital tools to sustain practice between sessions. Pharmacotherapy choices—SSRIs/SNRIs, buspirone, selected TCAs, and sparing, time-limited use of adjuncts—are sequenced around side-effect profiles and patient goals. We outline clinic workflows for group formats, brief protocols, and measurement-based care that visualizes progress and flags plateaus early. For OCD-spectrum specifics and protocol detail, see Exposure and Response Prevention, which deepens technique while this page keeps a transdiagnostic lens across anxiety subtypes.