Facing Fears in Big or Smalls Steps?

Each intervention will contain a 60-minute psycho-education session (PE) and two 60-minute exposure sessions (EX), conducted by a mental health professional together with a master student in psychology, who are both weekly supervised by a CBT certified psychologist. In the first (PE) session, participants learn about anxiety, specific phobias and exposure. During this session they will create a fear hierarchy (1 relating to least fearful and 10 indicating most fearful situation), formulate their cognition about the feared object or situation and determine what they want to achieve during treatment (e.g. goal situation). The next two sessions consist of exposure exercises in either big or small steps.