Anxiety & Anxiety-Related Disorders:

Our goal is to help you become more comfortable with the uncomfortable and to disrupt negative feedback loops and cycles that maintain distress and/or functional issues. The stressful things we avoid often cause prolonged suffering, create functional limitations, and negatively impact us despite our efforts to ignore them. Change is hard, but is needed to improve the ability to be more adaptive, to increase resilience, and to build a stronger mind-body connection.‍

Anxiety Therapy

Anxiety can feel like a current pulling you in every direction at once — racing thoughts, avoidance, physical tension, and the constant feeling that something is about to go wrong. If this sounds familiar, you're not alone, and you don't have to keep guessing why it keeps happening.

Dr Ryan Pearce can help.

  • Conditions and Specialties include but are not limited to:

    • Agoraphobia

    • Anxiety Due to Another Medical Condition

    • Anxiety Due to Chronic Pain

    • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

    • Body Dysmorphic Disorder

    • Educational Problems

    • Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

    • Health Anxiety (Hypochondriasis)

    • Hoarding Disorder

    • Illness Anxiety Disorder

    • Insomnia Disorder

    • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD)

    • Occupational Problems

    • Panic Disorder

    • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

    • Relationship/Relational anxiety

    • Separation Anxiety Disorder

    • Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)

  • Phobias (Specific Phobias) 

    • Acrophobia (fear of heights)

    • Agoraphobia (fear and avoidance of situations one may not be able to escape or get help)

    • Arachnophobia (fear of spiders)

    • Aviophobia (fear of flying)

    • Claustrophobia (fear of confined spaces)

    • Emetophobia (fear of vomiting)

    • Enochlophobia (fear of crowds)

    • Gephyrophobia (fear of bridges and tunnels)

    • Glossophobia (fear of public speaking)

    • Mysophobia (fear of germs)

    • Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes)

    • Trypanophobia (fear of needles)

    • Vehophobia (fear of driving or being in a vehicle)

Ready to stop managing anxiety and start understanding it? Request a consultation today.

Evidence-Based Anxiety Treatment That Gets to the Root

At Correnti Psychology, Dr. Ryan Pearce, PsyD uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to help adults understand what's driving their anxiety — and build practical strategies that actually stick. This isn't about venting for 50 minutes. It's about getting answers and building skills.

What to Expect

We start with a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation so you understand exactly what you're dealing with. From there, therapy follows our structured Discover, Practice, Achieve process — moving from insight to action to lasting change. Sessions are available in-person in Irvine, CA or via telehealth across California.