I am a new patient, and this is my first visit with Mental Health Rescue or it has been 6 months to one year since I was last receiving counseling with Mental Health Rescue. This session is a detailed assessment and requires more time.

Virtual intensive workshops for agoraphobia are highly effective when combined with talk therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) Therapy. This program is designed to help you tackle, view or talk about your fears from the safety of your home. This program is fully remote and has an optional component to complete sessions and exposures in person if you are able to leave your home.

This program is led by Jennifer Gollinger, PhD, LCSW a well-known specialist working with patients who are experiencing severe Panic Disorder with or without Agoraphobia and specific phobias. 

Her techniques are evidence based and she has first-hand experience using various techniques to reduce symptoms. Jennifer is a Florida Licensed Certified Cognitive Behavioral Health Practitioner and Certified Mindfulness Life Coach, that has applied these actual techniques on herself and conducted advanced research during her graduate studies at The University of Miami on these diagnoses. Jennifer’s dissertation project was on the topic of Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia where she conducted extensive detailed research and research designs working with patients with these diagnoses.

Because leaving your house can be profoundly challenging, this type of workshop is excellent for a candidate with these diagnoses. You are able to complete real-time exposure exercises directly in your own environment with direct therapist guidance.

This intensive program starts treatment on a Monday and ends on a Sunday. You will devote full time to your treatment after we talk about a schedule that works best around your typical day. You will work with Jennifer Gollinger in between several activities; you will make a list to work on per day.

Daily, you will work independently and meet during the day 2 times with the therapist. In between the sessions you will read items to assist with retraining the brain, working on cognitive behavioral therapy and learning this process. 

Jennifer will be available in between sessions throughout the 7 days with unlimited number of questions and support.

You will not become a master in a week, you will be planting seeds, to start a process toward moving out of your comfort zone. Some people see minor results right away; some people takes months or years for big changes.

We do not pressure or make you feel guilty during these 7 days. We are teaching you, guiding you, helping you with your distorted thoughts, unconscious thoughts. This diagnosis is very complex and we understand that.

When you are ready you will work toward the willingness to experience anxiety (including panic attacks) during portions of the treatment or to tickle the idea of the possibility one might come up, or the beginning symptom alert might enter and how will you navigate from taming the extremeness to a less and less reaction. You can learn to reduce Panic and Anxiety by understanding what is happening to you and applying techniques.

This program is specifically for panic disorder, agoraphobia, or a specific phobia, and you must be avoiding multiple situations or activities because of your diagnosis. If you are not avoiding things because of panic attacks or a specific phobia, this treatment is not appropriate for you. If you do have the diagnosis listed above but are experiencing psychotic symptoms or substance abuse, then we need to stabilize that first before you can participate in this program. 

Prior to being allowed to purchase this program you must purchase a first-time new patient session where we conduct a detailed assessment which is around 90 minutes at $300.00 during this detailed assessment, we can confirm that you are a candidate for this workshop.

The full payment for this program is done at the start. If you are in the Miami area and you are able to commute to the Miami area, we can meet in person for exposures. Insurance does not cover this program; however we will assist and make attempts to negotiate a single case agreement with your health plan, at times there are permissions of billing codes we can use to accommodate these services for the 7 days.