Welcome to Oakview Therapy LLC.
Get accessible and personalized mental healthcare from the comfort of your home.
Leigh Anne Clark, LCSW
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and proud owner of Oakview Therapy LLC. I am available to see clients who reside the states of New Jersey and Georgia.
Sometimes, feelings can become overly intense and our anxiety, depression, and anger are overwhelming. Sometimes, we experience life changing situations, such as becoming a new parent, relationship issues, or job stress which make everything feel out of our control. Our thoughts can also become repetitive or intrusive and we don’t know how to turn off the noise. I specialize in helping adult individuals who are having difficulties with stress, general anxiety, phobias, panic, Agoraphobia, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I utilize a variety of treatment modalities, which I tailor specifically for each client.
Treatment Modalities
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is a therapeutic intervention which puts you, the client, in the role of being an active participant in your treatment journey. It states that thoughts lead to feelings which lead to behaviors and is the standard therapy for anxiety treatments. CBT is an active therapy and requires you to be present minded, open to change, as well as some minimal homework in between sessions to help with changes to your feelings.
Exposure and Response Prevention, also called ERP, is utilized for those who have intrusive thoughts and may tend to perform a ritual, or compulsion, in order to silence the thoughts. ERP hopes to extinguish the compulsion by slowly moving up a hierarchy of challenges to face fears. People notice that the anxiety does increase during an exposure, but the bodily chemicals causing anxiety do decrease after a sustained response.
Inference Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) Inference-Based Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (I-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment based on the central idea that obsessions are abnormal doubts or inferences about what “could be”, or “might be” (e.g. “I might have left the stove on”; “I might be contaminated”; “I might be a deviant”). According to this approach, obsessional inferences of doubt arise as the result of an inductive reasoning narrative characterized by an over-reliance on the imagination and a distrust of the senses. In particular, the reasoning distortions contained in obsessional narratives often camouflage the fact that there is no real basis in reality for obsessional doubt leading to a confusion between reality and imagination. As a result, obsession are able to persist and can never be resolved with compulsions. (Frederick Aardema, PhD)
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is an evidenced based form of psychotherapy that utilizes back and forth eye movements to help clients address common problems such as depression, anxiety, phobias, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). ART is a very focused and effective eye movement therapy and, such as, has produced quick, effective and safe results in treating anxiety, depression, phobias, relationship issues, and grief.
Together, we can find the best treatment modality for your presenting problems and issues.
What is Teletherapy?
Being able to talk to a therapist from the comfort of your home or office.
Sometimes life gets busy and you don’t have the time to drive to a doctor’s appointment. All your appointments will take place virtually and you will be provided with individualized care. Clients must be located in either NJ or GA during time of session. Due to HIPPA regulations, I do ask that you are by yourself during the session, free from distractions, and not in a moving vehicle.