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Reid Wilson Ph.D.

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Reid Wilson, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist who directs the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center in Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. He is also the author of Stopping the Noise in Your Head: The New Way to Overcome Anxiety and Worry and Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks. He is the co-author of Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions, as well as Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous & Independent Children. He designed American Airlines' first national program for the fearful fliers and is a Founding Clinical Fellow of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) and a Fellow of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).

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Recent Posts
Regaining Control Over OCD in 6 Moments
OCD wants you to feel stuck in your rituals. It can make you feel lost, frustrated, and out of control. But what OCD doesn't know is that you have the power to overtake it.
Dear Anxiety, Please Drench My Armpits
We need to employ this absurd approach with Anxiety: to tell it what it doesn’t expect to hear. Ask for more worries, more symptoms, more discomfort… and we want it now!
Living With OCD During COVID-19

Cut yourself some slack. This isn’t easy. In fact, it can be downright scary. So if you experience some regression in your work to control worries, give yourself a pass. Tomorrow is a new day.

Cut yourself some slack. This isn’t easy. In fact, it can be downright scary. So if you experience some regression in your work to control worries, give yourself a pass. Tomorrow is a new day.

Finding Opportunities to Feel Intimidated and Insecure

Part 1: If you want to take your life back from anxiety, don’t wait until you are certain that everything is safe. Learn how to step toward the threat while a part of you feels insecure.

Part 1: If you want to take your life back from anxiety, don’t wait until you are certain that everything is safe. Learn how to step toward the threat while a part of you feels insecure.

Lessons Learned in Trapeze School: Just Jump!

Anxiety needs you to feel intimidated and then back away. Your job is to feel intimidated and step forward into the action anyway.

Anxiety needs you to feel intimidated and then back away. Your job is to feel intimidated and step forward into the action anyway.

Why Exposure Therapy Isn’t Enough

You must courageously step toward what scares you. But you don’t do it in order to habituate. You do it as a means to practice this shift in your point of view.

You must courageously step toward what scares you. But you don’t do it in order to habituate. You do it as a means to practice this shift in your point of view.

Your Game-Winning Strategy: Kick Content to the Curb

Anxiety picks a topic that has significance to you because it's a powerful means of hooking you. Don’t be surprised if it relates to something you value.

Anxiety picks a topic that has significance to you because it's a powerful means of hooking you. Don’t be surprised if it relates to something you value.