Expert Therapy for Driving Anxiety, Panic Attacks, OCD, and Phobias in California
Break free from fear and get your life back.
You're Tired of Anxiety Limiting Your Life
Anxiety can slowly start taking over your world. What once felt simple can begin to feel stressful, overwhelming, or impossible to face. You may find yourself avoiding certain roads, replaying anxious thoughts, struggling with panic attacks, or feeling trapped by fears that don't make sense to you anymore.
The good news is that anxiety is highly treatable with the right approach, support, and strategies. You do not have to stay stuck living around fear forever.
Driving With Confidence
Feeling More In Control
Quieting Constant Fear
Living With More Freedom
Specialized Anxiety Therapy
The April Center provides specialized CBT treatment focused on helping adults move beyond fear, avoidance, panic, and intrusive thoughts so they can return to living with greater confidence and freedom.
The April Center specializes in helping adults overcome driving anxiety using practical CBT and exposure-based strategies designed to rebuild confidence behind the wheel and reduce the fear that keeps you stuck.
We focus on helping you understand the anxiety cycle, reduce fear of physical symptoms, and gradually build confidence so panic no longer controls your decisions or your life.
Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the most research-supported treatment for OCD, the treatment focuses on helping you gradually break free from obsessive fear patterns and learn how to respond differently to uncertainty, anxiety, and intrusive thoughts.
Treatment focuses on helping you gradually face the fear in a structured, manageable way so your nervous system can learn that anxiety itself is not dangerous and no longer needs to control your decisions.
The April Center for Anxiety Attack Management
Craig April, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with more than 30 years of experience specializing in anxiety disorders, OCD, panic attacks, driving anxiety, and phobias. He is a published author and was featured as a therapist on A&E’s Obsessed, where he worked with individuals struggling with severe anxiety and OCD-related fears.
His approach is practical, direct, and grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), the most research-supported treatment for anxiety disorders. Therapy focuses on helping clients better understand the patterns driving anxiety while learning concrete strategies that create meaningful, lasting change over time.
Book a Free ConsultFrequently Asked Questions
DO YOU OFFER VIRTUAL THERAPY?
Yes. All therapy sessions are provided virtually through Zoom for adults located throughout California.
WHAT ISSUES DO YOU SPECIALIZE IN TREATING?
The April Center specializes in anxiety disorders, driving anxiety, panic attacks, OCD, intrusive thoughts, and phobias using evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
WHAT IS THE FIRST SESSION LIKE?
The first sessions focus on understanding your anxiety, how it is affecting your life, and identifying the patterns that may be keeping it going. From there, treatment is tailored to your specific goals and challenges.
DO YOU WORK WITH TEENAGERS?
We primarily work with adults, though older teens may be accepted on a case-by-case basis depending on the specific concern and fit for treatment.
Kick Fear Out of the Driver's Seat
Anxiety and fear do not have to keep deciding where you go, what you do, or how you live your life. With the right support and evidence-based treatment, it is possible to break free from the patterns that keep you stuck. Scheduling a free consultation to learn how therapy can help is the first step.