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Treatment-resistant anxiety disorder: out of therapy – what now?

Today, being considered treatment-resistant or beyond therapeutic help doesn’t mean a person is a hopeless case. Rather, these individuals have often just been unlucky, repeatedly finding therapists who weren’t flexible enough to discover the right approach for them. That’s why we have made it our mission to show even long-term anxiety patients a way to return to a life free of fear.

Anxiety and panic disorders: Help Possible Even in Severe Cases

When searching the internet for possible causes of anxiety and panic disorders, you often find the same answers. However, there are many more reasons why people experience anxiety and panic over the years. These causes are simply less well-known and, as a result, are rarely addressed in standard therapies.

Common Triggers of Anxiety and Panic Disorders

  • Excessive stress
  • Family predisposition
  • Anxiety disorders and phobias
  • Traumatic experiences
  • Anxious personality type
  • Thyroid issues
  • Nervous system and heart conditions
  • Imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain

Frequently Overlooked Causes of Anxiety and Panic Disorders

New Online Therapy: Quickly Discover the Real Source of Your Anxiety

If you want to quickly understand why previous therapy attempts have failed and what’s truly behind your anxiety and panic disorder, we recommend our online therapy program, How to Calm Anxiety. In 52 videos totaling 7 hours, we thoroughly examine all potential triggers of anxiety and panic with you. Through brief tests and simple questions, you’ll gain a clear understanding of your path to overcoming anxiety.

We can say this with confidence because over 16,000 people before you have achieved exactly that—becoming anxiety-free without medication, without painful exposure therapy, and without the challenging process of revisiting old traumas. Here are a few testimonials from users of our online therapy program.

There Is No Such Thing as Treatment Resistance! All anxiety disorders are treatable.

Don’t settle for the label of a “treatment-resistant” anxiety disorder. Your life is too valuable to accept a diagnosis of being “beyond treatment.” We have helped many people who were supposedly “untreatable” to live happy, fulfilling lives, so we can confidently say: Treatment resistance does not exist.

Standard Anxiety Treatments Are 60 Years Old

Although some of our colleagues may not like to hear it, both cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and the use of antidepressants are methods developed in the 1960s. Yet they’re still considered the gold standard for treating anxiety disorders—as if there haven’t been groundbreaking discoveries in recent decades about how anxiety and panic form neural connections in the brain.

We’re not saying that these approaches are no longer valid. We still use certain elements of cognitive behavioral therapy, though certainly not all. Instead, we combine the best of CBT with the latest insights from brain research—with remarkable success.

Antidepressants can also be helpful in cases of severe depression, offering enough energy for a few weeks so that individuals can participate in other therapeutic measures. However, other applications are highly questionable.

So if your doctor tells you that antidepressants or other psychotropic drugs work wonderfully for others but, unfortunately, not for you, feel free to point out that this statement is now outdated. Or save yourself the discussion and simply watch the first episode of our online therapy program How to Calm Anxiety for free. You’ll find it directly below this text.

About us

Daniela- & Klaus Bernhardt — Institute for Modern Psychotherapy

Daniela & Klaus Bernhardt

Klaus Bernhardt runs the Institute for Modern Psychotherapy in Berlin together with his wife Daniela Bernhardt.

What our users say:

Troy A.
    Troy A.

    Tampa, Florida

    “I’m thrilled to have discovered this method. This online course helped me more than two visits to the clinic and 50 sessions with my therapist.”

    Carolina H.
      Carolina H.

      Boston, Massachusetts

      “You immediately notice that the psychologist who created this course knows what it means to suffer from agoraphobia. With care and competence, these 52 videos guided me step by step out of my fear. I can never thank Klaus Bernhardt enough for that.”

      Emma D.
        Emma D.

        Louisville, Kentucky

        “Thanks to your online therapy, I finally understood why I couldn’t get rid of my emetophobia until now. Just two weeks after working regularly with the 10-sentence method, I noticed how this fear, which has been with me since I was 16, became much less severe. After about 8 weeks, I could eat out again without any worries for the first time. Thank you very much for your work; you have enriched my life immeasurably.”

        Tom R.
          Tom R.

          New York City

          “Dear Mr. Bernhardt, I haven’t had a panic attack in months. Your online course helped me better than all the medications I tried before. It is such a blessing for anyone suffering from an anxiety disorder. You are welcome to publish my mail on your website so that as many sufferers as possible can learn how they can finally recover.”

          Lillian P.
            Lillian P.

            Austin, Texas

            “Thank you so much for this anxiety course. After the first few episodes, I was sure I could finally do something about my fears. And that’s precisely how it was. Step by step, I managed to reclaim my old life. It wasn’t always easy, but every time I felt like I wasn’t getting anywhere, there was another video that gave me the courage and made me aware of everything I had already achieved. My focus on myself, my environment, and my future has changed a lot as a result. Today I can proudly say that I have managed to overcome my anxiety disorder through my efforts. I will definitely recommend the course to others!”

            Online Therapy with Proven Effectiveness – Immediate Help for:

            52 episodes with almost 7 hours of video material

            No risk: The methods of this online therapy for self-help have been successfully used in clinics in Europe for over seven years. Over 250,000 people have already managed to lead lives without fear and panic using this method.

            The new online version of self-therapy offered here has been thoroughly tested by psychiatrists and neuroscientists and found to be highly effective. Since the publication of this online therapy, over 16,000 former anxiety patients have given us feedback that they have managed to free themselves from their anxiety disorder using only these 52 videos.