Jennifer L. Abel PhD

Dr. Abel has been St. Louis’ Anxiety and Stress Psychologist for over 20 years. She specializes in the cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) of panic attacks, worry, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), work stress, performance anxiety, phobias, insomnia, irritability, and depression with anxiety. Mindfulness, experiential therapy, and schema therapy are methods she uses to add to the effectiveness of CBT and improve your daily life. Above all, Dr. Abel’s approach is pragmatic. A leading expert in generalized-anxiety disorder (GAD; the worry disorder), Dr. Abel can help you tame worry, panic, and other forms of anxiety using a variety of effective strategies she shares through individual therapy in her Clayton office. In fact, Dr. Abel, also a professional speaker, travels across the country and to Australia to train other mental health care professionals about the cutting-edge treatments to treat GAD, panic disorder, OCD, insomnia, and phobias.