Dr. Dave Carbonell PhD

Dave Carbonell, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in treating anxiety. He is the author of four self- help books: Panic Attacks Workbook, The Worry Trick, Fear of Flying Workbook, and Outsmart Your Anxious Brain: 10 Simple Ways to Beat the Worry Trick. He is the “coach” of the popular self-help site, anxietycoach.com, and has taught workshops on the treatment of anxiety disorders to more than 10,000 therapists in the U.S. and abroad. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from DePaul University in Chicago in 1985 and has maintained a practice devoted to the treatment of anxiety disorders in Chicago since 1990. Dr. Carbonell, a frequent speaker at annual conferences of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, has a unique blend of CBT, ACT, Metacognitive Therapy and Paradoxical methods to offer anxious clients and the professionals who treat them. It’s his goal for you to leave armed with an approach, and several specific tools, that you can begin to use immediately. In his spare time, he is the founding member of The Therapy Players, an improvisational comedy troupe of professional psychotherapists in the Chicago area.