Sage: In your professional opinion and experience, how important is it to try to discover the underlying cause of this phobia during therapy? I understand that you knew why you developed this phobia, and that helped a great deal in your cure, but many people don’t. Myself included. How much time of therapy should be spent on trying to find the cause vs. fixing the problem? Do they have to go hand-in-hand? My therapist seems to be spending a lot of time trying to make me remember my childhood and I am getting impatient that we aren’t doing anything to make me feel better. I know I probably need to communicate my impatience with her.

Thanks so much for your help!