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There’s no one-size-fits-all treatment for excessive worrying, but by assembling an arsenal of tools and skills, you can effectively manage your worry. Worrying Is Optional offers a powerful new approach that combines strategies from metacognitive therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help anxious readers build their own customizable "anti-worrying" toolbox. Using these tools, readers will learn to break free from unhelpful thinking patterns and discover that worrying is, in fact, optional.

Ben Eckstein, LCSW, is owner and director of Bull City Anxiety & OCD Treatment Center in Durham, NC. Eckstein was trained at McLean Hospital's OCD Institute, and has been specializing in the treatment of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) for over a decade. He serves on the board of directors for OCD North Carolina, and offers training, workshops, and speaking engagements in addition to his clinical work.Lisa W. Coyne, PhD, is founder and senior clinical consultant of the McLean OCD Institute for Children and Adolescents (OCDI Jr.), and assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She also founded and directs the New England Center for OCD and Anxiety, and is coauthor of The Joy of Parenting (with Amy Murrell) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Clinician's Guide for Supporting Parents with ACT (with Koa Whittingham). She lives near Boston, MA, with her family and two therapy dogs, Doog and Peach.