I started doing exposure therapy with my therapist (social anxiety) and since we cannot both go out and face these fears he tells me there is "imaginal" exposure therapy. I have to sit there, close my eyes and imagine that I am giving a presentation or talking to a group of people, etc to see if my anxiety spikes..

3 sessions later and nothing. I feel like I am wasting my money just waiting for a "spike". I know I am physically in an office. No matter how hard I try to think of the scariest things to make my anxiety spike nothing happens. It feels like a total waste..

He then tells me that I should go out for homework and expose myself to social situations and that I should stick with the anxiety and let it pass... Uhh.. I've been doing this my whole life by sucking it up and letting it pass/getting it over with.

How did exposure therapy work for you guys? I don't know if I should give this a few extra sessions or to just terminate. I am also in the field of counseling and we learn alot of techniques/ways to help someone with xyz.

Thanks.