Is group therapy as good as individual therapy for phobias?

Is group therapy as good as individual therapy for phobias?

Larina Kase (President, Performance And Success Coaching) gives expert video advice on: What's the weirdest phobia?; What's the best way to treat phobias? and more...

Group therapy can be great for phobias if everybody has the same phobia in the group. It's very unlikely that that's going to happen because it would take a long time to get together a group like that. If you've got people with all different phobias then the group therapy is not going to be quite customized enough and it might take a little bit longer, whereas individually you might just need a couple of sessions on your own to confront your fears.