Shirley Babior

Shirley Babior, LCSW, MFCC, is a therapist in private practice in San Diego, California, where she is Director of the Center for Anxiety and Stress Treatment. She specializes in treating anxiety disorders, in groups and individually. As a Certified Employee Assistance Professional, Shirley provides services to employees suffering from anxiety and stress in the workplace. She has lectured on the treatment of anxiety disorders at numerous professional meetings and adult education workshops and is the coauthor of two research articles with the University of California at San Diego’s Department of Psychiatry. Shirley is a former regional governor of the Phobia Society of America and board member of the Society of Behavioral medicine. She provides consultation, utilization management, quality improvement, peer review, and assessor/external EAP services to managed care organizations.