Some ‘Sex therapists' operate on the principle of exposure. For example, Celeste and Danielle (https://www.celesteanddanielle.com) advertise a service that emphasises 'experiential learning and real time feedback'. If the nail that social and dating anxiety treatments hammer at is the same, is the problem really so different? Should social and dating anxiety really be treated differently, potentially alienating those men and women who see their dating anxiety as something that beyond the domain of treatment?

See this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpb0LEc1HZA). One cognitive approach is to accept your and/or a partner's’ weaknesses rather than change them. Is there is comparable debate between the contemporary ‘cognitive’ therapies such as ‘acceptance and commitment’ school of psychotherapy and ‘behavioural’ approaches such as the ‘exposure’ school of psychotherapy? Yes, there is reason to believe both approaches work, ‘cognitive therapies’, an overarching term for ‘acceptance therapies’ and others work better for social anxiety (https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-244X-11-200) but insufficient evidence on the effectiveness of both together rather than one alone. The use of one therapy to compliment another appears sorely under-researched in general, however. Ironically, combined ‘cognitive behavioural therapies’ are the most popular and best evidenced, but in practice, unfortunatley, tend to be exclusively ‘cognitive’.