Treatment for phobias is divided into psychological and pharmacological treatment.
Psychological treatment is currently considered more important. The main psychological treatments include: exposure therapy, behavioural function analysis, cognitive therapy, etc. Medication includes: benzodiazepines, antidepressants.
As an example, exposure therapy is the most important treatment for phobias in psychotherapy. Exposure therapy is a way of reducing anxiety by having the patient initiate exposure to stimuli that can trigger their anxiety and having the patient maintain that exposure until the patient begins to realise that the negative outcome they expected is not happening.