Educating the patient about his condition is very important, they need to be given reaasurance that their condition does not make them mentally ill and it is manageable.

An effective behavior therapy for agoraphobia is exposure with response prevention. In this treatment, the patient is, first, exposed to a situation that causes anxiety or panic and then he or she learns to "ride out" the distress until the anxiety or attack passes. With each session, the duration of exposure is gradually increased. For effective functioning of the treatment, it is best if the patient is not taking tranquilizers as they can prevent that experience of anxiety from occuring.

Medication is often used for treating phobias. Antianxiety and antidepressive medications are given to help relieve the symptoms associated with phobias. Some antidepressant medications have been shown to reduce the occurrence of panic attacks. Paroxetine is also shown to be quite effective in treatment. Benzodiazepines are used in treating anticipatory anxiety as well as symptoms of panic attacks.

The treatment focusses on achieving normal functioning of the phobic person. The success of the treatment depends on the severity of the condition.

Early intervention in the disorder can reduce anxiety and avoid the reccurence of the symptoms. Both therapeutic and medical treatment is used to treat Agoraphobia. It can become very difficult to maintain regular treatment appointments of agoraphobics, as they fear meeting the psychologist People suffering with agoraphobia often have difficulty getting to the office of a psychologist. This is an important issue that needs to be taken care of during treatment.
Many therapists look at confrontation with the feared object as a way of tackling the phobia. This method involves systematic desensitization. In which the patient thinks about the feared stimulus and then consequently learns to relax his or her body. This state of deep relaxation coupled with thinking about a series of frightening events proves beneficial in eliminating or to the least reducing the phobia. Also, fearful clients are exposed to live demonstrations about others interacting fearless with feared objects. For example, handling non poisonous snakes fearlessly or petting friendly dogs. This observation might be helpful for the patient in confronting his or her own phobias.