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The New Era of Anxiety: Helping Clients Navigate Stress, Fear, Loss & Grief During Turbulent Times

In today’s world where the only norm seems to be that things are ever-changing, the stress we and our clients are feeling is skyrocketing. And in the absence of anchors like familiarity and routine, symptoms of anxiety and depression are amplified.

Family rifts, financial strain, fears about health, economic strife, systemic racism, and grief are just a few of the compounded and pervasive challenges clients are facing today. Fueled by 24/7 news and other media exposure, ambient anxiety is real and rampant—for everyone.

So how do you, the clinician, effectively treat clients while you’re simultaneously navigating your own stress, fear, loss, and grief?

Watch anxiety and depression expert and author, Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD, as she builds on her 10 Best Ever Treatment Techniques to give you a complete set of new interventions to help you skillfully work with your client’s most difficult, recurring or unearthed anxieties.

You will learn strategies to help your clients:

Apply logic effectively to illogical anxiety
Cope with panic and fear when threats are real
Address sadness, grief and loss – they think it’s depression but it’s not!
Restore meaning and purpose in day-to-day life through routine and ritual
Define anchor points and boundary setting when time is blurred
Manage guilt, jealousy, disappointment, and perceptions
Discern between anxiety and unacknowledged grief
Apply remedies for the new stresses of a work from home life

What’s more, you’ll also learn proven techniques to defray the toll teletherapy takes on your energy and emotional wellbeing.

Do not miss this opportunity to gain these unbeatable anxiety and depression techniques to help your clients reclaim joy even when they feel the sand is shifting under their feet.

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Program Information

Objectives

Apply skills to cope with the impact of ambient anxiety to effectively manage generalized anxiety.
Distinguish generalized anxiety from situational responses to societal turbulence to improve case conceptualization.
Construct useful protocols to eliminate panic and health anxiety.
Appraise the impact of disappointments on mood and differentiate that from depressive disorders.
Employ new concepts about the significance of rituals to minimize the impact of missed life events, important ceremonies and lost opportunities.
Devise strategies to cope with the new stresses of work-from-home parenting.
Determine the neurobiological stress of teletherapy and formulate ways to manage your energy.

Outline

The “Toxic Fog” of Ambient Anxiety

Limit how the “toxic fog” of bad news intensifies anxiety
Relieve exposure to persistent worry that intensifies existing generalized anxiety
Existential anxiety that emerges from threatening conditions

Apply Logic Effectively to Illogical Anxiety: New Must-Have Techniques

“Worry Well and Only Once” to reduce fear
“ Transfer Worry to Another Person” to shift attention
“The 3 Control Questions” to address control
“ Ditch Your Dread and Stop the Plunge” to avert despair
“Predict, Prepare, and Plan” to prevent panic
“ Move Your Body, Move Your Mind” to stay grounded
And more!

Treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) During Uncertain Times

Differentiate GAD from predictable worry,
OCD or depressive rumination
Techniques for extreme cautiousness and containing worry
Coping strategies for isolation, loneliness, and separation

Depression as a Mask for Grief and Disappointment and What to do about it

It’s not depression... It’s sadness, grief and loss
Address the disappointment of missed opportunities and life events
How to recreate ceremonies and rituals to heal grief and loss
Help clients process grief without closure after the loss of a loved one

Treating Parental Anxiety Related to New Stressors

Correct for the blur of time due to loss of anchor points of schedules and routines
Manage guilt, jealousy and perceptions created by constant social media exposure
Help parents cope with expectations due to virtual learning and working from home

Teletherapy’s Impact on Therapist Anxiety and Well-Being

Zoom fatigue – It is real! Combat the neurobiological stress of processing video conferencing
Healthy boundary setting to manage your level of energy
What to do when you, the therapists, is feeling the same emotional stresses as your clients
Limitations of the Research & Potential Risks

Target Audience

Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Counselors
Marriage and Family Therapists
Case Managers
Addiction Counselors
Therapists
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 03/24/2021

Treating Pandemic and Catastrophe Related Anxiety, Fear, Panic & Worry

With the explosion of global anxiety provoking situations—from COVID-19 to racial injustice to political unrest... the list goes on and on—it’s critical to update your anxiety clinical toolbox now to keep pace! Be at the forefront, don’t just catch up!

Watch Marwa Azab, Ph.D, neuroscientist and anxiety expert as she teaches you the latest neuro-based research and therapeutic techniques to help your clients with anxiety thrive in an era of new global unknowns and unsettling circumstances.

You’ll learn to accurately integrate the latest neuroscience on anxiety disorders with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and logotherapy techniques that will not only improve your client’s most unearthed anxieties, they’ll transform your clinical practice!

By applying these techniques in treatment sessions you’ll be able to:

Turn off monkey mind and initiate change
Map worry loops to curtail habitual thinking
Tackle experiential avoidance and cognitive diffusion
Disempower internal schema of others’ expectations that fuels anxiety
Reduce the vicious panic cycle and chronic ‘survival’ mode
Calm the nervous system in 90 seconds
And more!

Purchase today to start your journey to become well renowned for your clinical skills for working with this new breed of anxiety!

Program Information

Objectives

Evaluate existential anxiety (EA) and utilize ACT and logotherapy techniques to help clients improve outcomes.
Differentiate between the neurobiology of fear, panic, situational and trait anxiety for accurate assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
Implement brain-based strategies to help clients manage uncertainty, worry, panic and anxiety symptoms.
Utilize strategies such as mapping worry loops to curtail habitual thinking and negative self-cognitions.
Integrate top-down and bottom-up techniques to address panic.
Utilize neuroplasticity-enhancing techniques to calm the anxious mind.

Outline

Neurobiology of Fear, Anxiety, Panic & Worry

Fear, hormone responses, and brain circuits simplified
Quite the inflamed amygdala in 3 steps
Calm the nervous system in 90 seconds
Eradicate anxiety in 1 session
The antithesis to anxiety
Limitations of the research and potential risks

Effective Solutions to the 3 Biggest Obstacles to Anxiety Treatment

Critical differences between situation, trait, and pathological anxiety
Turn off your client’s monkey mind and initiate change
How to curb clients’ secondary gains in anxiety treatment
Exercises to re-route the circuits of anxiety to enhance neuroplasticity

The Rebirth of Existential Anxiety (EA):
ACT and Logotherapy Techniques to Help Clients Thrive in an Era of Global Unknowns

Tackle experiential avoidance and cognitive diffusion
Construct statement of life purpose and clarify values
Tools to convert EA into motivation
Re-orient to the present moment with anchors
How to utilize the attentional brain system
Case study: Marwa got COVID, EA revised her entire life!

The Explosion of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD):
CBT Techniques to Address New Worry Types

Reversing client’s bias for threats
Mapping worry loops to curtail habitual thinking
Shifting from efficient to effective thinking
How to objectively evaluate evidence for worry
New journal writing prompts to diffuse worry
Case study: Maria is a lawyer, 45-year-old and excessive worrier

The Implosion of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD):
Attachment, Mindfulness, and CBT Interventions to Address Social Isolation

Ten ways to prime secure attachment
Unpack the internal self-talk that fuels anxiety
Disempower internal schema of others’ expectations that fuels anxiety
How to diffuse client’s anxiety away from self
Stop client’s rumination after perceived rejection
Build social skills through role play
Case study: Dave 27 years old social worker who cannot write an email to an old friend

The Tsunami of Panic Disorders:
Exposure, CBT, and Re-Conditioning Strategies to Reduce the Vicious Panic Cycle

Help clients out of chronic ‘survival’ mode
Reinterpreting bodily sensations to soothe
How some medical conditions trigger panic attacks and what to do about it
Teach clients to unlearn panic triggers and learn safety triggers
In vivo exposure technique to confront internal and external panic triggers
Case study: Leena is a 21 year old student suffering from panic attacks

Target Audience

Social Workers
Psychologists
Counselors
Marriage and Family Therapists
Case Managers
Addiction Counselors
Therapists
Nurses
Psychiatrists
Physicians
Other Mental Health Professionals

Loosening Anxiety's Grip: Helping Neurodiverse Tweens and Teens Build Resilience

Teens and tweens with ADHD, ASD, learning disabilities, and twice-exceptionality often struggle with tolerating uncertainty because of executive functioning challenges around working memory, emotional control, and prioritization. In this session, we’ll discover how to help them worry less, stop expecting the worst, and bounce back from disappointment. We’ll learn to implement a new understanding of the roots of anxiety to help neurodiverse middle and high schoolers realistically evaluate situations and calm themselves down when feeling panicked. We’ll also discuss how to intervene effectively with social anxiety and replace negative thinking with the curiosity and confidence that fosters lifelong resilience. You’ll explore how to:

Identify and reduce patterns of negative thinking in neurodiverse tweens and teens
Help teens develop the ability to externalize anxiety and reduce its influence on daily tasks and self-concept
Use practical tools to deal with the specific worries of alternative learners
Address social anxiety through the development of confidence and resilience

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Objectives

Demonstrate how to reduce patterns of negative thinking in neurodiverse tweens and teens.
Develop the ability to externalize anxiety and reduce its influence on daily tasks and self-concept.
Practice at least 3 practical tools for dealing with the specific worries of alternative learners.
Utilize at least 3 interventions for nurturing resilience in social and educational contexts.

Outline

Summary of clinical conditions of neurodiversity and executive functioning skills
Understanding why executive function skills matter to neurodiverse learners
The key relationships between neurodiversity and anxiety
A new approach to treating anxiety in neurodiverse teens and their families
Nurturing self-reliance and resilience in neurodiverse teens in therapy

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Anxiety & Relationships in the New Era

There’s a hidden threat to relationships that we don’t talk about enough, and that is the role of anxiety. When one or both partners experience anxiety, it often comes out in unique and surprising ways that, if you’re not aware of it, can destroy the relationship. This recording will explore how anxiety shows up in relationships and what to do from a Gottman Method perspective.

Program Information

Objectives

Practice the three components of a healthy conversation for resolving conflict between clients.
Utilize clinical interventions to support clients who experience physiological flooding.
Demonstrate the connection between stonewalling and physiological flooding.

Outline

The ways anxiety shows up in relationships

The importance of managing physiological flooding

How stonewalling and physiological flooding work in relationships

Healthy conflict and conversations for moving forward.

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage and Family Therapists
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Nurses