Digital Seminar
Calming the Anxious Mind & Body: Create New Neural Pathways for Regulation with Integrative CBT
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- Faculty:
- Alison Seponara, MS, LPC
- Duration:
- 3 Hours
- Copyright:
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Sep 24, 2024
- Product Code:
- POS059951
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar | Online Course
Description
Watch Alison K. Seponara, MS, LPC, for this 3-hour training as she teaches you how to help clients regulate the anxious mind & body by creating new neural pathways with integrative CBT. Focusing on actionable neuroscience-based strategies, Alison specializes in tailoring integrative treatment for anxious clients who are high-functioning yet struggle to find lasting relief from their symptoms. This recording delivers the tools therapists need to keep clients engaged, build their resilience, and improve outcomes.
Discover cutting-edge treatment methods for anxiety disorders that combine cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with mindfulness-based positive psychology. Alison will also discuss an integrative therapy approach that addresses both mind and body, significantly enhancing overall client well-being and strength.
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Apply Cognitive Behavioral practices to reframe anxious thought patterns
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Identify and analyze emotional symptoms and anxiety triggers
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Empower clients with effective self-regulation techniques for anxiety management
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Assist clients in constructing a personalized holistic healing strategy
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And so much more!
Provide your clients with tools that offer profound insights into their anxious thought patterns while granting them a renewed sense of control over their lives. This presentation isn't just about information, it's about transformation.
Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your expertise and offer your clients cutting-edge strategies for anxiety management.
Credit
Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships
All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Calming the Anxious Mind & Body (11.6 MB) | 64 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| ASHA Instructions - Self Study (64.4 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Alison Seponara, MS, LPC Related seminars and products
Alison Seponara, MS, LPC, is a licensed psychotherapist, anxiety educator, and the author of The Anxiety Healer’s Guide. With over 15 years of clinical experience, Alison specializes in helping clients manage anxiety, burnout, and trauma through a holistic and evidence-based lens. She is also the creator of The Anxiety Healer, an online community of over 570,000 followers, where she offers accessible tools for nervous system regulation, emotional recovery, and healing from high-functioning anxiety.
Alison brings a unique perspective to this training – not only as a licensed professional in private practice but also as someone who has personally navigated the emotional toll of solo work. She blends her clinical training in CBT, mindfulness, and nervous system healing with her lived experience of managing burnout, compassion fatigue, and professional isolation. Her work has been featured on major mental health platforms, and she is the co-host of The Anxiety Chicks podcast, which promotes candid conversations about anxiety and therapist wellness.
Alison’s teaching style is known for being grounded, compassionate, and actionable. She equips fellow clinicians with tangible, client-ready strategies while offering tools to care for themselves with the same depth they offer others.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Alison Seponara maintains a private practice, is the CEO & Founder of The Anxiety Healer Health & Wellness, and is a consultant with Evergreen Counseling, LLC. Alison Seponara receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Alison Seponara is a member of the American Counseling Association and the Philadelphia Behavior Therapy Association.
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Objectives
- Determine the relationship between neurobiology and the manifestation of anxiety symptoms.
- Choose cognitive behavioral therapy techniques that create new neural pathways for managing anxiety in a more adaptive manner.
- Utilize the four-stage anxiety cycle framework to assess and treat clients in anxious distress.
Outline
The Neurophysiology of Anxiety
- How the brain gets “stuck” in (and reinforces) anxious thoughts, rumination, and worry
- Our limbic system: home of emotional processing and behavioral responses
- Polyvagal theory and our autonomic nervous system (ANS)
- Which anti-anxiety medication have been shown to help the anxious brain
- How cognitive work creates new neural pathways
Modern Anxiety: Assessment of a Nuanced and Pervasive Clinical Issue
- Helpful v. harmful anxiety
- Anxiety disorders: When does anxiety become maladaptive?
- Differential diagnosis: GAD, social anxiety, trauma, “high-functioning anxiety”
- Perfectionism, procrastination, and other gray areas of anxiety
- The 4-stage anxiety cycle
Integrative CBT: Creating an Individualized Treatment Framework for Anxious Clients
- Psychoeducation: What does this client need to know about anxiety to start getting better?
- Levels of cognition: full consciousness, core beliefs, automatic thoughts
- How to identify distortions, unhelpful thought patterns, and core beliefs “in session”
- Why cognitive restructuring is more than “saying the opposite”
- Holistic healing: The evidentiary promise of alternative medicine
Clinical tools: practices to increase vagal tone, breathwork, visualization and guided imagery exercises, mindfulness techniques, aromatherapy, yoga, high-functioning anxiety checklist, perfectionism checklist, and more
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Counselors
- Art Therapists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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