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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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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.

Copyright : 24/03/2021

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!

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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.

Copyright : 12/11/2021

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.

Part 2 | 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.

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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.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder Workbook

Is worry taking over your life? Are you constantly worrying about money, health, family, work, or other issues? Do you find it difficult to control your worries even though you know they are not helping you?

Although anxiety can make it seem like things will never get better, it is possible to break free from the cycle of worry. In the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Workbook, Dr. Lawrence Shapiro provides you with the tools you need to stop battling against your worries and strip anxiety of its power. Filled with a variety of straightforward and easy-to-use worksheets, you’ll learn how to:

Identify your worry triggers
Tolerate uncomfortable thoughts and feelings
Manage catastrophic thinking
Incorporate mindfulness into your routine
Cope with intrusive thoughts
Develop new positive habits

The CBT Deck for Anxiety, Rumination, & Worry

Manage anxiety effectively with simple, practical, lifegiving strategies to find equilibrium and focus on what you love. The 108 practices in The CBT Deck for Anxiety, Rumination, & Worry will help you:

Question scary thoughts
Face your fears directly
Be more engaged in the present
Live fully even in uncertain times