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Overcoming Anxiety with Positivity and Hope

Anxiety can take over every aspect of our lives making even the most basic daily tasks very challenging. However, there is something far more powerful than anxiety that can have a significant positive impact on your life! In this keynote presentation national and international speaker and trainer, Elliott Connie, MA, LPC, will show exactly how to develop the positive mindset it requires so that you live your life from that perspective and no longer overwhelmed with anxiety.

Copyright : 01/12/2022

Treating Emerging Anxieties in the Post COVID World

Treating anxiety is more challenging these days...  In order to more effectively help your clients, you need the latest research on how COVID was the “switch” that shone a light on emerging anxiety issues and how it triggered old or existing ones. To top it all off, existential fears have been exacerbated by years of media bombardment, constant economic, racial, and political unrest, and even the worry of large-scale war. This recorded session, with highly sought-after international public speaker Dr. Marwa Azab, will have you dive deeper into that research as she walks you through the effects of burnout, anxious fog, along with other new faces of anxiety and how they impact your treatment methods.

You’ll be able to: 

  • Formulate more efficient therapeutic plans using your revised understanding of anxiety disorders 
  • Differentiate client's legitimate health concerns from health-related anxieties 
  • Assess how Long-COVID can affect anxiety and how to use that information to devise a more successful treatment plan for your client 

Don’t miss your opportunity to learn how anxiety has changed and how you can improve your treatment methods with these latest developments.

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Objectives

  1. Extrapolate the callosal impact of the pandemic on initiating, exacerbating, modifying clinical anxiety symptoms.
  2. Evaluate anxiety about health and its links to panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, illness anxiety disorder and somatic symptom disorder.
  3. Assess Long-COVID, differentiate among the three symptom clusters and formulate a potential treatment plan for long-COVID related anxieties.

Copyright : 01/12/2022

Health Anxiety: Strategies for Handling the Fears and the Realities

An ache, pain, or fever can throw your health-anxious client over the edge… And researching symptoms on the internet often doesn’t help, in fact it has the opposite affect… Is this COVID? Cancer? Something else entirely? You need the proper skillset and tools be able to help clients discern the difference between a sensation and something that may be a symptom of a larger illness.

In this recorded session, Kimberly Morrow, LCSW and Elizabeth DuPont Spencer, MSW, LCSW-C will give you the essential information to diagnose health anxiety with or without physical symptoms, as well as help you to develop exposures that will help your clients change their relationship with this fear.

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Objectives

  1. Identify treatment differences for clients who have real medical conditions vs those who have imagined medical conditions.
  2. Develop exposure and response strategies with clients for their particular vulnerability with health.
  3. Create and use worry scripts for health anxiety with clients.

Copyright : 01/12/2022

Anxiety and Stress in the Digital Era: Understanding Mental Health and Screen-time

67% of your clients are compulsively checking their smartphones for alerts, calls, and texts—even without getting a notification. Our clients are in an enmeshed relationship with their smartphones… and our clinical training never taught us how to handle this kind of relationship.

Research has started to identify the impact of smartphone and internet overuse--linking it with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and stress. That’s why we have created a one-day live webinar packed with activities, visual tools, case studies, and experiential exercises to help your clients:

  • Understand connections between digital use and stress, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and more, etc.
  • Identify tech use risks, like digital distress and sensory overload.
  • Regain control of digital overuse, protect energy, and balance screen-time.
  • Recognize the effects of social media’s “comparison culture” and turn towards real connection.
  • Experiential exercises, handouts, apps, and other resources!

In this recorded session, view two industry leaders, Nina Hersher, MSW, Chief Education Officer at The Digital Wellness Institute, and Elif Balin, LPC, NCC, Certified Digital Wellness Educator who will equip you with a toolkit of knowledge and strategies to eliminate tech overuse an addiction and move clients into a healthier relationship with their devices.

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Objectives

  1. Analyze sources of digitally based anxiety to inform clinical treatment interventions.
  2. Conduct assessment of warning signs of technology addiction and overuse related to anxiety assessment.
  3. Integrate strategies for the prevention of and recovery from digital burnout and sensory overload-based anxiety as related to clinical treatment.

Copyright : 01/12/2022

Taming Your Amygdala: Brain-based Strategies to Quiet the Anxious Mind

In this recorded session, view neuroscience and anxiety expert Catherine Pittman, PhD, as she teaches you effective evidence-based strategies for Panic, Agoraphobia, Social Anxiety, GAD, OCD, and PTSD, including:

  • Relaxation, exercise, exposure, and sleep interventions to calm and retrain your clients’ amygdala
  • Cognitive restructuring techniques to reduce cognitions and anxious responding
  • Methods to reduce cortex-based activation of the amygdala
  • Tools and exercises from her latest workbook for clients, Taming Your Amygdala

Dr. Pittman’s approach is rooted in neuroscience yet explained in ways that are straightforward and accessible. Teaching clients how to understand and retrain their amygdala increases their motivation and engagement because the focus shifts away from decreasing anxiety and towards changing the brain!

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Objectives

  1. Demonstrate the role of the amygdala in maintaining anxiety disorders for purposes of client psychoeducation.
  2. Defend how clients who know the language of the amygdala have improved treatment engagement and mindfulness.
  3. Use neurologically informed strategies such as relaxation, exercise, exposure, and sleep interventions to produce changes in the amygdala.
  4. Use neurologically informed strategies such as cognitive restructuring techniques to reduce cognitions that ignite the amygdala activation that produces anxious responding.

Copyright : 01/12/2022

Trauma and PTSD in Anxiety: Neuroscience-Informed Treatment Methods

You’re working with an anxious client, but seem to be making little progress… you could be missing some key under-lying factors like PTSD or trauma that prevent you from making any headway with their anxiety symptoms. In fact, they could be exacerbating them. You need to understand the neuroscience behind how trauma and PTSD can affect your clients anxiety and how maximizing participation in early treatment can alleviate symptoms of PTSD and trauma and let you address the root cause of their anxiety.

In this recorded session, Dr. Janene Donarski will help you apply practical neuroscience-integrated treatment models like EMDR, CBT, and Exposure Therapy to work through roadblocks with the resistant or avoidant client and help them reduce the physiological threat response that comes with anxiety.
You’ll learn skills like:

  • Utilizing neuroception, interoception, and self-regulation to improve symptom management and client level of functioning
  • Polyvagal theory, exercises, and worksheets to help clients manage freeze responses and increase body-awareness
  • Using exposure therapy and cognitive reframing to reduce client’s tendencies to avoid triggering situations or environments
  • Creating hierarchies to prioritize symptoms and organize treatment methods
  • And so much MORE!

Don’t miss this opportunity to integrate neuroscience-informed treatments into your practice and start making breakthroughs with your client today!

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Objectives

  1. Determine the common elements in a clinical setting in relation to assessment and treatment planning for trauma and PTSD as it relates to clinical practice and improved treatment outcomes.
  2. Integrate evidence-based skills for developing, maintaining, and enhancing your therapeutic relationship for more successful outcomes.
  3. Utilize specific psychoeducation and cognitive restructuring techniques, including neuroception, interoception, and self-regulation skills, for maximizing involvement and participation in early treatment to alleviate symptoms of PTSD and trauma and interrupting physiological threat response.
  4. Apply practical clinical neuroscience-integrated theoretical treatment models for PTSD and trauma and determine how the common elements are developed in these various models for symptom management.

Copyright : 01/12/2022

Unwinding Anxiety: Can Insights from the Science of Habit Change Help How We View and Treat Anxiety?

Can anxiety and worry be perpetuated like a habit? Anxiety levels are increasing individually and collectively in modern day. Faced with uncertainty, an overabundance of information (and misinformation), among other challenges, our minds struggle to keep up. Our brains default to old survival mechanism to help us deal with anxiety, which can lead to the development of unhealthy coping habits (e.g. stress eating) and ironically feed anxiety as a habit itself.

Drawing on his clinical work, neuroscience research studies and development of next-generation digital therapeutics for habit change, Dr. Brewer will discuss the underlying behavioural and neurobiological mechanisms of why anxiety and other habits are formed and how we can paradoxically tap into these very processes to uproot them. He will also discuss how we can apply these insights to improving clinical treatments and to our own lives.

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Objectives

  1. Determine how anxiety forms as a habit.
  2. Demonstrate how mindfulness affects reward valuation in the brain.
  3. Distinguish how mindfulness approaches can help change habit patterns.

Copyright : 02/12/2022

Helping Anxious Loved Ones: Clinical Strategies for Families and Couples

Your anxious client needs relief, and they want it now! Meanwhile, their family members are becoming increasingly frustrated by the paralysis their fear causes and their relationships begin to fracture. You’ve hit a dead-end, with each party arguing that the other should just “let it go” or “you’re not taking me seriously.” You need the tools to help your clients grasp the impact of their anxiety on relationships and balance loved one’s concern for the anxious family member against the negativity of anxiety and their outright annoyance at living with anxiety on a daily basis.  This recorded session with best-selling author Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg will discuss pragmatic approaches like the principle of “Right Reassurance” to reduce the impact of anxiety while the anxious client is still in the process of treating their anxiety.

You’ll learn:

  • Methods for showing clients how to ask for help that keeps their autonomy and responsibility for their emotions and behaviour
  • To teach clients and their family/friends the language of helpful calming and how to describe the source of annoyance with anxiety while still supporting the anxious client
  • How parents can model anxiety to their children and how spouses can mitigate the impact of parental worry

This is your chance to not only help your client get control of their anxiety, but empower their loved ones to support them as well.

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Objectives

  1. Effectively apply and teach to clients the principle of giving the ‘right reassurance’ to spouses, partner and parents of anxious clients.
  2. Guide clients to teach their partners and friends how to step in to reduce worry without raising their own alarm.
  3. Teach an anxious parent to avoid modelling anxiety while containing their own worry.

Copyright : 02/12/2022

Treating Anxiety in Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Clients Utilizing a Somatic Approach

Increased hate crimes. Fear and discrimination. Police brutality and traumatic media coverage. Higher rates of mental and physical health disorders. Just because your clients aren’t talking about racial-based anxiety, doesn’t mean they’re not dealing with it. It is critical that your therapeutic space instils a sense of safety and calm and agency and empowerment for BIPOC clients.  Imagine your Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) clients leaving therapy... feeling like their traumatic experiences no longer drain or define them... having gained a sense of ownership over their story... using their trauma to help or inspire others into healthy action.


Chinwé Williams, PhD, and Licensed and Board-Certified EMDR therapist has been supporting BIPOC clients with trauma recovery for over a decade. She serves the BIPOC community as a published researcher and author, consultant, educator, and a featured expert blog and media contributor. She specializes in somatically-focused approaches to teach clients how to regulate the nervous system and safely use the body for healing racial trauma. In this summit recording, Dr. Williams will go beyond cultural competency and “top down approaches”, like CBT—because clients can’t think their way out of trauma.

You’ll learn:

  • Somatic, body-based interventions to heal the nervous system and target trauma at the cellular level
  • New exercises to explore your identity and bias
  • The latest ways to support racial wellness and self-care

Don’t let therapy be another space where a BIPOC client doesn’t feel safe and heard. Watch this expert-led training to grow deeper in your connections with BIPOC clients and improve clinical outcomes.

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Objectives

  1. Apply simple, effective clinical interventions to assist BIPOC clients to regulate their nervous system after experiencing anxiety provoking physiological cues, triggers, and emotional reactivity.
  2. Utilize 3 somatic resources that can help BIPOC clients to decrease symptoms of chronic anxiety, as well as manage emotional and physical symptoms of anxiety and panic in the moment.
  3. Apply simple treatment interventions that will empower BIPOC clients to build creative embodied resources to respond to stressors related to personal challenges (or social injustices) in flexible and adaptive ways while uncovering their own internal growth and resilience.

Copyright : 02/12/2022

Treating Clients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Improve Psychological Flexibility through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy & Exposure and Ritual Prevention

You can dramatically improve the lives of people struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder by embracing the effective and seamless combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Exposure and Ritual Prevention (ERP).  Decades of research show that ERP is impactful for folks with compulsive, clinically-relevant habits, and ACT provides support in this endeavour by helping the person broaden their lifestyle to mindfully engage in vital, valuable, purposeful actions.

Watch ACT expert Daniel Moran, Ph.D., BCBA-D, as he not only improves your OCD therapeutic toolbox, but also provides experiential exercises that will be personally impactful for you!

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Objectives

  1. Assess the psychological flexibility of a person with OCD.
  2. Utilize interventions related to acceptance of private events, such as urges, impulses, and emotions, while treating a person with an obsessive-compulsive repertoire.
  3. Utilize interventions related to defusion from private verbal events, such as thoughts and obsessions, while treating a person with OCD.
  4. Utilize exposure and ritual prevention, in a functional manner, while treating a person with an obsessive-compulsive repertoire.
  5. Supplement exposure and ritual prevention with ACT, in order to aim to improve psychological flexibility for a person with OCD.

Copyright : 02/12/2022

Solution Focused Brief Therapy for Anxiety: Help Clients Move from Symptoms to Solutions

With anxiety rising at record rates, mental health professionals must be ready to help every client overcome their anxiety. Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is an evidence-based, straightforward, result-driven approach to therapy that helps clients with anxiety become “unstuck” by drawing on their already existing resources and personal strengths.

Watch dynamic speaker, prolific author, and SFBT trainer Elliott Connie, MA, LPC, as he walks you through the philosophical shift from problem to solution-oriented therapy that will completely change how you approach anxiety treatment. No tricks, no theoretical rhetoric that takes years to understand – just simple, practical, innovative strategies that will transform your clients lives who struggle with anxiety.

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Objectives

  1. Utilize the Solution Focused Brief Therapy to help clients reduce anxiety symptoms.
  2. Differentiate the benefits of utilizing a solution-focused approach versus other evidence-based treatment models.
  3. Demonstrate each component of the Diamond Approach to SFBT as it relates to anxiety treatment.

Copyright : 02/12/2022

Stop the Dread & Avoidance of Anxiety! How to Apply IFS Techniques for Anxiety

Teach clients to stop dreading and avoiding their anxiety! Learn from Richard Schwartz, PhD, the founder of this model that is being embraced worldwide as a cornerstone treatment for therapists. Dr. Schwartz will show you that your client's anxiety is to be comforted - not dreaded or avoided.
The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model offers a way to help clients separate from their anxious parts and then love and comfort them. In doing so, clients can also learn where those parts are stuck in the past and retrieve them from those scary times and unload the fear they carry. This is a scary present but it’s also an opportunity to help many clients do some deep healing.

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Objectives

  1. Assess the foundational concepts of the Internal Family Systems as an effective therapy model.
  2. Plan the IFS treatment steps to use with clients to enable them identify and separate from their anxious parts. 
  3. Apply the concept of "multiplicity" as a model for case conceptualization of clients' presenting problem and/or symptoms. 

Copyright : 04/06/2020

The Anatomy of Our Anxiety

We will explore a paradigm-shifting approach to managing anxiety, based on the understanding that anxiety is not all in our heads, but also in our bodies. We'll discern the difference between avoidable anxiety and purposeful anxiety, learning how to help our patients eliminate their unnecessary anxiety and allow their purposeful anxiety to guide them toward meaningful action. This is essential for any clinician supporting patients who are struggling with anxiety, providing practitioners with safe, actionable, and accessible strategies for helping patients find relief from anxiety.

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Objectives

  1. Categorize anxiety as either avoidable or purposeful.  
  2. Implement clinical strategies to reduce avoidable anxiety.
  3. Utilize purposeful anxiety to align with goals in treatment.

Copyright : 22/11/2022

Treating Panic: Balancing Crisis Interventions with Wellness Strategies

One in four adults experience a panic attack in their lifetime. This means that not matter what your clinical specialty is, you will likely see panic in your therapy practice.

View Elena Welsh, PhD, anxiety expert and author for this 90-minute talk learning evidence-based tools to help your clients cope with panic as it is happening, including:

  • Crisis interventions to use during a panic attack to help clients find relief in the moment
  • Wellness interventions clients can use in daily life to reduce vulnerability to future panic

Whenever your clients are feeling overwhelmed—whether by a panic attack or by everyday stressors — these powerful practices will help your clients find peace!

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Objectives

  1. Differentiate between panic disorder and panic attacks that are secondary to other anxiety disorders.
  2. Use psychoeducation regarding physiology of fear and avoidance tailored to client’s presentation(s).
  3. Analyze problematic thought patterns that fuel anxiety and panic.
  4. Implement clinical techniques for helping clients manage panic effectively.

Copyright : 03/10/2022

Anxiety Treatment via Telehealth

Telehealth has burst onto the mental health scene as both a viable, effective treatment option and a source of distress for clinicians and clients alike – particularly those who experience anxiety.

Are you prepared to virtually treat your most symptomatic anxiety clients?

Join author and clinical psychologist Dr. Richard Sears in this 2-hour recording as he combines evidence-based anxiety intervention strategies with the nuanced skill of effectively providing online care therapeutically.

You’ll learn:

  • 5 must-do’s and must-not-do’s of telehealth
  • How to orient and engage even your most anxious clients on a teletherapy platform
  • Mastery of the nuance of virtual care while avoiding common traps that accidentally reinforce clients’ anxiety and avoidance
  • How to transform telehealth into an effective exposure tool for anxious clients
  • Practical virtual strategies for anxiety management, including mindfulness, disruption of anxious thoughts, and more!

Packed with case examples, interactive discussion, analogies, and experiential exercises, Dr. Sears will have you re-thinking your conceptualization of anxiety – and how it can be treated.

Purchase today!

**BONUS** All purchasers will receive FREE handouts to share with clients about stress, anxiety, and working with anxious thoughts

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Objectives

  1. Apply clinical interventions to help clients distinguish realistic from excessive anxiety.
  2. Modify traditional exposure therapy techniques to be efficacious via telehealth.
  3. Demonstrate three methods for disrupting anxious thought patterns.

Copyright : 16/04/2020

Anxiety Disorders Using the DSM-5-TRâ„¢: Assessment, Differential Diagnosis, and Comorbidities

This presentation will enhance your ability to effectively assess and diagnose anxiety disorders. Anxiety Disorders, the most common category of mental disorders in the US, are difficult disorders to accurately diagnose. During this presentation you will learn: 

  • Current DSM-5-TR™ diagnostic criteria for the nine specific anxiety disorders plus other mental disorders that present with anxiety symptoms 
  • How to use APA web-based assessment measures 
  • Conduct an efficient differential diagnosis process and consider disorders frequently comorbid with anxiety disorders 

Case studies of anxious clients will be provided so you can practice with differential diagnosis and making a DSM-5-TR diagnosis.   

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Objectives

  1. Differentiate anxiety symptoms, the syndrome of anxiety, and DSM-5-TR™ anxiety disorders.
  2. Integrate the steps of differential diagnosis into client’s initial DSM-5-TR™ diagnosis list.
  3. Use APA web-based assessment measures and symptom sorting to identify specific DSM-5-TR™ anxiety disorders and other mental disorders with symptoms of anxiety.
  4. Extrapolate possible comorbid disorders for clients with specific types of anxiety disorders.
  5. Create an accurate diagnosis list with ICD codes, mental disorder names, severity specifiers and other specifiers.

Copyright : 09/11/2022