NP0025: Treating Anxiety: The Latest Advances

Anxiety is the most common problem that clients bring into psychotherapy. Learn what neuroscience has taught us about what maintains anxiety, as well as the latest advances in powerful approaches that can offer relief from a wide range of anxiety symptoms, often immediately. Whether the presenting issue is dissipating panic, overcoming compulsive worry, tolerating chronic uncertainty, or enhancing motivation for change, this webcast will provide you with concrete tools you can use in your practice.

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David Burns Session 1
 Motivating the Anxious Client: A Paradoxical Approach
David Burns, M.D.
Develop a new, powerful approach to greatly shortening anxiety treatment by learning to:
  • Recognize the role of both process and outcome resistance in preventing change
  • Use paradoxical agenda setting before assuming that the client is truly seeking change
  • Discover the hidden emotions that underlie anxiety
  • Understand the role of magical thinking in maintaining anxiety
  • Help clients prevent relapse
Margaret Wehrenberg Session 2
 The Neurobiology of Anxiety
Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D.
Bring the insights of neuroscience and CBT into your work with anxious clients by:
  • Exploring the brain structures and processes that underlie anxiety
  • Understanding the role of the cortex, basal ganglia, anterior cingulate gyrus, and the amygdale in worry and anxiety
  • Learning methods for calming the parasympathetic nervous system
  • Reviewing worry management, thought stopping, and thought replacement techniques
  • Exploring how to incorporate mindfulness methods into your approach
Danie Beaulieu Session 3
 Interrupting the Anxiety Cycle
Danie Beaulieu, Ph.D.
Expand your range of active, engaging, sensory-based interventions with anxious clients by:
  • Understanding the role of thoughts, body responses, and behavior in the Circle of Anxiety
  • Examining the etiologies of different types of anxiety
  • Learn a wide range of metaphors, images, and multisensory interventions to enliven and enrich your work
  • Teaching clients to recognize when anxiety is playing a positive role as a “GPS” response
  • Developing your capacity to bring non-verbal, experiential methods into the consulting room
Steve Andreas Session 4
 Single-Session Cures with Anxiety Problems
Steve Andreas, M.A.
Learn powerful techniques for bringing about immediate and enduring changes in anxiety symptoms by:
  • Witnessing two dramatic video demonstrations drawn from Neuro-Linguistic Programming
  • Exploring the difference between conscious desire and unconscious response
  • Incorporating clinical methods that focus on injunctive vs. descriptive language
  • Learning how to shift the structure of experience in the present through the Spinning Feelings Method
  • Developing interventions that leverage the power of clients’ self-talk
Lynn Lyons Session 5
 Parents, Children, and Anxiety: Changing the Family Dance
Lynn Lyons, L.I.C.S.W.
Get an introduction to a 3-step approach for work with anxious kids and their often anxious parents that focuses on:
  • Teaching the family about the interactive processes that reinforce anxiety
  • Shifting the emotional tone through the use of humor and play
  • Helping families externalize anxiety and develop alternatives responses that normalize it
  • Giving homework assignments and other concrete interventions that encourage a proactive response to anxiety
  • Teaching children to talk back to anxiety and other means of self-soothing
Reid Wilson Session 6
Defeating Panic
Reid Wilson, Ph.D.
Learn a step-by-step approach to helping clients shift their relationship to panic by:
  • Challenging the rules of the “Anxiety Game” that has come to dominate their life
  • Teaching clients how to approach anxiety rather than avoid it
  • Use absurdity, exaggeration, and caricature to change their relationship with panic
  • Learn how to motivate clients to move beyond “exposure therapy” to more proactively seeking out opportunities to experience their symptoms
  • Equipping them with new internalized strategies for maintaining their new beliefs and behaviors in the long term
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Have You Ever...

  • Struggled with a client with crippling anxiety who was resistant to change?
  • Felt that anxiety treatment took too long?
  • Wondered how to keep an anxious parent from reinforcing a child’s anxiety?
  • Been unable to get OCD clients to break the rigid patterns that kept them struck?

Learn Concrete Strategies for
Overcoming These Obstacles and More
in Our "Treating Anxiety" Webcast Series

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Our Presenters Are Leaders In The Field

David Burns, M.D., is adjunct clinical professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Among his numerous awards is the A. E. Bennett Award for research on brain chemistry. He’s been named teacher of the year three times. His books include When Panic Attacks and Feeling Good.

Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D., specializes in anxiety treatment, using a holistic approach for symptom management. She’s the author of The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques and, most recently, The 10 Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques.

Danie Beaulieu, Ph.D., is the founder of Academie Impact, a training institute, publisher, and producer of therapeutic aids. Her books include Impact Techniques for Therapists, Impact Techniques in the Classroom, and Eye Movement Integration: The Comprehensive Guide.

Steve Andreas, M.A., has been learning, teaching, and developing methods in Neuro-Linguistic Programming for more than 30 years. His books include Virginia Satir: The Patterns of Her Magic, Transforming Your Self: Becoming Who You Want to Be, and Six Blind Elephants: Understanding Ourselves and Each Other.

Lynn Lyons, L.I.C.S.W., is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist who specializes in working with anxiety in children. Her presentations include “Preventing Anxiety and Depression: Skills We Can (and Should!) Be Teaching Our Children” and “Managing Anxiety and Anger in the Classroom.”

Diana Fosha, Ph.D., is the developer of Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and director of the AEDP Institute. She’s the author of The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change and a coeditor of The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development, and Clinical Practice.

Reid Wilson, Ph.D., is associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He runs www.anxieties.com, the largest, free anxiety self-help site on the Internet. He’s the author of Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks and Facing Panic: Self-Help for People with Panic Attacks.

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