Full Course Description

FREE LIVE EVENT! | Calming the Anxious Mind & Body

Anxiety looks different for everyone. A personalized approach to treatment is key.

Your clients are likely finding it harder than ever to cope … new anxieties emerge just as other ones get resolved.

Helping your clients tackle their anxiety requires a custom toolkit tailored for what works for them. You should never run out of new and creative treatment interventions …

And that’s why we’re offering this FREE workshop with one of Instagram’s most followed therapists, @theanxietyhealer Alison Seponaro, MS, LPC.

Join Alison for this FREE 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 workshop delivers the tools therapists need to keep clients engaged, build their resilience, and improve outcome including how to:

Apply cognitive behavioral practices to reframe anxious thought patterns
Identify and analyze emotional symptoms and anxiety triggers
Empower clients with effective self-regulation techniques for anxiety management
Assist clients in constructing a personalized holistic healing strategies
And so much more!

Register TODAY!

Program Information

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, autonomic 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