A counterintuitive way to defuse the power of panic attacks and social anxiety Practices to help clients overcome phobias, OCD, hypochondria, and generalized
Ronald Siegel (NICABM) – How to work with Anxiety
Concrete Strategies to Help Your Clients Overcome Anxiety
Anxiety can limit a person’s whole world,
Leaving them feeling isolated and alone.
So how do we help clients better work with their anxiety so they can heal and get back their life?
That’s why we’ve teamed up with Ron Siegel, PsyD to bring you a short course . . .
Concrete Strategies to Help Clients Overcome Anxiety
Strategies for Working with Specific Anxiety Diagnoses
- A counterintuitive way to defuse the power of panic attacks and social anxiety
- Practices to help clients overcome phobias, OCD, hypochondria, and generalized anxiety disorder
How to Adapt Interventions for Trauma-Related Anxiety
- Techniques to enhance safety, uncover split-off emotions, and increase a client’s capacity to bear painful experiences
- Special considerations for working with anxious people who’ve been traumatized
How to Help Clients Who Are Stuck in Ruminating Thought Patterns
- A technique to ease the grip of ruminating and intrusive thoughts
- How to break the power of repetitive, negative thoughts
- One strategy that won’t work with clients who ruminate
How to Help Your Clients Tolerate Discomfort
- How mindfulness helps us tolerate pain
- Strategies to help your clients increase their ability to bear pain and anxiety
How to Help Clients Stop Using Counterproductive Anxiety Management Strategies
- How to know when anxiety can be helpful and adaptive
- 3 common coping strategies that make anxiety worse
- Signal vs. noise: a better way to distinguish anxiety from fear
When to Use Relaxation and Calming Practices
- Why relaxation exercises and prescriptions can cost clients in the long term
- When to use calming practices and medication to bring a client within the window of tolerance
- How to increase the effectiveness of relaxation techniques
How to Teach Clients to Self-Soothe
- An antidote to the common pitfalls clients face when they can’t self-soothe
- One question that helps clients think beyond themselves and their anxiety
- How to help clients avoid the “unholy trinity” that often accompanies anxiety
Why Future Goals Can Ease the Power of Anxiety
- How to take the focus off anxiety and onto what is meaningful and life-giving
- Questions that can help your client connect with their values and goals
What Can Go Wrong in Treating Anxiety
- Why traditional CBT can send the wrong message – and how to send the right one
- How to help clients recognize the cost of their “anxiety management” strategies