- Fear, hormone responses, and brain circuits simplified
- Quite the inflamed amygdala in 3 steps
- Calm the nervous system in 90 seconds
- Eradicate anxiety in 1 session
- The antithesis to anxiety
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
- Critical differences between situation, trait, and pathological anxiety
- Turn off your client’s monkey mind and initiate change
- How to curb clients’ secondary gains in anxiety treatment
- Exercises to re-route the circuits of anxiety to enhance neuroplasticity
ACT and Logotherapy Techniques to Help Clients Thrive in an Era of Global Unknowns
- Tackle experiential avoidance and cognitive diffusion
- Construct statement of life purpose and clarify values
- Tools to convert EA into motivation
- Re-orient to the present moment with anchors
- How to utilize the attentional brain system
- Case study: Marwa got COVID, EA revised her entire life!
CBT Techniques to Address New Worry Types
- Reversing client’s bias for threats
- Mapping worry loops to curtail habitual thinking
- Shifting from efficient to effective thinking
- How to objectively evaluate evidence for worry
- New journal writing prompts to diffuse worry
- Case study: Maria is a lawyer, 45-year-old and excessive worrier
Attachment, Mindfulness, and CBT Interventions to Address Social Isolation
- Ten ways to prime secure attachment
- Unpack the internal self-talk that fuels anxiety
- Disempower internal schema of others’ expectations that fuels anxiety
- How to diffuse client’s anxiety away from self
- Stop client’s rumination after perceived rejection
- Build social skills through role play
- Case study: Dave 27 years old social worker who cannot write an email to an old friend
Exposure, CBT, and Re-Conditioning Strategies to Reduce the Vicious Panic Cycle
- Help clients out of chronic ‘survival’ mode
- Reinterpreting bodily sensations to soothe
- How some medical conditions trigger panic attacks and what to do about it
- Teach clients to unlearn panic triggers and learn safety triggers
- In vivo exposure technique to confront internal and external panic triggers
- Case study: Leena is a 21 year old student suffering from panic attacks