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Whole-Client Anxiety Treatment

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Muscles tensing, stomachs dropping, and hearts pounding…many of your anxious clients are uncomfortable in their own skins.

And while cognitive approaches impact anxious thoughts and feelings, without tackling distressing bodily sensations that can lead to avoidance in clients your treatment could fail to
deliver long-lasting relief.

This one-day training will give you a whole-person anxiety treatment approach and show you how to integrate body-oriented strategies and contemplative practices with traditional psychotherapeutic methods to address anxious thoughts AND the physical symptoms that can lead to confused and frightened reactions in anxious clients.

Watch Dr. Debra Alvis, one of PESI’s most seasoned and accomplished trainers on somatic and contemplative practices, and discover the breath and movement strategies, visual meditations, mindfulness techniques and relaxation skills training you need to skillfully help clients:

  • Reduce anxiety symptomology
  • Interrupt the worry cycle
  • Deactivate panic
  • Overcome health anxieties surrounding illness and disease
  • Build resilience and self-efficacy through interoceptive awareness
  • Trigger the calming parasympathetic nervous system response, and much more!

Don’t miss this chance to get the clear guidance and detailed instruction on this real-life application you need to help your clients overcome anxiety and the overwhelming bodily sensations that accompany it.

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Here's What You'll Learn


The Neurophysiology of Anxiety and Panic
  • Autonomic nervous system responses and states
  • Cognitive & amygdala pathways to anxiety
  • Serotonin, dopamine and other transmitters
  • The role of brain derived neurotropic factors
  • The impacts of sleep and nutrition on the anxious brain
  • Psychoeducation strategies
Assessment and Differential Diagnosis
  • DSM-5™ Classification of Anxiety Disorder
  • Assessment from the whole person perspective
  • Clinical approaches for ambiguous anxiety presentations
  • How differentiating vagal states informs treatment
Relaxation Skills Training for Anxiety:
Interventions to Help Clients Develop Autonomic Nervous System Resilience
  • Deep relaxation techniques to wire in relaxed, alert mood
  • Moment to moment exercises for letting go
  • Breath and movement strategies to deactivate panic
Somatic Techniques and Visualizations for Anxiety Relief
  • Bodily sensations and health-related anxieties
  • Visual meditations for specific clinical concerns
  • Prepare with movement, imagery, and sound
  • Draw from inner resources
  • Instill a new perspective with movement and writing
GAD and Social Anxiety:
Mindful Recovery Tools to Move Clients from Reactivity to Responsiveness
  • Interrupt the worry cycle: from the meditation cushion to daily life
  • Mindful exploration – predictions vs. what happened
  • Bring curiosity to perceptions
  • Prime secure attachment for social anxiety
  • Engage and calm parts of the self
Research Limitations and Treatment Risks

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 6 hours of content
  • CE information to come
  • Handouts and resources

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Meet Your Experts


Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD

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Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and private practitioner with over 30 years of clinical experience in supporting clients’ recovery from trauma, mood and relational concerns. Debra began working with parts of the self over three decades ago training extensively in Jungian oriented psychotherapy and contemplative approaches. She applied movement, mindfulness, and the expressive arts to explore parts of the self. She deepened her understanding of inner parts through multiple Internal Family Systems therapy educational trainings, combining her embodied contemplative approach with the IFS model. She finds that this integrative approach strengthens the self through facilitating the resolution of inner conflicts.

A seasoned international presenter and consultant, Dr. Alvis is a therapeutic yoga educator and mindfulness meditation teacher. She retired as faculty member from the University of Georgia where she developed and led the mind/body program. The program included a clinician training program integrating mindfulness, yoga and psychotherapy. A personal contemplative practice, research experience, and a deep understanding of Polyvagal Theory further enrich her presentations. She draws upon this unique background to provide effective, easily applicable skills designed for immediate integration into clinicians’ practices.
In addition to teaching, Dr. Alvis maintains a private practice and has more than 25 years of clinical experience in treating clients with a variety of conditions by mindfulness principles, body-oriented principles and traditional psychotherapeutic approaches. She also has an over 30-year personal contemplative practice.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Debra Alvis maintains a private practice and receives a speaking honorarium from PSIvet, Ridgeview Institute, Twin Lakes Recovery Center, eCare, Essential Therapy Training, Alma, CEU Creations and Mountain Area Health Education Center. She is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. Debra Alvis receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Debra Alvis is a member of the American Association of College Student Personnel, the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, the Association of Specialists in Group Work, the Athens Area Psychological Association, and the Georgia Psychological Association.

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Media Type:
DVD
Also Available:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
RNV058140
Duration:
6 hours, 28 minutes
Copyright:
Jul 13, 2021
Publisher:
PESI Inc.

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