2026 Anxiety Conference - Complete Recording Package

Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP, clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life and The ADHD Solution Deck, specializes in working with children, teens, and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities, twice exceptionality and mental health issues.

With decades of experience as a clinical psychologist, educator and consultant, she guides people towards a greater understanding about neurodivergence and to live with more productivity and connection. She lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as ADHD ad neurodivergence, executive functioning, the anxiety spectrum, motivation, perfectionism and working with different kinds of learners.

Dr. Saline is on the advisory panel, serves as a contributing editor at ADDitudemag.com and hosts their monthly Solve My Problem live webinar sessions. She is an instructor in the department of psychiatry, University of Massachusetts-Baystate, T.H. Chan School of Medicine, Springfield, MA. She also blogs for PsychologyToday.com, appears as a featured expert on MASS Appeal on WWLP-TV and is a part-time lecturer at the Smith School for Social Work. She has been featured in numerous online and print publications including The New York Times, MSN, The Washington Post, The Psychotherapy Networker, Smith College Studies in Social Work, Attention Magazine, Attitude Magazine and more.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sharon Saline maintains a private practice and is a invited lecturer with Smith College. She receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sharon Saline is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Massachusetts Psychological Association, the Children and Adults with ADHD, and the Attention Deficit Disorder Association. She is a contributing author with ADDitude Magazine, OESIS/Intrepid News, WebMD, and Psychology Today.

Jill Stoddard, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and director of The Center for Stress and Anxiety Management. She is the author of two books: Be Mighty: A Woman’s Guide to Liberation from Anxiety, Worry, and Stress Using Mindfulness and Acceptance and The Big Book of ACT Metaphors: A Practitioner’s Guide to Experiential Exercises and Metaphors in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Dr. Stoddard is an award-winning teacher, peer-reviewed ACT trainer, and co-host of the Psychologists Off the Clock podcast. She is a frequent podcast guest, regular contributor to Psychology Today, and has had her writing appear in Scary Mommy, Thrive Global, The Good Men Project, and Mindful Return. Dr. Stoddard received her PhD from Boston University in 2007.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jill Stoddard is the founder and CEO of Flexible Communications, LLC. and the founder and director for the Center for Stress and Anxiety Management. She is the co-host of Psychologists Off the Clock podcast. Jill Stoddard receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jill Stoddard is a journal and conference reviewer for several organizations, for a complete list contact PESI, Inc. She is a member of the Association for Contextual and Behavioral Science and Women's Special Interest Group.

Janine Oliver, PhD, MSW, LCSW, RYI200, CH, CCATP, is a psychologist, author, and licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years’ experience counseling in the mental health field. She has researched social media and reality television’s impact on critical thinking for over 10 years and has been studying generational changes for two decades. Her specific area of research focused on how these mediums, reality TV & social media, have impacted critical thinking ability in America.

Dr. Oliver is trained in cognitive psychology and uses cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy and logotherapy as primary interventions in treatment to help with grief, loss, anxiety and depression. Dr. Oliver is a certified yoga instructor, acknowledging the connection between body, mind and spirit as a holistic approach to overall health and well-being. She is also a certified hypnotherapist, meditation instructor and EFT practitioner; using these modalities to focus on the subconscious and emotion centers as a means of treating a variety of issues, such as habits, phobias, inner child work, pain and regression. In addition, Dr. Oliver is a certified clinical anxiety treatment professional, using the most current interventions to treat anxiety and enhance the lives of those suffering with crippling anxiety to lead healthy active lives. She is a psychology professor and presenter for continuing education credits for mental health professionals.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janine Oliver has employment relationships with Estadt Psychological and Delaware Country Community College. She receives compensation as a yoga and certified hypnosis instructor. Dr. Oliver receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janine Oliver has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Israa Nasir, MHC-LP, is a psychotherapist, writer, and nationally recognized mental health educator specializing in the intersection of emotional well-being and achievement culture. She is the author of Toxic Productivity: Reclaim Your Time and Energy in a World That Always Demands More, a groundbreaking book that unpacks how shame, perfectionism, and over functioning quietly erode mental health – especially in high-achieving adults.

As the founder of Well.Guide, a global mental health platform with over 350,000 followers, Israa has led thousands of people in rethinking the role of productivity in their lives. She is known for translating complex psychological concepts into actionable, relatable guidance, and her work has been featured in Time, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Psychology Today.

Drawing from her clinical experience with ambitious, high-performing clients, Israa brings a nuanced, culturally responsive lens to therapy. She helps clinicians understand the hidden emotional toll of overachievement and offers evidence-based interventions to support clients struggling with burnout, people-pleasing, and chronic “doing.”

Through her teaching, Israa blends therapeutic insight, cultural context, and lived experience to create trainings that are emotionally resonant, clinically practical, and deeply human.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Israa Nasir has an employment relationship with Anise Health. She receives royalties as a published author. Israa Nasir receives a speaking honorarium and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Israa Nasir has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Alison Seponara, MS, LPC, is a licensed psychotherapist, anxiety educator, and the author of The Anxiety Healer’s Guide. With over 15 years of clinical experience, Alison specializes in helping clients manage anxiety, burnout, and trauma through a holistic and evidence-based lens. She is also the creator of The Anxiety Healer, an online community of over 570,000 followers, where she offers accessible tools for nervous system regulation, emotional recovery, and healing from high-functioning anxiety.

Alison brings a unique perspective to this training – not only as a licensed professional in private practice but also as someone who has personally navigated the emotional toll of solo work. She blends her clinical training in CBT, mindfulness, and nervous system healing with her lived experience of managing burnout, compassion fatigue, and professional isolation. Her work has been featured on major mental health platforms, and she is the co-host of The Anxiety Chicks podcast, which promotes candid conversations about anxiety and therapist wellness.

Alison’s teaching style is known for being grounded, compassionate, and actionable. She equips fellow clinicians with tangible, client-ready strategies while offering tools to care for themselves with the same depth they offer others.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Alison Seponara maintains a private practice and serves as the CEO and Founder of The Anxiety Healer Health & Wellness. She also works as a consultant with Evergreen Counseling, LLC. In addition, she receives royalties as a published author and has collaborated with Vahdam. She is compensated through speaking honoraria, recordings, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Alison Seponara is a member of the American Counseling Association and the Philadelphia Behavior Therapy Association.

Isabelle Morley, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and an EFT-certified couples’ therapist (emotionally focused therapy), and author of They’re Not Gaslighting You: Ditch the Therapy Speak and Stop Looking for Red Flags in Every Relationship. She is an expert in the misuse and weaponization of therapy speak, having written the first book on the subject. She is co-author of the therapist manual Navigating Intimacy: An Introductory Guide to Couples and Sex Therapy, and Dr. Morley is also a contributing author to Psychology Today in her blog Love Them or Leave Them. She is frequently sought out by journalists for expert commentary on topics such as relationships, couples therapy, and reality television, and has been featured in The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Business Insider, Vox and VeryWell Mind, among others. In philanthropic work, Dr. Morley is a founding board member of The Unscripted Cast Advocacy Network (UCAN) Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports reality TV cast members in accessing mental health and legal support and advocates for industry change.

Dr. Morley received a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University. As part of her major in Peace and Justice Studies, she focused on interpersonal conflict resolution and wrote her capstone project on the evolutionary justification and modern-day use of forgiveness and revenge in relationships following significant transgressions. After graduating from Tufts, she earned her PsyD (Doctor of Psychology) degree from William James College in 2015. Her doctoral research explored young adults’ perspectives of hookup culture and its impact on their ability to form meaningful romantic relationships.

She started specializing in couples therapy early in her career, working with couples and pursuing additional education and training in many forms of couples therapy, including the Gottman Method, EFT, and Relational Life Therapy. She lives and works in the Boston area.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Isabelle Morley maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Tufts University. She receives royalties as a published author. Isabelle Morley receives a speaking honorarium from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Isabelle Morley serves on the advisory board for Keepler.

Elizabeth DuPont Spencer, MSW, LCSW-C, is a licensed clinical social worker and board approved supervisor. Trained as a cognitive behavioral therapist using exposure and response prevention for anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder and depression, she has been in private practice for 25 years, working with children, adolescents and adults. Elizabeth is a member of the International Obsessive Compulsive Foundation (IOCDF), the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. (ADAA). She is a Clinical Fellow of the ADAA and also received the 2012 Clinician Outreach Award and the 2017 Clinician of Distinction Award. Elizabeth is co-owner of AnxietyTraining.com with a mission to train clinicians in evidence-based treatments. A graduate of Columbia University in New York City, and the University of Maryland at Baltimore’s School of Social Work, she completed her clinical training at the National Institutes of Health and the Catholic University of America. She is the co-author of three books, The Anxiety Cure (2nd Ed., Wiley, 2003), The Anxiety Cure for Kids (2nd Ed., Wiley, 2014), and CBT for Anxiety: A Step-by-Step Training Manual for the Treatment of Fear, Panic, Worry, and OCD (PESI, 2018). Elizabeth works in Rockville, Maryland.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Elizabeth DuPont Spencer maintains a private practice and is co-owner of AnxietyTraining.com, LLC. She receives royalties as a published author. Elizabeth DuPont Spencer receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Elizabeth Dupont Spencer is a member of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. International Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation, and the National Association of Social Workers.

Kimberly Morrow, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker in Erie, PA. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a master’s in social work. Kimberly has been specializing in treating people with anxiety and OCD for over 35 years and teaching other professionals how to treat anxiety for over 20 years.

Kimberly is a graduate of the International Obsessive Compulsive Foundation’s Behavior Therapy Institute. She is a former board member of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation of Pennsylvania and an active member of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, having served on many committees. She is the 2012 recipient of the Clinician Outreach Award and the 2015 Member of Distinction Award from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. She is the author of Face It and Feel It: 10 Simple But Not Easy Ways to Live Well With Anxiety and co-author of CBT for Anxiety: A Skills Training Manual for the Treatment of Fear, Panic, Worry, and OCD. Kimberly is the co-owner of AnxietyTraining.com, an online platform to provide anxiety training and case consultation to clinicians and school staff.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kimberly Morrow is the co-owner of AnxietyTraining.com and maintains a private practice. She receives royalties as an author with PESI Publishing. Kimberly Morrow receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kimberly Morrow is a member of the International Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation, and Anxiety and Depression Association of America.