The Neuroscience, Physiological and Somatic Basis of Anxiety
- Research on somatic models vs. embodied emotional inference frameworks
- When to harness anxiety charge toward change
- Neuroscience of the threat response model
- Psychoeducation for clients about 4 F’s
- Accessing the threat response and embodied emotions via interoception
Assessment & Diagnosis from a Somatic Perspective
- Differential diagnosis from a traditional and somatic perspective
- Co-occurrence of depression psychologically and in the nervous system
- Assessment of physical and somatic symptoms
- DSM-V-TR™ anxiety disorder overview, including rule outs
- When to refer and consider mediation
- Risks, limitations, contraindications and ethical considerations
How to Teach Clients Anxiety Management Skillsets
- Cognitive & body-based exercises within traditional frameworks
- Techniques for working with fear-based arousal
- Somatic stabilization tools to disrupt cognitive rumination
- Changing negative and catastrophic thinking bottom-up
- Updating internal model errors and erroneous beliefs
- Somatic approaches to addressing perfectionism and procrastination
- Changing self-talk through somatic sense of protection and agency
- Discharge worry circuitry—without thinking
Treating Anxious Behaviors & Attributes
- Explore avoidance as a regulation need
- Create successful exposure experiences
- How to interrupt reassurance seeking
- Somatic practice for relational repair and attachment trauma
- Implicit memory reconsolidation
- Somatic work as a vehicle toward motivation to change


