Empowering Anxious Kids: Creative Interventions to Shift from “I Can’t” to “I Can” with Courage and Resilience
- Speaker:
- Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 58 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Oct 22, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS150339
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Join Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S for a hands-on workshop offering evidence-based interventions to help children manage anxiety. Through creative methods like games, expressive arts, and bibliotherapy, you’ll learn to engage and motivate children while building their confidence in facing fears.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll be able to:
- Recognize diverse anxiety symptoms in children, including avoidance and emotional dysregulation
- Apply creative interventions that build resilience and encourage gradual exposure to feared situations
- Use strategies to enhance children’s follow-through with exposure plans
- Implement effective parent coaching techniques to support anxiety management at home
You’ll walk away with a toolbox of engaging interventions that help children develop a sense of control over their anxiety, build confidence, and shift from “I can’t handle it” to “I CAN handle it!”
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Speaker
Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S Related seminars and products
Liana Lowenstein is a licensed clinical social worker, certified play therapist-supervisor, and certified TF-CBT therapist who has been working with children and their families in Toronto for over 35 years. Her areas of specialty include treating trauma, bereavement, divorce, anxiety, and ADHD. She integrates play therapy into evidence-based models such as CBT and TF-CBT. In addition to her clinical practice, she provides supervision and consultation to mental health professionals. Liana’s 14 books are used by mental health professionals and children’s support workers all over the world, and several have been translated into Chinese, Korean, and Turkish. Her best-selling titles include Creative Interventions for Bereaved, Creative Interventions for Children of Divorce, Creative CBT Interventions for Children with Anxiety, and Cory Helps Kids Cope with Sexual Abuse. Her latest book, Cory Helps Kids Cope with Grief: Playful Activities for Young Children, helps young grievers impacted by suicide, homicide, drug overdose, natural disasters, mass violence, war, military casualties, and other types of loss.
Liana is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences and agency training events, and has provided workshops throughout North America and abroad, including China, South Africa, Israel, England, New Zealand, Australia, and Slovenia. Liana has trained mental health professionals and grief group facilitators on innovative ways of supporting bereaved children, including presentations at the ADEC through the Learning Institute at the Sick Kids Centre for Community Mental Health.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Liana Lowenstein maintains a private practice and receives compensation as a consultant. She receives royalties as a published author. Liana Lowenstein receives a speaking honorarium, book, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Liana Lowenstein is a member of the Ontario Association of Social Workers, the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, the Canadian Association for Child and Play Therapy, and the Association for Play Therapy.
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Objectives
- Recognize the diverse ways anxiety presents in children, including avoidance patterns, physical symptoms, and emotional dysregulation.
- Apply creative interventions that foster resilience, emotional regulation, and gradual exposure to feared situations.
- Utilize innovative strategies to increase a child’s follow-through with exposure plans.
- Implement effective parent coaching techniques to help caregivers reinforce coping strategies at home and respond to anxiety in ways that encourage bravery rather than avoidance.
Outline
Understanding Childhood Anxiety: Why “I Can’t Handle It” Feels True to Kids- How anxiety manifests beyond just avoidance, including physical symptoms, emotional dysregulation, and cognitive distortions
- The impact of anxious thoughts and beliefs that reinforce the idea that challenges are too overwhelming
- Helping children recognize when their anxiety is in control versus when they are in control
- Key components of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and its effectiveness in treating childhood anxiety
- The rationale for integrating playful, engaging techniques into CBT to enhance children’s motivation and participation
- Practical guidelines for implementing CBT strategies that reinforce resilience and flexible thinking in anxious children
- Innovative rapport-building techniques that set the stage for therapy and encourage children to shift from avoidance to participation
- Playful interventions that reduce resistance and foster a sense of safety and confidence
- Strategies to help children recognize their own strengths and past successes in handling challenges
- Games, Art, and Bibliotherapy: Tools to make cognitive restructuring and exposure therapy engaging and effective
- Teaching Emotional Regulation: Helping children feel that they can handle anxiety by equipping them with grounding techniques, breathing exercises, and guided imagery
- Motivational Techniques: Encouraging gradual exposure to feared situations while fostering a sense of agency and mastery
- Understanding how parent behaviors can unintentionally reinforce anxiety and avoidance
- Effective parent coaching techniques to reduce accommodation of anxiety and build their child’s confidence
- Practical strategies for encouraging bravery and reinforcing progress in everyday situations
- Potential challenges and ethical considerations when applying these techniques in clinical practice
- Ensuring informed application in clinical setting
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Educators
- Art Therapists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- School Administrators
- Social Workers
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