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Updated strategies to help even the most challenging clients - when the gold-standard playbook stops working.
It is so frustrating to have used all of the "gold standard" techniques and still not see progress. You have already worked through the traditional anxiety interventions, but your clients continue experiencing the same nervousness, worrying and panic.
This program was made to help you. Watch neuropsychology and anxiety expert Dr. Janene M. Donarski as she teaches you practical, evidence-based strategies drawn from Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg's groundbreaking book, The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques.
You will master:
With Dr. Donarski's pragmatic approach, you will get a complete set of tools to work with anxiety symptoms that you can immediately use with all clients and confidently apply in clinical practice.
275 South Airport Blvd, South San Francisco, CA 94080 Thursday, December 3, 2026 · 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM PT
Which means the techniques in this training are not just for your anxiety clients - they are tools you will use with every client you see this week.
Anxiety does not come from one place in the brain. It comes from two - the amygdala pathway (fast, body-first, built on association) and the cortex pathway (slow, narrative, built on rumination). Each pathway is wired differently. Each responds to completely different treatments.
Reflexive. Body-first. No logic, only association.
Deliberate. Mind-first. Runs on rumination.
ERP says block the compulsion. Dr. Donarski's modification: when blocking fails, multiply. In one case, a client checked their tongue 120+ times per meal until the ritual itself became so unpleasant that they dropped it. It is a signature move that is nowhere in the standard ERP literature.
A central reframe for the treatment-resistant client. The language change is not semantic - it shifts agency, dissolves the "my anxiety won't let me" story, and opens the door to behavioral experiments the client has been refusing for months. You will use this in your next intake.
POTS. Alpha-gal syndrome. B12 deficiency. Steroid side effects. The Sunday-night "work anxiety" that is actually a weekend binge-drinking rebound. When you do not know to look, your client spends months in therapy for a symptom that is not psychological - and your exposures will not touch it.
"Dr. Donarski's competency was amazing. Slides well documented. Outstanding return on investment."
Licensed Counselor / Psychotherapist"Instructor was incredible. I could have taken 3 more days of training. Learned so much."
Community Mental Health Social WorkerEMDR Level II · Neuropsychologist · PESI Faculty 10+ Years
Dr. Donarski has spent decades in private practice treating the exact clients this training is built for - panic, PTSD, OCD, and hypervigilance - across children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric populations. Neuropsychological assessment is her home base; exposure therapy, memory reconsolidation, and EMDR are her clinical tools.
In her twenties, she was pulled on stage as a volunteer at an Albert Ellis training. She has called it "probably one of the highlights of my life." That lineage - direct training from the founder of REBT - runs through every cognitive technique in this course.
For more than ten years, she has trained fellow clinicians through PESI. Psychologists, LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCs, school counselors, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, and behavioral health nurses have all given this course a standout rating.
She is a certified EMDR Level II clinician, a certified hypnotherapist, and a practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Time Line Therapy. What she teaches on December 3rd is the distillation of all of it - the tools she reaches for when the gold-standard playbook stops working.
275 South Airport Blvd, South San Francisco, CA 94080 Thursday, December 3, 2026 · 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM PT
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From psychologists to school counselors - the breadth of the audience matches the breadth of the techniques.
This is one of the best presenters I have ever heard and I am a long time customer. It was excellent.
This is the best training I've attended in a long time. I appreciated the examples of dialogue that can be used with patients. Lots of refreshing new techniques to try.
I'm used to very professional speakers with PESI, and this speaker proved to be one of the best. Top notch in understanding and presenting this very comprehensive material.
She had enough material for a 3-credit-hour graduate level course. It was a fabulous neuropsych webinar.
Really good presentation. Well-organized, pertinent, and there was no fluff. Great use of metaphors, pop-culture references, and humor - all of it kept me focused and connected.
Loved the pace of the course. Plenty of new information and new perspectives. Refreshing compared to other courses that seem to repeat content or address lower-level knowledge.
The presenter provided so many strategies that are user-friendly and able to be used immediately.
Best neuroscience course on PESI that I have taken.
I used it the next day in sessions. Explaining the biological makeup of anxiety and panic helps it be less of a 'me problem,' which is helpful to clients.
South San Francisco - Thursday, December 3, 2026
DoubleTree by Hilton San Francisco Airport
275 South Airport Blvd, South San Francisco, CA 94080
Schedule: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM PT · lunch 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM · 15-minute AM and PM breaks.
Most anxiety CEs teach CBT + ERP + some grounding. This one starts from a different question: which pathway is this client's anxiety running on? Dr. Donarski's two-pathway framework (amygdala vs. cortex) is the organizing logic for every technique - so when one tool is not working, you have a clear diagnostic reason why and a second set of tools that do.
You will also get things you will not find in most trainings: the response-repetition protocol for treatment-resistant OCD, the multi-hierarchy method, the beta-blocker/exposure interaction pearl, and the specific breathing protocols that work with GAD clients (where square breathing usually backfires).
Yes. If you have any client who presents with anxiety, panic, OCD, social anxiety, perfectionism, or rumination, this training is directly usable. The target audience includes:
Schedule: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM PT · lunch 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM · 15-minute AM and PM breaks.
There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks: one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times are at the speaker's discretion and will be announced during the program. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
Groups of 2-4 get 10% off with GROUP10. Groups of 5-9 get 15% off with GROUP15. Groups of 10+ get 20% off with GROUP20. See the group registration section above to copy your code.
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