The Anxiety Treatment Playbook
ACT, CBT, ERP and Somatic Tools to Target Catastrophizing, Control and Distorted Beliefs
- Speaker:
- Noelle McWard, LCSW
- Duration:
- 8 Hours
- Product Code:
- LWC150849
- Brochure Code:
- PWZ95944
- Media Type:
- Live Webinar - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD
Description
- How 3 root causes can help you understand any anxiety presentation
- 5 clinically relevant truths that will change your approach
- Evidence-based interventions to interrupt catastrophizing patterns
- Practical strategies for control driven anxiety and anxiety from distorted core beliefs
Even with evidence-based tools, anxiety treatment can feel unpredictable.
Where do you start? Which techniques do you use? How to you sequence them?
The truth is, anxiety isn’t a one-size-fits-all diagnosis. It’s a signal pointing to distinct root causes – each requiring different clinical responses.
And once you know how to identify the motivation and defenses behind each root cause, you’ll have a roadmap to the right interventions for the unique client in front of you …
That’s exactly what this all-new one-day training delivers.
You’ll join Noelle McWard, LCSW – anxiety expert and best-selling author of Anxiety Unpacked: Discover Your Type and Recover Your Peace.
In just one day, Noelle will share a practical blueprint drawn from decades of clinical experience – giving you a clear way to conceptualize anxiety PLUS get results with ACT, CBT, DBT, narrative techniques, somatic and exposure-based strategies that work.
If you work with clients struggling with anxiety this training will give you a clear roadmap and tools you can use immediately to transform your sessions.
Register now!
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Speaker
Noelle McWard, LCSW Related seminars and products
Noelle McWard, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 30 years of clinical experience. She is the founder and practice owner of Counseling Solutions in Chicago, IL, and has served as a continuing education provider for mental health professionals for the past decade. Noelle has taught at the graduate level at Loyola University Chicago’s School of Social Work and is a regular contributor to Psychology Today though her blog, Unpacking Anxiety. Her work has also been featured in Psychotherapy Networker, MindBodyGreen, and other mental health publications.
Noelle developed the Anxiety Unpacked framework through her clinical practice and has been training therapists across the United States in its application for nearly 10 years. She is the author of Anxiety Unpacked: Discover Your Type and Recover Your Peace and is passionate about helping both clinicians and clients better understand the roots of anxiety.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Noelle McWard is the founder of Counseling Solutions Group Practice and maintains a private practice. She serves as a continuing education sponsor, contributes expert content to Psychology Today, and provides professional services as an Immigration Law Expert Witness. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Noelle McWard has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Additional Info
Access Period for Live WebcastYou will have access for 90 days after the program for review. For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. Please note that this requirement may vary by credit type. Please see detailed credit information for specific requirements for each credit type.
Webcast Schedule
Please note: 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 will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
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Objectives
- Identify the neurophysiological purpose and experience of anxiety.
- Examine how the mind-body connection in anxiety informs case conceptualization and treatment planning.
- Integrate somatic interventions including grounding and breathwork into anxiety treatment plans.
- Choose treatment strategies for catastrophizing including mindfulness and ACT-based strategies.
- Identify the importance of emotion regulation in understanding the onset, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders.
- Utilize psychodynamic and attachment lenses, CBT interventions, and self-compassion in working with uncertainty intolerance in anxiety clients.
Outline
The Neurobiology of Anxiety: The Mind-Body Connection in Anxiety Treatment
- The amygdala and the fight, flight, or freeze response
- The physiology and biological purpose of anxiety
- Differentiate appropriate anxiety from problematic anxiety
- Interoception and its role in anxiety
- Polyvagal Theory, co-regulation and seeking safety and connection
- Embodied cognition and how anxiety is experienced somatically
Five Clinically Relevant Truths to Guide Anxiety Treatment
- Breathing as a foundational regulator of the nervous system
- Avoidance as the most common human response to anxiety
- How directing attention intentionally can regulate anxiety
- How the mind fills in gaps in information with fear-based narratives
- The constant interplay between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Anxiety Unpacked: Identify Three Root Causes of Anxiety
- Three distinct root causes, each requiring different clinical responses
- Catastrophizing – driven by a need for certainty
- Control – driven by attempts to create safety and security
- Distorted beliefs – driven by internalized core beliefs about worth, value, and connection
Catastrophizing Anxiety: Targeted Interventions for Anxiety Driven by the Need for Certainty
- Core characteristics of catastrophizing anxiety
- The objection that maintains catastrophizing when challenged
- CBT cognitive restructuring to discern facts from fear-based narratives
- Mindfulness strategies to disengage from rumination and attachment to anxious thoughts
- Narrative exercises for externalizing anxiety
- ACT values-based decision making as an alternative to reassurance-seeking
- Build tolerance for uncertainty through ERP grated exposure
- The role of trauma in catastrophizing patterns
Control Driven Anxiety: Strategies and Techniques for Anxiety Driven by the Need for Safety and Security
- Core characteristics and underlying need
- Discern what’s within one’s control vs. outside of one’s control
- Cultivate an internalized sense of trust
- CBT exercises to help client identify “good enough”
- ACT and exposure-based interventions to help clients let go and do less
- Use radical acceptance as a clinical intervention
- The role of trauma in control-based anxiety
- Research, risks and treatment limitations
Distorted Beliefs Anxiety: A Toolbox for Treating Anxiety Rooted in Core Beliefs About Worth and Connection
- Characteristics and underlying need
- Core distorted beliefs and corresponding behaviors
- Explore early experiences that contributed to belief formation
- The “funhouse mirror” analogy and how distorted beliefs are maintained
- CBT tools to replace distorted beliefs with more accurate, compassionate beliefs
- Practice behaviors aligned with corrected beliefs
- Practice self-compassion and risking vulnerability
- The role of trauma in anxiety rooted in distorted beliefs
- Research, risks and treatment limitations
Body-Centered Practices to Support Anxiety Regulation Across All Types
- Breathing techniques to regulate physiological arousal
- Grounding strategies to support nervous system stabilization
- EFT tapping as a tool for emotional regulation
- Guided meditation practices to support presence and regulation
- Research, risks and treatment limitations
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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