Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional – Dr. Janene Donarski

Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional – Dr. Janene Donarski

Description:

Transform your practice with this intensive 2-day Anxiety Treatment Certification Training and get the skills, proven strategies, and interventions you need to take your treatment of anxiety to the next level!

You’ll learn how to more skillfully assess clients, differentiate between various anxiety presentations, fully engage clients in treatment, and effectively use tools from CBT, mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, and contemplative practices to enhance clinical outcomes.

And expert guidance on combining brain-based principles, body-oriented techniques and traditional psychotherapeutic approaches will change the way you work with challenging clients whose anxiety is exacerbated by shame, self-judgement, and attachment issues.

Best of all, upon completion of this seminar, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of anxiety counseling. Professional standards apply.

Outline:
The Neurophysiology of Anxiety

Cognitive & amygdala pathways to anxiety
Autonomic nervous system responses
Polyvagal Theory
Serotonin, dopamine and neurotransmitters
The role of brain derived neurotropic factors
The impacts of sleep and nutrition on the anxious brain
Assessment and Differential Diagnosis

DSM-5 classification of anxiety Disorder
Assessment from the whole person perspective
Clinical approaches for ambiguous anxiety presentations
Phobia vs. OCD
Trauma, Axis II, or both?
Distinguish anxiety from agitated depression
Biological Treatment of Anxiety: Impacts of Psychopharmacology & Nutraceuticals

How medication impacts neuroplasticity
Frequently prescribed medications
Common side effects
Evidence-based supplements
From Avoidance to Proactivity: Strategies to Engage and Sustain Client Motivation

Illustrate neuroscience concepts with stories & metaphors
Link contemplative practices to brain change
Address impasses with awareness based interviewing
Reframes – replacing old neural patterns
Co-create meaningful, values based-goals
Motivational Interviewing for Anxiety Treatment: Mobilizing & Sustaining Change

Elicit change talk
Elaborate on change indicators
Coalesce motivation for exposure treatment
Renew motivation when fear arises
Techniques to Address the Cognitive Pathway to Anxiety

Strategies to dismantle automatic thoughts, core beliefs
How to unwind troublesome thinking patterns
When life feels overwhelming – stemming the tide techniques
Apply Chain Analysis – when and how
Relaxation Skills: Help Clients Develop an Anxiety Resistant Brain

Wire in relaxed, alert mood with deep relaxation
Letting go with moment to moment exercises
Breath and movement strategies to deactivate panic
Antidotes to Shame, Guilt and Self-Judgement

How shame and self-judgement exacerbate anxiety
Tools to identify anxiety fuel
Appropriate & inappropriate guilt
Anxiety interventions for the shame prone client
Ease shame intensity with body witnessing and observing skills
Self-compassion inquiry – inviting in parts of the self
Counteract anxiety with gratitude
Attachment Anxiety

Untangle developmental roots
Contemplative applications – the Polyvagal Theory
Techniques to prime secure attachment
Movement and Visual Meditations for Anxiety Relief

Visual meditations for specific clinical concerns
Prepare with movement, imagery and sound
Draw from inner resources
Instill a new perspective with movement and writing
Individualized follow-up assignments
Mindful Recovery Tools for GAD and Social Anxiety

Three steps for moving from reactivity to responsiveness
Interrupt the worry cycle: from the meditation cushion to daily life
Mindful exploration – predictions vs. what happened
Bring curiosity to perceptions
Prime secure attachment for social anxiety
Meditation for OCD Management

How clients can recognize excessiveness
Titrate exposure with breathing practices
Reduce repetition with mindful response prevention
Overcome obsession with mantra & breath
NLP online course

So what is NLP?
Firstly, NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Secondly neuro refers to your neurology;
Thirdly linguistic refers to language however, programming refers to how that neural language functions.
As a result,In other words, learning NLP is like learning the language of your own mind!

Moreover, NLP is the study of excellent communication–both with yourself, and with others.
It was developed by modeling excellent communicators and therapists who got results with their clients.
NLP is a set of tools and techniques, but it is so much more than that.
In conclusion, It is an attitude and a methodology of knowing how to achieve your goals and get results.