Susan Heitler – Anxiety: New Intervention Strategies for Rapid and Effective Outcomes

Outline

• Why Prescriptions Without Pills™?
  • Common anxiety medications
  • Downsides of medication treatments
  • Research Review
• Conflict Resolution Theory: An Integrative Therapy Approach
  • 5 responses to conflict and the emotional states that they lead to
  • The role of anxiety in emotional health, psychopathology and psychotherapy
  • Practice session: Problem-solving with the 3 steps of the Win-Win Waltz
• Situational Anxiety
  • Visualization – locate anxiety in the body, assess intensity and access subconscious concerns
  • Keys to success with visualization techniques
  • The 3-Steps basic anxiety treatment formula
  • Practice Session: The 3-Steps formula
• PTSD, Phobias, Social Anxiety and Panic Attacks
  • Mindfulness, distraction and problem solving: When to use each
  • Role play: 5 visualization techniques
  • Acupoint tapping (EFT) for repeated episodic anxiety
  • Case study: The Butterfly Thought technique for managing panic attacks
  • Practice session: Acupoint tapping and treating panic attacks
• Anticipatory Anxieties: Worry and Performance Anxiety
  • The CBT No-Fly List
  • How is worrying learned?
  • CBT for performance anxiety
  • Practice session: Thought replacement visualization for worry
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) Visualization Techniques:
  • Do or Become
  • Best Possible Light
  • That was Then, This is Now
  • 6 Steps
  • Video study: The Spinning Technique
  • Practice session: Role play visualization techniques
  • Video study: Reducing amygdala hyper-reactivity
• Tension = Interpersonal Anxiety
  • The circle of skills for relieving relationship anxiety
  • Mind-reading and cross-overs versus how and what questions
  • Six sentence starters for calm and collaborative dialogue
  • Chronic anxiety as an indicator of domestic abuse
  • Practice session: The 6 Sentence Starters
• Treatment-Resistant Anxiety
  • Medication/drug side effects
  • Medical issues to get evaluated