Anxiety and Trauma Recovery: Using a Neuroscience-Informed Treatment Response
Clinicians often struggle with how to use neuroscience in the treatment of anxiety. We know more about anxiety-based disorders than any other mental health disorders. Science has now provided us with the proven explanations, evidence, and authority to implement neuroscience approaches. In this seminar, you will learn about neuroplasticity, and how to define neuroplasticity in everyday language for your clients. Understanding how to use a neuroscience approach in therapy will provide your clients the opportunity to create a new self, one without debilitating anxiety. You will be able to identif...Read morey the two neural pathways that lead to the creation of anxiety and how to explain them to clients. You will learn how anxiety is initiated in each pathway and how the pathways influence each other. The dreaded fight/flight/freeze response is reviewed to reveal how it is meant to be your best friend. You will learn the essential language of the core area of the brain which creates anxiety and how to diffuse it using neuroplasticity. Learn how to strengthen or weaken specific neurocircuitry in order to create the brain and self that is desired. These techniques are essential in the treatment of all anxiety disorders, PTSD, OCD, GAD, SAD, and even Depression. Learn how sleep as well as exercise influences anxiety production. Learn proven breathing techniques to reduce anxiety activation. And feel more proficient in using exposure techniques in your treatment of anxiety while combatting avoidance. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Ascertain the underlying neurological processes that impact anxious symptoms for clients.
- Evaluate the differences between amygdala-based and cortex-based anxiety symptoms and identify how these symptoms inform treatment interventions.
- Communicate strategies for calming and training the amygdala in order to alleviate symptoms of anxiety.
- Implement methods for teaching clients to retrain the cortex so that anxiety is resisted rather than exacerbated
Target Audience
Learning Levels
- All Levels
Saturday, November 11, 2023
11:00 AM EST - 02:15 PM EST
Register for this WebinarAbout the speaker
Janene M. Donarski, PhD, LP, CCATP, ECDCS
Agenda
11:00-11:05 – Introduction
11:05-11:30 – Review the science behind neuroplasticity
11:30-12:00- What are the two neural pathways of anxiety
12:00-12:30- How do these two pathways influence each other
12:30-12:45 – Break
12:45-1:15 – Your new friendship with the Fight/Flight/Freeze response
1:15-1:45 – How to create specific neurocircuitry
1:45-2:05 – The impact of sleep, exercise, and breathing techniques on anxiety
2:05-2:15 – Q&A
CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours
CE Approvals
American Psychological Association
Association of Social Work Boards
National Board for Certified Counselors
New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work
New York Education Department Board of Creative Arts Therapy
New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors
New York Education Department Board for Licensed Psychoanalysts
New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology
New York State Education Department's State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy
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