Anxiety: Treatment Techniques that Really Work

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Effective treatment methods for anxiety disorders were just starting to enter the mainstream when David Carbonell, PhD, began his career as a psychologist over 25 years ago. He’s been helping people overcome fears and phobias, and developing new treatment strategies, ever since. Blending humor, compassion, and acceptance with cognitive behavioral methods, Dr. Carbonell, a sought-after presenter, has taught his unique treatment methods to more than 5,000 mental health professionals at workshops across the country.

Dr. Carbonell is the “Coach” at www.anxietycoach.com, a popular self-help site, as well as the author of The Worry Trick (New Harbinger Publications, 2016) and Panic Attacks Workbook (Ulysses Press, 2004). He’s the founding member of The Therapy Players, an improvisational comedy troupe of psychotherapists, and a frequent speaker at annual conferences of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. He has a unique blend of CBT, ACT, Metacognitive Therapy to offer people with anxiety disorders, and the professionals who treat them, and it’s his goal for you to leave armed with an approach, and numerous specific tools, that you can use the next day.

Clinicians rave about David’s guiding formulation of the Anxiety Trick, the simple, humorous language with which he describes it, and the way he helps you translate it into practical, powerful interventions. Join him for a day and go home ready to use innovative new strategies for helping anxious clients, bypassing many of the usual obstacles to progress as you guide your clients to recovery.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. David Carbonell maintains a private practice and is a founder member of The Therapy Players. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Carbonell receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. David Carbonell has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

• Explain how anxiety tricks your clients into getting stuck – and how to turn that around.
• Breakdown anxiety about treatment and build a strong working relationship with the most anxious of clients.
• Describe strategies to help clients recover from Panic Disorder, Social Phobia, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder with or without medications.
• Identify strategies to relieve your clients shame, blame & excessive self-protection.
• Apply powerful methods to help clients overcome the fears of flying and public speaking.
• Demonstrate a breathing technique which not only restores comfortable breathing, but stands as a metaphor to guide future responses to anxiety.

Outline

Treatment Strategies

Prepare Clients for Treatment

• Work with the fear of treatment
• Build a better future from past disappointments
• Putting out fires with gasoline
• The Anxiety Trick
• The end of anti-anxiety

Soothe Your Mind

• The problem with correcting thoughts
• “Uncle Argument” at the banquet
• Exposure techniques for worry
• Disempowering shame and secrecy
• Disengaging from “What if?”

Calm Your Body

• Diaphragmatic breathing the right way
• Relaxation and visualization
• Replace destructive avoidance with valued actions
• Use your body
• When do we use relaxation?

Train Your Brain

• “It’s so irrational”
• Is it danger or discomfort?
• Work with your amygdala
• The rationale for exposure
• Undoing safety behaviors
• Avoidance avoidance

Treating Anxiety Disorders

Panic Disorder

• What maintains it? How to end it.
• Hope and help for demoralized clients
• Getting unstuck from the “Why?” questions
• 3 powerful questions

Specific Phobias

• In vivo exposure for:
  • Fear of flying
  • Fear of public speaking

Social Anxiety Disorder

• The self-centered phobia
• Secrecy is a safety behavior
• Whose thoughts bother you?
• Overcoming embarrassment and criticism
• Handling anxiety symptoms and mistakes

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• The Worry Disease
• The two types of worry
• The Mad Libs of anxiety
• Paradoxical thought experiments
• No more thought stopping
• Change the client’s relationship with worry

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