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A Strategic Approach to Treating Social Anxiety Disorder

with Reid Wilson

What do you do when, in spite of your own best efforts, your clients are caught in a spiral of social anxiety and the shame that fuels it? In this webinar replay, renowned anxiety expert, Reid Wilson, will show you how to turn the tables on anxiety, providing you with techniques for working quickly and successfully with socially anxious clients.

Crisis Counseling: 7 Steps to Effective Intervention

with Derrick Paladino

How can you provide immediate relief to clients devastated by a crisis? This online course provides therapists and counselors with a blueprint they can use to confidently intervene, stabilize and support clients overwhelmed in the wake of crises.

Accelerated Treatment for Anxiety, Panic and Phobias 3-video Series

with Reid Wilson

Trying to treat anxiety disorders therapists and clients can get stuck talking about symptoms and triggers. Learn how to use cognitive behavioral interventions that empower clients to rapidly recover from panic, phobias and other anxiety disorders.

A Paradoxical Intervention for Panic Disorder

with Reid Wilson

Anxiety disorder expert Reid Wilson demonstrates a highly-effective, unique intervention in this excerpt from a live session with a woman whose panic disorder has made her life completely unmanageable.

Counseling African American Men, Volume 3: A Complete Course of Therapy

with Darrick Tovar-Murray

Honest exploration of the complexities and challenges of life as an African American man requires a unique combination of empathy and insight that you will gain by watching this in-depth therapeutic encounter.

Brief Therapy for Addictions: 7-Video Series

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A 7-Video series featuring some of the great addiction and brief therapy experts of our time. See how leading addictions counselors use different tools and techniques in treating this challenging population.

Advanced Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for OCD 3-video Series

with Reid Wilson

How can you provide effective and lasting relief for clients who feel defeated in their battle against OCD? Discover groundbreaking strategies for giving your OCD clients the courage and self-help skills needed to get their lives back.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression

with Ari Zaretsky and Mark Fefergrad

When depression mires clients in self-critical thoughts, how do you help them regain a sense of balance and hope? Discover effective tools from a cognitive-behavioral lens in this instructional video, complete with clinical vignettes.

Solution-Focused Therapy

with Insoo Kim Berg

Watch Insoo Kim Berg masterfully demonstrate Solution-Focused Therapy in an actual therapy session. What a treat to see this legendary therapist in action!

Core Concepts of Motivational Interviewing

with Cathy Cole

Expert MI trainer Cathy Cole discusses the principles and spirit of MI, along with core concepts and techniques and ingredients for change.

Time Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy

with Hanna Levenson

See how psychodynamic principles can be adapted for effective brief, time-limited therapy with a depressed, 74 year-old man.

Irreconcilable Differences: A Solution-Focused Approach to Marital Therapy

with Insoo Kim Berg

Insoo Kim Berg's unique style and unwavering optimism comes to life in this demonstration of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy.

Mixed Anxiety and Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach

with Donald Meichenbaum

In this video, internationally renowned therapist Donald Meichenbaum demonstrates a brief, effective approach for treating clients suffering from anxiety and depression.

Accelerated Treatment for Anxiety: Core Concepts

with Reid Wilson

Reid Wilson captivates in this dynamic presentation of his distinctive approach to treating anxiety disorders. You’ll reconsider your own strategies as you consider his paradoxical spin on the nature of anxiety and see his powerful methods in action.

Treating the Severe OCD Client

with Reid Wilson

Severe OCD can seem hopelessly intractable, especially when a client has invested significant time in past therapy. Here, anxiety disorder expert Reid Wilson employs a variation of cognitive and strategic methods in two live sessions, demonstrating his paradoxical approach to tackling obsessive thinking.

Depression: A Cognitive Therapy Approach

with Arthur Freeman

Arthur Freeman illustrates the foundations and key techniques of cognitive therapy in a way that’s enriching and easy to follow.

Stages of Change for Addictions

with John C. Norcross

See John C. Norcross utilize the Stages of Change model in an actual counseling session with a client struggling with addiction.

Engaging the Ambivalent OCD Client

with Reid Wilson

Working with therapeutic resistance is often discussed in psychotherapy training, but the ambivalent OCD client poses a unique challenge for clinicians. Here, anxiety expert Reid Wilson demonstrates a counterintuitive cognitive-behavioral approach to confronting safety-seeking behaviors that can help these clients maintain commitment to recovery.

Increasing Importance in Motivational Interviewing

with Cathy Cole

With three full-length sessions in diverse client settings, Cathy Cole demonstrates strategies for working with clients who are initially reluctant to change.

Building Confidence in Motivational Interviewing

with Cathy Cole

Having a plan isn't enough. Learn to help clients build the confidence they need to put a change plan into action. Cathy Cole works with three clients who lack confidence in their ability to achieve their goals.

Down Every Year: A Demonstration of Depth Oriented Brief Therapy

with Bruce Ecker

An actual therapy session conducted by Depth Oriented Brief Therapy co-originator Bruce Ecker, provides an impressive demonstration of what can be accomplished in a single session by a very talented therapist

Effective Psychotherapy with Men

with Ronald Levant

In this dramatic recreation of key moments in a 12-session course of therapy with Raymond—a man who at mid-life cannot feel excitement at the prospect of his impending fatherhood—Dr. Levant demonstrates an unconventional, yet very effective approach to working with men.

Cognitive Therapy for Addictions

with Bruce S. Liese

See Bruce S. Liese utilize his Cognitive Therapy approach in an actual counseling session with a client struggling with addiction.

Harm Reduction Therapy for Addictions

with G. Alan Marlatt

See G. Alan Marlatt utilize his Harm Reduction Therapy approach in an actual counseling session with a client struggling with addiction.

Cognitive Therapy for Obsessions

with Reid Wilson

In these live sessions with a patient suffering from obsessive thinking, Reid Wilson demonstrates tools and techniques of cognitive therapy that clinicians can begin to apply immediately.

Reality Therapy for Addictions

with Robert Wubbolding

See Robert Wubbolding utilize his Reality Therapy approach in an actual counseling session with a client struggling with addiction.

Solution-Focused Child Therapy

with John J. Murphy

Watch Solution-Focused child therapist John J. Murphy in an actual counseling session with two boys and their mother.

Integrating Therapy with 12-Step Programs

with Joan Ellen Zweben

See Joan Ellen Zweben demonstrate how to integrate therapy with 12-step programs in an actual counseling session with a client struggling with addiction.

Death, Dying and Grief in Psychotherapy (2-Video Series)

with Milton Viederman

Watch Milton Viederman, MD, bring a psychoanalytic orientation to psychotherapy with patients struggling with grief — both in a private clinical setting and with in-hospital cancer patients—in this profound series on death and dying.

William Miller on Motivational Interviewing

with William R. Miller

In this compelling interview, Miller discusses the evolution of Motivational Interviewing, the spirit of MI, and specific techniques that clinicians can begin applying immediately.

Death, Dying & Grief in Psychotherapy: A Brief Psychodynamic Treatment

with Milton Viederman

Over the course of four actual sessions, Milton Viederman, MD, demonstrates a psychoanalytic approach to working with grief.

Joseph Wolpe on Systematic Desensitization

with Joseph Wolpe

In a fascinating discussion with Dr. Joseph Wolpe, he reveals how his experiences treating soldiers in World War II eventually led him to develop systematic desensitization as a treatment for anxiety and fear disorders. Wolpe offers viewers specific clinical advice about how and when to integrate cognitive therapy with behavior therapy techniques in the treatment of fear.

Albert Ellis on REBT

with Albert Ellis

In these lively and occasionally outrageous interviews, Albert Ellis, who many consider the founder of cognitive behavioral therapy, shares about the life experiences and intellectual influences that shaped his career and led him to create Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT).

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety

with Mark Fefergrad and Peggy Richter

How can therapists help clients regain perspective about their most anxiety-inducing beliefs? In this video featuring clear didactics and clinical vignettes, discover CBT’s powerful tools for curbing panicked thoughts and supporting behavioral change.

Exposure Therapy for Phobias

with Reid Wilson

In these live sessions with a real patient, Reid Wilson demonstrates Exposure Therapy in action, offering a frame of reference that clinicians can begin to apply immediately.

Cognitive Defusion

with Steven Hayes

In this third video of the ACT in Action series, you will learn about the core ACT principle of cognitive defusion—a process of de-fusing from your thoughts and learning to accept them without struggle so that you are free engage with life more consciously and intentionally.

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