Most clinicians are trained to work with anxious clients and typically have a wide range of techniques from which to choose. But for expert Reid Wilson, social anxiety is uniquely challenging, especially when coupled with experiential avoidance and shame. Through a live demonstration of powerful, cognitively oriented techniques, spontaneous discussions with Psychotherapy.net’s founder, Victor Yalom, and Q & A from the audience, Wilson will teach you how to free your socially anxious clients from shame’s grip and build an arsenal of effective coping skills.
You’ll learn five core therapeutic tasks you can use in your clinical work by watching Wilson work with Adam, a divorced, high-pressured executive whose escalating social anxiety has left him ashamed and constricted. Discover strategic interventions for identifying negative internal messages, paying attention to shame, addressing catastrophic fear, changing the search for confidence to one for courage, and disrupting maladaptive behavior patterns that maintain and feed fear. And if your client is also experiencing panic in conjunction with their social anxiety, you will learn effective grounding and coping techniques to share with your clients.
Wilson and Yalom guide you through the session clips with rich discussions that will leave you well prepared to apply these effective and easy-to-use techniques that include guiding your clients in:
- realistically appraising their anticipation of danger
- mastering anxiety through behavioral experiments
- replacing the voice of panic with a more rational one
- reviewing possible fearful outcomes and pre-empting them
- facing their fears by shifting their focus away from shame
- embracing uncertainty
So, sit back and lean into this invaluable learning opportunity so you can help your socially anxious clients flip the script on anxiety, and in the process build your repertoire of enjoyable, flexible, and adaptable skills whether working with individuals or groups.
