Accelerated Treatment for Anxiety, Panic and Phobias
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Overview
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.
Although most clients come to therapy in some state of distress, therapists and counselors working with clients struggling with anxiety, panic, phobias and other anxiety disorders need proactive tools to provide immediate relief and long-lasting change. These clients, whose lives have been diminished by their anxiety disorders, are often isolated and desperate to find relief. To be truly effective, therapists must quickly establish rapport, while actively developing a fundamental shift in their client’s relationship with worry and fear. In this way, clients can learn to challenge their maladaptive belief systems, tolerate uncertainty, regulate their internal states and meet their anxieties head on.
A leading authority in the treatment of anxiety disorders, and known for his innovative, counterintuitive, and highly effective methods, Reid Wilson asks clients if they “are willing to be afraid” with him. In the process, he will show you how to recreate fearful situations in the safety of your session so clients learn to “handle more than they think they can.” By implementing small in-session behavioral experiments and integrating mastery-oriented homework assignments, Wilson will teach you how to help clients access their courage, confront their fears, and live more fully.
Live demonstrations of his approach with three challenging clients, Wilson’s running voiceover commentaries, and pre- and post-session analyses with Psychotherapy.net’s founder Victor Yalom, offer added depth to increase your confidence and skill when working with these most challenging clients.
With This Course You’ll Learn How To…
- Externalize and personify anxiety disorders to fundamentally change your client’s mindset
- Perform a methodical assessment to see past the content and get at the heart of the disorder
- Apply strategic cognitive behavioral interventions to rapidly treat panic, phobias, social anxiety, and other common anxiety disorders
- Develop progressive in vivo exposure exercises to help clients tolerate discomfort and anxiety
- Equip clients with self-help skills and courage to face their worries and fears head-on and take back their lives
What's Included
Get the Tools You Need to Help Clients Stop Worrying and Start Thriving
Clients can get stuck talking about symptoms and triggers. Learn how to take a more active approach using cognitive behavioral interventions that empower clients to rapidly recover from panic, phobias and other anxiety disorders.
Volume 1: Accelerated Treatment for Anxiety: Core Concepts
Through a presentation with an accompanying case demonstration, Wilson illustrates the core concepts of his groundbreaking technique to treating common yet stubborn anxiety disorders. By the time Olivia meets with Wilson she says all of her efforts at controlling her anxiety have failed. Wilson demonstrates and discusses…
- Why avoidant strategies don’t work
- Paradoxical interventions for reframing anxiety
- Experiential exercises for increasing tolerance to discomfort
Volume 2: Cognitive Therapy for Panic Disorder
Panic disorder is a devastating and debilitating disorder and therapists often find it difficult to help their clients using traditional approaches. Here, anxiety disorder expert Reid Wilson shows you how to apply a radically different approach in this live session with Renée, a woman whose panic disorder has made her life unmanageable.
He’ll demonstrate and discuss…
- Exposure exercises to recreate her symptoms in vivo
- Guidelines for responsibly using exposure therapy
- A fundamental shift in mindset that quickly provides relief
Volume 3: Exposure Therapy for Phobias
Decades of research have shown that exposure therapy the most effective way to get long-lasting results in the treatment of phobias, but most therapists have never had a chance to see exposure therapy in action. Here, Wilson shows you how it’s done. In two sessions with a woman suffering from claustrophobia, he’ll teach you…
- How to collaboratively identify in vivo exposure interventions
- Ethical guidelines for using exposure therapy internventions
- Tips for gauging client readiness and increasing intensity
- Techniques that restores client agency over their fears
- How to use pacing, humor, and the therapeutic relationship to build trust, confidence and courage
About the Experts
Reid Wilson, PhD is a licensed psychologist who directs the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center in Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
Wilson specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders and is the author of Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks, Facing Panic: Self-Help for People with Panic Attacks, and is co-author with of Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions. Wilson served on the Board of Directors of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America and was Program Chair of the National Conferences on Anxiety Disorders. In 2014 The Anxiety and Depression Association of America honored Wilson for a lifetime of service.
His free self-help website – www.anxieties.com – serves 500,000 visitors per year.
Disclosures
General Disclosure
This Disclosure Statement has been designed to meet accreditation standards; Psychotherapy.net does its best to mitigate potential conflicts of interest and eliminate bias in all areas of content. Experts are compensated for their contributions to our training videos; while some of them have published works, the purchase of additional materials are not required for any Psychotherapy.net training. Each experts’ specific disclosures can be found in their biography.
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Therapist Disclosure
Reid Wilson was compensated for his contribution to this course. None of his books or additional offerings are required for this course. Should such materials be referenced, it is only as additional resources.
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Additionally, there is no commercial support for this activity. None of the planners or any employee at Psychotherapy.net who has worked on this educational activity has relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.
Learning Objectives
In Volume 1: Accelerated Treatment for Anxiety: Core Concepts you’ll learn how to…
- List the core concepts in Wilson’ approach to treating OCD
- Describe tools for increasing client tolerance of uncertainty and discomfort
- Discuss ways to increase client rapport to obtain treatment compliance
In Volume 2: Cognitive Therapy for Panic Disorder you’ll learn how to…
- List the core concepts of Wilson’s approach to treating panic disorder
- Discuss how to conduct a highly focused assessment
- Apply tools for helping clients tolerate the discomfort of panic symptoms
In Volume 3: Exposure Therapy for Phobias you’ll learn how to…
- Describe the core concepts of Wilson’s approach to treating phobias
- Conduct a highly focused assessment of phobias
- Discuss tools for facilitating habituation through exposure therapy techniques
What you get in this course
Real Sessions
Over 5 hours of videos featuring anxiety expert Reid Wilson conducting clinical sessions with real clients
Therapist Commentary
Thorough overview and behind-the-scenes commentary for insight into his unique cognitive behavioral interventions
Continuing Education
5.5 CE credits available
Bonus Resources
Downloadable client handouts,skill building activities to practice the core skills and other resources
Anywhere, Anytime Access
Get instant access to all course materials. Start anytime, learn at your own pace, whenever it fits your schedule
“In this course viewers can easily understand Wilson’s approach. His pacing, leading, and reframing, intermixed with insightful prodding questions, facts, and positive associations, helps clients to think, feel, and act differently. I recommend this course for anyone working with clients struggling with anxiety.”
“Reid Wilson provides an extraordinary insight into the process of exposure therapy for phobias. Observing him implement exposure therapy is beautifully complemented by his explanation of what he is aiming to achieve each step of the way. This course provides a rare look into the mechanisms of exposure as it is unfolding. Invaluable resource for working with clients with anxiety disorders.”
“A unique opportunity to look behind the scenes at how one of the pioneers in the field of OCD treatment does therapy. You’ll understand the principles behind the choices Wilson makes as he pushes clients to relate to their inner experience with an entirely different attitude. A breakthrough in anxiety treatment!”
