OCD, GAD, PTSD, SAD, MDD! It would take a professional lifetime to learn let alone become proficient in the treatments for all these anxiety and related mood disorders. And it is so easy to get lost chasing down the myriad and often overlapping symptoms of these typically comorbid conditions. Well, you may finally breathe easy because Dr. David Barlow has dedicated his entire career to developing the Unified Protocol--a straightforward, step-by-step approach to understanding and treating anxiety and related emotional disorders. By watching powerful clinical demonstrations with Dr. Barlow and his team, you will learn to better help clients connect with and resolve painful emotions, disturbing thoughts, and destructive behaviors. In turn, your clients will gain a deeper understanding of their problems and develop skills to resolve them.

Compassionate, concise and clinically astute, Dr. Barlow has a gift for translating theoretical complexity into simple, engaging discussion, and the morass of decades of often confusing and conflicting treatment literature into clear clinical guidelines. Watch and learn as he and his talented team go to work with real-life clients besieged by anxiety and related symptoms.

Struggling with panic disorder which undermines the quality of her life, Cheryl learns about the nature of her emotions so she may once again reconnect with life…and concerts.

• Disturbed by ruminations about killing her husband, Sarah works hard to understand the ABC’s of her impulses so she may make healthy life choices.
• Finding it impossible to tolerate the anxiety that comes with uncertainty, Tara seeks relief through exposure treatment that just may free her to live in the world.
• Still reeling from a near-drowning scuba-diving experience, Liz willingly dons the snorkel mask in treatment so she can once again swim freely through her life.
• Deathly afraid of speaking in public, Steve subjects himself to a mock lecture so that he may overcome the harsh critics of his imaginary audience.