Helping Anxious Loved Ones: Clinical Strategies for Families and Couples

Your anxious client needs relief, and they want it now! Meanwhile, their family members are becoming increasingly frustrated by the paralysis their fear causes and their relationships begin to fracture. You’ve hit a dead-end, with each party arguing that the other should just “let it go” or “you’re not taking me seriously.” You need the tools to help your clients grasp the impact of their anxiety on relationships and balance loved one’s concern for the anxious family member against the negativity of anxiety and their outright annoyance at living with anxiety on a daily basis. This recorded session with best-selling author Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg will discuss pragmatic approaches like the principle of “Right Reassurance” to reduce the impact of anxiety while the anxious client is still in the process of treating their anxiety.

You’ll learn:

Methods for showing clients how to ask for help that keeps their autonomy and responsibility for their emotions and behavior
To teach clients and their family/friends the language of helpful calming and how to describe the source of annoyance with anxiety while still supporting the anxious client
How parents can model anxiety to their children and how spouses can mitigate the impact of parental worry

This is your chance to not only help your client get control of their anxiety, but empower their loved ones to support them as well.