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Digital Seminar

Deconstructing Anxiety


Speaker:
Todd Pressman, PhD
Duration:
Approx. 6 Hours
Copyright:
Oct 25, 2024
Product Code:
POS059864
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar

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Description

Increased stress and persistent worry are trapping clients in a relentless cycle of distress.

To help break this cycle, you need to root out clients’ hidden fears and tackle even their most stubborn defense mechanisms.

That’s why we are teaming up with Dr. Todd Pressman, an award-winning psychologist and author with a deep understanding of how the psyche organizes around anxiety. He has crafted a clear, easy-to-follow, evidence-based roadmap to guide your clients towards freedom from their pervasive fear, hypervigilance, and worry.

In this workshop you’ll come away with:

  • Techniques for eliminating the 5 kinds of fear everyone faces
  • Proven ways to break fear’s hypnotic hold
  • Tools for preventing defense mechanism backfire
  • And more!

No more complications. No more guesswork. Just a straightforward, structured path towards more emotional freedom.

Purchase now to become the go-to-therapist who does more than just treat client’s anxious symptoms—start addressing and rapidly eliminating the root cause of the anxiety itself.

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All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



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Speaker

Todd Pressman, PhD's Profile

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Todd Pressman, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, author and award-winning speaker, and internationally known for his work with Deconstructing Anxiety.

Dr. Pressman graduated with degrees in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and Saybrook University. He is a frequent radio, television and podcast guest, and is considered a media expert. His book Deconstructing Anxiety: The Journey from Fear to Fulfillment was voted one of the top 15 books on anxiety by a panel of mental health and medical professionals.

He is the founder and director of Logos Wellness Center and Pressman and Associates Life Counseling Center, dedicated to helping people design lives of meaning, purpose and fulfillment.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Todd Pressman has employment relationships with Logos Wellness, Pressman Seminars and Life Counseling Center, and Center for Management Excellence. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Todd Pressman is a contributor to Psychology Today.

 

 


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Objectives

  1. Identify the role of the core fear and chief defense in the development of personality.
  2. Determine the one core fear at the root of the challenges of daily life.
  3. Determine appropriate interventions to improve client insight.
  4. Apply the principle of doing the opposite of the chief defense to resolve anxiety symptoms.
  5. Utilize CBT techniques for releasing resistance, and the resistance to resistance.
  6. Use a Vision Quest to transform the 5 core fears into the 5 ingredients for fulfillment.

Outline

Theoretical Underpinnings of Deconstructing Anxiety

  • Two drives in the human experience—fear and fulfillment
    • Differentiating between the two
  • Why our best therapies still achieve only a 46% success rate with anxiety
    • What’s missing: Combining the right insight and the right action

Diagnosing the True Source of Anxiety

  • The Core Fear—our fundamental interpretation of danger
    • How the core fear develops
  • The Chief Defense—our primary strategy for handling fear
    • How the chief defense develops and backfires

The Master Key to Healing Anxiety

  • Doing the opposite of the chief defense
  • Digging for Gold exercise—how to find the core fear
  • Who Are You Really exercise—how to find the chief defense
  • The Alchemist: Prolonged exposure therapy for desensitizing the core fear
  • The Witness: Mindfulness techniques to emphasize practice of doing the opposite
  • The Warrior’s Stance: Exposure and Response Prevention—refusing to react to fear
  • Resisting Resistance: CBT thought transformation
  • Vision Questing: Positive Psychology to develop “flow”—ultimate remedy for anxiety

Applying the Deconstructing Anxiety Model

  • Prevent defensive backfires
  • Sample techniques for rapid transformation
  • Case studies

Research, Risks and Limitations

  • RCTs conducted in a pilot study
  • Contraindications for those in crisis
  • Relatively new and evolving model

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychotherapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Substance Use Disorders Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Physicians
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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