Description
Chronic anxiety disorders all involve a “threat†that doesn’t occur. Panic attacks don’t kill, obsessive doubts about the stove don’t cause fires, social anxiety doesn’t lead to disgrace and isolation, worry doesn’t lead to insanity.
David Carbonell – Chronic Anxiety: Powerful Treatment Methods to Break the Anxiety Cycle
The feared outcomes recede into the future the way an optical illusion recedes into the horizon.
Why are anxiety disorders so powerfully chronic? It’s because chronically anxious clients get tricked by their own efforts to avoid, distract from, and protect against the perceived dangers. When the dangers don’t come to pass, they believe they had a narrow escape from a terrible calamity, and feel more vulnerable going forward rather than less. They become increasingly afraid of more and more improbable events. What we call the “anxiety disorders†could be more accurately termed “the disorders of excessive self-protectionâ€, because that’s how they function!
How can you help them recover? By teaching them how to disengage from the self-protective behaviors that trick them. Attend this workshop and learn how to help your anxious clients find the evidence of this in their own lives, so you can help them approach and accept, rather than avoid and resist, the experience of anxiety.
This recording will teach you to empower your anxious clients to see themselves as good, capable people who have been fooled by anxiety, rather than defective people who need protection. Discover how to motivate your clients to seek out, rather than avoid, the corrective experiences they need for recovery. Take home effective strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Paradoxical Therapy, Metacognitive Therapy, and traditional CBT to help your clients rediscover the hopes and dreams they had for life before they were derailed by their struggle against anxiety. You, and your clients, will be glad you did!
Handouts
Manual – Chronic Anxiety (1.44 MB) 44 Pages Available after Purchase
Outline
Treatment Strategies Prepare Clients for Treatment
Disarm the fear of treatment
Discover the Anxiety Trick
Experiment with exposure and acceptance
Empathy requires a phobic viewpoint
Schools of Treatment
CBT methods to review outcomes and plan experiments
ACT methods to promote acceptance of discomfort and action
Metacognitive Therapy methods to disengage from arguing with anxious thoughts
Paradoxical methods to encourage exposure
Use Your Body
Belly breathing the right way
Don’t take it lying down
What’s your job when you’re anxious?
Replace destructive protection with valued actions
The rules of opposites
Interacting with Your Mind
The problem with correcting thoughts
Uncle Argument at the banquet
Disengage from “what if?â€
Change your relationship with worry
Train Your Brain
Work with your amygdala
The real purpose of exposure
Being AWARE
Treating Anxiety Disorders Panic Disorder
What maintains it? How to end it
Hope and help for demoralized clients
Get unstuck from the “Why?†questions
3 powerful questions
Social Anxiety Disorder
The self-centered phobia
Whose thoughts bother you?
Secrecy is a safety behavior
Would you like to try an experiment?
Compassion for self
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
The two types of worry
The Mad Libs of anxiety
Paradoxical thought experiments
Don’t even think of thought stopping
Worry appointments and exposure methods for worry
Specific Phobias
In vivo exposure for:
Fear of flying
Fear of public speaking
Research Limitations and Risks of Psychotherapeutic Approaches
Faculty
David Carbonell, Ph.D.
Effective treatment methods for anxiety disorders were just starting to enter the mainstream when David Carbonell, Ph.D., began his career as a psychologist over 25 years ago. He’s been helping people overcome fears and phobias, and developing new treatment strategies, ever since. Blending humor, compassion, and acceptance with cognitive behavioral methods, Dr. Carbonell, a sought after presenter, has taught his unique treatment methods to more than 5,000 mental health professionals at workshops across the country.
Dr. Carbonell is the “Coach†at www.anxietycoach.com, a popular self help site, as well as the author of The Worry Trick (New Harbinger Publications, 2016) and Panic Attacks Workbook (Ulysses Press, 2004). He’s the founding member of The Therapy Players, an improvisational comedy troupe of psychotherapists, and a frequent speaker at annual conferences of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. He has a unique blend of CBT, ACT, Metacognitive Therapy to offer people with anxiety disorders, and the professionals who treat them, and it’s his goal for you to leave armed with an approach, and numerous specific tools, that you can use the next day.
Clinicians rave about David’s guiding formulation of the Anxiety Trick, the simple, humorous language with which he describes it, and the way he helps you translate it into practical, powerful interventions. Join him for a day and go home ready to use innovative new strategies for helping anxious clients, bypassing many of the usual obstacles to progress as you guide your clients to recovery.
Speaker Disclosure:
Financial: David Carbonell maintains a private practice. He receives royalties as an author for Ulysses Press. Dr. Carbonell receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: David Carbonell has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
