Live Webinar
Description
Anxiety is one of the most common—and treatable—challenges clients face. This live, 3-hour, interactive course is designed to help you work more confidently and effectively with clients experiencing anxiety by offering a clear, structured roadmap for treatment.
Through this offering you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how to talk about anxiety with clients, recognize symptoms, and apply diagnostic criteria. We’ll explore the Cognitive Model of anxiety alongside both conventional and integrative, evidence-based interventions, including somatic and nervous system regulation tools.
Through demonstrations, clinical case examples, and interactive practice, you’ll learn how to: Formulate anxiety from a cognitive and somatic lens Apply nervous system-informed strategies for immediate regulation Tailor interventions to your client’s unique needs and presentation By the end of this training, you’ll walk away with practical, ready-to-use tools you can implement immediately in your clinical work.
About the Instructor:
Erena DiGonis, LCSW-R is a New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Health Coach, and Certified Clinical Anxiety and Trauma Treatment Professional. Erena has twenty-one years of practical and professional experience as an active clinician, teacher, and supervisor. She has worked in a variety of community, psychiatric, in-home, and private practice settings with hundreds of complex cases. Erena is a sought-after writer, speaker, and consultant and has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Psychology Today, Reader’s Digest, Women’s Health, and MEL magazine. She is also on the Advisory Board Member for the CPTSD Foundation.
Objectives
After this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate between stress, worry, anxiety, and trauma in clinical assessment
- Identify the Cognitive Model of anxiety and describe how it informs intervention planning and treatment delivery.
- Explain the diagnostic criteria for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Adjustment Disorder using the DSM-5-TR, including common differential diagnoses such as trauma-related disorders.
- Apply three evidence-based clinical interventions that support nervous system down regulation in clients with anxiety disorders.
- Explore how identifying personal values through a values sorting exercise can guide action in moments of anxiety.
Course Outline
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Course Policies
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