Carolyn Daitch – Healing Anxiety: Evidence-Based CBT, Mindfulness and Hypnosis Techniques that Really Work!

• Use an integrative model that incorporates evidence-based approaches
• Learn quick, fast-acting, easy-to-implement affect regulation interventions
• Enhance your clients’ ability to tackle the challenges life brings

The normal enjoyment of life is destroyed by the fear, worry, obsessive thinking and avoidant behavior of anxious people. Simple activities like going to the grocery store, taking a child to her first day of school, or meeting a friend for lunchtrigger a flurry of frantic what ifs. The effect that anxiety has on relationships is the focus of this workshop. Carolyn Daitch will show you a model that combines:

• CBT
• Hypnosis
• Mindfulness

You will learn practical interventions that are applicable to the treatment of panic, generalized anxiety disorder, phobias, social anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. The four-part protocol developed by Dr. Daitch is a unique feature of this presentation. You will leave with a lot of techniques to help your clients deal with anxiety.

If you want to gain skills crafting the best treatment plan for each client, this workshop is a great place to start.

1. Name the four inter-related components of anxiety.
2. Articulate the role of mindfulness in the treatment of anxiety.
3. Demonstrate a treatment protocol using CBT and hypnosis.
4. Communicate two techniques for tolerating uncertainty.
5. Identify two interventions that can help clients tolerate the physiological manifestations of panic.
6. Discuss the sequence of treatment.

There are four components of anxiety.

• Physiological
• Affective
• Cognitive
• Behavioral

Strategies for dealing with uncertainty.

• Impact of uncertainty on anxiety
• Use of CBT, hypnosis, and mindfulness
  • Quiet the mind
  • Ease physical responses to anxiety
  • Heighten present focus
• CBT to shift behaviors that maintain uncertainty
  • Getting reassurance
  • Double checking
  • Information seeking
  • Refusal to delegate

The stage for treatment should be set.

• Establish positive expectancy with hypnosis
• Communicate an individualized, flexible treatment plan
• Explain use and benefits of CBT, mindfulness and hypnosis
• Teach one self-soothing intervention

There is a sequence of treatment.

• Teach mindful awareness of early anxiety indicators
  • Somatic
  • Affective
  • Cognitive
• Use of time-outs for self-soothing using CBT and hypnosis
  • Establish a time and place
  • Teach hypnotic inductions
  • Techniques to re-set parasympathetic nervous system
• Hypnotic Interventions for use once calm
  • Access the wise ego state
  • Imaginary support circle
  • Dialing down anxiety
  • Juxtaposition of two thoughts and feelings

Specific anxiety disorders have applications.

• Generalized anxiety disorder video case study
• Phobias
• Panic attacks
• Social anxiety disorder
• PTSD

Get. Carolyn Daitch is the author of Healing Anxiety: Evidence-Based CBT, Mindfulness and Hypnotherapy Techniques that Really Work!

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