Anxiety Treatment via Telehealth – Richard Sears

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Telehealth has burst onto the mental health scene as both a viable, effective treatment option and a source of distress for clinicians and clients alike – particularly those who experience anxiety.

Are you prepared to virtually treat your most symptomatic anxiety clients?

Join author and clinical psychologist Dr. Richard Sears in this 2-hour recording as he combines evidence-based anxiety intervention strategies with the nuanced skill of effectively providing online care therapeutically.

You’ll learn:

• 5 must-do’s and must-not-do’s of telehealth
• How to orient and engage even your most anxious clients on a teletherapy platform
• Mastery of the nuance of virtual care while avoiding common traps that accidentally reinforce clients’ anxiety and avoidance
• How to transform telehealth into an effective exposure tool for anxious clients
• Practical virtual strategies for anxiety management, including mindfulness, disruption of anxious thoughts, and more!

Packed with case examples, interactive discussion, analogies, and experiential exercises, Dr. Sears will have you re-thinking your conceptualization of anxiety – and how it can be treated.

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**BONUS** All purchasers will receive FREE handouts to share with clients about stress, anxiety, and working with anxious thoughts

1. Apply clinical interventions to help clients distinguish realistic from excessive anxiety.
2. Modify traditional exposure therapy techniques to be efficacious via telehealth.
3. Demonstrate three methods for disrupting anxious thought patterns.

Telehealth: Providing Quality Care from a Distance

• 5 must-do’s and must-not-do’s of telehealth
• Know your platform – limitations, troubleshooting, and more
• Helping anxious clients adjust to virtual sessions

Anxiety: Treatment Considerations for Every Client

• The “science 101” of the anxiety response
• Benefits of anxiety (and the problem with avoidance)
• How anxious thinking gets negatively reinforced
• Collective v. personal anxiety

Screen-Friendly Anxiety Interventions

• Separating realistic concerns from paralyzing anxiety
• Decentering & distancing vs. disputation of thoughts
• Do’s and don’ts of online mindfulness techniques
• Interoceptive exposure; walking clients through the extinction burst
• What to do with the client who stays “busy” to avoid anxiety
• Unhooking rumination from thoughtful planning
• Helping clients find meaning, purpose, and value
• And more!