Taming Amy(gdala), Neuroplasticity and more!

A Two Day Workshop for Long Term Anxiety Relief

 

March 23 and 26, 2020 

  10:00am – 4:45pm Both Days

Owings Mills Library

10302 Grand Central Avenue

Owings Mills, MD 21117

 

Refreshments (healthy and not-so healthy) are served throughout the day. Each Day training will take place from 10:0am-4:45pm with a 45 minute lunch break.

 

Taming Amy(gdala), Neuroplasticity and more! A Two Day Workshop for Long Term Anxiety Relief

Trainer: Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan

Does your therapeutic tools box need new and creative instruments? How often do you encounter a client suffering from anxiety who does not respond to the usually therapy approaches? Do you desire a comprehensive formula that provides guidance rather than abstract theoretical paradigms? Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan’s seminar offers a clinical blueprint that is concise and practical; highlighting a cutting-edge treatment plan for clinicians to treat various types of anxiety disorders. This unique 6-step approach describes a distinctive arrangement of evidence-based therapeutic interventions that reduce symptomology common to the experience of chronic anxiety, panic and worry. 

Each step highlights core skills necessary for symptom relief and consequent long-term resiliency. Lastly, this model provides an outline for a comprehensive maintenance plan to assure lasting positive change.

You will leave the seminar with competence in using this 6-step treatment plan and the skill to add innovative tools from neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology, mindfulness, CBT, ACT, and logotherapy.

 

Event Outline:

1. Creating Calm in the Nervous System by Taming Amy(gdala)
   • Understanding the brain structures and neurological processes involved in the experience of anxiety
   • Neuro-counseling as an empowerment tool for clients
   • The power of Neuroplasticity
   • The role of the autonomic nervous system
   • Six principles to reduce the chronic fight or flight response
   • Weekly routine to calm sympathetic nervous system activation
   • Practice: Letting Go of SNS arousal
   • Practice: Let’s Breath: A review of breathing techniques
   • Practice: Body Scan

2. Introducing and Reinforcing Self-Compassion
   • Self-esteem vs Self-Compassion
   • Quieting the inner critic
   • Establishing an interior ally
   • Mindful acceptance of self
   • Inner-child-work to encourage forgiveness of self
   • A case for self-care
   • The role of boundary setting in self-care
   • Practice: Inner Child Guided Imagery
   • Practice: The Bridge – A Boundary Parable
   • Practice: Internal Family Member, Anxiety

3. Applying Mindfulness-based Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions
   • Decentering as a way of disengaging from self-criticism, rumination, and negative thinking patterns
   • Identifying and diminishing unhelpful thinking styles
   • The healing power of awareness: seeing thoughts as creations of the mind
   • Reconnecting & befriending feelings
   • Narrative/Default Network and Direct Experience Network of the Mind
   • The use of coping thoughts
   • The compassionate use of exposure therapy
   • Composing Fear Ladders
   • Practice: Applying Cognitive De-Fusion
   • Practice: What glasses am I wearing today
   • Practice: Worry time, Worry Planning & 7 steps to end Rumination

4. Alleviating Attachment Anxiety
   • The Neuroscience of Attachment
   • Activation of Attachment Anxiety
   • Attachment through the lifespan
   • Addressing unmet attachment needs
   • Therapist, a secure attachment figure?
   • Case Study: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
   • Practice: Adult Attachment Inventory
   • Practice: Hand on Heart
   • Practice: Loving-Kindness Meditation

5. Determining Values, Purpose and Meaning
   • Logotherapy
   • Exploring one’s value-lifestyle congruence
   • Formation of a spiritual identity
   • Existentialism, worldview & legacy
   • The use of metaphor to facility meaning-making
   • Practice: Value Card Sort
   • Practice: Listen to My Values
   • Practice: Existential Contemplation

6. Establishing and Executing a Maintenance Plan
   • Shifting perspectives through gratitude practice
   • Positive Neuroplasticity to rewire the brain for resiliency
   • Meditation, formal & informal
   • Nature-based mental health
   • Acceptance and Commitment Practices
   • Mindful Engagement
   • Practice: Inventory of your day
   • Practice: The Power of Gratitude
   • Practice: Thich Nhat Hanh technique for difficult emotions