When clients don’t realize that there are brain-based reasons for your recommendations of exposure therapy, relaxation techniques, and lifestyle changes, they are less likely to make the changes they need to master their fear and worry.
If you want to be successful at helping your clients manage their anxiety, the amygdala is the most important part of the brain to understand!
Watch neuroscience and anxiety expert Catherine M. Pittman, PhD, HSPP, as she guides you through what’s happening in the brain and body when a client has anxiety.
You’ll learn the essential tools and techniques, backed by neuroscience, to teach clients how to use their amygdala as a vehicle to reduce anxiety and worry. Dr. Pittman will provide easy-to-implement, practical applications to therapy that will change your clients’ brain and not simply decrease their anxiety.
You’ll learn how to:
Not only will you learn the essential keys for successful anxiety treatment, Dr. Pittman will share tools and exercises from her workbook, Taming Your Amygdala, that you can use with clients.
You don’t have to be a neuroscientist to help your clients understand how their brains work! Purchase today to help your clients tame their amygdalas!
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All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
This online program is worth 12.5 hours CPD.
File type | File name | Number of pages | |
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Manual - 2-Day Taming the Amygdala in Anxiety Treatment (5.4 MB) | 107 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
Manual - 2-Day Taming the Amygdala in Anxiety Treatment - French (5.4 MB) | 107 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
Manual - 2-Day Taming the Amygdala in Anxiety Treatment - Italian (5.4 MB) | 107 Pages | Available after Purchase |
THE AMYGDALA AS A VEHICLE TO REDUCE ANXIETY
Teach Clients How & Why They Experience Anxiety
Amygdala’s Role in Defending Us from Danger & Creating Anxiety-Producing Memories
Promote Client Motivation & Engagement
Essential Knowledge About Using the Amygdala in Therapy
Teach Client’s Where Their Anxiety Comes From
Two Brain Pathways that Produce Anxiety
THE AMYGDALA IN TREATMENT OF ANXIETY: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Personalize and Select Which Client Goals to Focus On
Connect Client’s Amygdala to Goal Setting: Examples
Exposure Techniques to Increase Tolerance to Anxiety
How to Retrain the Amygdala
Amygdala-Focused Interventions
How to Stop Scaring the Amygdala
Cortex-Focused Interventions
How to Stop the Cortex from Activating the Amygdala
Limitation of Research and Potential Risks
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