Education
Reassurance Seeking: How to Get Your Client off the Hampster Wheel
Reassurance seeking can be a benign way to feel better or it can be a compulsion that cements one’s relationship with anxiety and OCD. It
November 6, 2020
Resources
Self-care is Non-negotiable: The Challenge is Remembering to Do It!
How often do you tell your clients that self-care is non-negotiable? Hopefully, you tell them that as often as you practice it yourself. When we
August 23, 2020
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Returning to School: How to Handle Uncertainty and Fear
Returning to school during Covid 19 is filled with uncertainty, sudden changes, and concerns for students, parents, teachers, and staff. At Anxiety Training we can’t
August 7, 2020
Education
What is Inhibitory Learning and How Do You Apply it to Anxiety and OCD?
When I talk about Inhibitory Learning Theory to the clinicians I train, I get one of three responses: What is that? I never heard of
June 28, 2020
Education
Treatment Resistance and Family Accommodation: Is There a Link?
Exposure and Response prevention for anxiety and OCD can be difficult in the best of circumstances, but when a client refuses to participate or family
May 29, 2020
Consultation
Tips for Therapists to Reduce COVID-19 Stress
As a CBT therapist, you are very valuable at all times, but never more so than in this time of runaway stress. It is more
April 30, 2020
Education
Uncertainty
Uncertainty is at the forefront of what we teach our clients, along with distress tolerance. During this time with the Coronavirus, we are all heaped
March 21, 2020
Education
Maintaining Calm in the Middle of Global Crisis
This is a difficult time for everyone. Things are changing so fast, and it’s hard to know at any given time what are helpful or
March 13, 2020
Education
Why does anxiety hit us where it hurts?
Anxiety picks the worst times to torment us, and because it’s in our own brains, it torments us about what we care about the most
March 9, 2020
Education
When to Involve Family in Therapy
How often do you involve family in therapy sessions when you are treating an anxious client? In my practice, I encourage my clients to invite
January 23, 2020
Education
Cultivating Gratitude
Clients who come to see us suffering terribly from anxiety and OCD understandably often have little ability to think about being grateful for anything. They
January 1, 2020
Training
Update On Emetophobia
Some phobias are so specific and common that they have special names: Arachnophobia and claustrophobia come to mind. Any phobia can have a powerful and
November 3, 2019
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