Anxiety Training for Schools is a virtual training series for school communities (teachers, staff, students, and parents) to help children and students take back their lives from anxiety, to face their fears, and live a life they value. It provides an actionable, evidence-based approach for parents, teachers, and staff to coach students. 

By supporting your students who have anxiety, they will be more effective learners.

This program teaches your whole school community

• what happens in the brain to engage the anxiety response and   
• how to retrain the brain to handle uncertainty, change, and distress. 

• Tools to Help Your Students Live Well with Distress and Uncertainty for Staff
• Winning the Anxiety Game for Students
• Helping Your Child be Effective with Anxiety for Parents

Anxiety Training for Schools uses a unique, three-tiered system that trains teachers and staff, parents, and students in the same techniques, using the same language to coach students with anxiety. This unified approach empowers your school community to embrace the anxiety paradox: walking towards fear, talking back to worry, and sitting in discomfort are the keys to changing our relationship with fear. 

Your school district and parents will learn how to support children and students with anxiety in these ways.   

• Teachers and staff will develop language and action steps that help anxious students become more resilient. 
• Parents will understand the role of anxiety in families and how to partner with schools to help their children live well with anxiety.
• Students will learn why they feel anxious and specific steps to feel better.
• Everyone will learn skills to shift out of avoidance and accommodations and into doing what they value even when they feel anxious.

Once you purchase this bundle, you can download each video to share it with your target audience, in the format and timeframe that works for you.

Use it as SEL curriculum or part of speech and language pragmatics.  Share it with students in health, English, or math classes. Show it to faculty and staff in meetings. View it with parents at PTA meetings. 

In any setting, show the video, create small groups to process, and let the group leader use the handout with questions to aid in processing.  Through processing, you create a safe environment for everyone to share their experience with anxiety. And, processing also helps set the conditions for future success at tackling the challenges of anxiety for your whole school community.    

Cofounders Kimberly and Elizabeth are anxiety treatment specialists with over 50 years of combined experience. We are therapists turned trainers with a passion for helping people live well with anxiety disorders. We are nationally respected speakers and author experts.

For 10 years, we have been training school systems in evidence-based anxiety coaching for children and students. 

Read more about Anxiety Training and our company founders, Kimberly Morrow, LCSW and Elizabeth Dupond Spencer, LCSW-C.   

Immediately. And we mean it.  

Once children understand their brain and how to change it, they can implement these skills quickly so they can get back to learning. This is especially true when they have the combined support of their teachers, staff and parents.

And, once educators can identify anxiety in children and students, they can immediately implement language that is helpful. 

Your entire school community will see positive results as soon as they apply the strategies and language.  

AnxietyTraining.com for Schools shifts away from the harmful paradigm of accommodating the anxious thoughts and behavior of students. And, it leans into the evidence-based practice of increased tolerance of uncertainty and discomfort to manage anxiety.

This program includes engaging real-life stories from students and parents. 

• Listen to a student share his experience with anxiety and how he got better. 
• View to the powerful story of a family and learn how accommodating their daughter’s anxiety was the opposite of what was helpful. Witness how appropriately handling anxiety freed their family. 

We’ve included printable handouts, including a special resource with easy-to-implement strategies for coaching children and students through anxiety.   

Yes. If you act now and purchase the entire AnxietyTraining.com for Schools Program, you’ll also receive “Coronavirus Stress: 10 Simple and Powerful Coping Strategies for Parents” as a free, bonus resource.