Untangling the Knot of Anxiety
$80 | 3 CEUs | Virtual
$80 | 3 CEUs | Virtual
While there are many ways for mental health professionals to conceptualize anxiety - including important biochemical and attachment-based implications - this presentation will focus more specifically on a four-pronged conceptual lens of some other common underlying patterns related to client anxiety and people-pleasing behaviors.
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Date: TBD
Time: 9 a.m. - Noon ET
Program Cost: $70
Delivery: Synchronous Virtual Classroom via Zoom
In clinical practice, working with clients with anxiety and people-pleasing tendencies can be complex. Clients that experience the negative effects of their anxiety in many areas of their lives often feel powerless to change their thought patterns - sometimes after trying repeatedly to 鈥渢hink鈥 their way out of them.
While there are many ways for mental health professionals to conceptualize anxiety - including important biochemical and attachment-based implications - this presentation will focus more specifically on a four-pronged conceptual lens of some other common underlying patterns related to client anxiety and people-pleasing behaviors:
- Internalized social expectations and 鈥渟houlds鈥,
- Disconnection from body-based cues and signals,
- Unprocessed adaptive functions of anxiety,
- Identity entanglement with anxiety and people-pleasing
These patterns may be shaped by trauma, especially when protective strategies formed earlier in a client鈥檚 life continue to show up, sometimes in ways that cause distress rather than safety.
In this workshop, participants will be introduced to each prong of the presenter鈥檚 conceptual lens, accompanied by theoretical frameworks, case examples, and practical, interventions that they can immediately apply to their clinical work. Attendees will leave with a multi-dimensional, trauma-aware approach to addressing anxiety, supporting more nuanced case conceptualization when working with anxious people-pleasers.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:
- Identify four clinical areas which often contribute to fueling anxiety and people-pleasing;
- Consider what clinical patterns they see in their own clients, and identify at least one new therapeutic activity or technique to try;
- Reflect on how the four-pronged lens may be thoughtfully applied across client identities, cultural backgrounds, and therapeutic lens.
Instructor:
Jessica Williams, MSS, LCSW (she/her) is a 2017 graduate of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, and the owner of Oak & Evergreen Therapy, a Delaware-based solo private practice. She works with individuals, couples, and extended relationship structures, with a focus on supporting anxious people-pleasers, LGBTQIA+ clients, and those navigating polyamory and other non-traditional relationships. Jessica has presented for 魅影直播 over the past several years, and enjoys public speaking and educating alongside her clinical work.
Cost | CEUs
Program Cost: $80
CEUs: 3
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