Lynn Lyons – 3-Day Intensive Workshop Helping Anxious Kids

Join Lynn LyonsLICSW, internationally renowned psychotherapist, author, and speaker in intensive training. She will teach you HOW to interrupt anxiety’s cognitive patterns with simple, process-Based strategies

Lynn Lyons – 3-Day Intensive Workshop Helping Anxious Kids

A Process-Anxiety Management Using a Based Approach

• Don’t fall into the Content Trap:
  • Process of anxiety matters more than the content of the child’s fears
• Patterns of worried families;
  • Avoidance
  • Accommodation
  • Reassurance
  • Overprotection
• ”Don’t Do the Disorder”:
  • How to avoid mirroring anxiety disorder and support it

Four Critical Concepts: The Foundation of a Skill-Based Approach

• Content versus Process:
  • Children and parents can get out of worrying and onto a process-based approach that addresses all anxiety disorders
• We are eliminating everything:
  • Getting rid of symptoms doesn’t work with paradoxical anxiety
• How to be a good offender
  • Change the way you worry
• Playful Connection
  • Offer solutions to Anxiety’s demands

How to lay the foundations: What Families Should Know Before They Go

• The Anxiety Cult and How to Get Out
  • Breaking the Anxiety Culture – escaping the high demands of school, home, social life …
• A new framework is created to help families get rid of generational anxiety.
• Psychoeducation is vital:
  • Treatment begins with explanation
• Cognitive Patterns
  • Recognize anxiety, and break down common thought patterns
    • Global
    • Catastrophic
    • Permanent

Seven puzzle pieces to put it together

• Do not be afraid
• Talk to Worry
• Feel Uncomfortable AND Unsure – Regardless of the Purpose
• Breathe
• Find out what you want
• Your Successes are your Bridge
• Get involved in your plan

Tasks to Teach: Homework and Interventions

• Role-playing: The importance and benefits of practice and experiential learning
• Parent Coaching: How to Use Rewards and Consequences
• Here are some examples of my favorite assignments:
  • Wall of Flexibility
  • Spaghetti Challenge
  • Investigating Photo Albums
  • Ten Good Things … and many more

Schools, Accommodations and Parents

• How to Create Effective Behavioral Plans
• Skill-Aims Based versus Avoidance-Based Plans
• Case Studies and Common Issues

When it’s not just Anxiety …
Three frames for treatment and prevention: Untangling complicated presentations

• The Experience is Variable: Flexibility in a Rigular System
• The Value of Parts: Skills for Combating Global Thinking
• It’s time to take action: Stopping the passivity of anxiety and depression

The Challenge of Somatic Symptoms

• We are missing the opportunity to take full advantage of relaxation. (Yes!)
• The Safety Behavior Trap – Common Ways we Exacerbate Physical Symptoms
• Common Diagnoses Anxious Children (eg GI issues, insomnia, headaches)
• The Mind-What is Body Connection? Kids Adults and Children Should Be Acquainted

Obsessive Compulsive disorder: The Importance Of Process

• Myths and Current Research
• The most common mistakes OCD therapists make
• Misdiagnosis and Diagnosis
• Create a Family Plan
• Psychoeducation and direct language for families: The benefits

Anxiety and OCD: The Tangled Web

• Executive Overload Model
• What is the difference between Attention and Focus?
• Internal or External Focus
• Prioritizing interventions is crucial

When There’s a Trauma History

• What modifications are needed?
• A Cognitive Approach to Complex PTSD?
• The Concept of Differentiation

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Description:

Anxiety can be a persistent master. Anxiety can become a permanent master and take over family routines, schoolwork, or recreation. It is easy to fall prey to depression.
One of the most common comments I hear from anxious families, is “I’m afraid!” “no one told them what to DO.” After multi-session assessment or months of appointments, they still didn’t have a clear plan or understanding of HOW to respond when anxiety shows up.

Imagine being able to offer families immediate and effective tasks to weaken anxiety’s grip!

Imagine if you could offer your clients information and a roadmap to help them overcome their anxiety disorders.

Join Lynn LyonsLICSW, internationally renowned psychotherapist, author, and speaker in intensive training. She will teach you HOW to interrupt anxiety’s cognitive patterns with simple, process-Based strategies. You’ll focus on concrete and often counter-Intuitive strategies that reduce worry and give families peace of mind. “umbrella approach” That applies to all anxiety disorder.

This workshop will teach you new techniques to break the cycle of anxiety.

• It is possible to untangle anxiety’s complicated presentations
• Be able to combat the somatic symptoms
• Avoid the major mistakes made by Obsessive Compulsive Disease
• Prioritizing interventions is crucial
• … and MORE!