Anxiety Coping Strategy: Externalization

This recorded pop-up workshop by Dr. Sandra on panic features 26 minutes of video content and covers:

What panic attacks are

What panic disorder is

Difference between panic and anxiety attacks

Several coping skills for panic

This recorded pop-up workshop by Dr. Sandra on Rumination features 32 minutes of video content and covers:

What rumination is

When rumination happens

How it occurs commonly in OCD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Depression

Steps to cope with rumination when it is not helpful

Exercise to cope with rumination when our focus on something is needed, but the rumination about that thing is taking over/becoming unhelpful.

“Embrace Discomfort” Workshop, is designed to help you understand and overcome avoidance behaviors through the practice of exposure. This workshop consists of four lessons, totaling approximately 39 minutes of video content, complemented by four associated resources with practical strategies to help you embrace discomfort and lead a more fulfilling life.

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

Understand Why Avoidance is Problematic: gain a foundational understanding of avoidance and exposure, feeling more confident in the necessity and benefits of facing discomfort.

Identify Avoidance Patterns: Participants will recognize their avoidance patterns and understand the impact of these behaviors.

Understand How to Use Values to Embrace Discomfort: Participants will develop insight into the value of facing discomfort, realizing what they gain by overcoming avoidance and how it aligns with their core values.

Prepare Action Plan: Participants will leave with a clear plan and practical strategies to start embracing discomfort, using graded exposure techniques to gradually overcome avoidance.

“Embrace Connection: Social Anxiety Skills Workshop,” is designed to help you understand and manage social anxiety through evidence-based techniques and strategies. This workshop consists of five comprehensive lessons, totaling 43 minutes of video content, and includes four associated resources/activities to enhance your learning and application.

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

Understand Social Anxiety: Gain a clear understanding of social anxiety, its causes, and the difference between normal social anxiety and social anxiety disorder.

Manage Anxious Thoughts: Learn to catch, identify, and reframe socially anxious thoughts with evidence-based strategies.

Reduce Social Avoidance: Understand the ineffectiveness of avoidance, learn gradual steps to reduce it, and develop strategies to cope with the process.

Improve Communication Skills: Acquire practical conversation and communication skills to enhance confidence and effectiveness in social interactions.

Adopt a Values-Based Perspective: Learn to reframe social anxiety through a values-based perspective, improving their approach to social interactions and reducing anxiety.

Embrace Uncertainty – Coping with What If Thoughts Workshop”, is designed to help you understand and manage uncertainty and the ineffective “what if” thoughts that often accompany it. This workshop consists of five engaging lessons, totaling 34 minutes of video content.

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

Understand Uncertainty: Gain a clear understanding of what uncertainty is, why it’s common to feel uncomfortable with it, and the ineffectiveness of “what if” thoughts.

Learn the Five Laws of Uncertainty: Understand and accept the fundamental principles of uncertainty to cope more effectively.

Avoid Unreasonable Efforts to Reduce Uncertainty: Recognize why trying to eliminate uncertainty is ineffective and adopt healthier, more reasonable approaches.

Develop Coping Strategies: Acquire practical, evidence-based strategies for enduring and managing uncertainty.

Embrace Uncertainty: Learn to reframe uncertainty positively, find meaning in it, and embrace it as a part of life.