Unmasking Anxiety’s Everyday Patterns: How to Interrupt an Epidemic of Avoidance and Worry

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All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Lynn Lyons, LICSW Related seminars and products

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Lynn Lyons is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in Concord, New Hampshire. She has been in private practice 35 years specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders in adults and children.

Lynn travels internationally as a speaker and trainer on the subject of anxiety, its role in families, and the need for a preventative approach at home and in schools. She is a sought-after expert, appearing in The New York Times, Time, NPR, Psychology Today, Good Morning America, Today Show and other media outlets. Lynn is a featured expert in the 2023 documentary Anxious Nation.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lynn Lyons maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives compensation as an international presenter. Lynn Lyons receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lynn Lyons has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Catalogue common but often misunderstood patterns of anxiety that impact client’s daily functioning.
2. Inspect the role of rumination, worry, global and catastrophic thinking in anxiety.
3. Develop treatment plans that bolster familial and social support.
4. Discriminate between self-care and self-medication.
5. Design experiential homework assignments that help clients move out of the anxious patterns that often lead to co-morbid depression.

Outline

• Common but often misunderstood patterns of anxiety that impact client’s daily functioning
• Anxiety as a generational phenomenon
• Self-care vs self-medication
• Developing treatment plans that bolster familial and social support
• Experiential homework assignments that help clients move out of the anxious patterns that often lead to co-morbid depression
• Common clinical mistakes that make anxiety worse
• Active and immediate interventions from the first session
• Current new research findings on anxiety

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Physicians
• Physician Assistants
• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners 
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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