Carolyn Daitch – Healing Anxiety: Evidence-Based CBT, Mindfulness and Hypnosis Techniques that Really Work!

Outline

The Four Inter-related Components of Anxiety

• Physiological
• Affective
• Cognitive
• Behavioral

Strategies for Addressing and Managing Uncertainty

• Impact of uncertainty on anxiety
• Use of CBT, hypnosis, and mindfulness
  • Quiet the mind
  • Ease physical responses to anxiety
  • Heighten present focus
• CBT to shift behaviors that maintain uncertainty
  • Getting reassurance
  • Double checking
  • Information seeking
  • Refusal to delegate

Set the Stage for Treatment

• Establish positive expectancy with hypnosis
• Communicate an individualized, flexible treatment plan
• Explain use and benefits of CBT, mindfulness and hypnosis
• Teach one self-soothing intervention

Sequence of Treatment

• Teach mindful awareness of early anxiety indicators
  • Somatic
  • Affective
  • Cognitive
• Use of time-outs for self-soothing using CBT and hypnosis
  • Establish a time and place
  • Teach hypnotic inductions
  • Techniques to re-set parasympathetic nervous system
• Hypnotic Interventions for use once calm
  • Access the wise ego state
  • Imaginary support circle
  • Dialing down anxiety
  • Juxtaposition of two thoughts and feelings

Applications to Specific Anxiety Disorders:

• Generalized anxiety disorder video case study
• Phobias
• Panic attacks
• Social anxiety disorder
• PTSD