Description
This course benefits mental health clinicians, social workers, and anyone else who wants to learn coping skills related to anxiety and trauma. The session will provide a brief overview of trauma and trauma symptoms that can occur.
The session will also provide a brief overview of different anxiety disorders and symptoms of anxiety. It will explain how anxiety and trauma are correlated and how anxiety can many times be a symptom of trauma. Specific traumatic events that could cause anxiety in adults will be explored as well as different risk factors for developing anxiety in adults.
The final part of the training will discuss different skills that can help when it comes to coping with anxiety. Mindfulness will be described and viewers will be given several mindfulness-based exercises that can help with anxiety.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the correlation between trauma and anxiety
- Explain the Window of Tolerance and how it relates to trauma and anxiety symptoms
- Describe mindfulness and how it can help to bring people back into their Window of Tolerance
- Explain Grounding Techniques and how they can help people cope with anxiety and trauma symptoms
Outline:
12:45-1: Introduction and Overview
1-1:05: Definition of Trauma
1:05-1:30: Symptoms of Trauma and Anxiety Disorders
Correlation between Trauma and Anxiety & the Window of Tolerance
1:30-1:45: Skill: Mindfulness & Grounding Techniques
1:45-1:55: Questions and Answers
1:55-2:00: Closing and Evaluation
Trainers
Sharea Farmer is the Founder and CEO of RS Counseling & Wellness with over 20 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker. Her training includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Theory, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Racial Trauma.
Her expertise in both clinical and administration has allowed her to work in the private and public sectors as an advocate for employee wellness, Diversity and inclusion, Race Equity, and Trauma-Informed Practices. Her unique practice that focuses on empowerment and education creates transformative wellness for her clients who range from executive leadership teams to supervisors to staff. RS Wellness has developed employee resilience plans and trauma-informed care programs for state and public health agencies, as well as educational groups, both locally and nationally.
Sharea currently works in a practice setting that caters to Black and Latinx women, although not exclusively, as well as couples and adolescents. Her empowerment approach focuses on helping people identify and bring out their distinctive strengths while overcoming barriers to happiness and success. Her goal is to help clients create a quality life filled with purpose and self-love. Sharea encourages clients to embrace the concept that wellness and happiness lie within their control.
Although Sharea is not accepting new one-on-one counseling clients, she is always looking for new partnerships with organizations, government agencies, and corporate clients interested in healing and wellness.
Sharea lives in New Jersey with her husband. She enjoys all things basketball, live NBA games, traveling, coloring, and spending time with family and friends.
Audience
Psychologists, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, MFTs, LPCs, graduate-level Counselors, and any other mental health professionals/providers.
Certificates will be awarded after completion of the full Webinar and course evaluation.
Radiant Sunshine, #1403, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Radiant Sunshine maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 2/28/23 to 2/28/2026
Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP):
Radiant Sunshine has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7371. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.
Refund Policy: No refund will be given for the purchase of any course or webinar.
We accommodate persons with disabilities. Please email [email protected] for more information if disability accommodations are needed.
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