Anxiety, especially in its more chronic and unassuming forms, is a common thread that runs through the mental fabric of modern society. Lots of clients come to us wanting answers, wanting cures, or wanting permanent fixes, and we can feel pulled as clinicians to provide concrete solutions to our clients’ presenting concerns, especially when they are in the act of suffering.

Learn to use solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) integrated with mindfulness skills and techniques to effectively support and treat clients challenged with various forms of anxiety. Discover how this unique integrative skills-based approach can help clients manage unabated anxious thoughts and heightened somatic symptoms that trigger increased cortisol production. Help clients learn how to understand anxiety as a part of the human experience to be solution-managed, not “cured”, moving them toward a place where they can reduce the impact of anxiety on their daily living.Transform your clinical toolset with this unique anxiety management approach that will give you the confidence to effectively treat the growing epidemic of post covid anxiety.

In addition to the below Objectives, this training will also touch on and help learners accomplish the following:

• The brief history of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT).
• The difference between problem solving and solution building and how that moves clients toward treatment goals more efficiently in the treatment of anxiety.
• Define a client in SFBT; especially with regard to anxiety.
• Identify which interventions and questions fit in the three parts of the skeleton.
• Learn different approaches to mindfulness practices and how they can be integrated into the SFBT interventions.
• Learn and practice the nuances of language needed to effectively use SFBT with clients that experience trauma.
• Name and describe “The trifecta” to learn this approach to decrease symptoms of anxiety.

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Attendance and Location Details

Date and Time

Friday, July 14, 2023

10:00am – 1:00pm CST 

11:00am – 2:00pm EST 

8:00am – 11:00am PST

*Zoom link will be made available to you 24-48 hours prior to event date.

Objectives:

This training will provide participants clinical knowledge and tools to:

a). Name the eight principles of SFBT.

b). Describe and apply use of the three- part SFBT skeleton, combined with mindfulness techniques.

c). Identify three intentional interventions and questions that fit in the three-part SFBT skeleton and how mindfulness techniques strengthen these interventions.

Target Audience:

Clinical Mental Health Professionals such as Counselors, Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Clinical Social Workers.

Instructional Level: Intermediate

Instructor(s): Jodi Ann Geis-Crowder, MS, LPC, ACS

Material Author(s): Jodi Ann Geis-Crowder, MS, LPC, ACS  

A native of Wyoming, Jodi holds an Associate of Science Degree in Education from Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Social Sciences with areas of emphasis in psychology, economics, political science and anthropology, and a Master of Science Degree in Counselor Education and Human Development with an emphasis in Leadership from the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming.  She holds professional counseling licenses in good standing in Colorado (LPC-2476, March 2000) and Wyoming (LPC-1602, September 2016), is an Approved Clinical Supervisor, a certified Solution Focused Brief Therapy practitioner, is a trainer for Professional Case Management and Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling, holds a certificate in the Human/Animal Bond from the Denver University Graduate School of Social Work, has studied and gained numerous continuing education credits in the area of the human/animal bond, has been registered with three therapy dogs (2005, 2010 and 2019) and is a tester/observer for Alliance of Therapy Dogs, a national credentialing organization for therapy dog teams headquarter in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  Jodi’s passion for culturally meaningful human/animal bond and agriculture related services in rural areas resulted in her developing animal assisted therapy programs for two community behavioral health centers: Centennial Mental Health Center in Northeast Colorado and Peak Wellness Center in Southeast Wyoming.  She also developed a therapeutic horticulture program while at Centennial Mental Health Center.   Jodi has held positions as a clinician, clinical coordinator, clinical supervisor, regional clinical director, telehealth clinical supervisor and education and training coordinator in her years in community behavioral health.  In addition to the program development mentioned above, Jodi was the architect for and developed a centralized telehealth clinical supervision model for Peak Wellness Center.  

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