Phobias, Social Anxiety, and Performance Anxiety: Go Beyond Talk Therapies with Evidence-Based Emotional Freedom Techniques, Tapping, and More

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Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCSW, DCEP (Diplomate in Energy Psychology), and International Certified Master EFT trainer Related seminars and products

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Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCSW, DCEP (Diplomate in Energy Psychology), and International Certified Master EFT trainer, is a brief therapy expert, author and speaker who uses passion and humor to share a wealth of knowledge and her twenty years of experience integrating EFT into mainstream mental health treatment. She is the author of the Amazon best-seller Tapping the Mighty Mind: Simple Solutions for Stress, Conflict, and Pain. Her passion is to bring these rapid, thorough and gentle meridian and cognitive-based techniques into mainstream clinical mental health treatment.

EFT is a well-researched, comprehensive, mind-body treatment that rapidly desensitizes unwanted thoughts, emotions and connected physical reactions. EFT goes beyond supportive counseling and is actual treatment. It’s surprising how quickly turmoil dissipates; clients are usually better in one session -even if the issue is long standing.

Robin obtained her MSW degree from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill and interned at Duke Medical Outpatient Psychiatry. Her more than thirty years of clinical practice includes employment in all levels of mental health treatment, including private practice and using EFT in a community mental health center and with medical staff. She was recruited and worked for fourteen years as an internal Employee Assistance Program counselor, bringing these highly effective, short-term techniques to medical staff and students in a regional trauma hospital. Her trainees also included police, fire fighters, first responders, educators, city workers and others. She ran numerous internal and external EFT workshops, including psychiatric rounds and community conferences. She speaks nationally and internationally on this topic and presents frequently for NASW and Rutgers University. She is a sought-after expert in working with anxiety spectrum disorders.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Robin Bilazarian maintains a private practice and an employment relationship with Cooper University Hospital. She receives royalties as a published author. Robin Bilazarian receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Robin Bilazarian is a member of the EFTInternational.org.

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Objectives

1. Identify how EFT Tapping and EP desensitize the interconnection of unwanted thoughts, emotions and the corresponding physical discomfort.
2. Identify skills to break down a problem into small, treatable parts.
3. Utilize continuous numerical measurement (SUDS levels) to guide treatment interventions.
4. Utilize clinical strategies and evidence-based assessments to identify small “t” traumatic events.
5. Use a two-prong approach to treat Social Anxiety with Tapping and EP techniques.
6. Identify 4 non-medication pain reduction/release strategies.

Outline

EFT, Tapping, and Energy Psychology: Becoming a Brief Therapy Expert

• Intro to EFT tapping and energy psychology
• Skills to break the main issue into small treatable aspects/parts
• Release body distress so clients can think more clearly
• Continuous tracking of progress with the use of the SUDS scale
• Myths and realities of EFT tapping
• Research limitations and potential risks
• Experiential practice and tapping session demonstrations

Release Distress with EFT Tapping and Energy Psychology: Step-by-Step Models to Help Clients Live with Less Fear

Phobias

• Treat phobias with mind-body tools, EFT, tapping and EP methods
• Assess for phobias and functional limitations
• Questions to locate the origin of the phobia
• Explore and release client triggers
• Find and desensitize all aspects in the past, present, and future worries
• Go beyond talk by adding cognitivesomatic interventions
• Release and desensitize the overpowering somatic reactions of fear
• A new approach to powerful yet gentle desensitization and imaginal exposure
• Importance in persistence of repetition
• Experiential breakout groups
• Live demo of treating a phobia

Performance Anxiety

• Treating performance anxiety with EFT and EP
• Identify, list and desensitize the worries and dread of performance
• Quiet the overpowering physicality of stress in performance
• Address the thought, emotion, and physical reactions involved in performance
• Desensitize present, past, and future worries
• Strengthens the joy of performance to be used for a final positive round
• Tighten the benefit with a final positive intervention
• Desensitize any and all poor/worst performances in the past
• Clarify interventions for the performing arts, sports, communication issues, and more

Social Anxiety

• Identify the situations where the client is impeded by social anxiety
• Search for the first or worst event, the small “t” trauma in each situation
• Set up and rapidly implement a hierarchical desensitization program
• Facilitate client courage and social ease
• Explain and practice ice breakers and small talk social skills

Pain Reduction and Release

• Byproduct or side effect of EFT tapping
• 4 techniques to release pain
• Additional language tips including metaphors and emotions
• A mobile tool
• Demo of pain release
• Experiential group experience noting pain reduction

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychotherapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Psychologists
• Substance Use Disorders Counselors
• Occupational Therapists
• Case Managers
• Chaplains/Clergy
• Psychiatrists
• Physicians
• Other Mental Health Professionals