Most human beings, including the vast majority of mental health professionals, struggle with at least one of the common forms of social anxiety, including:

• Shyness
• Public Speaking Anxiety
• Test Anxiety
• Performance Anxiety
• Shy Bladder / Bowel Syndrome

I’ve had them all, and more! That’s why I LOVE treating social anxiety. Whatever the patient has, I can say, “I know from personal experience how awful that is. And what a joy it’s going to be to show you how to defeat your fears!”

In this workshop, I will illustrate many powerful techniques to heal your social anxiety patients (and yourself). You’ll learn how to:

• Diagnose social anxiety quickly and accurately
• Assess session-by-session progress and track therapeutic empathy
• Develop world class empathy skills and how to find out how your patients see you!
• Reduce patient resistance to Interpersonal Exposure Techniques with Dangling the Carrot, the Gentle Ultimatum, and Sitting with Open Hands.
• Identify the distorted thoughts that trigger social anxiety.
• Smash those thoughts with powerful cognitive therapy techniques like the Downward Arrow, the What-If Technique, the Double Standard, the Cost-Benefit Analysis, the Externalization of Voices, Reattribution, the Hidden Emotion Technique, and more.
• Pinpoint and modify the Self-Defeating Beliefs that trigger social anxiety, such as
  • The Spotlight Fallacy
  • The Brushfire Fallacy
  • The Approval Addiction
  • The Love Addiction
• You will also learn how to use mind-blowing Interpersonal Exposure Techniques such as
  • Smile and Hello Practice
  • Talk Show Host
  • Flirting Training
  • Rejection Practice
  • Self-Disclosure
  • Survey Technique
  • Shame-Attacking Exercises
  • Feared Fantasy
  • And much more