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Healing the Brain: Neuroscience-Informed Strategies for Anxiety and Trauma

Nov. 1, 2025

10:00 AM - 1:15 PM (EST)

Virtual Event
3 CE Credits
Struggling to integrate neuroscience into anxiety treatment? Join this seminar to discover practical, brain-based tools you can use immediately. Learn how to explain neuroplasticity to clients, map the two key anxiety pathways, and reframe the fight/flight/freeze response. Master techniques to reshape neurocircuitry, reduce anxiety, and empower clients to create lasting change. Perfect for treating PTSD, OCD, GAD, SAD, and more—with insights on sleep, exercise, breathing, and exposure strategies.
Clinicians often struggle in how to use neuroscience in the treatment of anxiety. We know more about anxiety-based disorders than any other mental health disorders. Science has now provided us with the proven explanations, evidence, and authority to implement neuroscience approaches. In this seminar, you will learn about neuroplasticity, and how to define neuroplasticity in everyday language for your clients. Understanding how to use a neuroscience approach in therapy will provide your clients the opportunity to create a new self, one without debilitating anxiety. You will be able to identify the two neural pathways which lead to the creation of anxiety and how to explain them to clients. You will learn how anxiety is initiated in each pathway and how the pathways influence each other. The dreaded fight/flight/freeze response is reviewed to reveal how it is meant to be your best friend. You will learn the essential language of the core area of the brain which creates anxiety and how to diffuse it using neuroplasticity. Learn how to strengthen or weaken specific neurocircuitry in order to create the brain and self that is desired. These techniques are essential in the treatment of all anxiety disorders, PTSD, OCD, GAD, SAD and even Depression. Learn how sleep as well as exercise influences anxiety production. Learn proven breathing techniques to reduce anxiety activation. And feel more proficient in using exposure techniques in your treatment of anxiety while combatting avoidance.

This live interactive webinar is designed for behavioral health professionals, including:

  •     Counselors
  •     Social Workers
  •     Psychotherapists
  •     Marriage & Family Therapists
  •     Psychologists
  •     Substance Use Disorders Counselors
  •     Case Managers
  •     Physicians
  •     Other Mental Health Professionals
Janene Dornarski, PhD, LP, LMSW

Janene is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in Neuropsychology who works in counseling therapy and psychological testing for mental health issues. Dr. Donarski specializes in neuropsychological assessment of children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric populations, including head injury, organic issues, emotional, and complex behavior disorders. Dr. Donarski works extensively with anxiety issues including panic, OCD, trauma, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). She supervises and trains other clinicians in treatment of behavioral issues, techniques of relaxation, reduction of fear, and exposure therapies to reduce triggers and symptoms in daily life. She also assists in testing within the academic areas including Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities and autism for school districts involving Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and/or 504 plans/behavior plans. Dr. Donarski works with all populations in counseling/therapy, including individual, marital/couple, family, geriatric, LGBTQ, and group counseling. She is a certified EMDR Level II counselor, a certified hypnotherapist and practitioner for Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Time Line Therapy®. Dr. Donarski is also experienced in working with victims of violence, foster
care/adoption issues, and sexual issues, as well as those who are seeking neuroscience-based treatment. She often works with attorneys as a forensic psychologist/expert witness for legal cases involving custody, guardianship, social security benefits, and criminal cases. Dr. Donarski has spoken on a variety of mental health issues, including somatic ailments, behavioral disorders, and mental health concerns such as personality disorders, anxiety, trauma, depression, bipolar disorder, and dementia care. Dr. Donarski has worked in private practice for over 20 years, as well as within assisted living and nursing homes, and contracted with the state to work with the visually impaired. Dr. Janene M. Donarski is the published author of Anxiety and Trauma Recovery Book: Using a Neuroscience-Informed Treatment Response to Healing.

After this training, participants will be able to:

  1. Implement methods for teaching clients to retrain the cortex so that anxiety is resisted rather than exacerbated
  2. Communicate strategies for calming and training the amygdala to alleviate symptoms of anxiety.
  3. Evaluate the differences between amygdala-based and cortex-based anxiety symptoms and identify how these symptoms inform treatment interventions.
  4. Ascertain the underlying neurological processes that impact anxious symptoms for clients.

10:00 -10:05 am – Introduction

10:05-10:30 am – Review the science behind neuroplasticity

10:30-11:00 am – What are the two neural pathways of anxiety

11:00-11:30 am – How do these two pathways influence each

11:30-11:45 am – Break

11:45-12:15 pm – Your new friendship with the Fight/Flight/Freeze response

12:15-12:45 pm – How to create specific neurocircuitry

12:45-1:05 pm – The impact of sleep, exercise, and breathing techniques on anxiety

1:05-1:15 pm  – Q&A

Intermediate to advanced.

Registration Cost

Registration $67 | Nov. 1 | Virtual Event | 3 CE Credits | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm ET

Registration Deadline:  Nov. 1, 2025

Cancellation Policy

You may request to cancel your registration for a future credit up to 72 hours before the event’s date and time.  Cancellation requests made within 24 hours of the event date/time will not receive a transfer. When you register for an event, you agree to these terms.

A total of 3 CE credits are available.

Additional Approvals Pending.

ASWB ACE

Clinical Events, LLC, (provider # 2201) is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 11/01/2024 – 11/01/2025.

NBCC

Clinical Events, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved   Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7643 Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Clinical Events, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

NAADAC

This course has been approved by Clinical Events, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #320899, Clinical Events is responsible for all aspects of the programming.

NY State Board of Psychologists

Clinical Events, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0292.

NY State Board of Social Workers

Clinical Events, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0828.

NY State Board of Mental Health Counselors

Clinical Events, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0329.

NJ State Board of Social Workers & Professional Counselors

New Jersey Social Work Examiners Board accepts ASWB ACE Provider credits.

New Jersey Professional Counselors Board accepts NBCC-approved CE provider credits.

All Other States

All other states accept ASWB ACE Provider credits and NBCC-approved CE provider credits. Licensees are responsible for determining whether courses meet the CE requirements in their jurisdictions. States and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for credit.

Canada Social Workers

BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, and QC accept ASWB ACE-approved provider programs to meet licensure renewal requirements.  Licensees are responsible for determining whether courses meet the CE requirements in their province. Provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for credit.

Canada Counsellors

Clinical Events is an NBCC-approved provider.  Licensees are responsible for determining whether courses meet the CE requirements in their province. Provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for credit.

Financial: Janene M Donarski, PhD, LP, maintains a private practice, and she receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Donarski receives a speaking honorarium from Clinical Events, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

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