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Rewire the Anxious Brain: Neuroscience-Informed Treatment of Anxiety, Panic and Worry

Jul. 19, 2025

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

Virtual Event
3 CE Credits
Unlock the power of neuroscience in anxiety treatment! This engaging workshop explores how the amygdala and cortex influence anxious thoughts and symptoms. Attendees will learn evidence-based strategies to retrain the brain, enhance client engagement, and build resilience.
Anxiety can feel overwhelming and deeply ingrained, but understanding the brain’s role in anxious symptoms offers a path to effective treatment. This engaging and practical workshop dives into the neurological underpinnings of anxiety, highlighting how the amygdala and cortex influence anxious thought patterns and symptoms. Participants will learn how to strengthen client engagement by setting personalized goals and fostering strong therapeutic relationships. The workshop also provides evidence-based strategies to retrain the brain, focusing on calming the amygdala and resisting anxiety-driven thought patterns. Attendees will leave with actionable tools to help clients reduce anxiety, regain control, and build long-term emotional resilience. Ideal for therapists, counselors, and mental health professionals, this workshop bridges neuroscience and therapeutic practice to transform anxiety treatment.

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

Heidi Schreiber-Pan, PhD, LCPC, NCC, is a successful psychotherapist, author, clinical director and sought-after nationwide speaker on topics of resilience, anxiety, neuroscience, and occupational burnout. As an affiliate and former faculty member of Loyola University, Maryland, her past research has focused on resiliency and psychological well-being, including nature-based mental health.
Dr. Schreiber-Pan has worked with various organizations, schools and corporations to reduce stress on a communal level and to increase structural well-being through training in positive psychology as well as emotional intelligence coaching.
She has developed unique continuing education courses that combine established clinical methods such as CBT with innovative treatment approached including nature-based psychotherapy and neuro-counseling. She is the author of Taming the Anxious Mind: A Guidebook to Relieve Stress and Anxiety.

After this training, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the neurological processes underlying anxious symptoms and their impact on clients, enhancing insight into the brain’s role in anxiety.
  • Develop personalized treatment strategies by engaging clients through individualized goals, strengthening the therapeutic relationship, and fostering effective collaboration.
  • Implement and communicate brain-based strategies for calming the amygdala and retraining the cortex, empowering clients to alleviate anxiety symptoms and build long-term resilience.
10:00 am – 1:15 pm ET

 

10:00 -10:05 am – Introduction

10:05-10:30 am –Define Neuroplasticity in everyday language

10:30-11:00 am -Identify two Neural Pathways to Anxiety

Amygdala – bottom-up triggering of emotion, physicality of anxiety

Cortex – top-down emotion generation based on cognition

11:00-11:30 am -Fight/flight/freeze responses

11:30-11:45 am – Break

11:45-12:15 pm –Exposure as an opportunity for the amygdala to learn

12:15-12:45 pm –Amygdala – and cortex-based techniques

12:45-1:05 –Worry, obsessions, and rumination respond to similar cortex-based techniques

1:05-1:15 – Q&A

Intermediate to advanced.

Registration $65 | Jul. 19 | Virtual Event | 3 CE Credits | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm ET

Registration Deadline:  Jul. 19, 2025

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.

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

Most Canadian jurisdictions 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.

Financial: Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Chesapeake Mental Health Collaborative. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Schreiber-Pan receives a speaking honorarium, from Clinical Events, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan is a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA) and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES).

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