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Rewiring the Anxious Brain: A Neuroscience-Informed Approach to Treating Anxiety, Panic & Worry

Rewiring the Anxious Brain

Jan. 24, 2026

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

Virtual Event
3 CE Credits
Anxiety can feel overwhelming—but understanding the brain’s role offers a path to real change. This practical workshop explores how the amygdala and cortex shape anxious thoughts and symptoms. Learn brain-based strategies to calm reactivity, strengthen client engagement, and build long-term emotional resilience. Ideal for therapists seeking effective, neuroscience-informed tools.

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.

Session Highlights
  1. Understanding the Anxious Brain. Explore the roles of the amygdala and cortex in anxiety. Learn how these brain systems interact to create fear responses, worry loops, and panic—and what that means for treatment.
  2. Personalized Goal-Setting for Engagement. Discover how to co-create clear, meaningful goals with clients to strengthen therapeutic alliance and foster motivation for change from the start.
  3. Calming the Amygdala. Learn and practice evidence-based interventions that directly reduce amygdala reactivity, such as breathwork, grounding, and somatic regulation techniques.
  4. Rewiring Thought Patterns.Use neuroscience-informed strategies to interrupt and reshape anxiety-driven cognitive loops. Emphasis on building prefrontal cortex function and cognitive flexibility.
  5. Building Long-Term Resilience.Integrate psychoeducation, mindfulness, and behavioral techniques to help clients sustain gains, prevent relapse, and foster emotional resilience over time.
  6. Bridging Brain Science and Therapy. Gain practical tools to translate complex neuroscience into client-friendly language. Learn how to use brain-based metaphors and visual aids to enhance insight, reduce shame, and empower clients in their healing journey.

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 Schrieber-Pan, PhD, LCPC. NCCHeidi 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:

  1. 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.
  2. Develop personalized treatment strategies by engaging clients through individualized goals, strengthening the therapeutic relationship, and fostering effective collaboration.
  3. Describe the neurological processes underlying anxious symptoms and their impact on clients, enhancing insight into the brain’s role in anxiety.

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 pm –Worry, obsessions, and rumination respond to similar cortex-based techniques

1:05-1:15 pm – Q&A

Intermediate to advanced.

Registration Cost

Registration $67 | Jan. 24 | Virtual Event | 3 CE Credits | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm ET

Registration Deadline:  Jan. 24, 2026

Cancellation Policy

All registrations are non-refundable. However, you may request a full credit toward a future training if:

  • You notify us at least 72 hours prior to the event start time.
  • Credit is valid for up to 6 months from the original event date.
  • No credit will be issued for no-shows or same-day cancellations.
  • When you register for an event, you agree to these terms

Please email info@clinicalevents.org to request a credit or reschedule.

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.

NY State Board of Marriage & Family Therapists

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 marriage and family therapists #MFT-0140.

NJ State Board of Social Workers & Professional Counselors

The New Jersey Social Work Examiners Board accepts ASWB ACE Provider credits. The New Jersey Professional Counselors Board accepts NBCC-approved CE provider credits.

All Other States Social Workers & Professional Counselors

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.

Florida Certification Board

Clinical Events is approved by the Florida Certification Board (FCB) to offer continuing education programs (Provider # 5527-A).

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.

Please contact us if you would like to inquire about applicable approvals for your continuing education (CE) needs.

Each professional is responsible for understanding and meeting the specific CE requirements set by their individual licensing board or regulatory agency. We encourage you to reach out to your licensing body directly to confirm how our programs apply toward your licensure renewal.

Questions:  info@clinicalevents.org

Heidi Schrieber-Pan, PhD, LCPC. NCC receives a speaking honorarium from Clinical Events, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations

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