NW Anxiety Institute

One of the NW Anxiety Teams presentations: Coaching During ERP Therapy: Strategies for Helping Patients Face Their Biggest Fears, was featured in a Healio article which you can access here -

Engagement, participation and humor key components for successful ERP therapy DENVER — Exposure and response therapy improves with increased engagement, participation and humor, according to a panel of experts at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America annual conference. The panel was made up of experts from the NW Anxiety Institute based in Portland, Oregon.....

Fellow attendees – we hope we’re on your schedule for this Saturday at 10:45AM to talk about ERP in Action! How do you know if the exposure you’re selecting for your patient is engaging your patient to maximize exposure learning?

Join us to workshop your own patients’ ERP treatment plans and exposure hierarchies. Together, we will tackle common difficulties, such as accurately targeting the nuances of an individual’s feared outcome and assuring adequate engagement in response prevention during the exposure.

Fellow ERP therapists – this is one you won’t want to miss!
this Saturday at 9:30AM.

This presentation will examine strategies that enhance exposure learning and ERP efficacy when rumination is a treatment target. Join us to hear case examples and suggested interventions to increase your confidence in functionally analyzing the role of these cognitive processes in anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder as well as increase your repertoire of interventions to assist patients in addressing these behaviors.

If you are attending the this weekend, we hope you stop in to see five of our anxiety specialists in this round table about coaching during ERP therapy.

We look forward to discussing effective strategies for supporting patients as they complete targeted exposures and helping you as a therapist feel more confident in the delivery of effective ERP! See you on Friday, March 18th at 4:15PM.

Watch now: Did you know NWAI offers 12-month practicum externships for masters and doctoral level graduate students from local universities? Click here: https://youtu.be/wnCcTw7t2fQ to hear one of our graduate student clinicians share her experiences in our Student Training Institute.

Meet Dani Jones! One of our stellar graduate student clinicians, Dani has brought so much to our community already.

Here are a few fun facts about them: Dani’s been to Thailand 8 TIMES! Dani also has two goats named Anna and Hazel.

Dani says their favorite part of this work is “seeing clients be brave, and choose to be uncomfortable on purpose, in order to not let Fear win.” We second that, Dani!