Deconstructing Anxiety: A New Evidence-Based Model for Understanding and Treating Anxiety

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2025

According to a recent meta-analysis completed by the Canadian Psychological Association, the success rate for treating various anxiety disorders is only 46%. What are we missing?

Behind all anxiety, lies a one of 5 core fears around “universal themes of loss”–that we all share, including:

• abandonment (loss of love),
• loss of identity,
• loss of meaning,
• loss of purpose and
• fear of death.

We develop our primary defenses, usually early in childhood or at times of trauma, as our best attempt to protect ourselves from these fears, but always at too great a cost. This leaves us constantly holding vigil, on the lookout for the resurfacing of the fear. We build our entire personality upon this fear-defense dynamic. When it spins out of control, an anxiety disorder develops.

This webinar, appropriate for all levels, presents an overview of the Deconstructing Anxiety model, a new, evidence-based approach to understanding and treating anxiety. Incorporating psychodynamics, mindfulness, Gestalt, CBT and transpersonal psychology, Dr. Pressman will introduce unique exercises that enable us to pinpoint the precise mechanism by which the core fear is adopted and reverse its effects. Doing so not only resolves the initial problem but provides a clear roadmap to what the Deconstructing Anxiety model calls “Fulfillment”–a restoration of an original sense of wholeness and completion that brings meaning and purpose to our lives.

Come prepared for an exciting adventure into the deepest regions of the unconscious, where the hidden fears at the source of our difficulties live, to bring them out into consciousness, available for rapid and lasting transformation.

Target audience: This course is appropriate for all mental health professionals

Content level: Introductory/Intermediate