Overcoming Worry and Anxiety in Chaos and Uncertainty
Overcoming Worry and Anxiety in Chaos and Uncertainty is an online seminar designed to provide you with new ideas to train the brain, calm the stress cycle and help your client create happier and more productive life. Based on current neuroscience, the brain-change exercises demonstrated in this recording will assist your clients in taking control over their anxious minds. Watch and discover techniques that will assist your clients to dissolve their worry and stay in their best internal states (such as flow) for longer periods of time.
In this seminar you will learn how to:
- quickly shift away from a constant state of worry
- shift the internal states to change biology
- recondition the mind to a new state of being
- unleash the brain’s super-abilities in minutes
- utilise the brain chemistry to tap into natural bliss
- trigger the resilient self
We live in a time of extremes. Pandemics, volatility, uncertainty, climate change, and the instability of political and social institutions have strained a sense of normality and security. Mental health clinicians need advanced and practical tools based in the latest neuroscience, regenerative psychology, and generative processes that work quickly to help restore inner stability and vitality and move into resilience and thriving.
This seminar focuses on a transformative approach for thriving in the chaotic conditions of 21st century life. It will present the psychotherapeutic approach that focuses on the amazing abilities humans have that are often hidden to them; the approach that moves client outcomes to a new level.
Science now knows how to help people shift the inner place from which they operate and up level human biology for transformation rather than just resolving conflicts. Managing neurochemistry to stay in positive moods, tell the self -stories of possibility, alter states, and make the impossible possible is the focus. The challenge of disruption is that it can allow us to move to a higher level of functioning with new awareness.
This seminar recording is based on the presenters’ newest book “the Worry-Free Mind” and it will delight you with wisdom, insight and tips for helping your clients in speedy recovery from worry, anxiety and stress. You will learn from the authors about:
- deep state dive to dissolve worry and rumination
- training the mind to change the emotional channels
- the neuro-wellness rituals to break through crises
- the whole brain state and banishing worry for good
- flowing into the “super mind”, and much more!
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss science-based strategies to overcome worry and anxiety.
- Describe the RESET model for the psychotherapy of lasting change.
- Identify the specific brain waves associated with resilience.
- Analyse client emotional resources to be used in healing.
- Discuss regenerative psychology, mindset, and the process for transformation.
- Explain how resilience is acquired.
- Describe how to future pace the best future self and why this is useful in promoting positive change.
Bill Wade, Ph.D. is Co-Director of the Milton H. Erickson Institute of Houston, and is accredited as both a marriage and family therapist and professional counsellor, holding supervisory status with both capacities.
He is a Clinical Fellow with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and is a member and Approved Consultant with the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Dr Wade is co-author of Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self-Transformation, published by WW Norton and The Worry-Free Mind, published by Career Press.
He is a long-time student of meditation and has taught at several Buddhist temples. He has presented workshops in Spain, Italy, and across the United States. He has been utilizing psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis for over 35 years.
Carol Kershaw, Ed.D. is Co-Director of the Milton H. Erickson Institute of Houston. She is an international trainer, author and psychotherapist running her private practice in Houston, Texas, USA. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, and an Approved Consultant for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.
She is board certified with the status of Fellow in EEG Biofeedback and the author of The Couple’s Hypnotic Dance and co-author of Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self- Transformation published by WW Norton and The Worry-Free Mind published by Career Press. She has been invited to speak for NASA, and she also presented in Saudi Arabia, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Canada, Italy as well as in the United States and in Australia.
CPD Information For Mental Health Professionals
Enjoy complete flexibility with 100% self-paced learning you can access anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Pay once for lifetime access.
Course Duration: 6 learning hours
Certificate and CPD hours: On completion you’ll receive a Certificate of Completion to support your CPD records.
Assessment: Complete a short quiz at the end (80% pass mark), which you can resit as many times as needed.
Lifetime Access: Your access to the course does not expire, so you can revisit key concepts anytime you want a refresher for practice.
CPD Eligibility: This program may be suitable for CPD for professionals such as:
- Psychologists
- Counsellors and Psychotherapists
- Social Workers
- Community Workers
- Mental Health Nurses
- General Practitioners (GPs)
- Occupational Therapists
CPD requirements vary between professional bodies, so please check with your association or credentialing body to confirm you can claim CPD hours/OPD points for this program and what evidence they require.
Course Content
Meet Your Instructor
Stress, anxiety, and trauma that overwhelm traditional talk therapy approaches often respond dramatically to brain-based interventions that tap into the mind's natural healing capabilities. Carol Kershaw has spent over four decades perfecting this integration, becoming an international authority on the neuroscience of therapeutic change.
As Co-Director of the Milton H. Erickson Institute of Houston since 1983, Dr. Kershaw has trained thousands of clinicians worldwide in combining clinical hypnosis, neurofeedback, and evidence-based psychotherapy. Her three books - including Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self-Transformation (W.W. Norton) and The Worry-Free Mind (Career Press) - translate complex neuroscience into practical clinical tools. Recognition as both a Fellow in EEG Biofeedback and Approved Consultant for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis reflects her mastery of brain-based therapeutic approaches.
Dr. Kershaw's expertise spans clinical hypnosis, neurofeedback, trauma resolution, couples therapy, and peak performance coaching. Her approach combines Milton Erickson's naturalistic hypnosis methods with cutting-edge neuroscience research, showing clinicians how to activate clients' innate capacity for change at the neurological level. She has presented her work internationally - from NASA to medical teams in Saudi Arabia - and regularly teaches at Evolution of Psychotherapy conferences, Erickson Congresses, and major professional meetings.
What sets her training apart is the seamless integration of science and artistry. Kershaw doesn't just teach hypnosis techniques or neurofeedback protocols in isolation - she shows practitioners how to weave together multiple modalities to create powerful therapeutic experiences. Her methods help clinicians move beyond symptom management to facilitate genuine neuroplastic change.
For your practice, expect to gain specific skills in clinical hypnosis for trauma and anxiety, practical neurofeedback applications, and brain-based interventions that accelerate therapeutic progress. Her approach particularly benefits clinicians working with clients who haven't responded well to traditional therapy or who need rapid symptom relief.
Quick Win: Kershaw's "brain change breathing" technique teaches clients to shift from sympathetic to parasympathetic nervous system activation in minutes - a foundational skill that enhances every subsequent therapeutic intervention.
Qualifications
- Ed.D., Counseling and Psychology, Texas A&M University-Commerce (now East Texas A&M University), 1979
- M.Ed., Counseling, University of North Texas, 1976
- M.S., Speech Communication, University of North Texas, 1971
- B.S., Secondary Education, University of Texas at Austin, 1969
- Licensed Psychologist, Texas no(#22130), 1981
- Fellow, Board Certified in EEG Biofeedback (BCIA)
- Approved Consultant, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis
- Approved Supervisor, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
Selected Books
- The Worry-Free Mind: Train Your Brain, Calm the Stress Spin Cycle, and Discover a Happier, More Productive You (2017, co-author with Bill Wade)
- Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self-Transformation (2012, co-author with Bill Wade, W.W. Norton)
- The Couple's Hypnotic Dance (author)
Teaching & Roles
- Co-Director, Milton H. Erickson Institute of Houston, 1983 - present
- Consulting Psychologist, Brain Change International, 2016 - present
- Psychologist, Institute for Family Psychology, 1983 - present
- International workshop presenter, 2006 - present
Featured & Recognition
- Invited speaker for NASA
- Featured on MindMovies Inspiration Show (2024)
- Invited author, Family Therapy Magazine
- Faculty, Milton Erickson International Congresses (2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019)
- International presentations: Saudi Arabia, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Canada, Italy, Australia
- Workshop presenter, Esalen Institute
Ready to harness your clients' neuroplastic potential for lasting change? Discover how Dr. Kershaw's brain-based methods can transform your therapeutic effectiveness and accelerate client breakthroughs.
Feedback & Reviews
This course includes:
- Lessons 1
- Topics 7
- Duration 6 hours
- Quizzes 6
- Language English