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Emotional RegulationClinical psychologist with over 20 years’ experience helping people manage out of control emotions, irrationality, feelings of hopelessness and distress.
Anxiety Relief Treatment
Discover practical, research-based strategies to understand, manage, and reduce anxiety and worry with Drs. Jennifer Abel and Sia Bandarian. From relaxation techniques and mindfulness to cognitive tools, worry postponement, and self-compassion, these sessions equip participants to regulate emotions, confront fears, and build resilience for a calmer, more fulfilling life.
Test your knowledge – complete the short quiz at the end of each session for professional development (CPD/CME/CE). By successfully completing all quizzes in this module you will be eligible for a Certificate of Achievement.
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SESSIONS IN THIS MODULE
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The Path of Anxiety
Understand and manage anxiety more effectively. In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian explains the difference between fear and anxiety, explores various types and their bodily manifestations, and demonstrates techniques to observe anxiety non-judgmentally, emphasizing self-compassion and practical skills for monitoring and regulating anxious responses.
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Common Unhelpful Thoughts
In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates common unhelpful thought patterns. We might find it difficult to determine whether a thought is helpful or not. Dr Sia helps us by examining six categories of thought that tend to be unhelpful to us, these are; catastrophising, over-generalising, jumping to conclusions, mind reading, personalising and minimising. We...
03
The Trigger of Anxiety
Anxiety often has identifiable triggers, yet some remain hidden. In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian explores both obvious and subtle triggers, using detailed examples to explain why certain anxieties go unnoticed and how increasing awareness can help individuals better understand and manage their anxious responses.
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Our Defences to Anxiety
In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates our defences to anxiety. Dr Sia explains what unconscious anxiety is and outlines four different types of defences we might use to reduce the unconscious anxiety we experience. These four different defences are; rationalising, intellectualising, minimising and displacing the source of our feelings. We find out how we...
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The Consequence of Anxiety
Anxiety is common but can significantly impact life. In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian explores its consequences—including social anxiety, specific fears, and generalized anxiety—highlighting the importance of self-compassion, normalizing the experience, and understanding how anxiety manifests differently for each individual.
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Communicating Our Feelings When Anxious
In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates how we can communicate our feelings when we are anxious. He explores unconscious anxiety and describes how we can recognise the caring person inside of us. Dr Sia helps us discover how to communicate our true feelings to the people in our life. He provides us with examples...
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Social Anxiety
Social anxiety can limit life, but it can be managed. In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian explores its origins, triggers, and impact, and teaches practical skills to challenge avoidance, reframe thoughts, and navigate social situations with self-compassion, fostering healthier engagement and confidence.
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Core Beliefs Work
Our core beliefs shape anxious thoughts. In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian shows how to identify them with three key questions and demonstrates a simple technique to reduce their impact. He emphasizes self-compassion and non-judgment, helping participants transform unhelpful beliefs and improve emotional wellbeing.
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Intense Phobia-like Fear
In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates intense phobia-like fear. He explores the different kinds of objects and situations that can cause intense phobia-like fear and discusses how we can monitor these fears. Dr Sia highlights the impact our past traumatic experiences might have on our fears and explains why some people fear certain situations...
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The Caring Self
Discover your inner caring self. In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian guides participants to increase self-awareness, identify parts contributing to anxiety, and connect with the compassionate part of themselves. Learn to respond to anxiety with kindness, take meaningful action, and cultivate a more fulfilling, balanced life.
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Panic Attacks
In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates panic attacks. He offers us an understanding on the nature of panic attacks, assuring us that our panic attacks are not dangerous. Dr Sia examines three different ways we can experience anxiety, these are in our striated muscles, smooth muscles and cognitive perceptual disruption. We might experience any...
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The Punitive Self Barrier to the Caring Self
Caring for yourself can be harder than it seems. In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian explores three barriers—self-neglect, self-punishment, and self-sacrifice—and guides participants through an exercise to identify parts of themselves that may be blocking self-care, fostering awareness, compassion, and healthier personal boundaries.
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Psychodynamic Understanding of the Entrance of Anxiety
In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian explores a psychodynamic understanding of the entrance of anxiety. He investigates how we might become anxious due to experiences from our childhood, outlining three different attachment styles; secure attachment, anxious avoidant attachment and anxious ambivalent attachment. We discover how these attachment styles can affect how we experience anxiety as...
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The Relaxed Self
Release tension and calm the body with Progressive Muscle Relaxation. In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian guides participants through focused breathing, sequential muscle tensing, and relaxation, while encouraging non-judgmental awareness of thoughts, helping build resilience against anxiety and enhancing both physical and mental calm over time.
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The Cycle of Anxiety
In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates the cycle of anxiety. He explores different situations that may cause anxiety and explains how some behaviours which reduce our anxiety in the short-term are not effective and can keep perpetuating our anxiety. Dr Sia examines three main ways we might temporarily reduce anxiety that remains problematic in...
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The Aware Self
Quiet the mind and release tension with mindfulness. In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian guides participants to observe thoughts and bodily sensations without judgment, fostering self-awareness, emotional regulation, and present-moment connection to help manage anxiety effectively.
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Revealing Our Anxious Thoughts
In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates the impact that thoughts have on our anxiety. He shows us how we can begin to monitor our anxious thoughts, outlining a technique we can use to identify our thoughts and how they relate to our anxiety in different situations. Dr Sia examines how our fears and anxieties...
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Changing Our Anxious Thoughts
In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian explores how we can begin to change our anxious thoughts. Following on from the previous session ‘Revealing Our Anxious Thoughts’, Dr Sia further investigates our anxious thoughts and how they affect us in different situations. He shows us a technique we can use to evaluate whether our thoughts are...