33 Tips and Tools for the Anxiety Toolbox-Using CBT, DBT, Mindfulness and ACT – Judy Belmont

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1. List simple and practical anxiety-reduction techniques to teach your client.
2. Identify trademark techniques from CBT, ACT, DBT and MBCT how they are effective in treating anxiety.
3. Prepare activities that your client can do between sessions to lessen anxiety and track progress.
4. Describe effective psycho-educational strategies that you can use immediately to help your client lower anxiety.
5. Prepare valuable handouts and worksheets to help your anxious client.

Effective Therapy for Anxiety

• Debunk myths about anxiety
• Distinguish between productive and unproductive worry
• Differentiate anxiety from fear
• Homework between sessions

CBT Strategies for Anxiety

• CBT log to change anxious thinking
• Self-defeating beliefs inventory sheet
• Hidden emotion technique
• Feared fantasy technique
• Exposure techniques
• Flooding activity
• Systematic desensitization
• Vertical arrow technique
• Cost/benefit analysis
• Developing a fear hierarchy

DBT Strategies

• Acronyms to help with anxiety
• Core mindfulness strategies that calm and heal
• Emotional regulation techniques
• Mindfulness tips
• Radical acceptance
• Distress tolerance techniques
• Daily logs

ACT Strategies

• Diffusion techniques
• Using metaphors to calm and soothe
• Acceptance strategies
• Floating leaves visualization
• Other ACT visualizations

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy

• Calming the mind and the body
• Mindful walking
• Relaxation techniques
• Anxiety-busting activity for individuals and/or groups
• Construct an anxiety-reduction metaphorical toolkit