Social Anxiety: An Integrative-Expressive CBT Approach for Cultivation Social Efficacy & Self-Confidence

9:00 am to 12:00 pm EST

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: Reji Mathew, PhD, LCSW

NASW-NYS Members: $30

NASW Other Chapter Member: $60

Non-Members: $75

NASW-NYS Student and Transitional Members: FREE

This workshop is approved for 3.0 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed psychologists

Workshop Description

Social Anxiety is a significantly limiting anxiety disorder which impacts social functioning and social growth over the lifespan. For people with social anxiety disorder, daily social interactions trigger anxiety, fear, and self-consciousness. Like most anxiety disorders, persons with social anxiety disorder may be trapped in a cycle of anxiety and avoidance. Most progress over one’s life requires skillful social engagement – interviewing, networking, dating, or attending college.

This unique course will offer an integrative – expressive approach in working through social fears through CBT Exposure therapy integrated with expressive techniques to help cultivate an authentic social style to engage with the world in a way that honors temperament and personal needs for solitude.

*PLEASE NOTE: Since this session is about social connection & social engagement with expressive exercises, attendees are requested to be on-camera for maximum benefit.  

Learning Objectives

After the completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Conceptualize and describe Social Anxiety Disorder within a cognitive behavioral framework
• Conceptualize individualized exposure hierarchies for clients specific to needs, temperament, and cultural/social context
• Apply cognitive, somatic, and expressive techniques in helping clients cultivate authentic social styles

This workshop is approved for 3.0 continuing education credit hours.

NASW-NYS is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (Provider ID #0014), licensed mental health counselors (Provider ID #MHC-0053), licensed marriage and family therapists (Provider ID #MFT-0037) and licensed psychologists (Provider ID #PSY-0088).

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Presenter:

Reji Mathew, PhD, LCSW, is a N.Y. Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 20 years of direct clinical treatment experience. Reji is a clinical instructor of continuing education courses; she specializes in teaching evidence-based treatment approaches – DBT, CBT, ACT, CFT, Positive Psychology, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, and Mindfulness. Reji is a frequent instructor at NYU - SSW, and NASW. They have also taught at Hunter College and Brooklyn OHEL Institute for Training. Reji is an Integrative cognitive behavioral therapist. She incorporates many strategies within a skill-oriented therapeutic approach. Reji is both Neuroscience and Trauma-Informed. Reji also has a commitment to diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. Supervision sessions will include training & teaching on a wide variety of current evidence-based strategies. She offers affordable supervision & mental health training for individuals, educational, and clinical settings. I am also an ARTS advocate. Reji arts advocacy work includes freelance health journalism and graphic design artistry. Reji is currently completing certification to be a REAT (Registered Expressive Arts Therapist) Please see Reji's website for her visual arts project on “Positivity, Hope & The Art of Pause.” (Website: https://www.rejimathewphd-writer.com/).