Therapy Mastermind Circle

Join Dr. Todd Pressman and Dr. Diane Poole Heller for…

Deconstructing Anxiety

A Practical Model for Healing and Integration

Learn how to identify the true source of anxiety—then transform it.

This integrative training combines structured diagnostic tools with somatic and attachment-based practices to help clients resolve anxiety at its root.

Includes 9 live calls with teaching, experiential exercises and optional community breakout groups!

Why Do So Many Clients Stay Stuck in Anxiety—Even After Years of Therapy?

As therapists, we’re trained to recognize the symptoms of anxiety. Racing thoughts. Restlessness. Panic. Avoidance. And we’re equipped with techniques to help clients manage those symptoms.

But what do we do when the anxiety doesn’t budge? What about the clients who understand their triggers—who’ve tried CBT, mindfulness, somatic tools—and still feel hijacked by fear?

Even structured, evidence-based methods like CBT, somatic therapies, or mindfulness can fall short when they address only the surface of anxiety—without resolving its source.

That’s where the Deconstructing Anxiety model begins.

Developed by clinical psychologist Dr. Todd Pressman, this model helps you identify the core fear underlying a client’s anxiety—one of five universal fears that shape how we respond to life—and the defensive strategies that keep that fear hidden and unresolved.

When these patterns are revealed, they can be changed.

You’ll learn how to quickly assess the fear/defense dynamic in your clients, guide them toward dismantling it through direct experience, and support them as they reclaim a sense of agency and clarity.

This model doesn’t just reduce symptoms. It helps clients understand what their anxiety is really trying to say.

Because when we stop seeing anxiety as the enemy…

We can begin to work with it as a guide.

“All defenses backfire—they create more of the fear they were supposed to protect us from. Facing the fear dispels it.”

– Dr. Todd Pressman

Discover a Practical, Transformational Framework for Working with Anxiety

Identify the five core fears that underlie all anxiety
Learn how abandonment, loss of identity, loss of meaning, loss of purpose, and fear of death form the unconscious foundation of most anxious responses—and how to pinpoint the one driving each client’s distress.
Incorporate attachment-based interventions
Understand how anxious patterns form through early relational dynamics—and how to use adult attachment strategies to create secure connection and internal safety.
Apply the “Doing the Opposite of the Chief Defense” technique
Explore the core clinical principle of the Deconstructing Anxiety model, designed to interrupt long-standing anxiety cycles and initiate deep, sustainable change.

Work with the body to resolve trauma stored in the nervous system
Learn how to help clients renegotiate traumatic experiences somatically, complete defensive responses, and access regulation through the body—not just the mind.
Spot and dismantle the “fear-defense” dynamic
Help clients recognize the protective strategies they’ve developed—like perfectionism, control, or avoidance—and how those strategies often maintain the very anxiety they’re meant to resolve.
Confidently support complex or “stuck” clients
Whether you’re working with high-functioning anxiety, chronic looping patterns, or post-traumatic symptoms, you’ll gain a roadmap that integrates with your current tools and elevates your impact.

The next 6-month topic in our annual membership series:

Deconstructing Anxiety

A Practical Model for Healing and Integration

Featuring Dr. Todd Pressman and Dr. Diane Poole Heller—two master clinicians offering distinct but complementary approaches to resolving anxiety at its source.

Dr. Pressman brings a structured, core fear-based model rooted in psychodynamic theory, while Dr. Heller offers an attachment-informed, somatic approach to trauma healing. Together, they provide a dynamic, integrative training experience you won’t find anywhere else.

Here’s What We’ll Cover In The Next 6 Months

Includes LIVE teaching with Q&A, guided group experiential exercises with Dr. Todd Pressman, and live demonstrations (with debriefs) from Dr. Diane Poole Heller.

Together, they’ll guide you through a comprehensive journey—from identifying the
five core fears at the heart of anxiety, to integrating somatic and attachment-based
tools for healing trauma held in the body.

All LIVE monthly sessions meet online for 2 hours (dates and times listed below)

SESSION 1: Tuesday, May 20, 2025 @ 11 am-1 pm MT

Laying the Foundation: The Theory of Deconstructing Anxiety

With Dr. Todd Pressman

In this opening session, Dr. Todd Pressman will introduce the foundational theory behind the Deconstructing Anxiety model, setting the stage for the transformational work ahead. You’ll explore how anxiety—and the suffering it produces—can be traced to one of five core fears, and how the defensive strategies we create to avoid these fears often end up reinforcing them.

Through live teaching and experiential group work, you’ll begin to identify the core psychological drives that shape your clients’ experience of fear and resistance. You’ll also be introduced to three powerful approaches for dismantling fear-based patterns—tools that will anchor the rest of the course.

This session will give you a clear, teachable framework to begin working with clients at the source of their anxiety, and will prepare you to integrate future techniques with confidence and clarity.

Map anxiety back to its true origin
Learn how five universal fears—abandonment, loss of identity, loss of meaning, loss of purpose, and fear of death—form the hidden blueprint beneath most anxious patterns.
Recognize the fear-defense cycle in real time
Explore how clients’ protective behaviors like perfectionism or control actually reinforce anxiety and how to spot these loops quickly in session.
Disrupt the cycle of avoidance and suffering
Discover a counterintuitive “master key” that helps clients face, rather than flee from, their fear—initiating real, lasting transformation.
Apply a clear framework that integrates across modalities
Gain a practical foundation you can immediately use, whether your background is somatic, psychodynamic, CBT, or integrative.

SESSION 2: Tuesday, June 17, 2025 @ 11 am-1 pm MT

Exercises for Diagnosis: “Digging for Gold” and “Who Are You Really?”

With Dr. Todd Pressman

In this session, you’ll begin applying the Deconstructing Anxiety model through two transformative diagnostic exercises. These tools help uncover the hidden fears and defense strategies that shape clients’ anxious patterns—often more quickly than traditional assessment methods.

Through live teaching and experiential practice, you’ll learn how to guide clients (and yourself) into recognizing which of the five core fears is most active beneath their anxiety. You’ll also gain insight into how defensive patterns form in layers—and how to distinguish primary defenses from those that merely mask deeper dynamics.

By the end of this session, you’ll have two client-ready tools you can immediately begin using in therapy to access what’s really driving the anxiety beneath the surface.

Identify which core fear is at the root of your client’s anxiety
Use two experiential exercises to determine which of the five core fears is central to a given anxiety pattern—and how to surface it with clarity and compassion.
Distinguish between surface-level behaviors and deeper defenses
Learn how to recognize the hierarchy of defenses that may appear in session, and how to discern the one keeping the anxiety locked in place.
Expose the unconscious patterns driving stuck behavior
Practice gentle but direct methods for uncovering what clients may be unconsciously avoiding—and how fear is shaping those patterns.
Use diagnostic tools that accelerate therapeutic insight
Apply these exercises in-session with clients, or for personal growth, to bring clarity to even the most persistent or confusing anxiety presentations.

SESSION 3: Tuesday, July 15, 2025 @ 11 am-1 pm MT

Exercises for Transformation: The Alchemist

With Dr. Todd Pressman

In this session, you’ll be introduced to The Alchemist—the first of the core transformative exercises in the Deconstructing Anxiety method. This powerful technique initiates the process of “Doing the Opposite of the Chief Defense”—a principle designed to help clients face their fear directly, rather than avoiding it through protective strategies.

You’ll experience the exercise firsthand and learn how to guide clients through it step by step. You’ll also explore the common types of resistance that arise as clients move closer to transformation—and discover a four-part method for working through these internal blocks with compassion and skill.

By the end of this session, you’ll have a potent tool for helping clients shift from fear-based patterns to a state of greater clarity, presence, and personal power.

Learn how “Doing the Opposite” becomes a catalyst for change
Introduce clients to a structured pathway that helps them step directly into their fear—with support and intention—transforming it from the inside out.
Experience the four-step process for navigating resistance
Discover how to work through the mental and emotional obstacles that often emerge during deep change, without retraumatization or shutdown.
Explore ways to leverage the Neuroexperiential Model
See how long-standing strategies of avoidance, over-control, or over-functioning can be gently dissolved through aligned, opposite action.
Gain confidence guiding others through this experiential process
Practice facilitating The Alchemist with clarity and compassion, whether you’re working with clients, groups, or yourself.

SESSION 4: Tuesday, July 22, 2025 @ 11 am-1 pm MT

Trauma Stops Time: Releasing Encapsulated Anxiety

With Dr. Diane Poole Heller

In this session, Dr. Diane Poole Heller explores how trauma distorts our sense of time—leaving parts of us emotionally “frozen” at the moment of impact. These dissociated, unresolved fragments of self can quietly generate anxiety for months or even years after the original event.

While Dr. Pressman’s model helps us trace anxiety to core fears and defenses, Diane’s work reveals how those fears may become lodged in the nervous system, held outside of time, and experienced as ever-present danger. Through clinical case studies and live demonstrations, you’ll learn how to identify and work with these “encapsulated child” parts—and help clients release what’s been stuck for years.

You’ll walk away with somatic tools and time-based interventions that support clients in moving through traumatic memory—not just around it—and opening a path to resolution and reintegration.

Understand how trauma disrupts time
Learn why clients often feel stuck in a loop of fear or panic long after an event has ended—and how unresolved trauma distorts their sense of chronology and closure.
Identify anxiety linked to dissociated experiences
Recognize when present-moment symptoms are connected to past trauma—and how to gently bring awareness to those connections without retraumatizing the client.
Help clients reprocess fear from a place of safety
Explore techniques for guiding clients through the “time freeze” of trauma, so they can access the beginning, middle, and end of a difficult experience.
Support integration of fragmented parts
Use somatic and relational tools to dissolve dissociative barriers, release encapsulated fear, and help clients return to the present with greater wholeness.

SESSION 5: Tuesday, August 12, 2025 @ 11 am-1 pm MT

Exercises for Transformation: The Witness

With Dr. Todd Pressman

In this session, you’ll be introduced to The Witness—the second core transformative exercise in the Deconstructing Anxiety method. Building on the foundation of The Alchemist, this technique helps clients develop the capacity to observe their fear and defenses with calm, non-reactive awareness.

The Witness creates the conditions for lasting change by teaching clients how to unhook from automatic fear responses and shift into presence. You’ll explore multiple ways to “do the opposite” of the chief defense within a single, integrated process—and learn how to support clients through the resistance that often arises when stepping into freedom.

Through guided experiential group exercises, practice, and real-time reflection, you’ll develop deeper skill in guiding clients out of anxiety loops and into grounded, empowered clarity.

Guide clients into direct observation of fear and defense
Use The Witness technique to help clients pause their automatic reactions—and bring awareness to the fear-defense dynamic in the moment it’s happening.
Create powerful shifts in perspective
Learn how witnessing a fear-based response without judgment can begin to dissolve its emotional charge and loosen long-held defensive habits.
Apply multiple variations of “doing the opposite”
Explore how this technique allows for a range of responses to fear—empowering clients to choose the one that restores presence and purpose.
Develop a fail-safe strategy for when resistance arises
Gain tools for navigating setbacks and reinforcing progress—even when clients feel stuck, scared, or tempted to return to old coping patterns.

SESSION 6: Tuesday, August 19, 2025 @ 11 am-1 pm MT

From Helplessness to Empowerment: Transforming Defensive Responses in Anxiety

With Dr. Diane Poole Heller

In this powerful session, Dr. Diane Poole Heller explores how unresolved defensive responses—those protective impulses that were never completed—can trap clients in cycles of helplessness and fear. Left unaddressed, these incomplete responses stay active in the nervous system, fueling persistent anxiety even when the threat is long gone.

Through compelling clinical examples, Diane will show how somatic and attachment-informed tools can help clients renegotiate these stuck patterns. You’ll learn how to guide clients through somatic reprocessing techniques that restore agency and shift the internal narrative from passive overwhelm to active empowerment.

Whether you’re working with trauma-related anxiety, social phobia, or chronic shutdown, this session gives you body-based interventions that reconnect clients to their strength, voice, and capacity for choice.

Understand how defensive responses become stuck in the body
Learn how the nervous system holds onto uncompleted survival responses—and how that unresolved energy shows up as anxiety, hypervigilance, or collapse.
Use somatic tools to restore a sense of agency
Help clients complete interrupted orienting responses, reconnect with their impulses for protection, and embody the experience of empowerment.
Guide clients from passive fear into active transformation
Support clients in reprocessing traumatic moments from a new stance—one that prioritizes choice, mastery, and healthy boundaries.
Recognize and use healing metaphors as catalysts for change
Explore how symbolic imagery can bypass resistance and unlock powerful internal shifts—especially for clients who struggle to verbalize their trauma.

SESSION 7: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 @ 11 am-1 pm MT

Exercises for Transformation: Warrior’s Stance and Resisting Resistance

With Dr. Todd Pressman

In this advanced session, you’ll learn two of the most powerful tools in the Deconstructing Anxiety method—The Warrior’s Stance and Resisting Resistance. These techniques help clients face their defenses head-on while cultivating a meta-awareness that transforms even the subtlest patterns of avoidance.

You’ll discover how The Warrior’s Stance empowers clients to challenge fear-based perceptions with clarity and strength, while Resisting Resistance offers a gentler path for noticing, naming, and dissolving the moment resistance begins to form.

Together, these exercises give you a versatile framework for helping clients transform anxiety at both the behavioral and cognitive levels—and move into greater alignment with their deepest values and intentions.

Empower clients to confront their fear-based patterns
Use The Warrior’s Stance to help clients break through the habits and mindsets that keep them stuck—and reclaim agency over their response to anxiety.
Guide clients in recognizing resistance as it arises
Learn how to help clients notice the exact moment when avoidance or self-protection kicks in—and create space for a new choice.
Shift anxious narratives into fulfilling ones
Support clients in reframing distorted perceptions shaped by fear, and explore how to build belief systems rooted in purpose, presence, and possibility.
Work across multiple layers of awareness
Combine body-based, cognitive, and energetic strategies to address anxiety from the inside out—giving clients tools to transform their inner landscape over time.

SESSION 8: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 @ 11 am-1 pm MT

Decoding the Body’s Language: Unraveling Phobias and Mysterious Anxiety Patterns

With Dr. Diane Poole Heller

In this session, Dr. Diane Poole Heller takes us deep into the mystery of “irrational” fears—phobias, odd triggers, and elusive anxiety symptoms that often baffle both client and clinician. Rather than dismissing these patterns as random or exaggerated, you’ll learn how to listen to the body’s symbolic language and uncover the hidden trauma it may be trying to express.

Diane introduces a trauma-informed “detective mindset” that helps clinicians track subtle somatic clues—like gestures, imagery, or odd phobic reactions—to their origins in unprocessed or misattributed memory. With care and precision, you’ll learn how to guide clients in revisiting these experiences safely, distinguishing accurate traumatic memories from constructed explanations that once served a protective purpose.

This session offers an integrative way to work with clients whose anxiety seems vague, mysterious, or “about nothing”—and gives you the tools to follow the thread back to resolution and repair.

Investigate strange or symbolic anxiety symptoms with curiosity
Learn how to approach puzzling fears—like barking dogs, tree branches, or the sound of water—not as pathology, but as potential keys to unprocessed trauma.
Track the body’s narrative through somatic detail
Discover how movements, sensations, and metaphors can lead to the true source of unresolved fear, even when the mind doesn’t remember it.
Distinguish between true trauma memory and false attributions
Help clients recognize the difference between what actually happened and the story they created to make sense of overwhelming symptoms—without judgment or rupture.
Transform triggers into tools for healing
Support clients in reinterpreting perceived threats as messages from the nervous system—and use that insight to build internal and relational resiliency.

SESSION 9: Tuesday, October 7, 2025 @ 11 am-1 pm MT

Vision Questing

With Dr. Todd Pressman

This final session brings everything together.

Now that you’ve identified the five core fears, traced their defenses, practiced transformational techniques, and explored how trauma lives in the body—what comes next?

Vision Questing is the integrative capstone of the Deconstructing Anxiety model. In this session, you’ll learn how to guide clients—and yourself—into a future defined not by fear, but by purpose, clarity, and fulfillment.

This isn’t about returning to a pre-anxious state. It’s about evolving into a deeper, truer way of being—one that transcends defensive survival patterns and invites a life lived with conscious intention.

Through guided experiential group exercises, experiential practice, and reflection, you’ll build a personal and clinical framework for continuing this work far beyond this course.

Design a future that’s not ruled by fear
Learn how to co-create a vision of fulfillment with clients—one that’s grounded in values, vitality, and personal agency rather than avoidance or reactivity.
Integrate every tool from this course into a single system
See how diagnostic and transformation exercises work in concert—and how to tailor them into a cohesive strategy for lasting change.
Maintain progress when old patterns resurface
Develop flexible strategies for staying aligned with purpose, even when anxiety or resistance attempts to return.
Create your own Vision Quest
Experience what it’s like to live from the direct pursuit of fulfillment—not just for your clients, but for yourself.

Join our global learning community––and learn how to apply new skills, strategies, and exercises to your personal and professional life.

Enrollment is now open until May 20, 2025

Learn directly from leading experts in trauma training!

All for only

$77/month**

(Membership includes access to new topics every 6 months!)

Our first live call is on May 20, 2025!

Can’t attend live? All training is recorded and available in your learning portal.

**This is part of an annual membership—featuring new expert-led training topics every 6 months to support your ongoing development.

You’re Protected by our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.

Try the Therapy Mastermind Circle membership 100% risk-free! You have 30 days from the start of the first class to contact our Customer Support Team for a full refund if you feel the program does not meet your needs—no questions asked.

This is an annual membership program with rotating 6-month topics, and you have lifetime access to the learning portal and materials for every completed topic (including videos, transcripts, worksheets, exercises, and bonuses).

If you wish to cancel your subscription at any time after the 30 days, you must provide 30 days’ written notice of cancellation. If you decide to cancel before completing the current 6-month topic, you will have 30 days from your cancellation notice to download the materials for personal use.

Please note that if you cancel your membership subscription and choose to rejoin later, the monthly rates may change.

For those with financial needs, a limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please contact our Customer Support Team for further information.

“The goal is not to manage anxiety, but to transform it. When we go straight to the source, healing becomes not only possible—but inevitable.”

– Dr. Todd Pressman

What is Therapy Mastermind Circle?

An annual online program where we meet monthly to explore pressing topics, share expert learning, and gain practical skills to help you and your clients thrive.

Explore a variety of deep and complex topics—highly relevant to your practice, and not covered often in traditional training programs.

Learn directly from Dr. Diane Poole Heller and other renowned experts ready to share years of professional, clinical experience.

Integrate new skills and highly effective corrective exercises and interventions with existing modalities to help clients grow and thrive despite their past trauma.

Get access to a comprehensive library of tools and training resources like slides, worksheets, and videos––plus, client case studies, clinical demos, interventions, and experiential exercises.

Join a supportive, friendly and engaged community of like-minded professionals where you can network, practice new skills, and support each other’s healing journeys.

Stay current with the latest training tools and approaches—plus, you can earn up to 12 CE credits every six months as you complete each training topic module.

Enrollment is only open twice a year––and topics rotate every 6 months to provide fresh perspectives, tools, techniques, and learning!

Who Should Join Us?

In Therapy Mastermind Circle, we take on topics that aren’t always taught in other training programs…

Therapists, Social Workers & Mental Health Professionals: You want a deeper, more comprehensive model for treating anxiety—one that moves beyond symptom management and gives you a reliable roadmap to true transformation.
Clinicians Specializing in Trauma: You’re looking for practical, body-based techniques to help clients access and resolve the trauma stored in their nervous systems—especially when it doesn’t respond to cognitive work alone.
Coaches, Guides & Facilitators: You support clients through personal growth, career transitions, or emotional healing—and want a grounded, teachable method to help them move from fear to fulfillment.
Somatic, Attachment-Based & Integrative Practitioners: You’re drawn to approaches that treat trauma as more than a diagnosis—and want to understand the defense patterns that keep clients stuck, even when other tools fall short.
IFS, CBT, EMDR, and Mindfulness-Based Therapists: You’re not starting from scratch—you’re expanding your toolkit. This training shows you how to integrate the Deconstructing Anxiety model into the modalities you already use.
Anyone Interested in Personal Transformation: You’re curious about your own patterns of fear and defense—and ready to pursue purpose, presence, and peace instead.

Our NEXT topic begins with our first live session on May 20, 2025

What therapists say about Deconstructing Anxiety…

“Your work is BRILLIANT. The techniques and the wisdom behind them are so powerful.

After the ‘Warrior’s Stance’ exercise, I felt something change. I could be focused without any effort—without the tension or pressure to be focused!”

––A.J., DA Intensive Graduate

“WOW! SACRE BLEU, INCREDIBLE!! Your work helped me develop a more integrative perspective.

Attending the Deconstructing Anxiety seminar was one of the best decisions I’ve made for expanding my skills as a clinician.”

––R.S., ER Physician

“Best presentation and presenter in my 50 plus years of practice.”

––R.C., Psychologist

“Diane Poole Heller is the best authority on attachment that I’ve found throughout years of research.

She emphasizes somatic experiencing, trauma, healing, and hope.

She’s informative for mental health professionals (me), trauma survivors (me), and people who want to heal their attachment injuries and create healthy relationships (me again!).”

––A.I., Reviewer on Amazon

Meet the Experts

Anxiety can be counterbalanced, outmatched and even overcome when one has a purpose that compels them toward fulfillment.

Todd Pressman, PhD, is the developer of the Deconstructing Anxiety model—a groundbreaking approach to understanding and treating anxiety that integrates depth psychology, clinical insight, and spiritual principles.

A licensed psychologist, award-winning speaker, and author of Deconstructing Anxiety: The Journey from Fear to Fulfillment, Dr. Pressman has worked with individuals and professionals around the world for over 40 years.

His approach is based on the discovery that all forms of anxiety stem from five core fears, and that these fears—when combined with our defensive coping strategies—create the foundation for nearly every form of emotional distress.

Dr. Pressman’s work has been featured at international conferences, in professional training programs, and through publications that reach both clinicians and the public. He is known for offering deep psychological insights in a way that’s both accessible and highly practical.

As a sought-after educator, Dr. Pressman empowers therapists, coaches, and healing professionals with tools to go beyond surface-level treatment—helping clients access clarity, confidence, and lasting transformation.

Anxiety is often a messenger, signaling unresolved fear, pain or hurt from past threat or injury. With enough connection and support, it can soften or even dissipate.

Diane Poole Heller PhD, is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and teaching expert in the field of adult attachment theory and trauma resolution.

Her signature approach—DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience)—provides therapists and individuals with relevant skills and practical exercises that facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds.

Her work with adult attachment has forged a path for adults with childhood attachment injuries to develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling adult relationships. Through various training programs, books, lectures and her own work as a clinical therapist, Dr. Heller has helped a countless number of people in their healing journey towards experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness and more fulfilling relationships.

She believes that when we heal ourselves first, we heal our families, our communities and the world as a whole.

Here’s what’s included for just $77/month…

Deconstructing Anxiety

A Practical Model for Healing and Integration

This 6-month training brings together Dr. Todd Pressman’s fear-based model of anxiety and Dr. Diane Poole Heller’s somatic, trauma-informed approach—offering a rare opportunity to integrate cognitive and body-based tools in one cohesive framework.

9 LIVE 2-hour Interactive Training Sessions with Q&A

Each month, join Dr. Pressman and Dr. Heller for a 2-hour LIVE online session focused on practical strategies for resolving anxiety.

These sessions include real-time demonstrations with course participants, experiential exercises, and direct instruction on how to identify and dismantle anxiety patterns. You’ll gain tools you can apply immediately in your practice.

Can’t attend live? No problem—video and audio recordings are always available in your personal learning dashboard.

Eligible professionals can earn 8 CE credits by attending the live sessions!

LIVE Demonstrations & Guided Exercises

This course offers more than just theory—you’ll experience the model from the inside out. Dr. Pressman will lead the entire group through structured experiential exercises designed to help you identify core fears, recognize defenses, and move toward resolution. In select sessions, Dr. Heller will demonstrate her somatic and attachment-based approach live with individual participants.

You’ll gain a front-row seat to these powerful methods, along with breakdowns and discussion to help you integrate them into your own practice.

Continue the discussion with your peers in optional small group breakouts!

Private Course Portal with Downloadable Access to Video, Audio, Transcripts + Handouts and Course Resources

Every live training will be recorded. The recorded replay will be available in video, audio, and written format—so you’ll be able to access content 24/7/365 when you need it.

If you miss a training session, want to download transcripts and use them for reference and note-taking––or you want to revisit the demos for specific cases at a later date––you’ll be able to do so at your convenience.

Network with colleagues, ask questions and get support in our course portal.

Learn directly from leading experts in trauma training!

All for only

$77/month**

(Membership includes access to new topics every 6 months!)

Our first live call is on May 20, 2025!

Can’t attend live? All training is recorded and available in your learning portal.

**This is part of an annual membership—featuring new expert-led training topics every 6 months to support your ongoing development.

You’re Protected by our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.

Please note that if you cancel your membership subscription and choose to rejoin later, the monthly rates may change.

For those with financial needs, a limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please contact our Customer Support Team for further information.

Licensed Mental Health Professionals

Do you need CE credits?

This course has been approved for 8 CE credit hours

Course Level: Beginning to advanced practice professionals

Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals

Continuing Education Credit has been approved for the following professions:

*ONLY THE LIVE ONLINE SESSIONS ARE APPROVED FOR CE CREDITS.

To be eligible, professionals must attend ALL NINE sessions. Attendance will be taken to verify eligibility.

A Certificate of Completion is available to all participants at the end of the course at no additional charge upon request.

It is the participants’ responsibility to check their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for this state. For detailed information regarding CEs, please contact our Customer Support Team.

Credit Information

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and Trauma Solutions. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Psychologists

APA Credit Designation Statement

This course is co-sponsored by Amedco and Trauma Solutions. Amedco is approved bythe American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Amedco maintains responsibility for this program and content.
Maximum of 8 hours.

The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Counselors:
AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, ME, MO, NC, ND, NH, NE, NJ, NM, NV, OK*, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY

MI: No CE requirements.
*OK: Accepts APA credit for live, in-person activities but not for ethics and/or online courses.

The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for MFTs:
AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, MD, ME, MO, NE, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OK*, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY

AL MFTs: Credits authorized by NBCC or any other state licensing agency will be accepted.

MA MFTs: Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review.

The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Addictions Professionals:
AK, AR, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MD, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NY (held outside NY Only), OK*, OR, SC, UT, WA, WI, WY

The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Social Workers: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, KY, ME, MN, MO, NE, NH, NM, OR, PA, VT, WI, WY

Social Workers

ASWB Credit Designation Statement
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Amedco is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education(ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Amedco maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 8 continuing education credits.

The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Social Workers:
AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WI, WV, WY

* WV accepts ASWB ACE unless activity is in live in West Virginia then an application is required.

The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Counselors:
AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MO, ND, NE, NM, NH, NV, OK, PA, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY

The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for MFTs:
AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, IA, ID, IN, KS, MD, ME, MO, NC, NE, NH, NM, NV, OK, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY

MA / MFTs:
Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review.

The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Addictions Professionals:
AK, CA, CO, CT, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MO, MT, ND, NM, NV, OK, OR, SC, WA, WI, WV, WY

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Identify the five universal core fears that underlie all anxiety and describe how each one shapes client behavior.
Define “chief defense” and explain how defensive strategies unconsciously reinforce anxiety patterns.
Use the “Digging for Gold” exercise to trace surface-level problems to a single root fear.
Apply the “Who Are You Really?” technique to uncover identity-related defenses that block healing.
Explain the principle of “Doing the Opposite of the Chief Defense” and how it supports transformation.
Facilitate “The Alchemist” exercise to help clients break through avoidance and resistance.
Use “The Witness” technique to promote insight, detachment, and emotional regulation.
Identify resistance as a doorway rather than an obstacle—and demonstrate techniques to transform it.
Explain how trauma distorts time and contributes to encapsulated anxiety symptoms.
Apply somatic strategies to help clients release trauma held in dissociated “frozen” parts of the nervous system.
Recognize when present-moment anxiety symptoms may be rooted in unresolved past trauma.
Guide clients through memory reprocessing using time-based and body-centered interventions.
Support clients in shifting from helplessness to empowerment through somatic repatterning.
Decode phobias and seemingly irrational anxiety patterns using clinical curiosity and somatic clues.
Help clients distinguish between true traumatic memory and protective misattributions or symbolic fears.
Design and implement a Vision Quest framework to help clients pursue fulfillment rather than avoidance.
Integrate the Deconstructing Anxiety model with existing therapeutic methods such as somatic therapy, CBT, IFS, and attachment-based work.

Learn directly from leading experts in trauma training!

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$77/month**

(Membership includes access to new topics every 6 months!)

Our first live call is on May 20, 2025!

Can’t attend live? All training is recorded and available in your learning portal.

**This is part of an annual membership—featuring new expert-led training topics every 6 months to support your ongoing development.

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We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.

Please note that if you cancel your membership subscription and choose to rejoin later, the monthly rates may change.

For those with financial needs, a limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please contact our Customer Support Team for further information.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can we help you?

Do I need to be a therapist to be in the Therapy Mastermind Circle membership?

No you do not. While most of the people who join the Therapy Mastermind Circle membership are both novices and experienced practitioners, we do sometimes have non-therapists join us as we explore a variety of in-depth topics on a monthly basis.

Since this particular cohort includes live demos, small group breakout sessions and experiential teaching, we do encourage any non-therapists who choose to join us to have therapeutic support in place, as the material covered during our time together is not meant as a substitute for therapy. If you are currently working with a mental health professional, we encourage you to invite them to join this program as well.

This topic is highly relevant for psychologists, therapists, and other mental health and behavioral professionals such as life coaches, bodywork practitioners, counselors, who work with clients and patients in a professional or clinical setting—and who need additional tools and skills to address the complexities of unresolved trauma and attachment disruptions, or who need a safe space to share and practice new skills.

Are the class sessions live or pre-recorded?

Each session will be streamed live via Zoom online (see curriculum for scheduled dates). Additionally, you’ll be able to submit questions each week through the private course portal and during the live monthly session, which always includes time for Q&A.

Every call will be recorded and stored inside the private course portal, so you may review it at your own pace. However, we highly recommend you attend live so you don’t miss the live teaching and demos.

What is the Therapy Mastermind Circle membership program?

Therapy Mastermind Circle is an annual membership program where we meet monthly to explore relevant topics, share expert learning, and develop practical skills to help you and your clients thrive. New topics are introduced every six months. You have lifetime access to the learning portal and materials for every 6-month topic you complete, including videos, demos, transcripts, worksheets, exercises and bonuses.

If you cancel your subscription to Therapy Mastermind Circle before completing the current 6-month topic, you will have 30 days—from the time you give notice of your cancellation—to download the materials for your personal use. The current membership subscription rate is $77/month, which will be applied as long as you continue your membership. If you cancel at any time and rejoin the program at a later date or topic—monthly rates may be subject to change.

What if I can’t make it to the live calls?

We would love to have you join each session live, but if you are unable to do so, that’s ok—all sessions and training calls (including the Q&A and demos) are recorded and stored in your professional reference library, so you can still receive the information and coaching you need.

Additionally, the program materials (including audio recording, video recordings and transcript from each session) are yours to download and keep in your professional reference library. In the interest of privacy, demo videos may never be downloaded.

Plus, you can always submit a question via Kajabi (your private learning portal) outside of the live sessions.
It’s a great place to ask questions, share insights and get support from the instructors, or your colleagues at any time.

How many CE credits can I earn for this course?

Only the LIVE, ONLINE sessions for this course have been approved for a total of 8 CE credit hours. If you are a licensed clinical professional counselor or a licensed social worker—you may purchase these CE credits for an additional fee of $89 via our website.

CE credits must be purchased by the beginning of the last live session—October 7, 2025. Attendance will be taken to verify eligibility.

Upon completion of the program, you will be sent an activity evaluation link, which must be completed within 60 days after the last program session (by Saturday, December 6, 2025). Upon completion of the activity evaluation, participants can print their certificate or statement of credit immediately.

Also, a Certificate of Completion is available to all students at the end of the course upon request at no additional charge.

Note: It is the participants responsibility to check their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state. For detailed information regarding CEs, please contact our Customer Support Team.

Are there any discounts or scholarships available for this course?

We do offer a limited number of partial scholarships for students who attend an accredited university. Reduced enrollment rates are also available for those with limited resources in countries defined as low and lower middle income by the World Bank. Please contact us for more information.

I’m having trouble completing the purchase. How can I get support?

If you have additional questions or need technical support, please contact our Customer Support Team for help.

What is the refund policy for this 6-month membership topic?

We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education, personal growth and clinical practice. You have 30 days from the start of the first class to contact our Customer Support Team for a full refund if you feel the program does not meet your needs—no questions asked.

If for any reason you decide to withdraw, simply contact our Customer Support Team in writing on or before Thursday, June 19, 2025.

Refunds will be issued in the same form of payment made, and may take up to four weeks to process.