Treating Anxiety in the Aftermath of COVID

Description

Anxiety didn’t vanish with lockdowns. In fact, for many, it became ambient—seeping into daily decisions, eroding confidence, and intensifying clinical symptoms in both new and returning clients. As the world shifts toward a new normal, clinicians must be prepared to treat anxiety that is no longer just pathological—but also validated, pervasive, and deeply rooted in lived experience.

This self-paced CE course empowers behavioral health professionals with effective strategies to help clients manage the unique, lingering anxieties of the COVID-19 era. Grounded in neuroscience, cognitive-behavioral insights, and trauma-informed approaches, the course provides a practical path forward through uncertainty, panic, and re-entry challenges.

Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D., an internationally recognized anxiety and depression expert, draws on her decades of experience as a clinical psychologist, author, and CE trainer. Her ability to translate clinical insight into actionable skills has made her books—such as The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques and Pandemic Anxiety—go-to resources for clinicians across the globe.

In this course, Dr. Wehrenberg delivers research-based techniques with clarity, warmth, and a practitioner’s perspective. You’ll gain access to interventions that are not only effective but easy to apply in today’s telehealth and in-person environments.

You’ll explore the dynamics of pandemic-validated anxiety, ambient fear driven by media, and the cumulative stressors of parenting, work, and social reintegration. Specific attention is given to panic reduction, managing rumination, cognitive reframing, and restoring structure, purpose, and resilience in daily life.

Key Takeaways:

• Strategies to reduce panic and anxiety: Gain clear, actionable methods to help clients interrupt fear cycles and regain emotional control.

• Tools for cognitive and emotional regulation: Learn how to coach clients through anxious rumination, catastrophic thinking, and unrelenting stress.

• Skills for pandemic re-entry: Prepare clients to re-engage with work, school, and relationships after prolonged isolation and uncertainty.

Why This Course?

• Current and relevant: Designed for clinicians treating anxiety intensified by the global pandemic and societal disruption.

• Top-tier instruction: Learn directly from a renowned expert whose clinical experience and publications shape the field of anxiety treatment.

• Practical and actionable: Filled with realistic strategies you can start using immediately with clients—online or in person.

Learning Objectives:

• Discern the impact of ambient anxiety that increases worry and panic

• Apply effective strategies that eliminate panic

• Utilize cognitive tools to interrupt anxious ruminations

• Devise techniques to minimize the stress of life changes in work and school and parenting

• Develop clients’ resilience to cope with reality-based threats while eliminating vigilance

• Prepare clients to emerge from COVID isolation and re-enter school, workplace and social lives

This course offers timely, relevant solutions for one of the most pressing clinical challenges of our time. Let the tools and insight shared by Dr. Wehrenberg strengthen your confidence and enhance your care as you guide clients forward from uncertainty toward empowered living.

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Format and Access

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists of 3 hours of video instruction and a post-test.

Course Details

Availability: 

From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.

Who Should Attend: 

This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: 

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to Attend: 

Course access and completion instructions.

Instructor and Disclosures

Instructor

About Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D

Margaret Wehrenberg is a clinical psychologist, an author, and an international trainer and speaker. She is a practicing psychotherapist and has been a trainer of therapists for over 25 years. She is a sought-after speaker for continuing education seminars, consistently getting the highest ratings from participants for her dynamic style and high-quality content.

Dr. Wehrenberg has contributed articles to the award-winning Psychotherapy Networker Magazine, and she blogs on depression for Psychology Today. She has written 7 books on topics of anxiety and depression published by W.W. Norton. The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques and its accompanying workbook, consistent best-sellers, were released in revised editions in 2018. Her newest book, Pandemic Anxiety: Fear, Stress and Loss in Traumatic Times was released in January 2021 by W.W. Norton. Visit Margaret on Facebook @DrMargaretW. Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg's instructor information.

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Hours

Credit Hours:

This course consists of 3 continuing education hours of credit.

Counselors:

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC 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 Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0048.

Marriage and Family Therapists: 

Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations.  You can check with your board to determine if your licensing board would accept this course.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC 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 marriage and family therapists #MFT-0135, effective May 8, 2025.

Social Workers:

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Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.

Addiction Professionals:

This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming.

Psychologists:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0128.

Art Therapists: 

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC 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 Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0093.

Other Professionals:

This course qualifies for 180 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations.  Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

This is a non-interactive, self-study course.

Accommodations and Policies

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