Introduction to Deconstructing Anxiety
Taught By Dr. Todd Pressman
Q & A at the conclusion
Price: $35
Worth 1.5 CE Credits (scroll down for CE information)
March 20th 12-1:30pm EST
Live On Zoom
Deconstructing Anxiety™: Discover Your Core Fear
A 90-Minute Live Experiential Workshop
If you or your client are still stuck with anxiety—despite years of hard work–it’s not that you lack insight.
It’s that the real source of the problem hasn’t been found yet.
• abandonment (loss of love)
• loss of identity
• loss of meaning
• loss of purpose
• fear of death
Each of us develops a “chief defense” as our best attempt to protect ourselves from the core fear. While this defense does have its silver lining, it inevitably backfires, creating more of the fear it was supposed to protect us from.
The Deconstructing Anxiety model proposes a master key to healing–“doing the opposite of the chief defense”. This creates the necessary exposure to, not just any fear, but one’s core fear, the true root of suffering in our lives. With this precise prescription for healing, the core fear is revealed to be an illusion–we see that it is literally incapable of fulfilling on its threat. Such insight into the true nature of anxiety inevitably dissolves it and sets us free.
In this experiential training, you will be guided in the “Digging for Gold” process, to discover your own core fear. Participants will leave the training with sufficient skill to guide others through the process as well. Research shows these processes to have a “strong positive” effect on relieving anxiety and enhancing Fulfillment.
Come prepared for an exciting adventure into the deepest regions of the unconscious, where the hidden fears at the source of our challenges live, making them available for rapid and lasting transformation.
In this live, experiential workshop, you will be guided to uncover the single core fear at the root of anxiety. This core fear is the true culprit, the hidden secret, driving not only anxiety, but:
- Avoidance patterns
- Relational difficulties
- Perfectionism
- People-pleasing
- Self-sabotage
- Depression
- Chronic dissatisfaction
- Inner conflict of any sort.
This is not a lecture about anxiety.
It is a direct experience of the essential insight that makes lasting change possible.
Why Anxiety Persists – Even When You Understand It
Many self-aware people still struggle with anxiety because:
- Insight alone doesn’t reach the emotional root
- Symptom-focused approaches miss the organizing fear underneath
- Anxiety isn’t the problem—it’s the messenger.
Deconstructing Anxiety works at the source.
The Heart of the Workshop: Digging for Gold
The centerpiece of this workshop is the Digging for Gold process–the foundational experiential method in Deconstructing Anxiety.
You will be guided step-by-step to:
- Trace anxiety and emotional reactions back to their source
- Identify the core fear shaping your reactions, defenses, and life choices
- Experience the clarity that comes when the real issue finally reveals itself
Participants consistently describe this process as:
- surprisingly precise
- emotionally clarifying
- deeply relieving
- unlike anything they’ve tried before
Many report that simply discovering their core fear changes how they understand themselves at the deepest level.
Reserve your spot for the Introduction to Deconstructing Anxiety Webinar taught LIVE on Zoom
What You’ll Gain in 90 Minutes
By the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- Describe why anxiety persists despite effort, insight, or therapy
- Explain how surface fears conceal a deeper emotional truth
- Utilize the “Digging for Gold” process to discover your or your client’s core fear
- Demonstrate how this fear shapes anxiety, relationships, and self-sabotaging patterns
- Describe the Deconstructing Anxiety framework for healing and fulfillment
Free Live Bonus Program for Attendees Only
Integration, Clarification & Q&A
Immediately following the 90-minute workshop, you’re invited to stay for a free live bonus program, available only to those who attend live.
This bonus session is where many participants say the experience truly comes together.
During this live integration and Q&A, you will:
- Clarify and deepen what emerged for you during the Digging for Gold process
- Hear answers to the most important and commonly asked questions
- Understand what comes after discovering the core fear
- Learn how this insight is used to create lasting change—not just insight
This session is:
- Live
- Interactive
- Experiential
- and not recorded
Many participants choose to attend specifically for this portion of the experience.
Participation is completely optional—but most people stay.
Who This Workshop Is For
This workshop is designed for both:
Clinicians & Helping Professionals
- Therapists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, coaches
- Professionals seeking a deeper, unifying model of anxiety
- Those who value experiential understanding, not just theory
Seekers and Those Deeply Committed to Their Personal Growth
- People struggling with anxiety or emotional stuckness
- Those drawn to personal growth, healing, and a holistic view
- Anyone who senses anxiety is pointing toward something deeper
No prior experience with Deconstructing Anxiety is required.
PRESENTER BIO
PRESENTER: TODD E. PRESSMAN, PH.D.
Todd Pressman, PhD is an internationally recognized psychologist, author, and speaker, and the creator of the Deconstructing Anxiety™ method.
His work focuses on helping people move beyond fear-based living into clarity, freedom, and fulfillment by addressing the true emotional roots of anxiety.
Important Notes
- This is a live workshop
- The experiential component is central
- Space may be limited
- You are encouraged to attend the full experience, including the Integration & Q&A
What others are saying . . .
“Best presentation and presenter in my 50 plus years of practice.”
“Beyond words! Thank you so much! LIFE CHANGING!”
“This approach is a beautiful combination of Western knowledge and Eastern wisdom…succinctly put and accessible.”
“One of the most useful programs I have attended”
“Summary of my takeaway from tonight’s session: WOW! SACRE BLEU, INCREDIBLE!! Thank you very much for stewarding us through this illuminating journey….Please know I am really excited by your work — and know it has helped me have a more integrative perspective in working with my Clients….Todd, deciding to attend your Webinar was one of the best decisions I’ve made for expanding my skills as a clinician!!”
Bonus for live attendees:
A guided Integration & Q&A revealing what comes after discovering your core fear—and how people actually use this insight to transform anxiety.
Intensive Consent Form
Thank you for signing up for the seminar. We look forward to working with you. Please review the following information, and sign at the end to acknowledge your agreement with what you have read.
Confidentiality: Confidentiality is of paramount importance. The agreement among all seminar
participants to strictly maintain confidentiality is part of what makes the deep work of the seminar possible. It creates the safety necessary for people to open up and develop the bonds of trust between members that is an essential part of the experience. By signing at the bottom, you agree to keep everything you learn about others in this seminar completely confidential, as they
will agree to do for you.
Coaching: This is not a seminar in psychotherapy but rather a coaching experience. That means that Dr. Pressman is not functioning as a psychotherapist and cannot provide the same services as one would expect from a psychotherapist. Specifically, this seminar focuses on the Deconstructing Anxiety method and, as such, follows a set of principles and practices that are different from those offered in psychotherapy. Dr. Pressman functions as a coach, a facilitator, of this method, as opposed to a therapist utilizing the methods of standardized psychotherapeutic schools of thought.
Availability: Dr. Pressman is not available for communications before, after or in between group
sessions.
Insurance: Since this is not a therapy experience, no insurance reimbursement is available.
Responsible for self: If you are having a mental health crisis, you agree to find appropriate help,
and understand that Dr. Pressman cannot be available for contact in such situations. During the
seminar, it is understood that you are responsible for your own self-care, and that neither Dr. Pressman nor anyone on his staff can function as a source of help or support for circumstances beyond the focus of the seminar (the principles and practices of the Deconstructing Anxiety method).
No-harm contract: You agree unequivocally that you will not harm yourself during the time of our work together. You further agree that should you have thoughts about self-harm, you will discuss them in session. Finally, you understand, as stated above, that I am functioning as a life coach in these sessions and not as a psychotherapist, so I am therefore unable to provide the support and other services that a psychotherapist would in the event that you had thoughts of self-harm.
If for any reason Dr. Pressman feels the seminar is no longer the appropriate place for you to meet your goals, he reserves the right to conclude your participation in the program at any time. Of course, this would be done in discussion with you, and Dr. Pressman can suggest alternative options he believes would be more beneficial for you if you’d like. You would be entitled to a full refund of your tuition for the seminar under these circumstances.
The webinar is non-refundable. However, if someone is unable to attend, we will transfer their registration to the next scheduled webinar.