Deconstructing Anxiety: The Journey from Fear to Fulfillment
Therapy Mastermind Circle with Dr. Todd Pressman and Dr. Diane Poole Heller
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.

Attachment & Trauma Mastery Training

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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.
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Dr. Todd Pressman
Instructor

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.

Enrollment Closes:

May 20, 2024

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Cancellation & Refund Policy

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.

$77
May 20, 2025
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$77 Monthly

Membership enrollment opens just twice a year, with new topics offered every 6 months.

Small Group Online Training
• Therapy Mastermind Circle Membership
CE Credits:
 8 Hours**
Deconstructing Anxiety: A Practical Model for Healing and Integration

Summary

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.

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.

 

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

 

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.

 


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.

 


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.


CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE 6-MONTH CURRICULUM

Date / Time

Tuesday, May 20 2025
Prerequisite: None

This training is open to both licensed professionals and non-therapists. While the material is designed for those supporting others in a clinical or healing capacity, you don’t need to be a therapist to attend.

Who Is This For?

  • 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.

Learning Objectives

  • 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.

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!

Continuing Education (CE) Credit Info

Do you need CE credits?

Licensed mental health professionals may be able to purchase 8 CE credit hours for this program for an additional fee of $89.

Course Level: Beginning to Advanced Practice Professionals

Target Audience: Psychologists, Social Workers and Other Licensed Mental Health Professionals

Continuing Education Credit is approved for the
following professionals**

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**STUDENTS MUST ATTEND ALL LIVE COURSE HOURS TO RECEIVE CE CREDIT. Trauma Solutions is unable to award partial Continuing Education credits. Students will ONLY receive CEs for live training modules that they have attended all hours live online.

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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. 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.

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.

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

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.

Do you have additional questions?
Please contact our friendly Customer Support Team

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