Stress and Anxiety Therapy Program

Developed in collaboration with Dr. Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, Ed.D., Ph.D., SoundMindz Senior Advisor, the Anxiety Therapy Program is specifically designed to take advantage of the latest Internet technologies available to help you manage and control your anxieties effectively. You will access techniques and therapeutic exercises on-demand and be able to record and view your progress.
By integrating an online workbook, with videos, a daily journal, a mobile app and supporting content, you will have access to the best therapeutic practices to manage your anxieties. We strongly recommend using all the available components in order to receive the full benefit of the program.

Program Overview

1. The Workbook:

Transforming Anxiety into Joy: A Practical Workbook to Gain Emotional Freedom.

This easy-to-use workbook (written by Dr. Ciaramicoli) showcases real-life examples of people suffering from chronic anxiety and has exercises at the end of each chapter which include watching videos, questions for your online journal (Progress Tracker), and other resources. The workbook will guide you through a therapeutic process that has proven successful in freeing many clients from the grips of anxiety.

2. Video therapy sessions:

These videos were developed to complement the content in our workbook. They highlight how you can un-learn the conditioned anxiety response:

• Video introduction
  Describes the major concepts of the program, emphasizing the key element to reducing anxiety by changing the way we have been conditioned to perceive.
  
  
  
• How to Tolerate and Lessen Anxiety
  Topics Included:
  1. How to calm yourself, difficulty sleeping
  2. Tolerating anxiety
  3. Fear of being alone
  4. Overcoming trauma
  5. How giving overcomes resentments
  6. Alcoholics Anonymous
  7. Performance addiction, gratitude, grace and spiritual healing
  
  
  
• Overcoming Trauma and Insecurity
  Topics Included:
  1. How to sustain Intimacy
  2. Understanding prejudice
  3. Empathy as a healing agent
  4. Aggression breeds aggression
  5. Addictions as misdirected attempts to secure happiness
  6. Character as defined by quality of giving-a story of a gifted schizophrenic patient
  
  

3. Progress Tracker

Progress Tracker is your online daily journal for recording your progress throughout the program; without this information you cannot fully measure the effectiveness of the program.
It is particularly important to use Progress Tracker to monitor your mood and symptoms as you read and answer the questions at the end of each chapter in the Workbook. Go to Progress Tracker 

4. Mobile App

This application, available for most phones, will allow you to use all of the program components from your mobile phone.
The Anxiety Therapy Program Mobile App will include Its own Anxiety Measurement Quiz, as well as a mobile customized version of the Progress Tracker which will automatically sync with SoundMindz' main databases. You can also receive updates and fresh information from the site uploaded directly to your phone.
The APP is now available for an additional charge, for iPhone or Android Phones.

5. News and Resources

Keep up to date on the latest news and research on anxiety; participate in online podcasts or chats; as well as access to new services as they become available.

How to use the Anxiety Therapy Program

Start with the Workbook; it is the central component of the program that ties all the other elements together. As you go through the Workbook, you will be guided about when and how to use all the other elements mentioned above.