Understand anxiety’s two primary brain pathways and learn practical ways to combine neuroscience, evidence-based treatment, and nature-informed interventions.
Live Online
Friday, Mar 5, 2027
6 CE Credits
ABOUT THE TRAINING
Treat Anxiety at Its Source
Anxiety may begin with an automatic alarm response in the amygdala or develop through cortex-based patterns such as worry, rumination, and anticipation. Effective treatment begins with understanding which pathway is driving the client’s symptoms.
Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan will translate this neuroscience into practical, client-friendly strategies. Participants will also learn how nature can support nervous-system regulation, attention restoration, cognitive flexibility, and resilience.
These approaches can be used outdoors, inside a traditional office, or through telehealth.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Practical Tools for Anxiety Treatment
Participants will learn how to:
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Distinguish amygdala-based anxiety from cortex-based anxiety.
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Explain the neuroscience of anxiety in language clients can understand.
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Use breathing, movement, mindfulness, sensory awareness, and exposure to regulate the amygdala.
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Address worry, rumination, anticipation, and other cortex-driven patterns.
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Incorporate nature into anxiety treatment indoors, outdoors, and through telehealth.
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Help clients use nature as an ongoing resource for coping and resilience.
TRAINING TOPICS
What We Will Cover
Understanding the Anxious Brain
Explore neuroplasticity, the fight-flight-freeze response, and the two neural pathways that create anxiety.
Calming the Amygdala
Use experiential approaches, including breathing, movement, mindfulness, exposure, and sensory-based nature practices to retrain automatic anxiety responses.
Retraining the Cortex
Help clients respond differently to worry, uncertainty, rumination, obsessive thinking, and anxious anticipation.
Nature and Nervous-System Regulation
Learn how natural environments can reduce stress reactivity, restore attention, and support emotional regulation.
Integrated Treatment
Consider how psychotherapy, nature-informed practices, and psychotropic medications may interact with neuroplasticity and recovery.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Designed for Mental Health Professionals
This training is appropriate for counselors, social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, occupational therapists, psychiatric professionals, graduate-level clinicians, and other behavioral health professionals.
Prior experience providing therapy outdoors is not required.
Note for Non-Clinical Helping Professionals
This training contains clinical concepts and treatment strategies but may also be valuable for related helping professionals. If you are not a licensed mental health clinician, we strongly recommend completing a Mental Health First Aid training before attending or soon afterward.
Participants should apply all practices within their professional role, training, and scope of practice. Continuing education credit may not apply to every profession or license type.
Starts Mar 5, 2027
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INSTRUCTOR
Heidi Schreiber-Pan
Ph.D., LCPC, C-NIT
Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan is a licensed clinical professional counselor, author, educator, and founder of the Center for Nature Informed Therapy.
Her work integrates neuroscience, evidence-based anxiety treatment, mindfulness, and nature-informed clinical practices. She is known for making complex neurological concepts understandable and immediately useful in clinical practice.
Logistics & Registration
When: Friday, March 5, from 9:30am - 4:30pm
Where: Live Online
Cost: $225 per person
15% early bird discount before July 27 with code EBAT15
Don't need CE's? Take $20 off with booking code ADV20
25% off for students with booking code STUDENTADV25
Scholarship Available: Limited need-based scholarship available. Apply here.
Customized Anxiety Training for Your Team
Help your staff better understand anxiety, strengthen their clinical skills, and learn practical ways to support nervous-system regulation through evidence-based and nature-informed approaches.
CNIT can adapt Taming the Anxious Brain with Nature in Mind for mental health practices, healthcare organizations, schools, nonprofits, universities, and community-based teams.
Customized trainings may include:
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Content tailored to your staff’s roles, experience, and client population
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Clinical examples relevant to your organization
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Indoor, outdoor, or hybrid nature-informed strategies
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Interactive exercises, case discussions, and practical tools
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Half-day, full-day, or multi-session formats
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In-person or live online delivery
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Continuing education options, when eligible
Whether your team works in clinical care, education, behavioral health, or community services, the training can be shaped around your goals and setting.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
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Explain neurological processes that contribute to anxiety and describe how nature can affect stress, attention, and emotional regulation.
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Differentiate between amygdala-based and cortex-based anxiety and select interventions based on the pathway involved.
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Apply evidence-based strategies that support amygdala regulation, including breathing, movement, mindfulness, sensory awareness, exposure, and nature-informed practices.
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Teach clients strategies for responding to worry, rumination, anticipation, and other cortex-based anxiety patterns.
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Adapt nature-informed anxiety interventions for outdoor, indoor, and telehealth settings.
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Describe how psychotropic medications may affect neuroplasticity and identify related treatment considerations.
Agenda at a Glance
9:00–10:15 AM
Neuroscience, neuroplasticity, and client engagement
10:30 AM–12:30 PM
The amygdala pathway and nervous-system regulation
12:30–1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30–2:30 PM
The cortex pathway, worry, and rumination
2:45–3:45 PM
Nature, medication, and integrated treatment
3:45–4:30 PM
Clinical application, case examples, and closing integration
CE Details
Center for Nature Informed Therapy has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7473. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Center for Nature Informed Therapy is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Nature Informed Attachment & Trauma Therapy Training course will receive 3 NBCC credit hours.
This program consists of 3 NBCC clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
Please note: NBCC and ASWB continuing education credits are intended for eligible licensed mental health professionals. Related helping professionals are welcome to attend, though CE credit may not apply to their profession. We recommend non-clinical participants complete Mental Health First Aid before or soon after the training.
The Center for Nature Informed Therapy, Provider 2022, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: July 9, 2025-July 9, 2028. Social workers completing this course receive 3 general continuing education credits.
Understand Anxiety. Support Regulation. Build Resilience.
Gain a practical framework for treating anxiety while helping clients reconnect with the restorative capacity of the natural world.
March 5, 2027 | Live Online | 6 CE Hours