Lynn Lyons LICSW

Author of Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous & Independent Children, clinical social worker and psychotherapist specializing in anxiety in adults and children

Biography

Week 97 – How to Challenge the Permanence of Depression

Week 100 – Approaching Depression in Different Populations

Week 108 – Practical Strategies for Working with the Inner Critic: Client Stories

Week 109 – Questions to Ask for a Powerful First Session

Week 110 – How to Approach a Challenging First Session

WEEK 116 – Strategies to Help Clients Confront Fear

WEEK 117 – How to Help Clients Develop Healthy Ways to Cope with Fear

WEEK 120 – How to Uncover the Emotions Underneath Blame

Week 124 – How to Ease Blame in Families

Week 130 – Strategies to Help Clients Identify Trigger Patterns

Week 136 – Working with Abandonment in a Client’s Closest Relationships

Week 137 – Working with Abandonment Without Triggering Fear

Week 141 – Working with Socially Sanctioned Perfectionism

Week 142 – Key Skills for Perfectionistic Clients

Week 144 – How and When to Confront Avoidance

Week 145 – Working with Common Issues That Can Often Fuel Avoidance

Week 153 – Important Precautions When Working with Self-Narratives That Sustain a Client’s Suffering

Week 159 – Practical Strategies for Helping Clients Reframe Their Experience of Impostor Syndrome

Week 166 – What to Do When Fear of Rejection Affects a Client’s Ability to Set Healthy Boundaries

Week 179 – How to Integrate Experiential Exercises When Working with Self-Absorption

Week 181 – Normalization and Psychoeducation – Two Important Tools for Helping Clients Learn to Tolerate Distress

Week 182 – Strategies for Helping Clients Regulate Their Emotions

Week 196 – The Impact of Loneliness within Specific Groups

Week 197 – Strategies for Helping Clients Overcome Deficits in Social Skills

Week 198 – Why Do Clients Ruminate?

Week 199 – Rumination, Worry, and Problem-Solving

Week 205 – Resentment as “The Family Business”

Week 215 – Should I Stay, or Should I Go? Important Factors in Helping Clients Decide

Week 220 – Specific Presentations of Rigidity

Week 223 – How to Help Clients Develop Discernment

Week 235 – How Anxiety Treatment Approaches Can Inform our Work with Uncertainty

Week 241 – Specific Threats to Your Client’s Sense of Belonging

Week 252 – How to Work with a Client’s Shadow Side That’s Rooted in Trauma

Week 260— Helping Clients When Perfectionism and Overachievement Exacerbates Unworthiness

Week 268 – How to Help Clients Whose Experience of Never Fitting In Fractures Their Relationships

Week 270 – How to Help Clients Reframe Their Beliefs and Assumptions About Conflict

Week 281 — Working with Parents Who Are Overly Controlling with Their Children

Week 285 – Expert Approaches to Overwhelming Events That Are Cumulative, Repeated, or Ongoing

Week 292 – Practical Exercises to Help Prepare Clients for Making a Change

Week 294 – Working with Clients Who Struggle with “Anxious Parenting”

Week 295 – How to Help Clients When Their Child Struggles to Launch

Week 301 – Working with a Client Who Gaslights or Manipulates Others

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Address and Unpack Painful Feelings of Jealousy and Envy (Week 317)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Shift Out of Persistent Feelings of Defectiveness (Week 318)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Shift Out of Persistent Feelings of Defectiveness (Week 319)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Shift Out of Persistent Feelings of Defectiveness (Week 320)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Shift Out of Persistent Feelings of Defectiveness (Week 321)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Navigate Rupture and Build Skills of Repair (Week 324)