Appearances

Television

Other Selected Appearances

• Keynote Speaker at S. African MH Conference, Durban, S. Africa
  “Anxiety: A Worldwide Epidemic”
• The Sally Jessie Raphael Show, New York, NY
  Featured Expert in “Mothers Who Rage”
• KOMO TV, Northwest Afternoons, Seattle, Washington
  1 hour live TV show, “Helping the Person Who Suffers with Excessive Anxiety”
• Published Book, Transforming Anxiety Transcending Shame
• Rapid City School Counselors, Rapid City, SD
  “Recognition, Prevention and Treatment of the Anxious Student”
• Institute for Integral Learning, Clearwater, FL
  “Running With Our Hair On Fire: It May Be Normal, But It Ain’t Healthy”
• Anxiety Disorders Association of America Conference, Austin, TX
  “Treating the Shame That Drives Anxiety and Depression”
• Northwest Addictions Conference, Seattle, WA
  “Addictions, Compulsions and Chronic Anxiety; Treating the Results of the American Lifestyle”
• Southern California Clinical Institute, Burbank, CA
  “New Twists in Treating American’s No. 1 Mental Health Condition – Anxiety”
• United States Air Force and Reserve Institute, Denver, CO
  “Assuring Troop Readiness: Preventing and Reducing Anxiety”
• National Association of Social Workers Conference of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR
  “Significant Issues to Help Anxiety Sufferers Move From Insecurity to Empowerment”
• University of Tennessee School of Social Work, Nashville, TN
  “From Chronic Anxiety to Terrorist Attack; Anxiety As a Growing Epidemic”
• Missouri Clinical Institute, Kansas City, MO
  “Helping Clients to Move Beyond Just Tying a Knot and Hanging On; Beyond Simple
  Management to Empowerment”
• U.S. Psychiatric & Mental Health Congress, Boston, Massachusetts
  “Beyond Managing Symptoms to Empowerment”
• South Dakota Nurse Practitioners Conference, Keynote Speaker
  “Sources of Unnecessary Stress for the Medical Professional and their Patient”
• Two-day Regional Training, Indian Health Services Staff
  Consult with setting up anxiety treatment programs with their respective areas
• Colorado Springs, Colorado Addictions Conference, Keynote Address
  “Addictions, Compulsions & Anxiety – Coping with the American Lifestyle”
• West Virginia Chapter of NASW Conference
  “Recognizing and Treating America’s #1 Condition – Anxiety”
• Anxiety Disorders Association of America Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
  “Beyond Managing Symptoms to Empowerment”
• New Mexico Chapter of National Association of Social Workers Conference
  “Exciting Twists with Treating America’s #1 Condition – Anxiety”
• National Association of Social Workers Conference, Baltimore, MD
  Full Day Institute, “Significant Issues to Help Anxiety Sufferers Move from Insecurity to
  Empowerment”
• New Mexico Chapter of NASW Conference Speaker
  “Treating the Driving Force Behind Anxiety – Shame”
• Speaker/Faculty for National Trichotillomania Retreat, San Francisco, CA
• East Central Mental Health Center/Hospital, Brookings, SD
  5-day training for therapists in setting up an Anxiety Disorders Treatment Program
• Anxiety Disorders Association of America Conference, Washington D.C.
  “Shame as a Driving Force in Excessive Anxiety”
• Nationally syndicated and local radio shows
• Anxiety Disorders Association of America Conference, San Diego, CA
  “Existential Issues that Encourage Excessive Anxiety”
• Anxiety Disorders Association of America Conference, Boston, MA
  “Spiritual Issues in the Treatment of Anxiety”
• South Dakota NASW Conference, Speaker/Trainer of two day program
  “Recognizing and Treating Anxiety in Clinical and Non-clinical milieu”
• Anxiety Disorders Association of America Conference, New Orleans, LA
  “The Existential Factors that Encourage Excessive Anxiety”
• Anxiety Disorders Association of America Conference, Orlando, FL
  “Historical and Future Issues that Encourage Excessive Anxiety”
• Mental Health Association of North Dakota
  Presented Training Sessions in Two Cities for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
• Anxiety Disorders Association of America Conference, Los Angeles, CA
  “From Anxiety to Empowerment: Breaking the Grip of Shame”
• Anxiety Disorders Association of America Conference, Charleston, SC
  “Shame as the Driving Force Behind Excessive Anxiety”
• Anxiety Disorders Association of America Conference, Chicago, IL “Understanding the Shame
  Dynamic in Anxiety Disorder Treatment”
• South Dakota Department of Agriculture
  Four statewide presentations on “Healthy Family Development”
• South Dakota Homebuilders and Contractors Association “Understanding and Developing
  Healthy Self-Esteem”
• Anxiety Disorders Association of America Conference, Washington, D.C.
  “Effective Treatment Milieus for Anxiety Disorders Recovery”
• Phobia Society of America Conference, Boston, MA
  “Curative Factors in Treating Anxiety Disorders”
• Benedictine Family Services, Yankton, SD
  Conducted week-long treatment program for patients with anxiety disorders and
  theoretical training for therapists
• NASW Clinical Registry Member
• Outpatient Therapy Group, Palos Verdes, CA
• Consultant, setting up anxiety disorders treatment program
• Who’s Who in the Human Services
• Phobia Society of America Conference, San Francisco, CA “Group Therapy Techniques for
  Treating Anxiety Disorders”
• Regional Indian Health Services
  Trainer/presenter of two-day program, “Treating Anxiety Disorders”
• Phobia Society of America Conference, New York, NY “Beyond Symptom Management to Living
  Life Fully”
• South Dakota NASW Conference
  Trainer/presenter of two-day program, “Treating Anxiety Disorders”
• Bimonthly Newspaper Column – Mental Health “On the Road to Wellness”
• Regional Farm Bureau Conference
  “Rural Stress”
• Rapid City Child Abuse Board Member
• Interagency Community Resource Coalition Chairman
• Statewide Interface Committee between State Hospital and CMHC