Treating anxiety in school-aged children.
In one focused session, leave with a complete, practical method for childhood anxiety - from assessment to graded exposure and a take-home Courage Power Pack you can co-build with a child on Monday.
It’s the most common presentation of childhood and it rarely says its own name.
Children seldom announce “I feel anxious.” They say their tummy hurts. They cling, they refuse, they end up in the school sick-bay. Clinicians often hold pieces of the answer - a breathing exercise here, a worksheet there - without a sequenced, child-friendly method that holds together from the first session to relapse prevention.
Headaches, nausea, sleep trouble and irritability are read as anything but anxiety - so it goes untreated for years.
Reassurance and accommodation calm the moment and quietly strengthen the worry for families and clinicians alike.
Scattered techniques don’t add up to treatment. What changes outcomes is a method, sequenced and made developmentally real.
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This webinar gives you that method and something the child physically takes home.
Six capabilities you can use the next working day.
By the end of the session you’ll be able to…
Two and a half hours, built as one clear arc.
Six modules move from how anxiety works, through assessment and the evidence, into the hands-on tools with a short break after Module 3.
Foundations
The over-sensitive alarm; the three systems - body, thoughts, behaviour and the avoidance engine that keeps anxiety alive.
Assessment & formulation
Somatic presentations, validated measures (SCAS, RCADS), and mapping family accommodation without blame.
The evidence base
Why CBT is front line, how a course is shaped, and the parent-only SPACE approach - then a 10-minute break.
Resourcing & externalising
Naming and bossing back the worry; breathing, the calm kit and the worry box - giving the child something to do with the feeling.
Cognitive work & exposure
Detective thinking and the fear ladder - the active ingredient - paced collaboratively with the child.
Parents as courage coaches
Shifting parents from accommodating to supportive, and assembling the take-home Courage Power Pack.
The Courage Power Pack
Everything taught in the room, co-designed with the child and assembled into something they physically own and use at home. You’ll leave the webinar knowing how to build and personalise all twelve tools - printable, child-facing templates are included.
Built on what the published evidence supports.
The method draws on four decades of research into childhood anxiety. These figures describe findings from the published literature - not a result promised to any individual clinician or child.
Made for clinicians who see anxious children.
Pitched at a foundational–intermediate level - useful whether you’re building a first method or sharpening one you already use. It develops developing knowledge and skill; you apply it within your own scope, training and supervision.
This is for you if…
- You’re a psychologist, counsellor, social worker or allied health clinician working with 5–12 year olds.
- You want one coherent method, not another folder of disconnected handouts.
- You’d like ready-to-use, child-facing tools you can personalise in session.
- You want 2.5 CPD points from a practical, clinically grounded session.
Good to know
- Attend live or watch the recording - both are included.
- No prior CBT background is assumed; it builds from foundations.
- Clinical strategies are drawn from CBT, narrative and parent-coaching literatures.
- You remain responsible for adapting them to each child’s developmental level, presentation and risk.
Led by a clinician who has spent a career with anxious kids.
Dr Anna Cohen
Founder of Kids & Co Clinical Psychology and co-founder of the Clinical Psychology Resource Centre, with close to three decades of clinical practice with children and families, and a board-approved clinical supervisor.
Secure your place in Building Courage.
Register once and you’ll have the live session, the recording and the printable Power Pack templates.
A single 2.5-hour session - everything below included.
- Live 2.5-hour webinar with Dr Anna Cohen
- Full recording to revisit any time
- Printable Courage Power Pack templates
- Certificate of completion - 2.5 CPD points
- Reference list & full session resources
Live & recorded · all prices in AUD [incl. GST — confirm] · group rates on request
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Want to take it further?
After the webinar, the Coaching Masterclass Series turns this method and the wider child and adolescent toolkit into supervised skill across six live sessions.
Never work a hard case alone.
Growth happens in the months after the webinar. Add the Ongoing Supervision Group to your registration and because you’re buying it alongside a webinar you lock in $995 a quarter instead of $1,195, while steadily clocking the peer-consultation hours the Board already expects of you.
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6 Ă— 90-minute sessions a quarterFortnightly, small group capped at 15, board-approved-supervisor-led - bring your real, de-identified cases. Around 36 hours a year.
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Counts toward your peer-consultation hoursBring your own case and the reflective focus on your practice falls within the Board’s definition - the requirement most clinicians scramble for at renewal.
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A written record for your CPD portfolioAn attendance and activity log you can file as evidence - exactly what an audit looks for.
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Led by Dr Anna Cohen & Isabel FraserBoard-approved clinical supervisors and founders of the CPRC, alongside a community of child clinicians.
Save $200 when you add it with today’s registration · about $199 per session.
- Fortnightly 90-minute small-group consultation
- Peer-consultation hours toward your Board CPD
- A written attendance record for your portfolio
- Billed quarterly · pause or cancel anytime
Complements your formal supervision · check your registration requirements · standard rate $1,195/quarter
Ready to make it your credential?
The webinar gives you the method. When you’re ready to build it into assessed, supervised competence across the whole span of child work, the fullest next step is becoming a Certified Practitioner of the CPRC Integrative Model - Children, Adolescents & Parents: one credential, one formulation-led method, independently assessed.
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Three pathways, one methodParents, children and teenagers — a single, formulation-led approach across the span of child work.
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12 months of supervised practiceApplied to your own caseload, with a board-approved supervisor alongside you.
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A competency assessmentAn independent judgement that you can do the work — not a certificate that says you turned up.
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Your name on the CPRC registerPublic recognition of a standard you’ve been independently assessed against.
Or $11,000 when you pay upfront.
- Three supervised pathways — parents, children & teenagers
- Twelve months applying the method to your own cases
- Competency assessed by a board-approved supervisor
- Certified Practitioner status & a listing on the CPRC register
A structured pathway, not a single course · applied within your own scope, training & supervision
Good to know before you register.
Do the CPD points count for me?
Do I need a CBT background?
Will this qualify me to treat childhood anxiety?
Is the Power Pack included?
What’s the difference between this webinar and certification?
Can my team register together?
Put courage back in a child’s hands.
One focused session, a complete method, and a Power Pack the child takes home. Register for Building Courage.
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