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Master the existential depth that transforms stuck cases into breakthrough moments—in 8 weeks

Working with Anxiety, Fear, and Panic Attacks

Working with Anxiety, Fear, and Panic Attacks

Evidence-based course in Existential Analysis for US mental health professionals who refuse to accept "treatment-resistant" as the final answer

APA-approved 10.5 CEs

APA-approved 10.5 CEs

Learn from Viktor Frankl’s protégé, Dr. Alfried Laengle
Learn from Viktor Frankl’s protégé,
Dr. Alfried Laengle
1-Click · Instant Access · 10.5 APA CEs + Certificate On Completion

The Reality: The Numbers Don't Lie

43%

of US adults report MORE anxiety than last year (APA, 2024)

301

million people worldwide live with anxiety disorders (WHO)

77%

are anxious about economic instability

73%

report election-related anxiety

69%

fear gun violence

70%

experience anxiety from constant news cycles
Your waiting room is full. Your clients are suffering. And traditional protocols are barely making a dent.

Your Clients Are Drowning—And Your Toolkit Isn't Deep Enough

Here's what's happening in practices across America right now:

The "Educated Anxious Client" Paradox

Your client can recite cognitive distortions like a graduate student. They've mastered 4-7-8 breathing. They know panic attacks won't kill them. They've read The Anxiety Toolkit and listened to every Huberman Lab podcast.

And Yet

  • They're texting you at midnight: "I know I'm not dying... and every night it resets"
  • ​They've missed another work deadline because "email dread" has become paralyzing
  • ​They're in the ER again with the same symptoms you addressed three sessions ago

What's Actually Happening:

Exposure hierarchies stall out.

Clients skip steps, "forget" homework, relapse after one trigger.

Medication creates new problems.

Side effects tank motivation. Insurance denials delay treatment. The 6-week SSRI "wait and see" feels like negligence when they're suffering NOW.

Somatic symptoms blur everything.

Is it GAD? Panic disorder? Health anxiety? ADHD comorbidity? OCD with panic features? Trauma response?

Work anxiety is destroying careers.

"IBS before meetings." "Can't open email for days." "Sunday scaries that start on Thursday."

The world keeps adding fuel to the fire.

Election anxiety. Racial violence. Economic precarity. Immigration uncertainty. Mass shootings. Long COVID.

What This Means for YOU

Late at night, the questions come:

  • "Why can't I help them?"
  • ​"Did I miss something in my training?"
  • "Am I even qualified to do this work?"

The Impostor Syndrome Loop:

You have the degrees. The licenses. The CEUs. The protocols

But protocol-driven care stops at the cognitive level.

When your client's anxiety is rooted in:
  • Existential fear of death
  • ​Loss of basic safety in an unstable world
  • Profound meaninglessness
  • ​Shame and worthlessness
...then teaching thought records feels like bringing a band-aid to a bullet wound.

The Cost of This Gap:

Your practice suffers. Word-of-mouth referrals dry up. Anxiety cases feel draining instead of fulfilling.
Clients leave therapy. Not because you failed—but because the tools you were given don't reach the depth where their anxiety actually lives.
Burnout looms. You entered this field to transform lives. Instead, you're managing symptoms on an endless treadmill.
Compassion fatigue intensifies. Another crisis text. Another session that feels like pushing water uphill.

What Happens When This Continues?

For Your Clients: The Narrowing Life

Year 1

They manage. Barely. White-knuckling through panic attacks. Avoiding triggers. "Functioning."

Year 2

The avoided list grows. No flying. No elevators. No presentations. No new relationships.

Year 3

Career opportunities evaporate. Relationships strain. They've become a prisoner in a cell built from fear.

Year 5

They've tried 4 therapists. Multiple medication combinations. They're cynical about therapy: "Nothing works. Maybe I'm just broken."

The statistics bear this out:

Only 25% of people with anxiety disorders receive treatment (WHO)
​Of those who do, many experience "treatment resistance"
​22.7% of the population has experienced at least one panic attack
​The lifetime prevalence of panic disorder: 5%

For You: The Slow Erosion of Purpose

Monday morning: Another anxious client on your schedule. You feel slight dread. "What am I going to try this week that won't work?"

Friday evening: You're exhausted. Not from the work—but from the helplessness.

Three years from now:

You're still competent. Still licensed. Still showing up.
But that spark—the reason you chose this field—it's dimmed. You've accepted that some clients are "just treatment-resistant."

You deserve better. Your clients deserve better.

What Happens When This Continues?

For Your Clients: The Narrowing Life
Your Roadmap to Real, Lasting
Client Transformation

Year 1

They manage. Barely. White-knuckling through panic attacks. Avoiding triggers. "Functioning."

Year 2

The avoided list grows. No flying. No elevators. No presentations. No new relationships.

Year 3

Career opportunities evaporate. Relationships strain. They've become a prisoner in a cell built from fear.

Year 5

They've tried 4 therapists. Multiple medication combinations. They're cynical about therapy: "Nothing works. Maybe I'm just broken."

The statistics bear this out:

Only 25% of people with anxiety disorders receive treatment (WHO)
​Of those who do, many experience "treatment resistance"
​22.7% of the population has experienced at least one panic attack
​The lifetime prevalence of panic disorder: 5%

For You: The Slow Erosion of Purpose

Monday morning: Another anxious client on your schedule. You feel slight dread. "What am I going to try this week that won't work?"

Friday evening: You're exhausted. Not from the work—but from the helplessness.

Three years from now:

You're still competent. Still licensed. Still showing up.
But that spark—the reason you chose this field—it's dimmed. You've accepted that some clients are "just treatment-resistant."

You deserve better. Your clients deserve better.

The Solution: The Existential Analysis Advantage

What If You Could Meet Your Clients at the Depth Where Anxiety Actually Lives?

This doesn't replace what you already do—it gives you the depth that makes it actually work.

Existential Analysis (developed by Dr. Alfried Laengle, Viktor Frankl's direct successor over 40+ years) provides the framework that:
  • Functionally: Gives you concrete tools that work when CBT/ACT/exposure stall out
  • ​Emotionally: Restores your confidence and sense of professional competence
  • ​Socially: Positions you as the therapist who can handle "complex" and "treatment-resistant" cases

Why Existential Analysis? Why Now?

The Method Born from Ultimate Suffering

Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz by discovering that meaning survives even when everything else is stripped away. His logotherapy showed: humans can bear almost any suffering if it contains meaning.
Dr. Alfried Laengle spent 40+ years systematically developing Frankl's insights into a complete therapeutic system:
  • Phenomenologically grounded (not abstract philosophy)
  • Diagnostically precise (EMT, 4FM mapping)
  • Technically specific (12+ concrete methods)
  • ​Empirically validated (used across 25+ countries)
  • ​Integrative (works with CBT, ACT, psychodynamic approaches)

The Current Crisis Demands This Depth

When 43% of Americans have MORE anxiety than last year... When your clients are dealing with:
  • Pandemic aftermath
  • ​Economic instability
  • ​Election polarization
  • ​Gun violence
  • ​Racial and social justice trauma
  • ​Climate anxiety
  • ​Existential uncertainty
...symptom management isn't enough.

Your clients need you to meet them at the depth where their anxiety actually lives—in the disrupted foundations of their existence.

EA gives you that depth while keeping you grounded in concrete clinical action.

Course Curriculum

Working with Anxiety, Fear, and Panic Attacks:
Existential-Analytical Methods of Therapy

An APA-Approved Continuing Education Program for Helping Professionals

Upon completion of the course, you'll receive a certificate for 10.5 CE credits approved by APA, recognized by most state boards for psychologists, counselors, social workers, MFTs, and addiction professionals. For more info click here

MODULE 01

Course Orientation

Course Orientation

Lesson 1. Course Roadmap & Best Practices
Lesson 2. Dr. Alfried Laengle on Four Fundamental Motivations
Lesson 3. Introduction to Anxiety
Lesson 4. Existential-Analytic Work with Anxiety
Lesson 5. Demo Session by Dr. Laengle: Transforming Fear into Choice
Lesson 6. Post-Session Q&A and Breakdown by Dr. Laengle

What You’ll Learn:

  • The core structure of Existential Analysis and the 4FM framework
  • How to diagnose life deficits
  • The meaning of anxiety and fear through the lens of EA
  • How to identify which “root of fear” is activated in your client
  • How phenomenology helps you stay present and work beyond symptom-focused models
Result:
You’ll gain a clear overview of Existential Analysis and how it approaches fear and anxiety—seeing not just what the client feels, but why it matters.
Format: 3 pre-recorded training sessions + 1 demo session + downloadable summaries & transcripts
Duration: 1 hour 47 mins

Result:
You’ll gain a clear overview of Existential Analysis and how it approaches fear and anxiety—seeing not just what the client feels, but why it matters.
Format: 7 pre-recorded training sessions + downloadable extended summaries & transcripts
Duration: 1 hour 16 mins
Result:
A deep, structured understanding of anxiety’s anatomy — from biology to meaning — and the ability to discern what kind of fear your client is actually facing, so you can respond with precision and confidence.

MODULE 02

Anxiety Through Existential Analysis Lens

Anxiety Through Existential Analysis Lens

Lesson 1. Biological, Psychological and Social Foundations of Fear
Lesson 2. Existential Philosophy & Existential Analysis on Anxiety
Lesson 3. Existential-Analytic Work with Anxiety
Lesson 4. Understanding Anxiety and Fear in Other Approaches

What You’ll Learn:

  • Understand the biological, psychological, and social roots of anxiety—and how they interact in real-life cases
  • Distinguish between fear, fright, horror, panic, and existential anxiety using phenomenological clarity
  • Explore how Existential Analysis works with anxiety at its core—offering meaning, grounding, and choice when symptoms feel overwhelming
Result:
A deep, structured understanding of anxiety’s anatomy — from biology to meaning — and the ability to discern what kind of fear your client is actually facing, so you can respond with precision and confidence.

MODULE 03

All Shades of Fear and How to Work With Them

All Shades of Fear and How to Work With Them

Lesson 1. Healthy vs. Pathological Anxiety
Lesson 2. Model for the Development of Anxiety in EA
Lesson 3. Forms of Anxiety – Fear, Scare, Terror, Shock, Panic
Lesson 4. Pathological Forms of Anxiety
Lesson 5. Existential Anxiety and Control Issues
Lesson 6. Q&A on Fear 

What You’ll Learn:

  • Tell the difference between realistic and pathological anxiety — and know what each is trying to say.
  • Understand the existential roots of fear and how loss of control, meaning, or safety shapes your client’s experience.
  • Recognize the six forms of anxiety (from fear to panic) and how to respond to each in therapy.
  • Reframe anxiety as a signal of life and freedom, not just a symptom to eliminate.
Result:
You’ll start seeing anxiety not as a problem to fix, but as a doorway to deeper presence, freedom, and trust — for both you and your clients.
Format: 6 pre-recorded training sessions + downloadable extended summaries & transcripts
Duration: 2 hours 5 mins
Result:
You’ll start seeing anxiety not as a problem to fix, but as a doorway to deeper presence, freedom, and trust — for both you and your clients.
Format: 3 pre-recorded training sessions + downloadable extended summaries & transcripts
Duration: 1 hour 20 mins
Result:
You’ll have a structured, step-by-step process to help clients face their deepest fears — not to erase them, but to transform fear into choice, and anxiety into renewed engagement with life.

MODULE 04

Therapy of Fear and Anxiety: Step-by-Step Existential Methods

Therapy of Fear and Anxiety: Step-by-Step Existential Methods

Lesson 1. Confrontation with Reality Method
Lesson 2. Gate of Death Method
Lesson 3. Fundamental and Anticipatory Anxiety 

What You’ll Learn:

  • Apply the Confrontation with Reality method to break the “what if” loop and bring clients back to grounded perception
  • Use the Gate of Death process to guide clients through their deepest fears and help them reclaim freedom even amid uncertainty.
  • Distinguish between fundamental and anticipatory anxiety — and choose the right therapeutic method for each.
  • Combine phenomenological dialogue, body awareness, and relational grounding to restore calm and agency in anxious states.
Result:
You’ll have a structured, step-by-step process to help clients face their deepest fears — not to erase them, but to transform fear into choice, and anxiety into renewed engagement with life.

MODULE 05

Treating Social Anxiety and Panic Attacks

Treating Social Anxiety and Panic Attacks

Lesson 1. Social Anxiety Disorder: Causes, Types, and Therapy
Lesson 2. Social Phobias Therapy
Lesson 3. Therapy for Panic Attacks
Lesson 4. Demo Session by Dr. Laengle: Anxiety, Loneliness, and the Hunger for Closeness
Lesson 5. Post-Session and Q&A Breakdown by Dr. Laengle 

What You’ll Learn:

  • Understand social anxiety as a fear of exposure and shame — and work with its existential roots in self-worth and authenticity.
  • Decode panic attacks phenomenologically — what triggers them, how they unfold, and what sustains them.
  • Apply a step-by-step EA protocol for panic disorder, from grounding and support to deep existential methods like Gate of Death and Paradoxical Intention.
  • How to identify which “root of fear” is activated in your client
  • How phenomenology helps you stay present and work beyond symptom-focused models
Result:
You’ll confidently guide clients through social anxiety and panic attacks — helping them move from avoidance and shame to courage, presence, and genuine connection with others.
Format: 3 pre-recorded training sessions + downloadable extended summaries & transcripts
Duration: 1 hour 8 mins
Result:
You’ll confidently guide clients through social anxiety and panic attacks — helping them move from avoidance and shame to courage, presence, and genuine connection with others.
Format: 4 pre-recorded training sessions + downloadable extended summaries & transcripts
Duration: 2 hours 7 mins
Result:
You’ll gain a complete set of existential-analytical tools to help clients — and yourself — move from fear and fixation to freedom, meaning, and authentic presence in life.

MODULE 06

 Methods to Help Clients with Fear & Anxiety

Methods to Help Clients with Fear & Anxiety

Lesson 1. Personal Position Method
Lesson 2. Method of Dereflection
Lesson 3. Paradoxical Intention Method
Lesson 4. Q&A on Helping Methods

What You’ll Learn:

  • Apply the Personal Position Method to help clients find grounding and agency when facing helplessness, anxiety, or depression.
  • Use Dereflection to interrupt rumination, redirect attention to values, and restore connection with meaningful life engagement.
  • Practice Paradoxical Intention to break anticipatory anxiety loops and dissolve fear through humor, courage, and self-distancing.
  • Integrate all three methods into a coherent EA framework for treating both clinical and subclinical anxiety patterns.
Result:
You’ll gain a complete set of existential-analytical tools to help clients — and yourself — move from fear and fixation to freedom, meaning, and authentic presence in life.

PLUS THESE BONUSES…

More behind-the-scenes look at real Existential Therapy in action

Two LIVE sessions with Dr. Laengle:

Two LIVE sessions with Dr. Laengle:

LIVE Online demo session + case studies on December 3, 2025 10 AM Pacific Time

​Case Study LIVE Session on January 13, 2026 10 AM Pacific time
Value: $847

BONUS: Workbook (80+ pages)

BONUS: Workbook (80+ pages)

Each module comes with guided exercises—helping you turn what you've learned into real, in-session skills.
Value: $197

Pre-recorded demo & Breakdown by Dr. Laengle: Maternal Anxiety

Pre-recorded demo & Breakdown by Dr. Laengle: Maternal Anxiety

In this pre-recorded demo, a psychologist faces intense anxiety about hiring a nanny after relocating abroad. Watch how Dr. Laengle uses Existential Analysis to transform guilt and uncertainty into clarity, agency, and a concrete plan—helping the client move forward without fear or self-blame.
Value: $147

Pre-recorded demo & Theoretical Analysis: Gate of Death as Method to Work with Anxiety

Pre-recorded demo & Theoretical Analysis: Gate of Death as Method to Work with Anxiety

In this pre-recorded demo, a psychologist faces intense anxiety about hiring a nanny after relocating abroad. Watch how Dr. Laengle uses Existential Analysis to transform guilt and uncertainty into clarity, agency, and a concrete plan—helping the client move forward without fear or self-blame.
Value: $147

Pre-recorded supervision by Dr. Laengle: Paradoxical Intention Method

Pre-recorded supervision by Dr. Laengle: Paradoxical Intention Method

In this pre-recorded supervision, Dr. Laengle helps a therapist navigate a case of acute maternal anxiety in a high-achieving client. Through existential-analytic steps, he outlines a clear plan to transform fear and guilt into grounded choice—offering structure, emotional clarity, and renewed self-contact for both client and therapist.
Value: $147

Watch What Therapists Say About Learning
with Alfried Laengle

What Makes This Training Different

Most Trainings Give You Theory. This Gives You Transformation.

 Traditional Anxiety CEUs:

 Lecture slides on DSM-5 criteria (you already know)
 Surface-level technique demos
 No practice opportunities
 No ongoing support
 Check-the-box education
 Recorded courses with no ability to ask questions

 This EA Course:

 Live observation of master-level work (Laengle's demonstrations)
 Hands-on practice in triads with peers
 Personal application to your own anxiety (workbook)
 Community integration (3 months consultation by facilitator access)
 Supervised learning (case analysis recordings)
 Depth AND practicality (philosophy + protocol)

The Evidence Base Existential Analysis is:

  • Practiced in 25+ countries
  • ​Taught in multiple European university programs
  • ​Supported by 40+ years of clinical validation
  • ​Compatible with manualized treatments
  • ​Shown to improve outcomes when integrated with CBT/ACT

Meet Your Expert Instructor

Dr. Alfried Laengle

MD, Ph.D, Psychotherapist, Clinical Psychologist, Existential Analyst

A renowned Austrian psychotherapist, physician, clinical psychologist, coach, and the founder of the International Society for Existential Analysis and Logotherapy (GLE-International). For many years, he collaborated closely with Viktor Frankl, advancing the modern understanding of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis.
The author of over 400 scientific publications, Dr. Laengle lectures at leading universities and organizations worldwide, including:
  • American Psychological Association (APA)
  • The Viktor Frankl Institute of America
  • Saybrook University
  • The American Institute for Cognitive Therapy

Choose Your Learning Path

Two Options Designed for Different Learning Styles

SELF-PACED PLAN

“The Personal Existential Analysis Framework: From Self-Doubt to Inner Consent”

$609

From $305

What You Get:

  • 6 pre-recorded self-paced modules
  • ​25 pre-recorded training sessions
  • ​​APA-Accredited Certificate (10.5 CE Credits)
  • ​Printable resources to support your sessions—PDF guides, extended summaries & worksheets
  • ​​​Chat with peers inside the learning platform
  • ​3 months support from a dedicated course facilitator
  • ​LifeTime Access

PLUS

- 3 pre-recorded demo sessions and theoretical breakdowns by Dr. Laengle
- Practical Workbook on Working with Anxiety

GUIDED PLAN WITH LIVE SESSIONS

Netflix for Mental Health Professionals

Netflix for Mental Health Professionals

$1009

From $253

From $337 

What You Get:

  • 6 pre-recorded self-paced modules
  • ​25 pre-recorded training sessions
  • ​​APA-Accredited Certificate (10.5 CE Credits)
  • ​Printable resources to support your sessions—PDF guides, extended summaries & worksheets
  • ​​​Chat with peers inside the learning platform
  • ​3 months support from a dedicated course facilitator
  • ​LifeTime Access

 PLUS:

 ​3 pre-recorded demo sessions and theoretical breakdowns by Dr. Laengle
 ​Practical Workbook on Working with Anxiety
 ​Practice in expert-guided triads to apply workbook exercises in real time.
 ​Two LIVE sessions with Dr. Laengle in small group:
  • LIVE Online demo session + case studies on December 3, 2025 10 AM Pacific Time
  • ​Case Study LIVE Session on January 13, 2026 10 AM Pacific time
 Direct LIVE QA with Dr. Laengle
Perfect for practitioners who want real-time guidance, those seeking direct feedback on their cases, therapists ready for rapid mastery

Not sure which is right for you? Consider your needs:

  • Need flexibility? → Self-Paced Plan
  • ​Want direct access to Dr. Laengle? → Guided Plan with LIVE sessions
  • ​Learn best by observation? → Both plans include extensive demonstrations
  • ​Need accountability and real-time feedback? → Guided Plan with LIVE sessions

100% Risk-Free
Money-Back Guarantee

100% Risk-Free Money-Back Guarantee

We're confident you'll gain valuable skills from this course! However, if during your first 30 days with this course, you don't believe you'll learn anything to enhance your practice, simply contact our support team at support@psyclassexpert.net within 30 days of purchase, and we'll give you a full credit or exchange for another course, no questions asked.

Who Is This Course For?

If you want to help your clients navigate impostor syndrome more effectively while improving your own resilience as a therapist, this training is for you.
If you want to help your clients navigate impostor syndrome more effectively while improving your
 own resilience as a therapist, this training is for you.

Licensed Mental Health Professionals 

MFTs, Social Workers, Counselors, Psychologists – anyone anyone whose work hinges on confident, in-session presence

Seasoned clinicians 

Looking to add an existential lens and fresh, evidence-based tools without another year-long certification

Early-Career Therapists 

Who still feel like they’re “acting” in the chair and want a repeatable process that grounds them

Licensed Mental Health Professionals 

MFTs, Social Workers, Counselors, Psychologists – anyone anyone whose work hinges on confident, in-session presence

Seasoned clinicians 

Looking to add an existential lens and fresh, evidence-based tools without another year-long certification

Early-Career Therapists 

Who still feel like they’re “acting” in the chair and want a repeatable process that grounds them

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