Skip to main content
Not Found
Digital Seminar

Dating Anxiety

Evidence-Based Interventions to Guide Clients from Fear & Distress to Confidence & Connection

Speaker:
Martin M. Antony, PhD, ABPP
Duration:
3.5 Hours
Copyright:
Apr 07, 2026
Product Code:
POS150652
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar

Other great resources - exclusive savings when you add now!

Description

Your clients with dating anxiety want the relationship, but they’re scared to go after it.

Racked with fears of inadequacy, anxiety about awkwardness, and worry over judgment and rejection – they avoid the very thing they need to do to have a chance at getting what they want.

The hardest part about treating any form of social anxiety is breaking through the resistance to facing the feared situation …

And the feared situation these days is so complex – from catfishing to ghosting, from hookup mentality to situationships – it’s overwhelming.

Now you can get the essential tools you need to help your clients move forward despite their insecurities. Watch Dr. Martin Antony, distinguished anxiety expert and author of The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook, for this unique training that offers practical, evidence-based strategies you can use right away.

Whether you work with teens or adults, you’ll get everything you need to break down distorted thoughts, avoidance patterns, and interpersonal barriers. You’ll learn:

  • Powerful tools to decrease perfectionism and unrealistic standards
  • Strategies to help clients become less vulnerable to rejection
  • A clear roadmap for designing behavioral experiments to decrease avoidance
  • Acceptance-based techniques for managing self-doubt
  • Willingness skills to help client engage in values-based behaviors – despite discomfort

Untreated, dating anxiety leaves clients feeling isolated and hopeless about relationships –

PURCHASE TODAY to create transformational change!

Credit

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



* Credit Note - Self-Study CE Information Coming Soon

Continuing education credit information is coming soon for this non-interactive self-study package.

CE hours may be available for select professions, as listed in the target audience. Hours will be dependent on the actual recording time. Please check with your state licensing board or organization for specific requirements. 

There may be an additional fee for CE certificates. Please contact our Customer Service at 1-800-844-8260 for more details. 

**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.



Speaker

Martin M. Antony, PhD, ABPP's Profile

Martin M. Antony, PhD, ABPP Related seminars and products

Toronto Metropolitan University


Martin M. Antony, PhD, ABPP, is a clinical psychologist, professor in the department of psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University. He received his PhD in psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York. Previously, he was founding director of both the Anxiety Treatment and Research Clinic and the Psychology Residency Program at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, and he was provincial clinical and training lead for the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and a past president of the Canadian Psychological Association and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Dr. Antony has published 34 books and over 300 scientific articles and chapters in areas related to cognitive behavioral therapy and anxiety-related disorders. He has given more than 425 presentations to audiences across four continents, and has been interviewed, featured, or quoted more than 450 times in various print, radio, television, and online media outlets, including The Atlantic, BBC, CBC, Chatelaine magazine, CNN, CTV, Globe and Mail, National Geographic, National Post, The New York Times, O (The Oprah Magazine), Prevention Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Scientific American Mind, Time, Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, WebMD, and many others.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Martin Antony has employment relationships with Toronto Metropolitan University, McMaster University, and University of Toronto. He receives compensation as a national speaker and consultant. He receives royalties as a published author . Dr. Antony receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Martin Antony is a fellow with the American Psychological Association, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Association for Psychological Science, and the Canadian Psychological Association. He serves as a scientific committee member of Anxiety Canada. Dr. Antony is a member of Anxiety and Depression Association of America, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the International Association of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Questions?

Visit our FAQ page at www.pesi.com/faq or contact us at www.pesi.com/info


Objectives

  1. Identify dating anxiety within the broader context of social anxiety and related disorders.
  2. Examine cognitive strategies, including cognitive restructuring and behavioral experiments, to address maladaptive beliefs related to dating and relationships.
  3. Choose exposure-based interventions tailored to dating anxiety, including graded in-vivo, imaginal, and interoceptive exposures.
  4. Integrate two adjunctive approaches into a comprehensive treatment plan for dating anxiety.

Outline

Dating Anxiety in the 21st Century

Research & Clinical Context

  • Distress related to finding a partner
  • Overlap with social anxiety, GAD, PTSD, depression, OCD, BDD
  • Key assessment methods and measures
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Cognitive Interventions

Strategies for Unrealistic Standards and Personalization

  • Identify unhelpful dating-related thinking patterns
  • Shift beliefs with thought records and cognitive restructuring
  • All or nothing thinking and perfectionism in dating
  • Decrease rejection sensitivity and self-criticism
  • Behavioral experiments to change beliefs through experience
  • Case study: 28y/o with social anxiety related to inadequacy beliefs

Exposure and Skills-Based Interventions

Shift Overanalyzing and Reassurance-Seeking

  • Principles of exposure
  • Develop graded exposure hierarchies specific to dating contexts
  • Imaginal, in-vivo, and interoceptive exposure to decrease avoidance
  • Reduce unhelpful dependency and overly controlling behavior
  • Case study: 34y/o with dating avoidance after a traumatic breakup

Additional Treatment Considerations

Tools to Decrease Misunderstandings and Emotional Distance

  • Social skills training for active listening and conversational skills
  • Mindful acceptance to increase clients’ awareness and tolerance
  • Increase willingness for values-based behaviors
  • The role of medications
  • Tailor treatment to co-occurring disorders
  • Considerations for working with adolescents v. adults
  • Adapt across individual, group, and telehealth formats
  • Case study: 22y/o with BDD and dating anxiety

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Physicians
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Behavioral Health Nurses
  • Case Managers
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Claim your FREE listing

Need referrals? List your practice in the directory for FREE!

Reviews

Satisfaction Guarantee
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to: PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 1-800-844-8260.

PESI Mobile App

Access CE trainings on your phone or tablet through our free mobile app. Choose video or audio-only versions of online courses from the world’s best instructors, and complete your CE requirements anywhere, anytime, at your own pace.

https://cdn.pesi23.com/images/android.png     https://cdn.pesi23.com/images/iphone.png

Please wait ...

Back to Top