Family Well-Being Workshop for Anxiety, OCD & Avoidance

A structured workshop helping families reduce accommodation patterns, navigate emotional escalation, and reclaim stability at home — informed by the Family Well-Being Consultation model and evidence-based approaches to anxiety and OCD.

Next Workshop Begins

July 8, 2026

Wednesday • 12:00–1:00 pm MST • Zoom

Six structured sessions

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Flyer for the Family Well-Being Workshop hosted by The Anxiety Break. A six-week virtual workshop for families impacted by OCD, anxiety, reassurance seeking, accommodation patterns and treatment resistance.
Flyer for the Family Well-Being Workshop hosted by The Anxiety Break. A six-week virtual workshop for families impacted by OCD, anxiety, reassurance seeking, accommodation patterns and treatment resistance.

Are you wondering if FWBC or SPACE is best for your family? Please read my blog.

  • "The family slowly becomes organized around anxiety."

    Routines begin revolving around distress prevention. Conversations become more cautious. Family members start monitoring moods, avoiding triggers, offering reassurance, or rearranging daily life in an attempt to keep things calm. Over time, the system adapts around anxiety without anyone consciously deciding for it to happen.

  • "It almost always begins as love."

    Most accommodation does not begin as avoidance or weakness. It begins with care, protection, urgency, exhaustion, and the desire to reduce suffering in the moment. Families are often trying to help the best way they know how.

  • "Support and participation are not always the same thing."

    Families can become trapped in patterns that feel supportive in the short term but unintentionally reinforce avoidance, dependency, anxiety, or emotional escalation over time. This work focuses on learning how to support without becoming consumed by the disorder.

  • "Walking on eggshells changes the whole family."

    People stop bringing things up. Plans become harder to make. Family members begin monitoring moods, tension, and reactions throughout the day. Over time, the entire household adapts around fear, unpredictability, or emotional escalation.

  • "Your family does not have to stay trapped in the cycle."

    Small changes within the family system can create meaningful shifts over time. This workshop helps families step out of anxiety-driven patterns while rebuilding connection, stability, and valued living..

  • “The only part of the loop you can change is yours.”

    This workshop focuses on helping families respond differently within the system. The goal is not controlling another person’s choices. The goal is reducing participation in patterns that keep the entire family stuck.

  • "This is not your fault. And there is still something you can do."

    Families adapt to anxiety-driven systems gradually. This work is not about blame or shame. It is about learning practical, sustainable ways to reclaim stability, flexibility, and well-being within the home.

What Is the Family Well-Being Workshop?

The Family Well-Being Workshop is a 6-week, SPACE-informed program designed for families impacted by anxiety, OCD, avoidance, emotional escalation, reassurance-seeking, and treatment resistance.

The workshop focuses on helping family members better understand the patterns that develop within anxiety-driven systems and learn practical ways to reduce accommodation while reclaiming stability, flexibility, and well-being within the home.

This is not a punishment-based or “tough love” approach. The goal is not controlling your loved one or forcing recovery. The focus is helping families stop losing their entire lives to patterns that have gradually taken over the household.

This workshop is informed by the Family Well-Being Consultation model from When a Loved One Won’t Seek Mental Health Treatment and integrates principles from SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), family systems work, and evidence-based anxiety treatment approaches.

Are you wondering if FWBC or SPACE is best for your family? Please read my blog.

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This Workshop May Help If…

  • Anxiety, OCD, avoidance, or emotional escalation has begun organizing daily family life.

  • You feel like you are constantly walking on eggshells at home.

  • Reassurance, checking, negotiating, or conflict has become a major part of the relationship.

  • Family routines, activities, travel, work, school, or relationships have gradually narrowed around the disorder.

  • You feel trapped between helping and enabling.

  • Your loved one struggles with treatment resistance, avoidance, shutdown, defensiveness, or refusal to engage.

  • Conversations quickly escalate into conflict, guilt, panic, or emotional exhaustion.

  • You find yourself over-functioning, monitoring moods, preventing distress, or trying to keep the peace throughout the day.

  • Your family feels emotionally exhausted, stuck, or consumed by the situation.

  • You want practical tools for responding differently without punishment, abandonment, or constant power struggles.

This workshop may be especially helpful for families navigating:

  • OCD

  • Anxiety disorders

  • School avoidance or school refusal

  • Failure-to-launch patterns

  • Emotional dependency within the family system

  • Reassurance-seeking and accommodation patterns

  • Treatment avoidance or treatment resistance

  • High-conflict anxiety-driven family dynamics

  • Older adolescent and young adult dependency patterns

  • Families feeling consumed by a loved one’s mental health struggles

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What Families Will Learn

Throughout this workshop, families will learn practical, systems-focused strategies for responding differently to anxiety-driven patterns while reclaiming stability and well-being within the home.

Topics include:

  • Understanding accommodation and how anxiety gradually reorganizes family systems

  • Identifying patterns of reassurance, over-functioning, minimizing, and emotional escalation

  • Learning the difference between support and participation in anxiety-driven cycles

  • Responding to distress without becoming consumed by it

  • Reducing accommodation gradually and sustainably

  • Navigating resistance, guilt, anger, and extinction bursts during change

  • Improving communication within high-stress family systems

  • Rebuilding valued activity, flexibility, and family functioning

  • Creating realistic, sustainable changes without punishment or “tough love”

  • Understanding how small shifts within the system can create larger long-term changes

Program Details

  • 6 week live virtual workshop

  • Weekly Zoom meetings

  • Small-group format

  • Up to two caregivers included per registration

  • Digital materials included

Begins July 8th, 2026
Wednesdays • 12:00–1:00 PM MST
Virtual via Zoom

Schedule

Early Registration: $500 per family through June 12, 2026
Standard Registration: $600 per family beginning June 13, 2026

Space is intentionally limited to support discussion and practical application throughout the workshop.

Register by filling out the interest form, and you will be contacted with details.

This workshop is educational and skills-based in nature and is not a substitute for therapy or crisis services.

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