Turn Anxiety Into Your Superpower
Learn how to use anxiety to your advantage by understanding and activating the power of your brain chemistry!
We are aware of the immense struggles around mental health issues that a lot of teens and adults are dealing with. Often mental health symptoms such as anxiety and depression get in the way of learning and of participating fully in life.
Your Instructor
Avani Gudrun Dilger is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Addiction Counselor Supervisor, a Somatic Psychotherapist, an Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist, and a Motivational Interviewing Trainer, who specializes in substance abuse prevention and treatment with adults, teens and their families. Avani has an extensive background in research, training, and clinical practice in traditional and alternative approaches to substance abuse prevention and treatment. She is the founder and coordinator of the “Natural Highs – Healthy Alternatives to Drugs & Alcohol” Program, an integrative substance abuse prevention and intervention program for teens that includes interactive classes, a peer mentor program, and parent education. In addition to facilitating the Natural Highs program at several high schools in Boulder, Avani teaches Natural Highs at Naropa University in her capacity as Adjunct Professor and works as a substance abuse counselor with teens, families and adults in Boulder. She has been leading Motivational Interviewing trainings nationwide in Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse and is a member of the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).