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This course explores the use of expressive therapies to validate, facilitate, and empower clients, and support therapist’s cultural sensibilities.
In this workshop you’ll learn and practice trauma sensitive techniques for helping clients move safely into felt sensation so that they can understand and begin to master skills for expanding their Window of Tolerance.
This workshop will explore how mental health counselors and related professionals can ethically incorporate the creative arts into their clinical practice.
In this six-hour workshop we will look at the ways in which our brains are adversely impacted by trauma and how the concept of neuroplasticity can reverse that impact.
This workshop will provide a clinical framework so therapists can compassionately assist their clients in understanding and addressing the root causes of guilt and shame.
This course explores the premise that peacebuilding is a multi-faceted approach to changing relationships between individuals and groups.
This workshop will explore the integration of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the use of art making when treating clients with eating disorders.
In this 6-hour workshop we will use videotaped examples to explore the four major attachment styles: secure; avoidnt; ambivalent; and disorganized.
In this workshop we will look at the unique developmental aspects of the adolescent brain and why it is so vulnerable to the negative effects of social media and video gaming.
In this 6-hour workshop we will make the connection between the inevitable coping strategies that emerge for abused and neglected children and how those behaviors create suffering and dysfunction in adulthood.
This workshop will define coercive control and how coercive control is a multi-faceted form of abuse that includes many different types of abuse.
This workshop is an opportunity to check the “pulse” of your life as a supervisor.
This workshop will give you a framework that integrates research and clinical experience on three levels: psychoeducational, interpersonal, and intrapsychic/family-of-origin.
This workshop will provide a definition and brief history of antisemitism for clinicians.
In this 6-hour workshop we will experientially process a variety of techniques designed to help traumatized clients somatically and emotionally feel safe, grounded, and within the optimal window of arousal.
This workshop will equip participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to support the development and relational success of students with ADHD.
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In this 6-hour workshop participants will learn about the etiology, epidemiology and diagnostic criteria for all of the affective and anxiety disorders in DSM-5.
In this workshop, you'll learn to identify the best procedures for assessing sexual abuse in children and identify the reasoning, flaws, and myths that often interfere with accurate assessment.
This workshop will explore the importance of maintaining an integrative approach to treatment.
In this 6-hour workshop we will explore creative ways to empower clients to continue their work outside of therapy by introducing “invitations” to be accomplished in between their sessions.
This workshop will focus on the gender-specific needs of women seeking treatment for substance abuse disorders.
This workshop will give participants creative tools to explore and access those traumatic experiences in a gentle way, yet directly to the core of the pain, for healing and real recovery purposes.
In this 6-hour workshop we will process the inherent challenges of working with traumatized clients in a variety of practice settings.
In this workshop, we’ll explore Exposure/Response Prevention (Ex/RP), a model that’s been shown to be highly effective.
This workshop will focus on ethical issues that can arise in therapy when treating traumatized clients, as well as issues related to termination.
This workshop explores how prescribed roles and inherited narratives can be questioned, modified or replaced.