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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.
This workshop is designed for therapists new to the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model or those with a basic understanding seeking to expand their knowledge and application in clinical practice.
This workshop will give you creative opportunities to explore your underdeveloped talents, as well as deepen your listening skills: an essential attribute for being able to provide effective supervision.
In this workshop, participants will connect the fawn response to insecure attachment, and process why it is a necessary and inevitable childhood response to trauma, abuse or neglect.
In this two-day intensive, we will learn how to creatively and experientially go beyond a singular view of the self, and embrace, instead, the notion of the many-faceted self.
In this two-day intensive, we will learn how to creatively and experientially go beyond a singular view of the self, and embrace, instead, the notion of the many-faceted self.
In this 6-hour workshop we will set the stage for a clinical and philosophical approach to trauma informed treatment.
In this workshop we will look at the current research regarding the acute and chronic medical and mental health impact and consequences of short and long-term medical marijuana use.
In this workshop, participants will examine therapist narratives and clinical case examples to deepen understanding of the emotional and professional challenges associated with addressing antisemitism in 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.
In this workshop, participants will explore the therapist's grief, including their experience and process of personal grief and how grief enters the therapeutic process. We will address the client's grief, what is spoken, unseen, and what they are ready to share.
This workshop will focus on what constitutes a healthy relationship both with self and with others. We will look at how to help clients gain self-awareness and implement nurturing skills.
Dive into a hands-on day of movement, art, and mindful creativity designed to help you bring powerful, trauma-informed tools into your clinical practice.
In this workshop, participants will explore how systemic inequities shape both individual suffering and collective trauma while developing practical, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive tools for ethical practice and advocacy.
In this 6-hour workshop we will use videotaped examples to explore the four major attachment styles: secure; avoidnt; ambivalent; and disorganized.
This workshop will provide a framework within which to reimagine a relationship between therapy and spirituality.
This workshop will explore the connection between codependency and trauma and then offer practical strategies to help treat the four elements of self-recovery: self-understanding, self-awareness, self-competence, and self-attunement.
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 training challenges the assumption that forgiveness is necessary for trauma recovery and examines the potential risks and ethical concerns of requiring forgiveness.
This experiential workshop explores how somatic approaches can deepen eating disorder treatment by helping clients develop greater capacity for regulation, embodiment, and connection to self.
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In this 6-hour workshop, participants will learn about trauma-related sleep disruption through a compassionate, biologically informed lens that honors symptoms as adaptive survival responses.
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 developmental and relational success of students with ADHD.
In this workshop, you'll explore a step by step process to help couples recover from infidelity.
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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.
This workshop will enable participants to expand their therapeutic toolkits by offering both didactic information and many experiential opportunities.
This three-hour workshop explores the treatment of dissociation in children and adolescents through an integration of developmental trauma theory, attachment theory, affective neuroscience, and interpersonal neurobiology.
This workshop is an opportunity to check the “pulse” of your life as a supervisor.
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.
In this workshop, we will reintroduce play into adulthood as an essential biological drive.
In this workshop, co-led by a psychotherapist and a trauma-informed Rabbi, participants will have the opportunity to explore the role that faith, religion, spirituality, and the concept of a soul can play in contributing to greater self-compassion, improved mental wellbeing, enhanced self-esteem, greater social connection, and metabolizing and healing trauma.
This highly experiential workshop will explore the clinical benefits and intentions in bringing creating, deconstruction, and reconstruction into the healing process, especially applied to trauma and traumatic grief.
In this workshop, we’ll explore Exposure/Response Prevention (Ex/RP), a model that’s been shown to be highly effective.
This highly interactive ethics training invites mental health professionals to move beyond broad discussion of AI and into real-world clinical decision-making.
In this 6-hour workshop we will process the inherent challenges of working with traumatized clients in a variety of practice settings.
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 training presents an integrative framework for working with LGBTQIA+ individuals impacted by trauma, chronic stress, identity-based harm, and multiple forms of marginalization.
This workshop will focus on ethical issues that can arise in therapy when treating traumatized clients, as well as issues related to termination.