Teach clients to stop dreading and avoiding their anxiety! Learn from Richard Schwartz, PhD, the founder of this model that is being embraced worldwide as a cornerstone treatment for therapists. Dr. Schwartz will show you that your client's anxiety is to be comforted - not dreaded or avoided.
The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model offers a way to help clients separate from their anxious parts and then love and comfort them. In doing so, clients can also learn where those parts are stuck in the past and retrieve them from those scary times and unload the fear they carry. This is a scary present but it’s also an opportunity to help many clients do some deep healing.
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Multiplicity & the Self
Internal Family System (IFS) For Anxiety
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When daily life feels overwhelming and cues of danger trigger survival responses, clients struggle to hold on to hope. The world feels unsafe and they are pulled out of balance into a persistent state of worry. Working with a Polyvagal perspective we can engage the body’s regulating circuits to help clients regain a sense of safety. In this workshop, you’ll learn ways to use the resources of the nervous system to help your clients manage anxiety and create a pathway back to calm.
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The Polyvagal Theory of the Nervous System
How our nervous systems shape our reaction to stress and trauma
Resourcing and helping clients self-regulate during times of distress and social distance
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More and more people are seeking effective ways to reduce anxiety and manage overwhelming stress. The Think Act Be approach to mindfulness-centered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) offers three research-proven ways to cope with these challenges:
This session will begin with a brief overview of the Think Act Be approach and the research to support its effectiveness. It will then describe a method of integrating mindfulness-centered CBT practices into one’s daily routine, from the first moments after awakening until going to bed at night. These straightforward and practical exercises can help to keep stress and anxiety within a manageable range while increasing self-efficacy to handle challenging emotional states.
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The Think Act Be Approach to Managing Anxiety
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There’s a hidden threat to relationships that we don’t talk about enough, and that is the role of anxiety. When one or both partners experience anxiety, it often comes out in unique and surprising ways that, if you’re not aware of it, can destroy the relationship. This recording will explore how anxiety shows up in relationships and what to do from a Gottman Method perspective.
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The ways anxiety shows up in relationships
The importance of managing physiological flooding
How stonewalling and physiological flooding work in relationships
Healthy conflict and conversations for moving forward.
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David describes his treatment of Melissa, a psychologist experiencing intense anxiety and despair because her husband, Charles, is an emergency room / intensive care physician in New York, working long hours on the front lines to save the lives of Covid-19 victims. But he is fearful that he, too, will contract the virus and die, especially since he has just intubated two of his close colleagues. Charles has moved to a separate apartment to protect Melissa and their three young children in case he gets infected. Melissa cries herself to sleep every night, fearing that she might lose the man she loves so intensely, and angry that they have to be separated at such a challenging time when they both need more support.
According to the cognitive model, our angst does not result from what’s happening, but from our thoughts about it. Furthermore, when you’re depressed and anxious, the thoughts that upset you will not be valid--they’ll be distorted and unrealistic. Depression and anxiety, so the story goes, are the world’s oldest cons. And when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.
But is this possible? It just doesn’t sound right! Can Melissa really change the way she thinks and feels when the crisis is so overwhelming and so real? And can you?
David illustrates how he used the new TEAM-CBT to help Melissa cope with a very real and overwhelming crisis.
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Components of TEAM-CBT Treatment for Anxiety
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Parents are being asked to navigate jobs, kids’ schooling, and financial concerns, all while handling their own emotions and those of their children.
Although these circumstances are unique, the skills worried parents need to interrupt catastrophic (and contagious) patterns remain the same.
A family approach packed with concrete information and coaching works with stressed families--and is more important than ever.
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The importance of a family-centered therapy approach to treating children.
The patterns that are emerging in families during this societal crisis.
The 3 cognitive patterns to target when working with parents in treatment and how to work with them.
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Watch Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The New York Times #1 bestselling author The Body Keeps The Score and learn critically important) approaches for your trauma clients during this anxious time.
For over 40 years, Bessel has investigated how trauma impacts both the body and the brain to find strategies that help patients feel grounded and safe.
Dr. van der Kolk will give you specific and practical approaches to use with your clients that address creating connections and activities to share with clients that keep them attached and out of re-experiencing past traumas.
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The pandemic, leadership and integrity
Collectively coping with calamity
Evidence-based techniques to reduce re-living past traumas
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During these times of uncertainty, peoples’ anxieties and fears about their health, their families’ well-being and their finances are not without cause. Yet, how we react to these circumstances depends on what we have experienced before, making it easier or harder to adapt to our current situations. EMDR therapy is exquisitely equipped to address these demands by offering a range of clinical options from addressing acute stress symptoms and recent events to a more comprehensive psychotherapy approach. In addition to offering an overview of this approach, we will discuss a couple of clinical vignettes to illustrate how EMDR therapy can offer brief and effective treatment to help our clients restore their resiliency and capacity to respond optimally to these ongoing demands.
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Why EMDR therapy is a useful intervention for recent trauma
The adaptive information processing model of trauma
Using EMDR with recent trauma
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The events of recent weeks have shaken many of us to the core. With our world turned upside down seemingly overnight, it’s become all too easy to become paralyzed with anxiety, stress, and uncertainty. And with the news and social media amplifying each and every twist and turn of the current crisis, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed with fear and anxiety.
While these reactions are normal given our present circumstances, we can regain balance and find greater peace through the cultivation of awe, wonder, and gratitude in our daily lives. By learning to savor the good amidst the difficulties, and by opening ourselves up to moments of awe and wonder, we can calm our nervous system and foster feelings of peace, and connectedness.
This recording, led by positive psychologist and author Jonah Paquette, will explore how the principles of awe and gratitude can combine to offer us a powerful approach to healing, even amidst challenging times.
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We experience the epidemic both as objective reality we all share and as a subjective encounter with ourselves unique to each of us. This recording will explore what our response to the COVID reality can teach us about ourselves, how the anxieties it reveals, properly metabolized, can help fortify us for the coming new normal.
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Defining the current situation in terms of biopsychosocial stress and trauma models
Supporting clients through cultural stressors and how it’s different from individual stressors
Creating a healing narrative for clients in stress and traumatic situations
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How can we ensure that we and our clients emerge from this time stronger and more resilient than ever?
As the shutdowns and stay at home orders continue, and as tragic news trickles in from near and far, clinicians and clients alike are experiencing a growing dread.
Watch Dr. Chris Willard as he explores the foundations of resilience and post-traumatic growth, looking to human history, anthropology and neuroscience as we discover and explore mindfulness tools that have boosted human resilience and beat back anxiety in the face of adversity for generations.
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Science backed strategies for cultivating resilience and post traumatic growth
A holistic biopsychosical model for understanding and working with anxiety
Trauma sensitive mindfulness and self compassion interventions for growth
Effectively applying mindfulness to multiple aspects of social isolation as well as the reintegration and changes we soon face
Anxiety specific-mindfulness and positive psychology interventions to use with your clients immediately
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Somatic Experiencing®(SE™) is a body-oriented therapeutic approach to the treatment of trauma and other stress related disorders. Trauma can come from many things like war and abuse, but it can also come from a difficult birth, a snow boarding accident, or even an invisible threat, like Covid-19. With trauma we can become frozen and stuck in the past, unable to be fully present in the here and now, and unable to move forward in life with joy; detached from history, but intruding into the present. The trauma response is a set of defensive bodily reactions (fight, flight, freeze) that we initially mobilize in order to protect ourselves physically and emotionally, both from threat, and sometimes later, against feeling the aftermath of helplessness and fear.
This pandemic presents us with unique challenges. With Covid-19, we are working with the nervous system while it is still under an invisible perceived threat. Human evolution has prepared us to respond to threats that we can see, identify, and then respond to, as in fight or flight.
However, we are now confronted with a potentially lethal pathogen, one that we cannot see, and for which we do not have an evolutionarily prepared active response. In addition, people may also feel trapped and lonely, worried about a sick loved one, experiencing loss, or in an unsafe environment as they are sheltering in place. For some, the presence of Covid-19 may lead to chronic fear, helplessness, anxiety, anger, rebellion, collapse, and depression, as well as to various physical symptoms, like chronic pain, IBS, etc.
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Trauma and immobility and the body’s response to helplessness
How our body overcomes and processes trauma
The psychotherapy techniques that aid clients in processing trauma
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As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, many therapists in private practice found themselves scrambling.
They didn’t have a plan for this kind of crisis....or any kind of disruption for that matter.
The fact is, as Lynn points out, crises always present opportunities....if we know where to look.
Few understand how to thrive in the therapy business through crises better than Lynn Grodzki. She points out that now is NOT the time to sit, wait, and hope for things to get better. Instead, as a proactive business owner of a small practice, this is the time to plan and re-invent the way you work.
In fact, there has NEVER been a better time to step back and re-evaluate your practice. The question every provider should be asking right now is....
Do I really have the practice I want? And is it really prepared to weather any storm?
In this all-new course, Lynn Grodzki shows you the exact ways she is guiding her own consulting clients RIGHT NOW through the crisis to find the opportunities and re-build their practices stronger than ever!
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