Objectives

• Assess the clinical implications of racial experiences leading to trauma symptomology.
• Evaluate how historical, cultural, and individual trauma may or may not fit into a DSM-5 framework.
• Employ interventions that address traumatic experiences with racism in trauma treatment sessions.

Outline

• What can well-intentioned people do about racism?
• Recognizing racial trauma
• Validating experiences of oppression
• How to become more comfortable talking about issues related to race

Target Audience

Objectives

• Utilize the neural mechanisms of social-emotional learning to create durable cognitive changes in client stress management.
• Teach clients three methods for heightening the neurological internalization of therapeutic experiences.
• Mitigate the impact of the brain's negativity bias on mood and anxiety levels.

Outline

• Why most of what clients experience in psychotherapy has no lasting value
• How to increase conversion of passing experiences into lasting neural change
• Applying methods to build inner strengths (self-compassion, self-regulation, positive mood)

Target Audience

Objectives

• Determine issues for using the “chemical imbalance” explanation of depression.
• Analyze challenges with genetic risk for depression.
• Appraise scientifically valid models of depression.

Outline

• Why the brain is malleable and can be reshaped
• Mistakes therapists make when talking about genetics
• Issues with common analogies for depression
• Key points in the neuroscience basics of depression

Target Audience

Objectives

• Effectively integrate IFS conceptualizations with current therapeutic modalities.
• Develop a deep understanding of how neuroscience informs therapeutic decisions in IFS therapy.
• Integrate the IFS model into your clinical practice and accelerate healing for PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse and eating disorders.

Outline

• The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model in the context of psychotherapy
• Recent developments in the Internal Family Systems model
• How IFS helps understand the human mind from a neuroscientific perspective

Target Audience

Objectives

• Analyze the empirical evidence supporting the use of Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD and related conditions.
• Determine common myths around PTSD that can interfere in treatment and worsen outcomes.
• Utilize 3 keys from CPT that help clients understand how to overcome “stuck points”.

Outline

• Explore the basis for positive results from CPT research
• Identify common myths around PTSD recovery
• The keys behind how CPT helps clients recover from PTSD

Target Audience

Objectives

• Analyze the 6 core processes of ACT.
• Determine psychological flexibility (the main goal of ACT).
• Utilize at least one metaphor or experiential practice with clients.

Outline

• Teaching acceptance as an alternative to control of internal experiences
• Relating to thoughts differently so they no longer hold clients back
• Guiding clients to identify deeply held personal values

Target Audience

Objectives

• Argue four unique developmental factors that make the twenties a developmental “sweetspot”.
• Extrapolate why finding work and love is a mental health issue for many twentysomethings.
• Determine why "anxiety is the new depression" in this age group and outline effective interventions.

Outline

• Helping clients engage work, love, the brain, and the body in and out of treatment
• Building “identity capital” for the workplace
• “Picking your family” — supporting intentional dating, living, and partnering
• Forward-thinking interventions for future-self kindness and planning

Target Audience

Objectives

• Evaluate the varied impacts of trauma across developmental stages.
• Apply recent neurobiological research results to the conceptualization of trauma.
• Employ dance, movement, play and theatre interventions for the treatment of trauma.

Outline

• The breakdown of information processing in trauma
• Neuroscience, Trauma, Memory and the Body
• Body-oriented and neurobiological-based therapies
• Alternatives to drugs and talk therapy: EMDR, self-regulation, yoga, dance & movement

Target Audience

Objectives

• Determine the psychobiology of trauma and survival responses (fight, flight, freeze) as it relates to treatment.
• Analyze how implicit memory shapes physiological and psychological responses to trauma and recovery.
• Utilize skills to work with the Autonomic Nervous System and increase resilience.

Outline

• Science and skills of interoception
• How sensation awareness can read ANS states
• Stabilization skills
• Somatic tools that re-wire implicit traumatic memory

Target Audience

Objectives

• Support how clinicians can work with their own presence to better support clients in therapy.
• Practice with your clients how to integrate body and mind for improved well-being.
• Evaluate research on how awareness can shape connections in the brain toward integration.

Outline

• Interpersonal Neurobiology: impact on psychotherapy
• Harnessing the therapist’s presence to improve client outcomes
• Awareness as the path toward integration and “rewiring to inspire”

Target Audience

Objectives

• Use your autonomic nervous system to create an environment of safety for clients and others.
• Help clients listen to their internal state and let go of their problem story.
• Reliably guide clients from state to state and enhance capacity for self-regulation.

Outline

• ANS as a basis for communication and healing (autonomic conversation)
• Creating co-regulation to face difficult clinical conversations
• How polyvagal theory can impact clients and our world

Target Audience

Objectives

• Build core emotional experiences to promote emotional balance in traumatized, anxious, and depressed clients.
• Evaluate the EFT model as a secure base for effective therapy with individuals.
• Analyze the three stages of the EFT model as a way out of destructive patterns.
• Employ evidence-based stages to increase closeness, safe attachment, and connection.
• Construct corrective emotional experiences that create forward movement in a single session.

Outline

• Focusing sessions on core defining factors to shape openness and engagement
• Using the macro-intervention of EFT to move clients into change events
• Consolidating new models of self/other and new ways to grow

Target Audience

Objectives

• Determine neurobiological underpinnings of stress and its effect on the body.
• Analyze three major stressors for humans and their effect on biology.
• Evaluate ways of recognizing stress and preventing it.

Outline

• The nature of stress and its physiological consequences
• The three major stressors we must know about
• How early environment programs chronic stress patterns
• Why stress remains hidden in our culture
• Recognizing and transforming stressful work environments
• Recognizing stress and burnout and preventing it
• Using stress understanding to inform and enhance clinical work

Target Audience

Objectives

• Analyze advances in SSI research for youth mental health problems and characteristics of effective SSIs.
• Employ SSI components that reduce internalizing symptoms and improve treatment seeking.
• Determine strategies for evaluating feasibility and effectiveness of SSIs in clinical/research settings.

Outline

• Present state of SSI research
• How to identify and implement clinically useful SSI components
• Accessing a suite of freely available, evidence-based SSIs

Target Audience

Objectives

• Evaluate exposure and response prevention and its efficacy.
• Determine the inhibitory learning model of exposure therapies.
• Analyze how exposure works from the perspective of inhibitory learning.
• Design and conduct exposure exercises that support inhibitory learning.

Outline

• Structuring exposure hierarchies and "menus" consistent with inhibitory learning principles
• Supporting expectancy violation
• Minimizing covert avoidance during exposures
• Improving generalization and maintenance

Target Audience

Objectives

• Analyze VR and the ways people engage and interact with VR environments.
• Distinguish rationales for VR in assessment/rehabilitation of clinical disorders.
• Determine issues in design, development, implementation, and evaluation of virtual environments.

Outline

• Clinical VR “ingredients” and core concepts
• Theoretical basis & research support (anxiety, addiction, PTSD, pain)
• Assessment & rehabilitation applications (stroke, brain/spinal injury, neurological disorders)
• Virtual humans for training, role playing, and access to care
• Pragmatics, the future, and ethical issues

Target Audience

Objectives

• Appraise research related to psychedelic-assisted therapy and efficacy across diagnostic categories.
• Evaluate growing utilization of mental health professionals in psychedelic-assisted therapies.
• Investigate neurobiological underpinnings of psychedelic facilitation of psychotherapy.

Outline

• Review of clinical research and outcomes
• Review of neurobiological mechanisms of action
• Review of training and utilization of mental health professionals

Target Audience

Objectives

• Assess how anxiety forms as a habit.
• Catalogue how mindfulness affects reward valuation in the brain.
• Analyze how mindfulness approaches can help change addictive habit patterns.

Outline

• Current treatment paradigms for anxiety
• How anxiety forms as a habit; how the brain forms habits
• Neuroscientific insights often missed in anxiety treatment
• Reward valuation and behavior change
• Clinical outcomes from digital therapeutics research
• Three-step process for overcoming anxiety and habits

Target Audience

Objectives

• Investigate the proper role of mental health professionals working with clients receiving medications.
• Determine traditional medications for depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and insomnia.
• Assess recent advances in medications for depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and insomnia.

Outline

• Why (and what) you should know about psychopharmacology
• Questions from clients/prescribers and how to answer them
• Latest information and newest medications for depression, anxiety, and insomnia

Target Audience

Objectives

• Demonstrate how to use the breath to quiet the brain's alert and alarm system.
• Support research behind "security primings" to increase safety and trust.
• Assess risks of stress at the cellular level and integrate experiential exercises to reduce risks.

Outline

• Breathing postures shown to reduce perceived stress and lower blood pressure
• Physical grounding practice for body connection
• Five Steps to G-R-E-A-T Mindful Self-Care
• 4-Mindful Bite Meditation for stress eating
• Savoring methods to enhance positive affect
• G.L.A.D. technique for emotion regulation

Target Audience

Objectives

• Investigate scientific underpinnings of walking-based psychotherapy and appropriate clients.
• Categorize elements of walk-and-talk combining movement, nature, and therapy.
• Propose how to conduct outdoor sessions (others on trail, weather, terrain, using nature).
• Apply mindfulness-based strategies during outdoor walking therapy.

Outline

• Combining nature, movement, and therapy—who it works well for
• Origins, background, research, and history
• Physiological response to movement and mood/anxiety effects
• Demonstration of the approach
• Practical ways to weave nature into the therapeutic process
• Getting started with this format of treatment

Target Audience

Objectives

• Build capacity to identify rising anxiety before it becomes overwhelming.
• Manage escalating emotions and intrusive thoughts with movement practices.
• Enhance resilience through simple and accessible personal practices.

Outline

• Anxiety and the brain-body relationship
• Reframing the mental narrative from the body up
• Practices to build internal safety
• Six resilience and anti-anxiety practices (meditation, movement, breath)

Target Audience

Objectives

• Apply communication skills to manage anxiety around sex and intimacy.
• Analyze history and current field of sex and couples therapy.
• Analyze contemporary sexual knowledge and clinical relevance.
• Assess sexual wellness and how stereotypes may affect outcomes.

Outline

• AI and sexuality and effects on treatment
• Alternative sexual practices and relationship innovations
• Kink, BDSM, sextech, teledildonics, VR and sex robots—clinical considerations

Target Audience

Objectives

• Investigate traumatic stressors facing adolescents and how to address them.
• Analyze the role of racial injustice and race-based stress and trauma in adolescents.
• Utilize trauma focused DBT skills for adolescents.

Outline

• Why DBT skills training matters for adolescents under stress
• How race-based trauma impacts adolescent development
• DBT strategies to cope, thrive, and build a life worth living

Target Audience

Objectives

• Determine differences between spontaneous and responsive desire among couples.
• Devise ways to address feelings and stressors to strengthen relationships and rekindle desire.
• Assess links between mindfulness practices and enhanced physical sensation.

Outline

• Impacts of stress on sexual function and relationships
• Models of sexual responsiveness
• Resolving effects of stress on sexuality

Target Audience

Objectives

• Investigate key issues in treating trauma and substance abuse and the linkages between them.
• Evaluate key features of the Seeking Safety model.
• Utilize resources for learning more about trauma and addiction.

Outline

• Present versus past-focused treatment and how to choose
• How Seeking Safety is implemented
• Linkages between trauma and addiction

Target Audience