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Australia and New Zealand Networks & Training Newsletter - July 2021  |  View Online
 
 
 
 
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Australia and New Zealand Networks & Training Newsletter
July 2021
 
 
 
 
 
BWRT - Brain Working Recursive Therapy
 
BWRT is a brain-based therapy utilising the power of neuroplasticity to change dysfunctional emotional or behavioural responses in a given situation and create new, adaptive neural pathways.
 
26-27 August Melbourne - Level 1
 
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Resource Therapy Training - Trauma Informed Care Parts Therapy for Empowerment
 
RESOURCE THERAPY ADDRESSES THE CAUSES OF OUR ISSUES, which naturally means symptoms either lessen or disappear. RT creates a new relationship with the past, so we are freed from old hurts, distress, or shame. Trauma-Informed Parts model for results.
 
 
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Introduction to Clinical Hypnosis, Ego State Therapy & Somatic Approaches in Psychotherapy
 
Online day workshop to learn about the underlying and integrating principles of these approaches, including a neurophysiological understanding of hypnosis, parts, polyvagal theory and somatic approaches, as well as learn various therapeutic techniques. 
 
23 July 2021
 
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Online Postgraduate in Clinical Hypnosis and Strategic Psychotherapy: An Ericksonian Approach
 
Learn hypnosis in this comprehensive training. Introduction, hypnotic inductions, ego-strengthening, advanced techniques, therapy planning and clinical applications. Presenter: Carl Hattingh, Clinical Psychologist and International presenter.
 
9-11 Sept. & 14-16 Oct. & 11-13 Nov. 2021
 
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Postgraduate in Ego State Therapy
 
Internationally accredited training in working with ego states in the neurophysiology. Integrating the latest developments and techniques in parts, trauma and somatic approaches. Dr Woltemade Hartman, Clinical Psychologist / international presenter.
 
9-11 August & 25-27 October 2021
 
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Understanding and Responding to Personality Disorders
 
Hanna Nowicki, Postgrad. Soc. Work, LLB, BA Psych
The aim of this seminar is to provide more insight into the complex world of personality disorders and equip the participants with more strategies for dealing effectively with difficult behaviours displayed by personality disordered clients.
 

Adelaide: 28 July 2021 -  Places still available

Melbourne: 6 August 2021
Sydney: 7 September 2021 - New date

 
Live Workshop
 
 
 
Prolonged Exposure Therapy Skills: A Step-By-Step Approach
 

Jennifer Sweeton, Ph.D., MS, MA

Prolonged Exposure has been established as an evidence-based therapy for the treatment of PTSD, and is a therapeutic approach that has shown some of the strongest clinical outcomes. This two-day, intensive online recording introduces attendees to Prolonged Exposure Therapy Approach, and provides step-by-step training in this exposure-based modality.
 
Online workshop, 11 learning hours
 
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Psychopathy: The Dark Core of Personality
 

This online course will give you an overview of how we can identify individuals with or at risk of developing psychopathy, and how they differ from other people who display antisocial behaviour. Professor Tanya Robinson will also explore the latest genetic, neuroscience, and psychology evidence in order to illuminate why psychopaths behave and develop the way they do, and considers whether it is possible to prevent or even treat psychopathy.

 
Online workshop, 9 learning hours
 
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Foundations and Applications of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
 

Jodi Ann Geis-Crowder, MS, LPC, ACS

SFBT has not only become one of the leading schools of brief therapy, it has become a major influence in such diverse fields as business, social policy, education, and criminal justice services, child welfare, domestic violence offenders treatment. Described as a practical, goal-driven model, a hallmark of SFBT is its emphasis on clear, concise, realistic goal negotiations.
 
Online workshop, 5 learning hours
 
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Personality and Dissociative Disorders: Trauma, Coping and Repair
 
Presenter: Robert Cox, LPC
This workshop is directed at exploring the link between trauma, dissociation and both dissociative and personality disorders. We will discuss how the brain is changed by trauma and how dissociative and personality disorders develop through attachment and attunement disruptions early in life. Although many of these disorders are seen as extremely difficult to treat, it is often simply that we are using methods that won’t work with this level of reactivity initially.
 
Online workshop, 6 learning hours
 
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Transitioning to Telehealth and Online Therapy
 
Presented by Renee McDonald, MAppSocSc
Renee will share with you her extensive experience in this area which will assist you in building a foundation of knowledge of the relevant concepts and methods as you create an online therapeutic space in your own practice with confidence and joy.
 
2.5-Hour Online Workshop
This course also includes an extensive handbook and a set of contracts you can use in your own online therapy practice.
 
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Schema-Focused Cognitive Therapy: Advanced Conceptualisation and Treatment for Challenging Clients
 
Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D.
Schema related treatment approaches have been shown to be effective for a variety of difficult to treat conditions. However, the long-term nature of pure schema therapy is not a fit for all clients in all settings. Thus, many professionals find themselves scratching their heads for effective alternatives to more quickly meet the needs of a segment of their caseloads.
 
8-Hour Online Workshop
 
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The Tip of the Iceberg: Understanding and Responding to Self-Injury
 
Hanna Nowicki, Postgrad. Soc. Work, LLB, BA Psych
Self-injury can be a confusing behaviour to not only professionals but also to the teachers, parents and other loved ones. This course has been developed specifically to help practitioners feel more confident about responding to clients who present with self-injury. It will offer helpful guidelines to workers who wish to improve their capacity to respond effectively to clients who self-harm.
 
Online course, 5 learning hours
 
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Therapeutic Applications of Neuroscience, Psychoneuroimmunology and Epigenetics
 

John Arden, Ph.D.

This seminar presents the sea change occurring in psychotherapy. Just as the field of medicine has been recently transformed by Functional and Integrative Medicine, psychotherapy in the 21st Century is moving toward integration. 

 
Online course, 12 learning hours
 
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Burning Up While Burning Out: Stress Management for Professionals
 
Howard Baumgarten, MA, LPC
With increases in demand for qualitative services and diminishing resources, workers and organizations are more vulnerable than ever to compassion fatigue and burnout. This course will help you learn valuable concepts, research, strategies, and solutions for changing your relationship to stress and thereby improving compassion, managing fatigue, and preventing burnout and to creating improved work/life balance.
 
Online course, 6 learning hours
 
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The Hijacked Brain: Epigenetics and Neuroscience-Based Interventions to Help Your Clients Recover From Addictions
 
John Arden, Ph.D.
If you think you do not work with addictions, think again. We no longer think of addictions in traditional, one-dimensional terms, and the meaning of addictions has expanded from substance misuse into much broader behaviours, such as Netflix binge watching, digital addiction, computer game dependency, compulsive eating or excessive shopping to sooth the mood. We all seek out pleasure and avoid discomfort. However, for some people these basic tendencies can warp into an addiction.
 
Online workshop available now
 
Online Workshop
 
 
 
Energy to Mind: Toward Integration
 
John Arden, Ph.D.
Previously, the terms “energy” and “mind” had nebulous and often confusing meanings. This webinar clears up the confusion. It describes how biological energy effects mental health. Based on new developments in neuroscience, we can make sense of the fluid process that what we refer to as the mind.
 
Online workshop available now
 
Online Workshop
 
 
 
Self-Regulation: Strategies and Interventions for Children
 
Katrina Jones, MS, LCMFT, RPT
Emotional regulation is not a skill we are born with.  Helping children learn to self-regulate is among most important tasks.  This online seminar will examine how emotional self-regulation develops and how psychologists, school counsellors, teachers and parents can help children acquire this crucial skill.
 
Online course
 
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Helping Clients Heal from Self-Harm: A DBT Approach for Teens
 
Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW
This workshop will help you understand non-suicidal self-injury, factors to consider when assessing and working with clients, and will take a DBT approach to helping clients eliminate this behaviour.
 
3-Hour Online Workshop
 
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EMDR for Anxiety: Basic EMDR Skills and Anxiety Modifications
 
Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
EMDR is not only an evidence-based approach for PTSD, but it’s also been shown to be extremely helpful in the treatment of some anxiety disorders. This online course will introduce participants to the original 8-phase model of EMDR, and will provide instructions for how to utilize EMDR skills to treat generalized anxiety, phobias, and panic.
 
Online course
 
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Resilience: Strategies for Difficult Times
 
Christopher Willard, Psy.D.
Join Dr Christopher Willard (Harvard Medical Faculty) and learn the techniques you can use every day in order to develop resilience and become mentally stronger and able to handle the difficulties and even turn them into momentum leading to your success. See how he examines the secular practices humankind has utilised throughout the centuries to get through difficult times.
 
Online course
 
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Ericksonian Hypnosis and Psychotherapy Masterclass
 
Carol Kershaw, Ed.D., and Bill Wade, Ph.D.
Ericksonian hypnosis is a powerful transformational tool for any clinician desiring to make a profound difference in the lives of clients and your own as well. This course is designed for both the beginner and more advanced clinician using hypnosis, delivers dynamic content and the most advanced and in-depth tools and strategies for clinicians who want to become proficient in using hypnosis in psychotherapy.
 
12-Hour Online Workshop
 
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The Art & Science of Relaxation Therapy: Reduce Anxiety, Depression, Pain, Sleep Disorders, Trauma and Inflammation
 

Presented by Judy Lovas, Ph.D.
Join Dr Judy Lovas as she teaches evidence-based Relaxation Therapy and translates complex science. Judy makes it easy for you to understand evidence of neural, endocrine and immune responses to relaxation.

 
6 Learning Hours
 
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Making Psychotherapy More Effective with Subconscious Process Work
 
Dan Short, Ph.D.
Watch this recording and learn how implementing such skills like prediction, or the powerful effects of suggestion, re-imagining, metaphors, incubated cognition, the power of self-promises, or emotional insight will significantly improve your effectiveness as a therapist, and will allow your clients achieve goals.
 
Online workshop
 
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Unshakable: Inner Tools for Self-Regulation
 
Carol Kershaw, Ed.D., and Bill Wade, Ph.D.
With training, the mind can be restful and calm even in the most difficult and upsetting circumstances. We can control our emotions, not repress or suppress them, and despite of the circumstances we can continue to be in the driver’s seat and stay there even in crisis. This course will look at the science and strategies for fostering emotional regulation, inner peace and lasting mental stability.
 
5-Hour online course, available now
 
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Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth: Healing from Loss and Trauma with Compassion, Clarity, and Courage
 
Presented by Linda Graham, MFT
People do learn and grow from meeting the challenges and adversities of the human condition when they have support, resources, and skills to do so. Practices of mindfulness, self-compassion, empathy, and forgiveness help shift the functioning of the brain out of contraction and reactivity into more receptivity, openness, the larger perspective.
 
Online course, available now
 
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Honest Lies – Diagnosing Eating Disorders for Mental Health Professionals
 
Presented by Jenny Helms, LMFT
Eating disorders are common but can be difficult to diagnose and treat. This diagnosis seminar on eating disorders teaches clinicians how, in a structured manner, to diagnose a variety of eating disorders. Additionally, this seminar helps clinicians determine the level of care that will best benefit clients, based on several factors.
 
Online course, available now
 
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EMDR Skills for Trauma: Rapid, Safe, and Proven Skills and Techniques for Your Trauma Treatment Toolbox
 
Presented by Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
EMDR is a set of evidence-based, powerful treatment tools for trauma and PTSD, as well as other mental health conditions. While EMDR skills have been popular for many years, training in these skills can be difficult to find, and is often cost-prohibitive. This affordable 2-day course introduces attendees to the original 8-phase model of EMDR and teaches participants how to conduct each of the eight phases.
 
Online Workshop

Duration: 8.5 hours

 
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Brain-Based Trauma Treatment
 

Presented by Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
This seminar outlines for attendees some key areas involved in trauma, and provides examples of psychotherapeutic techniques that have been shown to alter those areas of the brain in the direction of health and recovery. You will leave this seminar feeling confident about how to take a brain-based approach to trauma treatment, equipped with therapeutic tools and techniques you can start using tomorrow!

 
Online Workshop
Duration: 5 hours
 
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Neuroscience for Clinicians
 

Presented by Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
This seminar teaches you how to promote transformation in the traumatized, stressed, addicted, anxious, and depressed brain in positive ways. By initiating change using top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal methods, you add new dimensions to each therapy session. This seminar gives you tools through concepts and experiences to help you build your own techniques for creative individualizing!

 
Online Workshop
Duration: 6 hours
 
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Becoming a Mindful Leader: Practical Techniques for Corporate Resilience
 
Presented by Christopher Willard, Ph.D.

Times of rapid change and crisis are the truest tests of character and leadership. Whether you are a clinician or corporate executive, this course will offer strategies to mindfully manage yourself and those you work with more effectively in times of turmoil. With concrete tips to share with clients and colleagues, you’ll walk away from this workshop more balanced, empowered and resilient in your own life and those around you.

 
Online workshop
Duration: 3 hours
 
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New Trends in CBT: Crisis Intervention Strategies for Multiple Symptom Sets
 
Presented by Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D.

Leave this action-packed seminar led by international CBT Trainer Jeff Riggenbach with specific strategies for working in brief and crisis oriented ways with clients struggling with problems related to depression, anxiety, anger, substance use, and personality disorder with a range of new tools to add to your therapeutic toolbox.

 
Online Workshop
Duration: 3.5 hours
 
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CBT Boot Camp
 
Presented by Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D.

Join international CBT expert Dr. Jeff Riggenbach for this this chock-full 3-day conference on all the latest. Gain a more in-depth understanding of the traditional model as well as newer adaptations of the approach. Develop the ability to conceptualize cases in a way that you can create individualized roadmaps to recovery for each client. Gain an understanding of the latest research, clinical strategies, and best practice methods for helping even your most difficult clients struggling with depression, anxiety, anger, substance use disorders and personality related issues. Most importantly, leave with practical tools you can implement to help your clients the very next day.

 
Online Workshop
Duration: 15 hours
 
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Strengthening Your Mindfulness Toolkit: Motivate, Teach, Make it Fun and Make it Stick
 

Presented by Christopher Willard, Psy.D.
This unique workshop will take your current understanding of Mindfulness to the next level. You will be able to broaden your understanding of mindfulness know-how techniques to assist clients, not only in achieving mood regulation or inner peace, but also in motivating them when they find the regular practice of Mindfulness too difficult to stick to in the long term.

 
Online Workshop
 
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Surviving The Emotional Rollercoaster: Using DBT To Help Clients With Mood And Anxiety Disorders Manage Their Emotions
 
Presented by Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW
In this thorough and engaging workshop, Sheri Van Dijk breaks new ground by adapting DBT for people living with bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorders and other problems in managing emotions. This workshop provides clinicians with real-life day-to-day tools you will be able to teach to clients struggling with mental health issues and other emotional and relational problems. You will be able to help your clients find order and peace in their lives again, and to make changes that are long-lasting!
 
Available as an online workshop
 
Online Workshop
 
 
 
Suicide Risk Assessment
 
Hanna Nowicki, Postgrad. Soc. Work, LLB, BA Psych
Mastering the skill of Suicide Risk Assessment (SRA) is one of the ways of preventing suicide and allowing intervention at an early stage, before the continuum between the first suicidal thought and the decision to complete suicide has been finalised. Suicide is difficult to predict but it is preventable.
 
Online workshop, 6 learning hours
 
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Strategies for Eliciting Motivation in the Unmotivated
 
Presented by David Nowell, Ph.D.

This training reviews dozens of motivational strategies and techniques that can be used with clients who struggle with motivation due to various problems such side effects of medications, short attention span, symptoms of mental illness, or who suffer from learning difficulties or ADHD. It provides a basic formula that can be adapted to any individual and situation.

 
Online Workshop
 
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Hoarding: An Overview of Treatment and Assessment
 
Presented by Patrick McGrath, Ph.D.
Hoarding can have significant impacts on people’s lives, from the personal distress that the hoarding can cause to family discord and even health concerns on those in the home due to mould and infestation. In this course we will review the basics of hoarding, the influences of acquiring and saving and disorganization, and the value that is placed on items.
 
3-Hour Online Workshop
 
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Effective Techniques for Responding to Highly Resistant Clients
 

Presented by Clifton Mitchell, Ph.D.
You will learn what to do in order to prevent, avoid, and resolve what has traditionally been deemed ‘resistance’. Numerous techniques that are applicable across a wide array of clients and problems will be presented, discussed, and illustrated through video demonstrations.

 
6-Hour Online Workshop
 
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Applying Cognitive Behavioural Techniques to Create Meaningful Change
 
Presented by Jonah Paquette, Psy.D.
This on-demand webinar will provide you with a deeper understanding of how CBT can be applied to a wide range of problems, and will help you master the core competencies of CBT treatment. In addition, attendees will be provided with powerful, practical, and easy-to-use tools that you can use in your clinical practice starting right away.
 
6-Hour Online Workshop
 
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Pathological Narcissists: Who They Are & What to Do About Them + The Observe Don’t Absorb Technique
 
Presented by Ross Rosenberg, M.Ed., LCPC, CADC, CSAT
Ross Rosenberg will present cutting-edge information on the Pathological Narcissistic Disorders (NPD, BPD, ASPD & Addictions), and how a psychotherapist, friend, husband or mother, can safely manage them.
 
6-Hour Online Workshop
 
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The Codependency Cure™: Recovering from Self-Love Deficit Disorder™
 
Presented by Ross Rosenberg, M.Ed., LCPC, CADC, CSAT
This updated Codependency Cure™ seminar is the much-anticipated follow-up to Rosenberg’s Human Magnet Syndrome work, delving deeper into codependency, its trauma and core shame origins.
 
5.5-Hour Online Workshop
 
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Calming the Emotional Storm: Essential Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills for Emotionally Dysregulated Clients
 
Presented by Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW
In this engaging seminar recording, Sheri Van Dijk will guide you through a set of techniques you will be able to use with your clients to help them cope with difficult emotions calmly and responsibly by using powerful skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). By teaching your clients these skills, you can help them stop needless emotional suffering and develop the inner resilience that will help them to weather any emotional storm and respond to a stressful situation with calm.
 
8-Hour Online Workshop
 
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DBT-Informed Treatment of Bipolar Affective Disorder
 
Presented by Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW
In this webinar you will learn about bipolar disorder, including the different diagnostic categories of BD, and its causes, as well as the disorders that often co-occur with bipolar disorder and the difficulties people experience in living with this and the co-morbid disorders. In gaining a greater understanding yourself as a clinician of bipolar disorder, you’ll be in a more effective position to help your clients to understand and accept their mental health problems, which will typically lead to improved outcomes for clients.
 
5-Hour Online Workshop
 
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Principles of Mindfulness
 
Presented by Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW
This seminar will provide an introduction to the principles of mindfulness. Participants will learn about the different ways mindfulness is helpful for both physical and mental health. Through experiential exercises, you will be introduced to some different ways of practicing mindfulness, and will learn some tips to help you teach these skills to clients, as well as problems clients often encounter when first learning about mindfulness.
 
3-Hour Online Workshop
 
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment Issues
 
Presented by Patrick McGrath, Ph.D.
In this talk, you will learn how to effectively diagnose OCD in your patients, understand the various ways that obsessions and compulsions may manifest themselves, how to apply the principles of Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy to individual OCD presentations, and review how ERP was used in a variety of cases.
 
6-Hour Online Workshop
 
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Neurocoaching the Mind for Business, Financial, and Life Success: Create the Life you Have Always Wanted, Professionally, Financially, and Personally
 
Presented by Carol Kershaw, Ph.D. and Bill Wade, Ph.D
Neurocoaching the mind uses a simple strategic self-hypnotic process to tune attention to resourceful states. Based in the latest neuroscience findings this practical approach changes motivation, emotions, attitudes, and behaviors.
 
7-Hour Online Workshop
 
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Growing Up Mindful: Essential Practices to Help Young Clients and Their Families Find Balance, Calm and Resilience
 

Presented by Christopher Willard, Ph.D.

This online course features dozens of exercises to incorporate mindfulness into daily life (in class, extracurricular activities, among peers), specific meditations and movement practices, compassion training, and more. Growing Up Mindful shows psychologists, school counsellors, parents and professionals alike how to model and teach the skills of mindfulness that will empower our youth for the rest of their lives with greater self-awareness, resiliency, and confidence.

 
4-Hour Online Workshop
 
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Early Trauma, Attachment, and Repair
 

Presented by Robert Cox, LPC

This course will introduce attendees to how trauma affects development of the brain and what that means for early attachment and attunement issues. Attendees will be given real world examples in addition to learning new techniques for working with the plasticity of the brain to begin repair.

 
5.5 Hour Online Workshop
 
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Healing The Grieving Heart: Effective Strategies For Helping Clients Heal From Grief, Trauma Break-Ups, And Other Losses While Creating Renewed Meaning In Their Lives
 

Presented by Courtney Armstrong, MEd. LPC.

Healing from grief doesn’t have to be slow or painful. This workshop will show you how to help clients navigate the journey of grief more easily and view loss as a pathway to greater compassion, deeper relationships, and more meaningful living.

 
5-Hour Online Workshop
 
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ADHD Beyond the Basics: Practical Treatments for ADHD in Adults and Children
 

Presented by David Nowell, Ph.D.
Attend this workshop presented by Dr David Nowell, an internationally known ADHD coach and neuropsychologist, and learn how to apply leading edge research to your own clinical practice with clients who struggle with these attentional skills. Gain a wide range of concrete skills including assessment of processing and organizational deficits from multiple perspectives and managing symptom overlap among related disorders.

 
6-Hour Online Workshop
 
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The Personality Disorder Toolbox: The Challenge of the Hidden Agenda
 
Presented by Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D.
Drawing from the most recent outcome literature, clinical trials, case studies and clinical experience, Dr Jeff Riggenbach presents an integrated approach for dealing with these difficult clients.
 
Online workshop
Duration: 11 hours
 
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The Neuroscience-Based Techniques to Train the Brain, Calm the Stress Spin Cycle and Trigger the Brain’s Superpowers
 
Presented by Carol Kershaw, Ed.D. and Bill Wade, Ph.D.
This course will offer you a range of new techniques based in neuroscience that will assist your clients in fast forwarding recovery. Attend this high energy practice and evidence-based seminar and learn how you can teach your clients to live in states of thriving frequently.
 
6-Hour Online Workshop Now Available
 
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From Novice to Master: Developing Your Therapeutic Wisdom
 

Presented by Steven Segal, Ph.D.

Understanding and working through the transition from novice to master is crucial to the self-development of the therapist. Learning theories and skills is not enough to make an effective practitioner. It is how these skills and theories are applied and embodied in practice that is essential. This workshop will focus on the “lived experience” of transition from being a novice to becoming a masterful therapist.
 
Online Workshop Now Available
 
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