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Australia and New Zealand Networks & Training Newsletter - March 2022  |  View Online
 
 
 
 
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Australia and New Zealand Networks & Training Newsletter
March 2022
 
 
 
 
 
Discover the Power of Parts Therapy with Resource Therapy
 
RESOURCE THERAPY ADDRESSES 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 confusion, distress or shame. Trauma Informed Parts Therapy for Results.
 
Online & Randwick NSW
 
Website
 
 
 
Secret Agent Society Facilitator Training Course
 
For the last 10+ years, the SAS Small Group Program has been evolving as it transforms children’s lives across the globe. Professionals learn to deliver the program aligned with evidence-based and clinical best practice in a flexible 14hr course.
 
14 hours self-paced online training including simulations!
 
Find Out More
 
 
 
Safe Conversations Australia
 
This is an interactive workshop where couples and individuals learn how to build safety in their relationships, to feel seen and heard, to be understood and able to discuss the difficult subjects without conflict. Experience real, loving connection.
 
4 hour on line zoom workshop
 
Website
 
 
 
Imago Couples Therapy Training Online & Getting the Love You Want Workshops
 
Would you love seeing your clients reconnecting, softening and healing together? Imago therapy offers you the therapist a lens of relationship as the key to unlocking heartfelt connection & communication. Online with Four Master Trainers From USA.
 
April
Registrations Open Now
 
Website
 
 
 
Sex Therapy Training
 
In-depth practical training to support clients across desire and libido discrepancy, mis-matched sexual expectations, navigating intimate pain, consent, safety, erotic themes, negotiation skills, fighting well, LGBTQIA, polyamory, and much more.
 
Twice weekly live online classes (four to eight weeks)
 
Website
 
 
 
Buddhism & Psychotherapy Professional Training Course - AABCAP
 
Australian Association of Buddhist Counsellors & Psychotherapists - 2 year part-time, accredited postgraduate training in Buddhism and psychotherapy for psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists and other qualified mental health professionals.
 
14 May 2022 - April 2024
 
Website
 
 
 
Post Graduate Training in Clinical Hypnosis
 

Presenter: Brian Allen Post graduate training course in Clinical Hypnosis is for Healthcare professionals seeking effective treatment options for their patients. (run by Healthcare Professionals) Early Bird price available**

 
Via Zoom:
Session 1. March 26 – 27, 2022
Session 2. April 30 – May 01
Session 3. May 28 – 29
Session 4. July 30 – 31
Session 5. August 20 – 21
Session 6. September 17 – 18
Session 7. October 15 – 16
 
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RAPID PAIN RELIEF THROUGH HYPNOSIS
 
There is a strong evidence-base supporting the efficacy of hypnosis in the role of pain management. The techniques taught can not only enhance pain management but also improve treatment compliance.
 
When: Saturday 19th March 2022 from 10.00am to 2.30 pm (WA time)
 
Website
 
 
 
Sleep Disturbances & Disorders: Implications for Mental Health Treatment. NEW course at 70% off!
 
Presented by Jerrod Brown, Ph.D.

This extended online training is designed to increase understanding of the causes, consequences, and interventions for persons who are impacted by various sleep-related disturbances.

 
16-Hour Online Course
Special Offer: Use coupon SLEEP22 at checkout to save 70%
$650 Now $195 with coupon. Expires 25 March 2022.
 
Website
 
 
 
Calming the Emotional Storm: Essential Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills for Emotionally Dysregulated Clients. Special Offer: Receive 10% discount plus a free Course!
 
Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW
Sheri 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.
 
8-Hour Online Workshop
Special offer: Purchase this course and receive a free 3-hour course: 'Principles of Mindfulness'
Offer expires 25 March 2022
 
Website
 
 
 
The Burnout Toolbox: Practical Solutions to Implement Self-Care, Increase Energy Level and Improve Well-Being. Early Bird Rate Expires Soon!
 
Hanna Nowicki, Postgrad. Soc. Work, LLB, BA Psych

This course will help the busy, over-stressed worker learn valuable concepts, research, strategies, and solutions for changing their relationship to stress and thereby improving compassion, managing fatigue, and preventing burnout, to create improved work/life balance and grow their connection to and meaning within their work.

 
1-Day Workshop
Adelaide - 27 May 2022
Early-Bird Expires 1 April 
 
Website
 
 
 
EMDR Skills: Practical Modifications for Children & Other Populations
 
Presented by Jennifer Sweeton, Ph.D.
This online course is tailored to clinicians who want to broaden and deepen their EMDR skill set in creative and effective ways.
 
3-Hour Online Workshop
 
Website   
 
 
 
Trauma Treatment Without Retraumatization: Ethical Considerations
 
Presented by Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D.
In this online seminar you will learn practical strategies and techniques to ensure you “do no harm” – strategies that help clients remain stable and on the path towards healing.
 
3-Hour Online Workshop
 
Website
 
 
 
Promote your event or service with us
 
Connect you to over 10,000 potential referral sources, mental health professionals and related organisations.
 
Next submission deadline: 8 March 2022
 
Website
 
 
 
Borderline Personality Disorder: Management, Treatment and Communication Strategies 
 
By blending the most effective treatment techniques available for BPD into clear protocols, this course will show you how to maximise your chances for helping your clients achieve lasting change in the course of brief involvement.
 

Adelaide – 12 April 2022
Also available as a pre-recorded online course

 
Live workshop
Online course
 
 
 
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.
 
Adelaide - 7 April 2022  
Also available as a pre-recorded online course
 
Live Workshop
Online Course
 
 
 
Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy: Beyond Mindfulness 
 
If you’ve incorporated mindfulness into your psychotherapy practice, it might be time that you look beyond it and transition into the practice of self-compassion. Researchers now understand that self-compassion is a skill that can be strengthened through deliberate practice, and that it is one of the strongest predictors of mental health and wellness.
 
4.5-Hour Online Workshop
 
Website
 
 
 
Addictions and Attachment: Connection as a Path To Healing 
 
Distilling cutting-edge research from around the world, Robert Cox avoids glib self-help remedies, instead promoting self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness.
 
4.5-Hour Online Workshop
 
Website
 
 
 
The Fifty Shades of Pathological Narcissism: An In-Depth Study of the Person and the Problem  
 
In this riveting and highly engaging course presentation you will be offered an in-depth study of Pathological Narcissism, which includes those individuals with an overlap of Narcissistic, Borderline and Antisocial Personality Disorders and the various subtypes.
 
12-Hour Online Workshop
 
Website
 
 
 
Social Media Strategies for Therapists
 
The course will cover specific social media platforms and their related marketing techniques that connect you to your ideal audience and client base.
 
2.5-Hour Online Workshop
 
Website  
 
 
 
Treatment of ADHD in Children and Adolescents
 
This course will provide an updated and comprehensive understanding of ADHD, focused on children and adolescents. You will gain both broad and detailed information about this disorder and how it presents. Specific tools for assessment, strategies for treatment and interventions will be the focus of this new online course.
 
5.5-Hour Online Workshop
 
Website
 
 
 
Practical Strategies for Responding to Personality Disorders
 
Hanna Nowicki (Postgrad. Soc. Work, LLB, BA Psych)
This workshop will foster an understanding of the specific challenges associated with caring for individuals with personality disorders. Practical and powerful methods for effectively managing and treating clients will be presented in this fun, engaging workshop.
 
12-Hour Online Workshop
 
Website
 
 
 
Autism Treatment From a Trauma Perspective
 

Robert Cox, LPC
Robert Cox will dive deep into autism and its diagnosis and treatment, including case studies from Robert’s own history with the disorder. Assessment, treatment modalities (including play therapy), and methods for improving outcomes will also be covered.

 
4.5 Hour Online Workshop
 
Website
 
 
 
Treating Insomnia Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBTi) Step-by-Step. 15% off Expires 25 March!
 

Jessica Bergstrom, Ph.D.
This seminar will provide you with a comprehensive, evidence-based CBT approach, proven to be effective in the treatment of insomnia, that you can easily integrate into clinical practice. Participants will learn step-by-step therapeutic techniques that can be utilized with clients immediately.

 
8-Hour Online Workshop
Special Offer: Use coupon INSOMNIA at checkout to save 15%
Expires 25 March 2022.
 
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Cognitive Approaches to Trauma and Addiction
 

Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D., LPC,
Access this online workshop and become a more trauma-informed professional with a practical, evidence-based approach that will equip your clients struggling with trauma and addiction to reclaim their lives and be well on the road to recovery.

 
8-Hour Online Workshop
 
Website
 
 
 
Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
 
In this online workshop we will explore the category of Anxiety Disorders from the DSM-5, what this looks and sounds like in our clients, and the recommended treatment techniques.
 
Online workshop, 6 learning hours
 
Website
 
 
 
Gaslighting: Helping your Client Survive Hidden Manipulation
 
Join Professor Tanya Robinson in her fascinating new course on the gaslight effect, in which she explains the complexities of this hidden but yet so common manipulation strategy people use in order to control others.
 
Online workshop, 5 learning hours
 
Website
 
 
 
Borderline Personality Disorder: Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment Strategies That Work!
 
Dr Riggenbach will summarise and explain in detail what is known about BPD and how this disorder can be effectively treated. He will present the powerful tools you can introduce to your client as you are helping him/her to cope with BPD.
 
Online workshop, 7 learning hours
 
Website
 
 
 
Brain Therapy for Improving Your Memory
 

John Arden, Ph.D.

Join Dr John Arden, an internationally renown author of 15 books on neuroscience and brain health, and enjoy this fun webinar that brings together principles of brain science with participatory exercises that will keep your memory in tip-top shape for everything from remembering names, passwords, and faces to keeping on track when speaking in public or in team meetings.

 
On-Demand Webinar, 3.5 learning hours
 
Website
 
 
 
Creating Harmony: Personality Disorders in the Workplace
 
Hanna Nowicki, Postgrad. Soc. Work, LLB, BA Psych
This course will teach you how to recognise problematic behaviours and respond to them effectively so that you can protect yourself, your organisation and colleagues from unnecessary distractions or damage. 
 

Online workshop, 6 learning hours

 
Live Workshop
 
 
 
Prolonged Exposure Therapy Skills: A Step-By-Step Approach
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
Treating Clients With a History of Abusive Relationships
 

Leo DeBroeck MS, LMHC, CMHS, MHP

This comprehensive course will review the evidence and breakthroughs provided by research, and it will also disperse past misconceptions and errors in prior research on abusive relationships, especially co-dependency. If you work with clients who suffer distress, trauma, lack of emotional fulfilment or loneliness due to the tendency to be drawn to abusive relationships, this is a course for you.
 
Online workshop, 6 learning hours
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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.
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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

 
Website
 
 
 
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, 5 hours
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
 
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
 
Website
 
 
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