

Attachment Specialization
3 Pillars Model (IPF Protocol) • Level 1
with David Elliott, PHD
Relational Neuroscience for Healing Trauma
1 YR with Bonnie Badenoch, PHD
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
with Rebecca Jorgensen, PHD
Building a Lasting Connection
with Rebecca Jorgensen, PHD; Debi Gilmore, PHD






Camille Pack, MA, BLCF
storykeeper (she/her)
I study the practice of how we cultivate safety and belonging in our lives, primarily through the lenses of Western psychology and Eastern spirituality. Our suffering and joy get so jangled up together.
How can we love when it’s painful? How can we trust after we’ve been hurt? What does compassionate wisdom say about our emotional wounding?
I’m interested in how we create belonging—with ourselves, with our experience, and with each other—especially when it’s hard.
How do we call on a loving presence and a loving practice when we’ve been speared through the heart? How can we gather the support and courage we need to live in a full-throated way?
For me it’s a practice. A gentle practice of nurturing the safety I need to support my intentions. And safety is a pre-requisite. In my experience, the payoff is peace and a life that feels meaningful.
Mindful connection always leads us to a sense of meaning and purpose. We recognize our belongingness and our enoughness. We honor our sacred stories and claim our hero’s journey.
We become our own storykeeper. We become each other’s.
What emerges is a deep sense of belonging to ourselves, to our community, and to our own lives.
My stepping stones in this river include a decade of mindfulness meditation and training with Tara Brach, certification as a Wayfinder Life Coach with Martha Beck (the life coach in Oprah’s magazine), and specialization in Attachment Theory models and treatments.
For attachment repair, I love to hold the Three Pillars model and IPF Protocol (designed by Harvard psychologists Daniel P. Brown and David S. Elliott) and see how it speaks with Dan Siegel’s interpersonal neurobiology and Bonnie Badenoch’s examination of relational neuroscience. I’m awed by the research of Stephen Porges and all polyvagal theory tells us about the ways the vagus nerve weaves our nervous systems together in reassuring co-regulation.
Finally, I’m grateful for Rebecca Jorgensen and Debi Gilmore’s work to simplify relational science into a guided process that helps us access our emotions and enrich our relationships. Raised by the former, I also graduated in their program’s first cohort and started offering Building a Lasting Connection workshops to couples in 2019.
It’s my honor to hear and hold stories. They are sacred ground: the cathedral of our learning, our portal to connection.
In addition to my private practice coaching on Zoom and working with couples through the BLC workshop, I also offer IPF guided meditation to those seeking attachment repair.
Thank you for being here and for being part of a community bound by mutual care and our commitment to creating more beauty with kindness.
With warm care, Camille
Portland, Oregon
Pacific Northwest, United States
Professional Training
Continuing Education
Adult Attachment Repair Training with David Elliott, PHD; Nigel Denning; and Tra-ill Dowie, PHD
- LEVEL 1 • 16 Hours, Integrative Psychology: Foundations in The Three Pillars Model: Collaboration, Metacognition/Mentalization, and the Ideal Parent Protocol (IPP). Identifying the 4 Main Types of Attachment; Systematic Treatment of the 3 Insecure Attachment Styles, Melbourne, Australia: 18-19 November 2022
Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind • Relational Neuroscience for Healing Trauma with Bonnie Badenoch, PHD
- YEAR-LONG • PCPSI Webinar Series: 2022. Supporting healing in the study and practice of (1) understanding of how people get hurt and heal, based on the discoveries of relational neuroscience; this provides a stable wisdom to help us feel more secure in the waves of emotional intensity that accompany this work; (2) providing emotional, psychological safety through nonjudgmental, agenda-less presence
Treating Trauma Master Series with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Dan Siegel, MD; Pat Ogden, PhD; Stephen Porges, PhD; and Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD
- 10 CE/CME • NICABM Webinar Series, 20 June 2022
Trauma Solutions Attachment Training with Diane Poole Heller, PHD
- 45 CE/CME • DARe Modules 1-4: Healing Early Attachment Wounds and Embracing the Authentic Self; Creating Healthy Adult Relationships; The Neurobiology of Loving Relationships; From Wounds to Wellness: Victim-Perpetrator Dynamics and Disorganized Attachment: Webinar Series, 2021
Healing the Hidden Roots of Shame with Dr. Diane Poole Heller
- Trauma Solutions: 7 August 2021
Emotionally Focused Therapy Step by Step with Rebecca Jorgensen, PHD
- 11 CE/CME • Psychotherapy.net: Core Concepts and Interventions in EFT; EFT Stage 1: Reaching De-escalation; EFT Stages 2-3: Deepening Engagement & Consolidation; Impasses and Challenges in EFT, 2021
The Neurobiology of Attachment with Dan Siegel, MD; Pat Ogden, MD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Allan Schore, PHD; Ruth Buczynski, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Joan Borysenko, PHD, Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Deborah Lee, DCLINPSY; Laura Silberstein-Tirch, PSYD; Paul Gilbert, PHD; Laurel Parnell, PHD
- 3 CE/CME • NICABM: The Neurobiology of Attachment; Synthesize Key Concepts So You Can Use Them Immediately; Discover Concrete Strategies That Will Work in Your Life (And With Your Patients); Compassion Imagery for Shame and Trauma; How to Help Trauma Patients Establish a Sense of Safety and Repair Attachment Using EMDR: 2020
How to Work with the Part of Trauma that Can’t Be Verbalized with Peter Levine, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Rick Hanson, PHD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Ruth Buczynski, PHD
- 3 CE/CME • NICABM: 2020
Practical Brain Science Series with Daniel Siegel, MD; Norman Doidge, MD; Pat Ogden, PHD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Stephen Porges, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Louis Cozolino, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PHD, Ron Siegel, PSYD; Bonnie Badenoch, MA, LMFT; Rudolph Tanzi, PHD; John Arden, PHD
- 13 CE/CME • NICABM: The Brain in Two Places: Inside Your Head, Embedded in the World; Unlocking the Enormous Potential of Neuroplasticity; How Neurobiology Changed the Way We View Trauma Treatment; How Good Experiences Can Transform the Brain; How Polyvagal Theory Expands Our Healing Paradigm; The Neurobiology of Willpower (It’s Not What You Expect); The Social Brain: Why No Brain Heals Alone; A Big-Picture Look at the New Brain Science: The Experts’ Gide to Turning this Series into Action; A Big-Picture Look at the New Brain Science: The Experts’ Guide to Turning this Series into Action; Building the Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Brain; The Aging Brain: Keeping Your Brain Healthy Through All Stages of Life: 2020
How to Help Clients Break the Cycle of Traumatic Memory with Dan Siegel, MD; Ronald Siegel, PHYD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD
- 2 CE/CME • NICABM: 2020
The Neurobiology of Trauma with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Pat Ogden, PHD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Dan Siegel, MD; Stephen Porges, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Joan Borysenko, PHD, Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Sebern Fisher, MA
- 2.5 CE/CME • NICABM: 2020
Clinical Applications of Compassion with Paul Gilbert, PHD; Kristin Neff, PHD; Jack Kornfield, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Christopher Germer, PHD; Dennis Tirch, PHD; Emiliana Simon-Thomas, PHD; Paul Gilbert, PHD; Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, PHD; Christopher Willard, PSYD; Deborah Lee, DCLINPSY; Susan Pollak, MTS, EDD; Laura Silberstein-Tirch, PSYD
- 14 CE/CME • NICABM: The Neurobiology of Compassion, How Compassion-Oriented Therapies Work and What Makes Them So Effective; How to Transform Shame with Self-Compassion; How to Skillfully Apply Compassion in the Treatment of Trauma and Attachment Ruptures; Essential Compassion Practices for Therapists (That Can Change the Way You Work with Clients), Specific Compassion-Based Interventions to Help you Skillfully Motivate Change; How Compassion Balances the Nervous System; A Traditional Compassion Meditation with Jack Kornfield, PHD; Key Self-Compassion Practices that Can Help Your Client Be a Better Parent; Putting Compassion-Oriented Treatment into Action: A Case Study with Dennis Tirch; Nurturing Moments: An Application from Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT); Compassion Imagery for Shame and Trauma; When the Inner Critic is the Voice of an Abuser; Navigating Misconceptions of Self-Compassion; The Science of Compassion: How Did We Learn About the Neurobiology of Compassion; Compassionate Exposure; Fresh Insights into Why We Self-Attack; Using Compassion in the Treatment of Trauma, 2020
Rethinking Trauma Series with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Peter Levine, MD; Stephen Porges, MD; Pat Ogden, PHD; Daniel Siegel, MD; Sebern Fisher, MA; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Laurel Parnell, PHD; Richard Schwartz, PHD; David Grand, PHD
- 16 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Work with the Traumatized Brain; How to Help Clients Break the Cycle of Traumatic Memory; Polyvagal Theory Can Revolutionize Your Work with Trauma Survivors; Why a Body-Oriented Approach is Key for Treating Traumatized Patients (and What it Looks Like in Practice); How to Use Brain Science to Help Patients Accelerate Healing after Trauma; The Fear-Driven Brain: How a New Intervention is Changing Trauma Treatment; How Neuroscience Can Give Us a Clearer Picture of Trauma Treatment: Working with the Effects of Early Life Trauma and PTSD on the Brain; How to Help Trauma Patients Establish a Sense of Safety and Repair Attachment using EMDR; Working with a Client’s Inner Systems to Heal Trauma and Develop Greater Calm and Compassion; Brainspotting: An Evolving, Healing Science for Trauma Therapy
Helping Clients Undo Patterns of Pleasing and Appeasing
- 3.5 CE/CME • NICABM: How Pleasing and Appeasing Can Serve (and Cost) Clients; Identifying the Unique Features that Set Please and Appease Apart from All Other Trauma Responses (And How to Detect It); First Steps When Working with Please and Appease; How to Work with the Nervous System to Undo Patterns of Pleasing and Appeasing; How to Help Clients Set Healthy Boundaries in Their Relationships; How to Help Clients Identify and Act in Alignment with Their Values; Critical Factors in Helping Clients Decide Whether to Stay in a Relationship Where Pleasing and Appeasing is Central; How to Differentiate Between Functional and Dysfunctional Please and Appease; How to Address Pleasing and Appeasing in a Session (Whether It’s Your Client’s or Your Own); A 6-Step Approach to Helping Clients Shift Out of Pleasing and Appeasing; A Case Study of an Integrated Approach to Overcoming Please and Appease; An IFS Approach to Address the Link Between Pleasing and Appeasing and Chronic Pain
How to Target the Limbic System to Reverse Trauma’s Physiological Imprint with Pat Ogden, PHD; Peter Levine, PHD; Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Ron Siegel, PsyD, Joan Borysenko, PHD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Robert Scaer, MD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Emiliana Simon-Thomas, PHD
- 3 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Target the Limbic System to Reverse Trauma’s Physiological Imprint; Synthesize Key Concepts So You can Use Them Immediately; Discover Concrete Strategies That Will Work in Your Life (and with Your Patients); How the Body’s Incomplete Response to Trauma Can Aggravate Symptoms; How to Work with Clients Who are Stuck in a Trauma Response; How Compassion Balances the Nervous System
The Neurobiology of Willpower with Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Bill O’Hanldon, PHD; Marsha Lucas, PHD
- 1.5 CE/CME • NICABM: The Neurobiology of Willpower
How to Work with Clients Who Struggled with an Inner Critic with Daniel Siegel, MD; Susan Johnson Psy ED; Ron Siegel, PsyD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Stan Tatkin, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD
- 4 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Neutralize the Power of an Inner Critic; What’s Going on in the Brain When the Inner Critic is Active; Quieting the Toxic Inner Voice that Can Drive Shame; How to Break the Patterns that Sustain an Inner Critic; How to Help a Client Build Core Beliefs of Self Worth; Expanding a Client’s Capacity to Make Mistakes; One Missing Skill that Can Boost the Self-Critic’s Power; Helping Clients Break Free of the Inner Perfectionist; How to Work with the Inner Critic and Depression; Practical Ways to Repeal and Replace the Inner Critic; How to Foster the Inner Nurturer; Adjusting a Shame Posture to Help Quiet the Inner Critic; How to Work with Internalized Criticism from Societal Oppression; Repairing the Inner Critic in Relationships
Training the Brain for More Happiness with Rick Hanson, PHD; Ron Siegel, PsyD; Kelly McGonigal, PhD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Kelly McGonigal, PHD
- 2.5 CE/CME • NICABM: Mindset, Mindfulness, and Brain Change: Why Mindset and Mindfulness are Key to Brain Change, Stress Response, and Success
Working with Core Beliefs of “Never Good Enough” with Sue Johnson, PSY ED; Rick Hanson, PHD; Ron Siegel, PsyD; Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT; Kelly McGonigal, PHD
- 5 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Help Clients Heal from Deeply-Internalized Judgment; Three Tools to Help Clients Reverse a Sense of Worthlessness; How EMDR Can Reprocess the Felt Sense of “Never Good Enough”; A Bottom-Up Approach to Working with Implicit Memories of Inadequacy; How to Repair an Attachment History That Fosters Self-Loathing; How to Help Clients Disengage from Social Comparison; How to Resource Clients Against Toxic Self-Judgment; One Life-Changing Antidote to a Root Sense of Unworthiness; How to Help Clients Internalize Positive Experiences; One Way a CBT Practitioner Works with Negative Core Beliefs; How to Help Clients Reframe Their “Never Good Enough” Narrative; How to Rewire the Self-Critical Mind; How to Approach Unrealistic Expectations of Perfection; How to Reverse the One Fear That Fuels Inner Contempt; One Exercise to Shift Clients Out of a Self-Judging Mindset; How Social Prejudice Can Cultivate Imposter Syndrome; How to Break the “Never Good Enough” Cycle in Relationships
How to Foster Post-Traumatic Growth with Sue Johnson, EdD; Stephen Porges, PhD; Steven Hayes, PHD; Pat Ogden, PHD; Marsha Linehan, PHD; Shelly Harrell, PHD; Ron Siegel, PsyD; Kelly McGonigal, PhD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PhD; Michael Yapko, PHD; Scott Miller, PHD; Laurel Parnell, PHD; Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MF; Christine Padesky, PHD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT
- 3.5 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Help Clients Engage with the Pain of Trauma to Foster Growth; The Neurobiology of Post-Traumatic Growth; The Critical Role of Connection in Post-Traumatic Growth; How to Reframe the Context of Trauma to Shift Clients Out of Self-Blame; How to Promote Growth After Early Life Trauma; How to Help Clients Make Sense of a World Altered by Trauma; How a Change in Our Perspective Can Speed a Client’s Growth; How Your Choice of Language Can Transform an Intervention (And Foster Growth); How to Help Clients Regain the Parts of their Lives Lost to Trauma; Are Some Clients Predisposed for Post-Traumatic Growth; How to Foster Post-Traumatic Growth in Relationships; How to Help Clients Who Are Suffering From a Loved One’s Trauma (Vicarious Trauma); How to Help Clients Complete the Journey from Trauma to Post-Traumatic Growth; 3 Core Elements that Move Clients from Pain to Growth
Practical Skills for Working with Clients Who Are Angry
- 3 CE/CME • NICABM: What Can Happen If You Call Your Clients “Angry”; 5 Skills to Immediately Defuse Anger; How to Help Your Clients Release “Stuck” Anger; Strategies to Help Your Clients Stay Engaged with Their Anger; Why Anger Can Become an Addiction – and How to Help Clients Break Free; How to Approach the Rageful Parts of Trauma-based Anger; How to Help Clients Overcome the Main Fear that Drives Hostility; What Can Go Wrong When Working with Angry Couples; How to Work with an Angry Client Who is Critical of You; Two Ways to Work with a Passive-Aggressive Client; Why Forgiveness Work is Especially Effective with Anger; An EMDR Approach to Anger; An Internal Family Systems Approach to Anger; Case Study: How Feelings of Anger and Love Physically Affect Us; Perspectives on the Roots of Anger; How Anger Affects the Brain and Body
Practical Strategies for Working with Deep-Seated Resentment with Janina Fisher, PHD; Stephen Porges, PHD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Stan Tatkin, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD
- 4.5CE/CME • NICABM: Helping Clients Understand Resentment (and Why It’s So Easily Triggered); Anger and Grief: From the Expression of Resentment to Its Roots; Practical Strategies for Helping Clients Process Resentment; The Secret to Preventing Resentment from Developing: Failsafe Strategies for Helping Clients Manage Expectations; How to Help Couples Heal Resentment; How to Help Clients Manage Resentment within Their Family; How to Work with Resentment Expressed as Righteous Indignation; Working with Resentment When Trauma is a Factor; Skills for Working with the Complicated Issue of Forgiveness Versus Reconciliation; Integrating Mindfulness to Help Clients Dissolve Resentment; Working with Resentment That Stems from Social Injustice; How to Work with a Client Who is Resentful Towards You; How to Work with the Nervous System to Mitigate Resentment; Three Writing Exercises to Help Your Client Work Through Resentment; A 5-Step Mindfulness-Based Process to Help Clients Release Anger and Neutralize Resentment
Expert Strategies for Working with Anxiety with Sue Johnson, EDD; Stephen Porges, PHD; Peter Levine, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Shelly Harrell; Ron Siegel, PsyD; Christine Padesky, PHD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Steven Hayes, PHD; Michael Yapko, PHD; Pat Ogden, PHD; Richard Schwartz, PHD; Scott Miller, PHD; Stan Tatkin; PsyD, MFT, Laurel Parnell, PHD; Ellyn Bader, PHD
- 4 CE/CME • NICABM: Practical Skills to Break the Panic-Anxiety Loop; Four Core Strategies to Neutralize Stress and Anxiety; How to Transform a Client’s Anxiety from Fear to Confidence; How to Expand a Client’s Tolerance for Anxiety; How to Maximize the Power of a Client’s Coping Strategies; How to Work with the Root Pain of Highly-Anxious Clients; How to Work with Conflicting Sources of Anxiety; How to Help Clients See the Possibilities Beyond Anxiety; Treating the Anxious Brain; Practical Ways to Diminish the Inner Experience of Anxiety; An EMDR Approach for Healing Generalized Anxiety Disorder; How to Repair Anxiety Inside Relationships
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Polyvagal Theory Can Revolutionize Your Work with Trauma Survivors With Stephen Porges, PHD; Ruth Buczynski, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Rick Hanson, PHD
- 3.5 CE/CME • NICABM: Why Polyvgal Theory Holds the Key to Reclaiming Safety After Trauma; How to Activate the Body’s Natural Defense Mechanisms Against Trauma
How to Work with the Traumatized Brain with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Sebern Fisher, MA
- 3 CE/CME • NICABM: Improve Diagnoses, Increase Effectiveness, and Discover New Treatment Strategies for Trauma; Why Neurofeedback Can Be a Game-Changer for Trauma Patients
Successful Strategies to Make Your First Sessions Great with Lynn Lyons, LICSW; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Ellyn Bader, PHD; Rich Hanson, PHD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Rick Hanson, PHD; Marsha Linehan, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Shelly Harrell, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Dan Siegel, MD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Richard Schwartz, PHD; Pat Ogden, PHD; Stephen Porges, PHD; Christine Padesky, pHD; Zindel Segal, PHD; Sue Johnson, PSY ED; Stan Tatkin, PSYD, MFT; Shelly Harrel, PHD; Phoebe Friesen, Charlotte Belase, Nicholas Dansiger, Isabelle Faillenot, Roland Peyron
- 3.5 CE/CME • NICABM: Planting Seeds for Success in the First Session; How Your Opening Question Can Set the Tone for Success; How to Build Hope in the First Session; First Sessions with Challenging Clients; Strengthening a New Client’s Commitment to Therapy; Building a Strong Therapeutic Bond that Will Last Beyond the First Session; How to Foster Greater Client Disclosure for More Accurate Diagnoses; Key Skills to Alleviate a New Client’s Feeling of Vulnerability; A Body-Focused Approach to a Successful First Session; What a Client’s Nervous System Needs in the First Session; Two Ways to Work with an Underlying Medical Issue in the First Session; How to Manage a Client’s Expectations for Treatment; How to Address Common Warning Signs in the First Session; How to Get a Reluctant Client to Come to Therapy; First Sessions with Couples; When to Disclose Personal Details in a First Session; Placebo Effects and Ethnic Health Disparities: An Unjust and Underexplored Connection; Can We Share a Pain We Never Felt? Neural Correlates of Empathy in Patients with Congenital Insensitivity to Pain
Expert Strategies for Working with Traumatic Memory with Ruth Buczynski, PHD; Peter Levine, PHD; Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Pat Ogden, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Richard Schwartz, PHD
- 2.5 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Work with Traumatic Memory That is Embedded in the Nervous System; Synthesize Key Concepts So You Can Use Them Immediately; Discover Concrete Strategies That Will Work in Your Life (and with Your Patients); How to Work with Emotional and Procedural Memory in the Case of Preverbal Trauma; Working with a Client’s Inner Systems to Heal Trauma and Develop Greater Calm and Compassion
Expert Strategies to Help Clients Develop Tolerance for Emotional Distress
- 4 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Help Clients Tolerate What Feels Intolerable (and Why This Critical Skill is Key for Healing); How to “Sell” Clients on the Benefits of Tolerating Distress (When It’s the Last Thing They Want to Feel); How to Help Clients Recognize Whether They’re Experiencing Stress or Distress (and Why This Distinction Can Be So Important); How to Work with Difficult Emotions at the Level of the Nervous System; How to Create a Personalized Plan to Boost Your Client’s Distress Tolerance Skills; How to Work with the Body to Grow Your Client’s Capacity to Manage Distress; How to Help Clients Co-Regulate to Dial Down Distress That’s Wreaking Havoc on Their Relationships; Creative Interventions to Transform Your Client’s Ability to Tolerate Distress; Expert Strategies to Help Clients Build Distress Tolerance in the Aftermath of Trauma; How to Use Psychoeducation to “Turbo-charge” Your Work with Distress Tolerance; Building Distress Tolerance After Trauma: How One Client Worked Through Multiple Traumatic Experiences and Racially Motivated Microaggressions; Strategies for Building Distress Tolerance in Children (and Ways to Resource Overprotect Parents); How to Help Clients When Positive Emotion Feels Distressing; Integrating Self-Compassion to Enhance Your Client’s Ability to Tolerate Distress
How to Work with Clients Who are Stuck with Tara Brach, PHD; Sue Johnson, PSY ED; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Bess van der Kolk, PHD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD
- 4.5 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Transform the Behavioral Patterns that are Holding Your Clients Back; How to Work with the Behavioral Patterns That Suppress Growth; How to Engage the Parts of the Brain that Get Stuck After Trauma: How the Unconscious Brain Creates a Holding Pattern of Fear; How to Use Neuroplasticity to Overwrite Negative Beliefs; Why Implicit Memories May Be Keeping Your Client Hostage (And How to Release Them): How Post-Traumatic Memories Can Hold the Body Hostage; How to Work with the Procedural Memories Keeping Your Clients Stuck; How to Help Clients Overcome Their Most Limiting Fears: How to Sell Your Client on Change; How to Motivate Clients to Push Through Self-Imposed Boundaries; How to Train the Rigid Mind; How to Help Clients Rewrite Their “Stuck Story”; How to Work with Stuck Relationships: Three Ways to Deal with an Ambivalence Toward Commitment; The Rigid Mindset That Ruins Relationships; How to Help Clients Trapped in a Shame-Rejection-Fear Loop; How to Help Clients Move from a Fixed Mindset Toward Greater Flexibility: One Connection that Can Shift a Client into Positive Vulnerability; What Can Go Wrong When the Practitioner Gets Stuck (And How to Prevent It): Why Our Unconscious Rigidity Could be Contributing to Our Clients’ Stuckness; Two Ways to Work with a Client’s Avoidance Strategies: Why Your Client May Be Feeling Constrained (and How to Help Free Them); One Practical Skill to Locate Where Your Client is Stuck
How to Apply Mindfulness to Your Clinical Work with Dan Siegel, MD; Tara Brach, PHD; Jack Kornfield, PHD; Marsha Linehan, PHD; Ram Dass, PHD; Joan Halifax, PHD; Mark Epstein, MD; Kristin Neff, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD
- 12 CE/CME • NICABM: The Neurobiology of Mindfulness: How Being Present Can Change the Brain; Mindfulness and the Gateways to Refuge: Finding the True Self; Shifting Focus through Mindfulness: How to Grow Love and Compassion out of the Seeds of Suffering; Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A New Approach to Treating Extreme Emotions; How to Help People Connect to Loving Awareness: Expanding Our Capacity to Give and Receive Unconditional Love; Deconstructing Death: Using Mindfulness to Manage Life’s Ultimate Transition; Meditation and Psychotherapy: A Dual Approach that Can Speed Healing; Practicing Kindness Toward Oneself: Mindfulness and the Science of Self-Compassion; Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity: How Mindfulness Can Boost Willpower, Awaken Compassion, and Change the Brain
Working with the Fear of Rejection
- 3.5 CE/CME • NICABM: The Most Common Factors that Drive Your Client’s Fear of Rejection (and How to Work with Them); How to Work with the Avoidance Strategies That Can Sustain Your Client’s Fear of Rejection; How to Work with Clients Who Equate Criticism with Rejection; Working with Rejection at the Level of the Nervous System; Key Strategies for Shifting a Client Out of a Rejection-Based Narrative; How to Use Movement to Shift Clients Out of a Fear of Rejection; When Fear of Rejection Makes it Hard for Your Client to Set Healthy Boundaries; How to Structure the Therapeutic Relationship More Strategically to Heal a Client’s Fear of Rejection; One Key Question that Can Shape Our Approach to a Client’s Fear of Rejection; How to Work with Clients Who are Afraid to Reject Others; Why We Need to Keep Attachment Style in Mind When Addressing a Client’s Fear of Rejection
How to Work with a Client’s Emotional Triggers with Steve Porges, PHD; Deb Dana, LCSW; Dan Siegel, MD
- 4 CE/CME • NICABM: The Neurobiology of an Emotional Trigger, How to Keep a Triggered Emotion from Overwhelming the Client; How to Prevent Vulnerabilities from Turning into Painful Triggers; How to Break Habit-Trigger-Reward Loops; How to Work with a Highly-Triggered Nervous System; How to Help Triggered Clients Who Dissociate from Their Bodies; How to Work with Emotional Triggers Connected to Trauma; How to Help Clients Build Powerful Self-Regulation Skills; How to Work with Triggers Fueled by Negative Attachment; How to Neutralize a Reactivity Pattern; How to Help Clients Shift from Reactivity to Healing; Treating Emotional Triggers in Clients from Marginalized Populations; Working with Highly-Triggered Couples
How to Work with Shame with Stephen Porges, PHD; Stan Tatkin, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Bessel van der Kolk, PHD; Sue Johnson, PSY ED
- 4 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Work with the Inner Voice of Shame; How to Break the Power of Shame by Engaging it; The Neurobiology of Shame: How Shame Triggers the Body’s Shut-Down Response; How to Apply a Psycho-Biology View of Shame to Your Work; The 4-Part Skill That Can Build Trust with Your Client; How to Work with Shame that Developed in Childhood: The Generational Effects of Shame on Loved Ones; How to Gradually Work with Shame Without Retriggering It; The Way a Shame Posture Impacts Emotions (And How to Bring Clients Out of It); How to Work with Shame When It’s Connected to Trauma: A Way to Heal Trauma-Based Shame Using a 3-Dimensional Space; Rewiring the Body’s Reaction to Shame and Trauma; How to Shift Clients Out of Feelings of Unworthiness; How to Unravel the Shame in Relationships: The Crucial Role of an Attachment Figure in Treating Shame; How Shame in a Relationship Can Trigger PTSD; The Impact of Shame Messaging and How to Dismantle It; How to Work with the Institutional Racism that Feeds Shame; Case Study: One Intervention That Helped an Iraq War Veteran Release Shame; How to Work with Sexual Shame
Working with the Pain of Abandonment with Daniel Siegel, MD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Bessel van der Kolk, PHD; Ron Siegel, PYSD; Deb Dana, LCSW; Steve Porges, PHD
- 4 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Work with Clients Who are Hypersensitive to Rejection; Ways to Change Fearful Behavior That Sets a Client Up for Further Abandonment; How to Help Clients Stop Sacrificing Their Boundaries to Avoid Being Abandoned; How to Recondition a Nervous System Damaged by Abandonment; A 3-Step Strategy to Expand a Client’s Tolerance of Rejection; How to Read the Abandonment Story Your Client’s Body is Telling; How to Repair Abandonment Wounds from Early Life Attachment; How to Treat a Fear of Abandonment Linked to Betrayal; Powerful Skills to Disrupt Rigid Patterns of Abandonment; How to Approach Shame That Drives a Fear of Rejection; Key Strategies for Working with Abandonment and Trauma; How to Work with Separation Anxiety and Children; How to Establish Strong Doctor-Patient Boundaries with Clients Who Have been Abandoned; How to Repair Early Life Abandonment Through EMDR
Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Stephen Porges, PhD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD; Pat Ogden, PhD; Thema Bryant-Davis, PhD; Bethany Brand, PhD; Deb Dana, LCSW; Janina Fisher, PhD; Kathy Steele, MN, CS; Peter Levine, PhD; Janina Fisher, PhD; Richard Schwartz, PhD; Martha Sweezy, PhD, LICSW; William Nash, MD; Terry Real, MSW, LICSW, Pat Ogden, PhD
- 13 CE/CME • NICABM: Strategies to Treat Patients Trapped in the Freeze Response; How to Identify and Treat Dissociation (Even When It’s Subtle); How to Work with Emerging Defense Responses to Trauma (Beyond the Fight/Flight/Freeze Model); How to Ease the Pain of Trauma-Induced Shame; How to Work with Patients Whose Trauma Triggers Problems in Their Current Relationships; Bodily Impulses; Parents Who Dissociate; Dissociation in Relationships; Polyvagal Approaches to Dissociation; Polyvagal and Emerging Responses; Child Abuse and Neglect; Sex Trafficking; Social Engagement System; Repair Family Ruptures; Polyvagal and Neuroregulation; Relationships and Somatic Interventions; Relationships and IFS
How to Target Treatment to Help Patients Reclaim Their Lives After Trauma with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Ron Siegel, PsyD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Judith Herman, MD
- 2 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Help Clients Break the Cycle of Traumatic Memory; Overcoming the Unique Challenges of Treating Complex PTSD
How to Work with a Client’s Resistance with Sue Johnson, Psy ED; Stephen Porges; PHD; Ron Siegel, PHD; Stan Tatkin, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Rick Hanson, PHD
- 4 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Release the Deep-Rooted Resistance That’s Blocking Your Client from Healing; How to Work with Resistance That’s Linked to a Negative Attachment History; How to Reduce the Threat at the Core of Your Client’s Resistance; The Hidden Fear That May Be Driving Your Client’s Resistance; How to Bring a Client out of a Defensive State; 3 Skills that Dissolve a Client’s Resistance; How to Safely Approach the Vulnerable Parts that are Resisting Change; The Critical Approach that Gets You Past a Client’s Defenses; Harmful Strategies that Lead to Resistance (And How to Deal with Them); How to Help Clients Disengage from Social Comparison; How to Sell Behavior Change to Your Most Challenging Clients: One Way to Shift Your Client’s Ambivalence to Growth; How the Practitioner May be Perpetuating their Client’s Resistance; What Can Happen When Your Resist the Resistance; How to Work with the Resistance that Gets Triggered Inside You, the Therapist; How Impaired Integration Provides the Map for Your Interventions; How to Work with the Resistance Inside Relationships; The Important Message You’re Missing in Your Client’s Resistance; One Change that Can Unravel a Client’s Rigid Beliefs; How to Engage with a Willful Client
Practical Strategies to Foster Post-Traumatic Growth with Daniel Siegel, MD
- 3 CE/CME • NICABM: How We’ve Changed the Way We Think About Trauma; How to Apply Brain Science to Foster Post-Traumatic Growth; How to Work with the Nervous System to Release Trauma that’s Held in the Body; Practical Skills to Help Clients Manage Difficult Emotions; The One Trauma Most Affected by the Therapeutic Relationship (and How to Approach It); Making Sense of the Story – A Major Key to Unlocking Post-Traumatic Growth; How to Guide Clients Through the 10 Steps of Post-Traumatic Growth; What Happens to the Brain During Trauma (and Why it Matters in Your Work)
How to Work with Trauma That’s Trapped in the Body with Pat Ogden, PHD; Ron Siegel, PsyD, Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Kathy Steele, MN, CS
- 2 CE/CME • NICABM: Why You Have to Understand Dissociation to Treat Trauma



Camille Pack, MA, BLCF
storykeeper (she/her)
Attachment Specialization
3 Pillars Trained (IPF Protocol) • Level 1
with David Elliott, PHD
Relational Neuroscience for Healing Trauma
1 YR with Bonnie Badenoch, PHD
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
with Rebecca Jorgensen, PHD
Building a Lasting Connection
with Rebecca Jorgensen, PHD; Debi Gilmore, PHD






I study the practice of how we cultivate safety and belonging in our lives, primarily through the lenses of Western psychology and Eastern spirituality. Our suffering and joy get so jangled up together.
How can we love when it’s painful? How can we trust after we’ve been hurt? What does compassionate wisdom say about our emotional wounding?
I’m interested in how we create belonging—with ourselves, with our experience, and with each other—especially when it’s hard.
How do we call on a loving presence and a loving practice when we’ve been speared through the heart? How can we gather the support and courage we need to live in a full-throated way?
For me it’s a practice. A gentle practice of nurturing the safety I need to support my intentions. And safety is a pre-requisite. In my experience, the payoff is peace and a life that feels meaningful.
Mindful connection also leads us to a sense of meaning and purpose. We recognize our belongingness and our enoughness. We honor our sacred stories and claim our hero’s journey.
We become our own storykeeper. We become each other’s.
What emerges is a deep sense of belonging to ourselves, to our community, and to our own lives.
My stepping stones in this river include a decade of mindfulness meditation and training with Tara Brach, certification as a Wayfinder Life Coach with Martha Beck (the life coach in Oprah’s magazine), and specialization in Attachment Theory models and treatments.
For attachment repair, I love to hold the Three Pillars model and IPF Protocol (designed by Harvard psychologists Daniel P. Brown and David S. Elliott) and see how it speaks with Dan Siegel’s interpersonal neurobiology and Bonnie Badenoch’s examination of relational neuroscience. I’m awed by the research of Stephen Porges and all polyvagal theory tells us about the ways the vagus nerve weaves our nervous systems together in reassuring co-regulation.
Finally, I’m grateful for Rebecca Jorgensen and Debi Gilmore’s work to simplify relational science into a guided process that helps us access our emotions and enrich our relationships. Raised by the former, I also graduated in their program’s first cohort and started offering Building a Lasting Connection workshops to couples in 2019.
It’s my honor to hear and hold stories. They are sacred ground: the cathedral of our learning, our portal to connection.
In addition to my private practice coaching on Zoom and working with couples through the BLC workshop, I also offer IPF guided meditation to those seeking attachment repair.
Thank you for being here and for being part of a community bound by mutual care and our commitment to creating more beauty with kindness.
With warm care, Camille
Portland, Oregon
Pacific Northwest, United States
Professional Training
Continuing Education
Adult Attachment Repair Training with David Elliott, PHD; Nigel Denning; and Tra-ill Dowie, PHD
- LEVEL 1 • 16 Hours, Integrative Psychology: Foundations in The Three Pillars Model: Collaboration, Metacognition/Mentalization, and the Ideal Parent Protocol (IPP). Identifying the 4 Main Types of Attachment; Systematic Treatment of the 3 Insecure Attachment Styles, Melbourne, Australia: 18-19 November 2022
Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind • Relational Neuroscience for Healing Trauma with Bonnie Badenoch, PHD
- YEAR-LONG • PCPSI Webinar Series: 2022. Supporting healing in the study and practice of (1) understanding of how people get hurt and heal, based on the discoveries of relational neuroscience; this provides a stable wisdom to help us feel more secure in the waves of emotional intensity that accompany this work; (2) providing emotional, psychological safety through nonjudgmental, agenda-less presence
Treating Trauma Master Series with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Dan Siegel, MD; Pat Ogden, PhD; Stephen Porges, PhD; and Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD
- 10 CE/CME • NICABM Webinar Series, 20 June 2022
Trauma Solutions Attachment Training with Diane Poole Heller, PHD
- 45 CE/CME • DARe Modules 1-4: Healing Early Attachment Wounds and Embracing the Authentic Self; Creating Healthy Adult Relationships; The Neurobiology of Loving Relationships; From Wounds to Wellness: Victim-Perpetrator Dynamics and Disorganized Attachment: Webinar Series, 2021
Healing the Hidden Roots of Shame with Dr. Diane Poole Heller
- Trauma Solutions: 7 August 2021
Emotionally Focused Therapy Step by Step with Rebecca Jorgensen, PHD
- 11 CE/CME • Psychotherapy.net: Core Concepts and Interventions in EFT; EFT Stage 1: Reaching De-escalation; EFT Stages 2-3: Deepening Engagement & Consolidation; Impasses and Challenges in EFT, 2021
The Neurobiology of Attachment with Dan Siegel, MD; Pat Ogden, MD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Allan Schore, PHD; Ruth Buczynski, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Joan Borysenko, PHD, Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Deborah Lee, DCLINPSY; Laura Silberstein-Tirch, PSYD; Paul Gilbert, PHD; Laurel Parnell, PHD
- 3 CE/CME • NICABM: The Neurobiology of Attachment; Synthesize Key Concepts So You Can Use Them Immediately; Discover Concrete Strategies That Will Work in Your Life (And With Your Patients); Compassion Imagery for Shame and Trauma; How to Help Trauma Patients Establish a Sense of Safety and Repair Attachment Using EMDR: 2020
How to Work with the Part of Trauma that Can’t Be Verbalized with Peter Levine, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Rick Hanson, PHD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Ruth Buczynski, PHD
- 3 CE/CME • NICABM: 2020
Practical Brain Science Series with Daniel Siegel, MD; Norman Doidge, MD; Pat Ogden, PHD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Stephen Porges, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Louis Cozolino, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PHD, Ron Siegel, PSYD; Bonnie Badenoch, MA, LMFT; Rudolph Tanzi, PHD; John Arden, PHD
- 13 CE/CME • NICABM: The Brain in Two Places: Inside Your Head, Embedded in the World; Unlocking the Enormous Potential of Neuroplasticity; How Neurobiology Changed the Way We View Trauma Treatment; How Good Experiences Can Transform the Brain; How Polyvagal Theory Expands Our Healing Paradigm; The Neurobiology of Willpower (It’s Not What You Expect); The Social Brain: Why No Brain Heals Alone; A Big-Picture Look at the New Brain Science: The Experts’ Gide to Turning this Series into Action; A Big-Picture Look at the New Brain Science: The Experts’ Guide to Turning this Series into Action; Building the Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Brain; The Aging Brain: Keeping Your Brain Healthy Through All Stages of Life: 2020
How to Help Clients Break the Cycle of Traumatic Memory with Dan Siegel, MD; Ronald Siegel, PHYD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD
- 2 CE/CME • NICABM: 2020
The Neurobiology of Trauma with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Pat Ogden, PHD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Dan Siegel, MD; Stephen Porges, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Joan Borysenko, PHD, Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Sebern Fisher, MA
- 2.5 CE/CME • NICABM: 2020
Clinical Applications of Compassion with Paul Gilbert, PHD; Kristin Neff, PHD; Jack Kornfield, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Christopher Germer, PHD; Dennis Tirch, PHD; Emiliana Simon-Thomas, PHD; Paul Gilbert, PHD; Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, PHD; Christopher Willard, PSYD; Deborah Lee, DCLINPSY; Susan Pollak, MTS, EDD; Laura Silberstein-Tirch, PSYD
- 14 CE/CME • NICABM: The Neurobiology of Compassion, How Compassion-Oriented Therapies Work and What Makes Them So Effective; How to Transform Shame with Self-Compassion; How to Skillfully Apply Compassion in the Treatment of Trauma and Attachment Ruptures; Essential Compassion Practices for Therapists (That Can Change the Way You Work with Clients), Specific Compassion-Based Interventions to Help you Skillfully Motivate Change; How Compassion Balances the Nervous System; A Traditional Compassion Meditation with Jack Kornfield, PHD; Key Self-Compassion Practices that Can Help Your Client Be a Better Parent; Putting Compassion-Oriented Treatment into Action: A Case Study with Dennis Tirch; Nurturing Moments: An Application from Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT); Compassion Imagery for Shame and Trauma; When the Inner Critic is the Voice of an Abuser; Navigating Misconceptions of Self-Compassion; The Science of Compassion: How Did We Learn About the Neurobiology of Compassion; Compassionate Exposure; Fresh Insights into Why We Self-Attack; Using Compassion in the Treatment of Trauma, 2020
Rethinking Trauma Series with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Peter Levine, MD; Stephen Porges, MD; Pat Ogden, PHD; Daniel Siegel, MD; Sebern Fisher, MA; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Laurel Parnell, PHD; Richard Schwartz, PHD; David Grand, PHD
- 16 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Work with the Traumatized Brain; How to Help Clients Break the Cycle of Traumatic Memory; Polyvagal Theory Can Revolutionize Your Work with Trauma Survivors; Why a Body-Oriented Approach is Key for Treating Traumatized Patients (and What it Looks Like in Practice); How to Use Brain Science to Help Patients Accelerate Healing after Trauma; The Fear-Driven Brain: How a New Intervention is Changing Trauma Treatment; How Neuroscience Can Give Us a Clearer Picture of Trauma Treatment: Working with the Effects of Early Life Trauma and PTSD on the Brain; How to Help Trauma Patients Establish a Sense of Safety and Repair Attachment using EMDR; Working with a Client’s Inner Systems to Heal Trauma and Develop Greater Calm and Compassion; Brainspotting: An Evolving, Healing Science for Trauma Therapy
Helping Clients Undo Patterns of Pleasing and Appeasing
- 3.5 CE/CME • NICABM: How Pleasing and Appeasing Can Serve (and Cost) Clients; Identifying the Unique Features that Set Please and Appease Apart from All Other Trauma Responses (And How to Detect It); First Steps When Working with Please and Appease; How to Work with the Nervous System to Undo Patterns of Pleasing and Appeasing; How to Help Clients Set Healthy Boundaries in Their Relationships; How to Help Clients Identify and Act in Alignment with Their Values; Critical Factors in Helping Clients Decide Whether to Stay in a Relationship Where Pleasing and Appeasing is Central; How to Differentiate Between Functional and Dysfunctional Please and Appease; How to Address Pleasing and Appeasing in a Session (Whether It’s Your Client’s or Your Own); A 6-Step Approach to Helping Clients Shift Out of Pleasing and Appeasing; A Case Study of an Integrated Approach to Overcoming Please and Appease; An IFS Approach to Address the Link Between Pleasing and Appeasing and Chronic Pain
Polyvagal Theory Can Revolutionize Your Work with Trauma Survivors With Stephen Porges, PHD; Ruth Buczynski, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Rick Hanson, PHD
- 3.5 CE/CME • NICABM: Why Polyvgal Theory Holds the Key to Reclaiming Safety After Trauma; How to Activate the Body’s Natural Defense Mechanisms Against Trauma
How to Work with the Traumatized Brain with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Sebern Fisher, MA
- 3 CE/CME • NICABM: Improve Diagnoses, Increase Effectiveness, and Discover New Treatment Strategies for Trauma; Why Neurofeedback Can Be a Game-Changer for Trauma Patients
Successful Strategies to Make Your First Sessions Great with Lynn Lyons, LICSW; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Ellyn Bader, PHD; Rich Hanson, PHD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Rick Hanson, PHD; Marsha Linehan, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Shelly Harrell, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Dan Siegel, MD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Richard Schwartz, PHD; Pat Ogden, PHD; Stephen Porges, PHD; Christine Padesky, pHD; Zindel Segal, PHD; Sue Johnson, PSY ED; Stan Tatkin, PSYD, MFT; Shelly Harrel, PHD; Phoebe Friesen, Charlotte Belase, Nicholas Dansiger, Isabelle Faillenot, Roland Peyron
- 3.5 CE/CME • NICABM: Planting Seeds for Success in the First Session; How Your Opening Question Can Set the Tone for Success; How to Build Hope in the First Session; First Sessions with Challenging Clients; Strengthening a New Client’s Commitment to Therapy; Building a Strong Therapeutic Bond that Will Last Beyond the First Session; How to Foster Greater Client Disclosure for More Accurate Diagnoses; Key Skills to Alleviate a New Client’s Feeling of Vulnerability; A Body-Focused Approach to a Successful First Session; What a Client’s Nervous System Needs in the First Session; Two Ways to Work with an Underlying Medical Issue in the First Session; How to Manage a Client’s Expectations for Treatment; How to Address Common Warning Signs in the First Session; How to Get a Reluctant Client to Come to Therapy; First Sessions with Couples; When to Disclose Personal Details in a First Session; Placebo Effects and Ethnic Health Disparities: An Unjust and Underexplored Connection; Can We Share a Pain We Never Felt? Neural Correlates of Empathy in Patients with Congenital Insensitivity to Pain
Expert Strategies for Working with Traumatic Memory with Ruth Buczynski, PHD; Peter Levine, PHD; Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Pat Ogden, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Richard Schwartz, PHD
- 2.5 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Work with Traumatic Memory That is Embedded in the Nervous System; Synthesize Key Concepts So You Can Use Them Immediately; Discover Concrete Strategies That Will Work in Your Life (and with Your Patients); How to Work with Emotional and Procedural Memory in the Case of Preverbal Trauma; Working with a Client’s Inner Systems to Heal Trauma and Develop Greater Calm and Compassion
Expert Strategies to Help Clients Develop Tolerance for Emotional Distress
- 4 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Help Clients Tolerate What Feels Intolerable (and Why This Critical Skill is Key for Healing); How to “Sell” Clients on the Benefits of Tolerating Distress (When It’s the Last Thing They Want to Feel); How to Help Clients Recognize Whether They’re Experiencing Stress or Distress (and Why This Distinction Can Be So Important); How to Work with Difficult Emotions at the Level of the Nervous System; How to Create a Personalized Plan to Boost Your Client’s Distress Tolerance Skills; How to Work with the Body to Grow Your Client’s Capacity to Manage Distress; How to Help Clients Co-Regulate to Dial Down Distress That’s Wreaking Havoc on Their Relationships; Creative Interventions to Transform Your Client’s Ability to Tolerate Distress; Expert Strategies to Help Clients Build Distress Tolerance in the Aftermath of Trauma; How to Use Psychoeducation to “Turbo-charge” Your Work with Distress Tolerance; Building Distress Tolerance After Trauma: How One Client Worked Through Multiple Traumatic Experiences and Racially Motivated Microaggressions; Strategies for Building Distress Tolerance in Children (and Ways to Resource Overprotect Parents); How to Help Clients When Positive Emotion Feels Distressing; Integrating Self-Compassion to Enhance Your Client’s Ability to Tolerate Distress
How to Work with Clients Who are Stuck with Tara Brach, PHD; Sue Johnson, PSY ED; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Bess van der Kolk, PHD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD
- 4.5 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Transform the Behavioral Patterns that are Holding Your Clients Back; How to Work with the Behavioral Patterns That Suppress Growth; How to Engage the Parts of the Brain that Get Stuck After Trauma: How the Unconscious Brain Creates a Holding Pattern of Fear; How to Use Neuroplasticity to Overwrite Negative Beliefs; Why Implicit Memories May Be Keeping Your Client Hostage (And How to Release Them): How Post-Traumatic Memories Can Hold the Body Hostage; How to Work with the Procedural Memories Keeping Your Clients Stuck; How to Help Clients Overcome Their Most Limiting Fears: How to Sell Your Client on Change; How to Motivate Clients to Push Through Self-Imposed Boundaries; How to Train the Rigid Mind; How to Help Clients Rewrite Their “Stuck Story”; How to Work with Stuck Relationships: Three Ways to Deal with an Ambivalence Toward Commitment; The Rigid Mindset That Ruins Relationships; How to Help Clients Trapped in a Shame-Rejection-Fear Loop; How to Help Clients Move from a Fixed Mindset Toward Greater Flexibility: One Connection that Can Shift a Client into Positive Vulnerability; What Can Go Wrong When the Practitioner Gets Stuck (And How to Prevent It): Why Our Unconscious Rigidity Could be Contributing to Our Clients’ Stuckness; Two Ways to Work with a Client’s Avoidance Strategies: Why Your Client May Be Feeling Constrained (and How to Help Free Them); One Practical Skill to Locate Where Your Client is Stuck
How to Apply Mindfulness to Your Clinical Work with Dan Siegel, MD; Tara Brach, PHD; Jack Kornfield, PHD; Marsha Linehan, PHD; Ram Dass, PHD; Joan Halifax, PHD; Mark Epstein, MD; Kristin Neff, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD
- 12 CE/CME • NICABM: The Neurobiology of Mindfulness: How Being Present Can Change the Brain; Mindfulness and the Gateways to Refuge: Finding the True Self; Shifting Focus through Mindfulness: How to Grow Love and Compassion out of the Seeds of Suffering; Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A New Approach to Treating Extreme Emotions; How to Help People Connect to Loving Awareness: Expanding Our Capacity to Give and Receive Unconditional Love; Deconstructing Death: Using Mindfulness to Manage Life’s Ultimate Transition; Meditation and Psychotherapy: A Dual Approach that Can Speed Healing; Practicing Kindness Toward Oneself: Mindfulness and the Science of Self-Compassion; Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity: How Mindfulness Can Boost Willpower, Awaken Compassion, and Change the Brain
Working with the Fear of Rejection
- 3.5 CE/CME • NICABM: The Most Common Factors that Drive Your Client’s Fear of Rejection (and How to Work with Them); How to Work with the Avoidance Strategies That Can Sustain Your Client’s Fear of Rejection; How to Work with Clients Who Equate Criticism with Rejection; Working with Rejection at the Level of the Nervous System; Key Strategies for Shifting a Client Out of a Rejection-Based Narrative; How to Use Movement to Shift Clients Out of a Fear of Rejection; When Fear of Rejection Makes it Hard for Your Client to Set Healthy Boundaries; How to Structure the Therapeutic Relationship More Strategically to Heal a Client’s Fear of Rejection; One Key Question that Can Shape Our Approach to a Client’s Fear of Rejection; How to Work with Clients Who are Afraid to Reject Others; Why We Need to Keep Attachment Style in Mind When Addressing a Client’s Fear of Rejection
How to Work with a Client’s Emotional Triggers with Steve Porges, PHD; Deb Dana, LCSW; Dan Siegel, MD
- 4 CE/CME • NICABM: The Neurobiology of an Emotional Trigger, How to Keep a Triggered Emotion from Overwhelming the Client; How to Prevent Vulnerabilities from Turning into Painful Triggers; How to Break Habit-Trigger-Reward Loops; How to Work with a Highly-Triggered Nervous System; How to Help Triggered Clients Who Dissociate from Their Bodies; How to Work with Emotional Triggers Connected to Trauma; How to Help Clients Build Powerful Self-Regulation Skills; How to Work with Triggers Fueled by Negative Attachment; How to Neutralize a Reactivity Pattern; How to Help Clients Shift from Reactivity to Healing; Treating Emotional Triggers in Clients from Marginalized Populations; Working with Highly-Triggered Couples
How to Work with Shame with Stephen Porges, PHD; Stan Tatkin, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Bessel van der Kolk, PHD; Sue Johnson, PSY ED
- 4 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Work with the Inner Voice of Shame; How to Break the Power of Shame by Engaging it; The Neurobiology of Shame: How Shame Triggers the Body’s Shut-Down Response; How to Apply a Psycho-Biology View of Shame to Your Work; The 4-Part Skill That Can Build Trust with Your Client; How to Work with Shame that Developed in Childhood: The Generational Effects of Shame on Loved Ones; How to Gradually Work with Shame Without Retriggering It; The Way a Shame Posture Impacts Emotions (And How to Bring Clients Out of It); How to Work with Shame When It’s Connected to Trauma: A Way to Heal Trauma-Based Shame Using a 3-Dimensional Space; Rewiring the Body’s Reaction to Shame and Trauma; How to Shift Clients Out of Feelings of Unworthiness; How to Unravel the Shame in Relationships: The Crucial Role of an Attachment Figure in Treating Shame; How Shame in a Relationship Can Trigger PTSD; The Impact of Shame Messaging and How to Dismantle It; How to Work with the Institutional Racism that Feeds Shame; Case Study: One Intervention That Helped an Iraq War Veteran Release Shame; How to Work with Sexual Shame
Working with the Pain of Abandonment with Daniel Siegel, MD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Bessel van der Kolk, PHD; Ron Siegel, PYSD; Deb Dana, LCSW; Steve Porges, PHD
- 4 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Work with Clients Who are Hypersensitive to Rejection; Ways to Change Fearful Behavior That Sets a Client Up for Further Abandonment; How to Help Clients Stop Sacrificing Their Boundaries to Avoid Being Abandoned; How to Recondition a Nervous System Damaged by Abandonment; A 3-Step Strategy to Expand a Client’s Tolerance of Rejection; How to Read the Abandonment Story Your Client’s Body is Telling; How to Repair Abandonment Wounds from Early Life Attachment; How to Treat a Fear of Abandonment Linked to Betrayal; Powerful Skills to Disrupt Rigid Patterns of Abandonment; How to Approach Shame That Drives a Fear of Rejection; Key Strategies for Working with Abandonment and Trauma; How to Work with Separation Anxiety and Children; How to Establish Strong Doctor-Patient Boundaries with Clients Who Have been Abandoned; How to Repair Early Life Abandonment Through EMDR
Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Stephen Porges, PhD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD; Pat Ogden, PhD; Thema Bryant-Davis, PhD; Bethany Brand, PhD; Deb Dana, LCSW; Janina Fisher, PhD; Kathy Steele, MN, CS; Peter Levine, PhD; Janina Fisher, PhD; Richard Schwartz, PhD; Martha Sweezy, PhD, LICSW; William Nash, MD; Terry Real, MSW, LICSW, Pat Ogden, PhD
- 13 CE/CME • NICABM: Strategies to Treat Patients Trapped in the Freeze Response; How to Identify and Treat Dissociation (Even When It’s Subtle); How to Work with Emerging Defense Responses to Trauma (Beyond the Fight/Flight/Freeze Model); How to Ease the Pain of Trauma-Induced Shame; How to Work with Patients Whose Trauma Triggers Problems in Their Current Relationships; Bodily Impulses; Parents Who Dissociate; Dissociation in Relationships; Polyvagal Approaches to Dissociation; Polyvagal and Emerging Responses; Child Abuse and Neglect; Sex Trafficking; Social Engagement System; Repair Family Ruptures; Polyvagal and Neuroregulation; Relationships and Somatic Interventions; Relationships and IFS
How to Target Treatment to Help Patients Reclaim Their Lives After Trauma with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Ron Siegel, PsyD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Judith Herman, MD
- 2 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Help Clients Break the Cycle of Traumatic Memory; Overcoming the Unique Challenges of Treating Complex PTSD
How to Work with a Client’s Resistance with Sue Johnson, Psy ED; Stephen Porges; PHD; Ron Siegel, PHD; Stan Tatkin, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Rick Hanson, PHD
- 4 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Release the Deep-Rooted Resistance That’s Blocking Your Client from Healing; How to Work with Resistance That’s Linked to a Negative Attachment History; How to Reduce the Threat at the Core of Your Client’s Resistance; The Hidden Fear That May Be Driving Your Client’s Resistance; How to Bring a Client out of a Defensive State; 3 Skills that Dissolve a Client’s Resistance; How to Safely Approach the Vulnerable Parts that are Resisting Change; The Critical Approach that Gets You Past a Client’s Defenses; Harmful Strategies that Lead to Resistance (And How to Deal with Them); How to Help Clients Disengage from Social Comparison; How to Sell Behavior Change to Your Most Challenging Clients: One Way to Shift Your Client’s Ambivalence to Growth; How the Practitioner May be Perpetuating their Client’s Resistance; What Can Happen When Your Resist the Resistance; How to Work with the Resistance that Gets Triggered Inside You, the Therapist; How Impaired Integration Provides the Map for Your Interventions; How to Work with the Resistance Inside Relationships; The Important Message You’re Missing in Your Client’s Resistance; One Change that Can Unravel a Client’s Rigid Beliefs; How to Engage with a Willful Client
Practical Strategies to Foster Post-Traumatic Growth with Daniel Siegel, MD
- 3 CE/CME • NICABM: How We’ve Changed the Way We Think About Trauma; How to Apply Brain Science to Foster Post-Traumatic Growth; How to Work with the Nervous System to Release Trauma that’s Held in the Body; Practical Skills to Help Clients Manage Difficult Emotions; The One Trauma Most Affected by the Therapeutic Relationship (and How to Approach It); Making Sense of the Story – A Major Key to Unlocking Post-Traumatic Growth; How to Guide Clients Through the 10 Steps of Post-Traumatic Growth; What Happens to the Brain During Trauma (and Why it Matters in Your Work)
How to Work with Trauma That’s Trapped in the Body with Pat Ogden, PHD; Ron Siegel, PsyD, Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Kathy Steele, MN, CS
- 2 CE/CME • NICABM: Why You Have to Understand Dissociation to Treat Trauma
How to Target the Limbic System to Reverse Trauma’s Physiological Imprint with Pat Ogden, PHD; Peter Levine, PHD; Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PHD; Ron Siegel, PsyD, Joan Borysenko, PHD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Robert Scaer, MD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Emiliana Simon-Thomas, PHD
- 3 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Target the Limbic System to Reverse Trauma’s Physiological Imprint; Synthesize Key Concepts So You can Use Them Immediately; Discover Concrete Strategies That Will Work in Your Life (and with Your Patients); How the Body’s Incomplete Response to Trauma Can Aggravate Symptoms; How to Work with Clients Who are Stuck in a Trauma Response; How Compassion Balances the Nervous System
The Neurobiology of Willpower with Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD; Bill O’Hanldon, PHD; Marsha Lucas, PHD
- 1.5 CE/CME • NICABM: The Neurobiology of Willpower
How to Work with Clients Who Struggled with an Inner Critic with Daniel Siegel, MD; Susan Johnson Psy ED; Ron Siegel, PsyD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Stan Tatkin, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD
- 4 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Neutralize the Power of an Inner Critic; What’s Going on in the Brain When the Inner Critic is Active; Quieting the Toxic Inner Voice that Can Drive Shame; How to Break the Patterns that Sustain an Inner Critic; How to Help a Client Build Core Beliefs of Self Worth; Expanding a Client’s Capacity to Make Mistakes; One Missing Skill that Can Boost the Self-Critic’s Power; Helping Clients Break Free of the Inner Perfectionist; How to Work with the Inner Critic and Depression; Practical Ways to Repeal and Replace the Inner Critic; How to Foster the Inner Nurturer; Adjusting a Shame Posture to Help Quiet the Inner Critic; How to Work with Internalized Criticism from Societal Oppression; Repairing the Inner Critic in Relationships
Training the Brain for More Happiness with Rick Hanson, PHD; Ron Siegel, PsyD; Kelly McGonigal, PhD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Kelly McGonigal, PHD
- 2.5 CE/CME • NICABM: Mindset, Mindfulness, and Brain Change: Why Mindset and Mindfulness are Key to Brain Change, Stress Response, and Success
Working with Core Beliefs of “Never Good Enough” with Sue Johnson, PSY ED; Rick Hanson, PHD; Ron Siegel, PsyD; Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT; Kelly McGonigal, PHD
- 5 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Help Clients Heal from Deeply-Internalized Judgment; Three Tools to Help Clients Reverse a Sense of Worthlessness; How EMDR Can Reprocess the Felt Sense of “Never Good Enough”; A Bottom-Up Approach to Working with Implicit Memories of Inadequacy; How to Repair an Attachment History That Fosters Self-Loathing; How to Help Clients Disengage from Social Comparison; How to Resource Clients Against Toxic Self-Judgment; One Life-Changing Antidote to a Root Sense of Unworthiness; How to Help Clients Internalize Positive Experiences; One Way a CBT Practitioner Works with Negative Core Beliefs; How to Help Clients Reframe Their “Never Good Enough” Narrative; How to Rewire the Self-Critical Mind; How to Approach Unrealistic Expectations of Perfection; How to Reverse the One Fear That Fuels Inner Contempt; One Exercise to Shift Clients Out of a Self-Judging Mindset; How Social Prejudice Can Cultivate Imposter Syndrome; How to Break the “Never Good Enough” Cycle in Relationships
How to Foster Post-Traumatic Growth with Sue Johnson, EdD; Stephen Porges, PhD; Steven Hayes, PHD; Pat Ogden, PHD; Marsha Linehan, PHD; Shelly Harrell, PHD; Ron Siegel, PsyD; Kelly McGonigal, PhD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PhD; Michael Yapko, PHD; Scott Miller, PHD; Laurel Parnell, PHD; Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MF; Christine Padesky, PHD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT
- 3.5 CE/CME • NICABM: How to Help Clients Engage with the Pain of Trauma to Foster Growth; The Neurobiology of Post-Traumatic Growth; The Critical Role of Connection in Post-Traumatic Growth; How to Reframe the Context of Trauma to Shift Clients Out of Self-Blame; How to Promote Growth After Early Life Trauma; How to Help Clients Make Sense of a World Altered by Trauma; How a Change in Our Perspective Can Speed a Client’s Growth; How Your Choice of Language Can Transform an Intervention (And Foster Growth); How to Help Clients Regain the Parts of their Lives Lost to Trauma; Are Some Clients Predisposed for Post-Traumatic Growth; How to Foster Post-Traumatic Growth in Relationships; How to Help Clients Who Are Suffering From a Loved One’s Trauma (Vicarious Trauma); How to Help Clients Complete the Journey from Trauma to Post-Traumatic Growth; 3 Core Elements that Move Clients from Pain to Growth
Practical Skills for Working with Clients Who Are Angry
- 3 CE/CME • NICABM: What Can Happen If You Call Your Clients “Angry”; 5 Skills to Immediately Defuse Anger; How to Help Your Clients Release “Stuck” Anger; Strategies to Help Your Clients Stay Engaged with Their Anger; Why Anger Can Become an Addiction – and How to Help Clients Break Free; How to Approach the Rageful Parts of Trauma-based Anger; How to Help Clients Overcome the Main Fear that Drives Hostility; What Can Go Wrong When Working with Angry Couples; How to Work with an Angry Client Who is Critical of You; Two Ways to Work with a Passive-Aggressive Client; Why Forgiveness Work is Especially Effective with Anger; An EMDR Approach to Anger; An Internal Family Systems Approach to Anger; Case Study: How Feelings of Anger and Love Physically Affect Us; Perspectives on the Roots of Anger; How Anger Affects the Brain and Body
Practical Strategies for Working with Deep-Seated Resentment with Janina Fisher, PHD; Stephen Porges, PHD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Stan Tatkin, PHD; Ron Siegel, PSYD
- 4.5CE/CME • NICABM: Helping Clients Understand Resentment (and Why It’s So Easily Triggered); Anger and Grief: From the Expression of Resentment to Its Roots; Practical Strategies for Helping Clients Process Resentment; The Secret to Preventing Resentment from Developing: Failsafe Strategies for Helping Clients Manage Expectations; How to Help Couples Heal Resentment; How to Help Clients Manage Resentment within Their Family; How to Work with Resentment Expressed as Righteous Indignation; Working with Resentment When Trauma is a Factor; Skills for Working with the Complicated Issue of Forgiveness Versus Reconciliation; Integrating Mindfulness to Help Clients Dissolve Resentment; Working with Resentment That Stems from Social Injustice; How to Work with a Client Who is Resentful Towards You; How to Work with the Nervous System to Mitigate Resentment; Three Writing Exercises to Help Your Client Work Through Resentment; A 5-Step Mindfulness-Based Process to Help Clients Release Anger and Neutralize Resentment
Expert Strategies for Working with Anxiety with Sue Johnson, EDD; Stephen Porges, PHD; Peter Levine, PHD; Joan Borysenko, PHD; Kelly McGonigal, PHD; Shelly Harrell; Ron Siegel, PsyD; Christine Padesky, PHD; Rick Hanson, PHD; Steven Hayes, PHD; Michael Yapko, PHD; Pat Ogden, PHD; Richard Schwartz, PHD; Scott Miller, PHD; Stan Tatkin; PsyD, MFT, Laurel Parnell, PHD; Ellyn Bader, PHD
- 4 CE/CME • NICABM: Practical Skills to Break the Panic-Anxiety Loop; Four Core Strategies to Neutralize Stress and Anxiety; How to Transform a Client’s Anxiety from Fear to Confidence; How to Expand a Client’s Tolerance for Anxiety; How to Maximize the Power of a Client’s Coping Strategies; How to Work with the Root Pain of Highly-Anxious Clients; How to Work with Conflicting Sources of Anxiety; How to Help Clients See the Possibilities Beyond Anxiety; Treating the Anxious Brain; Practical Ways to Diminish the Inner Experience of Anxiety; An EMDR Approach for Healing Generalized Anxiety Disorder; How to Repair Anxiety Inside Relationships


“I’ve watched Camille across the years, and I’m excited to recommend her as someone who can help you find love and connection in your life.
She’s a wonderful coach, who brings gentle kindness into her work in a way that creates powerful insights and strong connections.”
DR. REBECCA JORGENSEN
Building a Lasting Connection® Co-Developer,
Director of the San Diego Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy
and TRI EFT Alliant.