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

• 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