Healing in Anxious Times: Essential Guidance from Psychotherapys Leaders – Bessel van der Kolk and Others

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The COVID-19 pandemic has robbed us, and our clients, from the ability to connect in our usual ways.

As Bessel van der Kolk shares in his New York Times #1 bestselling book The Body Keeps the Score, we need social support to provide protection against becoming overwhelmed by stress, anxiety and trauma.

…but social support is NOT the same as simply being in the physical presence of each other. It’s so much deeper.

The critical issue is making those we interact with feel truly heard and seen.

That’s why we’ve brought together 20 of psychotherapy’s thought leaders and clinical experts for a unique online course where they talk about how we can best adapt, connect, and create safe connections —so you can provide high-quality care and support that helps your clients overcome overwhelming stress, anxiety, and trauma.

Register today and not only will you get real-time access to the minds and musings of the field’s top experts, including Bessel van der Kolk, Dick Schwartz, Peter Levine, Julie Gottman, Deb Dana, Gabor Maté, and more…

Discover how to build a better professional future… you will learn how to:

• Create connections and safety to help your clients cope and recover
• Support caregivers who are balancing multiple roles in the household (parent, teacher, at-home employee) by teaching them emotional regulation skills
• Discover how to regain balance and find greater peace through the cultivation of awe and gratitude – even when things are hard
• Navigate relationships that have been inundated with stress, anxiety, and uncertainty with the Gottman Method
• Empower clients to embrace their discomfort rather than avoid through mindfulness centered CBT
• Integrate Polyvagal Theory and body-based interventions into treatment to help clients regulate, rest, and recover

Register today and you’ll get…

• 13 presentations from today’s leading experts
• On-Demand Access to ALL video training, slides & clinical resources
• Up to 11.5 CE hours
• Access to interactive message boards to network and connect with your peers
• FREE bonus seminar 

Your Course Outline

SESSION 1:

Stop the Dread & Avoidance of Anxiety! How to Apply IFS Techniques for Anxiety

With Dick Schwartz, PhD, Developer of Internal Family Systems

The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model offers a unique and easy way to help your clients stop avoiding their anxious “parts” and instead learn to nurture and comfort them.??

Join Dick as he shows you step-by-step how to help your clients discover their parts that are stuck in the past, retrieve them from those scary times, and unload the fear they carry.

SESSION 2: 

Creating a Story of Safety: A Polyvagal Guide to Managing Anxiety

With Deb Dana, LCSW, author “The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy”

For clients who are stuck in a persistent state of worry and uncertainty, the world feels unsafe.

Using the Polyvagal perspective, Deb offers a path toward helping clients engage and regulate their bodies to instill a sense of safety, manage anxiety and create a roadmap back to calm.  

SESSION 3: 

Mindfulness-Centered CBT: Daily Practices for Managing Stress & Anxiety

With Seth Gillihan, PhD, professor, author “Re-Train Your Brain: CBT in 7 Weeks”

Discover how to integrate mindfulness-centered CBT practices into one’s daily routine, from the first moments after awakening until going to bed at night.

Designed as checkpoints throughout the day, these straightforward and practical exercises help clients keep stress and anxiety within a manageable range while increasing self-efficacy to handle inevitable challenging emotional states.

SESSION 4: 

Anxiety & Relationships in the New Era 

With Julie Gottman, PhD, co-founder & president, Gottman Institute

This powerful session explores one of the most common hidden threats to a relationship:  Anxiety. 

Through the lens of the world-renowned Gottman Method, you’ll learn the surprising ways anxiety manifests itself in one or both partners – and how to help couples overcome it. 

SESSION 5: 

A Corona Love story: TEAM-CBT Approach to Cope with Crisis

With David Burns, MD, author of the upcoming “Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Anxiety & Depression”

Framed by an intense case study of a family separated by the recent pandemic, David Burns shows you how ruminative thoughts become distorted and further fuel anxiety and depression – particularly in response to a real and overwhelming crisis – and how the TEAM-CBT approach can help.

SESSION 6: 

Helping Parents Through a Pandemic: Avoiding Pitfalls & Amplifying Opportunities

With Lynn Lyons, LCSW, author “Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents”

Although the current circumstances are unique, the skills worried parents need to cope while interrupting catastrophic (and contagious) patterns remain the same. 

Join Lynn to learn about a family approach packed with concrete information and guidance to help stressed families find relief – it’s more important than ever!?

SESSION 7: 

The Traumatic Impact of a Global Pandemic & How it will Shape Patient Care in the Future

With Bessel van der Kolk, MD, founder Trauma Research Foundation, author “The Body Keeps the Score”

Join Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of the New York Times #1 bestselling book The Body Keeps the Score and learn critically important approaches to use with your clients that address creating connection and activities that keep them attached and out of re-experiencing past traumas.

SESSION 8: 

EMDR in Trying Times: How Our Brains Process & Move Through Trauma

With Deany Laliotis, LCSW, Director of Training, EMDR Institute

Through captivating case vignettes, learn how EMDR therapy can offer brief and effective treatment to help our clients restore their resiliency and increase their capacity to respond effectively to today’s ever-growing demands and stress. 

SESSION 9: 

The “Wow” Factor: The New Ways Clinicians Can Use Awe & Gratitude in Therapy

With Jonah Paquette, PsyD, author “Awestruck” and “Real Happiness”

Discover how to regain balance and find greater peace through the cultivation of awe, wonder, and gratitude in our daily lives.

By learning to savor the good amidst the difficulties, and by opening ourselves up to moments of awe and wonder, we can calm our nervous system and foster feelings of peace, and connectedness.

SESSION 10: 

Pandemic & Panic: Facing Viral Realities & Viral Fears

With Gabor Maté, MD, author “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts”

As humans, we experience the pandemic both as a shared encounter and one that is unique to each of us. 

This seminar will explore what our response to the post-COVID-19 world can teach us about ourselves, and how the anxieties it reveals, when properly metabolized, help fortify us for the inevitable new normal.    

*No CE credits are available for this session.

SESSION 11:

Mindfulness, Resilience, & Post-Traumatic Growth

With Chris Willard, PhD, professor, author of “Raising Resilience”

Join Chris to explore the foundations of resilience and post traumatic growth, looking to human history, anthropology and neuroscience as we discover mindfulness tools that have boosted human resilience and beat back anxiety in the face of adversity for generations.?

SESSION 12: 

Immobility & Fear in the Face of Helplessness: The Somatic Connection

With Peter Levine, PhD, founder, Somatic Experiencing Institute

An invisible threat like COVID-19 can cause havoc to your client’s nervous system – leading to feelings of isolation, anxiety, grief, anger, and depression.

In this session, Peter will show you how you can use the insight of Somatic Experiencing (SE) to address trauma that we hold deep within our bodies, so you can help your clients find relief from their trauma and stress during this difficult time. 

SESSION 13:

Racial Injustice and Trauma: How therapists can respond

• With Gail Parker, PhD, President of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance (BYTA), author of “Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma”;
• S. Kent Butler, PhD, President-Elect for the American Counseling Association (ACA), past president of the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD), Interim Chief Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Officer at University of Central Florida;
• Monnica T. Williams, PhD, ABPP, coauthor of “Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities: Promoting Equity and Culturally Responsive Care across Settings”
• Amber Flynn, MA, LCPC, NCC, race-based trauma specialist;
• Deran Young, LCSW, founder of Black Therapists Rock;
• Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDIV, has counseled individuals, couples, and families from a variety of cultural backgrounds;
• Zachary R. Taylor, MA LPC, NCC, Director of Continuing Education at Psychotherapy Networker

Healing racial injustice and trauma is not a new topic within psychotherapy, but too often it’s been unacknowledged and therapists of color have gone unheard.

As one way to open up more learning and listening opportunities in this area, you’ll receive free access to two one-hour panel discussions around the issue of racial injustice and trauma.

These important conversations, featuring the perspectives and guidance of several clinicians and thought leaders, will highlight how we can bring issues of race into therapy, and how we can confront racial disparities in our field and professional communities.