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Brain Care: Applying the Neuroscience of Well-Being

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Explore how to implement lifestyle choices that protect the physical brain as our clients age, and extend the “health span” portion of our lifespan
Explore how to apply the tools of self-directed neuroplasticity in therapy that help reverse the impact of stress and trauma on emotional regulation, learning and memory, and empathy
Explore how to engage clients with practices such as guided visualizations and process journaling that can enhance the higher brain’s capacity for response flexibility, discernment, planning, creativity, and imagination
Explore how to apply interventions that help prevent/reverse addiction to digital technology and recover capacities for focused attention and concentration, relational intimacy, introspection, and self-reflection
Explore how to use valuable resources in the latest findings about the brain and the mind-body connections

Brain Switch: Apply Polyvagal and Memory Reconsolidation Theories with Parts Work, Somatic, and Mindful Approaches

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Explore the therapeutic impact of activating brain centers that neutralize stressful neurochemicals
Explore how to regulate sensations from disturbing emotions by balancing them with uplifting neurochemicals
Explore the power of visual images to externalize distress, enhance attunement, and create pathways to implicit memories and inner assets
Explore ways to integrate a variety of therapeutic approaches into a three-step, brain-based protocol that can be used with diverse populations and ages

Copyright : 23/03/2018

Calming the Anxious Brain

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Use examples to illustrate how the anxious brain functions and how to use that information in session to improve treatment outcomes.
Describe the role of the amygdala and cortex in maintaining anxiety disorders s for purposes of client psychoeducation.
Explain how learning about the neuroscience of anxiety can improve client engagement.
Use neurologically informed CBT techniques to help clients reduce anxious responding by making changes in both the cortex and the amygdala.

Calming the Anxious Brain - Part 2

Copyright : 22/03/2019

Helping Clients Unlearn Their Pain: The New Neuroscience of Pain

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Discover an approach to distinguishing clients with psychophysiologic pain from those with more structurally caused pain
Discover how to help clients understand the psychophysiological process for pain in ways that encourage their commitment to positive action
Discover how to use mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral techniques to address psychophysiologic pain in clients

Copyright : 24/03/2018

Treating Complex Trauma Clients at the Edge: How Brain Science Can Inform Interventions

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Evaluate the extreme symptoms of trauma by determining if they are rooted in sympathetic activation or parasympathetic withdrawal to inform clinical treatment interventions.
Articulate methods by which neuroscience can be interfaced with psychotherapy practices to improve clinical outcomes.

BONUS: Accessing the Deep Brain with Brainspotting with David Grand, Ph.D.

Symptoms of unprocessed trauma-including dissociation, numbing, and chronic anxiety-are notoriously difficult to eliminate through talk therapy, since the overwhelmed brain is unable to process verbal information about the events. But Brainspotting, a brain-based method of clearing trauma blockage without clients having to talk about it, nurtures their capacity for natural self-healing.

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Identify how specific eye movements, including wobbles and microsaccades, as well as other facial cues and reflexes reveal specific “spots” in the brain
Describe “brainspots,” the eye positions associated with the activation of trauma
Instruct traumatized clients to attend to their inner experience as they move through dissociative blocks and maximize a process of self-healing
Develop skills that allow you to pay attention to interactions with clients while staying attuned to the internal brain changes reflected in their eye movements