100 Brain-Changing Mindfulness Techniques to Integrate Into Your Clinical Practice

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Rochelle Calvert, PhD, CMT, SEP, BCBA Related seminars and products

New Mindful Life

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Rochelle Calvert (Voth), Ph.D., CMT, SEP, BCBA, is the founder of New Mindful Life. She has studied mindfulness for the past 16 years and has taught classes, courses, workshops and retreats. Rochelle leads classes/courses/seminars in Six-week Introductory Training in Mindfulness, (S.I.T.), Awake in the Wild- Nature-Based Mindfulness retreats, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness Based Eating, Mindful Parenting and Mindful Workplace. She also facilitates professional trainings in mindfulness for clinicians and travels the country teaching seminars for PESI. She also works as clinical psychologist in private practice in San Diego.

Rochelle offers mindfulness, nature-based therapy and somatic experiencing as a psychologist with New Mindful Life. Her therapeutic approach includes teaching people individual mindfulness meditations - both indoors and outdoors - specific to their unique concerns to support healing. She also integrates somatic experiencing healing (body-based healing through nervous system reorganization) with the mindfulness and nature-based meditation practices. Rochelle has therapeutic specialty areas of training to support integration of these services to individuals struggling with life transitions, depression, anxiety, PTSD, pain conditions, eating disorders, as well as families of developmentally delayed children/adults.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Rochelle Calvert is in private practice and is an adjunct faculty for Southwestern College and New Earth Institute. She is an author who receives royalties. Rochelle receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Rochelle Calvert has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Motivate clients to engage in treatment with understandable psychoeducational explanations regarding the research and practices associated with mindfulness.
2. Formulate treatment plans for anxiety that include mindfulness techniques that can be used to regulate the client’s arousal state.
3. Integrate mindfulness interventions into therapy that can help depressed clients manage negative thoughts and reduce the risk of relapse.
4. Articulate how mindfulness training can be used as an adjunctive therapy with evidence-based treatment to enhance attention in clients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
5. Communicate how mindfulness-based approaches can help clients observe internal reactions and establish how this information can be used in the treatment of posttraumatic stress symptoms.
6. Instruct clients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) on the utilization of mindfulness skills that can facilitate disengagement from repetitive thoughts.

Outline

Mindfulness – the Neurobiology of Brain Changes

• Neuroplasticity and the brain
• Evidence for Mindfulness as a treatment
• Brain changes for specific disorders

4 Steps to Integrate Mindfulness into Clinical Practice

• How to teach Mindfulness in session
• Techniques to increase client use of Mindfulness at home
• Strategies for processing what happens with your client
• Strategies to identify and overcome obstacles & resistance

Mindfulness Strategies for Specific Disorders

• Mindfulness of breath
• Present moment awareness
• Core practice
• Mindfulness of thoughts
• Mindfulness of tasks
• Mindfulness of intention
• Mindfulness of intuition
• Plus many more

Anxiety & Depression

• Calm the arousal state and relax mind and body
• Reduce anxious thoughts
• Focus on the present
• Decrease negative thoughts
• Shift and improve mood state & increase pleasure

PTSD

• Calm the arousal state
• Improve ability to stay grounded in the present
• Reduce traumatic thoughts

Panic & OCD

• Reduce frequency and intensity of panic attacks
• Increase awareness of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours
• Decrease obsessive thinking and compulsions

Bipolar Disorder

• Increase awareness of mood state
• Stabilize mood over time

ADHD

• Improve concentration
• Increase task completion
• Reduce hyperactivity

Pain & Sleep

• Accept and embrace the pain
• Calm busy thoughts
• Relax the mind and body
• Fall asleep and stay asleep

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Case Managers
• Addiction Counselors
• Occupational Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Psychotherapists
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals