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FROM LOCKDOWNS TO A NEW 'COVID' NORMAL - a series of short seminars to resource your work with pandemic-affected clients.
As we work our way through an unprecedented time of protracted and repeated lockdowns, social restrictions, and ongoing uncertainty, many people find that their existing coping strategies are not holding up. Soaring rates of anxiety, depression, suicide, loss and grief, substance abuse, domestic violence and many more issues have put our whole society under duress and mental health professionals are faced with situations for which we have little sound prior experience.
We offer this series as a gift to our professional community and hope it serves as a useful resource as you continue the valuable work you undertake in caring for your clients, your loved ones, and yourselves.
IFS can support both therapists and clients by acknowledging the many parts that have experienced lockdown and Covid in their own ways. This webinar will provide an overview of IFS as a systemic parts model and the roles parts play in our lives. I will then model a process (Clearing a Space) for acknowledging each part and ‘unblending’ from it enough to bring more space, or ease and less activation into the client's body-mind. This process is simple to learn and can support affect regulation, mindfulness and self-compassion.
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Our community and way of life have changed rapidly during the pandemic, requiring adjustments to how we live, socialise and work. Anxiety and stress are heightened from demands, uncertainty and risks to ourselves and others. Pandemic fatigue and feeling blah can take centre stage as the days and weeks of lockdown blend and restrictions keep us apart from people, places and activities that are meaningful and nourish wellbeing. It is not surprising that so many are feeling stressed, disconcerted and out of sorts.
Underpinned by polyvagal wisdoms we will explore the physiology of the arising stress and somatic states. A diverse array of neurosensory practices will be shared that can help with reducing unhelpful arousal and restoring internal calm and stability. There will be the opportunity to try out several of these during the seminar, so come prepared to explore and experiment.
We are living our lives without the support of so many familiar systems, routines and rhythms and much of our exterior structure has disappeared. This additionally contributes to overwhelm and makes it harder to down-regulate. As a response, strategies of containment and structure can help with organising our interior lives to the extent we can.
Applying these insights and skills in your personal and professional contexts can make it a little easier to navigate the day-to-day demands and cope through challenging times. Accessible references will support you to readily share practices with family, friends and clients of all ages.
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Process Oriented Psychology (POP) is a gentle and far reaching modality. It often works with polarities, as our life exists between these extremes. POP typically works experientially: theory/experience/reflections/application to life/application to work. Embodied learning of this nature can be powerful and deep. The more we are activated, the more we learn. POP is designed to work on many levels; mind, body, dreamy states, essence, and conscious and unconscious awareness. We’ll start and finish the session with our regular professional minds.
This exercise supports participants (and clients) to fully and safely express their lows and highs of lockdown life, through journaling and then talking and listening in small groups. The exercise that follows is a careful and effective flow of movement, squiggle drawings, talking, journaling and different states of awareness. This all processes what has been journaled. POP asserts that each time we switch channels e.g. from talking to movement, from movement to squiggle drawing… fresh information arises. This also happens when we switch from wide awake to dreamy states. The participants will benefit and learn through the careful design of the exercise and their personal experience. POP asserts that we are aware of our primary processes and unaware of our secondary ones. The secondary ones are wanting to emerge more fully. This exercise gives access and life to a positive secondary process i.e. a fresh and enlivening perspectives come into our primary identity and understanding. When this happens we may feel relief and excitement about the future. It’s a very good feeling, and it gives inspiration and motivation.
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Revive your interest and enthusiasm in your online work. What if you could get the better of this COVID situation, by skilling up on the Zoom telehealth options to make counselling online a rich and rewarding experience for you and your adult and child clients?
Your Zoom whiteboard is a therapeutic tool gathering dust behind the screen. This workshop will give you a chance to explore what might be possible and make your sessions more exciting.
Our brains were not wired to see the person we are conversing with full on, face-to-face for 50 minutes. When we are both looking at something which is relevant, visually meaningful, interactive and dynamic, the time flies and we also get to save the created work we have done together.
Kim has been using Zoom since 2017 when she began providing clinical supervision to overseas and Australian based students on their Monash Masters of Counselling placements. Since April 2020, Kim has provided over 55 training workshops for private training providers, 7 of these were coaching counsellors and social workers about using the best ever tool for online work: the Zoom whiteboard.
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Although this recorded workshop cannot be interactive, Kim will be inviting you to learn five ways to help clients engage more fully. Kim has dozens of case examples to share from her individual client work and group supervision practice:
1. Hear tips such as selecting ‘Speaker View’, which better represents the way our brains connect to each other: the person you are engaging with is larger than your self-view, and your eyes track closer to the camera, so your client will sense you are looking at them and not another spot on the screen.
2. Watch how to use the Zoom whiteboard to whip up a genogram at intake,
3. Watch the unfolding creation of tailored timelines about the client’s life and history of the problem.
4. See how to document the strengths and hopes and what is going right for the client.
5. See examples of a tailored, Virtual Art Gallery of psych ed material for clients.
6. Listen to case examples and see the visuals created in session.
7. Watch how to share a video to introduce a somatic, movement or breathwork practices.
8. How to gather ‘what was helpful?’ at the end of a session
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1. Increase your awareness of options in Zoom counselling delivery
2. Gain confidence using this creative tool in your online sessions
3. Know how to set-up and how to coach your client to annotate
4. Learn what can be simply drawn and annotated
5.Learn simple therapeutic interventions
6. Select what works for your client group as you watch different therapeutic techniques with different ages
Copyright : 30/09/2021After 18 months, each of us are experiencing the burden of Covid and lockdowns.
Therapist or client, young or old, working more or working less, we can all reduce stress levels by taking slow breaths each day. Slow breathing is a simple skill to improve our health and wellbeing. It is an evidence based, non-pharmacological, free and portable way to minimise the impact of constant stress from Covid, lockdowns and restrictions.
This dynamic presentation offers an introduction to basic biomechanics of respiration and outlines recent research in how slow breaths reduce conditions such as anxiety. This seminar teaches you how to slow the breath and breathe more deeply, to improve mental and physical health. The practical sessions enable you to gain proficiency in this efficacious skill that you can use anywhere, anytime!
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Copyright : 30/09/2021
Whether you work with clients online or face to face during the COVID lockdown, the same issues seem to emerge. Clients or staff often say: “What if mum dies while we have the lock down” or “I have no choice in having to implement this vaccination policy with my staff and have to deal with their fears and concerns” ….
This short session will address some of these issues and will discuss how to hold this ambivalent space and respond to so many issues and concerns that don’t have any answers as such. Working with separation anxiety, clients/staff experiencing that they have no choice and reclaiming one’s ability to choose, and being highly disciplined and conscious of keeping up with self-care are some of the issues that will be presented in this short session to help us through the COVID lockdown.
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For the best part of 2 years now much the world has been coping with a 1 in 100 year global pandemic. Therapists the world over, have been tasked with adapting to this new way of working (e.g. Zoom/Online), and with patients who might present in ways where the present pandemic is a key contextual factor for their current distress. In this webinar, Rob will present several case studies and schema formulations, where the pandemic is implicated, and give strategies for the schema formulation and treatment of such cases.
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1. Understand a schema therapy model of maladjustment.
2. Understand how various contextual triggers related to the COVID19 pandemic (e.g. lockdown, vaccine mandates) can lead to presentations of distress and maladjustment.
3. Understand what modifications to treatment may be implicated in Schema Therapy cases that present as related to the pandemic.
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Copyright : 07/10/2021Eating behaviours have been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The increase of psychological distress, the effects of increased isolation, multiple lock-downs, change in routines and lifestyles have been found to impact people’s relationship with food. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/appetite/special-issue/10PQ7HXZ535). A study of 25000 people in Norway in April 2020, found that 54% of the sample engaged in emotional eating during the onset of the pandemic (https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/1/130/htm). Australian research has also found that COVID-19 has led to increased disordered eating behaviour in those with an existing eating disorder as well as within the general population (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eat.23317).
This workshop will give all participants practical strategies to help manage clients current emotional eating and binge eating behaviours.
The workshop will kick off with a discussion around the effects of COVID on eating patterns of the population. It will then outline the features of problematic emotional eating and differentiate it from responding to physical hunger. When clients present with problematic eating behaviours, it can be important to identify whether their presentation fits within an eating disorder diagnosis. This can be helpful for psycho-education purposes and has implications for treatment. Hence a key outcome of this workshop is to outline diagnostic criteria of different eating disorders. Based on Chris Fairburn’s CBT-E (Enhanced CBT) model, the first step in changing eating behaviours is to use a pros and cons reflection task, which will form part of the discussion. Following this a CBT-E based strategy on binge analysis will be outlined. Suggestions of how to minimize triggers and a number of behavioural strategies, will be given. These strategies form a powerful tool kit for clients to use when they feel the urge to binge or emotionally eat. The DBT strategy of IMPROVE the moment will be outlined to help clients manage their distress. We will also touch on the importance of mindfulness and mindful eating to compliment the strategies above.
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Lizzie Spencer is a highly experienced psychotherapist, coach and academic teacher, based in the Bowral, South of Sydney, Australia.
She taught in Steiner Schools for many years and is also a Social Ecologist, looking to nature for helpful and supportive life systems, and brings active hope to the world.
She is a founding member of the Community of Calm whose aim is to train practitioners in Trauma Awareness and to create a Trauma Resource Centre.
Family Constellations and Process Oriented Psychology are at the heart of her understanding and trauma-informed practice.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lizzie Spencer maintains a private practice. She has employment relationships with the Australian College of Applied Psychology and the University of New England. receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lizzie Spencer is the co-founder of Community of Calm and Arts for Wellness and is accredited by the Australian Counseling Association.
Dr Judy Lovas is an experienced educator in evidence-based Relaxation Therapy and Psychoneuroimmunology and infects others with her passion and enthusiasm for these subjects.
Judy teaches simple relaxation techniques so people can cope better with anxiety, depression, pain, sleep disorders, trauma and chronic conditions. She translates leading research in Psychoneuroimmunology into simple and easily understood concepts.
In the tertiary sector, Judy lectures in psychology, relaxation therapy, psychoneuroimmunology and cellular health. She researched psychological and immunological outcomes of relaxation in people with spinal cord injury. Judy conducts Relaxation Therapy Classes in Sydney and is a coordinator of the Northern Sydney Persistent Pain and Mental Health Professional Network.
When not teaching and presenting, Judy relaxes with family and friends.
Kim is the author of A Counsellor’s Companion: Creative Adventures for Child Counsellors, Parents and Teachers, (2021) as well as a writer of several published articles in the Counselling Australia Journal. Kim’s passion is sharing creative therapeutic interventions that can bring people renewed hope and understandings about themselves, and fresh ideas about how they want to live in the world. Kim’s current work (now mainly using Zoom online) includes counsellor training, child and family counselling, parent consultations, EAP work, clinical supervision, supervising Monash University’s Master of Counselling Students, and Carer’s counselling. Kim has been a regular counsellor training presenter with the Sydney Centre for Creative Change since 2013.
Methods and tools in Kim’s therapeutic toolbox include Mindfulness, Narrative Therapy, ACT, CFT, Creative Expressive Arts, Existential Therapy, befriending emotions using metaphors and storytelling, Tree of Life work and creative timelines to understand the life-long emergence of identity.
Kim has previously worked with clients whose adversities include surviving: refugee trauma, family violence, divorce, out-of-home care, bereavement, and carers of family members with mental health troubles. With three years spent responding to callers at Crisis Support Services such as 24/7 MensLine, Kim has also co-facilitated Men’s Behaviour Change Groups.
Kim’s treasure chest of creativity has been overflowing, culminating in writing a book about child counselling, and another on its way about working with adults. Kim hopes to inspire others who are working to support children, young people and adults on their heroic journeys.
Merle Conyer supports individuals, teams, organisations and communities responding to interpersonal, institutional, political, cultural and environmental trauma, healing and justice. Contexts in which she contributes include mental health, legal, government, academic and community sectors, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services, organisations facilitating redress for institutional abuse, and those contributing to human rights, social justice and environmental justice.
Her track record includes board, management, service delivery and volunteer roles. Through her independent practice she currently offers counselling, supervision, debriefing, training, groupwork, wellbeing support and consulting services. She interweaves interdisciplinary wisdoms such as somatic psychotherapy, trauma-informed practice, narrative therapy, ecological psychotherapy, focusing and mindfulness practices, and is guided by both clinical and cultural supervision. Merle is an Accredited Supervisor and Clinical Member with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia. She holds a Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, Master of Counselling and Applied Psychotherapy, Master of Education, Graduate Diploma of Communication Management (Human Resource Development), and Diplomas of Somatic Psychotherapy and Energetic Healing.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Merle Conyer maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Blue Knot Foundation. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Merle Conyer has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Morag Paterson is a Senior Counselling Psychologist with specialist endorsement through AHPRA. She qualified at University of Roehamptom (London, UK) in 2005. Morag has worked in Psychology related fields for over 20 years where she has gathered a wealth of clinical knowledge and experience. In London, she was a Manager in two Primary Care Mental Health Services, where she managed and supervised Psychologists and Therapists. She arrived in Sydney seven years ago and started her Australian Psychology career in a Private Hospital with people with Addictions. She then undertook a role managing the Inpatient and Day Patient Therapy Services for an Eating Disorder Unit in a Private hospital in Sydney. In this role, she managed and supervised therapy staff as well as developed a Therapy Treatment Program for the Day Program. The treatment program modules drew on the therapeutic frameworks of Motivational Interviewing, CBT-E, DBT and ACT. Morag currently works in private practice in Ultimo and in Sydney CBD.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Morag Paterson has employment relationships with LifeSpace Psychology, En Masse, Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Foresight Psychology. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Morag Paterson has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Robert Brockman is a clinical psychologist and researcher living and working out of Sydney, Australia. Rob has extensive experience lecturing and supervising on Clinical Psychology Masters programs (Western Sydney University; University of Technology) and was a full-time Research Fellow (Psychology) from 2017-2020 (Australian Catholic University). Since 2014, Rob has regularly provided Schema Therapy Training events across Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and South-East Asia, and has trained over 2000 therapists in the schema therapy approach. In 2018 Rob co-authored a new schema therapy book Contextual Schema Therapy, and is lead author of the upcoming release "Cambridge Guide to Schema Therapy", due for publication early 2022.
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OUR PARTS IN LOCKDOWN: Through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS). (The pandemic sessions)
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Leona Dawson, M. Counselling & Applied Psychotherapy, MA (Language & Literacy), TAE40116, Dip Transpersonal Art Therapy, Dip Clinical Hypnosis & Strategic Psychotherapy
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SUPPORTING STRESS RESILIENCE DURING THE PANDEMIC: Wellbeing practices and strategies to increase calm, reduce overwhelm and sustain stability (The Pandemic Sessions)
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Merle Conyer, M. Counselling & Applied Psychotherapy, M. Narrative Therapy & Community Work, M. Education, Dip. Somatic Psychotherapy, Dip. Energetic Healing
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N/A | Digital Seminar | 2 Hours | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PROCESS ORIENTED PSYCHOLOGY - (The pandemic sessions)
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Lizzie Spencer, Masters Social Ecology/Education, Diploma Wholistic Counselling and Psychotherapy, Bachelor Education, Certificate Steiner Education, Family Constellations.
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Working With Clients Affected by Someone Else’s Substance or Behavioural Dependencies (The pandemic sessions)
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Amber Rules, B.CHC (Applied Psychotherapy), M.PACFA
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ZOOM WHITEBOARD IS YOUR ONLINE SUPERPOWER - Making zoom sessions engaging and effective. (The pandemic sessions)
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Kim Billington, B.Ed; M. Couns.; M. Narrative Therapy and Community Work.
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N/A | Digital Seminar | 1 Hour | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING FOR COVID DISTRESS: An effective technique during a difficult time. (The pandemic sessions)
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Dr Judy Lovas, PhD, Dip.Ed.
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N/A | Digital Seminar | 1 Hour | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SUPPORTING CLIENTS IN UNCERTAIN TIMES – working with the anxiety of anticipation, separation and loss in a changeable time. (The pandemic sessions)
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Beaté Steller, M.A.P.S. M.A.Ed. B.S.W (Hon) R.N.
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SCHEMA THERAPY IN THE AGE OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC (The Pandemic Sessions)
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Rob Brockman, PhD (Clinical Psychologist)
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N/A | Digital Seminar | 2 Hours | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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MANAGING EATING DURING COVID: Strategies to help with problematic emotional eating and binge eating during COVID. (The pandemic sessions)
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Morag Paterson, MSc Counselling Psychology, GradDip Psychology, MA Sociology & Social Policy, MAPS.
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