Empowering Wellness in Recovery: Applied Neuroscience in Psychotherapy

Description

Due to the uncertainties of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and for the safety of all concerned,
it has been decided these sessions will be via livestream webinar only.
Learn and teach tools for presence, perspective, emotional regulation and heart / mind coherence. The skills you learn in this course will help you to assist clients in recovery from mood disorders and substance use. Recovery from trauma and addiction has been shown to improve in direct proportion with distress tolerance, and a more thorough understanding of the human autonomic nervous system will help clients mindfully shift from stressful reactions to a greater sense of safety and connection.

Research has shown that self-limiting neural patterns may be intercepted and changed through specific interventions. This course will offer a framework for how this may be achieved through pairing techniques, over time and with practice, as clients learn to adapt compassion-based approaches while taking into account individual factors. You will also learn psychological skills to create a therapist self-care plan that will enhance clinical outcomes and your enjoyment of your work.

Join Dr. Debra Premashakti-Alvis, an experienced and skilled presenter, for an experiential day of practice and clinical application. Return to your practice inspired, renewed, and with a resiliency toolbox to apply in addressing an array of clinical concerns.

Group Registrations

Registering 5 or more participants with one payment? Please use the paper registration form at the end of the PDF brochure. Send completed paper registrations for the full group to the Registration Team at MAHEC.

Fax: 828.257.4768 | Email: MAHEC Registration

Target Audience

Mental health professionals, including psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed professional counselors, substance use professionals, licensed marriage and family therapists, peer support specialists, and others interested in this topic.

Objectives

Upon completion of this seminar, participants will be able to:

• Explain how presence and awareness can enhance the cultivation of the therapeutic relationship and build client resilience
• Employ contemplative practices to impact the stress reaction and shift clients to a relaxation response
• Evaluate how compassion-based interventions utilized in treatment plans for anxiety can help counter automatic patterns of thought
• Assess how mindfulness techniques can be taught in the clinical setting to help depressed clients manage negative self-talk
• Support a decentered perspective to enhance addiction treatment and help clients identify triggers that could lead to relapse
• Employ grounding techniques and breathing exercises that may be used to increase feelings of safety in traumatized clients

Faculty

• Debra K. Alvis, PhD, MMT, C-IAYT