Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based approach that encourages clients to recognize avoidance patterns that paradoxically exacerbate, rather than reduce, suffering; and to accept their experience as it is in the here and now. ACT’s central goal is to … Read more
In this experiential institute, participants will learn and practice skills from the four skill modules of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT): Core mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. The specific goals of the DBT skills are to develop coping skills … Read more
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a treatment designed specifically for individuals with self-harm behaviors, such as self-cutting, suicide thoughts, urges to suicide, and suicide attempts. Come learn about a comprehensive model for working effectively with clients who present in overwhelming distress … Read more
Description: In this advanced workshop, participants will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding and practice with Motivational Interviewing principles and strategies. They will increase their proficiency in differentiating between change talk and commitment language, and learn how to elicit and … Read more
**This is an Intermediate Level Course** Description: Health care and medical insurance are hot button issues with ethical implications. Professional ethics of mental health practitioners not only address the competence of service provision, but also the commitment to making services … Read more
**This is an Intermediate Level Course** Description: Most people want to avoid anything that reminds them of the trauma they experienced, but such avoidance reinforces their fear and traps them in a life that is inconsistent with their values. Prolonged Exposure … Read more
Description: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an evidence-based practice that integrates humanistic-experiential and systemic interventions guided by attachment theory, is an approach relevant to all psychotherapists even if they don’t practice couple or family format therapies. It provides a lens and … Read more
Description: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a contemporary cognitive-behavioral therapy that is densely grounded in contextual behavioral science, emphasizing the way in which behavior functions as avoidance or control of difficult internal experience. The ACT model aims to change … Read more
Description: As a community, we are in need of practitioners who can work effectively with people suffering with chronic physical pain. This is especially pressing given the changes in prescription practices that are currently taking place around chronic pain management. This workshop … Read more
Description: This daylong session will focus on practical issues in the treatment of clients with borderline personality disorder. DBT has become a well known evidence-based practice for working with people with borderline personality disorder. However it is only one of … Read more