Advanced Applications of Integrative Medicine for Mental Health by Leslie Korn Institute for Integrative Medicine

This live online course addresses advanced methods, interventions, and case review with live lectures and Q+A discussion, preceded by required textbook reading in preparation for each module.

We will identify and resolve challenges encountered within the current caseload as one applies the BrainBow Blueprint™ methods as an Integrative Mental Health Medicine Provider.

Topics include client program adherence and challenges applications of herbal, nutritional dietary, somatic, and other approaches in the BrainBow Blueprint®, strategies for reducing and eliminating medications, matching intervention plans to personality and diagnosis, and specific protocols for intervention at different stages of readiness and recovery.

Participants will be asked to sign a confidentiality statement regarding case discussions.

Fantasy, Porn and "Sexual Addiction" in Relationships

This course takes a deep-dive into the nature and importance of fantasy, the myths and challenges surrounding porn consumption in partnership, and the spectrum of behaviors associated with the blanket term “sex addiction.” Attendees will gain a clearer sense for why and how to treat these areas of sexual life as distinctly separate issues and areas of importance in terms of exploration, understanding, and clear agreement setting in relationships.

EMDR Therapy & Somatic Psychology for Chronic Pain and Illness

You will learn tools to address client experiences related to medical mismanagement, invasive medical procedures, or the lack of control that commonly arises with chronic pain and illness. Treating somatic disorders and illness can be challenging; especially when the etymology lies in complex, developmental trauma.

Depolarizing Therapeutic Presence: Utilizing Principles of the Experiential Democracy Dialogue to Help Therapists Reduce Polarization with Clients

This 3-hour beginner level online workshop will provide skills for therapists who are challenged by the cultural and political stances of their clients and how those stances manifest and potentially affect the therapeutic relationship. Dr. Schneider will introduce the concept of the “polarized mind” (the fixation on a single point of view to the utter exclusion of competing points of view), which he developed based on extensive existential-depth and social-psychological research on the roots of human destructiveness.

EMDR with Survivors of Violence

In this 7-hour intermediate level course, Amy Terrell LMHC shares her expertise in advocacy and treatment of survivors of human to human violence, suicide and traumatic loss. Learn how to work effectively with survivors in all 8 phases, incorporate Francine Shapiro’s Recent Events Protocol, Jim Knipe’s CIPOS and BHS protocols, ethically navigate the legal system, with specific case conceptualization and resourcing, prepare for legal meetings prior to processing, and assist clients with powerlessness and inappropriate responsibility.

Healing the Hidden Wounds: An EMDR Approach To Working with First Responders, Military, Veterans, and Their Loved Ones

This EMDR Specialty workshop is designed to assist you in integrating EMDR therapy when working within the Public Safety, First Responder, and Military cultures. Through lecture and demonstration, you will develop skills to apply the AIP Theory to those who respond to high-crisis, dangerous, and emergent situations experienced in the line of duty and/or active duty.

Deeper Connections: EMDR with Couples and Families

This EMDR Specialty course will assist you in integrating EMDR therapy with couples and families. You'll learn to apply the AIP theory to relational and systemic issues, identify relationship, identify attachment deficits and develop collaborative positive resources.

EMDR & Ethics

The key to being an ethical therapist is being willing to notice and apply ethics as a routine part of practice. This includes competently resolving dilemmas that come up. This course will engage the therapist in an ethical discussion to explore unique EMDR practice questions related to preparedness, hesitancy to process and emotional content.

EMDR Reboot

This 7-hour training is an EMDR Basic Training refresher which will strengthen your knowledge and understanding of the AIP model as well as the procedural steps of the eight phases of EMDR therapy! Having strong EMDR foundational EMDR skills not only will improve your effectiveness but will support the learning and integration of advanced EMDR Skills.

Clinical Advocacy for Transgender and Non-Binary Clients

As more individuals are able to live their lives as themselves, as their affirmed gender; and, as more insurance companies offer benefits inclusive of gender affirming care; more and more behavioral health providers are being contacted by transgender and non-binary individuals for support. Effective mental health treatment with transgender and non-binary clients requires clinicians to create a safe and affirming treatment environment, as well as to develop specialized clinical competencies and considerations.

Stuck? Now What! EMDR with Resistant Adolescents and Adults

If you have clients that are challenging and resistant, you are not alone. Client resistance is a common barrier that EMDR therapists face. This presentation will address a number of new and existing strategies for working with resistant adolescents and adults that can be used throughout the 8 phases of EMDR therapy. Elyse Harper, LMFT loves working with hostile and resistant clients and finds working with adolescents ‘easy’. This training will offer many ideas to successfully work with our most difficult-to-engage clients.

Dealing with Avoidance in EMDR Therapy: Blocking Beliefs, Defenses and Getting Unstuck

This workshop will explore client and clinician avoidance in EMDR therapy. Targeting blocking beliefs and defenses with EMDR will be taught, using Jim Knipe’s EMDR Toolbox procedures. Clinician avoidance will be addressed through practice sessions with partners in the training to deepen the learning of procedures to use with clients.

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