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Integrating Internal Family Systems into your EMDR Practice: A Practical Approach

This lively and informative workshop will summarize a basic introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) theory and demonstrate practical IFS informed clinical interventions into the eight phases of EMDR. Participants will learn through lecture, demonstrations, and experiential learning.

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Sharpening your Focus and Going Deeper with EFT

Renew your confidence by getting help in the areas where you lose focus and get lost in reactivity and misattunement. Learn multiple strategies to make explicit, expand and work through the blocks we all experience. Go deeper with George as he breaks down the moment-to-moment decisions that inform the couple treatment process so you can immediately incorporate powerful, proven techniques into your own work.

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Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Training in Domestic Violence

While every therapist works with clients in varying degrees of relational crisis, encountering domestic violence can leave providers feeling frozen, powerless, and unsure about how to keep their clients safe. At Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center, we assess our survivors' physical, emotional, and psychological safety so we can empower them to move toward greater health. If you want to feel more confident identifying intimate partner violence in its many forms, consider joining us for three hours of essential, interactive learning.

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Long NEUROCOVID: What Has Been Learned

New information will be presented about the evolution of the pandemic, challenges associated with vaccination, and the variants. As the pandemic evolves, its character changes. Vaccines are here, but so are the new virus variants. We have a better understanding of the mechanisms of acute and long NEUROCOVID, and of its impact on various segments of the population.

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Tourette and ADHD: A New Look at an Old Quandary

The ADHD diagnosis has acquired the status of a fad and is often given too casually and inclusively. Conflation between two distinct classes of clinical phenomena, hyperactivity and exploratory behavior, is a common source of ADHD overdiagnosis. Inspired by early insights by Oliver Sacks, we examine the relationship between frontal-lobe syndromes, Tourette syndrome, and Parkinson’s disease.

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Creativity and Cognition

Creativity is a complex construct involving multiple components. We will discuss the various components of creativity. Creativity is not a monolithic trait; there are many paths to creativity. Even the most innovative creative individual ahead of his or her society is a product of that society. We will discuss the relationship between individual creativity, cognition, and the host culture.

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Traumatic Brain Injury

In this course we will review various types of TBI (closed, open, blast); various causes and unique characteristics of motor vehicle accidents, workplace-related, military and sports TBI; various mechanisms of TBI (diffuse axonal injury, contre-coup, neurometabolic cascade); cognitive characteristics (particularly executive and memory impairment); recovery and long-term outcomes.

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Aging and Dementias

In this webinar we will review several major types of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body dementia and its relationship to Parkinson’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, vascular dementia, and others. For each of these disorders we will discuss the underlying neurobiology, epidemiology, natural history, diagnosis, and cognitive characteristics.

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Executive Dysfunction in Brain Disorders

In this webinar we will examine how executive functions are affected in various dementias (including Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body dementia, and Frontotemporal dementia); traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular disease, neuropsychiatric disorders (including schizophrenia and affective disorders), infectious encephalopathies, seizure disorders, and other clinical conditions, including viral encephalopathies, like neuro-COVID.

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The Integrative Management of Stress and Anxiety: A Pragmatic Approach for Clinical Practice

In this three-part module course for clinicians of all specialties, Dr. Prousky, makes a case for moderating stress and anxiety symptoms by using a pragmatic treatment philosophy – derived from contemporary stress and neurobiological research – to support enhanced clinical outcomes. Protocols to treat stress and common anxiety disorders will enable you to maximize therapeutic interventions for your patients.

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Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome: Infection, Autoimmunity & Mental Illness by Psychiatry Redefined

This course describes the clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, laboratory evaluation, and treatment protocols for patients with PANS. It will also detail clinical studies performed by Dr. Kinderlehrer that suggest this is a widespread problem.

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The Amuse System: Utilizing Laughter In Therapy

Smiling, humor and laughter all have a physiological role in human health. Utilizing humor and laughter in therapy, when used appropriately, can have multiple benefits for patients. In this course by Dr. Ralph Carson, learn how humor and laughter in psychotherapy have great potential in a treatment setting, especially for stress-induced, dysfunctional eating behaviors.

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Functional & Integrative Medicine for Mental Illness – Fundamentals for Therapists

Join Dr. Greenblatt as he explores how functional and integrative medicine can offer psychologists, therapists, counselors, and social workers new treatment avenues for mental illness by addressing biochemical imbalances that contribute to pathology.

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Optimizing Sleep As an Antidote for Trauma by Psychiatry Redefined

Trauma often causes ongoing mental health issues and sleep disturbances. Resolving sleep disorders is often critical for recovery after trauma. This course explores the intertwined relationship between trauma and sleep, along with potential interventions focused on improving sleep to facilitate trauma recovery.

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The Neuroscience of Happiness: Providing Hope for Recovery from Disordered Eating by Psychiatry Redefined

While happiness is often underlying most everyone's goals and desires, a practical understanding of achieving happiness and healing is often missing. By providing a scientific understanding of what engages healing within the brain, it becomes possible to utilize the tools of hope and belief to help achieve recovery.

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