David D. Burns, S. Kent Butler, Deb Dana and Lambers Fisher – Healing in Anxious Times

The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model offers a unique and easy way to help your clients stop avoiding their anxious “parts” and instead learn to nurture and comfort them.

Join Dick as he shows you step-by-step how to help your clients discover their parts that are stuck in the past, retrieve them from those scary times, and unload the fear they carry.

For clients who are stuck in a persistent state of worry and uncertainty, the world feels unsafe.

Using the Polyvagal perspective, Deb offers a path toward helping clients engage and regulate their bodies to instill a sense of safety, manage anxiety and create a roadmap back to calm.

Discover how to integrate mindfulness-centered CBT practices into one’s daily routine, from the first moments after awakening until going to bed at night.

Designed as checkpoints throughout the day, these straightforward and practical exercises help clients keep stress and anxiety within a manageable range while increasing self-efficacy to handle inevitable challenging emotional states.

This powerful session explores one of the most common hidden threats to a relationship: Anxiety.

Through the lens of the world-renowned Gottman Method, you’ll learn the surprising ways anxiety manifests itself in one or both partners – and how to help couples overcome it.

Framed by an intense case study of a family separated by the recent pandemic, David Burns shows you how ruminative thoughts become distorted and further fuel anxiety and depression – particularly in response to a real and overwhelming crisis – and how the TEAM-CBT approach can help.

Although the current circumstances are unique, the skills worried parents need to cope while interrupting catastrophic (and contagious) patterns remain the same.

Join Lynn to learn about a family approach packed with concrete information and guidance to help stressed families find relief – it’s more important than ever!

Join Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of the New York Times #1 bestselling book The Body Keeps the Score and learn critically important approaches to use with your clients that address creating connection and activities that keep them attached and out of re-experiencing past traumas.

Through captivating case vignettes, learn how EMDR therapy can offer brief and effective treatment to help our clients restore their resiliency and increase their capacity to respond effectively to today’s ever-growing demands and stress.

Discover how to regain balance and find greater peace through the cultivation of awe, wonder, and gratitude in our daily lives.

By learning to savor the good amidst the difficulties, and by opening ourselves up to moments of awe and wonder, we can calm our nervous system and foster feelings of peace, and connectedness.

As humans, we experience the pandemic both as a shared encounter and one that is unique to each of us.

This seminar will explore what our response to the post-COVID-19 world can teach us about ourselves, and how the anxieties it reveals, when properly metabolized, help fortify us for the inevitable new normal.

*No CE credits are available for this session.

Join Chris to explore the foundations of resilience and post traumatic growth, looking to human history, anthropology and neuroscience as we discover mindfulness tools that have boosted human resilience and beat back anxiety in the face of adversity for generations.

An invisible threat like COVID-19 can cause havoc to your client’s nervous system – leading to feelings of isolation, anxiety, grief, anger, and depression.

In this session, Peter will show you how you can use the insight of Somatic Experiencing (SE) to address trauma that we hold deep within our bodies, so you can help your clients find relief from their trauma and stress during this difficult time.

Healing racial injustice and trauma is not a new topic within psychotherapy, but too often it’s been unacknowledged and therapists of color have gone unheard.

As one way to open up more learning and listening opportunities in this area, you’ll receive free access to two one-hour panel discussions around the issue of racial injustice and trauma.

These important conversations, featuring the perspectives and guidance of several clinicians and thought leaders, will highlight how we can bring issues of race into therapy, and how we can confront racial disparities in our field and professional communities.

DAVID BURNS, MD

Adjust Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a pioneer in the development of CBT before developing TEAM-CBT. Best-selling author of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy.

S. KENT BUTLER, PHD

President-Elect for the American Counseling Association (ACA), as well as past president of the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD), and the Interim Chief Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Officer at University of Central Florida.

DEB DANA, LCSW

Author of Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection and The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation. Co-editor with Stephen Porges of Clinical Applications of Polyvagal Theory.

LAMBERS FISHER, MS, LMFT, MDIV

A marriage and family therapist who has counseled individuals, couples, and families from a variety of cultural backgrounds, in private practice, nonprofit organizations, as well as ministry environments.

AMBER FLYNN, MA, LCPC, NCC

Licensed clinical professional counselor specializing in race-based trauma. She has extensive training in behavior analysis and is a Level 1 IFS trained therapist.

SETH GILLIHAN, PHD

Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Pennsylvania, author of Re-Train Your Brain: CBT in 7 Weeks and CBT Made Simple: 10 Strategies for Managing Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic, & Worry

JULIE GOTTMAN, PHD

Co-founder & President of the Gottman Institute and Gottman Method Couples Therapy. A highly respected clinical psychologist, she is sought internationally by media and organizations as a relationship expert.

LYNN GRODZKI, LCSW, MCC

A psychotherapist in private practice, a master certified coach, and the author of Therapy with a Coaching Edge: Partnership, Action and Possibility in Every Session and Building Your Ideal Private Practice.

DEANY LALIOTIS, LICSW

Internationally recognized trainer and consultant of EMDR, Director of training for the EMDR Institute, Inc. and Co-Director of EMDR of Greater Washington.

PETER LEVINE, PHD

Developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute. Author of international best seller, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma.

LYNN LYONS, LICSW

Internationally recognized psychotherapist specializing in anxiety in families. Co-author of Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents and author of Using Hypnosis with Children.

GABOR MATÉ, MD

Dr. Gabor Maté is a world-renowned physician, philosopher and developer of the Compassionate Inquiry approach to Therapy. Author of best-sellers In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts & When the Body Says No.

GAIL PARKER, PHD

Clinical psychologist, media personality, educator, and author. She’s the President of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance (BYTA) and the author of Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma (2020).

JONAH PAQUETTE, PSYD

Internationally recognized trainer and speaker in positive psychology, author of Awestruck, Real Happiness, and the Happiness Toolbox. Assistant Director of Mental Health Training at Kaiser Permanente

RICHARD SCHWARTZ, PHD

Director of the IFS Institute and originator of the Internal Family Systems therapy model, he is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School

ZACHARY R. TAYLOR, MA, LPC, NCC

Director of Continuing Education at Psychotherapy Networker.

BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, MD

Established one of the first clinical/research centers in the US dedicated to study and treatment of traumatic stress in civilian populations. Author of the best-selling The Body Keeps the Score.

CHRIS WILLARD, PHD

Faculty of Harvard Medical School and author of over 12 books on therapy, mindfulness, and meditation including Raising Resilience and several books for children on mindfulness

MONNICA T. WILLIAMS, PHD, ABPP

Associate professor at University of Ottawa and the Canada Research Chair for Mental Health Disparities. She’s coauthor of the recently released book Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities: Promoting Equity and Culturally Responsive Care across Settings.

DERAN YOUNG, LCSW

Founder of Black Therapists Rock, an organization that includes over 20,000 professionals committed to reducing intergenerational trauma in marginalized communities. She currently works with Brené Brown training on the topic of diversity, inclusion, and equality.