STARS - Student Therapy and Resource Services

2-Day Certification Training: Essentials for Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents - Live Webinar
2024-02-01 07:00 - 2024-02-02 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
Imagine a childhood full of worry, fear, panic, and suffering…
This is the reality for many of your young clients.
Perfectionism, anxious grief, and anxiety disorders are at an all-time high!
The good news is, YOU can be the source of comfort and support that changes all that… this anxiety certification training gives you the latest evidence-based interventions unique to your young clients’ individual needs.
Join kid’s anxiety expert and author Dr. Steve O’Brien as he shares interventions grounded in client-centered cognitive behavioral and family systems therapies equipping kids and their parents to:

Develop effective panic-management plans for reducing agoraphobic potential
Release the grip of social anxiety to promote interpersonal competence
Reframe debilitating worry and negativistic self-talk to foster optimism

Not only will you leave these two days equipped with interventions for treating your young client’s spectrum of anxiety, you’re also eligible to become a Certified Clinical Child and Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA). Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCATPCA for details.
This training takes your skill set from generalized to specialized and your young clients from surviving to thriving.
REGISTER TODAY!

Food and Mood: A Therapist’s Guide to The Role of Nutrition in Mental Health - Live Webinar
2024-02-01 07:00 - 15:00
Diet is an often-ignored aspect of the prevention of poor mental health and the promotion of good emotional health. The causes of behavioral health problems are complex, and nutrition is a valuable yet often missing piece of the puzzle to help clients improve their emotional state.
Imagine if you could feel more confident talking with clients about nutrition from a therapist’s point of view, and do so while adhering to our ethical code.
Kathleen Zamperini, LPC, CIMHP, brings a unique perspective as a licensed professional counselor with a degree in nutrition and certification with the Mental Health Integrative Medical Institute. She uses the language of a therapist to explain key concepts of integrating a cognitive behavioral approach with nutritional strategies to improve treatment outcomes.
Discover the clinical applications to transform the way your clients view food and revolutionize your clinical toolbox to ethically educate clients about nutrition and how they can make lasting changes.

Improving Handwriting Skills - Webinar
2024-01-30 14:00 - 16:00
In this course clinicians will explore the root cause of handwriting and fine motor deficiencies and learn effective treatment strategies to remediate these issues. Learn why grasping pattern, strong fine motor skills, and legible handwriting makes a difference. Clinicians who can identify the root cause of difficulty are able to treat these problems more quickly and effectively. This course will use evidence-based practice and effective teaching methods to give learners hands-on strategies to incorporate into their practice setting. Learners will be able to understand and explain howhand weakness and sensory processing difficulties can cause or exacerbate handwriting deficiencies and createmeaningful treatment plans to provide to their clients.
Highlights

The causes behind poor grasping and handwriting patterns
Effective, evidence-based interventions for treatment to improve handwriting skills

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Made Easy: ACT for PTSD, Anxiety, Depression & Personality Disorders - Live Webinar
2024-01-30 07:00 - 15:00
Are your current techniques just not working?
You’ve experienced the frustration; you have a client who seems to just not break through. You’ve tried your best, but the outcome is the same: he or she progresses for a while, then regresses again.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is the popular transdiagnostic approach that you can integrate into your practice to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with difficult-to-treat clients.
Join ACT expert and presenter Daniel J. Moran, as he delivers an exercise and intervention-heavy course that will give you the tools you need to more effectively treat clients with PTSD, anxiety, depression or personality disorders.
You’ll learn how ACT weaves mindfulness strategies with cognitive behavioral change strategies to revolutionize client outcomes, as well as discover a variety of ACT techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behavior changes due to the presence of painful thoughts, feelings and memories.
By shifting client focus to their own values, ACT sets clients up to embrace behavior change that is meaningful to them while simultaneously fostering skills that allow clients to more effectively handle impulsive actions based on current thoughts or emotions.
Sign up today, and Dr. Moran will guide you step-by-step through highly practical, evidence-based ACT skills that you can apply in your practice immediately!

Autism: Across the Spectrum - Webinar
2024-01-29 07:00 - 14:00
1 in 68 children have been identified with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) according to estimates from the CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. ASD is reported to occur in all racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups and is 4.5 times more common among boys than girls. With the growing numbers of children being diagnosed on a daily basis with autism, the concern of how we therapeutically treat effectively is alarming. When a family hears the words, “Your child has autism” the journey has only just begun. While the disorder can be overwhelming for parents, therapists, teachers and school districts, there are research-based strategies and approaches that can be put in place to help each child reach their maximum potential.
This one-day, dynamic course will take you on the autism journey helping you to understand the importance of patterns of development and early intervention for this growing population. Participants will be provided with practical techniques and strategies to use in the home, natural setting, therapy setting, or school. This is an interactive course built on evidence-based interventions as well as the survival strategies of a speech pathologist and mother of a child on the autism spectrum. Participants will leave this workshop equipped with practical effective strategies you can implement tomorrow as well as a greater appreciation of the child with autism.
Highlights

50 Hands-on therapy tools and strategies that help children with autism spectrum disorders through sensory integration, communication and language, behavior, social skills, and education
Receive ready-to-use handouts, checklists and inexpensive therapy strategies to make your work easier and more efficient from a certified SLP and mother of a child on the spectrum
Case studies and videos to support families and children in daily living solutions that will help in the school, home and community
Sensory integration problem solving and treatment solutions available to children with autism spectrum disorders as presented in young children
Understand early patterns of development in infants and toddlers who have or are at risk for developing autism spectrum disorders

Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication - Live Webinar
2024-01-26 09:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-19 08:00 - 16:00
Many of our clients diagnosed with ADHD prefer not to take medication. There are various reasons for this including side effects and concerns with long-term use. In this seminar, you’ll learn more about these concerns, as well as alternative interventions for ADHD.
Viewing ADHD from a developmental perspective, we will consider the apparent increase in ADHD diagnoses over the past two decades. By understanding the way brains with and without ADHD function, you’ll be able to better identify a variety of neurodivergent-affirming strategies to significantly impact the nervous system and better manage ADHD symptoms in your clients.
Not only will you walk away with updates about evidence-based non-medication interventions for ADHD such as computerized cognitive training, mindfulness meditation, and neurofeedback, you’ll also learn a variety of practical strategies that you and your clients can implement immediately and at low cost.
We’ll navigate the vast research on exercise, movement, diet, sleep, disruptive technologies, supplements, and the impact of the environment on ADHD, summarizing the findings and applying the information to “real life”. You will leave this seminar with the tools and knowledge to develop a holistic approach to working with adults and children with ADHD.

Sensory Integration Roadmap - Webinar
2024-01-26 08:00 - 10:00
Sensory integration sessions are, by nature, child-led. Child-led therapy can be challenging to navigate and measure, as it relies on the child’s spontaneous exploration. To support clinicians in this approach, it is helpful to have a clear framework of the neurological processes involved in sensory integration. Once you understand the “why” of the neurology you will have a clear understanding of how to plan your sessions. This course provides a comprehensive overview of sensory processing theory and practice, with a focus on how it relates to common motor challenges such as trunk weakness, balance deficits, bilateral coordination deficits and dyspraxia. By applying sensory processing principles to these areas, therapists can enhance the child’s engagement, motivation and progress. Physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists will all benefit from this course. Learning how to identify a child’s unique sensory profile and in turn, plan sessions with “just right” challenges, will translate into improved outcomes.
Highlights

Review underlying neurology of sensory processing and how this relates to treatment planning
Plan effective sensory Integration sessions while maintaining a child-led approach
Take quality information into work the next day and provide better sessions for your kiddos!

Self-Regulation Interventions for Children & Adolescents: Reduce Frustration, Emotional Outbursts & Oppositional Behaviors - Live Webinar
2024-01-26 07:00 - 15:00
This seminar will help you to better intervene with the challenging child—the one who won’t sit still; doesn’t follow directions; often throws tantrums; or has difficulty waiting for their turn. They may “hit first and ask questions later”. They react impulsively and have difficulty expressing what they need or what is frustrating them. We know this child is intelligent, caring and kind, but their behavior doesn’t reflect these positive qualities. These are the children who confuse and frustrate parents and who overwhelm teachers and peers. They struggle to meet basic expectations and are unable to succeed in school, with peers and at home.
Join clinical psychologist Dr. Ehlert and learn to effectively intervene with the emotional and behavioral dysregulation of children with High-Functioning Autism, ADHD, Learning Disabilities and Sensory Processing Disorders. Through hands-on activities and dynamic discussion, you will learn techniques, behavioral strategies, problem-solving strategies and brain training exercises to:

Address the sensory, language and executive functioning processing deficits that trigger them
Increase their self-control, social success, emotional control and task completion
Teach flexibility, tolerance, thinking it through and decision-making
Reduce the frequency and duration of their tantrums and emotional outbursts

Register now. Walk away with proven emotional, behavioral and processing strategies that lead to social and academic success!

Sleep and Mental Health: Non-Medication Interventions to Restore Sleep Quality and Improve Clinical Outcomes - Webinar
2024-01-24 07:00 - 15:00
How many of your clients have sleep issues?
Or maybe the real question is how many of your clients don’t?
Where we used to think mental health problems caused insomnia, we now know that the relationship is more circular than casual. Risky and addictive, drugs aren’t the answer. But without addressing sleep issues, and intervening in this vicious cycle, your treatment plans for mental health issues will likely be less effective and yield less successful outcomes.
You CAN help your clients improve their sleep and make your treatment of mental health issues more effective than ever before … and you don’t need to be a sleep expert to do it!
Whether you work with anxiety, depression, trauma, bipolar, or any other disorders, this one-day training will give you the sleep assessment tools and treatment techniques you need to guide clients out of their sleep-deprived world so you can improve clinical outcomes.
Attend this training and discover how you can:

Naturally improve sleep in clients without the use of addictive medication
Identify sleep disorders and differentiate them from mental health symptoms
Improve sleep for clients of all ages – from kids to adults
Snap clients out of sleep-depriving habits with behavior-changing exercises

Sign up today and add a new tool to your toolbox to bring greater healing to your clients through the power of sleep!

Differential Diagnosis of the Toe Walking Gait Pattern - Webinar
2024-01-23 15:00 - 17:00
Effectively addressing the pediatric toe walking gait pattern can be a challenging task for the pediatric therapist. Several underlying causes can contribute to this abnormal gait pattern which makes a deferential evaluation protocol paramount in driving effective treatment techniques for a beneficial outcome. Differential Assessment of the Toe Walking Gait Pattern will look at these underlying causes and identify a systematic approach to determining the course of action to be taken using functional assessment tests. Improve functional outcomes in your pediatric practice through implementation of treatment techniques discussed in this course while confidently navigating the challenging diagnosis of toe walking. This course will give attendees tools for evaluating the underlying cause or causes of the pediatric toe walking gait pattern. Participants will obtain functional assessment techniques to use right away during the evaluation process. A case study education approach will address each area of assessment followed by treatment techniques that promoted an improved gait pattern.
Highlights

Immediately improve your assessment skills of the toe walking gait pattern to promote effective treatment strategies in the pediatric population
Practical assessment and re-assessment strategies for functional deficits, underlying conditions, and co-morbidities contributing to the abnormal gait pattern you can use the next day
Case study formats for practical application of evaluation and treatment techniques

Pediatric Behavioral Interventions - Webinar
2024-01-22 15:00 - 17:00
In this course clinicians will explore the root causes ofmaladaptive behavioral patterns and learn effective treatment strategies to remediate or prevent these issues. Learn why differentiating between sensory and behavioral reactions makes a difference. Clinicians who can identify the root cause of difficulty are able to treat these problems more quickly and effectively.
This course will use evidence-based practice and effective teaching methods to give learners hands-on strategies to incorporate into their practice setting. Learners will be able to analyze how sensory processing difficulties can cause or exacerbate maladaptive behavioral patterns, determine if a behavior is intentional, understand why therehas been an overwhelming increase in behavioral issues, and create meaningful treatment plans to provide to their clients.
Highlights

Improve your knowledge of maladaptive behavioral patterns, prevention, and remediation
Effective, evidence-based interventions for treatment to improve behavior issues

LGBTQ Youth: Clinical Strategies to Support Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity - Live Webinar
2024-01-22 06:00 - 14:00
A 9-year-old boy took his own life, just days after coming out to his peers as gay, due to the severe bullying he received. Sadly, he is not alone, suicide rates among LGBTQ youth are rising at an alarming pace.
As a clinician, how do you approach a sensitive topic like gender identity without offending your clients? How do you navigate the LGBTQ spectrum, with its unique terminology and challenges? How are you supposed to help an LGBTQ youth client when their parents are not on board?
You are not alone in struggling with these types of questions. Join expert and author, Deb Coolhart, PhD, LMFT as she draws on her nearly 20 years of working with LGBTQ youth. Deb will show you effective clinical strategies for:

The coming out process
Bullying
Suicide, anxiety, shame, depression, self-harming
Making healthy choices
Thriving in school
Developing support networks

Working with these youth and families can be complex, requiring the balance of many seemingly opposing viewpoints. As a clinician, there is nothing more rewarding than facilitating these changes and watching families discover their own path towards understanding.
Help LGBTQ kids and adolescents know that it’s their right to be themselves!

Seeking Improved Therapy Outcomes with Music - Webinar
2024-01-20 09:00 - 11:00
Significant research has been devoted to determining the physiological, emotional, cognitive and psychological effects of music in a clinical setting. The application of such research has been found to be most effective for supporting improved outcomes with a variety of clients enrolled in physical, occupational and speech language pathology therapy sessions. The resulting functional effects may often be quite remarkable and contribute significantly to helping each client achieve his or her therapeutic goals.
This course shares a snapshot of such research when applied to therapeutic skilled interventions. Specifically, topics addressed will include the effects of music when added to interventions for clients with cardiovascular disease, stress induced diseases, mild cognitive impairments, Alzheimer’s Disease, psychotic diagnoses, Parkinson’s Disease, Aphasia, Epilepsy and other conditions such as post-surgical pain and unilateral neglect.
Highlights

Improve clinical outcomes for clients with a variety of disorders by incorporating the correct musical strategies to treatment sessions
Apply evidence and rationales of specific music tempos to target the correct clinical function
Effectively treat patients with Parkinson’s disease and engage them in treatment sessions

Pediatric Chronic Pain: Powerful relief for kids and teens through ACT, CBT, somatic therapy, and interdisciplinary care - Webinar
2024-01-19 06:00 - 14:00
Nothing makes us feel more helpless than seeing kids suffer and not being able to help.
Yet many of the conditions causing chronic pain in children and teens are puzzling and poorly understood, often leaving us unsure of whether the best approach lies in the medical or psychological realm.
If you are ready to make a profound difference in the lives of children and adolescents suffering from chronic pain, join renowned pediatric psychologist and pain specialist, Dr. Jin Lee, for this groundbreaking training to help you:

Utilize assessment tools to assist with differential diagnosis and identification of co-morbid conditions
Select strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy, hypnosis, biofeedback, and acceptance and commitment therapy to support self-efficacy and resiliency
Facilitate an interdisciplinary and collaborative care approach to effectively address complicated medical conditions
Provide kid-friendly psychoeducation to foster self-efficacy

Enroll now in this transformative and cross-disciplinary course to become a catalyst for change in pediatric chronic pain management.

Practical Tools for Addressing Executive Functioning in Children - Webinar
2024-01-17 16:00 - 18:00
Executive function skills are cognitive processes that coordinate our abilities to learn, perform tasks, and handle everyday responsibilities. Children aren’t born with executive functioning skills, but they can develop them. Providing practice and opportunities to build executive functioning skills at home and school is an important part of development. Allied health and other professionals can influence these skills for students using evidence-based interventions and strategies. This course will summarize the most up-to-date evidence related to executive functioning interventions. Attendees will learn how to choose and implement effective interventions to help children with executive functioning skills. Resources and tools that can be used immediately for interventions with your clients will be provided. Each participant will be challenged to identify a client with whom they can implement at least one strategy or intervention and develop an action plan.
The content of this program is germane to children, students and clients ages 5- 18.
Highlights

Effective, evidence-based strategies for improving executive functioning skills for school-aged children
Resources and tools for planning and implementation of interventions that address executive functioning skills

Trauma Processing with Neurodivergent Youth: Adaptive strategies to support communication, sensory needs, cognition and more - Live Webinar
2024-01-16 09:00 - 17:00
Each child’s path to healing is as unique as their fingerprint.
But when kids with autism, ADHD, and developmental delays are also facing trauma, the way forward can seem impossible to find.
Communication impairments. Concrete thinking. Sensory needs.
It can start to feel like a puzzle you’ll never solve. A door you can’t unlock.
Often, the trauma gets overshadowed by the more visible needs, becoming an unseen barrier preventing progress.
Join Dr. Aditi Mehra, occupational therapist and trauma expert, to gain the specialized knowledge to provide the comprehensive support these children need:

Easily adapt ACT, EMDR, and CBT approaches based on each child’s unique needs
Differentiate trauma-related behaviors from disability-related behaviors
Skillfully apply communication strategies, sensory techniques, cognitive resources, and assistive technology within trauma treatment
Actively engage kids of all abilities

Return to work tomorrow with dozens of tools for your toolbox, including an extensive resource list for worksheets, social stories, visual supports, art therapy, and sensory activities you can implement immediately.
Register today for this crucial training to help the most vulnerable children on their path to healing.

The Ten Best-Ever Anxiety Treatment Techniques: Updated Strategies to Help Even the Most Challenging Clients - Webinar
2024-01-15 07:00 - 15:00
It is so frustrating to have used all of the “gold standard” techniques and still not see progress. You’ve already worked through the traditional anxiety interventions but your clients continue experiencing the same nervousness, worrying and panic.
This program was made to help you. Join neuropsychology and anxiety expert, Dr. Janene Donarski as she teaches you the 10 Best-Ever Techniques and helps you master:

Cutting edge modifications to anxiety techniques that work with even the most difficult cases
The latest tips for treating clients with co-morbid diagnoses
Options to use with groups and individuals that work in every clinical population
How to apply the neuroscience of memory reconsolidation and the default mode network to create successful exposure therapies and reduce rigid, anxious thought processes

With Dr. Donarski’s pragmatic approach, you’ll get a complete set of tools to work with anxiety symptoms that you can immediately use with all clients and confidently apply in clinical practice.

Rewire the Anxious Brain: Neuroscience-Informed Treatment of Anxiety, Panic and Worry - Webinar
2024-01-12 08:00 - 16:00
Join neuroscience and anxiety expert, Dr. Catherine Pittman, and learn her keys for successful anxiety treatment. Dr. Pittman integrates brain-based strategies for calming the anxious mind with client communication techniques that motivate change in your clients. Catherine’s approach promotes adherence to treatment and strengthens the therapeutic alliance – which is essential when working with anxious, worried, traumatized, or obsessive clients.
Dr. Pittman will give you proven tools and techniques to:

Identify and treat the roots of anxiety in both the amygdala and the cortex
Explain “the language of the amygdala” in an accessible, straight forward way
Identify how the cortex contributes to anxiety, and empower clients with strategies to resist anxiety-igniting cognitions

Register today for this transformational workshop and put the power of neuroplasticity to work for you and your anxious clients!

Articulation Therapy - Webinar
2024-01-12 08:00 - 10:00
This course is based on the most current research and clinical expertise, providing participants with evidence-based strategies that will help them provide exceptional articulation therapy and ensure maximum client success. Therapists will be able to develop personalized intervention plans and execute successful treatment strategies that help clients achieve their objectives in a timely and efficient manner.
Through videos and demonstrations, this course will explain the systems and strategies that should be incorporated into plans of care and treatment. Participants will have the opportunity to enhance client success andaccelerate the graduation of their clients.
Highlights

Discover easy and effective techniques to incorporate into your therapy sessions
Experience improved progress, enhanced accuracy, and increased client success both during and after therapy

#7342 Changing High and Low Muscle Tone Through Neuroplasticity In Pediatrics - Live Webinar
2024-01-11 18:00 - 20:00
High or low tone in the muscles interfere with active movements and milestones in the pediatric population. When tone is treated through the sensory systems, neuroplasticity will take place and new functional neural connections develop. The results can positively affect self-feeding and developmental play. Skills acquired in this presentation introduction to Neuroplasticity techniques for tone can be used the next day in your clinic. Course instruction method includes: Lecture, Demonstration, Videos, Pictures, Case Studies and Question/Answers

Instructor: Karen Pryor PhD, PT, DPT, ND, CH, CPRCS

“Break Through” Self-Regulation Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism, ADHD, Sensory or Emotional Challenges - Live Webinar
2024-01-11 06:00 - 14:00, 2023-12-20 06:00 - 14:00
Message from Your Presenter …
No one ever said that working with children with autism, ADHD or sensory disorders is easy. Theo will only eat white foods, tends to be buried in his own world and melts when he is transitioned too quickly. Steven, in 6th grade, has ADHD, poor organization skills and an attitude that is hard to break through. But, how do we help a child break through the self-regulation issues that limit their achievements?
That was the question I posed to myself twelve years ago. I set out to learn as much as I could about theories, techniques, and research that could help make the lives of these young people much more manageable and promising. I took intensive courses on multi-sensory approaches, sensory integration, self-regulation, yoga, autism, ADHD and became a Certified Autism Specialist in 2016. I have extensive experience adapting these techniques to make them usable in a variety of settings while working closely with teachers, aides, child study professionals and parents.
Join me as I guide you through a broad set of self-regulation interventions culled from my years of research and practice along with strategies for adapting them to your setting. You will leave my program with the essential skills, interventions and strategies to help children find harmony with themselves, their families and the world around them!
You will learn:

The most effective calming, sensory, motor or behavioral techniques for a given type of behavior
Peer-to-peer video feedback as a social intervention for children and teens with ASD
Sleep interventions for children with erratic sleep schedules
Interventions for Repetitive and Restrictive Behaviors for a child with stereotypy
Organization strategies for home and school for teenagers with ADHD
And more!

I look forward to seeing you there! Register today!

Neuroscience for Clinicians: New Brain Science for Trauma, Anxiety, Depression and Substance Abuse - Live Webinar
2024-01-11 06:00 - 14:00
Neuroscience has given us incredible insights into the workings of the brain and its connection to our mental health. Recent research reveals that neuroplasticity takes place all through life, so you can offer hope for real change no matter how long your client has suffered. But talking to your clients about their brain and what’s happening inside it is often difficult or overwhelming.
Learning how to not only communicate with clients about the brain but what specifically is going on inside of theirs has immense value in improving interventions and client compliance. Making neuroscience a must-have in every clinician’s toolbox when looking for creating lasting change.
In this workshop, you will participate in enjoyable learning experiences that provide you with the clear principles and background you need for utilizing neuroscience in your work. You will learn:

Ways to talk with your client about what’s going on in their brain
How to refine interventions and learn new ones through brain science
The ways that therapy and relationships help regulate stress
How and where neuroplasticity occurs, and ways to use it therapeutically
Strategies for using CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and Polyvagal Theory to overcome resistance, activate creative responses, and turn problems into potentials
Ways to add new dimensions to each therapy session and initiate lasting change using top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal methods

Easily and confidently incorporate these effective neuroscience techniques and tools into your very next treatment session!

#7213 Homonymous Hemianopsia: A Beginner's Guide to Assessment & Intervention - Webinar
2024-01-10 18:00 - 20:00
The purpose of this course is to describe homonymous hemianopsia (HH) and visual field cut, discuss diagnoses that can cause a visual field cut, review quick screening tools, and review intervention strategies to maximize occupational performance despite homonymous hemianopsia. Beginner Level

Instructor: Julia D. Jones, MS, OTR/L

Food and Mood: A Therapist’s Guide to The Role of Nutrition in Mental Health - Live Webinar
2024-01-10 07:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-28 07:00 - 15:00
Diet is an often-ignored aspect of the prevention of poor mental health and the promotion of good emotional health. The causes of behavioral health problems are complex, and nutrition is a valuable yet often missing piece of the puzzle to help clients improve their emotional state.
Imagine if you could feel more confident talking with clients about nutrition from a therapist’s point of view, and do so while adhering to our ethical code.
Kathleen Zamperini, LPC, NCGC-1, CMHIMP, brings a unique perspective as a licensed professional counselor with a degree in nutrition and certification with the Mental Health Integrative Medical Institute. She uses the language of a therapist to explain key concepts of integrating a cognitive behavioral approach with nutritional strategies to improve treatment outcomes.
Discover the clinical applications to transform the way your clients view food and revolutionize your clinical toolbox to ethically educate clients about nutrition and how they can make lasting changes.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Tapping: Evidence-Based, Mind-Body Treatment Approach to the Anxiety Spectrum Disorders - Live Webinar
2024-01-08 06:00 - 14:00
What do you do with anxiety and trauma clients who do not improve?
The anxiety spectrum exemplifies the disorders where emotions override thought. Fragmented memories get stored in the body. The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) collapse this uncomfortable emotional and physical reactivity, freeing a path for spontaneous insights and clearer thinking.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a comprehensive mind-body treatment that desensitizes three areas: unwanted thoughts, emotions, and physical reactions. EFT combines physical interventions derived from restorative (self-applied) acupressure theory with cognitive interventions.
EFT is an evidence-based practice with over 100 published studies. One published study demonstrated a 24% decrease in cortisol (stress hormone) level in the EFT group (Energypsych.org). EFT is an effective brief therapy and belongs in every therapist’s tool box.
Transform your clinical excellence. Bring EFT into your practice and treat resistant problems that other methods failed.
This seminar focuses on cutting-edge techniques of EFT to treat the anxiety spectrum disorders, including:

Phobias
Generalized Anxiety
Social Anxiety Disorder
Panic
OCD
Acute Traumatic Stress Reactions

These mind-body methods are emerging into mainstream mental health, trauma treatment, coaching, employee assistance programs, and sport psychology arenas as a rapid, effective, non-invasive, calming, desensitizing tool. Do not miss this opportunity to learn evidence-based techniques you can use immediately with your clients and improve treatment outcomes.

Assessment, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Strategies for Concussions - Webinar
2023-12-24 06:00 - 13:00
Too often, a patient is seen after sustaining a concussion and given little to no guidance regarding how to return to school, work, activities, and sport effectively and safely without excessive symptom provocation. These patients frequently show symptoms well beyond the typical timeline, as they have missed out on proper rehabilitation opportunities. In addition, they potentially have developed secondary signs and symptoms related to prolonged removal and avoidance behavior from activities, such as psychosocial dysfunction and deconditioning. Rehabilitative clinicians have become critical components in the management of these patients, from diagnosis to full recovery.
This course will focus on the multi-system involvement, not limited to oculomotor, vestibular, orthopedic, and cardiovascular, in the assessment and rehabilitation of the concussed patient. The complexity of how each of these systems contributes to impairments and functional limitations will be defined. Assessment techniques for each of the above systems will be taught and practiced. The most up-to-date research on evidence-based assessment tools and evidence-informed guidelines will be presented as well as best practice tools for rehabilitation. Additionally, the course will illuminate gaps in knowledge and where more research is needed. It will discuss opportunities to collaborate with providers in other disciplines for the more inclusive management of the concussed athlete and how communication with schools, families, and workplaces is integral to the overall success of their recovery. Examples of how to participate in meaningful community outreach programs to aid in decision-making around safe return to play will be provided.
Highlights

Gain confidence in how to assess a concussion/mild TBI patient and create an effective rehabilitation treatment plan
Immediately improve your ability to identify red flags of more severe TBI and referral protocols
Practice and review more than 15 examination techniques, including BPPV, visual, vestibular, and cervical spine tests and measures.
Learn evidence-based exercise prescriptions and evidence-informed return to sport protocols that are safe, effective, and efficient
Identify various system contributions to symptoms that may be limiting participation in school or work-related activities
Confidently differentiate concussion-based symptoms from other vestibular, cervical, and other system dysfunctions
Emerge with a comprehensive framework from which to build your referral network; including specific providers, degrees, and specialty certification examples

Suicide and Self-Harm in Adolescents: Effective Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Young People in Crisis - Live Webinar
2023-12-21 06:00 - 14:00
Helping young people heal is your greatest reward.
But when treating adolescents with depression, anxiety, and trauma the full extent of their suffering is not always obvious. Many in distress wear a mask of strength while secretly harming themselves or hiding their struggle with thoughts of suicide. You worry that you could be missing critical signs.
This seminar will provide you with the assessment tools you need to unmask self-harming and suicidal thoughts, adapt interventions from DBT and CBT to work with the distinct challenges of treating suicidal and self-harming adolescents, and manage the specific confidentiality and liability issues that accompany working with minors.
There’s too much at stake to be unprepared!
Sign up today and leave this critical program confident and capable in using these vital assessment tools and treatment techniques to bring hope and healing to vulnerable young clients!
