Deb Dana – Using Polyvagal Theory, IFS, ACT, DBT & More to Treat Trauma, Anxiety & Depression

Discover a Multi-Modality Approach to Transform Clients’ Emotions into Treatment Tools for Trauma, Anxiety & Depression

Treatment for clients who struggle with trauma, anxiety, and PTSD is never one-size-fits-all.

Having a multi-faceted clinical toolbox is the key to being ready for the client who’s resistant to exploring their thoughts and emotions….

For the client who wants to change but who’s stuck in hurtful patterns…

And the client who’s so terrified of their memories and bodies that they can’t take the first step toward healing.

That’s why we’ve brought together experts with decades of experience and proven techniques, strategies, and interventions in our all-new online course!

What you’ll learn in Using Polyvagal Theory, IFS, ACT, DBT & More to Treat Trauma, Anxiety & Depression

Anchored: A Polyvagal Guide to Navigating Challenging Times – Deb Dana, LCSW, LICSW 

Deb Dana uses the organising principles of hierarchy, neuroception, and co-regulation to answer the essential question, “What does the nervous system need in this moment to find safety in connection?”

Anger: From Dysregulation to Regulation in Both Client and Therapist – Ari Badaines, PhD Clinical Psychologist, MAPS Psychotherapy

Ari Badaines reveals how to better understand the meaning and function of your client’s anger. You’ll also discover therapist tools to cope with your own reaction in the moment and beyond, and how to use a countertransference reaction to enhance therapeutic work.

Glorious Me: Recapturing and Savouring Beautiful Emotions – Lizzie Spencer, M Social Ecology/Education, Dip Wholistic Counselling & Psychotherapy, B Education, Cert Steiner Education, Family Constellations 

Drawn from Process Oriented Psychology, Family Constellations, Positive Psychology and Trauma Work, Lizzie Spencer shows you how to coax out and amplify clients’ unique and innate inner strengths and apply them to the therapeutic process.

Integrating Difficult Emotions with Acceptance and Commitment – Renata Porzig-Drummond, PhD, BSc Psychology (Hon), Grad Dip Psychology, BA, Cert Holistic Couns

Renata Porzig-Drummond discusses the six core principles of ACT and explores the unique, effective way it teaches the integration of difficult emotions. Through an experiential exercise, you’ll discover how to apply acceptance and mindfulness techniques in session.

Reconceptualising “Addiction” as Chronic Emotion Dysregulation – Amber Rules, B.CHC (Applied Psychotherapy), M.PACFA

Amber Rules reconceptualise addiction as an attempt to manage chronically dysregulated emotional states. You’ll discover how to use collaborative, person-centred interventions that assist with emotion regulation through a compassion-based, harm-reduction lens while upholding ethical, evidence-based, and respectful practice standards.

The River Beneath: Embodied Emotions towards Trauma Resolution – Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT

Manuela Mischke-Reeds explores the notion of ‘fluid emotions’ that reside underneath the trauma narrative through three keys aspects of embodied emotions:

1. How the embodied presence of the therapist creates a safe healing container for the client
2. How to effectively facilitate innate wisdom of somatic-emotional health
3. The role of self-compassion in trauma therapy

‘Implicit relational knowing’, ‘engagement and the charged other’ and ‘being moved’: Key emotion processes in both shorter-term and longer-term relational psychodynamic psychotherapy (and other forms of therapy).- Kevin Keith, PhD BBA (Hons) (University of North Texas 1973); MA and STL (University of Louvain, Belgium, 1986 & 88); MPhil (Oxford University, 1991); Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy (Jansen Newman Institute, 2005); PhD (University of Sydney, Faculty of Science, 2017) 

Explore three key overlapping relational psychodynamic emotion processes. These processes will be identified within and tracked across a few fictionalised case vignettes, built on Kevin Keith’s experiences in working relationally in a range of contexts, especially time/resource limited shorter-term settings.

Emotion Regulation and Cognitively Impaired Clients – Dr Luke Hockey, MAPS FCFP

Dr Luke Hockey reveals successful emotion regulation skills and strategies to use with cognitively impaired clients. You’ll discover how to assist your clients through the process of understanding, regulating, and communicating their own emotions so they can improve their quality of life.

Emotional Recognition Practices: Our body is our tool – Kim Billington, B.Ed; M Couns.; M Narrative Therapy & Community Work

Here, Kim Billington offers a safe place to explore a somatic, interoception tool to support the regulation of the vagal system so you can model the noticing and naming emotions as they emerge in your clients.

Emotions in this time of climate change – Merle Conyer, M Counselling & Applied Psychotherapy, M Narrative Therapy & Community Work, M Education, Dip Somatic Psychotherapy, Dip Energetic Healing

People in every country on every continent are experiencing the effects of climate change. These escalating threats and consequences can provoke emotions such as anger, fear, anxiety, despair, shame, and betrayal. Merle Conyer reveals how to steer these complex emotions toward courage, creativity, and meaning to nurture psychological wellbeing.

Welcoming Emotional Complexity: supporting emotional literacy from an IFS perspective – Leona Dawson, M Counselling & Applied Psychotherapy, MA (Language & Literacy), Dip Transpersonal Art Therapy, Dip Clinical Hypnosis & Strategic Psychotherapy

Leona Dawson helps to develop an alternate view of client symptoms and behaviours as ‘Parts’ of a client’s mind trying to protect them from emotional pain. Through this lens, clients learn to welcome their Parts and use their emotional complexity to make choices with a more curious and flexible stance.

Regulating the nervous system – brakes and accelerators – Jackie Burke, B.Psych (Hons), Grad Dip Systemic Therapy, Adv Cert Supervision, Fellow ANZMHA 

Post-traumatic nervous system dysregulation can compound over time as clients try to cope with associated distress. In this section, Jackie Burke covers the concepts of hyper- and hypo-arousal in the nervous system as well as how to effectively teach clients to regulate from either state.

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