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Yoga Skills for Therapists
Practice your clinical specialty more effectively when you offer clients simple, evidence-based LifeForce Yoga practices to self-regulate, experience self-efficacy and build resilience. Learn clinically appropriate yoga skills that complement and enhance the work you currently do, helping clients focus, relax,…
Couples Therapy in the 21st Century: On Target, Effective and Revolutionary
Couples therapy offers us a rich amazing venue to create lasting change in individuals, core relationships and families. This two day workshop will outline the Emotionally Focused Model of Couple Therapy (EFT), and how it illustrates the new science of…
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy 3 Day Intensive Training in PEI
Complete this workshop and master the core competencies in cognitive behavioural based treatments and improve your skills in CBT to achieve better therapeutic outcomes, with even your most challenging client. CBT for Bipolar and Depressive Related Disorders, anger, anxiety, PTSD…
The Alberta CBT & DBT Clinical Skills Conference
Learn clinical skills for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy from six of North America’s leading experts. Dear Colleague, I am pleased to announce the Alberta CBT + DBT Clinical Skills Conference will be hosted in Edmonton, AB on April 3-5, 2017.…
Evidence-Based Treatment of Personality Disorders: Simple Techniques for Treating Your Most Difficult Cases
Individuals with personality disorders have long been considered the most challenging clients presenting in the clinical setting. Many patients initially lack motivation, most begin with poor insight, and some have such deeply engrained dysfunctional beliefs, unhealthy coping skills, and destructive…
Evidence-Based Treatment of Anxiety & Related Disorders
This workshop provides training in evidence-based strategies for treating a range of anxiety and related disorders in adults and children. Dr. Antony will emphasize the importance of case formulation and core treatment principles that cut across anxiety based problems, including…
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: 4 Day Intensive Training in Banff
Jack Hirose and Associates has proudly sponsored many of Dr. David Burns’ two-day workshops over the past 10 years and during the past 7 years 1,500 therapists have attended Dr. Burns four-day intensives in Canada. The intensives will allow time…
Evidence-Based Treatment of Anxiety & Related Disorders
This workshop provides training in evidence-based strategies for treating a range of anxiety and related disorders in adults and children. Dr. Antony will emphasize the importance of case formulation and core treatment principles that cut across anxiety based problems, including…
2 Day DBT Intensive: Using DBT To Treat Emotion Dysregulation Disorders
Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is a treatment originally designed to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD). In recent years it has been increasingly used to treat many other disorders because of its usefulness in treating clients unable to manage emotions. Following…
3 Day Mindfulness Intensive in Banff
Most of us live our lives running from task to task, distraction to distraction… Mindful awareness means paying attention to present moment experiences with openness, curiosity, and a willingness to be with what is. It is an excellent antidote to…
The Pain Paradox: The “Third Wave” of Mindfulness-Compassion Based Approaches for PTSD & Complex Trauma
As our field matures, and currently-promoted therapies are tested in the real world, the limitations of some approaches to PTSD and complex trauma are becoming clear. Fortunately, researchers and clinical practitioners are discovering the power of new affect regulation interventions,…
The Pain Paradox: The “Third Wave” of Mindfulness-Compassion Based Approaches for PTSD & Complex Trauma
As our field matures, and currently-promoted therapies are tested in the real world, the limitations of some approaches to PTSD and complex trauma are becoming clear. Fortunately, researchers and clinical practitioners are discovering the power of new affect regulation interventions,…
Proven Strategies To De-Escalate Anger & Violent Episodes
UPDATE: This workshop is clinical presentation with techniques that can be used in practice. In this one-day clinical workshop, Dr. Nuckols will provide proven strategies and techniques to alter angry emotion, hostility and potentially violent behavior into positive corrective experiences.…
Mindfulness & Beyond: Essential Clinical Skills
The trend of mindfulness research is sweeping the medical field. Is it radical enough? What is the latest research in mindfulness? How does the Buddhist perspective influence the way we see suffering and how we can best serve others? After…
2 Day DBT Intensive: Using DBT To Treat Emotion Dysregulation Disorders
Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is a treatment originally designed to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD). In recent years it has been increasingly used to treat many other disorders because of its usefulness in treating clients unable to manage emotions. Following…
The Science of Emotion
*NEW* Suitable for Adult Focused Clinicians There is much focus today on children’s emotions. Constructs like emotional intelligence, emotional self-regulation, emotional well-being and emotional social learning are being bandied about like never before. Emotion, long dismissed as a nuisance factor,…
The Science of Emotion
*NEW* Suitable for Adult-Focused Clinicians There is much focus today on children’s emotions. Constructs like emotional intelligence, emotional self-regulation, emotional well-being and emotional social learning are being bandied about like never before. Emotion, long dismissed as a nuisance factor, is…
Facing the Tornado: Working with Difficult Couples in Emotionally Focused Therapy | Live Q&A Session
Special q&a session with Professor, Researcher and Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Sue Johnson Join Sue for a special Q&A session where she will summarize the attachment oriented, EFT perspective on working with difficult couples, both escalated and withdrawn, and emotionally injured couples. Participants…
EFT with Trauma Survivors: Building Safe Haven Relationships | Live Q&A Session
SPECIAL Q&A SESSION WITH PROFESSOR, RESEARCHER AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, DR. SUE JOHNSON Join Sue for a special Q&A session where she will summarize the attachment oriented, EFT perspective on working with trauma survivors. Participants will have the opportunity to partake in a live…
CBT 2 Day Boot Camp: Practical Treatment Strategies That Will Help Your Clients Improve Tomorrow
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is the most empirically supported therapeutic app roach for multiple psychiatric disorders. It is widely considered the “gold standard” treatment for a variety of issues. Most mental health professionals claim to do “some CBT,” but many clinicians…
Advanced CBT for Insomnia & With Comorbid Conditions: A Client-Centred, Evidence-Based Approach
Many clinicians are familiar with the basic strategies of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia, but when it comes to implementation in their practice, they can become stuck when encountering difficult cases. The solution to this problem is to provide advanced…
Healing Broken Bonds: Traumatic Attachment and Affect Dysregulation
In the context of trauma, attachment failure is inevitable, leaving behind a lasting imprint on all future relationships, including the therapeutic one. Instead of experiencing therapy and the therapist as a haven of safety, the traumatized client will be driven…
Two-Day DBT Intensive: Using DBT to Treat Emotion Dysregulation Disorders
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a treatment originally designed to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD). In recent years it has been increasingly used to treat many other disorders because of its usefulness in treating clients unable to manage emotions. Following…
CBT 2 Day Boot Camp: Practical Treatment Strategies That Will Help Your Clients Improve Tomorrow
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the most empirically supported therapeutic approach for multiple psychiatric disorders, and is widely considered the “gold standard” treatment for a variety of issues. Most mental health professionals claim to do “some CBT,” but many clinicians in…
Two-Day DBT Intensive: Using DBT to Treat Emotion Dysregulation Disorders
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a treatment originally designed to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD). In recent years it has been increasingly used to treat many other disorders because of its usefulness in treating clients unable to manage emotions. Following…