Blog Archives
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and mindfulness-based practices are rapidly making their way into mental health care, medicine, and society – both to alleviate human suffering and nurture psychological health and wellness. This body of work offers a fresh perspective on psychological suffering, and…
Managing Anxiety at Home and at School
Anxiety is a persistent master. When it moves in, it takes over daily routines, learning, recreation, and social connection. To make matters worse, the things adults (including many therapists and school systems) do to help anxious children can actually make the anxiety…
2 Day DBT Intensive
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…
Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
What do we look for in a psychotherapist or a professional counsellor? When we’re in emotional pain, the answer probably isn’t academic knowledge, training in a particular approach, nor even life experience. Instead, we likely want someone who’s compassionate (able…
Making Sense of Anxiety & Related Problems
The escalating level of anxiety in our children begs for an explanation as well as a solution. Dr. Neufeld sheds light on this age-old problem, paving the way for natural interventions that can actually get to the root causes as…
Scared Stiff
Dear Prospective Participant, I was thrilled when Jack Hirose invited me to do my workshop in Calgary. We have worked together for more than 15 years, and I can tell you that Jack is simply THE BEST. He is totally…
Proven and Effective Self-Regulation Skills
Our goal as educators is to empower our students to “think smart”. One way to achieve this goal is to help students understand their own learning brains. The more they can build the self-regulation skills they need, the more effectively…
Working with Stuck Kids
Not everyone grows up as they get older. The construct of psychological immaturity has been with us as an intuitive concept for ages, but only recently has developmental science advanced to a state where it can now yield effective strategies and interventions to address…
Proven and Effective Self-Regulation Skills
Our goal as educators is to empower our students to “think smart”. One way to achieve this goal is to help students understand their own learning brains. The more they can build the self-regulation skills they need, the more effectively…
Somatic Interventions for Treating Complex Trauma
The techniques you’ll learn during this workshop will make even the most complex clients easier to treat – and the interventions you’ll learn directly address the underlying causes of post-traumatic stress. Dr. Fisher will give you tools from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy,…
3 Day Intensive: The Science of Emotion in Banff
There is much focus today on emotion. 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 now confirmed to be at the…
Autism Spectrum Disorder
In this hands-on seminar you will discover what it is like to have a brain with autism. Once you experience the difference between a typical brain and a brain with autism, you will be able to design more effective and…
Working with Oppositional, Defiant and Anger Issues in Children and Adolescents
Children diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) can present a monumental challenge to therapists, teachers, parents and siblings. ODD and other conduct problems are the single greatest reasons for referrals to outpatient and inpatient mental health settings for children, accounting…
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors
Childhood abuse necessitates self-alienation: we must disown that humiliating “bad child” and work harder to be the “good child” acceptable to our attachment figures. In the end, we survive trauma at the cost of disowning and dissociating from our most…
Healing & Treating Trauma, Addictions, and Related Disorders Conference
Dear Colleague, I am pleased to announce Canada’s 8th Annual Premier Psychotherapy Conference: Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions and Related Disorders will be hosted in Calgary, Alberta, on November 27–29, 2017. Whether you are coming for the first time or…
2 Day Advanced Mindfulness Training
In this in-depth, two-day workshop, national mindfulness teacher and author Donald Altman will demonstrate a variety of powerful clinical tools—from grounding and attention focusing skills to metacognitive awareness and mindfulness skills—for helping clients to rewire the brain as they overcome…
High Functioning Autism
This intensive, full-day workshop provides proven intervention strategies, essential treatment tools, and behavioural techniques to help you analyze behaviours and actions, identify consequences for behaviours, and teach new skills to children, adolescents and young adults with high-functioning autism (HFA). Walk…
A Neufeld Institute Conference | Resilience, Recovery and Relationship: Towards Flourishing Children and Youth
A Neufeld Institute Conference co-sponsored by Jack Hirose and Associates Human resilience is remarkable. It is the ultimate good news story – that stress in itself is not the enemy and that we need not be brought down by the circumstances…
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…
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,…