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DBT Skills Training for Mental Health Professionals

Important Notice Due to COVID-19 this event is now being offered online. This change has been made to ensure a safe learning environment for all participants. Once the courses have aired participants can watch, pause and re-watch sessions to fit…

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Trauma and Attachment Across the Lifespan

Important Notice Due to COVID-19 this event is now being offered online. This change has been made to ensure a safe learning environment for all participants. Once the courses have aired participants can watch, pause and re-watch sessions to fit…

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3 Day Intensive: DBT Made Simple

In this intensive 3-day workshop, DBT will be de-mystified and you will learn how to use this highly effective therapy to better treat your clients with problems managing emotions. Sheri’s unique workshops emphasize the flexibility of DBT and the benefits…

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3 Day Intensive: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) in Mental Health Practice

Cultivate fluid and flexible use of ACT in practice ACT techniques for a broad range and severity of mental health disorders An interactive workshop including experiential exercises, demonstrations, clinical worksheets and practical tools Transformative for you and your clients! How…

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3 Day Intensive: Working with Oppositional, Defiant and Anger Issues with 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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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