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Canada’s 7th Annual Premier Psychotherapy Conference: Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions and Related Disorders
Presented by Cardwell C. Nuckols, Ph.D. and Terry Fralich, LCPC and John Arden, Ph.D., ABPP and Ronald Potter-Efron, Ph.D., CADCIII, LICSW and Reid Wilson, Ph.D., and Pat Love, Ed.D. and Jamie Marich, Ph.D. and Mark Weiss, M.D. and Laurie Leitch, Ph.D.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 – Friday, November 6, 2015 | Oakville, on
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Date & Location
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 – Friday, November 6, 2015
8:30am – 5:00pm
ADDITIONAL EVENING SESSIONS 6:30pm – 8:30pm
November 5 Dancing Mindfulness Jamie Marich, Ph.D.
Harbour Banquet and Conference Centre
2340 Ontario St., Oakville, ON
Phone: 905.827.1315
Website: harbourbanquet.ca
Dear Colleague,
I am pleased to announce Canada’s Premier Psychotherapy Conference: Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions and Related Disorders will be hosted in three cities this year: Richmond, British Columbia, on November 30, December 1 and 2, 2015; Winnipeg, Manitoba, on November 19 and 20, 2015; and Toronto, Ontario, on November 4, 5 and 6, 2015. Whether you are coming for the first time or attend this conference every year, all of us here at Jack Hirose and Associates would like to extend a warm welcome!
Once again, we are honoured to co-sponsor this annual event in partnership with the Edgewood Health Network and the Edgewood Foundation. The Edgewood Health Network is the leader in alcohol and drug treatment and the only national network of adult inpatient and outpatient services across Canada. We are extremely grateful to have aligned with an organization that values quality training for mental health professionals.
Over the past five years, our conference has trained over 2,500 mental health and education professionals. We value your feedback and have incorporated your ideas in order to assemble North America’s leading experts, who will provide practical, useful and cutting edge keynotes and workshops. Our distinguished lineup of speakers will present on a wide of range of topics including: addiction update and current trends, angry and aggressive brain, traumatic grief, PTSD, mindfulness, contemplative psychotherapy, bolstering resilience, improving client outcomes, creativity and the healing process, concurrent disorders, treating cannabis and opioid addiction and many more.
It is my hope that this conference will allow you to catch up with your fellow clinicians, acquire new skills, learn new techniques and rejuvenate your passion for this field of work. I am confident that this year’s conference will meet, or exceed, your high expectations. Please mark this event on your calendar, and I look forward to seeing you at our flagship event of the year!
Kind Regards,
Jack Hirose, MA, CCC.
Jack Hirose and Associates Inc.
Who Should Attend
Clinical Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Hospice and Palliative Care Workers, School Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants and all professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.
Agenda
DAY 1 | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2015
1ST KEYNOTE 8:45am – 9:45am
Understanding and Treating Cannabis Use Disorder
This keynote will give the participant state-ofthe-art understanding of the following:
• The DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Cannabis Use Disorder
• The neurobiology of cannabis use and addiction
• The short and long-term health effects of cannabis use
• An understanding of the cannabis acute abstinence syndrome and its treatment
• The evidence-based psychotherapeutic approaches to the treatment of Cannabis Use Disorder
• Current perspectives on the pharmacological treatment of Cannabis Use Disorder
1ST AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 1:15pm – 3:00pm
Evidence-Based Treatment of Opioid Addiction: From Pill to Powder
This session will introduce ways of understanding the opioid addicts experience as treatment must start here. Both psychotherapeutic and pharmacological management will be discussed. The importance of discharge planning or extended care (due to immaturity of the prefrontal cortex) is critical for many of the younger addicts as they may not be candidates for rehabilitation but for habilitation.
2ND AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 3:15pm – 5:00pm
Synthetic (Designer) and Naturally Occurring Drugs of Addiction
This session will introduce the current designer drugs and also to the naturally occurring substances used to alter mind. We’ll describe cannabinoids, stimulants, psychedelics, naturally occurring depressant/stimulant and mixtures. This training will give participants an understanding of the subjective, toxic and withdrawal effects of the drugs.
2ND KEYNOTE 9:45am – 10:45am
Motivating Clients Towards Life-Long Growth: Resources from Neuroscience and Mindfulness
Clients bring us an incredible diversity of issues, conditions and circumstances that require our attention and energy. With all the details that constantly fill the therapeutic process, it is not surprising that we can lose sight of a global aspiration: motivating clients to pursue life-long growth. Drawing on both neuroscience and mindfulness, Terry Fralich will discuss insights, skills and approaches that can inspire our clients to be more actively involved in their possibilities for positive change over the whole course of their lives. When we are able to help clients develop an understanding of the path and practice of growth, the impact of our work reaches far beyond our contact with them.
1ST AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 1:15pm – 3:00pm
Essential Tools to Develop a Transforming Mindfulness Practice
Mindfulness is now pervasive in the mental health profession. The challenge is to find practical, accessible approaches to nurturing mindfulness in clients so that it is an active force of positive change. This workshop is designed to give you a clear understanding of fundamental mindfulness skills that will strengthen your own mindfulness and enhance your effectiveness with clients. Using the Five Core Skills, you will be able to guide clients to create a mindfulness practice that gives them confidence in themselves and in the possibility of healthy change. You will also be able to explain to clients how mindfulness practice is “self-directed neuroplasticiy” that transforms neural networks supporting unhealthy patterns, such as anxiety, depressive thoughts, anger and self-judgment.
2ND AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 3:15pm – 5:00pm
Essential Tools to Develop a Transforming Mindfulness Practice
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3RD KEYNOTE 11:00am – 12:00noon
Addiction – Neurobiology and Implications for Treatment
In this interactive presentation, Dr. Mark Weiss will explore the way in which psychosocial factors and neurobiology blend to create addiction. Key concepts presented in a manner that is easily understood by all healthcare professionals will provide a unique approach to teaching clients about the nature of the addiction and the implications for treatment. If you have ever wondered about the neurobiological foundation for Step 1, then join us for this engaging lecture.
1ST AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 1:15pm – 3:00pm
Distress Tolerance Skills in 15 Minutes
The workshop will teach participants a simple approach to conceptualizing distress. Dr. Weiss will present simple, basic mindfulness and distress tolerance skills that can be taught in the office within a five to fifteen minute time frame. These skills will include learning to use simple breathing techniques, distractions, self-soothing, as well as other techniques that can be added to a client’s repertoire on an incremental basis on each visit.
2ND AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 3:15pm – 5:00pm
The When, Where, How and Why of Medications in the Treatment of Addiction
This workshop will present the participants with a clear understanding of the mechanisms by which medications work. Potential benefits and limitations of pharmacological interventions will be reviewed with a view to defining the role medications may play in supporting recovery. Participants will leave the workshop with an enriched ability to help clients make an informed decision about the use of medications.
DAY 2 | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2015
1ST KEYNOTE 8:45am – 9:45am
Rewiring The Brain After Trauma: A Brain-Based Therapy Approach
Recent advances in neuroscience have increased our knowledge of how and why people change. Brain-based therapy synthesizes neuroscience, evidence-based treatment, psychotherapy research, and attachment theory into a hybrid therapeutic model. This model helps identify which elements of psychotherapeutic schools are effective and which may be countertherapeutic. Brain-based therapy envisions the therapeutic process as brain changing as necessary to change mood and behaviour.
1ST AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 1:15pm – 3:00pm
Rewiring The Brain After Trauma: A Brain-Based Therapy Approach
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In this session you will develop a new way of looking at the therapeutic process enabling you to move beyond the traditional theoretical school approach. You will learn how to use the Brain-Based Therapy approach to educate your clients and make the goals of treatment understandable. We’ll examine the use of brain-based therapy to enhance outcome with people who have been traumatized. Special attention will be given to addressing the neurodynamics of PTSD.
2ND AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 3:15pm – 5:00pm
Rewiring The Brain After Trauma: A Brain-Based Therapy Approach
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2ND KEYNOTE 9:45am – 10:45am
Anger Management and Domestic Violence Treatment in a New Era: The Impact of Neuroscience and Brain Change Dynamics
The impulse to anger develops deep within the human brain, mostly at the unconscious level. It is then inhibited, modified or even increased consciously. The entire program can take place almost instantaneously, making it difficult to contain or control. Recent research in neuroscience has helped scientists better understand these processes. This information is also now being used to help clients become more skilled in anger management.
1ST AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 1:15pm – 3:00pm
The Angry and Aggressive Brain: Treatment Approaches
The centerpiece of this session is a six-phase anger and aggression cycle: activation, modulation, preparation, action, feedback and deactivation. We will detail each of these phases from a brain process perspective. Specific practical treatment options will be described for each phase. In addition, differences between the phenomena of rage vs. anger and the treatment for rage will be studied as well as the usefulness of anger management tools within a domestic violence offender treatment setting.
2ND AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 3:15pm – 5:00pm
The Angry and Aggressive Brain: Treatment Approaches
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3RD KEYNOTE 11:00am – 12:00noon
Strategic Techniques for Controlling Worry
We all worry. It’s an important signal that helps us plan our time and efforts. But for some clients, the noise of worry is like a boombox in their heads with no off-switch. Participants will learn practical therapeutic strategies, based on the latest research, on how to help clients face the unneeded worries of generalized anxiety head-on and dispatch with them rather than trying to avoid them.
1ST AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 1:15pm – 3:00pm
Changing the Anxious Mind, Rapidly
We will explore how to initiate treatment that engages anxious or OCD clients in a simple yet paradoxical mindset. We will outline the therapist-client interaction, step-by-step and illustrate each stage with brief, professionally videotaped segments, including in-vivo exposure. The goal is to persuade clients to adopt a self-help protocol to voluntarily, purposely and aggressively seek out uncertainty moment-by-moment.
2ND AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 3:15pm – 5:00pm
Changing the Anxious Mind, Rapidly
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EVENING SESSION 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Dancing Mindfulness: Exploring the Art of Movement as a Coping and Healing Mechanism
JAMIE MARICH, Ph.D, will lead you through this experiential session; participants will be expected to get up and dance, or at the very least, observe mindfully. Developed by Dr. Marich, Dancing Mindfulness uses the art form of dance as the primary medium of discovering mindful awareness. Participants are led through seven primary areas of mindfulness in motion: breath, sound, body, story, mind, spirit, and integrated experience.
DAY 3 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2015
1ST KEYNOTE 8:45am – 9:45am
The Psychodynamics of Loneliness: The Way Out of Emptiness and a Life Unfulfilled
A recent Harvard Medical School survey describes loneliness as “a very real and little-discussed social epidemic with frightening consequences”. How do we meet this rising tide? By acknowledging basic needs: self knowledge, intimate connection, community involvement, meaningful work and life purpose. Emphasis will be on strategies for change.
1ST AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 1:15pm – 3:00pm
Best Practices in Sexual Compulsivity Recovery for Couples
Technology use has emerged as a game-changing threat to committed relationships. Anonymity, accessibility, and affordability have increased sexual and emotional infidelity, as well as compulsivity. Led by Dr. Pat Love, this training will provide tools and information for mental health professionals to:
- Obtain current research and clinical practices related to sexual compulsivity
- Recognize the signs of sexual compulsivity/addiction
- Understand the role of post-traumatic stress in infidelity and recovery
- Be introduced to the collaborative model of treatment for couples
- Develop guidelines for determining the best treatment approach
- Understand the goals of couples treatment with sexual compulsivity
2ND AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 3:15pm – 5:00pm
Best Practices in Sexual Compulsivity Recovery for Couples
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2ND KEYNOTE 9:45am – 10:45am
The Missing Link: Using Lessons from Neuroscience to Build the Therapeutic Relationship
The keynote address will discuss key concepts from neuroscience research that can be used to guide relationship-building in the clinical setting. A particular focus will be on the core concepts of safety and attachment from a neurobiological perspective. Also included will be resiliency-oriented methods of collecting intake data and hearing the “trauma story” that promote nervous system balance. Examples from the presenter’s international work will be included.
1ST AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 1:15pm – 3:00pm
Neuroscience in Action: Designing Multisensory Interventions for Clinical Healing
This practical workshop introduces the Multisensory Learning Model (MSLM) which incorporates techniques and skills for accessing natural resiliency as well as creative strategies that promote integrative functioning. You will learn how to assess and leverage your own and your clients’ specific processing styles based on dominant brain, eye, ear, hand and foot patterns. Case studies (with both couples and individuals) of MSLM in action will link information on brain function with clinical treatment choices. You will see how MSLM is applied to early stages of treatment to rally your client’s existing resources for self-healing and motivation. You will also see how it can be applied to the middle stages of therapy to decrease the power of traumatic triggers and to anchor and extend learning.
2ND AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 3:15pm – 5:00pm
Neuroscience in Action: Designing Multisensory Interventions for Clinical Healing
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3RD KEYNOTE 11:00am – 12:00noon
Creativity, Healing and the Recovery Process
In addressing the wounds of trauma and addiction, taking action is imperative to heal the brain at the emotional, somatic, spiritual, and energetic levels. Creative outlets like dancing, drumming, making and listening to music, the visual arts, and play are particularly powerful and engaging. In this keynote Dr. Jamie Marich discusses how cultures since the dawn of time have implemented the expressive arts into the healing process. She provides a practical framework for how clinicians can use creativity in the helping process in modern times.
1ST AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 1:15pm – 3:00pm
Trauma, PTSD and Traumatic Grief: Effective Assessments and Immediate Interventions
Attend this workshop and leave with a brand new toolkit of skills, interventions, and principles for rapid success with traumatized clients. Learn the standard of care for treatment in the field of traumatic stress – and its key ingredients. Implement evidence-based treatment protocols and interventions for establishing safety, desensitizing and reprocessing trauma memories, metabolizing and resolving grief/loss and finally, assisting clients in reconnecting to lives full of hope, connection, and achievement.
2ND AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSION 3:15pm – 5:00pm
Trauma, PTSD and Traumatic Grief: Effective Assessments and Immediate Interventions
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Your Presenters
Cardwell C. Nuckols, Ph.D.
Cardwell C. Nuckols, Ph.D., is described as “one of the most influential clinical and spiritual trainers in North America.” He has served the behavioral medicine field for over 40 years and for the last 25 years is considered one of the leading experts in the world on addiction and recovery.
Dr. Nuckols is widely published, having authored more than 65 journal articles, 30 books and workbooks, 50 DVDs, CDs and videos, and 25 audiotape series. His latest book is entitled Finding Freedom Through Illumination. His previous publication is a best seller entitled The Ego-Less SELF: Achieving Peace and Tranquility Beyond All Understanding. Dr. Nuckols’ first book Cocaine: Dependency to Recovery is also a trade best seller, as are his booklets Quitting Heroin, Quitting Alcohol and Quitting Marijuana (Hazelden). He is the author of the book Healing an Angry Heart (HCI) and video Chalk Talk on Drugs with Father Martin (Kelly Productions).
Dr. Nuckols’ background includes advanced work in such areas as medical research, pharmacology, neurobiology and psychology. For over 35 years, he has gratefully served the healthcare industry in multiple capacities as a clinician, supervisor, program director and hospital administrator. Dr. Nuckols has led numerous corporate start-up and reengineering projects including involvement in the development of several publicly traded companies. He has served as an advisor to Quantum Immunologics, Inc. a pharmaceutical research company devoted to new technologies for treating cancer. Dr. Nuckols has consulted and trained with Labor Assistance Professionals (LAP), Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA), The Central Labor Council (AFL-CIO), United Auto Workers, Stouffers, Boeing, DuPont, General Motors, Bechtel-Bettis, Ford Motor Company, United Airlines and other industries in the area of enhancing productivity. He served as a trainer and consultant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), federal court systems, and branches of the armed forces specializing in the areas of antisociality, violence, and trauma.
During his career, Dr. Nuckols has been awarded national honors including the SECAD Award, Larry W. Monson Award, Swinyard Award, University of Utah School on Alcohol and Other Drug Studies Service Award and Gooderham Award, as well as, being recognized for his contributions to The American Society of Addiction Medicine’s Patient Placement Criteria. Dr. Nuckols is on the review board of Counselor Magazine and has served as the conference chairperson for national conferences including the US Journal offerings “Neuroscience Meets Recovery” and “Counseling Skills”.
Testimonials
“Excellent workshop. Very knowledgeable presenter. Very engaging. The whole workshop was very applicable to practice. Very doable strategies.”
– Vancouver, BC | June 5, 2017
“Presenter is very knowledgeable and is able to deliver the material clearly and concisely. It was more clinical than I expected and not really applicable to my current role, however, very interesting and I will be able to use pieces in my professional and personal life.”
– Vancouver, BC | June 5, 2017
“Very knowledgeable presenter!”
– Vancouver, BC | June 5, 2017
Terry Fralich, LCPC
Terry Fralich, LCPC is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with a private practice in Southern Maine and a former Adjunct Faculty Member of the University of Southern Maine Graduate School. He also is an attorney who practiced law in New York City, Los Angeles and Portland prior to becoming a counselor. During that time, Terry studied extensively with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, other leading Tibetan teachers and with some of the American pioneers of mindfulness. Inspired by their teachings and his own study of psychology, mindfulness and meditation, he earned a masters degree in clinical counseling, left the practice of law and began his counseling and teaching activities.
Terry is a co-founder of the Mindfulness Retreat Center of Maine. He has led more than 300 seminars and retreats at the Center, at Omega Institute, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, nationwide and in Australia in mindfulness, meditation, emotional intelligence, stress reduction, and the latest developments in neuroscience. In addition, he taught mindfulness, meditation and behavioral change for six years at Maine Medical Center’s cardiac rehabilitation program and the Cancer Community Center in Southern Maine.
His first book, Cultivating Lasting Happiness: A 7-Step Guide to Mindfulness, was published in 2008, with a Second Edition in 2011. His second book, The Five Core Skills of Mindfulness: A Direct Path to More Confidence, Joy and Love, was published in November, 2013. Terry has pursued his own mindfulness and mediation practice for more than 35 years.
John Arden, Ph.D., ABPP
John Arden, Ph.D, ABPP is the author of 15 books, including his most recent, Mind-Brain-Gene: Toward Psychotherapy Integration. His other books include: Brain2Brain, The Brain Bible, as well as Rewire Your Brain 2.0, and Brain-Based Therapy with Adults and Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents. He previously served as Director of Training in Mental Health for Kaiser Permanente in the Northern California region where now over 300 postdoctoral residents and interns are trained each year in 24 medical centers. He has presented seminars in over 30 countries and in all US States.
Testimonials
“This was the best workshop I have been to. Dr. Arden is so engaging. He makes complex information accessible and available.”
– Alyssa Ryan | Edmonton, AB | November 16 & 17, 2015“Great use of video to emphasize a concept. Emphasis on amygdala and hippocampus interactions. I have been on the right track working with clients with PTSD and anxiety. The research is reassuring. I liked assimilating the old research. Part of celebrating their research and how we can prove it. His personal experiences were entertaining, thoughtful, and relative.”
– Angie Smith-McMenemy | Oakville, ON | November 5, 2015“John was a very engaging speaker.”
– Oakville, ON | November 5, 2015
“Dynamic speaker. Relevant information. Covered old info (DSMIII) to new techniques and studies (small & large scale). Went to his afternoon lecture – wonderful speaker, a variety of topics, relevant studies, examples and slides.”
– Oakville, ON | November 5, 2015
“Outstanding, engaging, challenging, and useful!”
– Janet Ryan-Newell | Edmonton, AB | November 16 & 17, 2015“I look forward to reading his books and articles! Great presentations, very satisfied.”
– Oakville, ON | November 5, 2015“Great speaker – relevant info with great ability to create an understanding and make it useful. John makes understanding neuroplasticity fun and easy to understand and more importantly to apply.”
– Oakville, ON | November 5, 2015“He was a fantastic speaker who used personal stories, a sense of humour and experience to create a purposeful and live use of information.”
– Edmonton, AB | November 16 & 17, 2015“I enjoyed the workshop/ conference. It served as confirmation of how to practice my profession. John Arden is extremely knowledgeable and has helped me to connect a number of dots/ gaps in my knowledge regarding cellular level. Excellent, excellent job!”
– Edmonton, AB | November 16 & 17, 2015
Ronald Potter-Efron, Ph.D., CADCIII, LICSW
Ronald Potter-Efron, Ph.D., CADCIII, LICSW is a clinical pyschotherapist, director of the Anger Management Program at First Things First Counseling and Consulting Center in Altoona, WI, and an internationally recognized anger expert.
He has more than 30 years of clinical experience and in his private practice he specializes in the treatment of individuals with severe aggression and domestic violence concerns. Ron is also author of 15 books, including Handbook of Anger Management (for professional readers); Angry All the Time; Letting Go of Anger and Letting Go of Shame (both with Patricia Potter-Efron), and his newest release, Healing The Angry Brain (New Harbinger, 2012) – a self-help book intended for chronically angry and aggressive persons. Dr. Potter-Efron is also Diplomate of the National Anger Management Association.
Dr. Potter-Efron currently facilitates a 50 session domestic violence prevention program that utilizes the principles of neuroplastic change (long-term potential) to help clients devise and implement individualized brain-based behavioral change plans. He has trained thousands in professional seminars throughout the United States and abroad. Ron is known for his ability to make difficult material easier to understand and utilize, as well as for his good sense of humor and practical orientation towards therapeutic change.
Testimonials
“The ‘Healing the Angry Brain Workshop’ was the most informative and current information I have been taught on this subject. It helped me understand how the brain’s electrical and chemical systems work and how this affects people who handle anger poorly. Dr. Ron also includes empirically-supported techniques and practical case scenarios for helping clients who are struggling with anger and aggression issues. Dr. Ron’s engaging presentation is helpful, humorous and will benefit anyone who wants to understand and provide effective anger management services.”
– Lynette J. Hoy, NCC, LCPC, BCPCC, CAMS-IV | Oak Brook, IL
“It would have been excellent to have a full day with Ronald Potter-Efron.”
– Shelley Willier | Winnipeg, MB | November 19, 2015
“The workshop was fantastic! I could see where it could be applied to work and personal lives. Thank you!”
– Richmond, BC | November 30, 2015
“Excellent talks and knowledge. Very good clinical tools shared.”
– Richmond, BC | November 30, 2015
Reid Wilson, Ph.D.,
Reid Wilson, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist who directs the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Centre in Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. He is author of Stopping the Noise in Your Head: The New Way to Overcome Anxiety and Worry and the classic self-help book Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks. He is co-author of Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions, and Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous & Independent Children, as well as Playing with Anxiety: Casey’s Guide for Teens and Kids. He designed American Airlines’ first national program for the fearful flier and currently serves as the expert on anxiety for WebMD’s Mental Health Community. He blogs for Psychology Today at “All about Anxiety.” He is a Founding Clinical Fellow of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) and Fellow of the Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT). In 2014 he received ADAA’s highest award, and received the 2019 Service Award by the International OCD Foundation.
Testimonials
“Thank you so much! I enjoyed the humour and honesty. I look forward to researching your publications.”
– Calgary, AB | November 22, 2019
“Amazing work! I learned so much that I can take home and use with clients. Thank you so much!”
– Calgary, AB | November 22, 2019
“Presenter started brilliantly. He’s super funny and clear. Loved that he addressed the lack of time for ‘advanced questions’. Dr. Wilson was phenomenal. I gained helpful insights while being entertained b/c he explains things so well and is incredibly funny. His expertise and skill were so evident!”
– Calgary, AB | November 22, 2019
“Reid Wilson – best presenter, best handouts, great process, progression through training.”
– December 5, 2017
“Dr. Wilson did an amazing job, thank you very much!”
– December 5, 2017
“Really enjoyed live counselling clip illustrating worry being a signal or sound à really completed seminars. Dynamic speaker. Would like to hear him speak on other topics, hopefully will have the opportunity this afternoon. Very well done.”
– December 5, 2017
“I look forward to reading his books and articles! Great presentations, very satisfied.”
– December 5, 2017
Pat Love, Ed.D.
Pat Love, Ed.D., (yes that is her real surname) has authored/co-authored six books, has written numerous professional publications, and has developed multiple training programs including Love Education™. Her work literally has taken her around the world to help people understand and improve their relationships.
Dr. Pat Love is known for her warmth, humour, and practical, research-based wisdom. Her blog posts, YouTube clips, books, trainings, workshops, and online courses have made her a popular go-to relationship consultant. Her work has been featured on TV, in cyberspace, and popular magazines, but she’s also a distinguished professor, licensed marriage and family therapist, and long-standing clinical member and approved supervisor in American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
Dr. Love received her doctor of education in counsellor education from West Virginia University. She was a tenured associate professor at Texas A&M University in Commerce, Texas for six years before establishing the Austin Family Institute in Austin, Texas. Dr. Love also served as president of the International Association for Marriage and Family Counselling.
Today, she continues following her passion to help others through her writing and as a relationship consultant, trainer, and workshop presenter.
Jamie Marich, Ph.D.
Jamie Marich, Ph.D., is a dancer, musician, performer, writer, recovery ambassador, and clinical counselor, Dr. Marich unites these elements of her experience to achieve an ultimate mission: bringing the art and joy of healing to others. Marich travels internationally speaking on topics related to EMDR, trauma, addiction, and mindfulness while maintaining a private practice (Mindful Ohio) in her home base of Warren, OH. She is the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness practice.
Mark Weiss, M.D.
Mark Weiss, M.D., is an MD psychotherapist with a practice that focuses on the medical and psychotherapeutic management of addiction. He joined Bellwood Health Services in 2004 as a consulting staff physician, and was appointed Medical Director in January 2009. Dr. Weiss also maintains an interest in the management of anxiety disorders and the way in which anxiety and addiction are inter-related. His approach to emotional healing finds its roots in the psychology of mindfulness.
Laurie Leitch, Ph.D.
Laurie Leitch, Ph.D., has been a practicing psychotherapist, clinical trainer, consultant, social entrepreneur and researcher for over 25 years. She currently co-directs Threshold GlobalWorks with Brigadier General (Ret.) Loree Sutton, M.D.. Dr. Leitch co-developed the Trauma Resiliency Model, a skills-based peer and clinical intervention that builds resilience capacity through application of self-regulation skills for individuals and groups.
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