Join Master Clinician, and author, Kate Cohen-Posey for a day of cutting-edge, brain-based interventions that reduce over-reactivity and address many common clinical disorders.
Kate Cohen-Posey – Neuroscience for Clinicians Brain
Brain centers and neural pathways
Find brain centers in the palm of your hand
Rate where you and your clients fall on the reactivity scale
Brain-based strategies for common disorders: stress
How stress alters the nervous system
Bottom up (brain stem) regulation
8 tricks to calm the stress/fear pathway and strengthen the calm/alert pathway
Breathe it to leave it exercises
Find the fast-acting dive reflex
Anxiety and anger
The anxious/angry brain reaction
Horizontal (Brocca’s area) regulation
Use words to calm reactivity
Notice and narrate: name it to tame it
10 disorders that cause anger danger
Panic disorder—turn off adrenalin
OCD—Turn on dopamine to get unstuck
Two minute hybrid yoga/mindfulness exercise to reduce reactivity
Depression
The depressed brain pattern
Top down (cortical) regulation
Dopamine to dampen depression
Brain structures in a heightened learning state
Trauma
The traumatized brain
Regenerate the hippocampus
New treatments for trauma
Integrate traumatic memories
Trauma-informed chair yoga
Impulse control disorders
Brain areas involved in impulsive behavior
Distinguish compulsions from impulsiveness
Identify the positive feeling state
Rewire the reward pathway
Practice mindfulness of urges
Transform brain research into interventions
Change the brain’s negative bias
Externalize & personify negative thoughts
Rapidly activate centers for positive emotions
No-fail homework assignments
4-step method to overcome negative self-talk: demonstration and practicum
Replace controlling, critical inner voices with compassion and curiosity
Use memory tricks to increase mindfulness
Learn the prerequisite for deep therapeutic change
Mix everyday tech savvy with neuroscience
Interpersonal neurobiology: the social brain
Identify client attachment style
Change reactions into responses
How individuation can cause primal panic
Learn the untold truth about assertiveness
Stop the vicious cycle of insecure attachment
Change attack/defend, pursue/distance interaction patterns
Demonstration: how to breathe calm into life’s cruel moments
Affirm to calm and bond with oxytocin
Ask questions: from fight to forethought
Actively listen: from anger to containment
Hidden hints: use soothing hypnotic language
Observe non-verbal Aikido demonstration
Practice text role-plays
Learn a protocol for disarming responses
Applications for parents, spouses, toxic families, and the workplace
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Integrate the new brain science into your practice!
Activate the brain for change and well-being
Overcome anxiety, trauma, depression and more!
From neurons to structures to pathways to networks – how common psychological disorders alter them
Are you eager to learn new strategies that implement the latest in neuroscience research?
When clients present with anxiety, grief, trauma, stress, or relationship problems, over-reactivity is the common denominator.
Join Master Clinician, and author, Kate Cohen-Posey for a day of cutting-edge, brain-based interventions that reduce over-reactivity and address many common clinical disorders.
Kate’s novel program integrates the research methods of renowned neuroscientist Richard Davidson, and others, with the proven clinical methods of CBT, mindfulness, hypnosis, ego-state, and somatic approaches. The results are a broad-based framework of therapeutic techniques that is rare in the current practice of psychotherapy!
Experience the effects of activating brain centers for calming/positive or disturbing/negative feeling states
Learn a brain-based method that externalizes negative thoughts and aids identification with inner resources
Opportunity for case consultation on neuro-educational protocols for panic attacks, OCD, anger management, and trauma
Apply strategies to disrupt attack-defend-withdraw neural pathways
Leave with resources for introducing and implementing these life-altering skills with your clients
Are you ready to take the next step? Join us and you will leave this program inspired and passionate about your practice while applying the latest brain-based research and interventions! And better yet: your clients will have a vehicle to be poetic and precise in describing both their distress and strengths which magnifies therapist-client attunement.
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