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25+ Proven & Effective Thinking and Self-Regulation Strategies For Children and Adolescents with Sensory Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Anxiety & ADHD
This one-day activity-focused workshop provides you with 25+ effective thinking & self-regulation strategies to use in the classrooms, home or clinical practice. These activities help you better understand and intervene with children who have challenges with executive function, sensory processing,…
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…
Smart But Scattered: Strengthening Executive Skills in Children & Adolescents
Executive function is a neuropsychological concept referring to the cognitive processes required to plan and direct activities. Skills include task initiation and follow through, working memory, sustained attention, performance monitoring, inhibition of impulses, and goal-directed persistence. While the ground-work for…
Smart but Scattered: Strengthening Executive Skills in Children & Adolescents
Executive function is a neuropsychological concept referring to the cognitive processes required to plan and direct activities. Skills include task initiation and follow through, working memory, sustained attention, performance monitoring, inhibition of impulses, and goal-directed persistence. While the ground-work for…
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…
Emotional Disorders: Practical Strategies for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Anxiety, Depression, Anger, and Perfectionism
This workshop provides an in-depth understanding of evidence-based approaches to the conceptualization and treatment of emotional disorders, including anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, trauma, depressive disorders, problem anger, and maladaptive perfectionism. Symposium participants will receive comprehensive training in a…
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…
25+ Proven & Effective Thinking and Self-Regulation Strategies For Children and Adolescents with Sensory Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Anxiety & ADHD
This one-day activity-focused workshop provides you with 25+ effective thinking & self-regulation strategies to use in the classrooms, home or clinical practice. These activities help you better understand and intervene with children who have challenges with executive function, sensory processing,…
Smart But Scattered: Strengthening Executive Skills in Children & Adolescents
Executive function is a neuropsychological concept referring to the cognitive processes required to plan and direct activities. Skills include task initiation and follow through, working memory, sustained attention, performance monitoring, inhibition of impulses, and goal-directed persistence. While the ground-work for development…
Worries and Woes: Working with Anxiety Disorders in Children & Adolescents
Anxiety disorders are the most common form of psychological distress reported by children and adolescents, and can interfere significantly in the lives of children. An anxiety disorder is a level of anxiety or worry that interferes with daily functioning, either with…
The British Columbia School-Based Mental Health Conference
OUR BEST SELLING CONFERENCE OF ALL TIME! Back due to popular demand, last year’s conference in Calgary, AB SOLD OUT at 750 seats. VENUE: Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel Corporate Room Rate Still Available | $155 + tax Call In-House…
The 2nd Annual Alberta School-Based Mental Health Conference
Our best selling conference of all time! Back due to popular demand, last year’s conference SOLD OUT at 750 seats. NEW, larger venue! Greetings! My non-profit, Lives in the Balance, is teaming up with Jack Hirose & Associates on…
Healing & Treating Trauma, Addictions and Related Disorders Conference
Canada’s 7th Annual Premier Psychotherapy Conference: Healing & Treating Trauma, Addictions, and Related Disorders: Dear Colleague, I am pleased to announce Canada’s 7th annual Premier Psychotherapy Conference: Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions and Related Disorders will be hosted in Edmonton, Alberta, on…
Treating Patients with Trauma: High-Speed CBT Therapy Techniques
Trauma has become one of the most critical medical/psychological problems in the US and around the world. The symptoms can be crippling and their devastation reaches beyond the traumatized individual to families and communities as well. The lifetime prevalence of full-blown, classic PTSD…
Mindfulness Inside & Outside the Therapy Hour: 3 Day Intensive Training
Clinicians are enthusiastically discovering that mindfulness practices can enlighten and enliven their lives, both inside and outside the therapy hour. These techniques hold great promise for personal development and as a powerful method to enhance virtually all forms of psychotherapy.…
High-Speed Treatment of Depression & Anxiety Disorders: Advanced CBT 4-Day Intensive
In this four day advanced CBT intensive, Dr. David Burns will show you how to greatly accelerate recovery from depression and anxiety disorders. You will learn how to use a multitude of powerful and innovative treatment methods, including Paradoxical Agenda Setting, Positive Reframing,…
The Manitoba 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 Manitoba CBT + DBT Clinical Skills Conference will be hosted in Winnipeg, MB on June…
The Vancouver 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 Vancouver CBT + DBT Clinical Skills Conference will be hosted in Vancouver, BC on…
Shame & Self Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma
Shame often prevents your traumatized clients’ recovery and hampers their ability to find relief and perspective despite effective treatment. Feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy interfere with taking in positive experiences, leaving only hopelessness. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn effective experiential…
High-Speed Treatment of Depression & Anxiety Disorders: Advanced CBT 4-Day Intensive
In this four day advanced CBT intensive, Dr. David Burns will show you how to greatly accelerate recovery from depression and anxiety disorders. You will learn how to use a multitude of powerful and innovative treatment methods, including Paradoxical Agenda Setting, Positive Reframing,…
20 Proven & Effective Thinking and Self-Regulation Strategies: For Children with Sensory Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Anxiety & ADHD
This one-day workshop will give you 20 effective self regulation strategies to better understand and intervene with children who have challenges with sensory processing, dysregulation, anxiety and executive function. Dr. Kenney will integrate research from neuroscience, kinesiology, occupational therapy, music…