This workshop focuses on trauma-informed screening and assessment through a complex trauma lens, providing a comprehensive framework and tools to ultimately support treatment and service planning.

This workshop offers 3 Core Continuing Education credits (3 CEs).

Our work in the field of “mental health” is ironically underpinned by the Westernized “medical model of disease.” Our wellness protocols are informed by the philosophy of Cartesian Dualism. In the 1600’s, Rene Descartes, a French philosopher, began describing the separation between the physical matter of the brain and the ethereal reality of the mind. This separation was later reflected in treatment of the mind/brain vs. treatment of the physical body. This is one of the primary tenets distinguishing Eastern medicine from Western medicine. These humble beginnings have expanded into very distinct methods of treating illness and promoting wellness in the United States. We are just now seeing a potential shift back to treating a person as a whole entity, rather than focusing on pieces and parts. This workshop covers several mind-body systems and applies them to mental health work. Because patients/clients come to therapy as a whole person, complete with mental, physical, and spiritual aspects, it is important to be able to engage in holistic case conceptualization to best help them to heal and thrive. It is not helpful to ignore the body as if it exists separately from the brain and mind.

This workshop offer 3 Core Continuing Education credits (3 CEs).

This course is an introduction to complex trauma and will cover types of trauma, the physiologyof trauma, ways that complex trauma impacts development, and basic strategies to help peoplefeel safer. This training will help participants think about behaviors in a different way, learn howto create safe places for people who have experienced complex trauma, and learn ways to explainto parents and kids what is happening as a result of their experience.

Participants who complete this module should be able to:

• Describe risk factors (including increased risk for subsequent trauma exposure if the initial exposure is unmitigated by early intervention) and the overall goal of trauma assistance

• Define trauma and complex trauma according to DSM5

• Describe trauma effects on the brain, body, and behavior including the domains of impairment for a child who has experienced complex trauma

Sleep is a core regulatory biorhythm that serves as an important marker of overall health and wellness. Cultural differences exist and perspectives vary greatly. This workshop provides an overview of a host of sleep disorders, the neurological underpinnings of these disorders, and long-term potential impacts of chronic sleep disturbance on mental health. It also considers sleep health from the perspective of psychoeducation, prevention, monitoring, and systematic measured improvement in clinical settings. Finally, we will explore the connection between sleep dysfunction and many chronic mental health conditions.

This workshop is virtual and offers 3 CORE Continuing Education Credits (3 CEs). During this virtual workshop, your video must be turned on to receive your CEs. We must be able to attest that you attended and participated in the workshop.

This workshop explores the human pain experience, distinctions and similarities between physical pain and emotional pain, how pain pathways may become “hijacked”, acute vs. chronic pain, chronic pain and autoimmune illnesses, the intricate relationship between pain and trauma, and techniques for emotional pain resolution. This presentation will include case studies and correlations with mental health diagnoses from DSM-V categories. will review one of the largest investigations of the impact of childhood abuse and neglect on later life health and well-being. Findings from the ACEs study will be used to inform clinical diagnosis and treatment planning in the outpatient mental health setting.

This workshop offers 3 Core Continuing Education credits (3 CEs).

Following the “Decade of the Brain” between 1990 and 2000, the professional world was left with a flood of new knowledge about brain function, mind health, and neurological responding to the environment at large. As it turns out, the brain is a structural entity that serves to regulate and manage internal systems, while the self is a created entity that arises from functional energy of brain activity. This “new” knowledge base has continued accruing over the past 20 years and it informs our understanding and practice of mental health.

This workshop covers the use of neurobiology to inform case conceptualization, selection of interventions, and service delivery models. Knowledge of brain health, coupled with technological advances, has enabled access to expanding intervention options that are “new” and exciting. We will explore some of these options and discuss how they can be used to supplement more traditional therapeutic modalities and tenets.

This workshop offers 5 Core Continuing Education credits (5 CEs).

This workshop will explore individual case reviews specific to trauma resolution using EEG neurofeedback and trauma-focused interventions. Cases will include various manifestations of trauma and clients will range from 6 to 76 years of age.

This workshop offers 5 Core Continuing Education credits (5 CEs).

This workshop explores the tenets of Polyvagal Theory, including how the brain and body are intricately interwoven, the importance of the autonomic nervous system in symptom (ANS) regulation, and how the ANS underpins trauma response.

This workshop offers 5 Core Continuing Education credits (5 CEs).