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PP0004: Treating Anxiety: The Latest Advances

Dramatically shorten treatment time and improve clinical effectiveness with a new powerful motivational approach to anxiety and other presenting problems. Join David Burns as he uncovers and dispels resistance to treatment and enhances collaboration between therapist and client. Learn how to clearly convey neuroscience information to clients in ways that can have a calming effect and enhance treatment effectiveness. Join Margaret Wehrenberg as she reviews how brain science has allowed therapists to match treatment to the brain structures characterizing anxiety and discusses why it is helpful for clients to have an understanding of neuroscience in treatment. Expand your understanding of the sources for different kinds of anxiety along with your repertoire of interventions. Join Danie Beaulieu as she explores what metaphors, visual images, and multisensory messages you can use to more fully engage clients and achieve greater impact than is possible with purely word-bound communication. Learn techniques drawn from Neuro-Linguistic Programming that target the auditory and visual representations that clients make. Join Steve Andreas as he brings about immediate and enduring changes in clients perceptions and feelings as they deal with anxiety. Learn the 3-step program to help parents and children deal with anxiety. Join Lynn Lyons as she teaches exercises that help normalize anxiety (de-catastrophize it), externalize it (turn the internal state into external metaphors that can be dealt with more readily), and experiment with it (find innovative, playful ways to deal with it). Join Reid Wilson as he explores a step-by-step approach that helps clients shift their relationship with panic so they can overcome their anxiety. By gradually learning to approach, exaggerate, personify, and caricature panic, the client is able override the responses that perpetuate anxiety. After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.

Creating Multiple Streams of Income with Casey Truffo

Expand Your Practice: NP0037 – Session 3

Learn how to leverage your time and energy by distinguishing between having a job and running a business. Join Casey Truffo as she discusses how to increase your income, include new offerings in your practice, and still deliver your therapeutic services. After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.

Whatever Happened to Parental Authority?

Parental AuthorityBy Rich Simon It seems astonishing that even just two or three decades ago, parents not only pretty much knew what was expected of them to turn their offspring into civilized adults, but they could actually count on society to back them up. Even more astounding, kids seemed to understand this, too. Even if they rebelled against, yelled about, or sullenly resented how “unfair” adults were, they seemed to acknowledge adult authority and realize that they would just have to wait until they turned 18 to get for themselves the keys to the kingdom of grown-up independence.

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Branding Your Practice with Joe Bavonese

Expand Your Practice: NP0037 – Session 2

Do you have a "message" about your practice but find it hard to put into words? Do you think that social media websites might help grow your practice? Join Joe Bavonese as he helps you market your practice more effectively in today's highly technological world. After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.
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NP0010 Is Mindfulness Enough?

This blog focuses on discussion regarding the course NP0010 Is Mindfulness Enough?
 
 

NP0010, Mindfulness, Bonus Session, Sharon Salzberg

 
As the final, bonus session in “Is Mindfulness Enough?” series, Sharon Salzberg, a leading spiritual teacher, who’s a pioneer in bringing Eastern meditation practices to the West, will differentiate between kindness as “sweetness” and how it can be used as a spiritual force in daily life and in our practices—especially with those who have hurt us.

After this presentation, please take a few minutes to reflect on what was striking to you about this particular session, how it fits in with the series in its entirety, and what you’re thinking after participating in this course and hearing such a wide variety of perspectives on a variety of applicable topics. What do you think—is mindfulness enough? What do you think was most interesting or made the most sense to your practice? What questions remain for you? Do you have any relevant experiences to share?

We encourage you to comment on this session and about the series as a whole, as this kind of deeper engagement is key to learning and understanding. Thank you for your participation, and we hope you come away from this course with a clearer vision of how we can effectively integrate mindfulness practices and psychotherapy to benefit ourselves and our clients.
11.07.2011   Posted In: NP0010 Is Mindfulness Enough?   By Psychotherapy Networker
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  • 0 avatar Merrilee Gibson 11.09.2011 14:11
    In hearing Sharon Salsberg today, I am grateful for her level-headed, simply stated, invaluable and unpretentious wisdom. I wish I could just bottle her words and hand them to patients (and keep a set for myself, of course). The thoughts about lovingkindness, about the components of action, seem so relevant to some of the troubling aspects of the lives of the people I see in my office, information that I perceive as being supremely helpful and positive. Thank you so much.
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  • 0 avatar Linda Graham 11.09.2011 14:13
    Deep gratitude to Sharon for such ease and down-to-earth practicality, as always, and to Rich's skillful encouraging the emergence. Specifically about David Brooks' sidelining empathy. Mindfulness practice, loving kindness practice, are so experiential; we build the capacities to feel another's pain ( our own!)without being overwhelmed or judgmental. In the experience is the awakening to wise, compassionate response. Empathy may not be sufficient, as Sharon points out, but it is necessary. Brooks sounds like he's making a pronouncement from the left hemisphere of his brain, basing it in social psychology research, perhaps, but if he were experiencing the power of empathy himself, he would know, at the felt sense level of intuitive wisdom, it's not a side show. Glad Sharon could so quickly re-frame the importance of empathy as a gateway to wise, ethical, compassionate response. Whew!
    Linda Graham, MFT San Francisco, CA
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  • Not available avatar Alan Lawrence, LCSW 11.09.2011 14:34
    Today's session with Sharon Salzberg was the best of all sessions, not complicated or sedating, but very inspiring
    and upbeat!
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