Recent neuroscience research has shown that multisensory messages, especially those involving visual images and metaphor, can have far greater impact than mere word-bound communication. In this workshop we’ll explore together how to apply these findings clinically to more fully engage clients, improve their memory of therapeutic discoveries

Research shows that Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) works for up to 80 percent of children and adolescents diagnosed with separation anxiety, generalized anxiety, phobias, social anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder---the most common mental health problems in this population. However, many therapists need to enhance

Chronically anxious clients, who continually scan their world for potential catastrophes they feel incapable of facing, tend not to be good students of mindfulness training. They’re in too aroused a state---hearts pumping, mouths dry, brains unable to think clearly---to settle down and meditate. Paradoxically, they can learn to turn their anxious energy into

Whether it’s losing a job, a marriage, a dream, or a loved one, we’ve all had our hearts broken, and it’s often unresolved grief that lies underneath the surface of our clients’ presenting problems. This workshop will focus on a new idea: grieving alone can last forever, but grieving together can help us heal. We’ll explore the “good” parts of sharing our grief---

The greatest obstacle to ending panic attacks is the client’s own fear of them. People spend so much time and energy resisting panic and avoiding any anxiety that might lead to an attack that they gradually wall themselves off from life. But what if we could teach them to defeat panic by pursuing and ridiculing it? Sounds impossible, but in this workshop,

Although medications are often prescribed to treat depression, there’s a range of empirically tested psychotherapeutic techniques that are at least as effective, and sometimes more so, than medications by themselves. In addition, these strategies can teach new skills about how to cope with ongoing problems, and challenge and change self-defeating behaviors