Empowering Relationships Despite Political Divides
How to Find and Reaffirm Shared ValuesFor the roughly 23 percent of married couples who don’t share a political affiliation, disagreements over a party or candidate can easily escalate into... Read more
Complete IFS Therapy Immersion: Integrating the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Model Across Clinical Applications
Are you ready to transform your practice with Internal Family Systems? IFS has been hailed as “the treatment method that all clinicians should know to... Read more
School-Based Mental Health: Best Practices and Evidence-Based Interventions for Successful Treatment in a Complex Setting
The role of a school-based mental health provider is complex, nuanced, and multi-faceted. And as more schools deliver on the urgent need for mental... Read more
Training the Heart and Mind
A Message from Jack KornfieldClinical psychologist and author Jack Kornfield has been instrumental in bringing mindfulness to Western audiences. With candor and humor, he shares a moving... Read more
School-Based Mental Health
The role of a school-based mental health provider is complex, nuanced, and multi-faceted. And as more schools deliver on the urgent need for mental... Read more
Embodying Resilience: Using Movement to Navigate Anxiety and Build Personal Power in Children
Our kids are living through a rising tide of anxiety as they navigate a challenging and ever-changing world. The symptoms of anxiety can easily overwhelm... Read more
Embodying Resilience: Using Movement to Navigate Anxiety and Build Personal Power in Children
Our kids are living through a rising tide of anxiety as they navigate a challenging and ever-changing world. The symptoms of anxiety can easily overwhelm... Read more
How to Help Our Nervous Systems During a Pandemic
… Finding Ventral Vagal for Our Clients and OurselvesAt the moment, I’m happy to be in my own home, self-quarantining, because I’ve recently been around the world on a training tour. I was in Rome twice... Read more
How I Came to Rethink Children’s Challenging Behaviors
Doing Away with the Blame GameA nine-year-old boy with severe behavioral challenges suddenly throws a full plate of food onto the school cafeteria floor. The consequence? His... Read more
Addictive Behaviors as Self-Preservation: Key Insights from the Internal Family Systems Model
By looking at addictive behaviors – from drugs and alcohol to sex, technology, and binge eating -- as means of self-protection and a way of staving off... Read more
Healing Developmental Trauma in Therapy: The Science of Restoring Self-Regulation
Childhood maltreatment can profoundly influence human development, resulting in a variety of mental, emotional, and social challenges – including... Read more
How Diet is Connected to Mental Health, Trauma & Addiction: A Practical Roadmap for Recovery
The connection between what we eat, and how we feel, has been documented for over a decade in studies. Yet, few organizations dealing with mental health and... Read more
Reverberations of Trauma in the Addictive Family: A 7-Step Process of Recovery
The majority of people who experience trauma will experience a chronic form that exists within their own family. Beginning with a genogram, Claudia will give a... Read more
The Seven Myths of Addiction
For twelve years Dr. Maté was the staff physician at a clinic for drug-addicted people in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where he worked with... Read more
How Diet is Connected to Mental Health, Trauma & Addiction: A Practical Roadmap for Recovery
The connection between what we eat, and how we feel, has been documented for over a decade in studies. Yet, few organizations dealing with mental health and... Read more
Healing Developmental Trauma in Therapy: The Science of Restoring Self-Regulation
Childhood maltreatment can profoundly influence human development, resulting in a variety of mental, emotional, and social challenges – including... Read more
Reverberations of Trauma in the Addictive Family: A 7-Step Process of Recovery
The majority of people who experience trauma will experience a chronic form that exists within their own family. Beginning with a genogram, Claudia will give a... Read more
How to Incorporate Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and Parenting
Get to the real root of parenting challenges. Even when parents are at the top of their game, the most routine curveballs—quarreling siblings, a... Read more
The Not-So-Hidden Epidemic of Sexually Compulsive Behaviors & Pornography Addiction: The Trauma Connection and Treatment
Sexually compulsive and addictive behavior has become a common presenting problem for today's clinician, whether it emerges in the form of pornography... Read more
The Seven Myths of Addiction
For twelve years Dr. Maté was the staff physician at a clinic for drug-addicted people in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where he worked with... Read more
How to Incorporate Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and Parenting
Get to the real root of parenting challenges. Even when parents are at the top of their game, the most routine curveballs—quarreling siblings, a... Read more
The Not-So-Hidden Epidemic of Sexually Compulsive Behaviors & Pornography Addiction: The Trauma Connection and Treatment
Sexually compulsive and addictive behavior has become a common presenting problem for today's clinician, whether it emerges in the form of pornography... Read more
Addictive Behaviors as Self-Preservation: Key Insights from the Internal Family Systems Model
By looking at addictive behaviors – from drugs and alcohol to sex, technology, and binge eating -- as means of self-protection and a way of staving off... Read more
Trauma & Addiction Online Course
Trauma & Addiction Online Conference
Read moreHow Neurofeedback & Neurotherapies Can Heal Trauma & Addictions
For the past 40 years, The Meadows Model has been treating trauma and addiction, using both Pia Mellody’s Model on Codependency and cutting edge trauma... Read more
Helping Make the Unbearable Tolerable: Trauma & the Treatment of Addictions
Unlike stress, which resolves itself after the event is over, trauma causes people to become physiologically and mentally stuck — hyper-aroused and/or... Read more
How Neurofeedback & Neurotherapies Can Heal Trauma & Addictions
For the past 40 years, The Meadows Model has been treating trauma and addiction, using both Pia Mellody’s Model on Codependency and cutting edge trauma... Read more
2-Day Shame-Informed Treatment Certification Course
Shame lurks in the shadows of almost every therapy hour. It can push your clients to hide their innermost feelings, put them into a freeze state where they... Read more
Helping Make the Unbearable Tolerable: Trauma & the Treatment of Addictions
Unlike stress, which resolves itself after the event is over, trauma causes people to become physiologically and mentally stuck — hyper-aroused and/or... Read more
Using the Experiential “Trauma Timeline” Intervention in Treating Trauma and Addiction
The Trauma Timeline, part of Relational Trauma Repair, Dr. Dayton’s psycho-educational model, is an experiential process for groups and one to one... Read more
