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

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

At 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

A 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

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

Childhood maltreatment can profoundly influence human development, resulting in a variety of mental, emotional, and social challenges – including... Read more

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

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

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

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

Childhood maltreatment can profoundly influence human development, resulting in a variety of mental, emotional, and social challenges – including... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Conference

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

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

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

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

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

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

WE CAN’T HELP OURSELVES EVEN BEGIN TO HEAL RACIALIZED TRAUMA IF WE DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT EVEN EXISTS. Our society needs to break down systems... Read more

Many clinicians still insist that clients sign and abide by a standard safety contract as a way to manage self-harm and addictive behaviors. This inevitably... Read more

Many clinicians still insist that clients sign and abide by a standard safety contract as a way to manage self-harm and addictive behaviors. This inevitably... Read more

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

WE CAN’T HELP OURSELVES EVEN BEGIN TO HEAL RACIALIZED TRAUMA IF WE DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT EVEN EXISTS. Our society needs to break down systems... Read more