Contemplative Dialogue: A Transformative Psychotherapeutic Tool for Enhancing Client Relationships

This course is a practical introduction to Contemplative Dialogue. This practice focuses on ways to improve the awareness of one’s own filters, assumptions and blind spots when engaging in dialogue with others – even during those times of major differences of opinion. With a clearer intention to understand and with more freedom of choice as to how we “show up” and respond, this practice is not about reaching agreement but rather about cultivating a more non- defended presence which results in a deeper, more trusting, and transformative relationship and connection with the client.
Some of the learning topics to be presented are as follow:
• Cultivating Authentic Presence
• Understanding Ladder of Inference
• Freedom and Awareness
• Telling the Truth with Compassion
• Engaging with a Non- Defended Stance
• Active Noticing / Mindfulness

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

Many transgender individuals avoid seeking therapy due to a lack of awareness and information about the transgender culture. This course is targeted to help clinicians become culturally competent by understanding the role of gender and sexual orientation within the transgender population. Topics include gender dysphoria, hormone replacement therapy, family & social adjustments, risks associated with the population, and current trends of the LGBTQIA+ community.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

The mind overrides intuition and leads to intellectual decisions devoid of right timing and direction. That is one contributing factor for clients experiencing feelings of guilt and disappointment. Since messages received through intuition are accurate and since everyone carries the ability to be intuitive, the goal of this course is to demonstrate ways to help clients identify, trust and follow their intuition in their decisions and problem solving. The course will focus on how to identify and remove psychological obstacles preventing clients’ ability to trust and follow their intuition.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

This new frontier of extended lifetime offers surprising gifts and terrific limitations. As our clients prepare to retire or are already retired, they are faced with unfamiliar challenges. Retirement is when the emotional, psychological, mental, physical, and spiritual levels of one’s being are directly affected. Necessary information, preparation and adjustments are needed so they avoid getting stuck in the states of disorientation, regret, and depression. In this course we will explore the challenges of every level and demonstrate specific tools you can utilize with your clients in handling this newfound prolong freedom retirement offers. 

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

Lack of inspiration and creativity is frequently found in clients suffering from anxiety. This course will focus on exploring the role and significance of inspiration and creativity in mental health. It will demonstrate how to balance clients’ primary habit patterns creating anxiety with creative expressive outlets. It will further present ways to encourage and guide clients towards inspirational sources incorporating them in their daily routine.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

Bonding Patterns is a cutting-edge theory on how relationship patterns in couples form and develop. This course will introduce the Bonding Patterns approach and explain its application in marital therapy.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

This course explains the role of implicit and explicit bias in defining the systems that provide physical and mental health care in America. This course also includes strategies for individual professionals, and professionals in collaboration, to use in order to reduce disparities in access to and delivery of physical and mental health care services.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

This course will cover the basics of MI including the Spirit, OARS, the four processes with a particular focus on the aspects of the spirit which help to establish a therapeutic relationship with a client/patient. Also highlighted will be research on the characteristics of effective psychotherapists (and how they are addressed in MI). Additionally, anticipated changes that will be included in the fourth edition of Motivational Interviewing by Miller and Rollinick will be discussed.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

Dreams are mirrors of our inner process. Utilizing the Psychology of the Selves theory we will demonstrate how dreams are truly the perfect guides revealing which parts of our clients are in harmony and which are out of balance affecting their lives. We will further demonstrate various ways you can teach your clients to recall their dreams’ content. We will teach at least five ways to process dreams offering a deeper understanding of inner life according to the dream’s messages communicated from the unconscious. We will also demonstrate and explain different ways you can teach your clients to work with their dreams’ content.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

This workshop will enhance your professional skills to help your clients free themselves from self-criticism, lift obstacles from their life path and almost immediately enhance their relationships. By transforming this inner critical voice into a supporter, your clients will learn how to stop being their own worst enemy.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

Reports of suspected child neglect make up more than three-quarters of all reports made to child protective services in any given year; 6 times more than reports of sexual abuse, and 5 times more than reports of physical abuse. However, neglect reports are least likely to be substantiated after investigation. 
The reality is that reporters of suspected child maltreatment struggle with appropriately identifying and reporting this type of maltreatment. This session will explore the legal and ethical obligations of professional reporters, especially as they relate to the concept of child neglect. 
Various types of child neglect, including physical neglect, medical neglect and educational neglect will be explored, along with a significant conversation around parental supervision and the use of corporal punishment.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

Expressions and gestures of love can inspire solutions in relationships. However, when these expressions and gestures transcend into obsession, they create immense suffering. We will examine some of the reasons why this occurs and more often in women and offer psychotherapeutic interventions enhancing the recovery from love-obsession.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

Loneliness is universal. Loneliness is the main underlined cause for obsessions and multiple regretful actions in our clients. All efforts to eliminate loneliness fall short and yet, these efforts never cease. This course, which is based on the book, Responding to Loneliness and Longing, attempts to explain the origin of loneliness from a psycho-spiritual angle and thus offering our clients alternative ways to perceive and handle this universal state of profound uncomfortability.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

The course is based on the theory of the Psychology of the Selves. It focuses on identifying the various parts of an individual who do the eating; it teaches professionals how to work with clients with eating disorders to help them develop control over these various personality parts and how to master the necessary skills needed to deal with the “new person” as natural weight is reached and maintained. Natural weight is where one is comfortable without inner conflict about their body image.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

This presentation will invite participants to not only consider what are ethical issues, but also explore how we go about making ethical decisions. This includes our own possible reluctance to reflect on our own ethical vulnerabilities, considerations and approaches to ethical decision making, and offer a framework for making ethical decisions. Strategies to minimize vulnerability to ethical dilemmas and liability will also be offered.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.