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Neuroscience-Informed Strategies for Therapists: Brain-Based Techniques for Treating Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, and More


Speaker:
Chad Luke, PhD, LPC-MHSP, NCC, ACS, MAC
Duration:
Full Day
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR
Product Code:
LWC059781
Brochure Code:
PWZ92930
Media Type:
Live Webinar - Also available: Digital Seminar

Dates

Normal Price:      $324.99 - Now:  $64.99 - Exclusive offer when combined with this live training.

Description

Neuroscience really does contain the power to transform your practice, by developing who you are as a clinician, what you do as a clinician, and how to get clients more invested.

That’s why becoming “neuroscience-informed” isn’t just a buzzword – it’s the key to simplifying your therapy and making it more targeted than ever before.

And by working with an understanding of the brain’s natural mechanisms, you can navigate treatment pathways with confidence, yielding faster and more sustainable results.

Now in this all new training you’ll join Chad Luke, PhD, whose shown thousands of therapists how neuroscience can dramatically change not only how clinicians treat common issues but truly show and explain to their clients why there brain works the way it does. He’ll share dozens of practical applications and give you the step-by-step instruction you need to successfully integrate it into your clinical practice.

Whether you’re a seasoned therapist or just starting out, this training will equip you with the tools and techniques you need to address mental health disorders through a neuroscience lens.

So join author, researcher and neuroscience expert Chad Luke, PhD as he lays out the latest steps and functions to not only integrate neuroscience into your practice but how to effectively use it with your clients. You’ll also learn:

  1. The benefits of adding neuroscience interventions into your practice
  2. Ways to talk with your client about what’s going on in their brain
  3. Insight and support for a variety of theoretical approaches
  4. The why behind the what around healing and wellness
  5. How to refine your treatment of anxiety, trauma, and more through neuroscience
  6. And so much more!

Leave this training with the tools you can use to ignite, reignite, and reimagine your clinical work through brain science!

Register now!

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - *

NOTE: Each purchase includes CE credit for one individual (participants in full attendance will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, Q&A, and others.

Continuing Education Information: Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live, interactive webinar only. This webinar is being broadcast live in real-time and must be attended live, in its entirety, in order to earn credit. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether web-based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact info@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

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Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


Canada Credit - Canadian Counsellors and Psychotherapists

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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Synchronous distance.  Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

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Canada Credit - Canadian Psychologists

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This course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming.

This course offers 6.0 continuing education contact hours in the Counseling Services skill group. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance. 



Speaker

Chad Luke, PhD, LPC-MHSP, NCC, ACS, MAC's Profile

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Chad Luke, PhD, LPC-MHSP, NCC, ACS, MAC, is a licensed professional counselor (TN), researcher, and clinical supervisor. He is an internationally recognized author and expert in the clinical integration of neuroscience. His other areas of specializations include, substance use disorders, career counseling, and counseling children and adolescents. He has authored or coauthored over 50 publications, including working on his eighth book on the neuroscience of substance use and misuse. His other titles include Neuroscience for Counselors and Therapists: Integrating the Sciences of Brain and Mind, now in its second edition, and Applying Neuroscience to Counseling Children and Adolescents: A Guide to Brain-Based, Experiential Interventions (with Chris Schimmel). He trains clinicians in the clinical integration of neuroscience in the US and around the world.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Chad Luke has employment relationships with St. Bonaventure University and The Family Institute. He receives royalties as a published author. Chad Luke receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Chad Luke is a member of the American Counseling Association, the American Mental Health Counselors Association, the American Mental Health Counseling Association, the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, and the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselor Association.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


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Objectives

  1. Identify the function and clinical value of integrating neuroscience into clinical practice.
  2. Determine how neuroscience integration improves social and emotional health.
  3. Identify functions of the brain and nervous system as they apply to mental health.
  4. Utilize five neuroscience integration strategies to improve activities of daily living.
  5. Determine how the neurobiology of empathy builds authentic connections to improve relationships.
  6. Identify brain-based strategies to manage depression symptoms.

Outline

Laying the Foundation for Neuroscience in Psychotherapy

  • Key reasons to integrate neuroscience into your psychotherapy practice
  • The 5 E’s:
    • Empathy: Reduce stigmas and bias
    • Engagement: Capture clients attention
    • Expectations: Power of expectations in the healing process
    • Education: Illuminate limiting factors
    • Experimentations: Basis for new strategies
  • Valuing the human above the technology
  • Responsibility of the field not just the individual practitioner
  • Standards for early career and advanced practitioners
  • Key benchmarks for ethical practice
  • Uses of neuroscience: Theory enhancement, direct brain interventions, metaphor-based applications, and psychoeducation

Integrate Neuroscience into your Clinical Practice

  • 10 Axioms of integration
  • Brain and nervous system basics
  • Neuroscience and factors common across all theories of treatment
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Practical Applications of Neuroscience:

Validate and extend popular theories in practice

Third-Wave Cognitive Behavioral Theory

  • Neuroscience-informed-CBT
  • Expand the understanding of neuroplasticity and homeostasis
  • Left- and right-mode processing
  • Nervous system retraining

Psychodynamic Theory

  • Address trauma and relational wounds
  • Neuroscience informed ways to reduce harmful vs. healing recall
  • Grow through the impact of early relationships
  • Importance of the unconscious: Attention and implicit awareness

Humanistic-existential Theory

  • Neurobiology of therapeutic relationship – therapist or technician
  • Neurobiology of empathy in building authentic connections
  • Interpersonal physiology and co-regulation

Constructivist/Postmodern Theory

  • Phenomenological practices supported by neuroscience
  • Hawthorne effect: Manage awareness of strengths and challenges
  • Pygmalion effect: Unlock the power of expectation
  • Neurobiology of developing personal narratives
  • Solution-focused relationships and problem-management strategies

Inheritance Model of Wellbeing

  • A novel neuroscience-integrated model
  • 8 dimension-specific techniques and interventions

Address Mental Health Disorders Through a Neuroscience Lens:

Advanced integration and applications

  • Case vignette: Adult with anxiety, mood, and trauma
  • Anxiety disorders
    • Teach the prefrontal cortex to respect the messages from the anterior cingulate-cortex and amygdala
  • Mood disorders
    • Neuroscience-based models of depression
    • Monoamine, glutamate, and neuroplasticity theories
  • Stress trauma
    • Trauma as a continuum and working on specific brain regions
    • Treat the HPA, SAM, and DMN
    • Train systems to work in concert rather than opposition
  • Substance abuse disorders
    • Heal the mesolimcocortical dopamine system, reward and stress circuits
    • Listen to what serves and releasing what doesn’t

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Psychotherapists
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Physicians
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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