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Breaking Habits with Hypnosis
Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
October 2019
Rethinking Personality Disorders: The Search for Secure Attachment
Personality disorders may not be disorders at all, but creative ways of coping with early attachment trauma. Understanding this often ignored factor can help you more easily build rapport with troubled clients, avoid frustration, and increase positive treatment outcomes. In this keynote address, Courtney Armstrong, author of Rethinking Trauma Treatment shares...
Find out more »Healing with Guided Imagery: Techniques for Anxiety, Pain, and Habit Control
Did you know clinical guided imagery is a powerful adjunct to treatment that has been demonstrated to reduce blood pressure, relieve pain, bolster the immune system, and enhance weight loss & smoking cessation in placebo-controlled studies? In this 24-CE workshop designed for VA clinicians, you'll learn how to use guided imagery, why it works, and get dozens of evidence-based protocols you can administer in 15-minutes or less to calm anxiety, relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and support behavioral change. Moreover, patients…
Find out more »November 2019
Creating Post-Traumatic Growth and Resilience- Atlanta, GA
Discover how to create post-traumatic growth within yourself and your clients with this dynamic workshop from Courtney Armstrong, LPC in at SISP Atlanta...
Find out more »Resolving Attachment and Complex Trauma with Memory Reconsolidation
Join Courtney Armstrong for this 3-day experiential workshop, where you'll learn how to use use memory reconsolidation and gentle hypnosis techniques to heal the negative effects of complex trauma and repair attachment trauma. Complex trauma is more challenging for clients to overcome because it involves repetitive experiences of neglect, abuse, or betrayal. Clients who've experienced complex trauma may find themselves struggling from erratic mood swings, relationship problems, or dissociative episodes that they just can't "reason" their way out of. With Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy you'll…
Find out more »New Rules for Treating Trauma: London, England
Discover how to transform traumatic memories with the process of memory reconsolidation at this dynamic 2-day workshop in London, England...
Find out more »February 2020
New Rules for Treating Trauma: Greenville, SC
In this workshop you'll get up-to-date on the latest breakthroughs in trauma therapy and learn new techniques you can use right away! In the morning, we'll look at the neurobiology of trauma and how it impacts brain development, immune function, attachment style, and the therapeutic relationship. Next we'll dive into the art of engaging traumatized clients and how to work with different attachment styles so you can earn their trust, instill hope, and help them move forward. In the afternoon,…
Find out more »New Rules for Treating Trauma: Columbia, SC
In this workshop you'll get up-to-date on the latest breakthroughs in trauma therapy and learn new techniques you can use right away! In the morning, we'll look at the neurobiology of trauma and how it impacts brain development, immune function, attachment style, and the therapeutic relationship. Next we'll dive into the art of engaging traumatized clients and how to work with different attachment styles so you can earn their trust, instill hope, and help them move forward. In the afternoon,…
Find out more »New Rules for Treating Trauma: Charleston, SC
In this workshop you'll get up-to-date on the latest breakthroughs in trauma therapy and learn new techniques you can use right away! In the morning, we'll look at the neurobiology of trauma and how it impacts brain development, immune function, attachment style, and the therapeutic relationship. Next we'll dive into the art of engaging traumatized clients and how to work with different attachment styles so you can earn their trust, instill hope, and help them move forward. In the afternoon,…
Find out more »March 2020
Awakening Positive Emotional States
Research from brain science and positive psychology shows that awakening positive emotional states through experiential tools such as imagery, music, movement, and play is the fastest route to shift mood, decrease anxiety, and stimulate creative problem solving. But how do you help clients access resourceful states when they’re feeling hopeless and helpless? Discover how to help troubled clients reclaim inner states of peace, strength, joy, and vitality. Moreover, you’ll have opportunities to evoke your own uplifting states through experiential activities.…
Find out more »Rethinking Personality Disorders
What’s going on when your best efforts to establish a secure therapeutic alliance with a personality-disordered client aren’t working? Before you proclaim a “bad fit” and refer them out, consider changing your approach. Learn why personality disorders may not be disorders at all, but creative ways of coping with painful attachment trauma. Understanding this often-ignored factor can help you more easily develop rapport with challenging clients, avoid frustration, and increase positive outcomes. You’ll discover how to: Navigate the emotional defenses…
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