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Techniques for Anxiety, Pain, and Memory Reconsolidation
Strategies for Attachment & Complex Trauma
28th Annual LPCA Convention and Regional Conference
Atlanta Evergreen Marriott Conference Resort 4021 Lakeview Drive, Stone Mountain, GA, United StatesCourtney will be presenting a 3-hour session on The Therapeutic "Aha!": 10 Strategies for Getting Your Clients Unstuck. Description: What do you do when therapy gets stuck or seems to be going nowhere? Drawing on new insights from brain science, this session delivers 10 practical, creative strategies you can use to elicit motivation, clear unconscious […]
South Carolina Association for LPC’s Annual Conference
Lexington Medical Center 2728 Sunset Blvd. Medical Park 1 Auditorium, Columbia, SC, United StatesCourtney will be they Keynote Presenter for the SCALPC annual conference on and provide a full-day workshop on The Therapeutic Aha!: 10 Strategies to Get Your Clients Unstuck. Workshop Description: It's a perennial challenge for therapists to be effective with clients, particularly when therapy gets stuck or stalled. Drawing on new insights from brain science, […]
Brain-Based Therapy and Practical Neuroscience: Attachment and Emotion Regulation
Hilton Atlanta Hotel and Conference Center 500 Powder Springs Street, Marietta, GA, United StatesJoin us for this fun and user-friendly workshop that helps you integrate brain science into your work. You'll learn how to conceptualize psychotherapy based on an integrative model that discards the need for the “schools of psychotherapy.” Special attention will be on how to talk about the brain in therapy to motivate clients to try evidenced-based interventions. Discover how […]
Creative Strategies for Healing Trauma: Experiential Techniques to Rewire the Brain
Wild Dunes Island Resort 1 Sundial Circle, Isle of Palms, SC, United StatesJoin me for this pre-conference workshop at the 53rd Annual Conference of the South Carolina Counseling Association. This year's conference theme is Bridges to Empowerment and I'm excited to be offer this dynamic workshop where you'll learn creative strategies that uplift, and empower your clients as you learn to heal traumatic memories through the process of […]
Psychotherapy Networker Symposium 2017
Omni Shoreham Hotel 2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesJoin me for one of the best professional conferences and CE events you can attend: The Psychotherapy Networker Annual Symposium. Brené Brown will be one of the keynote speakers this year to celebrate the Symposium's 40th anniversary! Click here to register now! Other featured speakers include Bessel van der Kolk, Rick Hanson, Lisa Ferentz, Linda Graham […]
Rethinking Personality Disorders: The Search for Secure Attachment- Boca Raton, FL
The Faulk Center for Counseling 22455 Boca Rio Road, Boca Raton, FL, United StatesWhat’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. In this workshop, you’ll learn why personality disorders may not be disorders at all, but creative ways of coping with painful attachment […]
Rethinking Personality Disorders: The Search for Secure Attachment
Holiday Inn at World's Fair Park 525 Henley Street, Knoxville, TN, United StatesPersonality 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...
Healing with Guided Imagery: Techniques for Anxiety, Pain, and Habit Control
International Plaza- Nashville 2 International Plaza, Nashville, TN, United StatesDid 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 […]
Webinar: Rethinking Personality Disorders– The Search for Secure Attachment
WebinarPersonality disorders may not be disorders at all, but creative ways of coping with early attachment trauma. In this webinar, you’ll discover how to:
Hypnotic Techniques to Elicit Memory Reconsolidation
Can traumatic memories really be changed so they no longer haunt a person emotionally? Neuroscience research suggests they can, by harnessing the mechanism of memory reconsolidation, the brain’s own process of updating an emotional memory with new meanings and associations. Join Courtney Armstrong Friday 3/3/23 at the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Annual Scientific Meeting […]
