Seminar/Workshop Topics
ACT Made Easy: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Depression, Anxiety, Trauma and Personality Disorders
Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy into your practice offers a new way for you to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with difficult-to-treat clients.
Join experienced ACT presenter Dr. Jennifer Patterson as she delivers an exercise and technique-heavy course that will give you the tools needed to effectively treat clients with depression, anxiety, trauma, and personality disorders.
Dr. Patterson will teach you the main concepts of ACT, including mindfulness, acceptance, and defusion, and demonstrate how these create greater psychological flexibility. Discover a variety of techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behavior changes due to the presence of painful thoughts, feelings, and memories. You will learn how to effectively use metaphors, custom techniques, and experiential exercises to help your clients identify their values and translate them into behavior goals.
Through case examples, video clips, and role-play, you can integrate ACT techniques and skills in your practice tomorrow!
Best Evidence-Based Techniques for Emotion Regulation
This seminar explores evidence-based psychotherapies that can assist clients with regulating their emotions. You can help clients who have difficulty with emotion regulation skills by teaching them how to respond to intense emotions in a psychologically flexible way. Modalities such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Compassion-Focused Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy are particularly helpful.
Dr. Jennifer Patterson shows you how to use different evidence-based techniques to help clients accept their emotions and how to undermine experiential avoidance strategies. Learn how to apply emotion regulation techniques to help clients with a diagnosis of Bipolar Spectrum disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, interpersonal problems, impulsivity, anger, risk-taking behaviors, and more.
Dr. Patterson will share with you case examples, innovative experiential exercises, and metaphors that will help your clients achieve valued goals, positive outcomes, and an overall improvement in the quality of their relationships.
Hoarding Disorder: Effective Approaches to Mental Health Assessment, Diagnosis, & Treatment
Hoarding is no longer just a symptom of anxiety disorder. It is classified as a real, full-blown diagnosis in the DSM-5®. Hoarding is a complex disorder that isn’t resolved with a forced cleanout like you see on television but with customized treatment strategies for each individual.
Join hoarding expert Dr. Jennifer Patterson as she shows you how to get inside the mind of someone with a hoarding disorder. You will learn the potential health risks, co-morbid disorders, and emotional challenges associated with hoarding. Dr. Patterson will give you strategies to assess and diagnose hoarding properly, conduct home visits, and how to establish a collaborative network with other related professionals.
This day-long workshop will give you the assessment and treatment strategies you need to help your client move forward and live a healthy, uncluttered life. Dr. Patterson will use case studies, client stories, and clips of their experience on the show Hoarding: Buried Alive.
Introduction and Application of Brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is an evidence-based treatment that blends mindfulness, values-clarification, and acceptance skills-building to help people create measurable behavior changes. This 4-hour seminar will provide a framework for conceptualizing client behavior problems and discuss applying specific ACT interventions. Attendees will become familiar with the six core ACT principles of defusion, self-as-context, acceptance, values, committed action, and contacting the present moment. Dr. Patterson will demonstrate experiential exercises, and video clips of techniques will be demonstrated. Special emphasis will be on making the ACT model succinct for brief therapy.