Life Transitions Specialist Certificate: Clinical Skills for Life Changes that Cause Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Identity Shifts & More

Full Course Description

Healing the Hidden Wounds of Trauma and Disconnection

Clients are coming to us saying things like: “I don’t know what I’m doing with my life” … “I feel like I’m just going through the motions” … “What’s the point of it all?” … “I don’t know who I am anymore?” … “I’m afraid of living with regret.”  

They are feeling lost, overwhelmed, confused and without reason for hope – trying to find happiness and fulfillment and fearing that they never will.   

Few therapies equip us with the tools we need to effectively navigate these concerns. That’s why more and more therapists are turning to Existential Therapy -- With the latest in cutting-edge insights from decades of research and practice, existentialism provides us with exactly what we need to help our clients feel better, address mental health concerns, AND answer life’s big questions.   

Whether you work with children, adolescents or adults - anxiety, depression, trauma or relationships - chronic illness, major medical conditions, or end-of-life concerns - or simply individuals who are feeling unsure about themselves and their future …. this workshop will give you tools from Existential Therapy to guide your clients to discover the deep sense of identity, meaning, and purpose they are so desperately seeking. 

Now, in this all-new exclusive workshop, existential therapy expert Dr. Sara Kuburic is here to offer you the practical guidance and techniques you need to provide your clients with the transformative healing they’ve been searching for. You will discover how to:

PURCHASE NOW to discover how much farther you can take our clients when you combine mental health recovery with a journey towards true identity and desire for life. 

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Evaluate existential interventions as a therapeutic approach for reducing mental health symptoms among individuals who have undergone life-altering events
  2. Assess the significance of freedom, choice and responsibility as key components in existential therapies
  3. Conduct at least two existential interventions to promote self-awareness
  4. Discuss the significance of emotional awareness as a crucial factor associated with posttraumatic growth following adverse experiences

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Target Audience

Copyright : 11/14/2023

Narrative Therapy Techniques for Navigating Grief and Uncertainty

The pandemic has served as a reminder that we never know what’s around the bend. I was fourteen when both of my parents got cancer at the same time. My mother died when I was eighteen and my father died when I was twenty-five. Life was hard after that. I felt very alone in the world and unsure of my purpose. But through it all I wrote -- writing had always been my outlet and eventually it became my salvation. As a therapist I’ve found it to be one of the most powerful tools for working with grieving clients. In this session, I will share narrative exercises you can use to cultivate self-compassionate, facilitate emotional expression, and help clients find peace and connection in times of uncertainty and crisis.

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Objectives

  1. Use personal narrative exercises to help clients manage grief related anxieties.
  2. Use journaling and grief letters to help promote continuing bonds in grieving clients.
  3. Apply narrative approaches to help clients cope and empower them to construct meaning following loss.

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Target Audience

Copyright : 04/28/2022

Neuroplasticity in Trauma Recovery

More so than ever, being trauma-informed means understanding the ways that neuroplasticity allows clients to flourish after traumatic experiences. If we can help them change the way their traumatic memories are stored and take responsibility for the narratives that define their lives, we can foster post-traumatic growth. As clients feel stronger, more self-accepting, and have an increased sense of purpose and belonging, their symptoms will decrease, their relationships will deepen, and they can access greater joy, appreciation, and connection. This interactive workshop will empower you with practical tools—such as the six pillars of resilience—to facilitate a strength-based approach to trauma recovery. You’ll learn to: 

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Objectives

  1. Describe the role of neuroplasticity in healing trauma.
  2. Identify resilience and protective factors against the development of PTSD.
  3. Apply two neuromodulation interventions to support mind-body health and emotion regulation.

Outline

Neuroplasticity and Trauma Recovery  

Neuropsychotherapy and trauma treatment 

Soul work in Psychotherapy 

Integration, Resilience, and Post Traumatic Growth 

Target Audience

Copyright : 03/21/2025

The Anatomy of Our Anxiety

We will explore a paradigm-shifting approach to managing anxiety, based on the understanding that anxiety is not all in our heads, but also in our bodies. We'll discern the difference between avoidable anxiety and purposeful anxiety, learning how to help our patients eliminate their unnecessary anxiety and allow their purposeful anxiety to guide them toward meaningful action. This is essential for any clinician supporting patients who are struggling with anxiety, providing practitioners with safe, actionable, and accessible strategies for helping patients find relief from anxiety.

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Objectives

  1. Categorize anxiety as either avoidable or purposeful.  
  2. Implement clinical strategies to reduce avoidable anxiety.
  3. Utilize purposeful anxiety to align with goals in treatment.

Outline

Identifying Avoidable Anxiety 

Actionable strategies for addressing avoidable anxiety 

Target Audience

Copyright : 11/22/2022

Transforming Regret

People talk about regret more than any other emotion except love. And these days, ever-increasing choice, speed of technology, and social-media shaming have all made us particularly prone to regret. When it spirals into shame, rumination, and intense self-criticism, it can lead to depression, anxiety, sleep problems, and avoidance. By helping clients respond constructively to regret, they’ll be able to leverage it to improve their lives. You’ll discover how to:

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Objectives

  1. Determine when regret becomes problematic leading to mental distress.
  2. Use meditation, guided imagery, somatic techniques, and expressive writing to engender self-compassion.
  3. Practice expanding emotional vocabulary, differentiating emotions, locating them in the body, and enacting them to improve emotional awareness and reduce rumination.
  4. Determine 4 practical interventions for working with both feelings and reality, and identify common thinking traps involved in regret to boost flexibility.
  5. Demonstrate interventions designed to leverage the experience of regret to clarify client values improve future actions.

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Target Audience

Copyright : 02/09/2022

Undoing Shame: The Key to Trauma Healing

More than any other obstacle, shame can block the joy and peace traumatized clients seek in therapy. Feelings of worthlessness prevent them from metabolizing positive experiences. Rather than seeing their accomplishments and strengths as accurate reflections of who they are, shame sabotages their progress. Paradoxically, as clients get better in treatment, standing up for themselves more and reaching their goals, these shifts can evoke other forms of shame, like self-doubt and self-judgement. In this workshop, you’ll explore. You’ll explore how to:

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Objectives

  1. Summarize the role of shame and self-loathing as symptoms of trauma. Identify the neurobiological effects of shame.
  2. Discriminate the physiological and cognitive contributors to chronic shame.
  3. Describe the survival advantages of shame.

Outline

The Role of Shame in Traumatized Individuals

The Neurobiological Effects of Shame

Survival “Advantages” of Shame

Interventions for Addressing Shame

Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

Copyright : 10/05/2024

The Grief of Medical Trauma, Injury and Illness

A line forever between what was and what will be, those impacted by medical trauma and chronic illnesses feel every loss. Struck with a sudden or gradual forfeiture of abilities, independence, self-esteem, freedom, comfort, hope and so much more, the grief of what has been taken from them can make a path forward seem unattainable. In this timely session, Dr. Sacha McBain will show you how clinicians can work with the grief that often follows medical trauma, help clients cope with and adapt to their losses, and support them as they shape a new sense of identity and purpose for themselves.

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Objectives

  1. Utilize the ecological model of medical trauma to develop a trauma-informed case formulation.
  2. Tailor trauma-informed and trauma-focused treatment to the address the unique loss and grief experienced by medical trauma survivors and their families.
  3. Utilize clinical strategies from the fields of health and rehabilitation psychology to target health-related factors that contribute to difficulty with adjustment to illness or injury and perpetuate complicated grief.

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Target Audience

Copyright : 04/14/2023

The Trauma of Endings

The data is clear: most of us will author more than one love story in our lifetime. We talk a lot about the skills and paradigms that individuals and couples need to create an intimate relationship. But we don’t talk nearly enough about the skills and paradigms that individuals and couples need in order to end an intimate relationship. Learning relational meta skills can help clients approach endings—and new beginnings—with more integrity and Relational Self-Awareness, reducing collateral damage to both self and others. In this workshop, discover an integrative approach for helping your clients better understand the thoughts, feelings, and common issues that arise during a breakup as well as integrating the loss and preparing to begin dating again. You’ll explore:

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Objectives

  1. Identify how to help clients set boundaries and advocate for their relational needs with new romantic partners.
  2. Determine with clients the importance of Relational Self-Awareness in creating a successful romantic relationship.
  3. Identify common therapeutic pitfalls when working with clients who are ending a relationship or beginning a new one.

Outline

The Psychology of Goodbye

Self-of-the-Therapist

Integration of Loss

Dating after Loss

Target Audience

Copyright : 10/04/2024