5-Day: Anxiety Treatment Certification Retreat: Yoga, Meditation and Whole-Client Approaches - Seminar
5-Day: Anxiety Treatment Certification Retreat: Yoga, Meditation and Whole-Client Approaches
- Where:
- GARRISON, NY
- When:
- Sunday, October 20, 2019 - Thursday, October 24, 2019
Course Description:
Rejuvenate personally and renew professionally while immersed in the beauty and peacefulness of the Hudson Valley!
Deep rests, hikes, and the healing arts are at your fingertips as you experience an array of meditations, yoga practices, and expressive arts that will revitalize both you and your clinical treatment of anxiety in a stunning natural setting.
Begin each day with gentle yoga sequences, suitable for everyone, and meditations specifically designed to calm the nervous system and create greater resilience. You’ll take in the stillness while nourishing the body and mind with healthy practices and exquisitely prepared cuisine.
Over five experiential days, you’ll discover how a whole-person approach, integrating contemplative practices, functional medicine tools, cognitive techniques and artistic expression can quiet the mind, cultivate well-being, and wire-in recovery from anxiety and co-morbid depression. Detailed guidance from out expert instructor will teach you how to translate the embodied experiences into clinical applications to bring greater healing to your clients.
Best of all, you’ll leave this incredible restorative experience having met the full educational requirements when applying to become a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP).
Sign up today and get certified while you build your skill and passion for healing anxiety in a glorious retreat setting!
Rejuvenate personally and renew professionally while immersed in the beauty and peacefulness of the Hudson Valley!
Deep rests, hikes, and the healing arts are at your fingertips as you experience an array of meditations, yoga practices, and expressive arts that will revitalize both you and your clinical treatment of anxiety in a stunning natural setting.
Begin each day with gentle yoga sequences, suitable for everyone, and meditations specifically designed to calm the nervous system and create greater resilience. You’ll take in the stillness while nourishing the body and mind with healthy practices and exquisitely prepared cuisine.
Over five experiential days, you’ll discover how a whole-person approach, integrating contemplative practices, functional medicine tools, cognitive techniques and artistic expression can quiet the mind, cultivate well-being, and wire-in recovery from anxiety and co-morbid depression. Detailed guidance from out expert instructor will teach you how to translate the embodied experiences into clinical applications to bring greater healing to your clients.
Best of all, you’ll leave this incredible restorative experience having met the full educational requirements when applying to become a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP).
Sign up today and get certified while you build your skill and passion for healing anxiety in a glorious retreat setting!
Sleeping Accommodations:
If you would like to be paired up with another potential, unknown attendee to take advantage of the double occupancy rate, please call and let us know. We will aim to pair you up if somebody else registers who also would like to share.
In the meantime, please register at the single occupancy rate. If we are able to pair people, the $200 will be credited.
If you would like to be paired up with another potential, unknown attendee to take advantage of the double occupancy rate, please call and let us know. We will aim to pair you up if somebody else registers who also would like to share.
In the meantime, please register at the single occupancy rate. If we are able to pair people, the $200 will be credited.
Retreat Schedule: Sunday, October 20, 2019 – Thursday, October 24, 2019
Sunday, October 20, 2019
3:00 – 5:00 pm - Check-in 5:00 – 6:00 pm – Educational Program Introduction* 6:00 – 7:00 pm - Dinner 7:30 – 8:30 pm – Evening Program/Experiential Activity*
Monday-Wednesday, October 21-23, 2019
7:00 – 8:00 am – Optional Contemplative Practice
8:00 – 9:00 am - Breakfast
9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Educational Program*
12:30 – 1:30 pm – Lunch 1:30 – 3:00 pm – Individual Activity/Leisure Time
3:00 – 5:00 pm – Education Program*
5:00 – 6:00 pm – Individual Activity/Leisure Time
6:00 – 7:00 pm - Dinner
7:30 – 8:30 pm – Educational Program & Experiential Activity*
Thursday, October 24, 2019
7:00 – 8:00 am – Optional Contemplative Practice
8:00 – 9:00 am - Breakfast
9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Educational Program*
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm – Closing Lunch and Conclusion
*CE is awarded during these specified times
Sunday, October 20, 2019
3:00 – 5:00 pm - Check-in 5:00 – 6:00 pm – Educational Program Introduction* 6:00 – 7:00 pm - Dinner 7:30 – 8:30 pm – Evening Program/Experiential Activity*
Monday-Wednesday, October 21-23, 2019
7:00 – 8:00 am – Optional Contemplative Practice
8:00 – 9:00 am - Breakfast
9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Educational Program*
12:30 – 1:30 pm – Lunch 1:30 – 3:00 pm – Individual Activity/Leisure Time
3:00 – 5:00 pm – Education Program*
5:00 – 6:00 pm – Individual Activity/Leisure Time
6:00 – 7:00 pm - Dinner
7:30 – 8:30 pm – Educational Program & Experiential Activity*
Thursday, October 24, 2019
7:00 – 8:00 am – Optional Contemplative Practice
8:00 – 9:00 am - Breakfast
9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Educational Program*
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm – Closing Lunch and Conclusion
*CE is awarded during these specified times
Highlights of the Institute
- Tranquil, 95-acre park-like setting overlooking the Hudson River
- Former Capuchin monastery
- Gardens & gazebos on the bluff by the river
- Healthful, world-renowned vegetarian cuisine
- Beautiful walking paths
- Ideal setting for meditation, contemplation
- Yoga mat provided
Cancellation Policy: Prior to 45 days before the event start date, you will be charged a $100 cancel fee. For cancellations received after that, you will receive a gift certificate for your purchase amount to attend any future live PESI sponsored seminar.
Please contact PESI customer service for information on non-CE seeking to register as a guest for pricing and other details.
Please contact PESI customer service for information on non-CE seeking to register as a guest for pricing and other details.
Objectives:
- Employ stories and metaphors as psychoeducational tools explaining neuroscience, the physiology of anxiety.
- In client friendly language, describe how contemplative approaches rewire the anxious brain and body.
- Characterize the clinical impact of research on neural pathways associated with anxiety and the use of contemplative practices.
- Articulate fine distinctions in differentiating among anxiety disorders and assessing physical symptomatology.
- Identify psychotropic medications and nutraceuticals frequently used for anxiety treatment along with common side effects.
- Communicate how diagnosis can be improved using whole person assessment strategies.
- Substantiate how clinicians can enhance motivation through values clarification strategies and awareness-based interviewing.
- Specify when mindfulness, yoga, or both are most appropriate in treating an individual’s anxiety and co-morbid depression.
- Develop individualized, awareness-based interventions to enhance client efforts toward change and reduce avoidance.
- Using a script, practice a therapeutic chair yoga sequence designed to develop interoceptive awareness, calm the mind, and relax the body.
- Administer an integration of yoga and cognitive therapy to address cognitive distortions, irrational beliefs, and perfectionism.
- Utilize specific self-compassion practices to address shame-based self-criticism.
- Describe the impact of anxious attachment on the brain.
- Integrate contemplative approaches designed to build secure attachment.
- Demonstrate evidence based, contemplative approaches for addressing self-judgment, worry, and negative thinking.
- Assess the benefits of integrating traditional exposure therapy with yoga.
- Incorporate breathing and visual meditations to increase the ability to focus attention reducing rumination.
- Provide an explanation of how breathing practices can be utilized with clients to help interrupt obsessive thinking and ritualized behaviors.
- Practice a script-based, brief deep relaxation designed to increase feelings of safety and enhance emotional regulation.
- Apply mindfulness and yogic strategies facilitating memory consolidation.
- Create a dream team for whole-person anxiety treatment.
- Summarize how food and specific nutritional supplements can support anxiety recovery.
- Determine when medication may enhance anxiety treatment and when it may derail it.
- Select effective breathing practices and meditations for co-occurring anxiety and depression.
OUTLINE
Anxiety Assessments and Differential Diagnosis: Whole-Client Approaches
Contemplative Treatment Approaches for Specific Clinical Presentations
Attachment Based Anxiety
Anxiety Assessments and Differential Diagnosis: Whole-Client Approaches
- The neurophysiology of anxiety
- DSM-5® Classification of anxiety disorders
- Diagnosis and assessment using a whole person perspective
- Address impasses with awareness-based interviewing
- Differential diagnosis tips for ambiguous presentations
- Somatic symptoms of anxiety
- Psychopharmacology: Common medications, benefits and risks, when to refer for evaluation
- Nutraceuticals: Efficacy of evidence-based supplements
- Nutrition: Key nutrients to nourish the anxious brain
- Sleep: Soothe the amygdala and decrease reactivity
- Therapeutic application of the Polyvagal Theory
- The two pathways of anxiety
- Replace old neural patterns with cognitive and behavioral flexibility
- The effects of yogic deep relaxation on mood and brain function
- Move clients from avoidance to proactivity
- Stories, metaphors, and values in anxiety treatment
- Use movement, imagery, or sound to prepare formandalas
- Create mandalas to explore anxiety producing conflicts
- Individualize visual meditations for specific clinical concerns
- Off the mat relaxation skills – letting go moment to moment
- Enhance emotional regulation through script-based, brief deep relaxation
- Interventions for the shame-prone clients
- Use non-dual awareness and other yogic principles to:
- Challenge limiting beliefs
- Disrupt rumination
- Improve self-talk
- Overcome perfectionism
- Encourage cognitive flexibly with reframes
- Seamlessly weave together mindfulness, yoga, and cognitive approaches
- Select breathing practices and postures for co-occurring depression and anxiety
Contemplative Treatment Approaches for Specific Clinical Presentations
Attachment Based Anxiety
- Contemplative applications – the Polyvagal Theory
- The relationship of compromised attachment & anxiety
- How to replicate secure attachments in therapy
- Create secure attachments to the self
- Identify anxiety fuel – appropriate & inappropriate guilt
- How shame and self-judgement exacerbate anxiety
- Anxiety interventions for the shame prone client
- Three steps for moving from reactivity to responsiveness
- Interrupt the worry cycle: From the meditation cushion to daily life
- Prime secure attachment for social anxiety
- Yoga and meditation practices
- Titrate exposure with breathing practices
- Mindful response prevention & response repetition
- Activate opposing circuits with mantra & breath
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Nurses
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
DEBRA PREMASHAKTI ALVIS, PHD
Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD, a licensed psychologist, developed the Mind/Body Program at the University of Georgia providing clinician training on the integration of mindfulness and contemplative practices into psychotherapy. Her work as a professor at the University of Georgia included the supervision of doctoral students and co-leading a research team investigating mindfulness.
In addition to teaching, Dr. Alvis maintains a private practice and has more than 25 years of clinical experience in treating clients with a variety of conditions by mindfulness principles, body-oriented principles and traditional psychotherapeutic approaches. She also has an over 30-year personal contemplative practice.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Debra Alvis maintains a private practice and receives a speaking honorarium from Asadis Training, Essential Therapy Training, Georgia Museum of Art, Bascom Museum of Art, and Mountain Area Health Education Center. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Debra Alvis is a member of the American Association of College Student Personnel, the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, the Association of Specialists in Group Work, the Athens Area Psychological Association, and the Georgia Psychological Association.
Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live event only. After attendance has been verified, pre-registered attendees will receive an email from PESI Customer Service with the subject line, “Evaluation and Certificate” within one week. This email will contain a link to complete the seminar evaluation and allow attendees to print, email or download a certificate of completion if in full attendance. For those in partial attendance (arrived late or left early), a letter of attendance is available through that link and an adjusted certificate of completion reflecting partial credit will be issued within 30 days (if your board allows). Please see “live seminar schedule” for full attendance start and end times. NOTE: Boards do not allow credit for breaks or lunch.
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, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@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 mental health professionals. 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 professions standards.
The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
Addiction Counselors
This course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 23.0 CE in the Counseling Services skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.
New York Addiction Professionals: This course has been approved by OASAS for 23.0 clock hours toward Initial Credentialing for CPP Section # 1, CPS Section # 1, Renewal for CASAC, or CPP, orCPS. Board required certificates will be sent after the program.
Counselors
This intermediate activity consists of 23.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
New York Counselors: CE credit is available. PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0033. This activity will qualify for 27.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
Marriage & Family Therapists
This activity consists of 1380 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. You should save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
New York Marriage & Family Therapists: PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. #MFT-0024. This activity will qualify for 27.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists
PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Nurses in full attendance will earn 23.0 contact hours. Partial contact hours will be awarded for partial attendance.
Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Psychologists & Psychiatrists
Psychiatrists
PESI, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. PESI, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 23.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Psychologists
The following state psychologist boards recognize activities sponsored by PESI, Inc. as an approved ACCME provider: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Wisconsin. This activity consists of 23.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Certificates of attendance will be issued for you to submit to your state licensing board to recognize for continuing education credit.
Pennsylvania Psychologists: CE credit is available. PESI, Inc. is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology to offer continuing education for psychologists. Provider #PSY000211. PESI maintains responsibility for the program(s). This program qualifies for 23.0 continuing education hours.
Social Workers
New York Social Workers: PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0008. This activity will qualify for 27.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
Other Professions
This activity qualifies for 1380 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.
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, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@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 mental health professionals. 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 professions standards.
The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
Addiction Counselors
This course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 23.0 CE in the Counseling Services skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.
New York Addiction Professionals: This course has been approved by OASAS for 23.0 clock hours toward Initial Credentialing for CPP Section # 1, CPS Section # 1, Renewal for CASAC, or CPP, orCPS. Board required certificates will be sent after the program.
Counselors
This intermediate activity consists of 23.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
New York Counselors: CE credit is available. PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0033. This activity will qualify for 27.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
Marriage & Family Therapists
This activity consists of 1380 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. You should save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
New York Marriage & Family Therapists: PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. #MFT-0024. This activity will qualify for 27.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists
Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Psychologists & Psychiatrists
Psychiatrists
PESI, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. PESI, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 23.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Psychologists
The following state psychologist boards recognize activities sponsored by PESI, Inc. as an approved ACCME provider: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Wisconsin. This activity consists of 23.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Certificates of attendance will be issued for you to submit to your state licensing board to recognize for continuing education credit.
Pennsylvania Psychologists: CE credit is available. PESI, Inc. is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology to offer continuing education for psychologists. Provider #PSY000211. PESI maintains responsibility for the program(s). This program qualifies for 23.0 continuing education hours.
Social Workers
New York Social Workers: PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0008. This activity will qualify for 27.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
Other Professions
This activity qualifies for 1380 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.
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Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI, P.O. Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call (800) 844-8260.
ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at (800) 844-8260.
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