Your anxious client freezes mid-session. Your trauma survivor says "I don't know what I feel." Your depressed client ruminates despite every cognitive intervention you've tried.
Talk therapy isn't always enough when anxiety and trauma live in the body, not just the mind.
This intensive experiential retreat teaches you clinical EFT tapping, trauma-informed breathwork, and body-based interventions that work when words fail—then certifies you as a Mindfulness-Informed Professional (CMIP) so you can integrate these approaches with confidence and credibility.
You'll practice everything in your own body first. Tap away anxiety. Breathe into calm. Move through yoga poses that regulate the nervous system. Because you can't guide clients through what you haven't experienced yourself.
These aren't just new techniques for your toolbox. These are interventions that change how you practice:
And you? You'll leave resourced, not depleted. With the embodied practices that prevent burnout and the professional credential (CMIP) that validates your expertise to colleagues, supervisors, and referral sources. This is the training where you finally learn to work with the body—and leave with both the skills and the credential to do it well.
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CE hours may be available for select professions, as listed in the target audience. Hours will be dependent on the actual recording time. Please check with your state licensing board or organization for specific requirements.
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**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. 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.
Mary NurrieStearns, MSW, LCSW, ACEP–EFT, C–C–IAYT, E–RYT 500, teaches seminars and retreats to teach clinicians how to take mindfulness skills, brain based protocols for treating shame and office-based yoga back to their clients. These evidence based clinical interventions move therapy forward by improving emotional regulation, restoring healthy nervous system functioning and cultivating healthier thought patterns. Both mindfulness and yoga practices have brought healing and calm to Mary’s clients and students.
Mary provides participants with the latest research results and pulls together the work of experts in the mental health field who are proponents of both practices (i.e. Bessel van der Kolk, Jon Kabat-Zinn). She draws on 37 years as a mental health professional counselor and 27 years of meditation and yoga practice. She is a certified yoga therapist, seasoned yoga teacher and ordained member of Thich Naht Hahn’s Order of Interbeing. Mary is the author of Healing Anxiety, Depression and Unworthiness: 78 Brain-Changing Mindfulness & Yoga Practices (PESI, 2018), Yoga for Anxiety with Rick NurrieStearns (New Harbinger, 2010), Yoga for Emotional Trauma with Rick NurrieStearns (New Harbinger, 2013), Yoga Mind – Peaceful Mind with Rick NurrieStearns (New Harbinger, 2015), and Daily Meditations for Healing and Happiness: 52 Card Deck (PESI, 2016). Mary is the co-editor of Soulful Living (Hci, 1999) and former editor of Personal Transformation magazine. She has produced DVDs on yoga for emotional trauma and depression. Mary teaches across the United States.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Mary NurrieStearns maintains a private practice. She receives compensation as a speaker, yoga teacher, and published author. Ms. NurrieStearns receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Mary NurrieStearns has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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When Talk Therapy Isn't Enough: The Neuroscience of Stuck
Your clients may understand their triggers but still freeze. Learn why talk therapy alone can't unlock a dysregulated nervous system—and what actually restores calm.
Use it with: Clients with panic disorder, freeze responses, or chronic rumination
Breathwork and Body-Mind Practices: Matching Technique to Nervous System State
Use it with: Anxiety, panic attacks, hyperarousal, or shutdown/hypoarousal
Clinical EFT Tapping: The Protocol Anxious Clients Actually Use Between Sessions
Teach your client to tap away panic in a parking lot before their presentation. This isn't theory—it's the full protocol from an ACEP-certified practitioner, practiced until you're confident to use it Monday morning.
Use it with: Phobias, anticipatory anxiety, trauma-related distress, or avoidance patterns
Interrupting Shame at the Nervous System Level
Cognitive reframes don't touch shame. It lives in the body—the tightness in your client's chest, the collapse in their shoulders. Your brilliant insights about their worth won't land until you address the nervous system activation keeping them trapped.
Use it with: Shame, self-criticism, perfectionism, or relapse cycles
Mindful Communication for Connection and Conflict
Your couples client says "we tried that communication technique—it doesn't work." Because standard scripts don't address nervous system reactivity. This mindfulness-based protocol overrides the brain's negativity bias and lowers interpersonal reactivity in real-time.
Use it with: Couples conflict, family tension, or relationship-triggered dysregulation
Putting It All Together: Integration, Ethics, and Your Sustainable Practice
You've learned powerful techniques. Now learn when NOT to use them—and how to implement them ethically, document them properly, and sustain your practice without burning out.
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