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Exploring the Essential Features of “Debra Premashakti Alvis – 15 Must-Have Mindfulness Techniques for Clinicians: Skills to Transform Your Treatment Plans for Stress, Depression, Anxiety, Anger, Trauma, Guilt and Shame”
Speaker: Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD
Duration: 6 Hours 20 Minutes
Format: Audio and Video
Copyright: Jul 22, 2021
Media Type: Digital Seminar
Description
From depression and anxiety to stress and trauma, mindfulness has demonstrated its ability to help reduce suffering. But there are hundreds of mindfulness interventions available to clinicians. With so many to choose from how do you decide on your “go-to” techniques?
Debra Alvis, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist who developed the Mind/Body Program at the University of Georgia. She has more than 25 years of clinical experience in treating clients by combining mindfulness principles, body-oriented principles and traditional psychotherapeutic approaches. Now Dr. Alvis has distilled the sea of available techniques into the essential hands-on mindfulness skills and exercises you need to treat your clients.
Watch Dr. Alvis and learn to effectively use 15 mindfulness practices that she’s found most capable in shifting clients away from stress responses, intervening in the downward spiral of depression and anxiety, and cultivating safety and groundedness in traumatized clients. PLUS she’ll give you detailed instruction on her top mindfulness interventions to help your clients properly deal with guilt and shame and empower them to manage their anger and toxic emotions.
Don’t miss this chance to enhance your clinical practice and fundamentally improve the lives of your clients with mindfulness skills that work!
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Speaker
Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD
Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and private practitioner with over 30 years of clinical experience in supporting clients’ recovery from trauma, mood and relational concerns. Debra began working with parts of the self over three decades ago training extensively in Jungian oriented psychotherapy and contemplative approaches. She applied movement, mindfulness, and the expressive arts to explore parts of the self. She deepened her understanding of inner parts through multiple Internal Family Systems therapy educational trainings, combining her embodied contemplative approach with the IFS model. She finds that this integrative approach strengthens the self through facilitating the resolution of inner conflicts.
A seasoned international presenter and consultant, Dr. Alvis is a therapeutic yoga educator and mindfulness meditation teacher. She retired as faculty member from the University of Georgia where she developed and led the mind/body program. The program included a clinician training program integrating mindfulness, yoga and psychotherapy. A personal contemplative practice, research experience, and a deep understanding of Polyvagal Theory further enrich her presentations. She draws upon this unique background to provide effective, easily applicable skills designed for immediate integration into clinicians’ practices.
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 PSIvet, Ridgeview Institute, Twin Lakes Recovery Center, eCare, Essential Therapy Training, Alma, CEU Creations and Mountain Area Health Education Center. She is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. Debra Alvis 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.
Objectives
- Assess neurological processes and how mindfulness can be used to increase client’s motivation.
- Determine how mindfulness practices can be used to shift clients to a relaxation response.
- Integrate mindfulness interventions into your treatment plans to counter automatic patterns of negative thoughts.
- Demonstrate how mindfulness and breathing techniques can be practiced in-session to increase emotion regulation.
- Analyze the neurobiology of the traumatized brain and implement grounding techniques and breathing exercises.
- Appraise the clinical utility of mindfulness-based therapies in regulating shame and guilt.
Outline
Reduce Stress with Mindful Coping Skills
- Educate the client about the impact of stress
- Practice makes perfect – transform the stress response
- Exercises:
- Strengthen awareness of the stress response
- Shifting to relaxation response: cultivate a foundation of groundedness, settledness, and ease
- Mindful transitions
- Treatment limitations, risks and research
Manage Depression and Anxiety with Mindfulness Techniques That Work
- The downward spiral and the brain’s default mode
- Cultivate motivation and action
- Witness the anxious mind
- Get unstuck from anxious rumination
- Exercise:
- Self-regulation practices for anxiety
Mindfulness as the Antidote to Anger
- Understand the sources of anger
- The body’s anger response
- Identify early signs of the anger forest fire
- Clarify the practice: What am I trying to remember?
- Exercise:
- Rehearsal of the Stop-Breathe-Reflect-Choose practice
Calm the Traumatized Brain
- Proceed with caution – avoid retriggering and retraumatizing
- Retrain the dysregulated nervous system
- Cultivate safety
- Exercises:
- Grounding techniques
- Breathing techniques
- Positive visualization
Transform the Inner Critic: Mindfully Deal with Guilt and Shame
- Identifying primary core negative belief
- Cultivating a healthy and true vision of self
- Exercises:
- The protective quality of mantras
- Exercises that promote self-forgiveness
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Therapists
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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