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Social workers, psychologists, licensed professional counselors, educators, school personnel, mental health professionals, clinicians, health and human service practitioners, and other health care professionals.
During recent decades, revolutionary research has evidenced that the brain continues to grow and change over the lifespan. Through repeated challenging experiences, brain chemistry, neural pathways, and anatomy can maladaptively shift to sustain depression, anxiety, addiction, and trauma based responses. Based on neuroplasticity principles, scientists have discovered that adaptive brain changes can be directed through clinical interventions and solidified through continued, self-directed practice. Understanding the specific ways in which the brain has maladapted and how to engage the brain’s capacity to self-direct neural change provide a cutting edge foundation for facilitating mental health recovery and long lasting change
This seminar provides an understanding of brain maladaptations contributing to and sustaining specific mental health disorders. Easy to implement clinical interventions demonstrate how to rewire the brain to support recovery from mood disorders, addiction, and trauma and how to wire in resiliency, good mood, and emotional regulation.
Debra’s unique program integrates the research findings of renowned neuroscientists, the proven clinical methods of DBT, mindfulness based cognitive therapies, and somatic psychologies. The results are a broad-based integrative framework providing a multi-modal approach for hardwiring clinical change. A focus on applied ethics, supported by brain science and therapist self-care, conclude the seminar day.
Through case studies, small group work, and brief lectures, learn how to individualize these strategies and apply them for the treatment of mood disorders, trauma, and addictions. Practice guiding others and be guided through clinical applications for neuroplasticity approaches with Debra’s expert supervision. Take home detailed handouts allowing immediate incorporation of these new strategies into clinical work.
Join master clinician, international presenter, and consultant, Debra Premashakti Alvis for a day of cutting-edge, brain based interventions to address a spectrum of clinical disorders. With the seminar’s focus on clinician self-care, conclude the day feeling renewed, energized, and ready to apply these new approaches.
Faculty
DEBRA PREMASHAKTI ALVIS, PH.D., RYT
Debra Premashakti Alvis, Ph.D., RYT, is a licensed psychologist, mindfulness teacher, and therapeutic yoga educator practicing in Athens, Georgia. She conducts a private practice of psychology providing counseling to individuals, couples and families and offers workshops and consultation in the United States and internationally. She teaches at the University of Georgia integrating neuroscience into psychology courses. Debra also developed and led the Mind Body Program at the university where she trained clinicians in the integration of neuroscience and psychotherapy. Debra co-leads a health psychology research team investigating mindfulness. She has been engaged in contemplative practices for over twenty-five years studying yoga and mindfulness. She has worked extensively with the senior teachers of Integral Yoga earning over 1,000 hours of yogic studies and certification in numerous teacher training programs. Debra was trained as a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher by Dr. Jon Kabat Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Studies in the expressive arts, including certification in Susanne Fincher’s mandala program, further support Debra’s comprehensive knowledge of the mind/body relationship. Her wealth of knowledge, research experience, and her deep understanding of the brain/mind/body relationship transform into effective, easily applicable skills for mental health professionals.
Charlotte AHEC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5096. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Charlotte AHEC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
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