Counselor Toolbox Podcast with DocSnipes

Learn why you get angry, the benefits and consequences of getting angry and how to start making a change to let go some of the unnecessary upset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emotion Efficacy Therapy is a manualized, 8-week treatment protocol based on research of three foundational ideas for its treatment structure and content ~ A transdiagnostic approach is the most effective way to treat clients with emotion problems ~ Transemotional learning, which involves all four components of emotion, is essential to learning ~ New learning is enhanced in an activated state Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many clients are very skilled at cognitive behavioral therapy, but are still overcome with anger, anxiety or depression. Many of these clients are highly self-critical and guilt-laden. Compassion Focused Therapy explores the reasons clients may be unable to self-soothe and/or be self-compassionate, and provides tools to help clients overcome their fears of contentment, abandonment and compassion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aromatherapy, Meditation and Guided Imagery can all be used to address stress, anxiety, depression, anger, sleep problems and addictive behaviors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Motivation is the reason we do things. The greater the motivation, the more likely people are to begin and persevere on a task in the face of challenges. This presentation identifies a way of enhancing and maintaining motivation for different people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery: Mindfulness and Relaxation For the Family Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs Continuing Education (CE) credits can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/576/c/ Objectives ~ Review the function of mindfulness and a variety of mindfulness techniques ~ Explore the concept of relaxation ~ Identify different methods of relaxation […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery: Hardiness and Resilience Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs Continuing Education (CE) credits can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/576/c/ Objectives ~ Define resilience ~ Identify characteristics that make people more resilient and ways we can enhance those characteristics ~ Define Hardiness ~ Examine what hardiness is important […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shaping means gradually altering someone's behavior by rewarding incremental changes, for example walking to jogging to running. Chaining means examining the behaviors, stimuli, reinforces and punishments leading up to a behavior. Backwards chaining means examining behaviors in revers to see how the person got here. It can be helpful in identifying triggers for upset, as well as interventions or behaviors the person currently uses to avoid the upset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Understanding Behavior Modification part 2 we examine how reinforcement and punishment can be used to motivate behavior, and as a tool in motivational interviewing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Behavior modification is an excellent tool to help understand what triggers people's behavior. In this presentation we examine how it can be useful in a clinical setting and begin exploring the concept of conditioned and unconditioned stimuli. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MindLESSness often leads to ignoring small stressors and running on autopilot until you crash and burn. Mindfulness helps you stay focused on how you are feeling, address vulnerabilities and make sure you are enjoying life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Temperament helps people understand what environments are stressful for them, what environments are energy producing, how they view and conceptualize the world (details vs. big picture), what motivates them (logic or feelings),and how they prefer to manage time(structured vs. spontaneous). By ensuring behavior change plans, living environments and treatment are provided in a way that most closely matches people's individual needs we can ensure the greatest likelihood of success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adult learners have so many other competing demands it is important to present information that is easily received and meaningful and learning experiences are flexible. Whether people are learning skills for a new job, a new hobby, or skills for recovery from addiction and depression, it is vital to make the learning process as efficient and effective as possible. Everyone can learn, but everyone learns differently. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Much distress is caused by people seeking validation and acceptance from others, because they cannot or do not know how to provide it to themselves. Self-Esteem is how people feel about themselves. By developing self-esteem anxiety, fears of abandonment and depression can be reduced and relationships with others, energy and overall well-being can be improved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By understanding the origins of distress, we are better able to deal with distress. Counseling Theories assert that problems stem from ineffective relationships or thoughts in adulthood. Personality Theories speculate that distress stems from more innate, long standing problems often starting in childhood Learning Theories emphasize the fact that distress and behavior is learned from […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happiness Isn-t Brain Surgery: Understanding Addiction Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs Continuing Education (CE) credits for addiction and mental health counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart?c=3 Objectives – Learn about addiction – Prevalence – Cause – Functions of addiction – Develop an […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happiness Isn-t Brain Surgery: What is Diagnosis Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs Continuing Education (CE) credits for addiction and mental health counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/search?q=differential Objectives – Define Diagnosis – Identify the Reasons for Diagnosis – Discuss the Drawbacks to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happiness Isn-t Brain Surgery Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSM, LMHC, NCC Executive Director, AllCEUs Host, Counselor Toolbox President, Recovery and Resilience International Continuing Education (CE) credits for addiction and mental health counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/570/c/ Objectives – Learn about how the brain, body […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happiness Isn-t Brain Surgery: The Mind-Body Connection Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSM, LMHC, NCC Executive Director, AllCEUs Host, Counselor Toolbox President, Recovery and Resilience International Continuing Education (CE) credits for addiction and mental health counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/570/c/ Objectives – Learn about your […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vulnerabilities Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs.com Continuing Education (CE) credits for addiction and mental health counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/616/c/ Objectives – Define vulnerabilities – Identify some of the most common vulnerabilities – Their effects – Ways to prevent them – Note: Each […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Continuing Education (CE) credits for addiction and mental health counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/518/c/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Continuing Education (CE) credits for addiction and mental health counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart?c=24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Continuing Education (CE) credits can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/158/c/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Continuing Education (CE) credits can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/search?q=chronic+pain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Continuing Education (CE) credits can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/40/c/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CEUs for this and similar presentations can be earned at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/search?q=relapse+prevention+ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CEUs can be earned for this and similar presentations at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/search?q=cognitive+processing for $3 or less per credit hour. NAADAC, CCAPP, Florida and Texas Boards of Counseling and Social Work approved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We set goals every day. How many of them are successful? It is vital to ensure that our clients will succeed when helping them learn how to create change goals. Failure to create effective goals will only compound their feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. There is a lot to setting successful goals from choosing the right goals to identifying and maintaining motivation. Dr. Snipes provides a brief introduction here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the most researched, evidence based practices in use today. The goal of CBT is to help clients learn how their thoughts impact their feelings and physical reactions; and how their feelings and physical reactions impact their thoughts. Dr. Snipes briefly reviews cognitive distortions and unhelpful thinking patterns that often keep people stuck and explore a few (of many) ways to help clients approach change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is designed to help clients use mindfulness to deal with unpleasant situations through the use of acceptance, cognitive defusion/diffusion, contact with the present moment and the observing self. ACT changes the goal of therapy from removal of distress to acceptance of the good with the bad. This presentation briefly reviews the highlights of this evidence-based practice created by Stephen Hayes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many clients struggle with managing their emotions and resulting behavioral reactions. DBT skills of distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness can be used to assist virtually any client in improving their reactions to distressing events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People need other people. Fear of abandonment is a survival response that is present from birth. In childhood, abandonment can be a life or death situation. Adults with fear of abandonment often have not identified the roots of their fears so that they can better understand and choose helpful reactions as adults, for whom abandonment is unpleasant, but often not a life or death situation. This podcast explores the roots of abandonment and proposes some techniques to help clients challenge those long held beliefs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The adrenals are responsible for the fight or flight reaction and making sex hormones (libido). When the adrenals become fatigued, the body responds with apathy, exhaustion and "sputters" of unexplained adrenaline. Adrenal fatigue symptoms largely overlap with depression and anxiety making it hard to diagnose. In this presentation, Dr. Snipes encourages clinicians to educate clients about adrenal fatigue and the importance of taking care of the body in addition to the mind in the recovery process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Employment serves many functions in early recovery from providing structure, a source of social support, financial independence and a source of self-esteem. There are certain qualities that make a work environment ideal for people in early recovery. We discuss everything from career exploration to interviewing and maintaining a job once you have it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When people are in active addiction, their behavior often appears very antisocial. In this presentation we explore how and why those behaviors develop, ways to intervene and how to differentiate between addictive behaviors and a personality disorder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The behaviors of someone in active addiction are very similar to those of a person with a personality disorder. Both people developed these behaviors as a way to survive. Treatment involves understanding the function of the behaviors, identifying alternate ways to meet those needs and helping the client individualize interventions to make them the most effective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The behaviors of someone in active addiction are very similar to those of a person with a personality disorder. Both people developed these behaviors as a way to survive. Treatment involves understanding the function of the behaviors, identifying alternate ways to meet those needs and helping the client individualize interventions to make them the most effective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PTSD can develop from a single trauma, or from multiple, ongoing traumatic experiences. In this presentation Dr. Snipes examines how PTSD symptoms can be viewed as the brain's way to keep the person safe. These behaviors serve a survival function. Once their functions are understood, then the person can set out to identify alternate, less disruptive or problematic behaviors to achieve the same goal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Strengths Based Biopsychosocial Approach to Recovery from Bipolar Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director, AllCEUs Continuing Education (CE) credits can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/509/c/ Objectives – What is bipolar – What causes bipolar disorder (and how to mitigate it) – Emotionally (Stress reduction, Anger Mangement, Happiness) – Mentally (Cognitive Errors […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Strengths Based Biopsychosocial Approach to Recovery from Depression Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director, AllCEUs Continuing Education (CE) credits can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/510/c/ Objectives – Define depression (symptoms) – Learn how to ask strengths-based assessment questions – Identify a range of potential causes for depression – Explore activities and […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Strengths Based Biopsychosocial Approach to Recovery from Panic Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director, AllCEUs CEs available at: https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/505/c/ Objectives – Define panic – Examine how the fight or flight reaction can be corrupted to prompt panic attacks – Examine the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, biological sources of the stress reaction – Explore a […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Using a Strengths-Based Biopsychosocial Approach to Addressing Anxiety Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC, NCC Executive Director, AllCEUs CEs available at: https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/504/c/ Objectives – Define a strengths based approach – Define a biopsychosocial approach Why I Care/How It Impacts Recovery – Anxiety can be debilitating – Low-grade chronic stress/anxiety erodes your energy and ability […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thinking Errors Understanding and Addressing Them Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs CEs are available at: https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/497/c/ Objectives – Define Thinking Errors – Explore the different types of thinking errors – Cognitive distortions – Irrational Thoughts – Evaluate how thinking errors can play into our basic fears: Rejection, isolation, the unknown, loss of […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Addiction is a way people try to escape from physical or emotional distress. Addiction can also create chemical imbalances that create that distress. A sober person with depression is as much at risk for addiction relapse as a person who continues to use is at risk of worsening depression. It is imperative to address everything causing the neurochemical imbalances from negative thoughts, to addiction to inadequate sleep and nutrition. In this episode we will examine some of the different starting points for addressing co-occurring mood and addiction issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The internet, especially social media, video games and porn can easily become addictive, providing never ending novelty and a place to escape from "real life." In this episode we will examine the characteristics of addictive online sites, define internet addiction, and propose some initial interventions for dealing with internet addiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Addiction impacts more than just the individual. Families of people with addictions struggle with mood disorders and stress related illnesses. Communities are impacted by entire families who have higher utilization of medical services, increased absenteeism from work and school and increased likelihood of involvement in criminal behavior. In this episode we discuss talking points to help people with addictions (and others) understand the far reaching impact of addictive behaviors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Addictions impact people's neurochemistry (mood); their sleep quality, their pain, their relationships and their thinking patterns. Initially addictions may be used to escape from distress, but, through use, people are unknowingly making their mood and other problems worse. In this episode we examine the impacts of chemical and behavioral addictions on the person, and propose some interventions that could serve as launch points for recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mental Health and Addiction issues often go hand-in-hand. Effective recovery involves not only minimizing risk factors, but also enhancing protective factors within the individual and the individual's family, work, and community environment. This episode focuses on protective factors or things that can be enhanced in each area in order to prevent problems with depression, anxiety and/or addiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mental Health and Addiction issues often go hand-in-hand. Effective recovery involves not only minimizing risk factors, but also enhancing protective factors within the individual and the individual's family, work, and community environment. This episode focuses on risk factors or things that can be eliminated/minimized/addressed in each area in order to prevent problems with depression, anxiety and/or addiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Relapse prevention is similar across most populations, but there are some unique issues and challenges facing people in recovery who have a criminal record. Learn how to identify and address these issues. In this episode, we will: Define relapse in terms of addiction as well as mental health Examine relapse prevention techniques Explore the unique psychological, interpersonal, and biological needs of the addicted offender Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices