Monday, August 17th. For your convenience, multiple start & end times will be offered throughout the day: 9 am, 11 am, 7 pm. Only $20, with $5 donated to WA Therapy Fund.
Presenter: Candice Richardson Dickens, LCPC-S, LCADC-S, CCTP
THIS COURSE OFFERS 2 CEU HOURS
African Americans regularly receive societal messages about their lack of value, powerlessness, and inability to ensure their personal safety. Perpetuated through media stories as well as common, everyday interactions, these microtraumas cause African Americans to experience a heightened sense of cortisol arousal, a pervasive feeling of doom, and a lack of trust in relation to their environment. The result is hypervigilance and intrusive exaggerated flight, fight and freeze responses.
You will develop the skills to:
Identify the triggers and symptoms of microtrauma, as well as how it’s processed in the brain.
Use mindfulness, faith-based rituals, deep breathing exercises, grounding techniques, and memory-processing activities to decrease the frequency of reactivity.
Apply mood-regulation skills, self-talk safety scripts, and sensory techniques to enhance clients’ feelings of being in control and empowered in the presence of real or perceived danger.
Develop behavioral choices in dealing with anxiety over past microtraumas and current situations.
THIS COURSE OFFERS 2 CEU HOURS
Seattle Therapists Corner is offering this PESI course virtually. We will be showing this course multiple times on this day, so that you can join at different times, according to your availability. The different start times are:
9 am - 11 am
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
7 pm - 9 pm
Once you register, you will be sent an email with links to all three viewing times.