Continuing Education and Expert Speaker Series
We provide a context for mental health service providers to earn the continuing education hours necessary for license renewal. Workshops are scheduled in response to the needs voiced by local professionals seeking further training. We attempt to offer an ethics training each year as well as hosting various speakers with expertise in an area that educates on current trends and research, enriches clinical practice and fosters creative application of knowledge to mental health service provision. Our expert speakers series offers clinicians and interested professionals the opportunity to work with master practitioners. Most programs provide continuing education hours for professionals. (NBCC #4488).
Eastern Mennonite University - Master of Arts in Counseling has been approved by NBCC
as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4488. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Eastern Mennonite University - Master of Arts in Counseling is solely
responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Spring 2025 Workshop:
Promoting Regulation with Attachment-based Trauma-informed Experiential Interventions
with Children and Families
Explore how you can use experiential interventions to support children’s, teen’s,
and family’s behavioral and emotional regulation and well-being. Engage in activities
with play materials, such as toys and puppets; explore expressive arts materials;
and discover ways to use nature and natural objects to promote opportunities for co-regulation
and connection. Children and teens often communicate indirectly by showing us their
distress or confusion by acting out or withdrawing. We can invite our client’s engagement
by using these approaches to assist them in understanding and resolving issues that
are interfering with their well-being.
This presentation will present findings from attachment theory and neuroscience to
support the effectiveness of experientially based techniques to enhance regulation.
Participants will be provided with opportunities to practice activities and techniques
to use with children, teens, and families. This workshop invites you to come learn
and connect with playmates – known and new!
Date: Friday, March 28th, 1:00 - 4:00 pm ET
Location: Martin Chapel, EMU (1181 Smith Ave, room SB215)
Presenter: Anne Stewart, PhD, RPT-S
Price to attend: Free. Registration is on a first come, first serve basis
Register Download Flyer
Learning Objectives:
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
1) Describe a rationale from neuroscience for using trauma-informed experiential
techniques.
2) Describe attachment theory constructs that are relevant to conducting experiential
interventions (safe haven, secure base, reflective functioning).
3) Practice 6 experiential interventions used to support emotional regulation and
enhance relational connections.
*Can provide up to 3 CE hours
For more information, including a workshop agenda, download the flyer
Anne Stewart
Registration Information
To register prior to the training, please complete this form.
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Past Trainings Presenters or Topics
- Entering the Heart of Trauma by Bonnie Badenoch, PhD - 2024
- Treating Childhood Abuse and Trauma: A Trauma-Focused Play Therapy Approach by Sueann Kenney-Noziska, MSW, LCSW, RPT-S - 2023
- Knowing What We Don't Know: Meeting Our Ethical Obligation to Maintain and Develop Competence by Rebecca Vauter, Psy.D., ABPP - 2022
- Recognizing the Challenges in your Own Setting presented by Mary Alice Fisher, Ph.D, The Center for Ethical Practice - 2019
- DSM-5 (and Supplements) Refresher: Overview & Strategies presented by Cheree Hammond, Ph.D - 2019
- Sex is Not a Dirty Word: The Importance of Sexual Health and Wellness Training for Mental Health Practitioners presented by Emily Petkus, Ph.D - 2019
- Exploring Identity and Dreams through Altered Books presented by Mert Brubaker, MA, Rebecca Peifer, MA , LPC - 2019
- 10 Ethically Important Distinctions presented by Mary Alice Fisher, Ph.D, The Center for Ethical Practice - 2018
- Addictions Symposium facilitated by Christine Spilman, LPC, CSAC, Tara Langston, LPC, CSAC, Nate Koser, PhD, LPC, and Richard Wettstone, EdD, LPC, LMFT - 2018
- Expressive Arts Series “Altered Books as an Expressive Arts Platform for Work with Anxiety” facilitated by Cherée Hammond, PhD, Mert Brubaker, MA, Rebecca Peifer, MA – 2017
- Circle of Security-Informed 4 day Training, Dr. Bob Marvin, Director, Mary Ainsworth Attachment Clinic – 2017
- Clinical Supervision: Theory, Practice and Logistics, Facilitated by Dr. Teresa Haase w/Dr. Cheree Hammond – 2016
- Co-hosted, CVCA Fall Workshop "Recognizing the Ethical Challenges In Your Own Setting " presented by Mary Alice Fisher, Ph.D, The Center for Ethical Practice – 2016
- Evening of Discussion with Dr. Bob Marvin and Dr. Nate Koser – 2016
- Dan Goleman – 2016
- Mindfulness, Supervision, and Jacques Lacan – 2015
- Michelle Wade (ACA ethics specialist) – 2014
- David Whyte – 2014
- Dan Hughes – 2013
- Erin Martz (ACA ethics specialist) – 2013
- Sue Johnson, Ed.D – 2011
