Working with highly sensitive clients can feel like taking one step forward and two steps backwards as interpersonal struggles, self-doubt, and sensory overload seemingly negate progress in trauma treatment, relationships, anxiety, and more.
Join Traci Regis, MS, LPC/LPCC, for a perspective-shifting training that will immediately allow you to employ a strengths-based approach to help your highly sensitive clients thrive. You will walk away with:
Mindfulness approaches to foster self-compassion
Resilience-building DBT strategies
Psychoeducation strategies to help clients build coping skills toolboxes
Interventions for addressing the needs of highly sensitive people in marriage and family therapy
Adaptations to trauma work with highly sensitive people
Additionally, you will learn the neurological underpinnings of the highly sensitive persons (HSP) trait to understand the correlation between this and other neurodiverse conditions.
Register now to take your therapy to the next level.
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Traci Regis, MS, LPC/LPCC, is a licensed professional counselor/licensed professional clinical counselor and clinical supervisor in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Florida with over 15 years of experience in treating parents of children with special needs, neurodiverse clients, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.
Traci is dually licensed in addiction disorders and worked in various setting before opening her own practice in 2018. After discovering that she had the Highly Sensitive Person trait, she learned everything she could to help others understand the life impact of this trait that impacts so many clients.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Traci Regis maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Supportive Hands Healing Minds. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Traci Regis has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Program Information
Access Period for Live Webcast
For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.
Webcast Schedule
Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
Examine the debate surrounding whether the HSP trait is a clinical condition or a form of neurodivergence.
Identify the neurological basis of the HSP trait.
Distinguish the HSP trait from the DSM-5TR diagnoses of autism, ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), and PTSD.
Choose strengths-based interventions that leverage the inherent resources of highly sensitive clients to address anxiety.
Choose sensory-based strategies to use for HSP clients with trauma
Determine sensory-friendly room modifications to enhance the therapeutic experience for highly sensitive clients.
Outline
The Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Trait: Core Concepts
Statistics and correlation with DSM-5TR™ diagnoses
Clinical condition or neurodivergence?
Neurological underpinnings and brain imaging
Key attributes: Dr. Elaine Aron’s DOES model
Limitations of the research and potential risks
The Sensitive Client in the Therapy Room
Presenting problems and case conceptualization
Navigate impact on trauma processing, relationships, grief, anxiety, and more
East-to-use self-tests and screening tools
Assessment strategies to differentiate the HSP trait from:
Autism
ADHD
Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
PTSD
Psychoeducation resources for validation and self-awareness
Special considerations when working with children
Strengths-Based Interventions for Highly Sensitive Clients Tap into inherent inner resources to support:
Anxiety
The power of reflection
Address the sensory system head-on: Deep pressure input, linear movement, and more
Leverage vibrant inner life through journaling
The benefits of empathy: a path to healthy connections
Group activity: Case conceptualization
Depression
The problem-solver: values-based goal setting
DBT strategies for creating positive emotions
Establish lifestyle rhythms
Emotional release: Live demonstration
Trauma
Bypass the cognitive mind: EMDR, Schema therapy, and body-based techniques
Mindfulness and dialectic approaches
Enhance the mind-body connection
5 must-use sensory strategies to engage the parasympathetic nervous system
Grief
Create a safe and sacred space
The power of creative therapies
Walk & talk therapy for healing
Case study
Relationships
Turn compassion into self-compassion
Embrace authenticity with safe people
Beware of vampires
Create healthy boundaries
Couples work and family therapy techniques
The Highly Sensitive Client Toolbox
Ready-to-use resources: Clinician handouts and client materials
Create a sensory-friendly therapy room: easy solutions
Kid-friendly techniques, play therapy, and more
Experiential learning: Calming sensory strategies to kick off each session
Target Audience
Counselors
Therapists
Occupational Therapists
School Counselors
School Social Workers
Psychologists
Marriage and Family Therapists
Social Workers
Behavioral Health Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals
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Additional Participant CE Test
Additional Participant CE must be purchased for each additional viewer. These viewers will watch the video with the main registrant, but will have individual access to course handouts and certification. The standard price of this program includes certification for main viewer.
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