Jennifer Sweeton – Neuroscience for Clinicians: Powerful Brain-Centric Interventions to Help Your Clients Overcome Anxiety, Trauma, Substance Abuse and Depression

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Handouts

Outline

• Tour through the Brain: What clinicians need to know from neurons to structures, to pathways, to networks
  • See brain structures in 3-D
  • How the brain processes top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal
  • The interplay of mental health and key nervous system structures, functions, and pathways
  • Work with implicit and explicit memories
  • How key pathways inform clinical interventions:
    • Pain Pathway
    • Reward Pathway
    • Fear-Stress Pathway
• Nervous System Networks and the Social Brain: We are wired for attunement
  • Default Mode (DMN) and Task Mode Networks (TMN)
  • Healing attachment
  • Activate mirror neurons bottom-up
• Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis: How the brain can change
  • Three timeframes for change
  • Neuroplasticity at the synapse
  • How to foster neuroplasticity in clients
  • Neuroplasticity in action: Exercise your brain!
• Practice Interventions for Healing: Bottom-up, top-down, and horizontal
  • Sensory Awareness
  • Meditation and Mindfulness
  • Body Work
  • Unconscious and the DMN
  • The Mind-Body Link
• Integrate the Brain into Treatments
  • Stress
    • How stress alters the nervous system
    • Calm the stress/fear pathway
    • Develop alert/relaxed attention for better coping
  • Trauma
    • Foster confidence with yoga
    • Malleability of memories and clinical implications for treating trauma
    • Reconsolidate implicit memories
  • Anxiety
    • The anxious brain reaction
    • Work top down/ bottom up/ horizontally
    • Calm the limbic system bottom up with movement
    • Soothe the insula through meditative sensory awareness
    • Deconstruct sensations mindfully
  • Substance Abuse
    • Brain areas involved in addictions
    • Rewire the reward pathway
    • Detach from pleasure and pain
    • Prefrontal connections and judgment
  • Depression
  • The depressed brain pattern
  • Effects of yoga and meditation on the nervous system
  • Regulate the limbic system: the prefrontal cortex, cingulate gyrus and mindfulness
  • Unify real and ideal
  • Foster joyful relationship through mirror neurons
  • Develop compassion and gratitude

• 6 Principles for Incorporating the Brain into your Therapy

Faculty

Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D., M.S., M.A. Related seminars and products: 12

Organizational Consultant, Clinical Psychologist

Mind Works Professional Education Inc

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Dr. Jennifer Sweeton is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and internationally-recognized expert on trauma, anxiety, and the neuroscience of mental health. Dr. Sweeton has been practicing EMDR for nearly a decade and has treated a variety of populations using EMDR and other memory reconsolidation approaches, including combat veterans, individuals with PTSD and complex trauma, and those suffering from treatment-resistant anxiety.

She completed her doctoral training at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, and the National Center for PTSD. Additionally, she holds a master’s degree in affective neuroscience from Stanford University, and studied behavioral genetics at Harvard University.

Dr. Sweeton resides in the greater Kansas City area, where she owns a group private practice, Kansas City Mental Health Associates. She is a past president of the Oklahoma Psychological Association and holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She is the president-elect of the Greater Kansas City Psychological Association. Dr. Sweeton offers psychological services to clients in Oklahoma, Kansas, and internationally, and is a sought-after trauma and neuroscience expert who has trained thousands of mental health professionals in her workshops.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Jennifer Sweeton is in private practice. She has an employment relationship with the Oklahoma City VAMC. Dr. Sweeton receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Jennifer Sweeton has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.