Counselor Toolbox Podcast with DocSnipes
Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Counselors, coaches and sober companions help hundreds of thousands of people affected by Addictions and Mental Health issues each year. Learn about the current research and practical counseling tools to improve your skills and provide the best possible services. Counselor Toolbox targets counselors, coaches and companions, but can also provide useful counseling self-help tools for persons struggling with these issues and their loved ones. AllCEUs is an approved counseling continuing education provider for addiction and mental health counselors in most states. Counseling CEUs are available for each episode.
Episodes
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Apr 18, 2020 • 53min
Mindfulness and Meditation
Mindfulness Overview
- Differentiate between mindLESSness and mindFULness
- Understand where mindLESSness came from
- Define mindFULness
- Explore ways mindFULness can help
- Reduce emotional and physical distress and pain
- Improve sleep
- Improve Relationships
- Explore activities that will help you
- Become truly aware of your feelings, wants and needs
- Develop skills that will help you observe, describe and participate
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Apr 15, 2020 • 50min
Neurobiology of Addiction Part 2
Review how tolerance develops
Discuss the impact of addictive substances and behaviors on the brain and body Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 11, 2020 • 49min
Neurobiology of Addiction Part 1
Review how tolerance develops
Discuss the impact of addictive substances and behaviors on the brain and body Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 8, 2020 • 56min
Motivational Enhancement & Stages of Readiness for Change
Types of Motivation
* Motivation is essential for change
* Motivation helps you identify why it is worth the effort to make a
change
* Motivation helps you keep going when the going gets tough
* Change can be hard and uncomfortable
* Motivation is different for different goals
» Changing people, places and things
« Motivation may decrease over time unless you actively maintain it
* Going to meetings or counseling
* Placing a priority on adequate quality sleep and stress management Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 8, 2020 • 31min
Triggers Out With the Bad and In With the Good
Explore physical, affective, cognitive, environmental and relational triggers for both distress and happiness and discuss ways of mitigating the negative and enhancing the positive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 4, 2020 • 49min
Enhancing Hardiness and Resilience
Enhancing Hardiness and Resilience Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 28, 2020 • 55min
Enhancing Trauma Resiliency
Summary
- Trauma can enhance feelings of disconnectedness, helplessness and anxiety.
- Trauma impacts people emotionally, mentally, physically, interpersonally, occupationally
- By helping people develop trauma resiliency we can assist them in preventing PTSD after a trauma and breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 25, 2020 • 57min
Anger Management Multi-Session Protocol
Summary
~ Anger is a natural emotion. It is designed to alert people that there MIGHT be a problem.
~ When people are vulnerable or learned maladaptive ways of dealing with anger or simply never learned healthy coping skills they can experience anger management problems
~ Excessive anger negatively impacts people emotionally, mentally, physically, socially, occupationally, legally and spiritually.
~ Effective anger management involves preventing vulnerabilities, being aware of and working on “sensitive areas” or “threat areas,” preventing anger whenever possible and developing immediate coping responses to deal with it when it occurs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 21, 2020 • 37min
Moving from Supportive to Solution Focused Interventions
Summary
~ Supportive interventions are necessary to help people radically accept their feelings and situation and get into their wise mind.
~ Solution-focused interventions will help them address the situation and start moving forward to break the distress cycle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 21, 2020 • 14min
Finding Happy – Interview with Dr. Lindsay Weisner
Interview with Dr. Lindsay Weisner. Author of "Ten Steps To Finding Happy: A Guide to Permanent Satisfaction."
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