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
Mentioned books
Jan 19, 2020 • 43min
Art Therapy Part 2
This is part 2. Both parts cover:
Summary
• There are endless things you can do with art therapy to:
• Express emotions
• Enhance mindfulness and self-awareness
• Increase happiness
• Improve interpersonal communication
• Enhance fine and gross motor skills
• Develop self-esteem
• Teach teamwork
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 19, 2020 • 57min
Art Therapy Part 1
Part 1 and Part 2 teach:
Summary
• There are endless things you can do with art therapy to:
• Express emotions
• Enhance mindfulness and self-awareness
• Increase happiness
• Improve interpersonal communication
• Enhance fine and gross motor skills
• Develop self-esteem
• Teach teamwork Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 18, 2020 • 58min
Biopsychosocial Impact of Depression and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Summary
• Depression is the cluster of symptoms created when there is a neurochemical imbalance in the brain.
• What causes the imbalance can be emotional, cognitive, physical, interpersonal, environmental or some combination of the above.
• Part of the strengths based approach means helping people see what they already are doing to prevent or deal with the symptoms
• Biopsychosocial means
• Examining all causative factors
• Recognizing that all factors are reciprocal in nature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 11, 2020 • 54min
Developing Positive Self-Talk in People of All Ages
Summary
- Positive self talk helps you feel empowered and good about being the best you that you can be.
- Feelings of empowerment reduce feelings of helplessness and hopelessness and can protect against depression, anxiety and a host of stress related illnesses.
- Positive self-talk does not mean ignoring the negative it means
- Embracing the good with the bad
- Learning to evaluate situations objectively
- Seeing failure (or the potential for failure) as a learning opportunity
- Fully recognizing your strengths and capabilities Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 11, 2020 • 56min
Biopsychosocial Impact of Guilt and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
• Guilt comes in many forms
• It is largely anger at ourselves and energy tied up in the past.
• Holding on to guilt weighs us down
• Identifying your sources of guilt and addressing them is the first step. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 9, 2020 • 49min
Arlene Englander Interview – Author of “Let Go Of Emotional Overeating and Love Your Food”
Let Go of Emotional Overeating and Love Your Food
This book is for anyone who would like to eat whatever they like, yet stop just at the point of satisfaction without overeating.
Written by a Columbia University trained psychotherapist and former emotional overeater, Let Go of Emotional Overeating and Love Your Food offers psychologically sound techniques for recognizing the symptoms of emotional overeating and methods for addressing it in ways that are both effective and enjoyable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 8, 2020 • 54min
Anger, Irritation and Resentment (Clear the AIR)
Objectives
• Explore the function of anger
• Identify the types of threats that may prompt anger
• Identify different types of anger to include
• Run of the mill anger
• Irritation
• Resentment
• Envy/Jealousy
• Guilt/Regret
Function of Anger
• Anger is part of the fight or flight reaction which is your brain’s natural response to a perceived threat
• Anger pushes away or helps you dominate a threat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 4, 2020 • 49min
Behavior Modification and Goal Setting
A direct link to the CEU course is https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/29/c/
Objectives
~ Define behavior modification
~ Explore how behavior modification can be useful in practice
~ Learn basic behavior modification terms:
~ Unconditioned stimulus and response
~ Conditioned stimulus and response
~ Discriminitive stimuli
~ Learned helplessness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 28, 2019 • 53min
Biopsychosocial Impact of Stress and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Objectives
- Define stress and distress
- Identify the impacts of stress
- Explore sources of stress and interventions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 24, 2019 • 46min
Attachment Theory and Adult Relationships
Objectives
• Briefly define attachment theory
• Learn about the impact of attachment
• Identify triggers for attachment behaviors
• Explore the relationship between ACEs and attachment issues
• Learn about adult attachment theory
• Examine how attachment impacts emotional regulation and vice versa
• Identify ways to help people become more securely attached. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
