Counselor Toolbox Podcast with DocSnipes

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.

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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.
29 min
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Enhancing Hardiness and Resilience
Enhancing Hardiness and Resilience
48 min
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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 prevent
54 min
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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 m
55 min
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Moving from Supportive to Solution Focused Inte...
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 dist
35 min
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Finding Happy – Interview with Dr. Lindsay Weisner
Interview with Dr. Lindsay Weisner. Author of Ten Steps To Finding Happy: A Guide to Permanent Satisfaction. The book is available for pre-order at: https://amzn.to/2wmCTcU
13 min
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How Schema Affect Anxiety & Depression
Summary - Schema are lenses through which we predict and interpret situations - They are only as good as the knowledge and understanding of the situation - Schema often need to be altered as we gain new information
43 min
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Re-Release – Mental Health Aspects of Bariatric...
- Learn about bariatric surgery - Explore reasons for the surgery and increase in popularity - Identify the psychosocial outcomes of bariatric surgery - Identify common presenting issues in persons seeking bariatric surgery - Explore current recommen
56 min
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*Special Episode* CBT & Life Hacks to Cope with...
Summary • There are many unknowns with the current coronavirus situation • The flu is widespread and catastrophic for tens of thousands of people in the US each year and we do not panic. • High levels of stress and anxiety however will red
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Dealing with Stress in Uncertain Times
Coronavirus, election anxiety and financial stress is getting to people right now. This is the audio version of a three part series just released on YouTube on dealing with that stress.
37 min
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Psychosocial Elements or Terminal Illness
Summary • End of life care often involves multiple providers, the client and caregivers • It is essential to consider all biopsychosocial needs with a focus on integrative care • “Stress” and distress will increase HPA-Axis activation, imp
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Re-Release – Creating Psychological Flexibility...
Every event is an opportunity to choose thoughts and behaviors that will help you use your energy to move toward your goals and values. Using the Flexibility Activity or worksheet youth can apply this on a daily basis. CEUs/OPDs are available for this p
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Metacognitive Therapy
Summary • People can have millions of automatic cognitive distortions. Addressing each one may not be possible. • Becoming aware of thought patterns, their function, their usefulness and alternatives underlies MCT. • MCT moves from addres
51 min
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The Neurobiological Impact of Psychological Tra...
Summary • 46% of people in the US are exposed to adverse childhood experiences. (Early Intervention) • Instruction in skills to handle emotional dysregulation • Mindfulness • Vulnerability prevention and awareness • Emotion Regu
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SPECIAL EPISODE: The Psychological Impact of Qu...
Summary ~ Information is key; people who are quarantined need to understand the situation ~ Effective and rapid communication is essential ~ Supplies (both general and medical) need to be provided or available (i.e. online shopping) ~ The quarantine
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Helping Parents of Children with Autism
Summary – Consistency: Rules, routines, reactions – Responsiveness: To individual needs and preferences – Attention: For being lovable and positive behaviors – Validation: Of their thoughts, feelings and way of being in the world – Empathy: For how
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Distress Tolerance
Summary ~ Once clients are mindfully aware of their thoughts, sensations and urges and willing to accept the moment, they need skills to tolerate that distress ~ Help clients develop a menu of options which they can select from when they are in crisis.
53 min
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Cognitive Interventions for Depression
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 t
55 min
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Individual and Group Exercises for Anger and An...
Summary • Anger and anxiety are normal emotions that help people survive. • Answers can often be found by asking: “What happened to this person that would trigger this reaction?” • Situations that trigger anger and anxiety often involve a
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Case Management for Chronic Pain
Summary • There are many similarities between Pain, mood and addictive disorders • Integrated, concurrent, biopsychosocial treatment is vital • Mood impacts pain which impacts life satisfaction • Recovery supports realistic beliefs a
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Developing Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy
Summary • Self esteem begins in childhood • Being aware of self helps people identify their strengths and develop their “me” identity. • Part of self esteem development includes • Values identification • Understanding wants vs. n
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Grief
Summary • Losses encompass more than death or a person or loss of property • Failure to acknowledge losses can cause unhelpful reactions in similar future situations • It is important to explore feelings and reactions in terms of their fun
56 min
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Complicated Grief and Attachment
Summary ~ Failure to develop a primary attachment relationship can be viewed as a loss (or something that was needed that was never achieved) ~ When examining the behaviors of adult or adolescent clients whose primary attachment was disrupted, the trau
59 min
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Contextual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Summary • Contextual CBT involves understanding people’s phenomenological truth • Problems can arise when people • Thinks/feels that they are not who they should be or things are not as they should be • Are unaware of their internal f
54 min
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Understanding Anxiety through a Child’s Eyes
Summary- Children’s cognitive, physical and experiential differences make their anxiety different than that of adults- Children’s symptoms of anxiety also often manifest differently with more irritability, defiance and somatic complaints.- Anxiety
61 min