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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Self Esteem
Much distress is caused by people seeking validation and acceptance from others, because they cannot or do not know how to provide it to themselves. Self-Esteem is how people feel about themselves. By developing self-esteem anxiety, fears of abandonmen
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Counseling Theories
By understanding the origins of distress, we are better able to deal with distress. Counseling Theories assert that problems stem from ineffective relationships or thoughts in adulthood. Personality Theories speculate that distress stems from more innate
48 min
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Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Understanding Add...
Happiness Isn-t Brain Surgery: Understanding Addiction Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs Continuing Education (CE) credits for addiction and mental health counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists can be
45 min
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Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery What is Different...
Happiness Isn-t Brain Surgery: What is Diagnosis Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs Continuing Education (CE) credits for addiction and mental health counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists can be earned
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The Mind Body Connection – Part 2
Happiness Isn-t Brain Surgery Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSM, LMHC, NCC Executive Director, AllCEUs Host, Counselor Toolbox President, Recovery and Resilience International Continuing Education (CE) credits for addiction and mental health counselors
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The Mind Body Connection – Part 1
Happiness Isn-t Brain Surgery: The Mind-Body Connection Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSM, LMHC, NCC Executive Director, AllCEUs Host, Counselor Toolbox President, Recovery and Resilience International Continuing Education (CE) credits for addiction an
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Vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs.com Continuing Education (CE) credits for addiction and mental health counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.c
40 min
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Understanding DBT Therapy- Overview and Case Fo...
Continuing Education (CE) credits for addiction and mental health counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists can be earned for this presentation at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/518/c/
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Treatment Planning
Continuing Education (CE) credits for addiction and mental health counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists can be earned for this presentation at  https://allceus.com/member/cart?c=24
36 min
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Treating Complex Trauma In Children for LPC LMH...
Continuing Education (CE) credits can be earned for this presentation at  https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/158/c/
55 min
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Treating Chronic Pain In Person With Substance ...
Continuing Education (CE) credits can be earned for this presentation at  https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/search?q=chronic+pain
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Tip 35 Enhancing Motivation for Change
Continuing Education (CE) credits can be earned for this presentation at  https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/40/c/
49 min
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Relapse Prevention for Counseling
CEUs for this and similar presentations can be earned at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/search?q=relapse+prevention+
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Overview of PTSD and Cognitive Processing Therapy
CEUs can be earned for this and similar presentations at https://allceus.com/member/cart/index/search?q=cognitive+processing for $3 or less per credit hour.  NAADAC, CCAPP, Florida and Texas Boards of Counseling and Social Work approved.
40 min
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Goal Setting
We set goals every day. How many of them are successful? It is vital to ensure that our clients will succeed when helping them learn how to create change goals. Failure to create effective goals will only compound their feelings of hopelessness and he
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Skills
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the most researched, evidence based practices in use today. The goal of CBT is to help clients learn how their thoughts impact their feelings and physical reactions; and how their feelings and physical reactions im
53 min
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is designed to help clients use mindfulness to deal with unpleasant situations through the use of acceptance, cognitive defusion/diffusion, contact with the present moment and the observing self. ACT changes the goal of
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Tools You Can Use ...
Many clients struggle with managing their emotions and resulting behavioral reactions. DBT skills of distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness can be used to assist virtually any client in improving their reactions to distre
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Love Me Don’t Leave Me: Addressing Abandonment ...
People need other people. Fear of abandonment is a survival response that is present from birth. In childhood, abandonment can be a life or death situation. Adults with fear of abandonment often have not identified the roots of their fears so that the
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Adrenal Fatigue and How it Impacts the Recovery...
The adrenals are responsible for the fight or flight reaction and making sex hormones (libido). When the adrenals become fatigued, the body responds with apathy, exhaustion and sputters of unexplained adrenaline. Adrenal fatigue symptoms largely overla
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Career Exploration and Vocational Goal Setting ...
Employment serves many functions in early recovery from providing structure, a source of social support, financial independence and a source of self-esteem. There are certain qualities that make a work environment ideal for people in early recovery. We
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Using a Strengths-Based Biopsychosocial Approac...
When people are in active addiction, their behavior often appears very antisocial. In this presentation we explore how and why those behaviors develop, ways to intervene and how to differentiate between addictive behaviors and a personality disorder.
50 min
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Using a Strengths-Based Biopsychosocial Approac...
The behaviors of someone in active addiction are very similar to those of a person with a personality disorder. Both people developed these behaviors as a way to survive. Treatment involves understanding the function of the behaviors, identifying alter
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Using a Strengths-Based Biopsychosocial Approac...
The behaviors of someone in active addiction are very similar to those of a person with a personality disorder. Both people developed these behaviors as a way to survive. Treatment involves understanding the function of the behaviors, identifying alter
47 min
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A Strengths Based BioPsychoSocial Approach To PTSD
PTSD can develop from a single trauma, or from multiple, ongoing traumatic experiences. In this presentation Dr. Snipes examines how PTSD symptoms can be viewed as the brains way to keep the person safe. These behaviors serve a survival function. Once
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