Cascadia Training for Professional Development

Treating Long Covid, Chronic Pain, Tinnitus, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity with EMDR and Vagal Calming
2025-11-19 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
Treating Long Covid, Chronic Pain, Tinnitus, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity with EMDR and Vagal Calming
Presented by: Robin Shapiro, LICSW
When: Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the event.
CE Credit Hours: 3 EMDRIA approved (EC Program Approval Number: #00002-50)| $99.00
EMDR is a widely known and effective method of treating and eradicating the neurological manifestations of chronic pain and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). In addition, our presenter, Robin Shapiro–a highly-respected EMDR practitioner and in-demand global presenter in EMDR and its clinical applications–has discovered that EMDR can also provide relief from many of the symptoms of Long Covid, including tinnitus.
Participants will learn how to use EMDR, vagal exercises, and imaging to ease, and often completely clear the experiences of chronic pain, tinnitus, Long Covid, and MCS.
The workshop includes lecture, a video, a demonstration, and practice exercises.
Objectives:

Participants can distinguish between physiological and neurological symptoms.
Participants can complete EMDR Standard Protocol treatment on the appropriate targets for onset of the problem.
Participants can utilize Silencing the Alarm, Negative Breathing, and Grounding techniques for vagal calming.
Participants can assist clients to discover and utilize visual tools for vagal calming.
Participants can utilize EMDR future templates to coach clients to use vagal calming techniques when symptoms reappear.
Participants can support both short-term and longer-term clients with neurological symptoms.

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🆕BRAND-NEW! Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Deep Dive into Values and Beliefs🆕
2025-11-20 09:00 - 16:30
🆕BRAND-NEW! 🆕
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Deep Dive into Values and Beliefs
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Thursday, November 20th, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs | $190.00
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) combines mindfulness strategies with the elicitation of core values. The goal of ACT is to help clients create a workable relationship with their thoughts and feelings, while living a life filled with meaning and purpose.
In this interactive and experiential training, you’ll learn the philosophy behind ACT. The focus, however, will be on the “values” aspect of this therapeutic modality. We will take an in-depth look into the connection between personal values and creating a life worth living. We will also explore how our belief system can influence what we value. This is an important component of the training, because if our clients understand their limiting beliefs, they will avoid sabotaging themselves in their quest for a meaningful life.
During the training, you’ll learn exactly how to assist clients in discovering what they value in the world, and how they can begin aligning their lives with what is truly important to them. To that end, you’ll be practicing a wide variety of practical skills that you can immediately begin using with clients.
Since this will be a hands-on experience, please be sure to bring a notebook with you. In addition, we will be using the presenter’s workbook, “A Life of Meaning and Purpose: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guided Journal for Exploring Beliefs and Connecting with Values,” which will be provided to each participant.
Objectives:

Understand the role of value identification in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Understand how limiting beliefs influence the elicitation and execution of value-directed behavior
Identify the components of core values, in terms of their definition and use in ACT
Discuss how to best assist clients in accessing core values
Learn a variety of ways to teach clients how to elicit core values
Practice ways to explore core values
Explore the relationship between core values and ACT’s strategy of “committed action”

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