Befriend Your Brain, Heal Your Behavioral Addiction
This interactive webinar introduces essential principles and clinically practical methods from the presenter’s two recent books on recovery resilience. We will focus on working with process - or behavioral - addictions, providing numerous real-life examples and creating a rich and dynamic learning opportunity. First off, we will invite all participants into an exercise in self-compassion, after which we will creatively apply clinical insights from current research in nervous system regulation and memory reconsolidation. We will integrate a whole host of key intervention resources: everything from cognitive-behavioral strategies and mindfulness to polyvagal theory and interpersonal neurobiology. We will wrap up with a lively Q & A dialogue regarding implications for process addiction recovery and relapse prevention.
Presenter:
Robert Weathers, PhD, CMHRS, is a highly-regarded educator, recovery coach, author, and public speaker. He holds a Doctoral degree in clinical psychology and a graduate degree in religious studies. Throughout his professional career, Weathers has provided tens of thousands of hours of therapeutic counseling and recovery coaching to satisfied clients. He has also committed over four decades to teaching, training, and inspiring graduate-level mental health providers at several southern California universities, including assisting in the development of their nationally accredited addiction studies certificate and mindfulness-based clinical training coursework. Cambridge University Press is publishing his two most recent books on addiction recovery resilience.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to explain how nuanced physiological changes that occur in the behaviorally addicted brain often contribute to increased relapse risk.
- Participants will be able to integrate neurobiological, interpersonal, and existential resources as vital to understanding active behavioral addiction, early recovery, and long-term relapse prevention.
- Participants will be able to demonstrate how to clinically apply specific recovery resilience interventions in assisting those who are in recovery from addictive behaviors.