Clinical Workshops
by Rita Milios, LCSW

For Counselors, Nurses and Social Workers

   Great Groups! : Psycho-education Secrets to Help You
   Create Better Programs and Improve Client Participation

-   Achieving the right balance between education, activity and
    group sharing/communication

-   How to create & use helpful handouts

-  Presenter "performance" tips

   Science & Psychotherapy: How Science Has Changed Clinical
   Practice

-  Neurofeedback, mind-body research, the 'evidence-based" movement
   and other innovations that influence the way psychotherapy is 
   conducted today.
- What clinicians can learn from these innovations that will enhance,  
   improve (and even simplify) their practice

   Psychotherapy and Spirit: The Increasing Interest in Spirituality
   and Its Implications for Clinical Practice

- A client  'spirituality assessment" model and how it can be integrated
  into clinical practice

- The benefits and drawbacks of addressing spiritual problems in
   therapy

- "Walking the talk" - a therapist's spiritual self-assessment and its
  implications for expanding both the scope of clinical practice and
  the therapist's own self-development.

   Positive Psychology: Strength is Not Enough

-  Looking beyond the  "strengths" perspective to address the
   most current thinking in psychotherapy - "positive psychology"

-  Helping clients identify and identify with their highest potentials

- Teaching clients "mental training" skills that become "success
   techniques"

- The art, science, validity and value of true "positive thinking" 

   Brief Therapy / Deep Therapy: You Can "Go Deep" in a  Six -Twelve
   Session Time-frame

  -  Going deep" to discover unconscious motivations,
      inner conflicts and mixed feelings that often stall therapy and
      hinder client progress

  -  How "going deep" can help clients maintain therapeutic 
     successes  over time

  - Techniques for "going deep" - a schema-based cognitive
    behavioral model; hypnosis and guided imagery "mini-
    techniques" for brief  therapy use;  exploring meaning and 
    purpose in life as motivation  for change and  for
    behavior/mood management

  Hypnotherapy for Helpers: Hypnosis Techniques
  Specifically Designed for Mental Health Professionals

 -  Brief introduction to hypnosis and guided imagery - how and why
    it works  quickly and effectively to address many common clinical issues

-  Clinically-focused hypnosis and guided imagery techniques for use
   with a variety of issues, including anxiety reduction, forgiveness,
   self-empowerment, trauma release and many more

   Answers for Anxiety: A Group Therapy Program Model

-  A psycho-education program model for use with clients with anxiety

-  Includes information, reproducible handouts and group exercises

  Dialoguing With Depression: A "Journal Program"  Model

-  Using journaling as a format for a psycho-education group for
   depressed clients

- Reframing the meaning of depression from a "life-depleting"
  experience to a potential "life-informing" and "life-transforming"
  experience

  Women's Empowerment: An Adaptable Psycho-education Model for Increasing  Self-Esteem and Success Strategies

-  Useful with domestic violence victim groups, sexual abuse victim
   groups, teen socialization/empowerment groups and others

- Includes information, reproducible handouts and group exercises

 

  Note: All workshops include some   'hands on ' or interactive process. Many include meditations and/or exercises. Most include handouts.

Topics can be adjusted for short keynotes, 1 or 2 hr. workshops, or half day or full day workshops and seminars. All topics on list have been previously presented in some format. Topics can be "mixed and matched" to create a workshop with elements from several topics listed. Call or write for a workshop tailored to your needs!

 

Rita Milios, LCSW, "The Mind Mentor"
13724  Pimberton Dr.      Hudson, FL 346669      Ph: (727) 860-5675