Anchoring Guided Imagery into Daily Life: Turning In-Session Breakthroughs into Lasting Change

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Speaker

Sabrina N'Diaye, PhD, LCSW-C, MDiv Related seminars and products

The Heart Nest

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Sabrina N'Diaye, PhD, LCSW-C, Mdiv, received her PhD in mind-body medicine from Saybrook University, where she studied the use of complementary and alternative interventions for physical, emotional, and spiritual growth. Her dissertation study focused on the use of guided imagery as a healing tool for African American women with chronic STIs. Since completing her doctorate, she has developed curriculum and served as adjunct faculty for the Maryland University of Integrative Health and Saybrook University. She is a proud senior faculty member of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, where she teaches the art of self-care to healthcare professionals around the globe. She is currently an integrative psychotherapist and founder of the Heart Nest Center for Peace and Healing in Baltimore, Maryland.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sabrina N'Diaye is the founder and clinical director of The Heart Nest Center for Peace and Healing. She has employment relationships with The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, The Ferentz Institute, Saybrook University, and the Maryland University of Integrative Health. Sabrina N'Diaye receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sabrina N'Diaye has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Implement at least two strategies to help clients integrate guided imagery or hypnosis into their daily lives.
2. Design personalised follow-up plans that anchor and sustain in-session insights.
3. Identify tools and techniques to empower clients in revisiting and expanding their imagery experiences independently.

Outline

• Brief overview of guided imagery and its role in transformation
• The challenge: Turning in-session breakthroughs into long-term changes

• Post-session practices for anchoring insights (e.g., journaling, action steps)
• Using sensory cues and rituals to reinforce the imagery experience

• Encouraging client agency through personalised action plans
• Teaching clients to revisit and expand on imagery independently

• Stories of clients successfully integrating guided imagery outcomes
• Discussion of obstacles and creative solutions

• Risks and limitations of imagery practices
• Summarising the “stick and stay” methods
• Open discussion for applying these ideas in practice

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Nurses