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Digital Seminar

The Highly Sensitive Person: A Strengths-Based Approach for Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, and More

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Speaker:
Traci Regis, MS, LPC/LPCC
Duration:
6 Hours 10 Minutes
Copyright:
28 Jan, 2025
Product Code:
POS059971
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

Intense emotions … crippling empathy … emotional reactions to sensory input … constant overwhelm …

Working with highly sensitive clients can feel like taking one step forward and two steps backwards as interpersonal struggles, self-doubt, and sensory overload seemingly negate progress in trauma treatment, relationships, anxiety, and more.

Watch Traci Regis, MS, LPC/LPCC, for a perspective-shifting training that will immediately allow you to employ a strengths-based approach to help your highly sensitive clients thrive. You will finish with:

  • Mindfulness approaches to foster self-compassion
  • Resilience-building DBT strategies
  • Psychoeducation strategies to help clients build coping skills toolboxes
  • Interventions for addressing the needs of highly sensitive people in marriage and family therapy
  • Adaptations to trauma work with highly sensitive people

Additionally, you will learn the neurological underpinnings of the highly sensitive persons (HSP) trait to understand the correlation between this and other neurodiverse conditions.

Purchase now to take your therapy to the next level.

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.


CPD

This online program is worth 6.25 hours CPD.

Handouts

File type File name Number of pages
PDF Manual - The Highly Sensitive Person (3.6 MB) 65 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - The Highly Sensitive Person - French (3.6 MB) 65 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - The Highly Sensitive Person - Italian (3.6 MB) 65 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - The Highly Sensitive Person - German (3.6 MB) 65 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - The Highly Sensitive Person - Spanish (3.6 MB) 65 Pages Available after Purchase

Speaker

Traci Regis, MS, LPC/LPCC Related seminars and products

Traci Regis, MS, LPC/LPCC, is a licensed professional counselor/licensed professional clinical counselor and clinical supervisor in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Florida with over 15 years of experience in treating parents of children with special needs, neurodiverse clients, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.

Traci is dually licensed in addiction disorders and worked in various settings before opening her own practice in 2018. After discovering that she had the Highly Sensitive Person trait, she learned everything she could to help others understand the life impact of this trait that impacts so many clients.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Traci Regis maintains a private practice and employment relationships with Holt Law, LLC., and Supportive Hands Healing Minds. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Traci Regis has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepepesi.com


Objectives

  1. Examine the debate surrounding whether the HSP trait is a clinical condition or a form of neurodivergence.
  2. Identify the neurological basis of the HSP trait.
  3. Distinguish the HSP trait from the DSM-5TR diagnoses of autism, ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), and PTSD.
  4. Choose strengths-based interventions that leverage the inherent resources of highly sensitive clients to address anxiety.
  5. Choose sensory-based strategies to use for HSP clients with trauma
  6. Determine sensory-friendly room modifications to enhance the therapeutic experience for highly sensitive clients.

Outline

The Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Trait: Core Concepts
  • Statistics and correlation with DSM-5TR™ diagnoses
  • Clinical condition or neurodivergence?
  • Neurological underpinnings and brain imaging
  • Key attributes: Dr. Elaine Aron’s DOES model
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks
The Sensitive Client in the Therapy Room
  • Presenting problems and case conceptualisation
  • Navigate impact on trauma processing, relationships, grief, anxiety, and more
  • East-to-use self-tests and screening tools
  • Assessment strategies to differentiate the HSP trait from:
    • Autism
    • ADHD
    • Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
    • PTSD
  • Psychoeducation resources for validation and self-awareness
  • Special considerations when working with children
Strengths-Based Interventions for Highly Sensitive Clients
Tap into inherent inner resources to support:
 
  • Anxiety
    • The power of reflection
    • Address the sensory system head-on: Deep pressure input, linear movement, and more
    • Leverage vibrant inner life through journaling
    • The benefits of empathy: a path to healthy connections
    • Group activity: Case conceptualisation
  • Depression
    • The problem-solver: values-based goal setting
    • DBT strategies for creating positive emotions
    • Establish lifestyle rhythms
    • Emotional release: Live demonstration
  • Trauma
    • Bypass the cognitive mind: EMDR, Schema therapy, and body-based techniques
    • Mindfulness and dialectic approaches
    • Enhance the mind-body connection
    • 5 must-use sensory strategies to engage the parasympathetic nervous system
  • Grief
    • Create a safe and sacred space
    • The power of creative therapies
    • Walk & talk therapy for healing
    • Case study
  • Relationships
    • Turn compassion into self-compassion
    • Embrace authenticity with safe people
    • Beware of vampires
    • Create healthy boundaries
    • Couples work and family therapy techniques
The Highly Sensitive Client Toolbox
  • Ready-to-use resources: Clinician handouts and client materials
  • Create a sensory-friendly therapy room: easy solutions
  • Kid-friendly techniques, play therapy, and more
  • Experiential learning: Calming sensory strategies to kick off each session

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Therapists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • School Counsellors
  • School Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • Behavioural Health Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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