Taming the Anxious Brain with Nature in Mind: The Power of Nature informed Mental Health

Are you interested in the new frontier of nature-informed therapy? Nature-informed (psycho)therapy explores nature-based methods of psychological healing, grounded in the belief that nature has profound mental health effects specifically for anxiety and stress-related mental health challenges.

This workshop will provide introductory knowledge of neuroscientific concepts of anxiety as well as nature-based strategies and exercises designed to successfully manage emotional de-regulation. This topic is particularly relevant as many individuals struggle with an uptick in anxiety in the aftermath...Read more of the Covid-19 epidemic. Less...

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the underlying neurological processes that impact a person's relationships with anxiety and effectively integrate nature into mental health approaches to decrease anxiety and stress.
  • Explain nature-guided mind-body healing and how to engage clients in treatment using nature.
  • Describe strategies for calming the nervous system in order to alleviate symptoms of anxiety.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Levels

  • Introductory

Saturday, July 15, 2023

Live Interactive Webinar

11:00 AM EDT - 02:15 PM EDT

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EARN 3 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Heidi Schreiber-Pan, Ph.D., LCPC

Heidi Schreiber-Pan, Ph.D., LCPC

Clinical Director of Chesapeake Mental Health Collaborative
Heidi Schreiber-Pan, Ph.D., LCPC, NCC is a successful psychotherapist, author, clinical director and sought-after nationwide speaker on topics of resilience, anxiety, neuroscience, and occupational burnout. As an affiliate and former faculty member of Loyola University, Maryland, her past research has focused on resiliency and psychological well-being, including nature-based mental health.
Dr. Schreiber-Pan has worked with various organizations, schools and corporations to reduce stress on a communal level and to increase structural well-being through training in positive psychology as well as emotional intelligence coaching.


Dr. Schreiber-Pan has developed unique continuing education courses that combine established clinical methods such as CBT with innovative treatment approached including nature-based psychotherapy and neuro-counseling.

She is the author of Taming the Anxious Mind: A guidebook to relieve stress and anxiety.

Agenda

11:00am – 12:00 pm Creating Calm in the Nervous System by Taming the Anxious Brain

  • Introductions of presenter, experiences, and learning objectives
  • Understanding the brain structures and neurological processes involved in the experience of anxiety
  • The power of Neuroplasticity

12:00pm – 12:30pm  How nature can help reset the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) 

  • Six principles to reduce the chronic fight or flight response
  • Practice: Letting Go of SNS arousal with nature-informed visualization
  • Practice: A review of nature-informed breathing techniques

1230 pm to 12:45pm  Break

12:45pm – 1:30pm Applying nature-informed mental health interventions

  • Psycho-evolutionary theory and the rise of self-criticism and negativity bias
  • Identifying and diminishing unhelpful thinking styles
  • The healing power of nature awareness
  • Practice: Applying cognitive de-fusion with nature imagery

1:30pm – 2:05pm Decolonial approach to nature-informed mental health

  • Racial complexities of outdoor spaces
  • Code of outdoor therapy ethics
  • Formation of a person’s eco-identity
  • Practice: Cultural Wheel

2:05pm – 2:15pm Closing and Questions

CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours

CE Approvals

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