Deep Dive in NSSI: A Practitioner's Guide to the Treatment of Self-Injury

250 West Southlake Boulevard,Southlake TX 76092

29 April, 2022

Description

Deeper dive into understanding, responding to, and treating NSSI. This is level 2 of the 3 levels of NSSI training. Level 1 is on April 4th and is the introductory class while this is Level 2 and is for counselors who are actively treating or plan to treat those who participate in NSSI. It is strongly recommended that attendees have attended a previous NSSI event led by Lori or a similar introductory CEU event by a professional counselor on the topic. Level 3 is a Mastermind event that will address starting and running a group, practice of several of the 30+ activities that Lori has developed and are written in the Self-Injury Prevention Activity Workbook, which is only available for purchase during the Level 3 training. Level 2 or a previous 6 hr Practitioner's Training by Lori is required to attend Level 3. What will be Covered (additional topics to be added):1) Is Self-injury Addictive? Should we consider it an addiction? 2) The 5 Things that eating disorders and NSSI have in common 3) Deeper dive into the reasons why someone self-harms 4) Vann Tree Model 5) Nutrition, Medications, and NSSI 6) Trauma and NSSI correlation 7) The Do's and Don'ts--mistakes by practitioners and family members 8) Treatment Modalities 9) Practice of at least 2 activities 10) Review of handouts that are game changers 11) Alternatives to NSSI handout with explanation What is Provided:Light breakfast, coffee, lunch, and dessertHandoutsActivities for attendees to try outA smaller CEU event that is limited to 25 attendees to allow plenty of time for Q&A6 hours of CEUs for Texas counselorsOur Incredible Sponsors:Charis Behavioral Health in SouthlakeTaylor Counseling GroupVann & Associates: Coaching, Counseling, ConsultingInstitute for NSSIBio:International speaker, media guest, and five-time author, Lori Vann is a regarded mental health authority. For over twenty years, she has been on a mission as a Global Authority in the prevention and treatment of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury to turn the tide on the epidemic that is closely correlated to suicide. Her experiences working at psychiatric hospitals, the non-profit sector, an outpatient clinic, and her own private practice located in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, has led to her founding of the Institute for Non-Suicidal Self-Injury. She has trained thousands of individuals on her widely regarded techniques, presented throughout Texas and nationally & internationally on the topic over 115 times, and counseled/coached over 575 individuals with a history of the behavior.