Join an immersive 14-session training that blends neuroscience, mindfulness, and experiential learning. Designed for clinicians seeking to expand emotional attunement and relational depth in their practice.
Minding the Heart
Deepening the Art of Therapeutic Connection
Minding the Heart is a weekly 14-session training group led by Dr. Tori Olds, Dr. Sydnor Sikes, and Tiffany Nicely-Williams, LCSW-S, focusing on topics such as mindfulness and interpersonal neurobiology, trauma work, attunement training, working with defenses and emotion, tracking the body, attachment in couples work, and relinquishing shame.
Our Minding the Heart professors draw on their extensive training in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), Somatic Experiencing, Systems Centered Theory (SCT), Stan Tatkin’s couples work (PACT), and object relations theory. The meetings are didactic as well as experiential, with discussion, demonstrations, and case consultation.
Some of the topics covered include:
- Advanced general psychotherapy techniques
- Advanced Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) techniques
- Advanced attachment theory
- Internal Family Systems conceptualization
- Interpersonal trauma and complex trauma
- Somatic Experiencing (SE) techniques
- And more
The Minding the Heart training is FREE for all Deep Centered Mental Health employees.
If you are interested in the Minding the Heart training, please contact us for more details!