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Feelings Are Our Friends (Yours -- Not Mine): A Guide to Breaking Cycles of Emotional Dysregulation- On and Off the Clock :)

Melissa Caldwell Engle
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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe how emotional dysregulation affects mental, physical, and spiritual well-being.

  • Identify techniques to interrupt the fight-or-flight response in emotionally overresponsive or underresponsive clients.

  • Apply the Spectrum of Emotions model as a clinical tool to support emotional awareness and regulation.

Educational Goal

The presentation will help clinicians better understand how emotional dysregulation affects clients’ mental, physical, and spiritual health, enabling more holistic and effective interventions. It will also provide practical tools and techniques for clinicians to assist clients in recognizing and managing their emotions across the spectrum, promoting healthier emotional regulation, and reducing cycles of self-destructive patterns.

Description

Clients with chronic mental health & addictive patterns struggle to regulate their emotions, often triggering their "fight or flight" response and fueling long-term mind-body disconnection. In this dynamic workshop, Mrs. Caldwell Engle will explore how this mind and body breakdown not only disrupts healthy emotional development but also has physical (medical) and spiritual consequences as well. She will review her Spectrum of Emotions model--a practical tool to differentiate healthy vs. unhealthy emotions--and offer specific techniques for helping clients learn emotional regulation from both ends of the spectrum. This workshop will utilize a blend of cognitive and experiential interventions, clinical case examples, and live discussion, and it is ideal for clinicians working with clients stuck in cycles of self-destructive patterns and emotional dysregulation.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Melissa Caldwell Engle
Melissa Caldwell Engle LPC, ATR is a co-founder of Healing Springs Ranch, LLC (HSR) and is the EVP of Clinical Programming. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Registered Art Therapist (ATR) and has over 35 years of experience treating trauma and addictions. Prior to her involvement with HSR, Mrs. Caldwell Engle was the Executive Director at the Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma for 24 years. While in this position, she clinically managed three inpatient programs directed by Colin A. Ross M.D., where she was involved in the development, implementation and integration of Trauma Model Therapy (TMT) and the Trauma Model Therapy Certification Program.

Financially Sponsored By

  • HEALING SPRINGS RANCH