Overview

Do you ever feel unsure about how to effectively work with emotions in your therapy sessions? Do you struggle to access, regulate, or deepen your clients’ emotional experience? Do you have trouble helping your clients process emotions productively?   

Working with emotion is an essential component of psychotherapy, and therapists can encounter challenging emotional processes during treatment. For example, clients often present with secondary symptoms which are frequently mistaken for the main problem. These secondary symptoms obscure the deeper emotional issues that require focused attention and intervention. To address these and other emotional issues in psychotherapy, therapists require training to learn specific skills and techniques. 

In this workshop, you will learn 20 evidence-based skills to help you assess specific emotional issues and apply targeted interventions to address them. These skills draw on decades of research on emotions from multiple perspectives, including evolutionary biology and neuroscience, and can be integrated into any psychotherapeutic approaches and used with any client population. 

Video recordings of real therapy sessions will be used to illustrate client processes and interventions. If you are not available to attend the live workshop, a recording will be available for a period of time. 

Objectives

In this workshop, you will learn how to: 

• Recognize and assess productive and unproductive emotion states and different emotion types (adaptive/maladaptive, secondary/protective, instrumental) and learn how to work with them differentially 
• Apply techniques to track and explore emotional processes in session   
• Use collaborative case formulation to identify clients’ core emotional issues 
• Work with clients who are overwhelmed by their emotions by using deliberate and automatic emotion regulation techniques 
• Access, activate, and deepen emotions with clients who have trouble accessing and expressing their feelings 
• Process emotions productively 
• Change maladaptive emotions with adaptive emotions 
  

Details

Date: December 4 & 5, 2025

Time: 11:00AM – 3:00PM (Eastern Standard Time) 

Format: Live Online Workshop 

Registration Rates

Early Bird Rate: $219 (+applicable taxes)

Regular Rate: $259 (+applicable taxes)

Student Rate: $179 (+applicable taxes)

• Students are eligible for a student rate. Please sign up here to access student benefits.
• Student rates apply to individuals currently enrolled in an undergraduate, master's, or doctoral program at a recognized post-secondary institution.
  
  

Refund Policy

Cancelling 7 days or more prior to the start of a live one or two day workshop, or webinar series:

• Refund: Full refund will be processed, minus a $50 administrative fee

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• Transfer: Full payment can be transferred to another upcoming workshop or training that we provide. Please email our training and workshop team at training@cpeh.ca to request a transfer.

Cancelling after 7 days prior to the start of a live one or two day workshop, or webinar series:

• Refund: No refund
• Transfers: Full payment can be transferred to another upcoming workshop or training that we provide. Please email our training and workshop team at training@cpeh.ca to request a transfer.
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