Overview

Do you ever wonder what to do when painful or distressing emotions show up in therapy? Do you sometimes feel unsure of how to help clients move beyond anxiety, sadness, anger, or feeling overwhelmed? 

Working with emotion competently has been shown to be one of the most important factors in providing effective therapy but it can be challenging to know how to help clients process difficult emotions. Many clients come to therapy struggling with anxiety, depression, hopelessness, emotional pain, relationship difficulties, or feeling stuck. While these issues are often what brings clients to therapy, they are frequently rooted in underlying painful emotions that need to be understood, expressed authentically, and worked through. 

This workshop will give you 20 practical, evidence-based skills to help you feel more confident working with emotion in session. You'll learn how to recognize what's happening emotionally moment-by-moment in-session, understand why clients get stuck, learn how to establish a collaborative focus on emotions, and use interventions that help clients process difficult emotions to create meaningful change. 

Drawing on research from psychotherapy, neuroscience, and emotion science, these skills can be integrated into a wide range of therapeutic approaches and applied to many different client concerns. 

Throughout the workshop, you'll watch video recordings of real therapy sessions that demonstrate these skills in action, helping you translate theory into clinical practice. 

A recording of the workshop will be available to registrants for 60 days. 

Please note that it may take 15–20 business days for the recording to be sent.

Learning Objectives

In this workshop, participants will learn how to: 

• Recognize and assess productive and unproductive emotion states and different emotion types (adaptive/maladaptive, secondary/protective, instrumental), and learn ways to work with each one. 
• Collaboratively identify clients’ core emotional issues. 
• Use strategies to work with clients who are overwhelmed by their emotions: deliberate and automatic emotion regulation techniques 
• Access, activate, and deepen emotions with clients who have trouble accessing and expressing their feelings. 
• Apply Emotion Principles of Change (Utilize, Regulate, Transform) to help clients process their emotions productively. 

Details

Dates: November 5 & 6, 2026

Time: 11:00AM – 2:00PM (Eastern Standard Time) 

Format: Live Online Workshop

Registration Rates

Early Bird Rate: $229 (+applicable taxes)

Early Bird Rate available until October 5, 2026

Regular Rate: $269 (+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.

CE Credits

Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)

• Pending Approval

Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals (OAMHP)

• 7 Credits

*Participation in this workshop allows OAMHP members to apply 7 CECs towards their required continuing education hours. OAMHP’s review of the general content of this workshop recognizes the learning objectives meet and support the criteria (1) for best known practice in continuing education and (2) for educational requirements for mental health professionals.

Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)

• Pending Approval

Ontario Psychological Association (OPA)

• Pending Approval

Please note that live attendance is required in order to receive CE credits

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

  or

• 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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