Therapy speak expert Dr. Isabelle Morley shows you how to respond when clinical language is misused—whether it's inaccurate, pathologizing, or emotionally avoidant—so you can uncover the real anxiety driving your client's struggles. 

• Gently correct misused clinical terms while maintaining rapport
• Explore what's underneath a client's reliance on therapy speak
• Reclaim curiosity, emotional nuance, and real insight in the session
• And more!

You'll leave with a step-by-step process for navigating therapy speak in the room with clarity and compassion so you can address the anxiety beneath the words, support real growth, and reconnect clients to the deeper emotional truth they're trying to reach. 

Explore how the rise of AI, social media, and reality TV has shaped client thinking, diluted clinical language, and masked the anxiety at the heart of their struggles. 

• Learn to differentiate digital overload from diagnosable disorders
• Assess how misinformation and therapy buzzwords obscure real distress
• Reassert your clinical role without alienating clients
• Reclaim critical thinking, emotional depth, and therapeutic integrity

Walk away with actionable strategies—including CBT, EFT, guided discovery, and SUDS tracking—to help clients untangle the noise of digital culture and reconnect to their authentic mental health needs.

This dynamic session explores how cultural pressures, social media, and self-diagnosis shape clients’ expectations and anxiety in therapy. Through interactive reflection, role plays, and practical tools, you’ll learn how to unmask identity struggles, address misinformation, and guide clients toward authentic self-understanding.

• Client misconceptions from self-diagnosis, social comparison, and cultural pressure. 
• Practical strategies to gently confront unrealistic therapy expectations while maintaining rapport. 
• Integrate cultural, generational, and media literacy perspectives into treatment to deepen insight and engagement. 

In a post-pandemic, hustle-obsessed culture, many clients are quietly suffering under the weight of “not enoughness.” This training goes beyond surface-level stress management or time hacks and gives you strategies to: 

• Reframe productivity beliefs and dismantle perfectionistic patterns
• Treat burnout, self-worth dysregulation, and overachievement with targeted techniques
• Spot toxic productivity profiles to guide individualized interventions
• Apply culturally responsive language for race, migration, and family dynamics
• Navigate client resistance and defenses to foster rest and vulnerability
• Protect yourself from fatigue while working with high-achieving clients

Burnout, compassion fatigue, and anxiety aren't just personal struggles — they're professional risks that compromise therapeutic presence and client care. 

This training helps you strengthen your own resilience while enhancing your ability to treat anxiety in clients. Through live instruction, case-based discussion, and integrative reflection exercises, you'll gain actionable tools to: 

• Recognize and intervene early in the burnout cycle
• Create a sustainable Therapist Self-Care Toolkit
• Strengthen peer connection and build a professional community
• Incorporate nervous system regulation into your daily anxiety treatment for both you and your clients

You'll leave with downloadable resources, client-facing tools, and renewed strategies to sustain resilience while effectively treating anxiety.

In this session, Dr. Sharon Saline, award-winning author, will teach you how to help your clients participate in social situations with more confidence and less self-criticism. She'll demonstrate interventions and tools to: 

• Improve communication skills and connection while reducing discomfort and insecurity 
• Initiate and maintain friendships, manage rejection sensitivity dysphoria 
• Promote resilience and growth mindsets in clients of all ages with ADHD 

In this workshop, learn Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) techniques to help clients manage their imposterism and live up to their full professional potential—without being usurped by the crippling burden of self-doubt. You’ll explore why your clients (and you!) develop imposter thoughts, fall into traps trying to outrun the imposter experience, and how to take actionable steps toward cultivating psychological flexibility—the main goal of ACT---to move confidently in the direction of your most deeply held values. You’ll also learn:

• Which people are most vulnerable to the imposter experience—and why  
• The five imposter subtypes—and how to work with them in the therapy room 
• ACT metaphors and experiential exercises to bring your work to life for clients