• Learn how faith principles improve personal/professional growth

• Change unhealthy beliefs originating form faith misconceptions such as: perfectionism, fearing God; unloved by God, and more
• Learn the clinical effectiveness of forgiveness and steps to turn around an unforgiving heart
• Apply the clinical effectiveness of prayer to improve therapeutic outcomes
• When religion becomes hurtful – learn characteristics, origins, and interventions for religious shame and toxic faith 
• Integrate faith with clinical issues, Healing damaged emotions, Using healing prayers, Identifying spiritual battles, Improving self worth

Seminar description

This seminar will provide practical strategies using faith based Christian principles to help your client reach emotional wholeness beyond what traditional therapy can accomplish.   You will grow in your personal and professional faith as you learn to utilize the power, guidance, and encouragement that Christian principles can offer to bring inner healing with tough treatment issues. You will develop a stronger appreciation and understanding of how to integrate your faith with mental health healing strategies to enhance your practice and your treatment outcomes with lasting results.  Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow, our area of activity among you will greatly expand…(2 Cor.10:15).

SEMINAR OUTLINE

Faith in clinical practice

How faith impacts clinical practice

Importance of faith and the healing process

Origins and impact of our belief system

Fulfillment of heart, mind, and soul

Interweaving faith principles

Faith as a foundation for personal growth

Strengthening professional life 

Improve clinical outcomes

Using faith principles respectfully

Learn about your client’s faith

Encourage faith to promote healing

When and how to use prayer and scripture

Clinical effectiveness of forgiveness

Research regarding forgiveness

How unforgiveness impedes healing

Finding forgiveness

Why we cannot forgive

Turn around an unforgiving heart

Clinical effectiveness of prayer                                                   

Research regarding prayer
Praying with your client

How prayers are answered with clients

Using prayer to improve outcomes

Changing belief that God is not listening

Reasons why prayers are not answered

Comfort and encouragement from prayer

When religion becomes hurtful

Characteristics of toxic faith

Characteristics of religious shame 

Origin of toxic faith and religious shame

Distorting God

Damage to you heart, mind, and faith

Interventions for healing

Beliefs from faith misconceptions

How faith misconceptions impede counseling

Earthly/Heavenly parent principle

Origin of misconceptions

Working with misconceptions:

        º I have to be perfect  

        º God is someone to fear

        º How can God love someone like me?

        º If I use my feelings I am not relying on my faith.

Integrate faith with treatment

Uncover past emotional issues

Steps to healing emotions

Identifying spiritual battles

Releasing unhealthy emotions

Develop Godly attitudes and self worth

Using healing prayers

Expressing God-given emotions

Program Description:

When one partner in a marriage is emotionally unavailable or distant, their mate exists in a world of loneliness and disappointment, desperately looking to therapists to fix the problem.  Traditional therapy based on talking about feelings is an ineffective intervention for emotionally-suppressed clients who are unable to identify or disclose emotions during the therapy session.  Treating emotionally distant marriages typically results in an unsuccessful therapeutic outcome with the unemotional mate dropping out of treatment.  This can leave the therapist in the frustrating position of coping with the spouse who feels helpless and believes therapy has failed.   Treating marriages where one partner is emotionally distant can be one of the most challenging hurdles therapists face -- until now.

Craig A. Miller, MSW, CSW, ACSW, therapist and author, shares his systematic approach and the latest medicinal remedies to successfully treat couples in emotionally distant relationships by making drastic changes in how each mate emotionally and physically relate to restore the love, respect, and fulfillment for both partners. 

Seminar participants will learn how to:

1. Recognize characteristics of an unemotional and codependent mate.

2. Quickly develop a non-threatening and emotionally supportive rapport that allows the therapist to successfully engage the unwilling partner in therapy

3. Empower the emotional mate to change how they respond to their distant spouse

4. Step-by-step therapeutic techniques designed to break down emotional denial and unlock the unemotional client’s heart to produce a more successful treatment outcome

5. Utilize the latest medicinal remedies to assist in unblocking and eliminating suppressed or manifesting emotions

 Learning Objectives:

Participants completing this course will be able to:

1. Describe how a person becomes emotionally unavailable
2. Identify characteristics of the unemotional/emotionally suppressed client
3. Identify characteristics of a codependent partner in an emotionally distant relationship
4. Outline how the unemotional mate produces dysfunction in the marriage
5. Describe how the unemotional man differs from the unemotional woman
6. Utilize techniques for empowering the emotional mate to:

a.      Understand the mind and behaviors of their unemotional mate

b.      Change how they respond emotionally and physically to their unemotional mate

c.      Learn how NOT to live with their mate’s stubborn and selfish attitudes

d.      Learn how to change their emotionally distant mate, without losing their own heart and mind in the process

e.      Recognize warning signs for escalation of mind games and abuse

f.        Cope effective with mind games, defensiveness, and blaming

g.      Make radical changes when the unemotional mate is unwilling to change

7. Utilize strategies for changing the unemotional mate:

a.      Quickly develop rapport that encourages clients to willingly engage in treatment

b.      Creating motivation to change

c.      Getting the emotionally unavailable mate to emotionally relate

d.      Getting an unwilling and stubborn, emotionally distant mate to change

8. Encourage increased respect and emotional expression within the relationship:

a.      Obstacles to emotional closeness

b.      Communicating without arguing and defensiveness

c.      Redefining healthy relationships for the emotionally distant couple

Program Description:

Traditional therapy based on talking about feelings is an ineffective intervention for emotionally-suppressed clients who are unable to identify or disclose emotions during the therapy session.  Attempting to treat such clients with traditional techniques typically results in frustration for the therapist and an unsuccessful therapeutic outcome, or the client dropping out of treatment. 

Craig A. Miller, MSW, CSW, ACSW, therapist and author, shares his systematic approach and the latest medicinal remedies to successfully unlock the emotional suppression with unemotional clients for a positive treatment outcome and improvement in emotional health for the individual and their relationships.

 Seminar participants will learn how to:

1. Accurately diagnose the unemotional client based on typical characteristics

2. Quickly develop a non-threatening and emotionally supportive rapport that allows the therapist to successfully engage an unwilling client in therapy.

3. Step-by-step therapeutic techniques designed to break down emotional denial and unlock the client’s heart to produce a more successful treatment outcome

4. Utilize the latest medicinal remedies to assist in unblocking and eliminating suppressed emotions

 Learning Objectives:

 Participants completing this course will be able to:

1. Explain why emotions are essential in navigating life and making personal decisions

2. Identify characteristics of the unemotional/emotionally suppressed client

3. Accurately diagnose unemotional clients

4. Describe how the unemotional mate manipulates and controls others

5. Cite research indicating the effects of blocked emotions during embryo, newborn, and childhood stages of life

6. Understand why suppressed emotions are the origin of emotional and physical illness

7. Utilize therapeutic techniques to break down emotional denial and unblock suppressed emotion:

                                 i.               Quickly develop rapport that encourages clients to willingly engage in treatment

                               ii.               Implement step-by-step techniques to help clients discover and understand how the past affects present dysfunctional thoughts and behaviors 

                              iii.               Help clients and their families independently determine what the unemotional person needs to become healthy

                             iv.               Give the client permission to have emotions

                              v.               Learn patterns of dysfunctional emotions

                             vi.               Separate childlike reactions from adult feelings

                           vii.               Give the client control to overcome unhealthy moods and emotions

                          viii.               Inspire unemotional clients to take responsibility for change

                              ix.               Overcome habitual unhealthy emotions - mind, body, and spirit

                               x.               Medicinal remedies that can help unblock suppressed emotions

   In this seminar you will learn:

1. How does a man and woman communicate his and her feelings differently?
2. How to communicate feelings when you are hurt and angry.
3. How much do my feelings affect the ability to find and maintain healthy relationships.  (Why do I have a hard time getting close to people and to God?)
4. How to express your feelings in a relationship that discourages your feelings.
5. What is disrespect and how do you handle disrespect from others.
6. How to encourage your spouse to communicate their feelings.
7. Maintaining healthy relationships – spouse, friends, children, and God.
8. Other selected topics of your choice.

   Ideal for:  Church pulpit supply for AM or PM worship services          

This multimedia presentation gives a message of hope and spiritual healing through scripture, music, congregation participation, visual props, and helpful techniques.  Learn to overcome the fear to say what you want, let go of emotional hurts, find satisfaction in relationships (even with God), find the joy of Christ, and feel good about yourself!   

Hear valuable insights, powerful case testimonies, inspiring scriptures, and helpful techniques to overcome the fear to say what you want, let go of emotional hurts, find satisfaction in relationships, find the joy of Christ, and feel good about yourself!  This inspirational message based on God’s Word is for teens through older adults who desire to find victory from the daily struggles of life to experience the love, peace, and joy that God has to offer.

   In this seminar you will learn:

   Learning how to feel good about life and experience the inner joy that

   Jesus has to offer?

1. Why our God given emotions are so important. 
2. What would happen if I don’t express my feelings? 
3. Or can holding in feelings over time be harmful to my emotional/physical health?
4. If God gave us our emotions, what stops us from feeling them? 
5. How does our past influence us with our reactions?  (Reactions of anger, fear, anxiety, or depression)
6. As a Christian, are we suppose to have anger, fear, or anxiety? 
   (Some people believe you are not depending on God if you experience those feelings.) 
7. How can we change to find and maintain the inner joy that God really wants us to experience?