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11/14/2025
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Get premium online trainings in:
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These extraordinary prices won't last. Some courses may never be offered at this rate again.
As clinicians, we know that ruptures happen. In our therapeutic relationships, in our personal lives, and within ourselves. But what if your nervous system could become your most reliable guide for recognizing, tracking, and repairing those ruptures?
Just as nature moves through cycles of growth, dormancy, and renewal, our relationships (and our nervous systems) are designed to repair and restore.
Join PESI and renowned Polyvagal Theory expert Deb Dana, LCSW, at for this incredible intensive training opportunity.
✨January 10–17, 2026✨
This immersive retreat goes beyond theory. Deb will guide you through experiential learning that helps you understand your own autonomic responses and teaches you to partner with your clients' nervous systems to restore safety, repair connection, and build lasting resilience. This isn't just any training, it's a winter learning vacation. 🌴🏖️🌞🐳
Learn Deb's signature mapping techniques. Master autonomic transparency. Transition clients from chronic dysregulation to emotional balance. All while surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, jungle tranquility, and the restorative power of Costa Rica.
Plus, earn up to 21.5 CE hours included in your tuition.
When you help clients understand their amygdala's role in the anxiety response, you're giving them the power to change their relationship with fear.
What's one way you help clients understand the neuroscience of their anxiety?
11/13/2025
We're therapists, but we're humans first. That's why we don't claim to have all of the answers. We know the path can sometimes be messy, uncomfortable, and overwhelming, and we're here to walk beside you through it all.
11/13/2025
Dr. Alexia Rothman is hosting a free live training on November 24 that breaks down the IFS therapy approach in a really practical way. You'll learn how to identify and work with different parts, create that safe therapeutic space we all strive for, and even explore your own internal system (which honestly makes you a better therapist).
Time alone doesn’t heal. It’s the relationship, the safety, empathy, and attunement that transforms pain into growth. 💬
Whether it’s helping clients rebuild trust after rupture or modeling repair in session, healing happens through intentional care, not passive waiting.
11/10/2025
"Whatever you say in here stays in here. Unlesssssss you tell me you're thinking of hurting yourself or someone else, mmk? Part of my job is to help keep you safe, bruh." 🫡😂
In all seriousness, sometimes our teen clients are looking for a safe space and a trusted adult to help deciding when something is serious or just a normal part of growing up.
Therapists, how do you handle limits of confidentiality with your teens while still maintaining that deep trust and rapport that is so crucial to the therapeutic relationship?
11/10/2025
Join Kimberly Morrow, LSCW, & Elizabeth DuPont Spencer, MSW, LCSW-C, LIVE on November 20-21 for 2 full days of learning the gold standard of care for treating GAD, Panic Disorder, OCD, Social Anxiety, and Phobias.
Walk away with:
✔️ Ways to help clients face their triggers and change their relationship with fear
✔️ Methods to use exposure therapy in meaningful, successful ways
✔️ Specific strategies for Panic Disorder, Phobias, OCD, and Social Anxiety
✔️ Strategies to manage your own anxiety about treating your anxious clients
Don’t pass on this opportunity to get the anxiety treatment training for FREE! It may not come again, and capacity is limited.
✨ A reminder that symptoms often began as solutions.
In IFS therapy, we don’t label symptoms as pathology. We honor them as protective strategies that once kept clients safe. Healing begins when parts are met with compassion, not judgment.
💫 Learn how to help clients access Self-energy and foster internal connection in this FREE IFS therapy training with Dr. Alexia Rothman on November 24.
In the sweet confinement of winter, we invite you to step away from what's too small for you and into a week of rest, renewal, and re-imagination with poet and author at Blue Spirit, Costa Rica.
January 17–24, 2026, David will offer daily poetry and contemplation as the foundation for Blue Spirit's ✨Wisdom & Wellbeing Week 3✨a spacious retreat designed for rejuvenation. With plenty of time for yoga, longevity teachings, ocean swims, and quiet reflection, this week is for those ready to belong fully to the life that brings them alive.
David will be joined by and Jeff W. Jones (), creating an intimate container for transformation.
This is your invitation to learn what you most need to know: the world was made to be free in.
Listening to people's problems all day? No.
Providing a safe space, emotional attunement, and helping people uncover and utilize their own internal strengths and resources? Yes.
And that just BARELY scratches the surface of what we do all day. Hats off to all of you doing the work. 🎩
11/08/2025
Let’s face it. In a world that feels out of control, clients are struggling to believe they can change their relationship with anxiety. But getting better anxiety treatment results just got easier...
That's why we're hosting a FREE Anxiety Certification Course. This incredible FREE 2-day live certification training gives you the gold standard of care.
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Since our founding in 1979, PESI, a nonprofit organization, has provided cutting-edge continuing education to professionals across the globe. Working alongside the world’s leading experts, we create a wide range of continuing education products and services, including seminars, conferences, online courses, DVDs, CDs, and books. All of our work is dedicated to training professionals like you on today’s newest and most talked-about topics.
We are proud to have the most robust continuing education library in the nation. You can attend one of our live seminars in all 50 states and can access our products and digital library anywhere in the world. We are a leading publisher, with over 160 titles and 11 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards.
Currently, PESI works with 225 credit boards and other credit-granting entities to provide you with the tools, resources, and certifications you need to grow and help those you serve.
In 2019, we were honored to have been voted Chippewa Valley’s Best Employer. PESI currently employs 150 talented associates globally—all dedicated to helping Connect Knowledge With Need.
The PESI family includes PESI Behavioral Health, PESI Healthcare, PESI Rehab, PESI Publishing and Media, Psychotherapy Excellence, PsychOz Publications, and Psychotherapy Networker.
