Emotional Pain Intervention (EPI®) Online 50 hour Intensive Training
Your introduction to… A Brain–Changing Conversation System to Play the Whole Brain for Quick and Lasting Change using Applied Neuroscience
This training course takes the evidence-based research on what makes psychotherapy most effective, and combines it with breakthroughs in the fields of affective, social and cognitive neuroscience to show psychotherapists how to connect with clients, integrate neuroscience concepts into what they say and do in sessions to facilitate neuroplastic change.
Many therapists came from a good training program that taught them about therapy and theory, and then perhaps you took other courses that prepared you to work effectively with one type of condition (Anxiety, Borderlines, Eating Disorders, or PTSD) or with certain population (e.g. Children, Families, or Couples) or you certified in a specific therapy or rapid change process (e.g. EMDR, Hypnosis, or RRT), but this EPI® online is different because it is a comprehensive, evidence-informed approach for a broad range of clients, presenting issues and it allows you to integrate and maximize all the prior training you have acquired into a new overall conceptualization about how to help others change.
Emotional Pain Intervention (EPI®) isn’t a therapy, it is an all-in-one neuroplasticity system that involves neuro-education, neuro-intervention and neuro-plastic healing and transformation to be done in context of real-world therapy.
Emphasis is on the simple and practical applications of neuroscience concepts, evidence-based tools and techniques incorporated into the therapeutic conversation about what to target and change for clients in each session.
Participants discover the necessary elements for making a therapy session, into a brain-changing conversation complete with adherence checklist to verify their work.
They will discover how to use specific interventions to target emotional pain in the brain and facilitate neuroplasticity to eliminate needless suffering, rewire neural patterns of thoughts, beliefs and behavior, as well as update traumatic or emotional memories.
The training will also introduce how to explain and teach clients to self-direct neuroplasticity outside of sessions, as this can enhance emotional intelligence, affect regulation abilities, improve interventions for transformational and incremental change.
The training explores how brain intervention in the context of psychotherapy and therapist directed neuroplasticity might be the best standard of practice for producing quick and lasting brain-change.
Just as a pain management physician might intervene on physical pain complaints, i.e. deadening a nerve or blocking it from firing, neuroscience breakthroughs in the last few decades, allow psychotherapists to intervene on emotional-action networks of the primitive brain and stop emotional pain.
Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux wrote “psychotherapy is fundamentally a learning process for patients, and as such is a way to rewire the brain.” The course highlights what LeDoux and other scientists illuminate as the keys to having brain-changing conversations thereby facilitating chemical, functional and structural changes.
Delivery of the Training:
The online course is hosted on a well-designed, easy to navigate member site, where once registered, you can login with the email and password you set.
The course includes 50 hours of pre-recorded training audio/visuals so you can watch when it’s most convenient for you, access is 24/7 from the comfort of your home.
The video teaching lessons are organized into 6 Core Modules (previously recorded on Zoom) and each are about one-hour long.
The course keeps track of progress for you, so you know where you stopped and can easily pick up and continue, and it allows you to mark what you completed.
The self-paced learning of the Emotional Pain Intervention(EPI®) Brain-changing Conversation System material makes it so easy for you can go back and re-watch stuff if you’d like.
You’ll have access to the one-hour Play the Brain for Change Teleconferences archives from 2019 and 2020 these recordings are included in the EPI® Online Intensive Course so you can get all your learning completed in by listening or watching to these one hour teleconferences.
Students tell me the audio recordings of these group teleconference calls make it so easy to listen and learn while doing other things, such as walking, cooking, or driving.
With the completion of this online intensive training program, participants will have all the necessary hours for Applied Clinical Neuroscience Certificate plus may apply to be Certified in Emotional Pain Intervention (C-EPI®)
Another special benefit of doing this as a home-study, self-paced course, is that all participants while completing the 50 hours have access to 3 months of the new Brain-based Psychotherapist Accelerator Live on Zoom Group Coaching Calls with Dr. Elizabeth. These are 60-minute Group Coaching Calls focused on applications of EPI® neuroplasticity system to common clinical problems, emphasizing mindset, clinical tools, neuroscience integration and mastery required for your EPI® Certification.
And if you can’t attend live, you’ll get the recordings of the group coaching calls and Private VIP Brain-based Psychotherapist Accelerator Circle, so you can hear how others are applying the EPI® system with their cases, gaining competence, branding, up-leveling their practices for profits while obtaining certification and gaining mastery.
This Premier EPI course includes the Brain-based Psychotherapists’ Accelerator Program helps therapists excel and do their best work with clients!
They get the applied clinical neuroscience system to help clients without going back to college or reading tons of journal articles or books 📚.
Training helps them see how to incorporate cutting-edge neuroscience breakthroughs and a proven system for emotional pain intervention to Up-level in their practice!
Brain-based Psychotherapists enjoy using a step by step guidelines for brain-changing conversations that activate neuroplasticity for fast and lasting change!
Instructor for the course: Elizabeth A. Michas, Ph.D. is a Licensed Psychologist in the state of Florida (PY4751), and founder of MindWorks Psychology, LLC providing education, consulting and training on how to bridge the current neuroscience to clinical practice for mental health providers. Offering certification trainings in use of applied clinical neuroscience systems for Emotional Pain Intervention (EPI®) and Brain-based Hypnotherapy. Her trainings provide you with brain-changing conversation keys including new neuroscience-informed models, strategies, systems, scripts and more. Benefit from the unique emphasis on brain-interventional methods, to foster rapid and accelerated healing of all sorts of emotional pain, trauma, addictions, and compulsions. Dr. Elizabeth also has over 30 years of clinical experience in the application of mind-body medicine, neuroscience and integrative therapy approaches to share with you during training.
Course Information
In this EPI® intensive training, the learner will be introduced to a new system for brain-
based change supported by neuroscience and psychotherapy common factors research,
after attending the training and completing assignments the learner will know or be able to
do the following:
- Describe what neuroplasticity is
- List the Seven Keys to Real Brain Change and Optimization
- Discuss neuroplasticity in a psychotherapy sessions
- Compare the dark and light side of neuroplasticity as it relates to psychotherapy
- Analyze meta-analyses of what works for building alliance for psychotherapy
- Explain the brain to clients to foster therapeutic alliance.
- Describe dual-information processing theory as it relates to the experience of emotional
pain - Demonstrate use of a brain-hand model for what happens to TOP Brain functions during
a BOTTOM Brain emotional response - Use the brain as amazing organ metaphor to explain various brain information
processing systems at work - Assess a client’s response to the explain the brain talk
- Utilize deliberate interventions to target the TOP, MIDDLE, and BOTTOM Brain
structures, systems, operations and malfunctions. - List the key structures in BOTTOM Brain
- List the 3 key operating systems associated with TOP, MIDDLE and BOTTOM Brain
- Design intentional interventions targeting the most common brain-based organ
malfunctions to facilitate optimization in brain and nervous system function. - Describe the primitive-emotional BOTTOM brain at a biological, instinctive, operational
level with emphasis on survival relevant responding. - Demonstrate how to reach the BOTTOM brain in sessions.
- Compare bottom-up process interventions to top-down control methods of cognitive or insight therapy approaches.
- List the Neuroscience keys to interventional brain change in playing conscious and non-
conscious brain systems. - Identify the 3 negative emotions of your clients according to Affective Neuroscience
research on evolutionary roots. - Identify the somatic effects that prolonged stress has on body systems.
- Describe how Porges’ Poly-vagal Theory expands our understanding on the autonomic
nervous system - Demonstrate use of EPI® ATTUNE intervention that includes awareness training
experiences or exercises - Utilize a baseline read or assessment of one’s experience of an emotional pain response
- List at least 2 theories supporting this newer brain-based psychotherapy approach.
- Explain the advantage of calm-optimal nervous system for both well-being and
neuroplastic change - Demonstrate the use of Poly-vagal theory in developing connection in brain-changing
conversations. - Use a Play the Brain for Change experiential exercise that involves the vagus nerve
being activated. - Describe both Emotional Intelligence and regulation abilities of the TOP brain
- Demonstrate how to position clients to connect with, engage and play BOTTOM
(primitive-emotional) brain - List the 7 core emotion-action systems supported by affective neuroscience research.
- Assess the enhanced interventional power and flexibility of working with the whole brain-
Top-Down, Bottom-Up and everything in middle in psychotherapy sessions - List the key elements of the EPI® session note template that can bring ease to your
brain-based charting. - Explain the MIDDLE Brain Default-Mode Network’s propensity for causing stuck-ness
and emotional pain. - Discuss how use of the EPI® guideline better positions you to reach, engage, play,
intervene and change the whole brain and transform lives. - Identify how key interventions retooled from a variety of evidence-based
psychotherapies can be used to focus a session on being intentionally brain changing
with use of conditioning, deconditioning and reconditioning. - Describe a 3 phase-oriented approach to treatment of trauma and explain its relevance
to brain-based treatment. - Recite the steps outlined for neuroplastic reset to rewire with the EPI® TUNE steps
- Use EPI® TUNE steps to show a client how to reset after being emotionally triggered.
- Apply the EPI® system to treat Anxiety Spectrum Disorders such as Panic Disorder,
Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety, Phobias, and Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder(OCD) - Apply the EPI® system to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
- Discuss the role that the memory system has on emotional pain and PTSD responses.
- Demonstrate how to reactivate a memory of an event to assess the current emotional
pain response prior to reprocessing. - List the 5 Neuroscience RETUNE key steps for intervention on trauma-memories, and
core implicit/self-limiting beliefs. - Discuss how memories can be targeted, reprocessed and updated using memory
reconsolidation keys for brain-change. - Prepare a client for a memory reprocessing session.
- Design a reprocessing of memory intervention that incorporates the RETUNE steps.
- Demonstrate how other therapies can be used with the EPI® RETUNE intervention to
reprocess memories in keeping with therapeutic memory reconsolidation
recommendations. - Identify how the neuro-effective, whole brain playing and enhancing integration tools and
strategies of EPI® can boost both your interventional confidence in sessions
Earn a certificate in Applied Clinical Neuroscience by completing this online, self-paced course.
Full Tuition ($2997)
You will have the course available in an organized library so you don’t have to worry that you’ll miss the training and so you have to cancel, take your time use the resources. By special request email dremichas@gmail. MindWorks Psychology, LLC will do everything possible to ensure participant satisfaction, Dr. Elizabeth Michas’ liability is limited to the tuition fee.
MindWorks Psychology, LLC seeks to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Please submit a written grievance to: Elizabeth Michas, dremichas@gmail.com, and 850-862-3141. Grievances would receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems.
MindWorks Psychology, LLC training facilities are online for this training thus handicap accessible. Individuals needing special accommodations, please contact: Elizabeth Michas, dremichas@gmail.com, and 850-862-3141.