Urszula Klich – 2-Day Mindfulness, Compassion & Biofeedback: Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Self-Regulation & Stress Reduction in Clients with PTSD, Anxiety, Chronic Pain & More

Outline

Integrate Biofeedback into Your Practice

• Biofeedback purpose and benefits
• Assess client reactivity
• Efficacy for various mental health conditions
• What happens when clients try to relax
• Stress & it’s relationship to pain
• How biofeedback works
• Choose the right tool for the job
• Usability and portability considerations
• Treatment goals
• Billing & documentation considerations
• Limitations of research & potential risks
• Practice Exercises: Using different biofeedback modalities

Respiration Biofeedback: Step-by-Step

• Meditation & the breath
• Assess dysfunctional breathing
• Symptoms of overbreathing
• Overbreathing & mental health
• Biofeedback modalities for breathing regulation
• Apps for use with respiration biofeedback
• Overcome barriers to improvement
• Practice Exercise: Respiration biofeedback

Thermal Biofeedback: Step-by-Step

• Symptoms of vasoconstriction
• Thermal biofeedback modalities
• Use thermal biofeedback to reduce level of arousal
• Teach clients to regulate temperature
• Integrate autogenic training & thermal biofeedback
• Practice Exercise: Hand temperature

Mindfulness & Compassion: Essential Skills for Use with Biofeedback

• Strategies to improve client engagement
• Promote psychological flexibility and adaptive functioning
• Autogenic training: Step-by-step
• Cognitively-Based compassion training
• Practice Exercise: Mindfulness & compassion

Mindfulness-Based Biofeedback Step-by-Step: Boost Clinical Effectiveness by Combining Mindfulness and Biofeedback

• Integrate physical, cognitive & emotional well-being
• When to use mindfulness-based biofeedback
• Assess client nervous system reactivity
• Biofeedback-driven goals
• ”Activate” the parasympathetic nervous system
• Help clients explore their values
• Take a strengths inventory
• Complementary relaxation techniques
• Utilize the MBB Cognitive Awareness Log
• Biofeedback-assisted body scan
• Barriers to mindfulness-based biofeedback
• Practice Exercises: Mindfulness-based biofeedback techniques

Mindfulness-Based Biofeedback for Skills Development

• Choose the best combination of mindfulness practices & biofeedback modalities
• What to monitor & when
• Take-home worksheet resources
• Help clients transition behaviors into habits
• Relapse or normal fluctuations in learning?
• Client homework: Simple starting points
• Practice Exercises: Use biofeedback for skills development
  • Attention & prevention
  • Distraction
  • Thought management
  • Awareness
  • Problem reconceptualization
  • Tension reduction
  • Self-regulation

Mindfulness-Based Biofeedback in Action: Confidently Tailor for Use with Specific Disorders & Special Clinical Populations

• PTSD
• Anxiety and panic
• Depression
• Chronic & acute pain
• Headaches
• Military
• Couples
• Children