Neuroscience
Introducing Our New Neuroscience Training Series
In partnership with yourceus.com | Certification through CCALP.org
We’re thrilled to announce our newest professional development opportunity:
“Transforming Psychotherapy: Bridging Neuroscience to Clinical Practice” — a 12-part training series designed to bring cutting-edge neuroscience into the hands of today’s clinicians.
Why a program in Neuroscience is Important?
Would you expect any member of the public to be content to seek out the services of a physician whose knowledge was 20-30 years behind advances in medical science? Or to seek out the services of an attorney who was not current with the previous 20-30 years of legal advances and changes? People in these professions are held to a very high standard with regard to emerging areas of knowledge and practice.
Yet, many if not most master’s level clinical professionals are woefully behind where the science of mental health has gone over the past 20-30 years, oftentimes now even knowing what important areas of knowledge and skills are missing from their armamentarium. The field has moved forward in profound and important ways, and for members of the mental health professions to retain their reputation as effective practitioners this gap must be closed.
Recently, a group of approximately 1000 mental health professionals – almost all of them psychologists - was surveyed as to whether neuroscience should be considered an essential knowledge base for mental health professionals. Almost 70% agreed that it is; 1% said no. This suggests the future of the field of mental health and master’s level clinicians should be part of that future.
Earn a New Certification:
The Certified Neuroscience-Informed Clinical Professional (CNICP) Certification
To provide the clinical professional with another reason to engage in this substantial upgrade to their knowledge base and skill set, yourceus.com and LPCA have agreed to develop a certification process that will lead to the presentation of the CNICP certification. This will offer a marketing advantage to any clinical professional who completes the course curriculum and successfully passes the CNICP post-test.
Designed for 21st-century clinicians who refuse to fall behind.
This groundbreaking training series delivers the most essential and up-to-date findings in neuroscience—translated into practical, real-world strategies you can use immediately in therapy. From affect regulation to trauma-informed care, the science is here—and it’s time to integrate it.
Why is this so important now? Because staying current is not just best practice—it’s an ethical obligation. According to the NASW Code of Ethics (4.01b), the AAMFT Code of Ethics (3.1), and the ACA Code of Ethics (C.2.f), licensed mental health professionals must remain informed of emerging knowledge relevant to clinical work. Neuroscience is now at the forefront of that evolution.
Unfortunately, most master’s level clinicians have never been fully introduced to the foundational concepts of affective neuroscience. Critical insights into how the brain processes emotion, trauma, learning, and memory are often missing from even the most seasoned clinicians’ toolkits. This series is designed to change that.
Without this knowledge, clinicians risk more than just missed opportunities for better outcomes—they risk falling behind the science that is rapidly reshaping our profession’s future. This gap not only impacts treatment quality but undermines the professional authority that drives advocacy, credibility, and client trust.
This series follows the structure of successful, in-depth training programs that set the benchmark for clinical education. Just as comprehensive diagnostic trainings helped raise the standard of care in Georgia, this neuroscience series is designed with the same level of depth, clarity, and clinical utility.
You’ll receive:
✔ Thorough explanations of emerging neuroscience, broken into digestible modules
✔ Practical examples of how to apply concepts to therapy
✔ Extensive handouts and references for long-term use
✔ Clear links between neuroscience and widely used therapeutic models
You won’t just learn the science—you’ll learn how to apply it across a range of clinical issues.
We know neuroscience can seem overwhelming. This series is crafted to meet you where you are—with approachable language, a logical progression of topics, and a strong emphasis on clinical application.
It begins by addressing the why—your ethical responsibility to remain current—and gradually builds your confidence and mastery. Whether you’re a newer clinician or a seasoned supervisor, you’ll leave each session with tools you can immediately put into practice.
By the end of the full series, you’ll be able to:
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Confidently discuss and apply foundational neuroscience concepts in therapy
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Understand why certain treatment approaches (e.g., CBT, trauma-focused care) work for some clients but not others
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Adapt your methods using brain-based principles to improve outcomes
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Use neuroscience language in psychoeducation to strengthen rapport and engagement
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Expand your crystallized intelligence, boosting your clinical intuition and decision-making
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Strengthen your sapiential authority—your ability to lead through knowledge and insight
Detailed Overview of Each Module and Registration:
Module 1: The Practitioner’s Dilemma: Navigating Neuroscience and Ethics
Dates: September 12 or September 13
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Duration: 5 hours
This 3-hour ethics program will provide: important information about how to integrate emerging neuroscience into clinical practice in an ethically compliant manner. We will clarify the ethical responsibilities of clinicians to remain current with emerging science in our field based upon guidelines from the codes of ethics, explore the boundaries of those responsibilities given the explosion of information emerging at present, how to ethically extend evidence-based approaches using emerging neuroscience, how to use neuroscience to avoid applying techniques and approaches not supported by emerging research, and the ethics of marketing yourself as a neuroscience-informed clinician.
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Module 2: The Neuroscience Roadmap: Guiding Principles for Clinical Application
Dates: October 10 or October 11 Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Duration: 6 hours (Core or Supervisory)
This four-hour core clinical program will provide important information in a systematic, readily understandable and easily digestible way about how to integrate emerging neuroscience into clinical practice in a clinically appropriate and ethically compliant manner. We will uncover and explore the foundational knowledge base of emerging affective neuroscience that is fundamentally reshaping the field of mental health practice and changing what is considered best practices in the 21st Century. This program is essential knowledge both for supervisors looking to help their supervisees remain current with emerging knowledge and skills and for clinicians looking to expand their knowledge base and skill set with recent advances in the field.
This new information will not overwrite or negate the approaches and techniques you are already using effectively in your clinical work, but will rather expand and enhance your effectiveness with a deeper understanding about what works and why it works – while also providing new treatment options based upon newer science.
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Module 3: Neuroscience Pathways to Healing: Cutting Edge Interventions for Anxiety Disorders
Dates: November 14 or November 15 Time: 1:00 PM – 4:15 PM Duration: 3 hours
Research has consistently shown that anxiety is the most common of all symptoms presented in mental health treatment. This three-hour core clinical program will provide important information about how to integrate emerging neuroscience concerned with anxiety and anxiety disorders into your clinical practice in a clinically appropriate and ethically compliant manner. Designed to bring the 21st Century clinician up to date on current research related to advances in our understanding of anxiety-related disorders - etiology, assessment and treatment - this course will provide practical tools and approaches to assist the clinician in providing more effective treatment for clients addressing anxiety and anxiety disorders.
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Module 4: A Neuroscience-Informed Use Of Self In The Therapeutic Relationship
Dates: December 12 or December 13 Time: 1:00 PM – 4:15 PM Duration: 3 hours
Current research indicates the most important factor in positive clinical outcomes for clients is the characteristics of the clinician themselves, rather than treatment modality used. This 3-hour program will provide to attendees the most current research in neuroscience to update and expand long-held and relied upon theories about how to develop and optimize the use of the self in treatment for optimal treatment outcomes, to include self-management and self-regulation in practice.
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Module 5: Unlocking the Default Mode Network
Dates: January 9 or January 10 Time: 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM Duration: 4 hours
The Default Mode Network (DMN) is one of the most important recent discoveries in affective neuroscience. As an important meta-system, it is a key player in functions related to the self and social cognition, memory processing, future thinking, and creative solution generation. Malfunctioning of this system and its interactions with two other key neurological systems contributes significantly with numerous psychological problems. This four-hour core clinical program will provide important foundational knowledge about the DMN in a systematic, readily understandable and easily digestible way and will help each attendee integrate emerging knowledge about the DMN into your clinical practice in a clinically appropriate and ethically compliant manner. In addition to bringing the clinician up to speed with this key area of knowledge, this course will provide practical tools and approaches to assist the clinician in providing more effective treatment for clients who present with an expansive number of symptoms and disorders.
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Module 6: Neuroscience Pathways to Healing: Cutting Edge Interventions for PTSD
Dates: February 13 or February 14 Time: 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM Duration: 4 hours
This four-hour core clinical program will provide important information in a systematic, readily understandable and easily digestible way about how to integrate emerging neuroscience related to trauma and PTSD into your clinical practice in a clinically appropriate and ethically compliant manner. Designed to bring the 21st Century clinician up to date on current research related to advances in our understanding of trauma related disorders: etiology, assessment and treatment, this course will provide practical tools and approaches to assist the clinician in providing more effective treatment for clients affected by acute and chronic trauma.
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Module 7: The Spectrum of Feeling; Emotional Granularity in Neuroscience-Informed Therapy
Dates: March 13 or March 14 Time: 1:00 PM – 4:15 PM Duration: 3 hours
Recent research indicates that emotional granularity – the ability to use our emotional equipment in a precise and granular way - is essential for mental well-being, emotional resilience and effective utilization of interpersonal effectiveness skills. Building upon the work of Lisa Feldman Barrett and Leonid Perlovsky, this 3-hour program is designed to bring the 21st Century clinician up to date on current research related to emotional granularity and its role in emotional development and successful functioning. This program will address the implications of emotional granularity for best practices in clinical work, psychoeducation, and parenting education, and will provide practical tools and approaches to transfer the key knowledge base to clients in a readily applicable way and to address motivational complexities and resistances to change.
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Module 8: Speaking to the Brain: Neuroscience-Informed Communication Skills
Dates: April 10 or April 11 Time: 1:00 PM – 4:15 PM Duration: 3 hours
Presenting a one-day, three-hour training to bring the 21st Century clinician up to date on current research related to advances in our understanding of communication and learning theory, affective neuroscience and implications for the capacity to generate more powerful communications with clients. This course will provide practical tools and approaches to transfer the key knowledge base for communicating with clients in a readily applicable way and to address motivational complexities and resistances to change.
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Module 9: Neuroscience Pathways to Healing: Cutting Edge Interventions for Depressive Disorders
Dates: May 8 or May 9 Time: 1:00 PM – 4:15 PM Duration: 3 hours
This three-hour core clinical program will provide important information about how to integrate emerging neuroscience concerned with depression and depressive disorders into your clinical practice in a clinically appropriate and ethically compliant manner. Designed to bring the 21st Century clinician up to date on current research related to advances in our understanding of depression-related disorders - etiology, assessment and treatment - this course will provide practical tools and approaches to assist the clinician in providing more effective treatment for clients addressing anxiety and anxiety disorders.
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Module 10: The Clinician’s Guide to Neuroscience-Informed Case Conceptualization
Dates: June 12 or June 13 Time: 1:00 PM – 4:15 PM Duration: 3 hours
This 3-hour program four will address a model of case conceptualization designed to better integrate the emerging field of affective neuroscience into the design of a comprehensive treatment approach for a wide range of clinical issues. Beginning with Ronald Heifetz's description of adaptive work, this program will serve as a targeted integrative tool for practical application of 21st Century neuroscience into direct clinical work. This work will enhance the clinician’s ability to form a more complete picture of a clinical case so that approaches and techniques may be applied more effectively. This course will provide practical tools to assist the clinician in structuring conceptualization of the case.
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Module 11: Neuroscience Pathways to Healing: Cutting Edge Interventions for Substance Use Disorders
Dates: July 10 or July 11 Time: 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM Duration: 4 hours
This four-hour core clinical program will provide important information about how to integrate emerging neuroscience with the knowledge base for substance abuse and with treatment for substance abuse disorders. Designed to bring the 21st Century clinician up to date on current research related to advances in our understanding of substance use disorders - etiology, assessment and treatment - this course will provide practical tools and approaches to assist the clinician in providing more effective treatment for clients.
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Module 12: Review and Integration of Neuroscience Material and Preparation for Certification Post-test
Dates: August 14 or August 15 Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Duration: 6 hours
This six-hour core clinical program will serve as a review of important concepts from the neuroscience certification programs presented to date and as an opportunity to engage in preparation for the post-test for the neuroscience certification process.
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