Dr. Robert Benavides Jr.

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SPECIALIZED TRAINING

AND

CONTINUING EDUCATION

2022

MILTON ERICKSON FOUNDATION

            Art of Psychotherapy

PHILLIP MANFIELD

            Using EMDR with Fragmented Clients, protocol for overcoming fragmentation.

CE CLASSES

            IFS for EMDR therapists

REDWOOD PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

            Overview of Electroconvulsive Therapy

CALIFORNIA PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

            Continuing Professional Education Regulations

CALIFORNIA PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

            DSM-5 TR overview

EMDRIA Conference

            Preparing Dysregulated Clients

            Healing Wounds of Addiction

            IRS informed EMDR

            Treating Gender Dysphoria with EMDR

            Making space to Broach race, Ethnicity, and Culture

            Organizing Disaster Response Teams

            Interconnected into Wholeness of life

            Eating Disorders and Sexual Shame

            EMDR and Complex Trauma

            Culturally based Trauma and Adversity

           

             

2021

SCALING UP

            EMDR Therapy Protocols for Early Intervention and Ongoing Traumatic Stress

ZUR INSTITUTE

            Risk Management: The Suicidal Patient

SCALING UP

            Treating Clients with Early Intervention and Prolonged Adverse Experiences

            Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization Remote Training

PHILIP MANFIELD PhD

            Adverse Memory Reconsolidation, The Flash Technique and EMDR

REDWOOD PSYCHLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

            Anti-Racism to Liberation Psychology

THE MILTON ERICKSON FOUNDATION, INC.

            Art Of Psychotherapy with Dr. Jeffrey Zeig-Trauma

            Art of Psychotherapy with Dr. Jeffrey Zeig- Evocative Communication

CALIFORNIA PSYCHOLOGICA ASSOCIATION

            Risk Management and Vulverabilities:Yours, Mine and Ours

 

2020

SPIRITUAL COMPETENCY RESOURCE CENTER

            Medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder

INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL RESOURCES

            Marijuana, THC & CBD: Essential information for health professionals

INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL RESOURCES

            Marijuana, THC & CBD: Essential information for health professionals

POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR MEDICINE

            Becoming ACEs Aware in California

SONOMA PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING INSTITUTE

            Training in EMDR for professionals

REDWOOD PSYCHOLIGICAL ASSOCIATION

            Anti-Racism therapy: Moving beyond Cultural Competence

RCS-CASSIDY SEMINARS

            Working with the effects of Emotional Abuse, Severe Neglect & Invisibility

 

2019

INSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

            EMDR therapy for anxiety disorders and trauma processing

PHILIP MANFIELD

            Memory Reconsolidation, the Flash Technique in EMDR

PRAXIS

EMDR, transforming trauma, mending attachments, supporting resilience and rewiring the addicted brain

 

SONOMA PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING INSTITUTE

            Basic Training in EMDR Therapy

 

 

2018

CALIFORNIA PSYCHOLIGICAL ASSOCIATION

            Transgender People: exploring diversity and heal service needs

            Translife Professional Symposium

            Skills for Psychological Recovery

CENTER FOR STORY AND SYMBOL

            Law and Ethics IX

CASSIDY SEMINARS

            The Art and Science of Love Couples Workshop

THE MILTON ERICKSON FOUNDATION, INC.

            Long Term Interventions in Brief Therapy

            Being Brief in EMDR

            Brainspotting

            Energy Psychology

            Evocative Approaches to Change

            Asking “how” questions in Brief Therapy

            Healing Traumatic Wounds in Brief Therapy

            Birth Order and Human Behavior

            Solution Focus Therapy with Couples

            Phobias

            Using Hypnosis for Anxiety

            Transforming Belief Barriers

            Trauma in Couples

            Treating Trauma Briefly

            Culturally Sensitive Strategic Strategies

            Neurological Levels of Change in Brief Therapy

            Brief Therapy of Traumatic Dissociative States

            Helping Trauma Survivors

            High-Speed Cognitive Therapy

 

2017

EMDR INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION

            New Frontiers for EMDRIA

            Treatment of Survivors of Complex Childhood Trauma

            Network Balance of Trauma Therapy

            EMDR Therapy with Children with Complex Trauma

            “Talking to the voices” in EMDR Therapy

            Treating Dissociation Systematically

            EMDR in VA Healthcare

CALIFORNIA PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

            When Psychologists call in Attorneys

 

ELITE CONTINUING EDUCATION

            California Psychology Laws and Ethics

CLAIFORNIA PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

            Diversity of Our American Soul

            Geriatric Psychology

            Referrals in Psychology

            Psychedelic Medicine-Assisted Psychotherapy

            Psychiatry and Psychology in dialectical synthesis

            Cognitive Effects of Marijuana use

            Power, Privilege and Race in the 21st Century

            Effecting change in Communities

            Neurology of Habit and Behavior Change

            Strengthening Compassion

            Serving Undocumented Migrant Families

EMDR INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION

            Treating Chronic Pain