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The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy

Enroll in the Online Self-Study course and complete it at your own pace.
2 CE hours available for behavioral health clinicians upon completion.

When trauma, anxiety, and depression take root, they don’t just live in the mind—they reshape the brain itself. For clinicians, the stakes are high: without understanding these changes, therapy risks missing its mark, leaving clients stuck in cycles of fear, shame, and disconnection.

The good news is that neuroscience now offers a roadmap. This course invites you to explore brain-based strategies that empower you to meet clients where their pain lives—in both body and mind—and guide them toward genuine recovery.

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Dr. Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D., a neuroscientist-turned-clinical psychologist and internationally recognized trauma expert, brings decades of research and clinical practice to this training. A #1 best-selling author and developer of Neural Desensitization and Integration Training (NDIT), Dr. Sweeton has taught more than 15,000 clinicians worldwide to apply neuroscience in psychotherapy.

Her approach in this course blends clarity and accessibility: you don’t need to be a neuroscientist to apply these insights. Through practical explanations, brain-based frameworks, and step-by-step techniques, you’ll see how to translate cutting-edge science into tools that work with your clients immediately.

Topics include brain regions most impacted by trauma, anxiety, and depression (amygdala, hippocampus, insula, cingulate, and prefrontal cortex), how psychotherapy activates change at the neurological level, why bottom-up, top-down, and horizontal interventions matter, and how the therapeutic alliance itself is grounded in neurobiology. You’ll also learn specific practices—from relaxation training and grounding skills to cognitive restructuring and exposure therapy—that directly target brain health.

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Instructor

Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D., originally trained as a neuroscientist, Dr. Jennifer Sweeton is a clinical and forensic psychologist, Amazon #1 best-selling author in clinical psychology, and internationally-recognized expert on trauma and the neuroscience of mental health. She is the author of the Trauma Treatment Toolbox (PESI Publishing), Train Your Brain Card Deck (PESI Publishing and Media), Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and Illness (W. W. Norton & Company), and the forthcoming Traumatic Stress Recovery Workbook (New Harbinger Publications, Inc).

Dr. Sweeton completed her doctoral training at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, and the National Center for PTSD.

Read more about Dr. Sweeton here.

Key Takeaways:

  • Trauma Treatment Roadmap: Understand and apply the five-step framework that guides evidence-informed trauma care.

  • Brain Alterations Demystified: Recognize how trauma, anxiety, and depression disrupt brain functioning—and how these disruptions manifest in clients’ lives.

  • Brain-Changing Techniques: Gain practical interventions you can immediately integrate to help clients regulate, recover, and rebuild.

Why this course?

  • Neuroscience made practical: Complex brain science is distilled into straightforward, clinically useful insights.

  • Taught by a global trauma authority: Learn directly from Dr. Sweeton, one of today’s most respected voices at the intersection of neuroscience and psychotherapy.

  • Elevate your clinical impact: Equip yourself with tools that go beyond symptom management, helping clients achieve lasting brain and body change.

Learning Objectives:

  • State the five steps of the Trauma Treatment Roadmap.

  • Describe brain alterations that occur from anxiety, trauma, and depression.

  • Practice brain-changing techniques that can help clients recover from anxiety, depression, and trauma.

Every therapeutic encounter is an opportunity to help clients rewire their brains toward health and resilience. By understanding how the brain responds to suffering—and how it heals—you’ll expand your capacity to deliver transformative care.

Enroll today in The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy and discover how brain-based strategies can change not only your practice, but also the lives of the people you serve.

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists of 2 hours of video instruction and a post-test.

Enroll in the 2 CE Online Self-Study for $45

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Availability: From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.

Who Should Attend: This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to attend: Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.

This program was recorded on April 28, 2023.

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