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Mast Cells

Stress & Mast Cells (2 credits/clock hours)

Join us for Stress & Mast Cells. Together we’ll examine how stress impacts us physically in our bodies, the role it plays with mast cells and in mast cell activation and explore strategies for managing stress, the stressors in our lives, and mast cell activation reactions that can be brought on by stress.

Environmental Illnesses, Mast Cells, & Long-COVID: A Therapist Guide (3 credits/clock hours)

The years since the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen an increasing number of people of all ages, children through the elderly, with lingering systemic symptoms of brainfog, exhaustion, pain, and more. Research has pointed to mast cell activation in COVID-19 and long-COVID. Together we’ll explore what current research has shown about the long-COVID-mast cell connection and what that may mean for managing symptoms as we support health in challenging times.

Safe Haven (2 credits/clock hours)

We all need a safe haven; a space we can retreat to from the pressures and demands of our lives. The need for a safe haven for people with MCAS and mast cell activation related issues and disorders is vital. Join us! We will explore the realities of “safe haven” in the mast cell world, what it means, what it entails, crucial elements—and why it’s so essential. Add to the tools in your ever-growing toolbox of strategies for care, care planning, and health supports.

Self-Care for the Caregivers (3 credits/clock hours)

The role of the caregiver is huge in the life of the person who needs supports. Being that provider of care, for the caregiver, can often be a positive and profound journey. Yet, too many times care providers put their own needs second. Join us as we share insights into burnout, compassion fatigue, how to recognize their symptoms—and most importantly self-care strategies for your personal and professional toolbox.

Understanding and Administering the Mast Cell Activation Assessment Questionnaire (4 credits/contact hours)

Mast cell activation related issues and disorders may often seem challenging to diagnose as most traditional methods for establishing biomarkers don’t apply and/or aren’t tests of mast cell activation. In this course we will examine the symptoms common to systemic mast cell disorders and their presentation, the importance of The Mast Cell Activation Assessment Questionnaire (a validated tool) in the diagnosing process, why it asks the specific questions it does in the context of biomarkers and mast cell activation related issues and disorders, how to administer, who interprets, and how to best support clients in their understanding of their assessment results, and the next steps these results may indicate for clients in managing their symptoms and health.

Understanding and Administering the Wellness & Environment Assessment (CC-WEA) — (4 credits/clock hours)

The CC-WEA is an assessment specifically designed for clients who have or are suspected of having a MCD (Mast Cell Disorder) and/or a mast cell activation related health issues as an aid in pin-pointing specific reactions and triggers, how they relate to the person’s exposures and environments, and how to use assessment results to best develop support strategies. Join us as we examine the three areas of the assessment, how to score the assessment, and what assessment results may indicate in the context of health, diagnoses, and symptom management.

Dysautonomia & Mast Cells (4 credits/clock hours)

Dysautonomia is an umbrella term used to classify multiple disorders in which the autonomic nervous system isn’t working properly. Together we’ll take a deep dive into the human nervous system — the central nervous system (CNS), peripheral nervous system (PNS), autonomic nervous system (ANS) — and the mast cell connection. We’ll review current functional tests, their applicability and limitations, several specific health conditions and issues that involve mast cell activation, and how understanding mast cell activation processes and the mast cell connection can augment treatment goals and intervention strategies for improved health and wellness and symptom management.

“Psychiatric-Seeming”: When Apparently Psychiatric Symptoms Actually Stem from a Physiological Cause (not Psychological) — (3 credits/clock hours)

Trained mental health professionals have an understanding of certain presentations of symptoms and the types of diagnoses that they may indicate. Psychotherapists are experienced observers through then lens of psychology and, through the lens of psychology, they evaluate, assess, make judgments and determinations. Mast cell activation related issues and disorders, such as Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), have turned these understandings inside-out as therapists are being met with clients whose symptoms, although psychiatric-seeming, are not psychiatric or psychological and are due to physiological reasons. Join us as we examine psychiatric-seeming symptoms and their actual physical not psychological causes with the specific goals of recognizing symptoms, making correct diagnoses using appropriate assessment tools, improved treatment planning, and appropriate interventions for the client with mast cell activation related health issues and health needs.

Vagus Nerves & Mast Cells (3 credits/clock hours)

The role that the vagus nerves play in regulating stress, inflammation, and mast cell activity is crucial. Join us and together we’ll take a close look and examine how the vagus nerves and cranial nerves operate, how they communicate, why they matter, and their impact not only on our body systems and functions, but also on our emotional health. Taking a vagus nerves and cell communication informed approach to managing symptoms (such as anxiety, stress, inflammation, neurological pain, and more) can give us new tools for our toolbox as we learn this particular language of our body and how to “talk” to our cells.

Creative Arts Therapy

Ethics & Creative Arts Facilitating for Therapists (15 credits/clock hours)

This course provides an overview of the ethics and guiding principles for those facilitating creative arts sessions and/or workshops with individuals and groups. Students will examine and review various codes of ethics and guiding principles from various organizations and modalities (e.g., the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA), the World Federation of Music Therapy, the European Federation of Art Therapy.)

Assessments in Creative Arts Therapy (30 credits/clock hours)

Students will explore assessing and creative arts therapy assessments from an intermodal creative arts therapy perspective, and their significance in intake and information gathering, ongoing evaluations, goal setting, treatment planning, and interventions. Assessment tools will be examined with special emphasis given to how assessment tools can be adapted for different populations, identifying authentic creative arts therapy assessment tools, and understanding their clinical applications.

All of our courses, workshops, and webinars are designed and presented by licensed nurses, psychotherapists, and healthcare professionals who have specialized training in mast cell activation related issues and disorders.

Contact us for the current live webinar dates & times. Most of our live webinars are offered monthly. All courses are available with the self-directed, independent study option.

Pricing:
Live Webinar/Workshop $40 (USD)
Self-study $2 per credit hour (USD)

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