Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
2025-08-19, 2025-08-26, 2025-09-02, 2025-09-09, 2025-09-16, 2025-09-23, 2025-09-30, 2025-10-07 and 15 more dates | The Healing Portal, 3820 S Palo Verde Rd #110, Tucson, AZ, United States
I am very excited to be offering an in-person Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) class. This is the classic, evidence-based 8-week program. I am an Arizona licensed psychotherapist qualified to teach mindfulness classes through one of the major mindfulness training centers in the country, the University of California at San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The class will run on Tuesdays, June 17th– August 5th, 6 pm-8 pm. Cost is $395. Insurance not accepted. Payment via Paypal, Venmo, Zelle, cash or check. Space is limited to 12 people. A 25% discount for any therapists who wisht to enroll.
This class is appropriate for:
***Individuals who do not currently qualify as clinically depressed but have suffered from multiple depressive episodes
***Individuals who are currently undergoing therapy for depression and wish to learn skills that have proven to be useful in preventing relapses
***Individuals who have not achieved satisfactory results with other treatments
There is a required pre-class interview by Zoom.
MBCT was developed by psychologists Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, and John Teasdale. It builds on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which emphasizes mindfulness meditation to manage stress. The core idea behind MBCT is to teach individuals a new way of relating to their thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations. The approach helps break the cycle of automatic, negative thought patternsthat often contribute to depression and anxiety.

SAZ Meet & Greet
2025-09-19 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Phoenix) | Aloft Tucson University, 1900 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ, 85719, United States
Please RSVP and mark your calendars for an evening of fun with your colleagues.
Come talk, laugh, network, and enjoy being part of this community of professional healthcare providers!
This lovely evening is being sponsored by:
No one yet… learn about becoming a sponsor here.
This SAZ meet & greet is also an opportunity for you to put faces to the names of the people who have been asking questions, giving referrals, and providing information for and with you through this listserv.
Bring any promotional materials about your work that you’d like to share on our networking table.
We’ll be meeting for a casual reception in the lobby of the ALoft Hotel. We will be providing tasty appetizers and there will be a no-host bar available for anything you’d care to drink.
Come join us!

Ethical & Legal Considerations of Working with Children & Families
2025-09-27 09:00 - 12:00 | Intuition Wellness Center, 3131 N Country Club Rd, Suite 207, Tucson, 85716, United States
Welcome!
Come join us at Intuition Wellness Center on September 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM for this 3.0 CE event. The ethical and legal landscape of working with children, adolescents, and families can be complex and demanding. This program is designed to help you confidently navigate those challenges. You’ll learn how to apply ethical standards in real-world scenarios, recognize and respond to legal requirements relevant to your work, and utilize a practical four-step ethical decision-making model to assess and mitigate risk. With effective risk management strategies in place, you’ll be better equipped to protect your practice from board complaints and ensure the highest standard of care for your clients.
Register Here
Educational Objectives
After attending this intermediate level program in full, participants will be able to:

Understand and explain how ethical standards apply to working with children and adolescents and families.
Identify laws that pertain to behavioral health providers working with children and adolescents and families.
Learn to evaluate and mitigate risk using the four steps using an ethical decision making model.

Presenter
Dr. Yoendry Torres, Psy.D., is a bilingual clinical psychologist with a passion for helping behavioral health professionals grow their practices ethically and successfully. In addition to serving as the Director of Behavioral Health for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, he is the co-founder and HIPAA Privacy Officer of Intuition Wellness Center. With advanced training in family systems, Dr. Torres brings a wealth of experience to his work, offering clinical supervision and group consultations on ethics, business, and marketing for private practitioners.

Participants
This workshop is open to all psychologists and mental health professionals interested in learning more about the ethical and legal standards for working with children, adolescents, and families. This program is intended for those with an intermediate level of knowledge and experience.
Continuing Education
This program is available for three (3) continuing education credits. Participants must attend 100% of the lecture. Upon completion of a program evaluation form, a certificate will be issued. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Intuition Wellness Center, PLLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Intuition Wellness Center, PLLC maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Intuition Wellness Center, PLLC is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in continuing education activities and will conduct all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. If participants have special needs, reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate them. Please contact Gina Babunovic at 520-333-3320 with questions, concerns or to request special accommodations. There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE Sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants, or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest.
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Somatic Dance Reboot: Staying Real and Well as we Address Suffering
2025-10-08 08:00 - 17:00 | AZ
Join me for a two-afternoon, urban “retreat” to practice engaging with your body and the world in ways that often get overlooked or shut down in everyday life. All bodies & abilities are welcome!
Expressive movement creates an invitation for emotion to find a channel without overwhelming us. This workshop will weave the power of dance movement therapy with mindfulness and loving kindness practices from Buddhist traditions. Expressive movement and other art-making, particularly in a group context, help us process our experiences as we address suffering — both in our own minds and in the world.
Tucson: Saturday, Oct 18th 1:00 p.m – 5:00 p.m. & Sunday, Oct 19th, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
* Generosity Rate: $200 – Choose this rate if you’d like to support others’ participation. You’re comfortable.
* Standard Rate: $140 – Choose this rate if you’re sustaining yourself pretty well.
* Supported Rate: $80 – Choose this rate, offered with trust, if it helps you participate. You’re struggling.
*** Whatever our altruistic, spiritual, or professional path, today’s world presents particular challenges to staying both engaged and well in our aim to reduce suffering. Our brains and bodies — with virtually the same “hardware” as we had when we were hunting, gathering, and living in small tribes — are not built to respond to constant, often graphic exposure to extreme suffering, often in distant places. What can we do? ***
Fortunately, we can learn to work with our minds and befriend our feeling, receptive and expressive bodies in ways that keep us healthy and responsive … or, response-able. Expressive movement creates a channel for emotion, so we can sequence it (versus “stuff it” or “numb it”). It doesn’t have to overwhelm us. Through somatic movement, we can reconnect with aliveness, energized states, and a full range of emotions.
This urban retreat will weave mindfulness with movement and art to help us cultivate integration and resilience. Together, we’ll explore the connection between embodied movement, emotional wellness, and the possibility of spiritual development.
Please register at https://www.tucsonsomaticpsychotherapy.com/event/dancing-the-dharma-staying-real-healthy-as-we-engage-with-suffering/ with both a brief description of your interest and a deposit of $80. I look forward to moving with you!

Yes, And! Using Improvisational Comedy and Expressive Arts for Healing
2025-10-24 08:30 - 11:00 | Westward Look, 245 E Ina Rd, Tucson, AZ, 85704, United States
How does improvisational comedy help with the healing process? Improv exercises and games connect with core therapeutic principles, such as unconditional positive regard, mindfulness, and acceptance. They also build community and the capacity for social engagement, which can be important to recovery in group therapy and a residential treatment setting.
At Sierra Tucson, Dr. Danvers has been leading an “Improv for Healing” class among trauma patients for over two years. This talk presents science and theory behind the use of improv for healing, and connects it with other artistic and expressive modalities. Modalities such as expressive writing, art therapy, and psychodrama share an emphasis on embodiment and sensory engagement, symbolic expression, and making meaning. We will discuss how these principles helps with healing, and provide several easy-to-implement improv exercises for use in a therapeutic context.

Learning Objectives

Learn about evidence for the therapeutic properties of improv and related artistic modalities.
Understand the way tenets of improvisational performance match therapeutic principles.
Identify trauma-informed principles for implementing expressive arts in therapy.

Presenter Bio:
Alexander Danvers, Ph.D., is a psychologist with expertise in mobile sensing, machine learning, and psychophysiology. At Sierra Tucson, Dr. Danvers oversees the Measurement-Based Care and Applied Neuroscience programs. His work on Measurement-Based Care involves providing customized reports on patient functioning to residents and treatment providers at Sierra Tucson, evaluating outcomes across Sierra Tucson’s various programs, and developing algorithms for predicting key treatment outcomes. Dr. Danvers has been performing improvisational comedy for over 15 years, and has been teaching an “Improv for Healing” class at Sierra Tucson for over two years. He is also passionate about science communication, and has maintained an active blog on new psychology research at Psychology Today since 2018.

Winter Wellness Workshop: Beat Lingering Winter Coughs and Prepare for Spring Allergies and Asthma
2026-01-22 18:15 - 19:30 | AZ
Winter may bring cozy sweaters and hot tea—but it also brings colds, coughs, and congestion.
Join Dr. Kate Sage, Naturopathic Family Physician, on Thursday, January 22, for an evening designed especially for caregivers who want to support their families naturally to overcome lingering winter coughs and ward off spring-time allergy and asthma aggravations. As part of Dr. Sage’s Four Season’s of Health series, this workshop is all about practical tools, simple strategies, and everyday remedies you can use right away to help your family thrive through the rest of winter—and sail smoothly into spring.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to:

Build strong immune defenses and recover more quickly from winter’s lingering bugs
Get your body ready for allergy season so spring doesn’t hit so hard
Make your home a safe haven during allergy season
Know which natural remedies actually work for allergy symptoms
Support kids with asthma—when natural treatments help, and when medication is needed

You’ll leave with your own personalized Winter Wellness Plan to help your family stay healthy, resilient, and ready for spring.
Reserve your space here

One night only. Limited to 20 participants. No refunds given.

PHX Meet & Greet
2026-02-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Transitions Counseling & Consulting, 2025 N 3rd St #200, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, United States
Please RSVP and mark your calendars for an evening of fun with your colleagues.
Come talk, laugh, network, and enjoy being part of this community of professional healthcare providers!
This lovely evening is being sponsored by:

This PHX meet & greet is also an opportunity for you to put faces to the names of the people who have been asking questions, giving referrals, and providing information for and with you through this listserv.
Bring any promotional materials about your work that you’d like to share on our networking table.
We’ll be meeting for a casual reception Transitions Counseling & Consulting. We will be providing tasty appetizers.
Come join us!

SAZ Meet & Greet
2026-02-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Aloft Tucson University, 1900 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ, 85719, United States
Please RSVP and mark your calendars for an evening of fun with your colleagues.
Come talk, laugh, network, and enjoy being part of this community of professional healthcare providers!
This lovely evening is being sponsored by:

This SAZ meet & greet is also an opportunity for you to put faces to the names of the people who have been asking questions, giving referrals, and providing information for and with you through this listserv.
Bring any promotional materials about your work that you’d like to share on our networking table.
We’ll be meeting for a casual reception in the lobby of the ALoft Hotel. We will be providing tasty appetizers and there will be a no-host bar available for anything you’d care to drink.
Come join us!
