Heart Assisted Therapy Basic Clinical Skills Workshop
Presented by Creator John Diepold, Jr, PhD
Assisted by Kathy Milano, PhD
June 22 & 23, 2024
Saturday & Sunday, 8:30am – 5:30pm
$425* includes HAT book
*Plus pay pal fee of $15.32
Soul Sanctuary
110 Marter Avenue, Suite 206
Moorestown NJ
Local hotels available
Heart Assisted Therapy® (HAT®) is a unified mind-body-energy approach to psychotherapy created by psychologist John H. Diepold, Jr., Ph.D.
A hybrid of traditional psychotherapy with energy psychology approaches, Heart Assisted Therapy incorporates the use of heart influence, thinking, emotion, sensation, intention, mindfulness, respiration, and a stabilizing breathing treatment while overlapping hands are placed over the heart (“heart breaths”). HAT’s psychotherapy model utilizes “Awareness Streaming” in concert with the body’s electro-physiology and respiration to facilitate healing and stabilizing shifts in emotion, sensation, cognition, and behavior. Heart Assisted Therapy may be integrated within therapy sessions in many clinical settings.
HAT is designed to complement a clinician’s existing skills and orientation as a psychotherapist.
It is a gentle, self-nurturing, humanistic approach that is easy to engage for both clinician and client. The HAT protocol is designed to maximize therapeutic skills in listening, observing, and planning while integrating procedures that enable the opportunity for the individual to be validated, and to heal, shift emotions and thinking, adapt, and move forward in life. HAT has been used to successfully treat a wide variety of psychological conditions including trauma/PTSD, anxiety/phobia, depression, loss/grieving, self-perception and self-regulation issues, anger/stress management, and pain management. Use with sport and performance enhancement has also been beneficial.
The Basic Clinical Skills Workshop
Requirement: licensed psychologist or licensed clinical social worker
The two-day Basic Clinical Skills workshop provides the fundamental “basics” to using Heart Assisted Therapy in clinical practice. Through lecture, discussion, demonstrations, and practice opportunities the participants learn to successfully experience and use the HAT protocol. Some of the content covered includes the history and development of the HAT model, the melding of traditional psychological orientations with the science of heart energy and our electromagnetic mind-body connection, the therapeutic stance of the therapist, the “Four Guiding Principles” used to guide the therapist, and the “Heart-breath” treatment procedure. Using the Basic protocol will enable the therapist to address symptoms and conditions involving anxiety, stress, anger, depression, grief and loss, and traumatic experiences.
Signed certificate of completion and possible CEUs available.
The Basic Clinical Skills workshop and 4 months of clinical application is required for participation in HAT’s Advanced Applications Workshop
Please note for those interested that the Advanced workshop is open only to licensed clinicians who have taken the Basic Clinical Skills workshop and have had at least 4 months of clinical experience using HAT.
Heart Assisted Therapy is the original work of Dr. Diepold, Jr.
The HAT model evolved from over 30 years of learning and experience as a psychologist in clinical practice. The first 15 years involved learning and use of the more traditional psychotherapy approaches (e.g., psychoanalytic, Roger’s client-centered, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, Ericksonian hypnosis) and the last 15+ years studying and integrating use of recent innovative and intriguing approaches (e.g., EMDR, Thought Field Therapy, HeartMath, mindfulness, somatic approaches, and various meridian and chakra assisted methods). You can learn more at heartassistedtherapy.net
I’ve trained with Dr. Diepold since the inception of Heart Assisted Therapy.
Both John and I have received the Diplomate in Comprehensive Energy Psychology (DCEP) from the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) and are frequent presenters at international conferences. Both use Heart Assisted Therapy (Awareness Streaming) as a major psychotherapeutic intervention in private practice. Feel free to email me with questions: docmilano@kathymilano.com