07/22/2026 Didactic

Time: 11:00 am-1:00 pm CT
Outside Study: 2 hours
Didactic Presentation: 1 hour 45 mins
Educator: Melissa Abello

Description: This didactic will address different needs for each group of therapists.

Resident therapists – Imagery Markers

Certified Therapists — will focus on learning how to engage Stage 3 work step 8

Leadership Cohort

Pre-Didactic Materials:

Resident Therapists:

PLEASE READ + WATCH:

• https://train.mycounselor.online/courses/mco-residency-in-neuroscience-informed-christian-counseling/lessons/theories-models-neuroscience-informed-christian-counseling-part-4/topic/active-ingredient-8-imagery/ – Just introduction video (53 Minutes)
• Evocative Imagery Example – 8.1
  • https://app.raenotes.com/meeting/6cb1c508f3694a7588cf3fd271de0341 (Minute: 7:26-9:51)
• Imagery Naming – 8.2
  • https://app.raenotes.com/meeting/7ccc18b622ee4a38b5e89a58841113a3 – (Minute: 17:06-20:01)
• Resource Development – 8.3
  • https://app.raenotes.com/meeting/7da6932bb9b84fb8ac1bc9666c3c1914 (Minute: 40:31 – 43:00)

• First Role play:
  • Role of the Therapist:
    • Perform a first third session using following markers (30 Minutes)
      • 15.4 -Getting Started
      • 15.5 – Task #2 Established Safety + Brain Sync
      • 2.1 –Leadership + Structure
      • 3.1 – 3.5 Markers (Embodied Spirituality)
      • 7.1-7.3 — Welcome Parts, Validate Parts, Reframe Parts
      • 9.1 Notice Feelings
        • Use 9.2 (Heighten Feeling) or 9.3 Deepen feeling
      • 8.1. Evocative Imagery Naming or 8.2 Imagery Naming or 8.3 Resource Development

• Individual Client Presentation 1#: 35 year old female or male who came in for anxiety. The client has an avoidant attachment style.

Second Role Play:

• Role of the Therapist:
  • Same as a listed about

• Individual Client Presentation #2: 45 year old male, who came in because he is feeling really depressed. The client has an anxious attachment style

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Certified Therapists + AP Therapists

Please read and watch:

• EFT – STEP 8
  • Please watch the whole video at the bottom of the page until minute 37

Step 8 +(

• EFT-5-Stage 3- Consolidation.mp4
• Step 3 Identifying Primary Emotions_ Didactic Presentation.pdf

First Role Play:

Role Play #1:

• Therapist Task: Session 5 (30 Minutes)
  • Summarize last step 7
  • Step 8: Facilitating the emergence of new solutions to old, previously unsolvable relationship problems.

• Client Presentation:
  • Cannot seem to get things resolved between them ever. Never talk through anything.
    • Husband complains wife never wants to have sex
    • Wife: complains she feels constantly attacked by husband
  • Husband: Pursuer + Anxiously attached
  • Wife: Withdrawer + Avoidant attachement

Role play #2:

• Therapist Task: Session 5 (30 Minutes)
  • Same As Above except add step 9
  • Step 9: Consolidating new patterns of relating to prevent relapse and build long-term confidence.

• Client Presentation:
  • Wife feels like husband picks work over her all the time and husband feels like wife is ungrateful for him

• Husband: Withdrawer + Disorganized attachment
• Wife: Pursuer: + Anxiously attachment

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Leadership Co hort