FALL CONTINUING EDUCATION 2025

The Stories We Tell Ourselves December 19, 2025

“I just can’t stop thinking about it.”

How many times have you heard a client say this?

They replay the same memory, rehash the same pain, or circle endlessly around their shame. Their story feels cemented and no matter how much insight they gain, they can’t seem to shift it.

As therapists, we know trauma, anxiety, and deeply entrenched beliefs are not just “stories” clients tell, they are lived emotional truths encoded in the nervous system. Helping clients move beyond these stuck narratives isn’t about logic or reassurance. It’s about rewiring the story at its roots.

A Workshop Designed for Therapists Who Want to Go Deeper

In The Stories We Tell Ourselves, you’ll learn how to guide clients toward lasting narrative shifts by integrating:

✅ Narrative Therapy techniques that help clients re-author their inner scripts.

✅ Memory reconsolidation strategies, rooted in neuroscience, to unlock the brain’s natural capacity for transformation.

✅ IFS (Internal Family Systems) and EMDR-informed methods to help clients safely revisit and reprocess the emotional charge behind their stories.

Through live triad practice, you won’t just learn these skills—you’ll feel them. You’ll experience firsthand how it feels to rewrite a personal narrative and witness the power of memory reconsolidation in real time.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Identify how self-talk and inner narratives are formed through early memory encoding.
Explain how memory reconsolidation opens the door for lasting therapeutic change.
Demonstrate at least three practical interventions to help clients re-script maladaptive narratives.

Why This Matters

When clients shift their story, they shift their identity.

You’ll leave this workshop not only with powerful interventions, but also with a felt sense of what it means to truly transform a stuck narrative so you can bring that experience back to your clients.

This is more than a training. It’s a chance to:

✨ Break free from purely cognitive approaches.

✨ Witness the healing potential of experiential techniques.

✨ Deepen your confidence in working with shame, trauma, and entrenched self-criticism.

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Workshop Details

3 Continuing Education hours

Zoom- Live Online Experiential Workshop

$64 for students, teachers, and non-profit employees (Use Coupon Code: EDU-CE)
$79 General Registration

Learning Objectives

Our inner narratives shape how we move through the world. In this introspective workshop, we’ll explore how clients’ self-talk, inner critics, and core beliefs are formed and how to help them change. Grounded in neuroscience and memory reconsolidation theory, we’ll practice techniques that invite clients to re-script the stories that no longer serve them. Ideal for clinicians working with shame, anxiety, or trauma.

Identify how self-talk and inner narrative patterns are formed through early life experiences and memory encoding.
Describe the process of memory reconsolidation and its role in therapeutic change.
Demonstrate at least two interventions to help clients rewrite maladaptive internal narratives.

Qualifications to register for this program

Registrants of this program must be qualified mental health professionals or students of a graduate mental health program.
Formal training in IFS or EMDR is not required.

Program Presenter

Antoinette Martinez, M.Ed. is a bilingual (Spanish) Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (Texas License #71350) who has experience working with children, teens, and adults. She is a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor through the Association for Play Therapy, a Certified EMDR therapist and consultant through EMDRIA, and a Certified Perinatal Mental Health Therapist through Postpartum Support International. Antoinette Martinez has been integrating EMDR with Play Therapy since 2013.

Cancellation & Refund Policy

No refunds after the start of the program.
Cancellation received at least 14 days prior to a scheduled training will be refunded minus a $25.00 administrative fee.
Cancellation received less than 14 days prior to a scheduled training will receive no refund but may be used for credit towards a future training of equal or lesser value.
No refund provided for no-shows or missed training.
You may transfer your registration to another attendee for no fee, so long as that person meets the qualifications to attend this program.
Attendance of full program is required.
All programs are subject to sufficient registration.
Should Nourish Play Therapy LLC need to cancel this program, we will make every attempt to notify paid registrants in a timely manner. All paid registrants will receive a full refund if a program is canceled.
Nourish Play Therapy LLC is only responsible for the registration costs of training. Any additional costs are the responsibility of the registrant.
No exceptions will be made to these policies.
Please submit your request via email to info@nourishplaytherapy.comto cancel or transfer your registration to another attendee. Please write "Program Cancel ( or Transfer)" in the subject line of the email.

Important Details

ADA Accommodations: The program site is ADA compliant. Please contact Antoinette Martinez at info@nourishplaytherapy.com if special accommodations are required. Please write "Program Accommodation" in the subject line of the email.

Customer Service: We are happy to respond to any concerns or questions you may have. Please contact Antoinette Martinez at info@nourishplaytherapy.com. Please write "Program Service" in the subject line of the email.

Grievance Policy: Nourish Play Therapy LLC is fully committed to complying with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content, and in the treatment of attendees. While we go to great lengths to assure fair treatment for all and attempt to anticipate problems, we recognize that complaints will arise. When problems do present themselves, we will attempt to alleviate complaints as quickly as possible. Complaints relative to a speaker, contents of instructional materials being presented, an individual educational style being utilized, or facilities where training is held should be addressed with Antoinette Martinez, who will attempt to resolve the matter as expeditiously as possible. Please contact Antoinette Martinez at info@nourishplaytherapy.com. Please write "Program Grievance" in the subject line of the email.

Disclosures: Antoinette Martinez is the owner and operator of Nourish Play Therapy LLC. Neither she nor Nourish Play Therapy LLC are receiving commercial support or sponsorships from outside sources for this program. There are no known conflicts of interest with this programming.

Audio/Video Disclosure: This training program is not being audio or video recorded.

Provider Responsibility: Nourish Play Therapy maintains responsibility for this program and its contents in accordance with APT and EMDRIA requirements.