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SUMMARY:Working with Iranian Immigrant Women: Understanding Perfectionism and the Immigration Experience
DESCRIPTION:Event Details\n📅 Date: October 15\, 2026 \n🕕 Time: 12:00–1:00 PM (PT) \n💻 Location: Zoom (link provided upon registration) \n  \nWorkshop for Healthcare Professionals\, Educators\, Managers & Community Providers\nWhy This Training? \nIranian immigrant women often navigate a unique intersection of cultural expectations\, perfectionism\, trauma\, and immigration-related experiences that can significantly influence their mental health\, confidence\, relationships\, workplace functioning\, and help-seeking behaviours. While these experiences are not always immediately visible\, understanding them can help professionals provide more culturally responsive and effective support. \nDrawing on her doctoral research exploring the lived experiences of perfectionism among Iranian immigrant women in Canada\, Dr. Yasaman Madanikia shares research findings\, clinical insights\, and practical strategies to help professionals better understand and support this population. \nLearning Outcomes\nParticipants will learn to: \n\nUnderstand how Iranian culture\, family expectations\, and immigration experiences can shape perfectionism.\nRecognize how perfectionism influences mental health\, confidence\, relationships\, workplace functioning\, and the immigration experience.\nIdentify common barriers Iranian immigrant women may experience when seeking employment\, mental health care\, and community support.\nApply practical\, culturally responsive strategies that can be immediately integrated into clinical\, educational\, workplace\, and community settings.\n\nWorkshop Highlights\nThis workshop explores Iranian culture beyond common stereotypes and examines perfectionism through a cultural lens. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how trauma\, identity\, immigration\, family expectations\, and shame can influence the experiences of Iranian immigrant women. Through research findings\, real-world clinical examples\, and practical recommendations\, attendees will leave with greater confidence in providing culturally responsive and compassionate support. \nWho Should Attend?\n\nCounsellors\, Psychologists\, and Social Workers\nPhysicians\, Nurses\, Occupational Therapists\, and Physiotherapists\nCase Managers (including WorkBC\, WorkSafeBC\, and ICBC)\nTeachers\, School Counsellors\, and Educational Professionals\nManagers\, Supervisors\, Human Resource Professionals\, and Workplace Leaders\nSettlement Workers and Community Service Providers\nAnyone working with or supporting Iranian immigrant women\n\nAnd more!\n\nAll attendees will be entered into a draw to win a $100 Starbucks gift card\n\n \nAbout the Presenter\n \nDr. Yasaman Madanikia\, Psy.D.\, RCC is the Founder and Clinical Director of Expressions Counselling\, a multi-site counselling practice serving communities across British Columbia. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor\, EMDR Certified Therapist and Consultant\, and holds a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.). \nYasaman’s doctoral research explored the lived experiences of perfectionism among Iranian immigrant women in Canada. As an Iranian immigrant herself\, she combines lived experience with over ten years of clinical experience supporting immigrants\, refugees\, and culturally diverse communities. Throughout her career\, she has worked extensively with Iranian clients navigating trauma\, perfectionism\, identity\, family dynamics\, immigration\, and mental health concerns. \nThrough this workshop\, Yasaman translates her doctoral research into practical\, evidence-informed strategies that professionals can immediately apply to better support Iranian immigrant women in healthcare\, education\, employment\, and community settings. \n  \nJoin this Live Online Workshop\n👉 Reserve your spot now—limited seats available.
URL:https://expressionscounselling.com/event/working-with-iranian-immigrant-women-understanding-perfectionism-and-the-immigration-experience/
CATEGORIES:For Health Practitioners
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SUMMARY:Working with Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS)
DESCRIPTION:Event Details\n📅 Date: December 4th \n🕕 Time: 12:00–1:00 PM \n💻 Location: Zoom (link provided upon registration) \n\nWorkshop for Healthcare Professionals & Counsellors\nIntegrating Pain Processing\, IFS\, and EFT\nWhy This Training? \nMany clients present with persistent physical symptoms that lack a clear medical explanation—such as chronic pain\, fatigue\, or neurological-like symptoms. These experiences\, often described as Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS)\, may fall under diagnostic categories including Somatic Symptom Disorder.\n\nClients living with MUS frequently feel dismissed\, disbelieved\, or hopeless\, while providers may feel uncertain or fatigued when conventional approaches don’t bring relief.\n\nThis workshop provides a practical\, integrative framework that combines: \n\nePain Processing Method: reframing pain and calming the nervous system\n\nInternal Family Systems (IFS): engaging resistant protective parts with compassion\n\nEmotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): addressing attachment wounds and emotional isolation\n\nLearning Outcomes\n\nUnderstand MUS and related diagnoses such as somatic symptom disorder and conversion disorder\nApply pain processing strategies to reframe bodily experiences\nRecognize resistance as protective and use IFS to collaborate with parts\nUse EFT interventions to uncover and process underlying emotions\nIntegrate body-based\, parts-based\, and attachment-based methods into case formulations\nGet practical tools to use with complex clients\n\nWorkshop Highlights\n\n Understanding MUS in Clinical Practice: Prevalence\, stigma\, and lived experiences\n Pain Processing Techniques: Practical skills for shifting fear into safety\n Working with Resistance: Using IFS to approach protectors instead of pathologizing them\n EFT in Somatic Work: Building emotional connection and reducing shame\n Case Vignettes: Interactive examples to practice integrative approaches\n\nWho Should Attend\n\n Counsellors\, Psychologists\, Social Workers\n Physicians\, Nurses\, Occupational Therapists\, Physiotherapists\n Case Managers and Insurance Providers\n Anyone supporting clients with chronic or medically unexplained symptoms\n\n\nAnd more!\n\nDraw for a $100 Starbucks gift card\n\n \nAbout the Presenter\n \nYasaman Madanikia is the Founder and Clinical Director of Expressions Counselling\, a multi-site practice across British Columbia. With extensive experience in trauma-informed care\, EMDR\, and attachment-based integrative approaches\, Yasaman brings a wealth of clinical expertise to working with complex presentations such as chronic pain\, trauma\, and medically unexplained symptoms. She has worked in community mental health\, hospitals\, and private practice settings\, and is deeply committed to bridging evidence-based practices with holistic care. Yasaman has also been working as a psychometrist\, contributing to disability assessments across a range of presentations\, which further informs her understanding of the complexities clients face. Through her clinical and leadership work\, she identified a significant gap in care for individuals with medically unexplained symptoms and is passionate about getting the conversation started in this important area of practice. Yasaman is also a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology\, currently completing her residency year\, and working toward registration as a psychologist. She hopes that as a psychologist she can continue to contribute meaningfully to the field and expand conversations around integrative approaches to complex presentations. \n\n\nJoin this live online workshop\n👉 Reserve your spot now—limited seats available. \n 
URL:https://expressionscounselling.com/event/mus-dec-2025/
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