Dr Mads' Therapeutic Building Blocks: Skills to Reduce Vulnerability & Improve Mood

These are the everyday therapeutic essentials at the heart of my clinical work, the skills I return to again and again to reduce vulnerability, support mood, and help people regain their footing.

Presenter: Dr. Madeline Wishart

Our body and mind are in constant conversation. The way we think, feel, move, eat, sleep, connect, and cope all shape our emotional capacity, and when even one of these areas dips, mood can quickly feel heavier and harder to manage. Small shifts in energy, motivation, nourishment, or physical wellbeing can narrow our Window of Tolerance, making everyday challenges feel sharper, bigger, or more personal than they otherwise would. In these moments, mood becomes more fragile, thinking less flexible, and coping can feel out of reach.

This workshop explores the quiet mechanics behind emotional vulnerability: how sleep, movement, nourishment, connection, and daily habits influence our ability to regulate emotions, make decisions, and resist unhelpful or impulsive urges. Drawing on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and third‑wave approaches (DBT & ACT), we’ll unpack practical skills such as HALT, PLEASED, STRONG, ACE your day, RAIN, and mindful discomfort, simple, evidence‑informed strategies that reliably support mood and reduce vulnerability for clients across the lifespan.

These therapeutic building blocks can be integrated directly into your work, helping people strengthen self‑care capacity, widen their emotional bandwidth, and find their footing when mood dips.

This 2 1/2 hour virtual session delivers immediately usable, psychologically informed strategies to help you support clients in real time

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understand the interplay between physical wellbeing, daily habits, and emotional vulnerability, and how these factors shape mood.

• Support clients to build self‑care capacity and strengthen the foundations that reduce vulnerability to low mood and emotional overwhelm.

• Integrate several mood‑support and vulnerability‑reducing skills into existing therapeutic work with your clients

DR MADELINE WISHART

Dr Madeline Wishart is a Clinical Psychologist with a special interest in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), and young people who experience difficulty in regulating their emotions and tolerating distress. She has a PhD, along with a Masters in both Professional and Clinical Psychology. Madeline has a combined history of both research and practical experience across a variety of settings. She has worked in the education, community, private and psychiatric sectors as a youth, school, trauma counsellor, and psychologist. In an academic and research capacity, Madeline has been employed as a sessional lecturer and project officer at Victoria University; and a research officer at Youth Support and Advocacy Service (YSAS) in Melbourne. For the past two decades, Madeline has provided professional training in NSSI and distress tolerance in young people, and she has been invited to present at a number of international mental health conferences. Madeline currently divides her time between her private practice - Wishart Psychology; and Psych Voice, where she delivers professional development, supervision, and evidence-based workshops designed to equip professionals with practical strategies for working with young people.

With an academic background and extensive experience supporting individuals engaging in NSSI, including as a school counsellor and psychologist, Madeline understands the unique challenges of working with young people. Her workshops are comprehensive and highly practical, offering strategies that can be directly and immediately incorporated into your professional practice.

PSYCH VOICE PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES TOOLKIT

Included complimentary with your registration, you'll receive the Dr Mads' Therapeutic Building Blocks: Skills to Reduce Vulnerability & Improve Mood Professional Resources Toolkit, a PDF packed with practical worksheets, interactive exercises, curated references, and exclusive resources. This workshop-specific toolkit has been purposefully curated to extend your learning beyond the session. It’s filled with targeted strategies and evidence-based tools you can immediately incorporate into your client work with people across the lifespan.

CPD Hours

Active CPD: This workshop meets the requirements for active CPD. Throughout this session, we’ll be embedding opportunities for active engagement via polls, reflective questions, chat waterfalls and a short quiz. These elements are designed not only to deepen your learning, but also to ensure that your participation qualifies as active professional development. You will be able to claim 2 1/2 hours of Active CPD through your participation in your respective professions.

‼️Please note this event is live and will not be recorded

Payment Options

We've got flexible payment options to make things easy. You can choose Google Pay, Credit Card, PayPal, or request an Invoice at checkout.

Humanitix offers credit card payment as a convenient option at the time of registration. This is the only stage where credit card payments can be processed directly through this platform.

Need an Invoice?

We understand that schools and organisations often require an invoice before processing payment, and we’re here to support that.

To secure your place at the workshop, you must complete the full registration form in full and submit it. This step is essential, even if you plan to pay later via invoice.

Once your registration is successfully submitted:

1. Click the “Request Invoice” button.

2. A formal invoice will be generated.

3. This invoice can be downloaded, printed, and shared with your school or organisation for payment.

Please note: Humanitix offers credit card payments only at the time of registration. If you select “Request Invoice,” a separate credit card payment link will not be provided through the platform.

• If your organisation needs an invoice but would prefer to pay by credit card, just complete your registration and email info@madelinewishart.com. We’ll send a separate link your finance team can use to pay by credit card.

Your place at the workshop is saved once your registration form is submitted. Your ticket will be confirmed and emailed once payment has been received.

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