Unlocking the Healing Power of Imagery and Writing to Help Clients Heal

with Sabrina N’Diaye, PhD

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Hello,

When I was in my 40s, I began writing letters to my deceased grandmother. Whatever was my confusion or fear of the day poured through the ink like visible tears on the paper. I imagined Big Mama comforting me, and listened to the advice she gave me as if she were still alive.

One day, the pen began to write words that were coming from beyond my mind.

This was bigger than me. These were Big Mama’s words, coming through me and onto the page.

I’d always had a wildly vivid imagination, but my experience communing with Big Mama inspired me further. In grad school, I discovered the science that proved what I already knew: imagination is real.

I wrote my Doctoral dissertation on the power of guided imagery, and learned the practice of traveling from my Sufi teacher who taught me more exercises of the imagination.

Since then, I’ve facilitated hundreds of sessions that help people tap into the power of their own imagination.

Now, I’ve created a course to share my skills with you:

Unlocking the Healing Power of Imagery and Writing to Help Clients Heal, is a compassionate, playful, and scientifically-grounded approach that reimagines the therapeutic process.

This course is not a mere collection of techniques; it’s a journey into the heart of healing. You will learn to integrate mind, body, and spirit – yours and your clients’ -into therapy, leverage writing as a powerful tool for transformation, and master the art of guided imagery to open up a world of possibilities for your clients.

Because the possibilities of imagination are literally endless.

Learn to personify fears, relationships, diseases, and more so you can hear their wisdom and create a new relationship with them.

Whether you work in mental health, addiction, education, health care, faith, or social justice, you will have tools to use right away to start off or augment your practice.

When you tap into the power of imagination, you can take your clients into the future, the past,  inside their own or others’ bodies to a place where they can imagine something different, ask new questions, and answer from the wisdom they already hold.

Join this transformative approach to therapy that’s rooted in science and wrapped in joy.

Warmly,
Dr. Sabrina N’Diaye
and Academy of Therapy Wisdom

Health Inventory

Enhance your intake process so you can guide with confidence, asking deeper, more impactful questions about health and healing that include the whole person in your therapy.

Imagination Techniques

Help clients tap into their parasympathetic system with tangible tools that access their inner wisdom for deeper healing and continue to serve them well beyond the therapy room.

Personal Transformation

Experience these techniques personally, working from a place of confidence as you use them in your practice so you can become the healer you’ve always aspired to be, capable of igniting hope and facilitating lasting change.

In a world rife with turmoil, you are the unsung hero on the frontline. But what happens when the world’s heaviness weighs down on your clients, and you feel their stagnation as if it were your own? When traditional talk therapy is no longer enough? The key lies in a power we all possess but rarely harness to its full potential: the power of imagination.

In Unlocking the Healing Power of Imagery and Writing to Help Clients Heal, you will learn:

Module 1

Our Guides

The first module opens with an opportunity for you to remember who you are and why you’re doing this work. You’ll learn exercises to connect with the guides in your life, and to learn how to integrate imagery exercises into your own life. The first module will allow you to go deeper into your own practice so you can more effectively guide your clients. You’ll learn:

    • The profound importance of why you are doing this work so your commitment can invigorate your practice
    • The Breath: Setting the Intention so you can begin each session with ease and focus
    • The concept of Original Medicine to uncover you and your client’s original powerWhat is imagery and how it works in the body
    • A true definition for healing to expand your understanding of what you are working towards with your clients and to develop mutual trust
Module 2

Guided Imagery and Healing

Learn in a short time what it took Sabrina years to uncover: the research behind imagery and expressive writing, and how these two modalities actually impact our immune functioning, our brain, our physiology, and our overall health. You’ll learn:

    • What is imagery and how it works in the body
    • What the research on guided imagery tells us about brain function and health
    • Guided imagery’s impact on physiology and the brainWhat is imagery and how it works in the body
    • The Wise Guide experience to help you tap into your inner knowledge and resourcefulness
Module 3

Writing and Healing

Continuing the exploration of research on imagery and writing, we’ll look at how imagery and writing impact our physical, emotional, and spiritual health. You’ll learn how to use imagery and writing to overcome chronic illness, depression, extreme trauma, emotional challenges, and grief. These tools will help your clients achieve a higher state of inner peace, and a better quality of life. You’ll learn:

    • The impact of writing on physical and psychological health so you can facilitate better outcomes for your clients
    • Why we use stories – and how to elicit them safely and effectively – to create transformative growth for your clients
    • How to bridge imagery and writing to create richer experiences in your sessions
    • A process to “dialogue” with a symptom to help your clients gain greater insights into what ails them
Module 4

Application with Clients (and Ourselves)

The final module helps you integrate what you’ve learned in this course, apply the exercises yourself, and use them in the clinical setting with your clients. You’ll learn:

    • The role of imagery in psychotherapy so you can apply it most effectively
    • How to create ritual around guided imagery to enhance its impact
    • Clinical examples of guided imagery and writing so you can see how it will look in your practice
    • The Future Self imagery exercise to spark hope – the medicine – for healing and bring you back to yourself
    • Tools for the next steps so you can continue your journey

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The imagination can unlock the wisdom within and give us answers that are more than possible…

Invest in this course, and you’re investing in a future where therapy is not just a profession, but a joyous, healing art. Your investment is a gateway to a new level of professional and personal fulfillment.

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We are confident you will learn new skills in this online training. However, If during your first 7 days with this course, you don’t believe you will learn anything to enhance your practice, please contact our support team at support@therapywisdom.comwithin 7 days of purchase and we will give you a full credit or exchange for another course, no questions asked.

Meet Your Presenter

Dr. Sabrina N'Diaye

Dr. Sabrina N’Diaye is a therapist, storyteller, peacebuilder, and student of Sufism.

In 2008, she founded the Heart Nest Center for Peace and Healing in Baltimore, Maryland, where she lovingly serves women, couples, small groups, and other healers. Her approach to healing is a blend of wisdom, science, and the sacred Sufi teachings of peace, love, justice, mercy, and freedom.

Dr. Sabrina has worked with the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, teaching the art of self-care to healthcare professionals and community leaders. As Center faculty, she responded to community trauma in Las Vegas, Houston, the Pine Ridge Reservation, New York City, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, and the Middle East. She also served as the lead faculty for programs in Indianapolis, Central Asia, East Africa, the US Capitol Police, and the aftermath of the May 14, 2022, massacre in East Buffalo.

She recently completed her first book, Big Mama Speaks: Love Lessons from a Harlem River Swan, based on her maternal grandmother’s ability to transcend multiple traumas and chronic illness.

Dr. Sabrina is a devoted wife, mother, daughter, and life-long learner, who remains humbled by the healing power of compassion, love and forgiveness.

Hear What Folks Who Have Learned
From Sabrina Have To Say…

"Dr. N'Diaye's teachings are what this world needs now."

“Dr. N’Diaye led me back to my body and back inside of myself. Her grounded and embodied teaching has impacted my life in profound ways. Each time, I leave with a new nugget of insight. Dr. N’Diaye’s teachings are what this world needs now.”

– Anne E. (Annie) Weisman, Ph.D., M.P.H., L.M.T., Director of Well-Being & Integrative Medicine, Associate Professor, Medical Education, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

"To learn from Dr. N'Diaye is to learn how to trust your own heart as you learn to guide others to trust theirs."

“I learned…how to create a soft container and hold the space for people to feel themselves and invest in their own curiosity and noticing.  Training with Dr. N’Diaye changed my approach to my own life as well as my approach to my work as an organizational scientist & strategy and engagement consultant in the mental wellness space.”

– Patrice Webb, CEO, Kindness Gangsta, Washington, D.C.

"She lives, loves, laughs, cries, and shares hard truths with us."

“I am in awe of Sabrina’s capacity to love, respect, and learn from everyone she meets. She is more than generous in sharing her expertise. Sabrina’s biggest gift is her transparency. She lives, loves, laughs, cries, and shares hard truths with us. She always does so in ways that are thoughtful, compassionate, and open-hearted.”

– Anna Bernanke, Founder and Executive Director, Chance Academy, Washington, DC

"Dr. N'Diaye ongoingly reminds each of us to continue to bring heart, curiosity, creativity, and collaboration to our work with clients."

“Dr. N’Diaye’s clinical excellence and personal generosity have affected countless lives. She has provided countless other clinicians with a space for growth and learning for how to provide excellence and thoughtful, compassionate, and innovative trauma-informed care. Dr. N’Diaye ongoingly reminds each of us to continue to bring heart, curiosity, creativity, and collaboration to our work with clients, our fellow practitioners, and the fields of counseling and psychotherapy as a whole.”

– Hope Rubin, LCPC, Baltimore, MD

Frequently asked

questions

Q: I already have some modalities I feel comfortable with. Why should I learn something new?

We all know that different people need different approaches to help them unlock what binds them. Having more tools means more ways to help. This course is perfect if you ever feel stuck or want to add something fresh to your sessions.

Yes. Using guided imagery is something anyone can do to help a client tap into their inner wisdom. This course is designed for all helping professionals; if you want to make lasting change quickly and give clients tools for their own journey, this course is for you.

These tools create balance and equanimity between client and therapist. You’ll learn to stay calm and supportive, no matter what comes up. This course teaches you to balance guidance and support, ensuring safety and comfort for both you and your clients. 

That’s the beauty of this course! These are lifelong skills that clients can use independently, often reducing the need for long-term therapy. 

This is an on-demand course you can access anytime, anywhere. Each module is filled with Sabrina’s pre-recorded content, and you’ll have unlimited access to the modules.

Unfortunately, CEs are not available for this experiential course.

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