Advanced Clinician Training

Virtual Training September 11 - October 23, 2026

level II - ADVANCED TRAINING
Turn Intellectual Knowledge Into Embodied Understanding

You cannot teach or authoritatively recommend what you have not practiced. The best way to teach PRT to patients is to do the work yourself. Data shows that clinicians who have gone through their own pain experience have more client success than providers with advanced psychology degrees who only learned tools in a classroom. This six-session, live interactive class prioritizes practicing tools so that teaching patients becomes effortless and authentic.

Taught by Brad Fanestil, MD, this 12-hour workshop covers cognitive reframing, mindfulness, self-compassion, guided imagery, metacognition, and self-awareness through didactics, experiential exercises, and Q&A. Learning objectives include:
  • Review studies on the mind-body connection, including mindfulness, epigenetics, and predictive processing.
  • Develop a practical framework for understanding the brain’s role in pain—including how to help patients learn to "talk to their brains."
  • Deepen your own mind-body awareness through experiential practices, body awareness, somatic exercises, and metacognitive techniques.
  • Practice guided imagery interventions for symptoms such as pain, fatigue, dyspnea, and gastrointestinal issues.
  • Use expressive writing to enhance self-awareness and apply the neuroscience of self-compassion through practices designed to "kindle the neurons" of compassion. 
  • Explore the distinction between empathy and compassion, and how to model these approaches with empathic patients.
  • Learn to introduce these concepts in a brief, 20-minute appointment and facilitate experiential exercises in longer (30–45 minute) sessions.
APA and ACCME accreditation offer 12 CEs or CMEs to qualifying professionals. Please visit our Continuing Education Credit page for further details.

  • 12 CE/CMEs

    Awarded

  • 12 Hours

    Live Instruction

    • 6 Week

      Duration

    • Level II

      Learning
    YOUR CLINICAL TRAINER

    Brad Fanestil, MD

    TEDxCU | Chronic Pain and Anxiety: Why Doctors Get It Wrong & How to Hack Your Brain

    Dr. Brad Fanestil is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and has practiced as both a primary care internist and a hospitalist in Colorado for most of his career. For several years, he was the Director of Inpatient Care at Avista Hospital in Louisville, working exclusively in hospitals and ICUs. In 2017, he began researching new theories in neuroscience, largely supported by functional MRI data, that are beginning to explain the emotional connections between mind and body. When he brought these new ideas to his primary care patients, many of his most complicated and frustrated patients began to improve. He now runs the Boulder Institute for Mind Body Medicine, where he teaches patients and clinicians how to use these tools to rewire the neural circuitry of anxiety and chronic pain.
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    What IT OfferS

    What's included?

    Physiology of the Mind-Body Connection

    Learn how the brain and nervous system translate emotional, cognitive, and social experiences into physical sensations, including pain.

    Interoception and Proprioception

    Enhance your own mind-body awareness to increase your effectiveness with patients. 

    Metacognitive Techniques

    Shift your relationship with thoughts to reduce fear and foster safety, rewiring hypervigilant brain circuits.
    "This training will help to triage referrals and personalize treatment. I greatly enjoyed the course and Dr. Fanestil's enthusiasm for mind-body medicine. It is contagious!"
    Suzanne D, LCSW
    "This was one of the most informative and useful trainings I have taken in 25 years of practice. It will significantly change my practice. I got missing pieces around how to apply PRT that give me more confidence. Excellent training!"
    Jennifer Y, Professional Counselor