The Mind + Body Connection

This two-hour interactive training introduces participants to the mind–body connection and its role in behavioral health, including how biopsychosocial and cultural factors influence the development and maintenance of problem gambling and other co-occurring conditions. Participants will learn how to apply mindfulness-based, somatic, and integrative therapeutic strategies to address urges, emotional dysregulation, and distorted thinking patterns. The training emphasizes practical application, with guided experiential exercises designed to increase clinicians’ confidence in using holistic and nervous-system-informed interventions within their own clinical work.

The training will be facilitated by Maya A. Williams-Bond-Jackson, LMHC, CIMPH, CCTP-II, MA PGS II, ADHD-CCSP, CCATP, an integrative clinical therapist and clinical consultant who partners with organizations to strengthen culturally responsive, trauma-informed systems of care. As the owner of her private practice, Behind the Latest Minds, LLC, she specializes in co-occurring mental health conditions and mind–body integration through a cultural humility lens. Her work blends evidence-based practices with somatic awareness, mindfulness, and psychoeducation to help clinicians and communities better understand behavior within the context of lived experience. Maya brings both clinical and experiential knowledge to her trainings, offering practical tools that participants can immediately apply in therapeutic and community settings.