When We Lose Ourselves Under Pressure: Helping Clients Pause Before Reacting

IN PERSON IN FOXBORO

When people feel emotionally overwhelmed, urgency can take over quickly. In those moments, clients often react in ways that disconnect them from their values, relationships, and intentions. This workshop introduces the ICM Cycle (Activation, Micropause, Intentional Response, Integration), a simple relational-awareness framework designed to help clients recognize activation earlier and pause before reacting automatically. Participants will explore how emotional pressure narrows awareness, affects communication, and contributes to reactive patterns in both clients and clinical interactions. Through reflection, discussion, and practical applications, clinicians will learn ways to support greater awareness, intentional responding, and relational presence during emotionally difficult moments.

Presenter: Randy Marles Orabone, LMHC

About our presenter:

Randy Marles Orabone, LMHC is a bicultural Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and professional speaker with over 18 years of clinical, community, and behavioral health experience working with individuals, families, and diverse populations across multicultural settings in the United States and Colombia. Professional experience includes integrated behavioral health in primary care, crisis assessment, trauma-informed care, long-term psychotherapy, refugee mental health support, and emotional regulation interventions. Her extensive training and experience has led her currently to private practice. She has spoken on multiple topics, including emotional regulations, parenting gifted children, behavioral health integration and emotional awareness in clinical and educational settings. 

Saturday September 19, 2026 from 9 am to 12 pm

[allow 15-30 minutes after the workshop to complete the evaluation]

3 CEUs

Member Student/New Professional [not-yet licensed] $90

Members: $110

Non-members: $150

Registration closes 5 business days before the event.