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Constructed Awareness® (CA) is a psychotherapy model that helps clients understand themselves and connect more deeply with their experience by enhancing awareness of thoughts, sensations, and external perceptions.

Join Tyler Orr, PhD, LPC, creator of Constructed Awareness®, and guest therapist LoriAnn Stretch, PhD, LCMHC-S, LPC, NCC...
09/03/2026

Join Tyler Orr, PhD, LPC, creator of Constructed Awareness®, and guest therapist LoriAnn Stretch, PhD, LCMHC-S, LPC, NCC this Friday for a free CA Lunch & Learn exploring the application of Constructed Awareness with couples.

Tyler will begin by exploring orientation and how differences in awareness can shape communication, conflict, and connection between partners. Dr. Stretch will then build on these ideas by discussing how CA can be used with couples and sharing a question and guide therapists can use in their own clinical practice.

The session offers an opportunity to explore both the foundational CA concepts involved in couples work and their practical application in the therapy room.

Friday, September 4 at 12:00 PM EST | Online | Free
Includes 1 free NBCC CE hour and 1 free ASWB CE credit.
Registration is FREE. Visit Constructedawareness.com to register.

08/23/2026

How do you know what resources a client actually needs?

Constructed Awareness® teaches that every conscious experience is constructed from three fundamental building blocks: what's happening in the mind, what's happening in the body, and what's happening in the environment.

We all rely on these building blocks at different times, but most people tend to rely more heavily on one than the others. In CA, we call this orientation.

In this video, Tyler Orr, PhD, LPC, explores how understanding a client's orientation can help guide the resources we use in therapy. Rather than taking away the building block someone already relies on, the goal is to expand their awareness so they have greater access to all three.

In Constructed Awareness trainings, therapists learn how to assess a client's orientation and specific resources for developing each of the three building blocks.

This can help us answer two important questions: What does this client need more of? And how can I help them develop it?

Learn more about Constructed Awareness® and upcoming trainings at constructedawareness.com.

08/11/2026

Why does your mind keep grabbing your attention?

In this video, Tyler Orr, PhD, LPC, explores the orienting response, the natural tendency for our awareness to be drawn toward what is new, interesting, or potentially threatening.
While our external environments are often relatively stable, our minds are filled with constantly changing thoughts, memories, images, and concerns that can repeatedly capture our attention.

Through the lens of Constructed Awareness (CA), Tyler explores how this pattern can influence the body and how intentionally connecting with the stability of the external environment may help interrupt the cycle between mental and sensation awareness.

Learn more about Constructed Awareness at constructedawareness.com

Every psychotherapy model is shaped by the way it understands human experience and therapeutic change.Join Tyler Orr, Ph...
08/06/2026

Every psychotherapy model is shaped by the way it understands human experience and therapeutic change.

Join Tyler Orr, PhD, LPC, for a free Constructed Awareness Lunch & Learn exploring the three foundational principles of the Constructed Awareness model.

Together, we'll explore how these principles inform awareness-based psychotherapy, case conceptualization, and the therapeutic process.

Whether you're learning Constructed Awareness, integrating it into your clinical work, or simply curious about awareness-based approaches to psychotherapy, you're invited to join us.

Friday, August 7
12:00 PM EST
Live Online
Free to attend
Includes 1 NBCC and 1 ASWB CE credit.

Learn more at constructedawareness.com

08/04/2026

What is an emotion?

Most of us have never stopped to ask that question. We simply assume emotions are things we have.

But what if emotions aren't discovered? What if they're constructed?

In this video, Tyler Orr, PhD, LPC, explores Lisa Feldman Barrett's Theory of Constructed Emotion and discusses how Constructed Awareness builds on that theory by proposing that every conscious experience—including emotions—is constructed from three fundamental building blocks: what's happening in the mind, what's happening in the body, and what's happening in the environment.

Whether you're a therapist, student, researcher, or simply curious about the nature of human experience, this conversation offers a different way of thinking about what emotions are and how they arise.

Learn more at constructedawareness.com

In this episode of the Constructed Awareness® Podcast, Tyler Orr, PhD, LPC, is joined by Lei Rhyne, LPC, to explore how ...
07/26/2026

In this episode of the Constructed Awareness® Podcast, Tyler Orr, PhD, LPC, is joined by Lei Rhyne, LPC, to explore how she integrates Constructed Awareness (CA) with Expressive Arts Therapy.

Together, they discuss the role of creativity in the therapeutic process, how expressive arts can deepen awareness, and the ways Constructed Awareness and expressive approaches can complement one another in clinical practice.

Listen to the full episode:
🎧 Podcast: https://f.mtr.cool/zpaeybkqdq
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Over the past year, I've found myself returning to the same question. How can I make Constructed Awareness more accessib...
07/26/2026

Over the past year, I've found myself returning to the same question. How can I make Constructed Awareness more accessible to people who want to learn it?

Because of that, I've decided to reduce tuition for all Constructed Awareness Level 1, 2, and 3 trainings from $897 to $457, effective immediately through December 31, 2027.

Scholarships are also now available for graduate students, provisionally licensed therapists, behavioral health educators, and clinicians working in community mental health and nonprofit settings, reducing tuition to $247 for eligible participants.

The training itself hasn't changed. Every level continues to include the same curriculum, experiential learning, and 30 continuing education (CE) hours. Only the tuition has changed.

Payment plans remain available for every training.

My hope is simple. To make Constructed Awareness more accessible so that more clinicians, educators, researchers, and ultimately more clients can benefit from this work.

Learn more at constructedawareness.com

07/21/2026

What if the safest place to focus isn't your body?

Many people are told to "feel their feelings" or "sit with their emotions." But what if paying attention to your body actually makes things worse?

In this clip from the Constructed Awareness® Podcast, Tyler Orr, PhD, LPC, and Lei Rhyne, LPC discuss why this can happen, the importance of externalizing experience, and how Constructed Awareness® and Expressive Arts Therapy offer alternative ways of working with difficult emotions.

Watch the full conversation on the Constructed Awareness YouTube channel.

Learn more at constructedawareness.com

07/15/2026

How do you know you're here? It sounds like a strange question, but it's actually one of the first questions Tyler asks in every Constructed Awareness Level 1 training.

In this video, Tyler Orr, PhD, LPC, introduces one of the foundational ideas behind Constructed Awareness: that every conscious experience is constructed from three fundamental building blocks—what's happening in the mind, what's happening in the body, and what's happening in the environment.

Through a simple awareness exercise, you'll begin to notice where your attention naturally goes and how this pattern relates to what Constructed Awareness calls your orientation.

Which building block is your awareness most naturally drawn to?

Learn more at constructedawareness.com

07/12/2026

Do animals experience emotions?

Most of us would answer that question without hesitation. Of course they do.
But according to Lisa Feldman Barrett’s Theory of Constructed Emotion, animals may experience the ingredients of emotion without constructing those ingredients into emotion concepts the way humans do.

In this video, Tyler Orr, PhD, LPC, explores what Barrett’s theory suggests about animal emotions and how Constructed Awareness extends that conversation by asking what emotions are actually constructed from.

Whether you agree with Barrett’s theory or not, this discussion invites us to think more deeply about what emotions are, how they develop, and what they might reveal about both animals and ourselves.

Learn more at constructedawareness.com

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