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The Emotional Truth of the Moment: The Power of Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy
– Presented by Stephen H. Sulmeyer, JD, PhD [CLASS]

CIP Group Room 1330 Lincoln Ave # 201, San Rafael, CA, United States

Both existential therapy and the approaches of a number of modern psychoanalysts (e.g., Bion, Ogden) focus on aliveness—both the patient/client’s capacity to be fully alive, as well as the aliveness or deadness of any moment of the therapy itself. This focus on aliveness, particularly how it expresses itself in the therapeutic relationship, is a key element…

$75.00 – $85.00

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Traversing the No Cry Zone: Psychotherapy with Men
– Daniel S. Ellenberg, PhD

CIP Group Room 1330 Lincoln Ave # 201, San Rafael, CA, United States

Narrative: Male clients often present challenges to psychotherapists. Men are socialized to feel threated by the very nature of the therapeutic process: the language of feelings, the disclosure of vulnerability, and the admission of dependency needs. Male clients’ discomfort with the developing intimacy of a therapy relationship can manifest as early termination, anger at the…

$100.00 – $110.00

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Working in the Eye of the Storm: Helping Families through Separation and Divorce
– Nancy Oleson, PhD

CIP Group Room 1330 Lincoln Ave # 201, San Rafael, CA, United States

Narrative: The time around the decision to separate/divorce is one of intense distress and provides a common reason for people to consult a mental health professional.  Adults and children are often flooded with anger, fear and guilt, and it is very common for the confusion parents experience to lead to actions that harm themselves and…

$100.00 – $110.00

Lust, Rage, Chaos and Love: Erotic Transference in Psychotherapy
– Felicia Matto-Shepard, LMFT [CLASS] [CANCELED]

Zoom Only CA, United States

This class has been canceled. It has been rescheduled to June 20, 2020. Narrative: While all psychotherapists are trained to understand that “therapy never includes sex,” few feel adequately train in how to navigate sexual content that might emerge in the course of treatment.  And when the sexual content is directed toward the therapist, many…

$100.00 – $110.00

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When Self-Hate is Self-Protection: Understanding Eating Disorders
– Lisa Bograd, MA, MFT [CLASS] [CANCELED]

Zoom Only CA, United States

This class has been canceled. It has been rescheduled to October 24, 2020 at 9AM.  Narrative: Eating disorders are very complex disorders that can be very difficult for clinicians to treat both because of the life threatening nature of these disorders as well as the tendency of those afflicted with them to cling desperately to…

$100.00

Lust, Rage, Chaos and Love: Erotic Transference in Psychotherapy
– Felicia Matto-Shepard, LMFT [CLASS] [CANCELED]

Zoom Virtual, CA, United States

Narrative: While all psychotherapists are trained to understand that “therapy never includes sex,” few feel adequately train in how to navigate sexual content that might emerge in the course of treatment.  And when the sexual content is directed toward the therapist, many feel unprepared to respond. Merely setting boundaries with the patient without exploring the…

$100.00 – $110.00

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When Self-Hate is Self-Protection: Understanding Eating Disorders
– Lisa Bograd, MA, MFT [CLASS]

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Narrative: Eating disorders are very complex disorders that can be very difficult for clinicians to treat both because of the life threatening nature of these disorders as well as the tendency of those afflicted with them to cling desperately to them despite the grave risk they pose to their physical health and emotional wellbeing. But…

$100.00 – $110.00

Stephen H. Sulmeyer

What Every Psychotherapist Needs to Know About Divorce: Know the Factors that Create Good Break Ups
– Stephen H. Sulmeyer, JD, PhD [CLASS]

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Narrative: Divorce has traditionally been viewed as a battle, fought by vicious litigators who specialize in scorched-earth tactics, that leaves both of the parties, and especially their children, as the losers in the process.  A great deal of excellent research has been done on the effects of such battles on the parties and the children,…

$100.00 – $110.00

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Creating Triangular Space and Promoting Symbolic Thinking in Psychdynamic Therapy
– Helen Schoenhals Hart, PsyD [CLASS]

Zoom Virtual, CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Narrative:   In this workshop we will be examining how we can help our clients to feel understood, while simultaneously promoting their ability to think symbolically – a necessary prerequisite for being able to handle the emotional dilemmas they present.  We will first learn about Ronald Britton’s concept of triangular space and what this looks…

$100.00 – $110.00

Lane Arye, Ph.D

White Privilege and Racism: How to Address It in the Therapy Room
– Lane Arye, PhD & Annie Chen, LMFT [CLASS]

Zoom Virtual, CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

The legacy of colonialism and white supremacy manifests in the therapeutic relationship as unconscious bias, microaggressions, white fragility, and internalized oppression within our work with clients. These dynamics can show up in the therapeutic relationship whether we are aware of them or not. They can lead to disconnection, conflict, and empathic failure, and can prolong…

$100.00 – $110.00

Hooked on a Feeling: Using Attachment Theory and Object Relations to Inform Work with Substance Misusing Patients
– Presented by Benjamin Fife, PsyD [SEMINAR]

Zoom Virtual, CA, United States

The COVID-19 pandemic has confronted psychoanalytic psychotherapists with the need to respond to an increase in substance use and misuse in our patients and their family members.  According to multiple studies, since March 2020 substance use has increased by as much as twenty percent for people with existing substance use disorders (NIDA. 2020), and it…

$100.00 – $115.00

Moving from Chaos to Clarity: Core-Focused Family Therapy
– Presented by Judye Hess, PhD [SEMINAR]

Zoom Virtual, CA, United States

A major strength of Core-Focused Family Therapy (CFFT) is that it addresses all three dimensions of our experience: individual, interpersonal and systemic. One of the major critiques of family therapy in general is that, while it focuses on the interpersonal dynamics, it lacks the depth of individual therapy. CFFT attempts to correct this problem by…

$100.00 – $115.00

Healing the Cultural Outsider Wound in Psychotherapy
– Presented by Dennis Portnoy, LMFT [CLASS]

Embassy Suites San Rafael 101 McInnis Pkwy, San Rafael, CA, United States

NARRATIVE: Many who seek psychotherapy were either born in the United States of parents from another culture, or they arrived here as children. Surrounded by peers who look and speak differently, they often have the added burden of parents relying on them to help navigate in a new country. Eager to “fit in” they become…

$75.00 – $87.00

Embodied Anti-racism: Bringing a Systems Framework into Clinical Work
– Presented by Rachel Wilson, LCSW [CLASS]

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

NARRATIVE: In this workshop, we will be examining how we can integrate anti-racism principles into our work with clients in order to create a therapeutic space that acknowledges the ways that systemic oppression and racism impact how we do our clinical work. Somatics will be utilized as a tool to help build practitioners' capacity to…

$100.00 – $115.00

The Lively Language of the Dreaming Mind
– Presented by Meredith Sabini, PhD [CLASS]

San Rafael Community Center 618 B Street, San Rafael, CA, United States

NARRATIVE: Interested in a fresh perspective on dreams and dreaming? Although dreams can be hard to understand due to their metaphoric and imagistic language, much can be gleaned using the practical approach this workshop offers. How to obtain dreams on intake, discern diagnostic and prognostic information from them, and help clients link dream content to…

$100.00 – $115.00

Developments in Interventional Psychiatry: ECT, TMS, Psychedelic Medicine and the intersection with psycho-spiritual experience accessed through expanded states of consciousness
– Presented by: Kaila Compton, MD, and Eleanor Woodward, MD [CLASS]

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

NARRATIVE: We're in a rich and revolutionary time, exploring a new landscape of interventions in psychiatry - and new understandings about what leads to psychic relief. Evolving brain science and a resumption of research into the beneficial effects of psychedelics on mental health is leading to new interventions for patients who have not responded to…

$100.00 – $115.00

What’s Gone Wrong with the American Mind and What We Clinicians Can Do About It
– Presented by Bryant Welch, JD, PHD, ABPP [Class]

Embassy Suites San Rafael 101 McInnis Pkwy, San Rafael, CA, United States
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

NARRATIVE Over the last decade the political climate in America has been especially perplexing for therapists and their patients alike. In this workshop, Dr. Welch, a highly trained psychotherapist and political advocate for mental health and social justice, will describe in clinical terms just how and why so many minds are running amok. He will…

$100.00 – $115.00

Why Am I Feeling (or Behaving) this Way? How Working with Trauma Impacts the Clinician
– Presented by Julie Robbins [Class]

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

NARRATIVE: This workshop will focus on issues related vicarious and secondary trauma that impact professionals who work with vulnerable populations and populations with histories of child maltreatment, trauma, and complex trauma. The class will also address those clinicians who work regularly with clients with intense pain, grief, and loss.  Definitions and differences between burn out,…

$100.00 – $115.00

Climate Change in the Consultation Room: Treating Climate Distress and Increasing Pro-Environmental Behavior
– Presented by Barbara Easterlin, PhD [Class]

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

**This event is zoom only** NARRATIVE This presentation will provide a foundational background about the origins and mental health impacts of climate change, how to identify clients’ climate distress, and therapeutic practices that enhance resilience, adaptation, and coping. The climate and environmental crisis is the most complex existential threat humanity is facing. According to recent…

$100.00 – $115.00

Individualities: Ten Angles of Vision on Personality Differences and the Difference They Make for Therapy
Presented by: Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP [CLASS]

FOUR POINTS by Sheraton San Rafael 1010 Northgate Dr, San Rafael, CA, United States
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

NARRATIVE: Appreciating the implications of personality differences for clinical and supervisory work has been a central concern for psychotherapists since the early part of the twentieth century. Everyone has a personality, whether or not it can be considered pathological. Ever since the 1980 revision of the DSM, personality issues have been relegated to a section…

$100.00 – $120.00