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Surprise and Delight: How Family Play Therapy Can Create Positive Family Engagement
– by Eliana Gil, PhD [SEMINAR]

Zoom Virtual, CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Narrative: This workshop will highlight the various ways that play therapy can decrease the family’s ambivalence about participating in therapy, as well as the ways that play therapy can engage families in positive and energetic interactions that can shift perspectives and increase connection so that family members can see each other as resources. Family play…

$130.00 – $150.00

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

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

Jungian Work and the Apocalypse: Working with Boys and Men to Address Alienation
– Robert Tyminski, PhD [SEMINAR]

Zoom Virtual, CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Narrative: Many patients now state that they spend hours each day paying attention to screens rather than to real people around them. We’ll explore how cyberspace becomes an alternate container for many clients in distress. We will examine what this means for the psyche in terms of relationships and fantasies, especially apocalyptic fantasies of destruction.…

$130.00 – $150.00

Finding Hope in Hard Times: Working Intersubjectively in Times of Crisis
– Presented by Jane Rubin, PhD, PhD, PsyD [SEMINAR]
Third Friday of the Month Oct 2021 thru May 2022

Virtual Event Virtual Event

The events of the past year—the global pandemic, the continuing battles against racism and white supremacy, the California wildfires—have left many people feeling increasingly hopeless about their lives.  Many of these people are our patients.  How do we help them to regain a sense of possibility in these difficult times?  This issue is complicated by…

$340.00 – $360.00

Essentials of Suicide Risk Assessment & Intervention
– Presented by Joe Obegi, PhD [SEMINAR]

Zoom Only CA, United States

This 6-hour course covers the essential aspects of suicide risk assessment and intervention. Part 1 teaches participants how to complete a high-quality suicide risk assessment, an essential first step in protecting the suicidal patient. Participants will learn a structured approach to (a) inquiring about suicidal thinking and behavior and (b) integrating this information with warning…

$130.00 – $150.00

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

Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living, Conscious Dying [Two Day Workshop – January]
– Presented by Dale Borglum, PhD [CO-SPONSORED]

Zoom Virtual, CA, United States

Why do some people experience wholeness as they approach death, while others lose themselves in denial, depression, distraction? Why is it that some of the most alive and awake Westerners I’ve known have been, almost without exception, people near death? Is there some powerful truth about life and about healing that you and I can…

$290.00

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

The Value of Introversion: The Clinical Application of One of Jung’s Least Understood Concepts
– Presented by John Beebe, PhD [SEMINAR]

Zoom Virtual, CA, United States

The nature of introversion and its relation to extraversion has often been misunderstood since C. G. Jung made these contrasting attitudes central to his theory of psychological types one hundred years ago. In this seminar we will explore how introverted and extraverted types of consciousness serve as checks and balances on each other, as both…

$130.00 – $150.00

Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living, Conscious Dying [One Day Workshop]
– Presented by Dale Borglum, PhD [CO-SPONSORED]

Zoom Virtual, CA, United States

Why do some people experience wholeness as they approach death, while others lose themselves in denial, depression, distraction? Why is it that some of the most alive and awake Westerners I’ve known have been, almost without exception, people near death? Is there some powerful truth about life and about healing that you and I can…

$175.00

Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living, Conscious Dying [Two Day Workshop – February]
– Presented by Dale Borglum, PhD [CO-SPONSORED]

Zoom Virtual, CA, United States

Why do some people experience wholeness as they approach death, while others lose themselves in denial, depression, distraction? Why is it that some of the most alive and awake Westerners I’ve known have been, almost without exception, people near death? Is there some powerful truth about life and about healing that you and I can…

$290.00

Embracing Reality, Choosing Change, Surrendering Control: A Therapist’s Guide to the Gems in Object Relations Theory
– Presented by Jennifer Kunst, PhD [SEMINAR]

Zoom Virtual, CA, United States

In this workshop, Dr. Jennifer Kunst will provide an overview of the key concepts of the British object relations model of psychoanalysis, emphasizing their application to clinical practice: nature-nurture, personality development, the role of the unconscious, the internal object world, Melanie Klein’s paranoid schizoid and depressive positions, and Wilfred Bion’s learning through experience. She will…

$130.00 – $150.00

Personality Dynamics in Psychotherapy: A Roadmap for Lasting Change
– Presented by Jonathan Shedler, PhD [Zoom Seminar]

Zoom Only CA, United States

Master clinicians know meaningful and lasting psychological change does not come from focusing on symptoms, but on the personality dynamics and patterns underlying them. In the morning lecture, “Personality Pathways to Depression,” Dr. Shedler will discuss the personality styles most often seen in clinical practice (e.g., narcissistic, borderline, depressive, obsessive-compulsive), drawing on and integrating long-standing clinical…

$130.00 – $150.00

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

Finding Confidence In an Age of Uncertainty: How Ideas From Contemporary Psychoanalysis Can Strengthen Clinical Decision Making
– Presented by Jane Rubin, PhD, PhD, PsyD [STUDY GROUP] [EIGHT SESSIONS]

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Eight sessions, the third Friday of the month: Oct 21, Nov 18, Dec 16, 2022; Jan 20, Feb 17, Mar 17, Apr 21, May 19, 2023   Narrative The truths that classical psychoanalysis held to be absolute and unchanging–that the therapist is a blank screen whose personality plays no role in the therapeutic process; that self-disclosure…

$340.00 – $360.00

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

Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living, Conscious Dying
– Presented by Dale Borglum [1 DAY WORKSHOP] [CO-SPONSORED]

Spiritual Life Center at St. Agnes 1611 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

One Day – 8 CES, $175 NARRATIVE: For 35 years I have been blessed to be in close contact with many people who were approaching death. Almost all of these people were reaching out for healing – healing in relationship to death, healing in relationship to illness, in relationship to a wounded heart, to separation…

Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living, Conscious Dying
– Presented by Dale Borglum, PhD [2 DAY WORKSHOP] [CO-SPONSORED]

Montague Hall 5 Richmond Row, San Anselmo, CA

Two Days – 15 CES, $290 NARRATIVE: For thirty-five years I have been blessed to be in close contact with many people who were approaching death. Almost all of these people were reaching out for healing – healing in a relationship to death, healing in relationship to illness, in relationship to a wounded heart, to…

Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living, Conscious Dying
– Presented by Dale Borglum, PhD [2 DAY WORKSHOP] [CO-SPONSORED]

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Two Day Event (February 25th and February 26th)  – 15 CES, $290 NARRATIVE: For thirty-five years I have been blessed to be in close contact with many people who were approaching death. Almost all of these people were reaching out for healing – healing in a relationship to death, healing in relationship to illness, in…