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Hand in Hand: Enlisting Parents as Partners in Child Trauma Therapy
– Vilma Reyes, PsyD [SEMINAR]

Dominican University-Creekside Room 50 Acacia Avenue, San Rafael, CA, United States

Narrative: Through the use of didactic training, group discussion and interactive question-and-answer sessions, this seminar will teach therapists how to identify the ways that trauma impacts childhood development and learning, and how it impacts caregivers and families as well. Participants will learn about the principles of trauma informed and family-based interventions, like CPP, and will…

$130.00 – $150.00

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A Field Guide to Dreams and Dreaming [Four Day Seminar]
– Presented by Meredith Sabini, PhD [SEMINAR]

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

Friday, March 13, March 27, & April 10, April 24, 2020 | 12:15 pm – 2:15 pm Narrative: Dreams have fallen off our professions map and we no longer turn to them for diagnostic and prognostic information, as healing traditions previously have. Since clinical training programs provide no education on empirical findings or creative dreamwork methods,…

$150.00 – $180.00

The Rough Patch in Marriage: Working with Couples Psychoanalytically
– Daphne de Marneffe, PhD [SEMINAR] [CANCELED]

Zoom Only CA, United States

This class has been canceled. It has been rescheduled to Saturday, October 3, 2020. Narrative: Empirical and clinical research on couple processes and couple therapy has expanded in the last thirty years.  Simultaneously, psychoanalytic views of development and therapeutic action have incorporated findings from research on attachment, mentalization, and emotion.  This seminar provides a grounding…

$130.00 – $150.00

The Rough Patch in Marriage: Working with Couples Psychoanalytically
– Daphne de Marneffe, PhD [SEMINAR]

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Narrative: Empirical and clinical research on couple processes and couple therapy has expanded in the last thirty years.  Simultaneously, psychoanalytic views of development and therapeutic action have incorporated findings from research on attachment, mentalization, and emotion.  This seminar provides a grounding in current theories of mentalization, couple therapy, and adult development as a vehicle for…

$130.00 – $150.00

Healing the Self Through Affect Integration: An Intersubjective Approach
– by Jane Rubin, PhD [SEMINAR]

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Narrative: What is the source of our patients’ suffering? How can we most effectively address it? There are as many psychoanalytic answers to these questions as there are psychoanalytic theories. From the perspective of intersubjectivity theory, many of the issues our patients struggle with—poor decision-making, difficulties establishing trusting relationships, addictions and other self-destructive behaviors, and more—…

$300.00 – $320.00

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Deeper Impact, Wider Reach: Re-Imagining Kleinian Psychoanalysis
– by Jennifer Kunst, PhD [SEMINAR]

Zoom Virtual, CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Narrative: In the 21st century, clinicians have many tools available to help their clients change for the better. Despite this abundance of therapeutic models, clinicians face a lot of pressure to utilize theories and techniques that offer the possibility of alleviating symptoms and improving client functioning in a short time frame. Training programs, clinics, insurance…

$130.00 – $150.00

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

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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

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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
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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

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

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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

The Dynamics of Personality Development: Freud, Klein, and Bion Unplugged
– Presented by Jennifer Kunst, PhD [SEMINAR]

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

**This event will be via zoom only** NARRATIVE: In this workshop, Dr. Jennifer Kunst will provide an in-depth exploration of key concepts of psychoanalysis from the vantage point of the dynamic process of personality development. She will draw from the ideas of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion, applying their ideas to the challenges of modern life…

$130.00 – $150.00

The Challenge of Extraversion: Staying Engaged with the Other
– Presented by John Beebe, PhD [SEMINAR]

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

**This event is zoom only** NARRATIVE: The problem of the extravert in therapy is that the patient's desire to stay engaged with significant Others places a demand for interaction upon the therapist who may be trying to get the patient to step back and reflect. For the therapist, the paradox that emerges with patients who…

$130.00 – $150.00

Psychoanalytically Informed Assessment of Character Pathology
Presented by Matthew Bennett, PsyD [Seminar]

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

NARRATIVE This presentation serves as the introduction to a series of planned seminars on specific personality styles. The seminar will review broadly psychodynamic perspectives on the diagnosis of personality organization and personality disorder.   The emphasis will be diagnosing personality organization as an aid to conducting psychotherapy.  Dr. Bennett will provide an overview of the psychodynamic…

$130.00 – $150.00

Subverting Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) Strategies that Promote Healing and Secure Attachment
– Presented by Vilma Reyes, PsyD [Seminar]

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

NARRATIVE This training will deepen the understanding of how interpersonal and collective trauma manifests itself across generations if it’s not interrupted; and how providers can use intergenerational strengths and healing to lift hope and resilience in the family. Presenter will provide a solid foundation based on attachment theory and decades of research on the relational…

$130.00 – $150.00

Psychotherapy Through a Jungian Lens: Navigating the Relationship Between the Unconscious and Conscious Mind in Personal Psychological Development
– Presented by Carolyn Bray, PhD [Seminar]

Community Institute for Psychotherapy 1330 Lincoln Ave., Suite 201, San Rafael, CA, United States

NARRATIVE One of Swiss psychiatrist Carl G. Jung’s most notable and underlying theories contributing to the field of psychology is the concept referred to in Jungian terms as the “Ego/Self axis.” It suggests a relationship between an individual’s conscious and unconscious psychological life.  The term “Ego” signifies one’s consciousness, and the term “Self” identifies the…

$130.00 – $150.00