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…

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

Virtual Event Virtual Event

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…

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 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

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

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

From Accommodation to Emancipation: Insights from Contemporary Psychoanalysis on Finding Freedom from Traumatic Attachments
– Presented by Jane Rubin, PhD, PhD, PsyD [Study Group] [8 Sessions]

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Eight sessions, the third Friday of the month: Oct 20, Nov 17, Dec 15, 2023; Jan 19, Feb 16, Mar 15, Apr 19, May 17, 2024   NARRATIVE: Most patients come into therapy with hope for relief from their traumas, and with dread that therapy itself will be traumatizing. Anna Ornstein famously referred to this…

$340.00 – $360.00

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

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

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

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

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

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 from their own self. My consuming…

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

Montague Hall 5 Richmond Row, San Anselmo, CA

2 DAY SEMINAR: February 10 and 11, 2024 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 relationship to death, healing in relationship to illness, in relationship to a wounded heart, to…

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

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

Finley Center 2060 W. College Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA, United States

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 from their own self. My consuming…

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

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

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

**This event is via zoom only** 2 DAY SEMINAR: March 23 & 24, 2024 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 relationship to death, healing in relationship to illness, in…

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