Canceled Relating Remotely: Applying Therapeutic Interaction and Outcome Research to Enhance Telehealth Clinical Skills
Katie Aafjes-van Doorn, PhD [Seminar] [2-Day]

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Special Two (2) Evening Presentation – Sunday, May 18, 2025 & Thursday, May 22, 2025   NARRATIVE: This workshop will provide a 6-hour interactive training translating the latest psychotherapy research into clinical practice. The workshop covers didactics on the therapeutic alliance, outcome monitoring, and includes an experiential skills training focused on therapeutic challenges unique to…

$150.00 – $180.00

Canceled Trauma and Resiliency: Trauma Informed Care, Embodied Self-Knowledge, and Self-Care for Mental Health Providers
Sara R. van Koningsveld, MA, LPCC, BC-DMT, RYT 200 [Seminar]

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

NARRATIVE: Trauma-informed care acknowledges the wisdom of the client and their mind-body experience of an event or situation that has impacted their way-of-life. Understanding trauma as a body-based experience, mental health professionals are exposed throughout to the sensory and somatic memories of their clients. In assisting clients during their healing process, therapists must also uphold…

$150.00 – $180.00

Ascending Spiral Paths: An Integrated Approach to Understanding Personality Development Using Jungian and Psychoanalytic Theory
Presented by: Dr. Matthew Bennett, PhD [Study Group] [4-Days]

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Four sessions, the second Saturday of the month: Dec. 14, 2024; Jan 11, Feb. 8, Mar. 8, 2025  | 10:00am – 12:00pm   NARRATIVE: Psychologist, lecturer, and author Dr. Matthew Bennett will review the content of his recently released book, Integrated Analytical Psychology: Return to Freedom and Dignity.  The author reviews an integrative circumplex model…

$200.00 – $240.00

Liberation Through Dreams: Synthesizing Jungian Insights and Ethnopsychology to Decolonize Clinical Practice and Enhance Cultural Sensitivity
Presented by: Nadia Thalji, PhD [Seminar]

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

NARRATIVE: This presentation serves as the introduction to a seminar exploring relevance and symbiotic relationship between Jungian psychology and ethnopsychology within a postcolonial context. Participants will delve into the intricate landscape of dreams, navigating cultural dream narratives and examining how Jungian archetypes intertwine with the impact of colonial histories. Special emphasis is placed on clinical…

$150.00 – $180.00

Anxiety, Identity, and the Therapy Relationship: Intersubjective Approaches to Resistance to Change
Presented by: Jane Rubin, PhD [Study Group] [8-Days]

Zoom Only CA, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Eight sessions, the third Friday of the month: Oct. 18, Nov 15, Dec 20, 2024 | Jan 17, Feb 21, Mar 21, Apr 18, May 16, 2025 | 12:30 – 2:30 pm NARRATIVE: It’s a truism in therapy, and in our culture in general, that change is difficult. Some kinds of change are more difficult…

$400.00 – $480.00

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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