Applying the Neuroscience of Well-Being
Linda Graham
Even as we look to the latest brain research for techniques to apply in our therapeutic work, we too often neglect the damaging impacts of stress, poor lifestyle choices, and overstimulation from digital … Read more>>
Learning to Let Yourself Move
Baba Richard Gonzalez & Company
We all admire the grace, fluidity, and freedom dancers express, and their ability to step out of ordinary life into the realm of pure, rhythmic movement. But few of us … Read more>>
The Keys to Transforming Habitual Patterns
Betsy Polatin
Expand the capacity to express yourself by using a unique approach that combines the Alexander Technique for neuromuscular reeducation, breathing coordination, and somatic experiencing. This workshop will offer hands-on guidance and simple … Read more>>
Story as a Path of Transformation
Mark Matousek
Are you challenged by clients unwilling to question the truthfulness of their stories? What about your own self-stories? When people can step back from narratives that define them and begin to tell … Read more>>
The Transformative Power of Song
Dana LaCroix
Singing is a primal way of communicating passions, creating meaningful connection, and experiencing rejuvenation. Too often, however, feelings of inadequacy obstruct our natural desire to express ourselves through song. In this workshop, designed … Read more>>
Discovering a Path to Connection and Creativity
Noa Baum
Humans have been telling stories since the beginning of time that ignite our connection to self and affirm our belonging to community. When we can connect our personal stories with traditional … Read more>>
Who Says It’s Always Toxic?
George Faller
As a society, we often appear to be waging a war on stress, but we have a choice about whether to view stressful situations as being invariably toxic or as opportunities to face … Read more>>
Learning to Balance Your Life Energies
Patrick Dougherty
You’ve no doubt heard about Qigong, but how much do you really know about the benefits of this simple practice? Here’s your chance to directly experience its positive effects. Qigong opens up … Read more>>
A Day of Movement, Meditation, and Dance
Daniel Leven
The heart is our core, our vital energy center. In this full-day experiential workshop, awaken your heart to new energy through a balanced blend of movement, meditation, and dance. You’ll discover … Read more>>
Applications in Therapeutic Process and Healing Trauma
Jim Morningstar & Jessica Dibb
Sometimes the simplest solutions to discomfort can be right under our noses. When breathing gets deregulated as the result of emotional habits and past traumas, debilitating behavioral and … Read more>>
Finding Fulfillment, Purpose, and Joy in Later Life
Andrea Brandt
More than 100 million Americans are over the age of 50 today, and while research concludes we can grow and enhance our lives at every age, stereotypes about aging still … Read more>>
Clarifying Boundaries
Mary Jo Barrett & Linda Stone Fish
The ethical rules for therapists used to be straightforward and unambiguous: no gifts, no dual relationships, and no out-of-session contact. But the ease of digital connection and the shift in our … Read more>>
A Solution-Focused Approach
Ben Furman
What if instead of asking couples and family therapy clients to recount their hurts and frustrations, you asked them to play the Happy Family game? And if that went well, you then introduced them to … Read more>>
Getting Comfortable with Alternative and Fringe Sexual Issues
Tammy Nelson
Working with the often edgy, erotic behavior people engage in today can challenge a therapist’s own attitudes, values, and deeply held beliefs. This workshop can serve as an introduction to … Read more>>
How to Deepen the Experience of Therapy
Janina Fisher
We often use terms like hard-hearted to describe those who can’t seem to feel empathy or connect to their own emotions, forgetting that the roots of open-heartedness grow out of safe … Read more>>
Harnessing Your Social Engagement System
Dafna Lender & Jon Baylin
We all know therapists who seem magically able to establish a powerful sense of trust and connection with even the most distrusting clients. In this workshop, we’ll take a close … Read more>>
Gentle Protocols for Rewiring the Brain
Courtney Armstrong
Parts 1 & 2
Hypnosis is making a comeback as research demonstrates its effectiveness in relieving anxiety, resolving traumatic memories, and reducing chronic pain. Find out why hypnosis is an effective tool … Read more>>
How to Engage, Understand, and Transform Male Clients
Terry Real
Parts 1 & 2
At no other time in history have men been so awash in mixed cultural messages and in such a state of transition, confusion, reactivity, and trouble. … Read more>>
Bringing Transformative Life Lessons into Therapy
Lisa Ferentz
Parts 1 & 2
Whatever they’ve been through, all our clients retain an inner wisdom that can help lift them, like a pair of ruby slippers, up and out of dissatisfaction and … Read more>>
How to Set Limits and Hold Them Accountable
Wendy Behary
Parts 1 & 2
Narcissists are notoriously difficult to work with. They can be arrogant, condescending, lacking in empathy, and so self-absorbed they seem incapable of forming genuine relationships with … Read more>>
A New Model for Private Practice
James Gordon & Sabrina N’Diaye
Parts 1 & 2
Increasingly, therapists are looking for alternatives to the office-bound rigidity of traditional private practice. This workshop offers a vision of practice, which includes a dynamic … Read more>>
Applying Dyadic Mindfulness in Your Work
Halko Weiss & Maci Daye
Parts 1 & 2
While traditional talk therapy relies largely on conscious awareness, research shows that explicit brain functions have only limited impact on our feelings and behaviors. In … Read more>>
How Do We See Our Role?
William Doherty, Kenneth Hardy, Esther Perel & Richard Schwartz
We therapists are certainly in the business of helping people change, but are we also invested in getting them to experience transformation? Beyond … Read more>>
How We Can Promote Healing
Michael Alcée
How can we make sense of the polarizing culture confronting us in today’s political sphere, on the internet, and in our client’s everyday lives? As therapists, what can we do to reconcile and … Read more>>
Fostering Well-Being in a Digital World
Jonah Paquette
These days, we’ve become so attached to our digital gadgets, websites, and apps that it’s easy to lose sight of a fundamental question: aside from the immediate rewards they provide, are they … Read more>>
Latest Perspectives for the Nonspecialist
Margaret Nichols & Laura Jacobs
Therapy’s old, paternalistic gatekeeping model for working with gender-transitioning clients is out. Today, our job is to provide gender-affirmative care both to adults and the increasing numbers of young people … Read more>>
How to Engage Difficult People
Keith Miller
These days it seems there’s a jerk waiting around every corner—on the street, on your social media feed, even in your consulting room. Is there anything therapists can do for our clients and … Read more>>
Separating Myths from Reality
Frank Anderson
With so many controversies and contradictory research about the effectiveness of psychopharmacological interventions, it’s hard to know how to best work with your clients around the issue of meds. What are the new most … Read more>>
A CBT Approach
Judith Beck
What do you do when clients become angry at you in session, fail to reveal important information, criticize you, demand special treatment, or remain silent? A common misunderstanding of CBT is that it ignores the … Read more>>
Mastering the Art of Transformation
Tony Robbins
The results therapists get in their practices have more to do with what they’re willing to tolerate in clients than with their clients’ own limitations. The key to having more powerful impact with … Read more>>
Co-occurring Disorders, Detransitioners, and Other Dilemmas
Margaret Nichols & Laura Jacobs
For even the most knowledgeable gender-affirmative therapist, work with transgender clients can sometimes be complex and difficult. There are parents who assume their gender-atypical child is transgender and prematurely … Read more>>
Effective Treatments for Complex Clients
Melissa O’Neill
We now know that along with accompanying mood disorders, 78 percent of adults with borderline personality disorder (BPD) will develop a substance disorder or addiction at some point. Understanding and addressing this complex … Read more>>
Leading Clients to Self-Leadership
Richard Schwartz
Parts 1 & 2
Healing is a word derived from the German hailjan, meaning “to make whole.” To truly heal isn’t easy, since it involves reconnecting with polarized and often volatile subpersonalities, or … Read more>>
Breaking Eggshells
Anita Mandley
Parts 1 & 2
The disturbing undercurrent of white supremacists emboldened by recent national events show us that stereotypes and tensions about race still pervade much of American society. But even though we may want to … Read more>>
A Game Show Approach
Clifton Mitchell
Parts 1 & 2
We all want to do what’s ethical, and get the CEs to boot, but slogging through most ethics courses can be a tiresome bore. Not this time! This workshop (back … Read more>>
Facing Our Late Career Challenges
David Treadway
As they move through the more advanced stages of their careers, senior therapists can enhance their work by exploring the impact of their own aging on their lives and clinical perspective. In this … Read more>>
How Therapist Self-Disclosure Can Engage Male Clients
David Wexler
If you’ve ever worked with men, you know how intensely sensitive they can be to shame and feelings of incompetence. If therapists can’t de-shame the therapeutic experience, men won’t stay for … Read more>>
Engaging the Wisdom of the Body
Joan Klagsbrun
There’s a resource, implicit in each of us, that has the capacity to accelerate the healing process and make therapy more effective. Focusing invites clients to pause and access their “felt sense,” … Read more>>
A Therapist’s Guide to Modern Love, Sex, and Identity
Signe Simon & Simone Humphrey
Many millennials are choosing to ditch gender identifiers like male and female, and shed labels like single, taken, gay, or straight. … Read more>>
How Young Adults Are Changing the Therapy Relationship Forever
Ron Taffel
Millennials are coming into therapy with challenging new expectations about the therapeutic relationship. These 18- to 35-year-olds—with their no-holds-barred self-expression, staunch belief in collaboration, attunement to power-based microaggression, and … Read more>>
Helping Clients Embrace a More Embodied Life
Linda Graham
There’s no question that our near constant use of the internet, apps, and texting have transformed how we relate to each other. The ubiquity of our devices and the huge bite … Read more>>
Widening the Frame
Patrick Dougherty
Our growing understanding of intergenerational and collective trauma is challenging therapists’ standard treatment methods. Recognizing that some trauma can be inherited—or be shared by groups, communities, ethnicities, and nationalities—can open up new avenues of healing, … Read more>>
Unexplored Issues in Therapy
Kirsten Lind Seal
In the United States, 1 in 6 new marriages is interethnic or interracial. Today’s therapists need to be equipped to help cross-cultural couples not only navigate the usual intimacy and communication concerns, but … Read more>>
Helping Millennials Navigate the Brave New World of Intimate Relationships
Alexandra Solomon
Modern love presents us with a dizzying array of choices and challenges, but young adults in particular are navigating a brave new world of intimate relationships. Sex education … Read more>>
A Dialogue with Irvin Yalom
Irvin Yalom & Susan Johnson
At a time when our lives continue to speed up and our engagement with digital devices continues to siphon off attention from our intimate connections, is therapy as we’ve known … Read more>>
Introducing Action and Possibility into Every Session
Lynn Grodzki
Many therapists have incorporated some coaching into their practice, in part because the style of client interaction feels unaffected and natural, and often accelerates results. But to truly improve outcomes, therapists … Read more>>
A Mindful Approach to Value-Based Action
DJ Moran
Despite the popularity of mindfulness, not all our clients want to embrace an Eastern philosophy and sit on a meditation cushion every day. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) offers a way to … Read more>>
Reclaiming Our Voices
Anita Mandley
Despite the progressive political attitude prevalent in our field, clinicians of color often still face certain challenges around issues of race in our work with clients, and struggle to find a strong therapeutic voice with … Read more>>
From Specialized Technique to Broad-based Treatment Approach
Deany Laliotis
While EMDR is best known for its highly effective approach to trauma, it’s also developed into a comprehensive psychotherapy approach used to treat a broad spectrum of issues including anxiety, depression, … Read more>>
Coregulating Together
Martha Straus
To regulate with distressed kids and families, we need to have three skills: the ability to stay calm and present ourselves, a way to gather both verbal and nonverbal session feedback to improve effectiveness and encourage … Read more>>
Working with Kids and Their Parents
Mitchell Greene
Sports, even at the youngest developmental levels, has become a source of great stress for kids and their parents. The final results of games and kids’ individual statistics are immediately broadcast on … Read more>>
A Non-Pathologizing Approach to Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior
Joe Kort
Rather than providing a pathway to healing, the sex addiction model too often contributes to clients being sexually lost and at odds with their own nature. Therapists are left with both … Read more>>
Transform Trauma with AEDP
SueAnne Piliero
Working with trauma and attachment wounds requires a strong therapeutic presence. When clients see and feel only darkness, it’s up to us to lead boldly, attune closely, and fiercely champion their capacity to heal … Read more>>
Key Strategies for Generating Passive Income
Joe Bavonese
You may be one of the many private practitioners who’s learned how to create a full and successful solo practice. But do you sometimes feel as if the income you’re generating isn’t … Read more>>
Ways to Embody Your Symposium Experience
JODY WAGER & NAOMI NIM
While at Symposium’s end you may feel exhilarated by all the new ideas you’ve been exposed to, that excitement may, despite your best intentions, dissipate once you return to … Read more>>
