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Personal and Professional Development

101 – Therapy as a Performing Art

Acting Insights and Techniques for Clinicians
Mark O’Connell

All therapists are performers. No matter what our theoretical orientations, clients are more influenced by us than our methods. Like the actor, the therapist’s technique is less about what we do and

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103 – A Day for New Therapists

Learning the Principles of Successful Practice
Lynn Grodzki

New therapists are often overwhelmed by the sheer number of approaches to work from and the litany of do’s and don’ts they’ve been taught. It’s confusing: how can you feel confident as

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104 – The Dance of Connection

Learning to Let Yourself Move
Jody Wager

Dancing is an authentic expression of self, or as Martha Graham put it, “the hidden language of the soul.” But you don’t need to be a performer, learn complicated steps, or even follow

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106 – Getting Your Book into Print

Writing and Publishing for Psychotherapists
CHRISTOPHER WILLARD & MITCH ABBLETT

There’s an old adage that everyone has a good book in them. This is especially true for therapists, who often have compelling stories and innovative ideas that could help thousands

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107 – Community Sing!

Exploring the Joy of Singing with Others
DANA LACROIX

There are few things as good for the body, mind, and soul as singing your heart out in harmony with others. In a fast-changing world where many of us feel isolated,

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108 – The Embodied Therapist

The Keys to Transforming Habitual Patterns
BETSY POLATIN

Expand your capacity to express yourself, even while sitting, by using a unique approach that combines Somatic Experiencing with the Alexander Technique to track your embodied sensations, so you can contain and

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109 – How to Launch (or Grow) Your Business as an Expert

Reaching a Wider Audience
SUSIE ARNETT

Now that you’ve developed your practice and clinical expertise, are you interested in sharing your knowledge outside the therapy room? Do you want to monetize your skills and reach larger audiences? Whether it’s speaking,

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110 – Embodiment, Rhythm, Awareness, Play

A Day to Experience Attuned Self-Awareness
LICIA SKY

The latest research shows that our ability to be aware of our bodies impacts how we process sensations and memories, and heal from traumatic events. But therapists can’t guide clients to calm

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112 – ‘Retha & Relationships

Bringing Music into Couple Therapy
PETER FRAENKEL & HILARY PALMER

As useful as research and clinical publications are in informing our therapy with couples, nothing compares to the power of music to capture the joy, heartache, and challenges inherent in

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113 – Expressive Arts as Healing Engagement

Deepening the Therapeutic Experience
CATHY MALCHIODI

Expressive arts not only cultivate the healing powers of imagination, they also mobilize the social engagement system through play, improvisation, musicality, movement, and creativity. When integrated into therapy, they can revitalize and energize clients,

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115 – Using Ancient Practices for Today’s Ailments

Connecting the Body, Mind, and Spirit
SABRINA N’DIAYE

The long-term impact of trauma and stress are more than just mental health issues: they’re at the root of almost 80 percent of chronic illnesses in our modern culture. But ancient spiritual

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117 – From Therapist to Writer

The Path from Story Listening to Story Telling
Martha Manning

What’s the difference between a therapist and a writer? Not much. Both pay rapt attention to the subtleties of human emotions and inhabit a world of words. Still, many therapists

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118 – Ethics in a Different Key

Snow White in the Therapy Room
Tova Rubin

Ethics training can be dull. But this workshop, using The Musical of Snow White as a framework, embodies the idea that when you’re having fun, the learning is deeper. Through hilarious songs

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120 – Getting Comfortable with Edgy Sex

How to Expand Your Comfort Zone
TAMMY NELSON

Working with sexuality and the erotic behavior many people engage in today can challenge a therapist’s values and deeply held beliefs about sex and relationships. Plus, the landscape of sexual behavior continues

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121 – Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health

Strategies to Enhance Mood and Well-Being
LESLIE KORN

If we are what we eat, then beyond the mind-body connection there’s also a food-mind-body connection. This workshop will explore the latest nutritional research to inform psychotherapeutic practice and how diet can

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122 – Getting Creative with Parts

How to Use Expressive Modalities to Enhance Inner Work
Lisa Ferentz

It’s important to honor all of your client’s inner parts in therapy. But accessing them to fully engage in healing work isn’t always easy. In this workshop, we’ll consider

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123 – The Power of the Felt Sense

Deepening Psychotherapy through Focusing
Joan Klagsbrun

Do you have clients who seem to live in their heads and have a hard time sensing inside themselves? Focusing is a process that helps clients speak from their feelings, rather than about

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202, 302 – Evoking Positive Emotional States

Uplifting Interventions to Heal the Heart

Parts 1 & 2

COURTNEY ARMSTRONG

Research from brain science and positive psychology shows that activating positive emotional states is the fastest route to instilling hope, stimulating creativity, spurring motivation, and empowering our clients.

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204, 304 – Getting Through to Kids and Teens

Staying Cool, Calm, and Connected

Parts 1 & 2

Martha Straus

Working with distressed kids and families takes three important skills: the ability to stay calm and present ourselves, a way to gather both verbal and nonverbal session feedback to

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205, 305 – Tips and Tactics for Talking about Race

A Toolkit for Therapists

Parts 1 & 2

Kenneth Hardy

Race remains a potent and polarizing issue in all domains of our society and unfortunately the world of therapy is no exception. Despite the omnipresence of race in our lives,

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206, 306 – The Ethically Attuned Therapist

Managing the Hazards of Compassion Fatigue

Parts 1 & 2

MARY JO BARRETT & LINDA STONE FISH

Compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatization are more than occupational hazards for those in the helping professions. Feeling too much of our clients’ emotions

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207, 307 – What Men Need

The Clinical Reconstruction of Masculinity

Parts 1 & 2

TERRY REAL

Never before have men been so awash in confusing, contradictory messages: be strong, be sensitive, be vulnerable, be aggressive. When it comes to sex, be aggressive and responsive at

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208, 308 – MDMA in Psychotherapy

New Horizons for Clinical Treatment

Parts 1 & 2

Michael Mithoefer

For millennia, cultures around the world have embraced mind-altering substances to catalyze healing. Although our field has generally resisted the use of such substances, the FDA has recently granted

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209, 309 – Updating the Therapeutic Relationship

How Young Adults and Teens Are Changing Psychotherapy

Parts 1 & 2

RON TAFFEL

Facing incredible life-stressors, young adults and teens are forcing us to reexamine the therapy relationship, across all modalities. Raised in child-centered yet distracted families, and intimately

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210, 310 – IFS in Action

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

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213, 313 – Polyvagal Theory in Action

Harnessing the Healing Potential of the Autonomic Nervous System

Parts 1 & 2

DEB DANA

At its most basic level, human communication is one nervous system responding to another, searching for signals that it’s safe to connect and flooding us

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214 – Helping Clients Who Can’t “Feel”

A Somatic Approach to Accessing Emotions
Janina Fisher

Nothing defeats a therapist more than a client who’s numb or disconnected. When you ask why they’ve come for help, they may say, “I’m depressed” or “I’ve lost all hope,” but they

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215 – Please Don’t Ask Me to Forgive You!

Healing from Infidelity and Other Interpersonal Wounds
JANIS ABRAHMS SPRING

Most of us have been taught that forgiveness is good for us and that good people forgive, even in the face of deep, interpersonal wounds. But hurt parties—whether injured by

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220 – A Collaborative Approach to Managing Suicidal Risk

Piercing the Darkness
RITA SCHULTE

With 71 percent of therapists reporting at least one client who’s attempted suicide, helping people teetering on the precarious edge of suicidal ideation is one of the most important and scariest aspects of our work.

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221 – A Therapist’s Guide to the “Plus” in LGBT+

Today’s Sex and Gender Diverse Clients
MARGARET NICHOLS

Most trainings on sex and gender diversity, even though they advertise as LGBTQ, are mainly about working with gay and lesbian clients. Yet the queer community includes not only B and T

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223 – The Wisdom of Autism

Learning from Toddlers on the Spectrum
SANDRA VAN NEST

Good therapists working with young children on the autism spectrum can take on many roles at once: clinician, educator, interpreter, and advocate. They know how to break social and emotional skills

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224 – How to Heal and Transform Beyond Your Practice

Countering the Stigma of Therapy
ESTHER BOYKIN

We’ve all seen how marketing can help build profitable practices, but how can it affect society’s view of our profession and what it offers? In this workshop, we’ll explore ways to use branding

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225 – Building Social Resilience

How to Take Your Work Beyond the Consulting Room
LAURIE LEITCH

What does it take for therapists to expand their focus beyond the therapy room and become a more powerful force for social change? We typically have a positive impact

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314 – Therapy, Personal Ethics, and Civic Life

A New Ethical Frontier for Therapists
William Doherty

Clients bring all kinds of ethical dilemmas into therapy: to remain in an affair or end it, to cut off or stay connected to difficult family members, to tell the truth or

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315 – Microtraumas and the African American Client

Tools for Countering Racial Trauma  
CANDICE RICHARDSON DICKENS

African Americans regularly receive societal messages about their lack of value, powerlessness, and inability to ensure their personal safety. Perpetuated through media stories as well as common, everyday interactions, these microtraumas cause

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316 – Male Sexuality, Demystified

How Men Really Experience Sex and Intimacy
VALERIA CHUBA

These days, male sexuality is a hot-button issue, surrounded by myths, misconceptions and controversy. Because many men already struggle with acknowledging and exploring their sexual challenges, desires, and experiences, doing authentic

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317 – Translating Coaching into Therapy

The Benefits and Boundaries
Lynn Grodzki

There are good reasons why so many therapists are adopting a coaching style in sessions: it can create a strong sense of collaboration between therapist and client, and in doing so, grease the wheels

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318 – Reclaiming Reflection and the Power of Pause

How to Help Clients Be More Present
Donald Altman

Over 150 years ago, while walking in the woods, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is.

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319 – The Collective Trauma of War

An Unaddressed Dimension of Work with Vets
PATRICK DOUGHERTY

Focusing on the symptoms of PTSD is not enough when working with veterans. We need to help them understand the larger society that wishes to forget the horrors of war and

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321 – The Good Enough Therapist

Futility, Failure, and Forgiveness in Treatment
BRAD SACHS

When understood and managed well, even failures in therapeutic treatment can serve the needs of the client as well as the therapist. Our capacity to fully experience and explore, rather than fretfully

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322 – Working with Introverts and Ambiverts

Temperament as a Therapeutic Issue 
MICHAEL ALCÉE

Recent books, like Susan Cain’s Quiet, have celebrated the unique qualities and contributions of introverts and challenged our culture’s bias toward extraversion as a personal style. Through case examples, this session will

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323 – Beyond the Borderline Label

Helping BPD Clients Without Bias
ANITA MANDLEY

Most therapists understand that the extreme behaviors of people with a borderline personality disorder diagnosis are often strategies for survival, self-management, and attachment. But their intense abandonment fears, inappropriate anger, and extreme reactions

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324 – A Harm-Reduction Approach to Addictions

Addressing the Roadblocks to Change
ANDREW TATARSKY

More than one-third of Americans struggle with problematic substance use and other risky or addictive behaviors, but they often have a great deal of ambivalence about changing them. Even with clients whose issues

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325 – Transgender Affirmative Care

All You Need to Know
LAURA JACOBS

Transgender and gender nonconforming people are more visible these days than ever before, yet still remain vulnerable. To engage constructively, providers need to understand current social issues and the latest trends within their

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402, 502 – Relational EMDR as a Transformational Journey

The Power of Attunement

Parts 1 & 2

DEANY LALIOTIS

While EMDR is best known for the treatment of PTSD, it’s evolved into a comprehensive, attachment-based approach that addresses a broad range of clinical conditions. In this workshop, you’ll learn

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403, 503 – Issues for Therapists of Color

Reclaiming Our Voices
Kenneth Hardy

Parts 1 & 2

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 they struggle to find

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404, 504 – Interrupting the Reign of Pain

Therapy Tools to Eliminate Chronic Pain

PARTS 1 & 2

Howard Schubiner

Typically, physical and psychological pain are treated separately, even when they’re deeply intertwined. Nearly half of all therapy clients suffer from chronic physical pain, which often has no

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407, 507 – Imago Relationship Therapy

From the Clinic to the Culture
Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt

Part 1 & 2

Since its inception, therapy has paid minimal attention to sociocultural context. But a relationally dysfunctional culture is the source of much psychological suffering. The

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408, 508 – Enhancing Your Therapeutic Presence

Playful Activities to Harness the Social Engagement System

Parts 1 & 2

DAFNA LENDER

While we all know that success in therapy depends on the therapist–client relationship, building that positive rapport hinges on behaviors many therapists aren’t even aware of.

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409, 509 – Putting Positive Psychology into Practice

What Works and What Doesn’t

Parts 1 & 2

Jonah Paquette

Although the field of mental health has traditionally aimed to “fix what’s wrong,” the newer subfield of positive psychology instead helps us to “build what’s strong.” In doing so,

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