Sunday Workshops

601 – The Myth of the Unitary Self

A Dialogue on the Multiplicity of Mind

GABOR MATÉ & RICHARD SCHWARTZ

There’s a growing convergence of opinion from a range of disciplines challenging the traditional idea of the unitary personality in favor of the view that each of us

The Search for Secure Attachment

Courtney Armstrong

What’s going on when your best efforts to establish a secure therapeutic alliance with a personality-disordered client aren’t working? Before you proclaim a “bad fit” and refer them out, consider changing your approach.

What Does It Mean to Cross the Line?

David Wexler

The #MeToo movement has shone a light on the pervasive damage done by sexual harassment and assault. But the scope of behaviors that fall within this category is wide and

A Sensorimotor Approach to Change

Janina Fisher

The very nature of depression often thwarts efforts to treat it. After all, it’s difficult to change when you have no energy, no hope, and no capacity to concentrate. How can we challenge

Three Core Skills

Deany Laliotis

Regardless of your specific methodology for treating trauma, there’s a core set of fundamental skills that determine a therapist’s effectiveness in this challenging arena of practice. This workshop will explore these underlying clinical skills in

How the Therapist Can Help

JOE KORT

Clients with sexual abuse histories often come to therapy with questions about their sexual expression and the obstacles they encounter in intimate relationships. They may find themselves engaging in trauma reenactment rather than

Transforming the Sexual Narrative

Suzanne Iasenza

When couples come to therapy with problems involving desire, arousal, and orgasm, therapists often fall into the trap of thinking of them as somehow broken and in need of fixing. Instead, this workshop offers

Busting the Common Myths

SALLY WINSTON & MARTIN SEIF

Almost everything we learned about obsessive compulsive disorder prior to 2000 was just plain wrong: it’s not rare, obvious, hard to treat, or a manifestation of deep underlying conflict. We now

When Couples Clash about Politics

PETER FRAENKEL

Increasingly, the enormous political and ethical conflicts in our society show up as volatility in the treatment room. This tremendous bifurcation in our political system mirrors what happens in high-conflict couples around the

Separating Myths from Reality

Frank Anderson

With so many controversies and contradictory research about the effectiveness of psychopharmacological interventions, it’s often hard to know how to best work with your clients around the issue of meds. How can you best

Helping Clients Tap into Their Inner Resources

SUSAN BREGMAN

Over the course of 50 years, the brilliant family therapy pioneer Virginia Satir developed powerful therapeutic techniques to help people externalize unconscious inner processes and experience emotional and spiritual healing. In

Senior Therapists and the Process of Change

Jay Efran

With experience, therapists tend to work in increasingly similar ways, despite differences in their initial backgrounds, training, and theoretical allegiances. Evidently, the time they spend with clients, as well as on

The Road to Adult Love

STEVEN STOSNY

Couples often come to therapy stuck in polarizing power struggles, feeling invalidated, and unable to resolve disagreements. The partners in these cases typically believe that they must sacrifice their personal integrity to save

Sex Therapy Tools Anyone Can Use

STEPHEN SNYDER

When a client unexpectedly reveals a sexual problem, many clinicians find themselves thrust into the role of “accidental sex therapist.” In this uncomfortable position, too many shy away from addressing the sexual

A Look Behind the Curtain

ELLIOTT CONNIE

Mastering Solution-Focused Brief Therapy requires practitioners to learn the deceptively simple process of asking targeted questions in session that thwart the all too common temptation for both therapist and client to focus on

Weathering Your Own Triggers

Martha Straus

Working with traumatized adolescents requires that the therapist be a master of self-discipline, acutely aware of their own triggers and able to respond to extreme reactions at a moment’s notice. From angry arousal to

Enhancing Dialogue in Groups

ORLI WAHRMAN

Groups are an underutilized modality in today’s therapy world. Communologue is an innovative group process for building an atmosphere of safety and inclusiveness that promotes deep connection and discussion, especially when resolving intense conflicts.

How to Heal the Trauma of Narcissism

Joseph Loizzo

In today’s challenging environment—when racial and sexual violence, rising inequity, and reactivity are erupting everywhere—our society seems to be collectively facing traumas we therapists have long been treating privately. These traumas

Use of the Therapist’s Self

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

Advanced Practices in Connection, Communication, and Caring

David Treadway

We all struggle to practice what we preach in our work with clients, and with couples in particular. Being in an intimate relationship is just as hard for us as everyone