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March 20-23, 2025
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Esther Perel

World-renowned Relationship Expert, NYT bestselling author

Esther Perel has devoted her entire professional life to helping people build thriving relationships. She believes that the quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives. Since arriving as a graduate student in the United States, Perel has examined the concept from myriad angles: the nature of cultural and religious identity, the negotiation between tradition and modernity, the ebb and flow between individualism and collectivism. She observed interracial and interreligious couples; the cultural forces that affect gender roles; practices of childrearing; and ultimately, the tensions, obstacles, and anxieties that arise when our quest for love and security conflicts with our pursuit of adventure and freedom.

Today, Perel is best known as the host of the wildly popular podcast Where Should We Begin? This fascinating, inside look at Perel’s sessions with real-life couples has unlocked a deep-seated cultural interest in hashing these issues out openly in order to live better lives. However, it has also unlocked within Perel the understanding that her years of study and practice go beyond the romantic, and that the lessons she has learned can be applied to relationships of all kinds, in all environments. The same principles used to create an open, balanced relationship with one’s significant other can be applied to our co-workers, our bosses, and our world at large.

New York Times best-selling author Esther Perel is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. As a psychotherapist, Perel has helmed a therapy practice in New York City for more than 35 years. In parallel, she serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Fluent in nine languages, Perel’s celebrated TED talks have garnered more than 40 million views and her best-selling books have been translated into 31 languages. Perel is an executive producer and host of the award-winning podcast Where Should We Begin? Her new podcast How’s Work? focuses on workplace dynamics and can be enjoyed on Spotify or other podcast providers.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Esther Perel maintains a private practice. She has employment relationships with Columbia University, Ackerman Institute for the Family, Norwegian Institute for the Expressive Arts Therapies, The Minuchin center for the Family, and 92nd Street Y. She receives royalties as a published author. Esther Perel receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Esther Perel is a member of the American Family Therapy Academy, The Society for Sex Therapy and Research, and the American Association for Sex Educators, Counsellors and Therapists.

Esther Perel

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Pioneering Innovator in Mindfulness for Clinical Practice

Featured in Bill Moyer's PBS Special, "Healing and the Mind", Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is executive director at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He is the founder and former director of the UMMC Stress Reduction Clinic and an associate professor of medicine in the division of preventive and behavioral medicine. Using mindfulness meditation, Kabat-Zinn works to help people reduce stress and deal with chronic pain, and a variety of illnesses, particularly breast cancer. He was a trainer for the 1984 U.S. Men's Olympic Rowing Team and is especially interested in reducing the stress-related problems in the inner city and in prison populations.

Kabat-Zinn's books include: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (1991); Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (1994) and Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (1997), which was co-authored with his wife, Myla.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Ramani Durvasula

Dr. Ramani Durvasula is a licensed clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, and the Founder and CEO of LUNA Education, Training & Consulting, a company that offers a range of programs focused on educating survivors, clinicians, coaches and businesses on the impacts of narcissism on health, wellness and functioning. She’s the author of Don’t You Know Who I Am: How to Stay Sane in the Era of Narcissism, Entitlement and Incivility, Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving a Relationship With A Narcissist. Dr. Ramani also has a popular YouTube channel that focuses on narcissism and difficult relationships, mental health, and societal expectations. Her work has been featured at SxSW, TEDx and on a wide range of media platforms including, Red Table Talk, the Today Show, Oxygen, Investigation Discovery and Bravo. She is also a featured expert on the digital media mental health platform MedCircle. Dr. Durvasula’s research on personality disorders has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and she is a Consulting Editor of the scientific journal Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Durvasula is a brutally honest voice on the struggles raised by narcissism in the US and globally.  

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Ramani Durvasula is the founder and CEO of LUNA Education, Training, and Consulting. She maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with the California State University Los Angeles and the University of Johannesburg. Ramani Durvasula receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Ramani Durvasula is an associate editor for Behavioral Medicine and a consulting editor for Psychology of Women Quarterly and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Mental Health. She is an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, AIDS and Behavior, and Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. Ramani Durvasula is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the International Association of Applied Psychology.

Ramani Durvasula

Daniel J. Siegel

Interpersonal Neurobiology Expert, Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute

Daniel J. Siegel, MD, is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. He is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, founding co-director of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center, founding co-investigator at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and Development, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, institutions, and communities.

Dr. Siegel's psychotherapy practice spans thirty years, and he has published extensively for the professional audience. He serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which includes over 70 textbooks. Dr. Siegel's books include his five New York Times bestsellers: Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence; Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, and two books with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D, The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. His other books include:The Power of Showing Up also with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., The Developing Mind, The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, The Mindful Therapist, Parenting from the Inside Out (with Mary Hartzell, M.Ed.), and The Yes Brain (also with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D). He has been invited to lecture for the King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Google University, and TEDx.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Daniel Siegel is the clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, the medical director of Lifespan Learning Institute, the executive director of Center for Human Development and Mindsight Institute, and the founding editor of Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Daniel Siegel receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Daniel Siegel serves on the advisory board for Gloo and Convergence in Washington, D.C.

Daniel J. Siegel

Frank Anderson

Renowned Harvard-trained psychiatrist, IFS Lead Trainer, Author Transcending Trauma

Frank Anderson, MD, completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.

Dr. Anderson is a lead trainer at the IFS Institute with Richard Schwartz and maintains a long affiliation with, and trains for, Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center. He serves as an advisor to the International Association of Trauma Professionals (IATP) and was the former chair and director of the Foundation for Self-Leadership.

Dr. Anderson has lectured extensively on the Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation and wrote the chapter “Who’s Taking What” Connecting Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Internal Family Systems for Trauma in Internal Family Systems Therapy – New Dimensions. He co-authored a chapter on What IFS Brings to Trauma Treatment in Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy, and recently co-authored Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual.

His most recent book, entitled Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems was released on May 19, 2021.

His memoir, To Be Loved, released on May 7, 2024.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Frank Anderson maintains a private practice. He is the Executive Director of the Foundation for Self Leadership and has employment relationships with The Trauma Center and The Center for Self Leadership. Dr. Anderson receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Frank Anderson is a member of the New England Society Studying Trauma and Dissociation and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.

Frank Anderson

Kenneth V. Hardy

Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD, is a Clinical and Organizational Consultant at the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in New York, NY where he also serves a director.  

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kenneth Hardy has employment relationships with Eikenberg Institute for Relationships and Eikenberg Academy for Social Justice . He receives royalties as a published author. Kenneth Hardy receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kenneth Hardy has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Kenneth V. Hardy

Janina Fisher

Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples, and families since 1980.

She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.

She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher has an employment relationship with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.

Janina Fisher

David Kessler

David Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on grief and loss. His decades of experience with thousands of people on the edge of life and death has taught him the secrets to living a happy and fulfilled life, even after life’s tragedies. He is the author of six books, including his latest bestselling book, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief. He coauthored two books with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. His new online model of grief support, Tender Hearts, offers over twenty-five groups. Additionally, David leads one of the most respected Grief Educator Certification programs. He is the founder of Grief.com.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: David Kessler is the is the co-founder and President Emeritus of Project Angel Food. He is a published author and receives royalties. David Kessler receives a speaking honorarium and recording and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: David Kessler is a board member for the Farrah Fawcett Foundation. He is a team member of the Health Care Executives of Southern California, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Red Cross.

David Kessler

Diana Fosha

Diana Fosha, PhD, is the developer of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), a healing-based, transformation-oriented model of psychotherapeutic treatment and she is founder and director of the AEDP Institute. For the last 20 years, Diana has been active in promoting a scientific basis for a healing-oriented, attachment-emotion-transformation focused trauma treatment model. Fosha’s work focuses on integrating positive neuroplasticity, recognition science and developmental dyadic research into experiential and transformational clinical work with patients. Her most recent work focuses on promoting flourishing as a seamless part of AEDP’s therapeutic process of transforming emotional suffering. Drawing on affective neuroscience, attachment theory, mother-infant developmental research, and research documenting the undreamed-of plasticity in the adult brain, AEDP has developed an experiential clinical practice, which reflects the integration of science, research and practice in psychotherapy.

Based in New York City, where she lives and practices, Fosha has been on the faculties of the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology of NYU and St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Medical Centers (now Mount Sinai) in NYC, and of the doctoral programs in clinical psychology at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University and at The City University of New York.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Diana Fosha is the Director and Founder of the AEDP Institute and maintains a private practice. She receives royalties as a published author. Diana Fosha receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Diana Fosha is on the advisory board of GAINS and the Society for Constructivism in the Human Science. She is on the Planning Committee and Advisory Board of by the Lifespan Learning Institute and is a member of the American Psychological Association.

Diana Fosha

Lisa Ferentz

Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, de-pathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for over 35 years. She presents workshops and keynote addresses nationally and internationally, and is a clinical consultant to practitioners and mental health agencies in the United States, Canada, the UK and Ireland.

She has been an adjunct faculty member at several Universities, and is the Founder of “The Ferentz Institute,” now in its 11th year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating over 1,200 clinicians from her two certificate programs in Advanced Trauma Treatment.

In 2009, she was voted the “Social Worker of Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. Lisa is the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2014), Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing (Routledge, 2014), and Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons From the Therapist’s Couch (PESI, 2017). Lisa also hosted a weekly radio talk show, writes blogs and articles for websites on self-harm and self-care, and teaches on many webinars.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lisa Ferentz maintains a private practice and is the Founder and President of the Ferentz Institute. She receives royalties as a published author and is a consultant for Northwest Hospital. Lisa Ferentz receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lisa Ferentz is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the American Psychotherapy Association.

Lisa Ferentz
Plus, Linda Thai, Claudia Black, Ellyn Bader, Ed Tronick, Tammy Nelson, Arielle Schwartz, Matthias Barker and 65 more of the field's leading experts!

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Learn from leading therapy innovators, including...

Ellyn Bader, Couples Institute Co-Founder
Deb Dana, Leading Polyvagal Informed Therapy Innovator
Claudia Black, Expert in Adult Children of Addiction
Diana Fosha, developer fo Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) 
Vienna Pharaon, “The Mindful MFT” and The Origins of You author 
Janina Fisher, renowned trauma expert and author
David Kessler, Grief Expert
Abi Blakeslee, Somatic Therapy Trainer
Ramani Durvasula, Narcissism expert
Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt, Developers of IMAGO Therapy
Arielle Schwartz, author of The Complex PTSD Treatment Manual

Deran Young, Founder of Black Therapists Rock
Tammy Nelson, founder of The Integrative Sex Therapy Institute
Stan Tatkin, developer of PACT and author Wired for Love
Alexia Rothman, renowned IFS practitioner
Matthias Barker, psychotherapy educator
Elliott Connie, developer of Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Martha Kauppi, author Polyamory: A Clinical Toolkit
David Grand, developer of Brainspotting
Peter Fraenkel, author Last Chance Couple Therapy
Lisa Ferentz, Founder of the Ferentz Institute
James Gordon, Founder of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Hilary Waller, Post-partum expert

Schedule at a Glance

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*All times are listed in Eastern Time
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Thursday, March 20

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM ~ Creativity Day - Full Day Intensive Deep-Dive Workshops
(Opportunities for Ethics CE, Cultural CE, and certification workshops!)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM ~ Main Stage: Special Symposium Opening Keynote Address
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM ~ Grand Opening of the Symposium Exhibit Hall & Conference Bookstore!

Thursday
Afternoon Keynote: 3:30 – 4:30 pm ET
Jean Twenge, PhD

iGen

Guiding the Smartphone Generation

Psychologist Jean Twenge is one of the foremost researchers exploring the lives of kids and teens today. Her up-to-the-minute studies tying the rise of mental health issues in teens to the explosion of smartphones have widely influenced key cultural figures and educational policy from coast to coast. A professor at San Diego State University and popular speaker, her talks and seminars about generational differences are based on an impressive dataset of over 40 million people, which keeps her in the center of both the intellectual debates and cultural maelstrom surrounding technology and teens. Among her 180 scientific publications and seven books are Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future and Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy—and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood. A frequent network news media guest, she writes the Generation Tech substack.  

In this talk, Twenge will delve into the latest findings about how being the first generation to spend their adolescence with smartphones is affecting today’s teens. Has it really made them more likely to experience unhappiness, anxiety, and depression? And if so, what can therapists do to help? 

Friday, March 21

7:30 AM ~ Morning Yoga and Movement Sessions
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM ~ Welcome & Morning Keynote
11:00 AM - 1 PM ~ Morning Clinical Workshops
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM ~ Luncheon Keynote
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM ~ Afternoon Clinical Workshops
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ~ Evening of Comedy Event
9:00 PM ~ Symposium Dance Party

Friday
Morning Keynote: 9:00 am – 10:45 am EST
Esther Perel, MA, LMFT

Bridging Divides: Exploring Polarization in Therapy and Society

How can we repair relationships in a world torn apart by polarization, conflict, and misunderstanding? In this dynamic conversation, three experts come together to offer their unique perspectives on rebuilding connection amidst division. Esther Perel, celebrated for her transformative work on intimacy and relational repair in her bestselling books, courses, and the podcast Where Should We Begin?, delves into how we can restore trust, nuance, and complexity in intimate relationships. Mónica Guzmán, author of I Never Thought of It That Way and a pioneer in bridging political divides through curiosity, shares insights on fostering empathy and understanding across seemingly irreconcilable differences, drawing from her experience navigating family dynamics with opposing political views. Bill Doherty, author of Becoming a Citizen Therapist: Integrating Community Problem-Solving Into Your Work as a Healer and Take Back Your Marriage, brings his expertise in helping couples and communities resolve conflicts through dialogue and shared purpose. 

Together, they will explore the messy, powerful work of repair, recognizing that true connection doesn’t mean eliminating differences, but learning to hold space for them. In a world where we often mistake our stories for truth, these experts argue that real understanding goes beyond living alongside those who think like us. Instead, it lies in our ability to coexist respectfully and empathetically with those whose stories and perceptions may deeply challenge our own. The goal is not to erase the divide, but to ensure it does not define our relationships by default—acknowledging that even in profound disagreement, there is a shared humanity that compels us to care for one another when it matters most. 

 

Friday
Luncheon Address: 1:15 – 2:45 pm ET
Daniel J. Siegel, MD

How Attachment Trauma Shapes Our Personality

Early Experience & The Formation of The Self

These days, if the modern human mind could have a personal translator, PR agent, and cheerleader, that person would be Dan Siegel. Beyond his impressive CV—he’s a clinical professor of psychiatry, founder and co-investigator at numerous research centers, founding editor of the Norton professional series on interpersonal neurobiology, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute—Siegel’s bestselling books have found their way into the hands of millions of everyday people seeking advice on developing awareness, regulating emotions, and raising whole-brain children. Having worked as a therapist and mind researcher for over 30 years, Siegel gets people and their patterns—on both a human and neurobiological level. More than any other psychiatrist alive today, he’s changed the way we live, communicate, parent, and think about thinking.

In this keynote, we’ll explore how persistent patterns of emotion, thinking, and behavior—known as “personality”—may have formed, and how to enable those potential prisons to transform into platforms of possibility that serve as playgrounds in life. Using research from the trans-disciplinary field of Interpersonal Neurobiology, we will explore the Patterns of Developmental Pathways (PDPs). Join us, and have your mind blown by our field’s beloved mind expert.

*Seats are limited.  Advanced registration is required and an additional fee will apply.

 

Elizabeth Earnshaw, MA, LMFT, CGT

Couples therapy expert, founder of “A Better Life Therapy”
Friday
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

315: 'Til Stress Do Us Part

Making Couples Therapy Actually Work

How many of your couples clients have ended up feeling like therapy isn't helping them? They go in week after week and find themselves frustrated that the skills they learn in session aren’t translating in their real lives. They know they shouldn’t yell and that it’s better to show affection and talk about challenges than it is to withdraw. Yet, at the end of a long day, they snap at each other or stumble down to the basement to avoid interaction, anyway. How can we help them—and help ourselves not feel like ineffective couples therapists? Before we teach them techniques, we need to address their stress. Our clients are suffering because there’s too much stress spillover into their relationships and they are too depleted to cope with it effectively. In this workshop, we’ll talk about how to identify it and what responding to stress can do to change the lives of your couples (and to make working with them feel less overwhelming). You'll discover:

  • How to assess and address the stress spillover couples are experiencing physiologically, behaviorally, and psychologically
  • How to use Dyadic Coping to help couples learn to cope with stress as a unit
  • Tools that therapists can use in session to reduce physiological overwhelm and help each partner come back to a “safe and social” state
  • A novel three-part system to help clients manage stress in their lives: shedding, preventing, and adapting

Elizabeth Earnshaw, MA, LMFT, CGT, is a couples therapist and the founder and clinical director of A Better Life Therapy. She’s a Clinical Fellow of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and has published two books, I Want This To Work and Til Stress Do Us Part, as well as a clinician’s tool titled The Couples Therapy Flip Chart. 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Elizabeth Earnshaw is the co-founder of The Rory Project and has an employment relationship with A Better Life Therapy, LLC. She receives royalties as a published author. Elizabeth Earnshaw receives a speaking honorarium and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Elizabeth Earnshaw has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Elizabeth Earnshaw, MA, LMFT, CGT
Friday
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

315: 'Til Stress Do Us Part

Making Couples Therapy Actually Work
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Elizabeth Earnshaw, MA, LMFT, CGT

Couples therapy expert, founder of “A Better Life Therapy”
Friday
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

315: 'Til Stress Do Us Part

Making Couples Therapy Actually Work

How many of your couples clients have ended up feeling like therapy isn't helping them? They go in week after week and find themselves frustrated that the skills they learn in session aren’t translating in their real lives. They know they shouldn’t yell and that it’s better to show affection and talk about challenges than it is to withdraw. Yet, at the end of a long day, they snap at each other or stumble down to the basement to avoid interaction, anyway. How can we help them—and help ourselves not feel like ineffective couples therapists? Before we teach them techniques, we need to address their stress. Our clients are suffering because there’s too much stress spillover into their relationships and they are too depleted to cope with it effectively. In this workshop, we’ll talk about how to identify it and what responding to stress can do to change the lives of your couples (and to make working with them feel less overwhelming). You'll discover:

  • How to assess and address the stress spillover couples are experiencing physiologically, behaviorally, and psychologically
  • How to use Dyadic Coping to help couples learn to cope with stress as a unit
  • Tools that therapists can use in session to reduce physiological overwhelm and help each partner come back to a “safe and social” state
  • A novel three-part system to help clients manage stress in their lives: shedding, preventing, and adapting

Elizabeth Earnshaw, MA, LMFT, CGT, is a couples therapist and the founder and clinical director of A Better Life Therapy. She’s a Clinical Fellow of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and has published two books, I Want This To Work and Til Stress Do Us Part, as well as a clinician’s tool titled The Couples Therapy Flip Chart. 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Elizabeth Earnshaw is the co-founder of The Rory Project and has an employment relationship with A Better Life Therapy, LLC. She receives royalties as a published author. Elizabeth Earnshaw receives a speaking honorarium and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Elizabeth Earnshaw has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Saturday, March 22

7:30 AM ~ Morning Yoga and Movement Sessions
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM ~ Welcome & Morning Keynote
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM ~ Morning Clinical Workshops
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM ~ Luncheon Keynote
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM ~ Afternoon Clinical Workshops
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ~ Storytelling Event

Saturday
Morning Keynote: 9:00 - 10:45 am ET
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD

The Liberative Nature of Mindfulness

Coming to Terms with Things as They Are

Having developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), an approach that changed many western medical practices, Jon Kabat-Zinn has been dubbed the “Godfather of Modern Mindfulness.” But for those who’ve followed his work over the last 50+ years, he’s been something else: their greatest teacher. Humble, practical, and full of spiritual
wisdom and humor.

A Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School—where he founded the MBSR clinic in 1979 and years later, the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine—Kabat-Zinn is the author of 15 books, including the time-honored bestseller Wherever You Go, There You Are and the recently released Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief. Used to treat everything from anxiety to trauma to immune response, with everyone from hospital patients to combat veterans, his teachings have produced a community of global healers, with more than 1,000 MBSR instructors and over 740 MBSR programs in hospitals, clinics, and health centers worldwide.

In this can’t-miss keynote, he’ll explore why mindfulness is so foundational to psychotherapy and how it can continue to provide all of us—clients and therapists—with a refuge for healing, acceptance, and radical acts of love during tumultuous times. The message of mindfulness, Kabat-Zinn once told the Networker, “Is an invitation to everybody to wake up to the true dimensionality of who we are.” Join us and open yourself to an unforgettable experience of being in the here and now.

Saturday
Luncheon Address: 1:15 – 2:45 pm ET
Linda Thai, LMSW, ERYT-200, CLYL

The Missing Piece of Attachment Theory

Restoring Safety & Belonging for Our Clients & Ourselves

Born in Vietnam, forcibly displaced as a child to Australia, and now living in rural Alaska, Linda Thai has dedicated her life to unraveling the mysteries of how trauma impacts the human mind and body, both personally and collectively. Her relentless focus on expanding our understanding of trauma, driven by her personal experience as a former child refugee, has led to her becoming a highly sought-after international teacher and trainer for therapists around the globe. A colleague of internationally renowned psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, she’s assisted with his small-group psychotherapy workshops aimed at healing attachment trauma. Her teaching is infused with empathy, storytelling, humor, research, practical tools, applied knowledge, and experiential wisdom.

In this keynote address, she’ll elucidate a new view of attachment theory that better encompasses our needs as whole humans, engages the full web of relationships anchoring our lives, and helps break the cycle of historical and intergenerational trauma at the individual and community levels.

*Seats are limited.  Advanced registration is required and an additional fee will apply.

 

Stephen Madigan, PhD

Award-winning couple and family therapist
Saturday
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET

515 - Helping Clients Rewrite Disempowering Stories

Plotting Positive Change with Narrative Therapy

The stories people tell themselves—and their therapists—are powerful. They can keep clients stuck, but they can also galvanize change. Although our culture often reinforces stories of personal deficit, rather than resilience and resourcefulness, narrative therapy effectively helps clients reauthor their stories within a broader context, revealing deeper truths about their lives and identities. In this workshop, you’ll explore a range of practical tools for engaging your clients in this work, including how to help them creatively remember empowering storylines after they leave a session. You’ll discover how to help clients:

  • Re-evaluate, reimagine, and revise negative identity conclusions.
  • Remember critical conversations that can shift their view of themselves and their relationships
  • Engage with evocative Narrative Therapy questions that help contextualize their problems in a new, enlivening way
  • Practice therapeutic letter writing to help alter disempowering, limiting narratives

Stephen Madigan, PhD, is an award-winning couple and family therapist, bestselling author, and director of training with the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Stephen Madigan has employment relationships with Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy, Yaletown Family Therapy and Mediation, VSNT.live online website, and Norway High Couple Conflict Teams. He receives royalties as a published author. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Stephen Madigan is an author with Psychotherapy Networker. He is a member of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellor and Family Mediation Canada.

Stephen Madigan, PhD
Saturday
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET

515 - Helping Clients Rewrite Disempowering Stories

Plotting Positive Change with Narrative Therapy
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Stephen Madigan, PhD

Award-winning couple and family therapist
Saturday
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET

515 - Helping Clients Rewrite Disempowering Stories

Plotting Positive Change with Narrative Therapy

The stories people tell themselves—and their therapists—are powerful. They can keep clients stuck, but they can also galvanize change. Although our culture often reinforces stories of personal deficit, rather than resilience and resourcefulness, narrative therapy effectively helps clients reauthor their stories within a broader context, revealing deeper truths about their lives and identities. In this workshop, you’ll explore a range of practical tools for engaging your clients in this work, including how to help them creatively remember empowering storylines after they leave a session. You’ll discover how to help clients:

  • Re-evaluate, reimagine, and revise negative identity conclusions.
  • Remember critical conversations that can shift their view of themselves and their relationships
  • Engage with evocative Narrative Therapy questions that help contextualize their problems in a new, enlivening way
  • Practice therapeutic letter writing to help alter disempowering, limiting narratives

Stephen Madigan, PhD, is an award-winning couple and family therapist, bestselling author, and director of training with the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Stephen Madigan has employment relationships with Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy, Yaletown Family Therapy and Mediation, VSNT.live online website, and Norway High Couple Conflict Teams. He receives royalties as a published author. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Stephen Madigan is an author with Psychotherapy Networker. He is a member of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellor and Family Mediation Canada.

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Sunday, March 23

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM ~ Welcome & Morning Keynote
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM ~ Clinical Workshops

Sunday
Morning Keynote: 9:00 - 10:45 am ET
Tricia Hersey

Rest as Freedom Dreaming

A Revolutionary Tool for Dismantling Oppression

Multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian, and community organizer, Tricia Hersey has radically changed the way we think about rest. After an epiphany about her own mental and physical exhaustion and its connection to the legacy of forced labor endured by her ancestors, she founded The Nap Ministry, a hugely popular community-based organization, and began advocating for revolutionary rest. But resting isn’t just about giving our minds and bodies a break from the daily grind—though that’s a part of it. In her bestselling books, Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto” and We Will Rest! The Art of Escape, Hersey invites us to re-envision rest as a social justice issue. Refusing to overfunction and run ourselves ragged in the name of productivity helps free us from the destructive mental, physical, and spiritual impact of oppressive systems like capitalism and white supremacy.  

In this keynote, Hersey will guide us in a collective experience of immersive daydreaming. She’ll introduce us to rest as a powerful way of practicing love, liberation, and community care. By giving ourselves permission to freedom-dream, we can access the liberating forces inherent in rest, and reconnect with it as a divine human right. 

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2025 EXPERT FACULTY

Kellie Newsome, PMH-NP

Psychopharmacology Clinical Expert

Kellie Newsome, PMH-NP, practices combined psychotherapy and medication treatment in North Carolina. She hosts The Pocket Psychiatrist, a podcast for clients, as well as The Cariat Psychiatry Podcast for mental health professionals.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kellie Newsome has an employment relationship with Mood Treatment Center and is the podcast host of Carlat Psychiatry Podcast. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kellie Newsome has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Kellie Newsome, PMH-NP

Psychopharmacology Clinical Expert
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Margaret Nichols, PhD

Executive Director of the Institute for Personal Growth

Margaret Nichols, PhD, is a psychologist, AASECT certified sex therapy supervisor and founder and first Executive Director of the Institute for Personal Growth, a psychotherapy organization in New Jersey specializing in clinical work with the sex, relationship and gender diverse community. She is the author of The Modern Clinician’s Guide to Working with LGBTQ+ Clients: The Inclusive Psychotherapist. Dr. Nichols is an international speaker and author of many articles on LGBTQ sexuality, transgender youth, kink, and consensual nonmonogamy, as well as co-director of Modern Sex Therapy Institutes Transgender Mental Health certification program.  

Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Dr. Margaret Nichols maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Margaret Nichols has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Margaret Nichols, PhD

Executive Director of the Institute for Personal Growth
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Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP

Author and Expert on Toxic Codependency

Nancy Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP, has been a therapist for over 40 years and is an expert in the field of codependent relationships. The author of Disentangle: When You’ve Lost Your Self in Someone Else (2020). Nancy has helped thousands of clients extricate themselves from toxic codependency, connect with self, and live with more peace and confidence.

Nancy is Master Addiction Counselor and an AMHCA Diplomate in Substance Abuse & Co-Occurring Disorders. She has also authored two other books My Life as a Border Collie: Freedom from Codependency (2012) and Your Healthy Self: Skills for Working with Codependent Behaviors (2015).

In addition to working with individuals, couples, and families, she offers online workshops on "Self-Recovery" and designs and facilitates a Codependence Camp twice a year. Over the past 15 years, Nancy has presented at numerous conferences including the Cape Cod Symposium on Addictive Disorders, the Carolinas Conference for Addiction and Recovery, Addiction: Focus on Women, the Virginia Summer Institute for Addiction Studies, the American Mental Health Counselors Association’s Annual Conference, the Virginia Counselors Association’s Annual Conference, and Specialty Docket Training for the Virginia Supreme Court. More information about Nancy and her work is available at her website: nancyljohnston.com.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Nancy Johnston maintains a private practice and is an independent contractor with Dr. Kuley and Associates. She receives royalties as a published author. Nancy Johnston receives a speaking honorarium from Virginia Summer Institute for Addiction Studies. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Nancy Johnston is a member of the American Mental Health Counselors' Association, the Virginia Counselors' Association, the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors, and the Virginia Association of Addiction Professionals.

Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP

Author and Expert on Toxic Codependency
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Rebecca Kase, LCSW

Expert Trainer, Author of Polyvagal-Informed EMDR

Rebecca Kase, LCSW, is an internationally renowned EMDR expert, consultant, trainer, and owner of Kase & CO Training and Consulting. She is the author of Polyvagal-Informed EMDR: A Neuro-Informed Approach to Healing (Norton, 2023) and has worked in a variety of settings with a variety of populations including children, adolescents, and adults. She has additional experience working with dissociation and complex trauma and incorporates yoga and mind-body techniques throughout her clinical work. She advocates for embodied presence, humility and curiosity as vital components for healing and successful therapy. Rebecca strives to provide engaging, safe, and shame-free environments for clinicians to explore and learn.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Rebecca Kase maintains a private practice and receives compensation as a national speaker. She previously received royalties from Bilateralstimulation.io. Rebecca Kase receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Rebecca Kase is a member of the EMDR International Association, the International Society for the Study of Traumatic Dissociation, and the Yoga Alliance.

Rebecca Kase, LCSW

Expert Trainer, Author of Polyvagal-Informed EMDR
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Robert Schwarz, PsyD, DCEP

Executive Director of EnergyPsycho.org

Robert Schwarz, PsyD, DCEP, is a licensed psychologist and master therapist and trainer who has been practicing for over 30 years. He is the Executive Director of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (energypsych.org). He has been teaching trauma treatment as well as energy psychology approaches for over 20 years. He has presented workshops internationally on trauma, Ericksonian hypnosis, brief therapy and energy psychology.

He is the author of Tools for Transforming Trauma, and PTSD: A Clinician’s Guide, as well as a book on couples' work, We’re No Fun Anymore and numerous articles and videos. Dr. Schwarz has organized over 20 conferences on treating trauma, Energy Psychology, Ericksonian Hypnosis and brief therapy training over 15,000 therapists. He is a clinical member of AAMFT, an approved consultant in Hypnosis, and a diplomat in Comprehensive Energy Psychology. He is known for his ability to provide specific clinical skills within an integrative model. Participants consistently comment that his workshops are engaging and entertaining, full of humor as well as deeply moving demonstrations.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Robert Schwarz maintains a private practice and is the executive director of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology. He is a published author and receives royalties. Dr. Schwarz receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Robert Schwarz has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Robert Schwarz, PsyD, DCEP

Executive Director of EnergyPsycho.org
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Roger Kuhn, PhD,

Author of Somacultural Liberation, Educator and Activist

Roger J. Kuhn, PhD, is a Poarch Creek Two-Spirit Indigequeer soma-cultural AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and sexuality educator. Roger’s work explores the concepts of decolonizing and unsettling sexuality and focuses on the way culture impacts and informs our bodily experiences. In addition to his work as a licensed psychotherapist, Roger is a faculty lecturer of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. He is a board member of the American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco and a community organizer of the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirit powwow.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Roger Kuhn maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with the San Francisco State University. Dr. Kuhn receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. Dr. Kuhn has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Roger Kuhn is a member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists and the American Anthropological Association.

Roger Kuhn, PhD,

Author of Somacultural Liberation, Educator and Activist
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Sally Spencer-Thomas, PsyD

International Experts on Suicide Prevention

Sally Spencer-Thomas, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and inspirational international speaker. Dr. Spencer-Thomas was moved to work in suicide prevention after her younger brother, a Denver entrepreneur, died of suicide after a difficult battle with bipolar condition.

Dr. Spencer-Thomas has been an invited speaker at the White House on the topics of mental health and suicide prevention and has held leadership positions for the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, the International Association for Suicide Prevention, the American Association for Suicidology, and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. She has won multiple awards for her leadership including the 2014 Survivor of the Year from the American Association of Suicidology, the 2014 Invisible Disabilities Association Impact Honors Award, the 2012 Alumni Master Scholar from the University of Denver, the 2015 Farbarow Award from the International Association for Suicide Prevention and the 2016 Career Achievement Alumni Award from the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology.

She has a Doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Denver, a Masters in non-profit management from Regis University, and a bachelor’s in psychology and studio art with a minor in economics from Bowdoin College. She has written four books on mental health and violence prevention.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sally Spencer Thomas maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sally Spencer Thomas is the president of United Suicide Survivors International and is a member of the executive board for the American Association of Suicidology. She is co-chair of the Workplace Special Interest Group for the International Association of Suicide Prevention and is a member of the Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

Sally Spencer-Thomas, PsyD

International Experts on Suicide Prevention
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Sue Marriott, LCSW, CGP

Interpersonal Neurobiology Expert

Sue Marriott is a clinical social worker, educator, and podcaster who has worked with individuals and groups in private practice in Austin, TX for over 30 years. Her passion boils down to bridging the life-changing relational sciences to those who would otherwise not have access to it. In that spirit, she co-authored Secure Relating: Holding Your Own in an Insecure World (HarperCollins April 2024) and co-created an independently produced podcast, Therapist Uncensored (which maintains an Apple top 10 ranking in social sciences with >9 million downloads in >200 countries). These were both created with her co-conspirator wife and rebel-rouser, Dr. Ann Kelley.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sue Marriott maintains a private practice and is the co-host of Therapist Uncensored Podcast. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sue Marriott has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Sue Marriott, LCSW, CGP

Interpersonal Neurobiology Expert
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Tova Rubin, PhD

Ethics in Therapy Expert Trainer

Tova Rubin, PhD, is in private practice in the DC area. She’s adjunct faculty at George Washington University and a hospice volunteer.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Tova Rubin maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Tova Rubin is a contributing author with Psychotherapy Networker.

Tova Rubin, PhD

Ethics in Therapy Expert Trainer
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Wendy T. Behary, MSW, LCSW

Bestselling Author of “Disarming the Narcissist” 

Wendy Behary, MSW, LCSW is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and the Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. She has been treating clients, training professionals and supervising psychotherapists for more than 20 years. Wendy was on the faculty of the Cognitive Therapy Center and Schema Therapy Institute of New York (until the Institutes merged in 2012), where she trained and worked with Dr. Jeffrey Young since 1989.

She is a founding fellow and consulting supervisor for The Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Aaron T. Beck’s Institute). Wendy served as the President of the Executive Board of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) from 2010-2014 and served as the Training and Certification Coordinator for the ISST Executive Board from 2008-2010. She is currently the chair of the Schema Therapy Development Programs Sub-Committee for the ISST.

Wendy Behary has co-authored several chapters and articles on Schema Therapy and Cognitive Therapy. She is the author of an international bestselling book, Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed, translated in 15 languages. The Third Edition was released on October 1, 2021. Wendy has a specialty in treating narcissists and the people who live with and deal with them. As an author and an expert on the subject of narcissism, she is a contributing chapter author of several chapters on schema therapy for narcissism for professional readers. She lectures both nationally and internationally to professional and general audiences on schema therapy, narcissism, interpersonal relationships, anger, and dealing with difficult people. She receives consistent high praise for her clear and articulate teaching style and her ability to bring the therapy to life through dramatic demonstrations of client interactions in the treatment room.

Her work industry business speaking engagements focus on interpersonal conflict resolution. Her private practice is primarily devoted to treating narcissists, partners/people dealing with them, and couples experiencing relationship problems.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Wendy Behary is the co-founder, Clinical Director, and Director of Training for The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The Schema Therapy Institute of NJ-NYC-DC. She is a published author and receives royalties. Wendy Behary receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Wendy Behary serves on the advisory board of the International Society for Schema Therapy and is a member of the NJ Association of Cognitive-Behavior Therapists, and the International Association of Cognitive-Behavior Therapists.

Wendy T. Behary, MSW, LCSW

Bestselling Author of “Disarming the Narcissist” 
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Elliot Connie, MA, LPC

Founder of The Solution Focused Universe

Elliott Connie, MA, LPC, is a Texas-based psychotherapist in private practice and the founder/director of The Solution-Focused University, an online learning community that trains and provides resources for professionals who want to master the Solution Focused approach in their work. Over the course of his 15-year clinical career, Elliott has successfully worked with thousands of individuals, couples, and families using a solution-focused model to help them achieve their desired outcomes. He is an experienced speaker who has gained international recognition for training hundreds of practitioners throughout the United States, Australia, Europe and Asia on the solution-focused treatment model. Elliott is the author/co-author of four books, including Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Clients Managing Trauma (Oxford University Press, 2018), The Solution focused Marriage: 5 Simple Habits That Will Bring Out the Best in Your Relationship (The Connie Institute, 2012), Solution Building in Couples Therapy (Springer, 2012), and The Art of Solution Focused Therapy (Springer, 2009).

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Elliott Connie is the founder of The Solution Focused Universe and maintains a private practice. He receives royalties as a published author. Elliott Connie receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Ellicott Connie is a member of the American Counselor Association and the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association

Elliot Connie, MA, LPC

Founder of The Solution Focused Universe
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Leanne Campbell, PhD

Trainer and Codeveloper of EFT Programs

Leanne Campbell is a Registered Psychologist, a co-founder and managing partner of Campbell & Fairweather Psychology group, and an ICEEFT (International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy) Certified Trainer. In addition to providing psychological services to hundreds of individuals, couples, and families over the past three decades, Dr. Campbell provides trainings in Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to professionals around the globe with a primary focus in the areas of grief and trauma. Most recently, she co-authored with Dr. Sue Johnson the first individually focused EFT book, A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Growth and Fitness in Every Client (Routledge, 2022).

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: T. Leanne Campbell maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: T. Leanne Campbell is a board member International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She is a member of the Canadian Psychological Association, the College of Psychologists of British Columbia, and the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.

Leanne Campbell, PhD

Trainer and Codeveloper of EFT Programs
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William Doherty, PhD

Director of the MN Couples on the Brink Project and Cofounder of Braver Angels

William Doherty, PhD, is a professor and director of the Minnesota Couples on the Brink Project at the University of Minnesota. He’s cofounder of Braver Angels, a nonprofit working to depolarize America. His new book (with Tai Mendenhall) is Becoming a Citizen Therapist: Integrating Community Problem-Solving into Your Work as a Healer.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. William Doherty receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. William Doherty is a member of the National Council on Family Relations, the International Council of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, and the American Psychological Association. He serves on several editorial boards, for a complete list contact PESI, Inc.

William Doherty, PhD

Director of the MN Couples on the Brink Project and Cofounder of Braver Angels
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Monica Band, PhD

Mental Health Justice Advocate and Educator

Dr. Monica P. Band is an award-winning practicing mental health therapist and educator on a mission to make mental health care more diverse, equitable, and inclusive for the next generation. She has dedicated her clinical work to better understanding and facilitating healing dialogues around intergenerational trauma and cultural identity work within her shared communities. Dr. Band has advanced training in utilizing EMDR specifically treating attachment wounds and complex trauma. She provides adjunct instruction for universities, train the trainer workshops, subject matter consultation, and interdisciplinary partnerships to destigmatize mental health for people of color and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Currently, Dr. Band owns Mindful Healing Counseling Services, LLC, a mental health group private practice that serves the D.C. metro area. She obtained her doctoral degree in counselor education and supervision at Marymount University and her master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling at The George Washington University.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Monica Band maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Monica Band is a member of the American Counseling Association and the Virginia Counselors Association.

Monica Band, PhD

Mental Health Justice Advocate and Educator
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Terry Casey, PhD

Expert on Legal and Ethical Issues

Terry Casey, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, consultant, and educator, and consultant specializing in ethical, legal, and practice issues. He maintains a private practice and has served for several years as the Ethics Committee Chair for a state-level professional organization.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Terry Casey maintains a private practice and is a faculty member of Lipscomb University. He is a published author and receives royalties. Dr. Casey receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Terry Casey is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Tennessee Psychological Association, the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselor Association, and others. For a complete list, please contact info@pesi.com.

Terry Casey, PhD

Expert on Legal and Ethical Issues
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Connor Beaton

ManTalks founder and bestselling author of Men's Work

Connor Beaton is the founder of ManTalks, an international organization focused on improving the lives, relationships, and mental health of men. He’s also an international speaker, author of the bestselling book Men’s Work: A Practical Guide to Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, and Find Freedom, and host of the podcast ManTalks. He’s also a TEDx speaker and has been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, The Good Men Project, and National Post. 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Connor Beaton is the founder of ManTalks and receives compensation as a therapist and coach trainer. He receives royalties as a published author. Connor Beaton receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Connor Beaton has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Connor Beaton

ManTalks founder and bestselling author of Men's Work
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Christine Mark-Griffin, LCSW

EMDR Therapy for Children Expert and Award-Winning Author

Christine Mark-Griffin, LCSW, RYT is an internationally acclaimed expert in EMDR therapy for children and award-winning author. Christine is passionate about playfully combining her love of yoga, music, movement & fitness with clinical practice to help others learn, grow and heal. She is the owner of Spark All Wellness, a small group practice located in San Francisco, California specializing in EMDR and trauma-informed yoga therapy with women and children. She is also the founder of EMDR for Kids, where her mission is to empower therapists, parents, and children of all ages with resources, tools, and advanced training to overcome trauma & adversities. 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Christine Mark-Griffin is the owner of Spark All Wellness. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Christine Mark-Griffin is a member of National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and EMDR International Association (EMDRIA).

Christine Mark-Griffin, LCSW

EMDR Therapy for Children Expert and Award-Winning Author
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Steve Shapiro, PhD

Expert on treating severe mental illness, AEDP Institute Founding Member

Steve Shapiro, PhD, is a psychologist, certified IEDTA teacher, trainer, and supervisor, and a founding member of the AEDP institute with over 20 years of clinical and teaching experience. His work as the director of an emergency psychiatric hospital for over 16 years has informed his approach to challenging patients with a history of trauma, a high degree of resistance, or excessive anxiety and dysregulation. He trains clinicians internationally. 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Steven Shapiro maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Institute, MCP Hahnemann University, He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Steven Shapiro is a fellow with the Pennsylvania Psychological Association and a member of the International Center for Clinical Excellence.

Steve Shapiro, PhD

Expert on treating severe mental illness, AEDP Institute Founding Member
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Kory Andreas, LCSW-C

Autism-Focused Therapy Expert

Kory Andreas, LCSW-C, is an Autism-focused therapist, consultant, and writer. She specializes in delivering neurodiversity awareness and affirming strategies to mental health practitioners, treatment facilities, and the corporate world.  

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kory Andreas maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kory Andreas has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Kory Andreas, LCSW-C

Autism-Focused Therapy Expert
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Stephen Madigan, PhD

Award-winning couple and family therapist

Stephen Madigan, PhD, is an award-winning couple and family therapist, bestselling author, and director of training with the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Stephen Madigan has employment relationships with Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy, Yaletown Family Therapy and Mediation, VSNT.live online website, and Norway High Couple Conflict Teams. He receives royalties as a published author. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Stephen Madigan is an author with Psychotherapy Networker. He is a member of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellor and Family Mediation Canada.

Stephen Madigan, PhD

Award-winning couple and family therapist
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Exhibit Hall Grand Opening

Friday, October 4

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM PDT
Morning Movement/Yoga
9:00 AM – 10:45 AM PDT
Welcome & Keynote Address
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PDT
Morning Workshops
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM PDT
Luncheon Address & Exhibit Hall Happenings
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
Afternoon Workshops
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT
Innovations Reception in the Exhibit Hall
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
Trauma Research Foundation Reception with Bessel van der Kolk
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM PDT
Innovations Dance Party

Jean Twenge, PhD & Lynn Lyons, LICSW

Friday
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

202 - Phones, Teens, and Plunging Mental Health

Getting Clear on How to Help Your Young Clients & Their Families

Today’s adolescents and teens barely drink or smoke, get into fewer fights, and have less sex. By many measures, they’re healthier and safer than they’ve ever been. And yet, in the last couple of decades, suicide rates have doubled among 12–14-year-olds, and there’s been a major increase in depression among teens in general. What gives?  

In this workshop, a teen anxiety expert and a popular research psychologist will help you help your clients:  

  • Connect the dots between smartphones entering the market and our stunning drop-off in teen wellness 
  • Go beyond the headlines and into the research about what developing a healthy relationship to technology looks like 
  • Tease apart the reasons socializing online may not be a replacement for in-person time 
  • Understand the good and bad of already anxious teens connecting through technology 

Lynn Lyons, LICSW, is a speaker, trainer, and practicing clinician specializing in the treatment of anxious families. She’s the coauthor of Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents and the co-host of the podcast Flusterclux. Her latest book for adults is The Anxiety Audit.  

Jean M Twenge, PhD, is a professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, and the author of more than 180 scientific publications and seven books, including Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future, and Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood. She writes the Generation Tech substack. 

Jean Twenge, PhD & Lynn Lyons, LICSW

Friday
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

202 - Phones, Teens, and Plunging Mental Health

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Steve Shapiro, PhD

Expert on treating severe mental illness, AEDP Institute Founding Member
Friday
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

205 - Effective Tools for Working with Serious Mental Illness

Using Techniques from ISTDP and AEDP

 It’s unfortunate, but severely mentally ill clients are the ones we frequently feel least able to help. Instead, they often find themselves marginalized within our field, medicated for chronic mental health symptoms without therapy. In this workshop, you’ll be introduced to powerful ways you can help fragile clients with serious trauma histories—or those who experience psychoses—to develop a more mature emotional infrastructure. Whether you’re an experienced practitioner or new to experiential dynamic therapies like ISTDP or AEDP, you’ll come away with new tools and interventions and a better understanding of how to help clients suffering from PTSD, personality disturbance, and severe and persistent mental illness. We’ll also touch on related issues such as splitting and projection, paranoia, hallucinations, disassociation, mind and body phenomena, suicide, therapeutic confrontation, and management of psychiatric emergencies. You’ll learn to:  

  • Use defense restructuring and anxiety regulating methods to meet clients where they are 
  • Do deeper work with clients through the development of increased emotional capacity and relatedness 
  • Help clients tolerate difficult and previously forbidden emotional conflicts
  • Help clients recognize the implicit emotional schemas keeping them stuck 

Steve Shapiro, PhD, is a psychologist, certified IEDTA teacher, trainer, and supervisor, and a founding member of the AEDP institute with over 20 years of clinical and teaching experience. His work as the director of an emergency psychiatric hospital for over 16 years has informed his approach to challenging patients with a history of trauma, a high degree of resistance, or excessive anxiety and dysregulation. He trains clinicians internationally. 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Steven Shapiro maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Institute, MCP Hahnemann University, He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Steven Shapiro is a fellow with the Pennsylvania Psychological Association and a member of the International Center for Clinical Excellence.

Steve Shapiro, PhD

Expert on treating severe mental illness, AEDP Institute Founding Member
Friday
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

205 - Effective Tools for Working with Serious Mental Illness

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Livia Kent, Tammy Nelson, PhD, Ingmar Gorman, PhD,& Monnica Williams, PhD

Friday
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

208 - Exploring Psychedelics & Mental Health

What Should We Be Asking about Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy?

For decades, renegade practitioners have been quietly offering psychedelic-assisted therapy to people in need of an alternate and often deeper path to healing than what traditional talk therapy alone often provides. Now, this work is in the limelight, having piqued the interest of a new generation of prominent therapists, researchers, clients—and the FDA. Psilocybin clinics are opening in several states. MDMA is being closely examined in clinical trials. But as clinical programs train more and more therapists to incorporate psychedelics into their work, have we adequately explored potential risks for our field, issues related to racial trauma and adequate access, and other ethical considerations for us and our clients. This multidisciplinary panel, moderated by Livia Kent, welcomes questions and audience participation. You’ll discover:

  • A deeper understanding of the therapist’s role as a provider of psychedelic-assisted therapy
  • Unique advantages and concerns that arise in psychedelic-assisted therapy
  • A fresh perspective on the current research related to psychedelic-assisted therapy
  • What to consider when it comes to psychedelics, racial trauma, and access

Livia Kent, Tammy Nelson, PhD, Ingmar Gorman, PhD,& Monnica Williams, PhD

Friday
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

208 - Exploring Psychedelics & Mental Health

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Kory Andreas, LCSW-C

Autism-Focused Therapy Expert
Friday
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

213 - Rethinking Adult-Diagnosed Autism

From Pathology to Identity

The “lost generation” of autistic adults—those who uncovered their Autism diagnosis in adulthood—are flooding our offices. As therapists, how can we best help them turn their lifelong barriers into breakthroughs? Say goodbye to stigma, outdated assessment methods, and what you thought you knew about Autism. In this workshop, we’ll uncover a new, innovative therapeutic approach that replaces ineffective generalist-therapy techniques with Autism-affirming strategies to create a new paradigm of care for neurodivergent clients. We’ll explore the expansive diagnostic scope of high- masking adults and equip you for the unique clinical considerations they present. You’ll discover:

  • How to identify previously unrecognized markers of neurodivergence
  • How to help clients soothe a nervous system “on fire” and address issues related to sensory sensitivities and comorbidities
  • How to unlock therapeutic pathways to identity-based acceptance, including navigating diagnostic grief
  • How to transform communication between partners in neurodivergence-affirming couples therapy

Kory Andreas, LCSW-C, is an Autism-focused therapist, consultant, and writer. She specializes in delivering neurodiversity awareness and affirming strategies to mental health practitioners, treatment facilities, and the corporate world.  

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kory Andreas maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kory Andreas has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Kory Andreas, LCSW-C

Autism-Focused Therapy Expert
Friday
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

213 - Rethinking Adult-Diagnosed Autism

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Scott Lyons, PhD, DO & Diane Poole Heller, PhD

Friday
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

303 - Breaking Free of the Trauma Cycle

Trauma Reenactment Patterns in Therapy

Many clients find themselves stuck in a loop of repeatedly being pulled back into trauma reenactments, despite their best efforts to heal. In this workshop, we'll explore why our clients stay locked in a state of threat long after the original wounding has passed, and how the subsequent perceptual, cognitive, and somatic compensations become habits that prevent them from truly healing. Using the latest research, demonstrations, and experiential practices, we'll examine how to help clients identify and break free from the distorted thoughts and bodily responses that perpetuate the trauma cycle. You'll learn practical tools for:

  • Recognizing trauma reenactment patterns 
  • Getting to what’s preventing the release of these patterns 
  • Building a roadmap for therapy and for clients to release these painful patterns 

 

Scott Lyons, PhD, DO, is a licensed holistic psychologist, Doctor of Osteopathy, educator, and author of Addicted to Drama: Healing Dependency on Crisis and Chaos in Yourself and Others. He's the creator of The Embody Lab, the largest online learning platform for body-based trauma therapies, and developer of Somatic Stress Release, a holistic process of restoring biological resilience, taught in over 20 countries.  

Diane Poole Heller, PhD, is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and expert in the field of child and adult attachment theory as well as trauma resolution. Her signature approach, DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience), provides therapists and individuals with insights and skills to facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds. She’s the author of Crash Course; Healing Your Attachment Wounds and The Power of Attachment. 

Scott Lyons, PhD, DO & Diane Poole Heller, PhD

Friday
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

303 - Breaking Free of the Trauma Cycle

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Frank Anderson, MD & Tammy Nelson, PhD

Friday
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

305 - Healing From Sexual Trauma

Integrating IFS and Integrative Relationship Therapy

Healing from sexual trauma can be a complex journey involving struggles with anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and other mental health and behavioral issues. At the cutting edge of treatment is the integration of Internal Family Systems with Integrative Relationship Therapy. In this workshop, you’ll be introduced to the benefits of viewing clients’ unwanted symptoms through an IFS lens, and you’ll explore how sex and relationship therapy can play a powerful role in integrating dismembered parts of the self. You’ll learn to apply the most effective interventions in the narrative, grief, and vision phases of treatment, and to move clients toward recovery. You’ll learn to help clients explore: 

  • Common sexual problems experienced by survivors of sexual trauma 
  • The three-phase recovery process for couples with trauma 
  • Triggers and how to implement a powerful IFS method for emotion regulation 
  • Identity, sexual integrity, and relationship assumptions  

Frank Anderson, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in Harvard, MA, specializing in the treatment of trauma and dissociation. A lead trainer at the IFS Institute, he’s affiliated with Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center and advises the International Association of Trauma Professionals. His most recent book is Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems. 

Tammy Nelson, PhD, is an internationally acclaimed psychotherapist, Board Certified Sexologist, Certified Sex Therapist, and Certified Imago Relationship Therapist.  She’s the executive director of the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute. She’s host of the podcast The Trouble with Sex, a TEDx speake and the author of several books, including Open Monogamy: A Guide to Co-Creating Your Ideal Relationship Agreement, Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together, the bestselling The New Monogamy: Redefining Your Relationship After Infidelity, When You’re the One Who Cheats: Ten Things You Need to Know, and Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy. 

Frank Anderson, MD & Tammy Nelson, PhD

Friday
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

305 - Healing From Sexual Trauma

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David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE & Paul Denniston, RYT 500

Friday
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

306 - When Grief Meets Trauma

Advanced Techniques using Heart, Mind and Body

Grieving clients are often experiencing not just loss but trauma. As practitioners, it’s important that we’re able to recognize and address both as we help them move toward healing. This requires tools and techniques for close listening, looking to the body for clues, and releasing regret, anger, and rumination. In this workshop, you’ll:  

  • Learn the difference between grief and trauma, and how they intersect in traumatic grief 
  • Understand when focusing on the story of the loss helps, and when it keeps clients stuck  
  • Apply tools that help clients move toward healing when grief involves guilt, sudden death, lengthy illness, suicide, addiction, or old wounds  
  • Lean somatic techniques to release grief that becomes stuck in their body 

David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE, is one of the world’s foremost experts on grief, the founder of Grief.com, and author of seven books, including Finding Meaning and his newest, Finding Meaning Workbook: Tools for Releasing Pain and Remembering with Love. He’s coauthored books with Elisabeth Kubler Ross and Louise Hay, and leads grief certification programs for professionals and online groups for those in grief. 

Paul Denniston, RYT 500, authored the bestselling book Healing Through Yoga: Transform Loss into Empowerment. The founder of Grief Yoga, he teaches this practice to counselors, psychologists, and health care professionals  and certifies other yoga teachers in the Grief Yoga Teacher Training.   

David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE & Paul Denniston, RYT 500

Friday
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

306 - When Grief Meets Trauma

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Terri Cole, LCSW

Author of Boundary Boss & founder of Real Love Revolution
Friday
3:00 - 5:00 pm ET

313 - Combating Burnout with Better Boundaries

Optimizing Your Skills and Work-Life Balance

It’s no surprise to anyone in our line of work: therapy is a demanding business. Recent studies show that nearly 40 percent of therapists say their workload has increased since the pandemic, and nearly half of therapists say they’re feeling burned out. But burnout doesn’t just affect us: it also affects those we help. In this workshop, you’ll learn perhaps the most vital ingredient in preventing burnout: establishing—and maintaining—proper personal and professional boundaries. You’ll learn how this optimizes your work and outcomes with clients as well as ways to implement these boundaries in multiple spheres: in creating your workload, in the moment with clients, and in establishing a healthy work-life balance. You’ll walk away with personalized, practical tools and strategies for increasing your professional longevity and maintaining overall well-being. You’ll learn how to:

  • Manage feelings of activation or overwhelm when it arises in the middle of a session
  • Recognize the early signs of professional burnout and boundary violations
  • Use scripts for setting and enforcing professional boundaries with your clients
  • Unlearn people-pleasing beliefs that keep you locked in “fix-it mode,” no matter the personal cost

Terri Cole, LCSW, is a New York-based licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert, speaker, coach, and founder of Real Love Revolution and Terri Cole's Boundary Bootcamp. She’s the author of Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free and Too Much: A Guide to Breaking the Cycle of High-Functioning Codependency. 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Terri Cole maintains a private practice. She receives royalties as a published author. She is a podcast host. Terri Cole receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Terri Cole is a member of the National Association of Social Workers.

Terri Cole, LCSW

Author of Boundary Boss & founder of Real Love Revolution
Friday
3:00 - 5:00 pm ET

313 - Combating Burnout with Better Boundaries

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Saturday, October 5

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM PDT
Morning Movement/Yoga
9:00 AM – 10:45 AM PDT
Welcome & Keynote Address
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PDT
Morning Workshops
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM PDT
Luncheon Address & Exhibit Hall Happenings
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
Afternoon Workshops
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT
Innovations Reception in the Exhibit Hall
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
Trauma Research Foundation Reception with Bessel van der Kolk

Leanne Campbell, PhD

Trainer and Codeveloper of EFT Programs
Saturday
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

510 - Emotionally Focused Trauma Therapy

A New Attachment-Based Model

Treating trauma survivors can often feel like high-stakes work. Fortunately, the science behind attachment theory offers a clear roadmap for navigating it. In this workshop, using real-life case examples and other stories from the therapist’s chair, you’ll learn how to harness the power of emotion and the wisdom of attachment science, culminating in a simple, five-step intervention that can transform trauma into growth and resilience. You’ll leave this workshop with a proven, emotion-focused method for improving your clinical outcomes for treating traumatic stress and more. You’ll also learn:

  • How EFIT (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy) offers an attachment-science-based lens that improves our understanding of how trauma recovery happens
  • An easy-to-follow, five-part roadmap to guide your client through each step of their healing journey
  • How to reframe client symptoms using the attachment-based language of emotion
  • How EFIT helps clients create new cognitive narratives—and anchors those narratives using an emotion-focused approach

Leanne Campbell is a Registered Psychologist, a co-founder and managing partner of Campbell & Fairweather Psychology group, and an ICEEFT (International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy) Certified Trainer. In addition to providing psychological services to hundreds of individuals, couples, and families over the past three decades, Dr. Campbell provides trainings in Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to professionals around the globe with a primary focus in the areas of grief and trauma. Most recently, she co-authored with Dr. Sue Johnson the first individually focused EFT book, A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Growth and Fitness in Every Client (Routledge, 2022).

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: T. Leanne Campbell maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: T. Leanne Campbell is a board member International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She is a member of the Canadian Psychological Association, the College of Psychologists of British Columbia, and the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.

Leanne Campbell, PhD

Trainer and Codeveloper of EFT Programs
Saturdy
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

510 - Emotionally Focused Trauma Therapy

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Diana Fosha, PhD & Ed Tronick, PhD

Saturday
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

402 - Going Deeper with Clients

The Power of Dyadic Affect in Both Infancy & Experiential Therapy

When meeting a client, whether in the first session or the last, safety and connection is necessary but not sufficient. If we want to enact change that lasts, we have to go one step further in creating a truly shared experience between therapist and client. In this workshop, you’ll discover: 

  • How to create therapeutic safety through shared emotion in session
  • How therapeutic relationships can be deepened through an understanding of parent-child interaction research
  • What to look for from clients through moment-to-moment tracking
  • Practical strategies built off dyadic affect research being used in psychotherapy through real client demonstration 

Diana Fosha, PhD, is the developer of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), a healing-based, transformation-oriented model of psychotherapeutic treatment and she is founder and director of the AEDP Institute. For the last 20 years, Diana has been active in promoting a scientific basis for a healing-oriented, attachment-emotion-transformation focused trauma treatment model. Fosha’s work focuses on integrating positive neuroplasticity, recognition science and developmental dyadic research into experiential and transformational clinical work with patients. Her most recent work focuses on promoting flourishing as a seamless part of AEDP’s therapeutic process of transforming emotional suffering. Drawing on affective neuroscience, attachment theory, mother-infant developmental research, and research documenting the undreamed-of plasticity in the adult brain, AEDP has developed an experiential clinical practice, which reflects the integration of science, research and practice in psychotherapy.

Based in New York City, where she lives and practices, Fosha has been on the faculties of the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology of NYU and St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Medical Centers (now Mount Sinai) in NYC, and of the doctoral programs in clinical psychology at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University and at The City University of New York.

Edward Tronick, PhD, is a developmental and clinical psychologist and is recognized internationally as a researcher on infants, children, and parenting. He developed the Face-to-Face Still-Face Paradigm and videotaped micro-analytic studies of infant en face interactions, pioneered studies of the effects of maternal depression on infants and carried out numerous cross-cultural studies of infant and child development. His Mutual Regulation Model and Dyadic Expansion of Consciousness hypothesis are widely accepted accounts of social interactions and therapeutic processes. Dr. Tronick is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, is director of the Child Development Unit, a research associate in Newborn Medicine, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, an associate professor at both the Graduate School of Education and the School of Public Health at Harvard.

Diana Fosha, PhD & Ed Tronick, PhD

Saturdy
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

402 - Going Deeper with Clients

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Ingmar Gorman, PhD & Elizabeth Nielson, PhD

Saturday
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

404 - Integrating Psychedelics Into Your Practice

Tomorrow’s Therapy Today

Imagine a therapy session where your client brings up an interest in using psychedelics as part of their healing journey; after all, the options are getting plenty of mainstream attention. Are you prepared to guide them through the maze of information, potential benefits, and risks? This workshop addresses the increasing curiosity about psychedelic-assisted therapy and equips you with the knowledge and tools to respond effectively. You’ll review cutting-edge research of psychedelic compounds like MDMA and psilocybin, illustrating how these substances are reshaping treatment approaches for addiction and trauma. You’ll also explore practical ways to translate groundbreaking research into meaningful clinical practice, ensuring your clients receive informed, balanced, and ethical guidance. You’ll discover:

  • An overview of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic compounds
  • The latest developments in clinical trials and their implications for the future of psychotherapeutic treatment.
  • Specific techniques for integrating psychedelic experiences into clinical practice, from assessment considerations to obtaining licenses and approvals.
  • How to have balanced, informed discussions with clients about their interest or experiences with psychedelics, fostering a safe and supportive therapeutic environment.
  • Up-to-date information on training, ethical issues, and valuable resources to support your clients effectively

Dr. Ingmar Gorman is a co-founder of Fluence, a psychedelic education company training mental health providers in psychedelic treatments. As a psychologist, he shares his expertise in empirically supported psychedelic treatments with his clients and trainees alike. Dr. Gorman received his clinical training in New York City at the New School for Social Research, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital, Columbia University, and Bellevue Hospital. He completed his NIH postdoctoral fellowship at New York University. He simultaneously served as site co-principal investigator on an FDA approved Phase 3 clinical trial of MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and is currently a study therapist and supervisor on the same study. He is co-author on a Nature Medicine paper reporting the results of the first Phase 3 clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. Dr. Gorman has also published on the topics of classic psychedelics, ketamine, and Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration.

Dr. Elizabeth Nielson, PhD, is a co-founder of Fluence and a psychologist with a focus on developing psychedelic medicines as empirically supported treatments for PTSD, substance use problems, and mood disorders. Dr. Nielson is a Site Co-Principal Investigator and therapist for an FDA approved Phase 3 clinical trial of MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and has served as a therapist on FDA approved clinical trials of psilocybin-assisted treatment of alcohol use disorder, psilocybin-assisted treatment of treatment resistant depression, and earlier phase 2 and 3 trials of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. Through Fluence, she provides continuing education and training programs for therapists who wish to engage in integration of psychedelic experiences in clinical settings. Her research includes qualitative and mixed-methods projects designed to further understand the phenomenology and mechanisms of change in psychedelic-assisted therapy, including the experiences of trial participants and of the therapists themselves. Having completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at NYU, she has published and presented on topics of psychedelic therapist training, therapists’ personal experience with psychedelics, and including psychedelic integration in group and individual psychotherapy.

Ingmar Gorman, PhD & Elizabeth Nielson, PhD

Saturdy
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

404 - Integrating Psychedelics Into Your Practice

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Ramani Durvasula, PhD, LCP & Wendy Behary, MSW, LCSW

Saturday
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

405 - Demystifying Narcissism

Common Myths and What’s Really Possible in Therapy

How to treat people with narcissism, and even whether you can make meaningful progress, is one of the hottest and most misunderstood topics in the field today. It’s also part of a burgeoning conversation about the importance of providing effective treatment for the partners, family members, and even colleagues of narcissistic individuals, who are often experiencing significant clinical distress because of the dynamics and behaviors of these relationships. In this workshop, two of the world’s leading clinical specialists on narcissism team up for the first time to help us understand this often-misunderstood personality style. You’ll unpack:

  • How to sort through the myths and misunderstandings around narcissism from a clinical point of view
  • The current debates and most important new findings about narcissism and narcissistic abuse
  • The most effective ways to approach narcissism and narcissistic abuse

Dr. Ramani Durvasula is a licensed clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, and the Founder and CEO of LUNA Education, Training & Consulting, a company that offers a range of programs focused on educating survivors, clinicians, coaches and businesses on the impacts of narcissism on health, wellness and functioning. She’s the author of Don’t You Know Who I Am: How to Stay Sane in the Era of Narcissism, Entitlement and Incivility, Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving a Relationship With A Narcissist. Dr. Ramani also has a popular YouTube channel that focuses on narcissism and difficult relationships, mental health, and societal expectations. Her work has been featured at SxSW, TEDx and on a wide range of media platforms including, Red Table Talk, the Today Show, Oxygen, Investigation Discovery and Bravo. She is also a featured expert on the digital media mental health platform MedCircle. Dr. Durvasula’s research on personality disorders has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and she is a Consulting Editor of the scientific journal Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Durvasula is a brutally honest voice on the struggles raised by narcissism in the US and globally.  

Wendy Behary is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and the Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. She has been treating clients, training professionals and supervising psychotherapists for more than 20 years. Wendy was on the faculty of the Cognitive Therapy Center and Schema Therapy Institute of New York (until the Institutes merged in 2012), where she trained and worked with Dr. Jeffrey Young since 1989.

She is a founding fellow and consulting supervisor for The Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Aaron T. Beck’s Institute). Wendy served as the President of the Executive Board of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) from 2010-2014 and served as the Training and Certification Coordinator for the ISST Executive Board from 2008-2010. She is currently the chair of the Schema Therapy Development Programs Sub-Committee for the ISST.

Wendy Behary has co-authored several chapters and articles on Schema Therapy and Cognitive Therapy. She is the author of an international bestselling book, Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed, translated in 15 languages. The Third Edition was released on October 1, 2021. Wendy has a specialty in treating narcissists and the people who live with and deal with them. As an author and an expert on the subject of narcissism, she is a contributing chapter author of several chapters on schema therapy for narcissism for professional readers. She lectures both nationally and internationally to professional and general audiences on schema therapy, narcissism, interpersonal relationships, anger, and dealing with difficult people. She receives consistent high praise for her clear and articulate teaching style and her ability to bring the therapy to life through dramatic demonstrations of client interactions in the treatment room.

Her work industry business speaking engagements focus on interpersonal conflict resolution. Her private practice is primarily devoted to treating narcissists, partners/people dealing with them, and couples experiencing relationship problems.

Ramani Durvasula, PhD, LCP & Wendy Behary, MSW, LCSW

Saturdy
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

405 - Demystifying Narcissism

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Stephen Madigan, PhD

Award-winning couple and family therapist
Saturday
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

414 - Helping Clients Rewrite Disempowering Stories

Plotting Positive Change with Narrative Therapy

The stories people tell themselves—and their therapists—are powerful. They can keep clients stuck, but they can also galvanize change. Although our culture often reinforces stories of personal deficit, rather than resilience and resourcefulness, narrative therapy effectively helps clients reauthor their stories within a broader context, revealing deeper truths about their lives and identities. In this workshop, you’ll explore a range of practical tools for engaging your clients in this work, including how to help them creatively remember empowering storylines after they leave a session. You’ll discover how to help clients:

  • Re-evaluate, reimagine, and revise negative identity conclusions.
  • Remember critical conversations that can shift their view of themselves and their relationships
  • Engage with evocative Narrative Therapy questions that help contextualize their problems in a new, enlivening way
  • Practice therapeutic letter writing to help alter disempowering, limiting narratives

Stephen Madigan, PhD, is an award-winning couple and family therapist, bestselling author, and director of training with the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Stephen Madigan has employment relationships with Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy, Yaletown Family Therapy and Mediation, VSNT.live online website, and Norway High Couple Conflict Teams. He receives royalties as a published author. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Stephen Madigan is an author with Psychotherapy Networker. He is a member of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellor and Family Mediation Canada.

Stephen Madigan, PhD

Award-winning couple and family therapist
Saturdy
11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

414 - Helping Clients Rewrite Disempowering Stories

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Megan Devine, LPC

Grief Expert, Best-selling author of "It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok"
Saturday
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

502 - Grief on the Job

Setting Boundaries & Holding Space for Others

Working with people in pain has never been easy, but recently, it’s become even more difficult. Between our country’s multiple mental health crises, a shortage of providers, and diminishing professional boundaries, many of today’s therapists are feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, and under-supported. Does this sound familiar? Our repeated exposure to our clients’ anxiety, depression, anger, and loss can manifest as a type of grief. In this workshop, you’ll learn specific tools you can use to manage this grief and set boundaries in the workplace, while still remaining present, attuned, and helpful to your clients. You’ll also discover how to:

  • Create and maintain boundaries with clients and coworkers in real time
  • Detect and navigate systemic workplace failures that are sources of emotional overwhelm
  • How to build a support system to help you manage grief when it arises
  • How to temper your use of self-disclosure and empathy to prevent getting “sucked in”

Megan Devine, LPC, is an acclaimed grief expert, psychotherapist and author of the best-selling book It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand, considered required reading by grieving people and professionals around the world. With over 20 years in the field, her pioneering work provides a professional, inclusive, and realistic approach to grief, one that goes beyond pathology-based, reductive models.

A sought-after expert when grief erupts in the public sphere, Megan’s work is featured widely in the media including the New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, GQ, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, the PBS documentary Speaking Grief, and more. Megan is the founder of Refuge in Grief, a hub of grief education and outreach where she leads people through some of the most devastating times of their lives. Her podcast, It’s OK That You’re Not OK, explores survival (and even hope) after life goes horribly wrong. Learn more about her trainings, consultancy work, consumer and industry-facing support materials, and her licensed programs at refugeingrief.com and megandevine.co.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Megan Devine is the founder and CEO of Refuge in Grief as well as The After Institute. Megan Devine maintains a private practice and is the on-line advisor/author of Empowering Parents. She is the creator and host of It’s Ok that You’re Not OK with Megan Devine. She receives royalties as a published author. Megan Devine receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Megan Devine has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Megan Devine, LPC

Grief Expert, Best-selling author of "It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok"
Saturdy
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

502 - Grief on the Job

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Monica Band, EdD, LPC, NCC, ACS, CCC, CRC & Sahaj Kaur Kohli, MAEd, LGPC, NCC

Saturday
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

511 - Treating Second-Generation Immigrants

How to Nurture Identity Development

Second-generation immigrants often struggle to balance their heritage with the dominant culture in which they live. They may be pulled toward Western individualism, for example, while their families’ collectivist ideals live on in their homes. This kind of bicultural straddling can result in emotional dysregulation, physiological complaints, and confusion in differentiation of self.  Unfortunately, when therapists lacking in cultural competence misinterpret certain cultural practices and family dynamics as repressive, or even pathological, it can lead to greater harm for the client. In this workshop, we’ll explore the common experiences of second-generation clients, and discuss how therapists can best support them with tools and strategies that bolster their identity development. You’ll discover:

  • How to address second-generation immigrants’ specific challenges and unhealthily coping mechanisms
  • How to apply a trauma-informed lens while navigating complex cultural landscapes in the therapy room
  • Ways to approach gendered expectations and cultural norms around emotional expression
  • How to identify and challenge biases around second-generation and bicultural clients

Dr. Monica P. Band, EdD, LPC, NCC, ACS, CCC, CRC, is an award-winning practicing mental health therapist and educator on a mission to make mental health care more diverse, equitable, and inclusive for the next generation. She has dedicated her clinical work to better understanding and facilitating healing dialogues around intergenerational trauma and cultural identity work within her shared communities. Dr. Band has advanced training in utilizing EMDR specifically treating attachment wounds and complex trauma. She provides adjunct instruction for universities, train the trainer workshops, subject matter consultation, and interdisciplinary partnerships to destigmatize mental health for people of color and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Currently, Dr. Band owns Mindful Healing Counseling Services, LLC, a mental health group private practice that serves the D.C. metro area. She obtained her doctoral degree in counselor education and supervision at Marymount University and her master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling at The George Washington University.

Sahaj Kaur Kohli, MAEd, LGPC, NCC, is a therapist, international speaker, and founder of Brown Girl Therapy, the first and largest mental health and wellness community organization for adult children of immigrants. The author of  But What Will People Say? Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures, she writes The Washington Post’s advice column Ask Sahaj.

Monica Band, EdD, LPC, NCC, ACS, CCC, CRC & Sahaj Kaur Kohli, MAEd, LGPC, NCC

Saturdy
3:00 – 5:00 pm ET

511 - Treating Second-Generation Immigrants

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Alexia Rothman, PhD

IFS Leading Practitioner and Trainer
Saturday
11:00 am - 1:00 pm ET

411 - Healing Trauma & Attachment Wounding with IFS

Empowering Clients to Reclaim their Wholeness

All parts are welcome in Internal Family Systems (IFS), even our exiles, the parts of ourselves that have endured the most significant trauma and that other parts of us often reject. Often, these young, vulnerable parts carry the painful belief that they’re unlovable, and heavy burdens of shame and worthlessness. Therapists and clients alike can feel hesitant, even fearful, to approach the memories exiles hold—yet doing just that is how transformative healing can occur. In this workshop, we’ll explore the IFS approach to witnessing, healing, and unburdening wounded and traumatized parts of the system. You’ll learn to:

  • Help clients compassionately connect with exiles
  • Facilitate healing with preverbal and nonverbal parts
  • Help clients safely reprocess traumatic memories using IFS techniques
  • Help exiles release painful, negative beliefs acquired through trauma

Alexia Rothman, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, international speaker and co-lead trainer for the Internal Family Systems model. She’s a former adjunct professor at Emory University and Agnes Scott College, and co-hosts the IFS-based podcasts, IFS Talks and Explorations in Psychotherapy. 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Alexia Rothman maintains a private practice. She is co-hosts of the podcasts IFS Masters and Explorations in Psychotherapy. She is a paid trainer with the IFS Institute, and she receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. Dr. Rothman receives compensation as a consultant. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Alexia Rothman is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Georgia Psychological Association, and the National Register of Health Service Psychologists.

Alexia Rothman, PhD

IFS Leading Practitioner and Trainer
Saturdy
11:00 am - 1:00 pm ET

411 - Healing Trauma & Attachment Wounding with IFS

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