Registration for live training

Early registration fee is $175 (+txs), until October 27, 2020. Regular rate is $195 (+txs). This workshop is approved for 6 hours of continuing education by the OPQ (RA03444-20) and by the CCPA (under review). The workshop will be given live, online. 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Narcissists are notoriously difficult clients. While often intelligent, charming, and self-confident, they also tend to be highly self-absorbed, arrogant, demanding, condescending, incapable of empathy, and possessed with a sense of entitlement. The complexities of the narcissist can arouse our curiosity but treating them can arouse our sense of inadequacy. This workshop will help you establish a sturdier foothold for empathically holding narcissistic clients accountable and setting necessary limits. Through empathic curiosity and confrontation, you will learn how to diffuse distractions such as underlying shame and insecurity, and disarm the narcissist from shifting into modes (classic “hiding places”) such as detachment, dismissiveness, and overcompensating, entitlement, self-righteous, and criticalness. Empathic confrontationis a strategy that fortifies access to and maintenance of meaningful consequences while in therapy. It also helps to bypass power struggles.  You will acquire a working understanding of schema therapy as applied to narcissism in order to help you to conceptualize your patient’s schemas/modes (as well as your own) and how these schemas and schema modes interact in therapy. By having a firmer grasp on your own schemas and a better understanding of the narcissist’s makeup, you can overcome obstacles in treating narcissism and maintain the necessary leverage for meeting needs and correcting early biased emotional experiences.

BIO

With 25+ years professional experience and advanced level certifications, 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 the President of the Executive Board of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) from 2010-2014, and is currently the chair of the Schema Therapy Development ProgramsSub-Committee for the ISST; She also served as the Training and Certification Coordinator for the ISST Executive Board from 2008-2010.

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...”  (New Harbinger, 2^nd edition) translated in 12 languages.  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. 

OBJECTIVES

1. Use schema theory and schema mode work as applied to Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorders, including specific clinical strategies with narcissistic clients
2. Integrate concepts from interpersonal neurobiology—demonstrated as powerful tools for accelerating treatment effectiveness
3. Identify your client’s personal schemas and modes—a major obstacle to treatment
4. Use self-work to bypass intense reactions linked to personal triggers, activated by the narcissist and customize scripts to fortify leverage, to utilize “empathic confrontation”, and to set limits under a variety of conditions relevant to narcissism 

Early registration fee is $175 (+txs), until Januaray 15, 2021. Regular rate is $195 (+txs). This workshop is approved for 6 hours of continuing education by the OPQ (RA03443-21) and by the CCPA (under review). The workshop will be given live, online. 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Alienation from self in the context of abusive or dysfunctional parenting is a survival strategy that maintains children’s attachment to caregivers by disowning themselves as “bad” or “unlovable.”   It is a survival ability only possible because of the innate hypnotic ability of young children to create imaginary worlds and companions in a frightening environment.   The result, however, is a deeply painful failure of self-acceptance maintained by lifelong shame and self-loathing, difficulty self-soothing, and complications in relationships with others.  Without internal compassion or a sense of worth, it is difficult to take in the compassion and acceptance of others and impossible to tolerate rejection or criticism. To overcome this alienation from self, the psychotherapy must focus on cultivating clients’ ability to observe painful emotions as communications from their disowned selves and then to provide the ‘missing experiences’ for which their child parts have longed.  When clients connect to their trauma-related, structurally dissociated younger selves and bring them “home,” they spontaneously feel an internal sense of warmth and safety that transforms the implicitly remembered experience of fear and threat.  In this workshop, using strategies inspired by clinical hypnosis, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Internal Family Systems, we will explore the therapeutic power of fostering internal states of warm, compassionate attachment to even our most deeply disowned selves. 

BIO

Dr. Janina Fisher, PhD is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Instructor at the Trauma Center, an outpatient clinic and research center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known for her expertise as both a therapist and consultant, she is also past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, a faculty member of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher has been an invited speaker at the Cape Cod Institute, Harvard Medical School Conference Series, the EMDR International Association Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin, University of Westminster in London, the Psychotraumatology Institute of Europe, and the Esalen Institute. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of research and treatment and how to introduce these newer trauma treatment paradigms in traditional therapeutic approaches.

OBJECTIVES

1. Describe the relationship between early attachment trauma and alienation from self and recognize clinical signs of self-alienation
2. Teach clients to mindfully notice their distressing emotions and impulses as communications from child ego states
3. Describe hypnotic and somatic interventions that create an increased somatic sense of connection or attachment to one’s self
4. Foster ‘earned secure attachment’ as the outcome of attachment bonding between adult and child selves