Registration for live training

Please note that this is a LIVE workshop, given ONLINE.

This workshop is approved for 6 hours of continuing education by the OPQ (RA05115-22).
Early registration rate ($185 + taxes) ends October 7, 2022. Regular fee: $210 + taxes. Students receive a $60 discount on those prices.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Building and sustaining positive therapeutic relationships can sometimes be challenging. Unfortunately, shame often lies undetected in the therapy room, as clinicians report feeling “stuck” and unsure of the reasons why their clinical strategies are not working. Enhancing clinical skills that identify and treat core shame can be a missing link in an effective treatment. However, learning how to recognize and treat the roots of core shame requires the clinician to master certain techniques but also to be vulnerable, courageous, and able to tolerate right-brain dysregulation as it occurs in the therapy session.

This workshop will take clinicians back to the origins of shame and help them to identify its non-verbal, unspoken, and unseen aspects in clinical work. Understanding how shame can undermine the therapeutic alliance can help you develop effective strategies with your clients; creating a safe therapeutic holding environment is the key to repairing ruptures in emotional safety related to shame. Strategies such as therapeutic empathy, right brain co-regulation, mindfulness, meditation, creative arts, prosody, poetry, journaling, movement, dreamwork, archetypes, and metaphors will all be explored in this workshop. These relational and somatic techniques contribute to neural plasticity, repairing networks in the brain and nervous system related to core shame.

Creating authentic relationships with clients and trusting the individualized process will allow clinicians to improve outcomes. This allows the client to feel “good-enough,” as the therapist sees and feels into the client’s experience with large empathy, the antidote to shame.

BIO

International workshop presenter, author, and psychotherapist Dr. Patti Ashley, PhD, LPC, has integrated 40 years of experience in special education, child development, and psychology into her wholehearted work as a psychotherapist, author, international speaker, and authenticity architect coach. She brings unique insights into the identification and treatment of shame, trauma, grief, and dysfunctional family patterns.  

Dr. Ashley owns and operates Authenticity Architects in Boulder, Colorado. Her inimitable Authenticity Architects model facilitates long-term changes in the brain and nervous system, helping clients break through unconscious barriers and rediscover a sense of self-love, belonging, and connection. 

Dr. Ashley has counseled a myriad of individuals, couples, families and groups in mental health agencies, psychiatric hospitals, and private practice settings. She also has many years of experience developing continuing education courses for physicians, hospital wellness programs, universities, and other organizations. She is the author of Living in the Shadow of the Too-Good Mother Archetype; of Letters to Freedom; and of Shame-Informed Therapy: Treatment Strategies to Overcome Core Shame and Reconstruct the Authentic Self (2020) and has lectured for TEDx. For more information, please visit www.pattiashley.com

OBJECTIVES

With this workshop, participants will learn to:

1. Understand shame and how it develops as a core identity.
2. Identify ways shame presents in clinical practice.
3. Identify the mechanisms that induce shame.
4. Use effective techniques and strategies to treat shame.

Please note that this is a LIVE workshop, given ONLINE.

This workshop is approved for 6 hours of continuing education by the OPQ (RA05117-22).
Early registration rate ($185 + taxes) ends November 6, 2022. Regular fee: $210 + taxes. Students receive a $60 discount on those prices.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The Transformational Chairwork Psychotherapy Project began providing training in 2008; since then, thousands of psychotherapists and clinicians have attended workshops on this form of experiential dialogue work – both in the United States and around the world.  With the discovery of the Four Dialogues Model in 2018, the practice of Chairwork not only became easier to learn and understand, but also it became more effective as a treatment.

Transformational Chairwork is centered on the belief that there is a healing and transformative power in giving voice to one’s inner parts, modes, and selves, and in enacting or re-enacting scenes from the Past, the Present, or the Future. Dr. Kellogg’s team has focused on the Four Dialogue Matrix – which is a crystallization of over 50 years of Chairwork practice and exploration by a wide range of Gestalt and integrative psychotherapists. In this workshop, the presenters will focus on: 1. Internal Dialogues: Working with Polarities and Making Decisions; 2. Working through Trauma using the Three-Person Dialogues; and 3 .Healing from Grief and Loss.

This Transformational Chairwork Course is designed to introduce clinicians to the practice of Chairwork, in an active, creative, and clinically useful manner using clinical storytelling, role-plays, and live demonstrations.

Note that this training is theoretical, clinical as well as experiential. The presenters will do demonstrations of the different techniques and at times will invite the participants to form pairs to practice the techniques learned. 

BIOS

Dr. Scott Kellogg is a clinal psychologist and an International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) certified Advanced Schema Therapist as well as a Harm Reduction Therapist who has also trained extensively in Gestalt Therapy and Voice Dialogue.  He created the Transformational Chairwork approach in 2008 and he currently teaches this method of psychotherapeutic dialogue to clinicians in both the United States and abroad.  Dr. Kellogg is in private practice in New York City. Dr. Kellogg has served on the faculties of New York University, The Rockefeller University, and the Yale University School of Medicine.  He is the also a Past-President of the Division on Addictions of the New York State Psychological Association. He is the author of Transformational Chairwork: Using Psychotherapeutic Dialogues in Clinical Practice. 

Amanda Garcia Torres, LMHC, is a certified Chairwork Psychotherapist and Co-Director of Training at the Transformational Chairwork Psychotherapy Project. Ms. Garcia Torres received her Master’s degree in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness from New York University and has also completed training in Voice Dialogue. She began her journey with TCPP in 2013 and has trained clinicians in NYC and internationally. Her presentations and writings have addressed such topics as Chairwork, trauma, and identity issues. Ms. Garcia Torres is in private practice at Chairwork Therapy NYC.

OBJECTIVES

With this workshop, participants will learn to:

1. Identify the Four Dialogues.
2. Use Chairwork to help patients’ resolve inner conflicts.
3. Use Chairwork to help patients heal from loss and grief and work through traumatic memories.
4. Utilize and integrate the Deepening Techniques to create more emotionally compelling dialogues.

Please note that this is a LIVE workshop, given ONLINE.

This workshop is approved for 6 hours of continuing education by the OPQ (RA05116-22).
Early registration rate ($185 + taxes) ends January 5, 2023. Regular fee: $210 + taxes. Students receive a $60 discount on those prices.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a rich, integrative approach that has been shown to be effective for many clinically relevant concerns. Incorporating ACT into your treatment approach will have a significant impact on your clinical effectiveness and the well-being of your clients and patients. But because ACT takes a different perspective on psychotherapy, some clinicians wonder how to blend it into their own therapy approach. Other clinicians who have embraced the ACT concepts still have questions about certain aspects of the therapy. This workshop will explain ACT in a very clear, concise, user-friendly manner so that clinicians can draw on ACT to improve their practice. Dr. Moran will help participants gain a strong conceptual and applied understanding of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and to master the six domains of ACT. He will also address why acceptance is difficult for people, what to do about it and how to make mindfulness specifically practical for clients. Finally, he will explain what to do when people are resistant to mindfulness exercises. Because ACT is helpful for many clinically relevant concerns, case examples used throughout the day will include substance abuse, social phobia, OCD, depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and anger management.

BIO

Dr. Daniel J. Moran, Ph.D., BCBA-D, is the founder of Pickslyde Consulting, and the past-president of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), the international organization dedicated to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with over 8000 members worldwide. He also is a professor at Long Island University (LIU) and interim program director of the LIU-Post Psychological Services Center. He co-wrote the first case conceptualization manual for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy entitled ACT in Practice in addition to other books and book chapters and is a Recognized ACT trainer and a Fellow in the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. He has utilized ACT in work implementations and clinical training sites in all 50 of the United States and on six continents Dr. Moran is also the founder of the Mindful Action Lab and the MidAmerican Psychological Institute.  He is a regular contributor to the Psychology Today website, and has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Network, TLC, and The Discovery Channel discussing the treatment of many clinical disorders, and has published extensively with CBT pioneer Dr. Albert Ellis, and ACT pioneer Dr. Steven Hayes.

OBJECTIVES

With this workshop, participants will learn to:

1. Understand the tenets of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
2. Recognize and overcome the problem of experiential avoidance in clinical work.
3. Utilize acceptance approaches with each client’s avoidance problems.
4. Understand how ACT can be used to undermine problematic language functions.

Please note that this is a LIVE workshop, given IN PERSON IN MONTREAL.

This workshop is approved for 6 hours of continuing education by the OPQ.
Early registration rate ($230 + taxes) ends March 15, 2023. Regular fee: $295 + taxes. Students receive a $60 discount on those prices. Lunch is included as well as coffee breaks.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

This workshop will be given in person in Montreal!

All clinicians can think of clients that have challenged their skills and professional efficacy. More often than not, these clients tended to fall along the personality disorder spectrum, specifically the antisocial, narcissistic, or borderline spectrum. In this presentation, Dr. Fox will help you build your awareness and skillset to manage these most complex cases by breaking down this pathology into workable constructs to achieve therapeutic gains and success.

With this workshop, you will develop the skills you need to treat antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline spectrum disorders. You will learn to identify and manage critical factors associated with the stage of treatment for clients with these disorders and to counter maladaptive patterns that often disrupt your clients’ lives and thwart successful treatment. Dr. Fox will also explain how to apply evidence-based treatment modalities in your practice and produce therapeutic change and how to implement techniques to address surface and core maladaptive patterns in your clients. From foundations of pathology to clear and concrete strategies and case studies, you will acquire a deeper sense of the client, new treatment techniques, renewed inspiration, and growing confidence.

BIO

Dr. Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Texas, international speaker, and multiple-award winning author.  He has been specializing in the treatment and assessment of individuals with personality disorders for over 20 years in the state and federal prison system, universities, and in private practice. His specialty areas include personality disorders, ethics, burnout prevention, and emotional intelligence. He has published several articles in these areas and is the author of The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders, the award winning Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook: Treatment Strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders, the award winning Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox, the bestselling The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook, and Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance. 

Dr. Fox has been teaching and supervising students for over 20 years at various universities across the United States, some of which include West Virginia University, Texas A&M University, University of Houston, Sam Houston State University, and Florida State University. He is currently a staff psychologist in the federal prison system, Adjunct Professor at University of Houston, as well as maintaining a private practice that specializes in the assessment and treatment of individuals with complex psychopathology and personality disorders.  Dr. Fox has given numerous workshops and seminars on ethics and personality disorders, personality disorders and crime, treatment solutions for treating clients along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum, emotional intelligence, managing mental health within the prison system, and others.

OBJECTIVES

With this workshop, participants will learn to:

1. Identify and manage critical factors associated with the stage of treatment for clients with antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline pathology.
2. Identify and counter maladaptive patterns that often disrupt your clients’ lives and thwart successful treatment.
3. Apply evidence-based treatment modalities in your practice and produce therapeutic change.
4. Learn how to implement techniques to address surface and core maladaptive patterns in your clients and perpetuation of success strategies for your clients.