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  • Tuesday, December 12, 2023
  • 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    Ethics - Part I

    Presenter: Denise A. Beagley, MSc – Banner University Health Plans

    This workshop is designed to provide an overview of National ethical standards. In today's world, healthcare professionals, psychologists, psychiatrists, and counselors are facing ethical dilemmas in a high technology and social media world. Additionally, this seminar will review self‐disclosures in the age of the internet, privacy, security, clinical supervision, and ethical reasoning. An overview of the moral concepts of goodness, right, and obligation, and the ways in which they operate in society, religion, and law. These concepts are further enhanced during workshop discussions and group work.

    Preconference

  • 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    Masters of Psychotherapy

    Presenter: Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD – The Milton H. Erickson Foundation

    We will review video clips of master therapists conducting therapy including Milton Erickson, Virginia Satir, James Masterson, and Salvador Minuchin. We will compare and contrast methods and extract principles that can advance the practice of psychotherapy.

    Preconference

  • 4:20 PM – 5:30 PM
    Convocation & Keynote

    Keynote Speaker: Temple Grandin, PhD – Colorado State University, Dept. of Animal Science, Fort Collins CO

    Presenter: Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD – The Milton H. Erickson Foundation

    In this presentation, Temple Grandin will discuss how different kinds of thinkers approach problem solving. The first step is understanding that different kinds of thinking exists. I am an object visualizer and everything I think about is in photo realistic pictures. Another kind of thinker thinks in patterns and numbers. The third type thinks in words. Many people are mixtures of the different kinds of thinking.

    Keynote

  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
    Reception in Exhibit Hall
  • Wednesday, December 13, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
    The Invitational Identity: The Art and Practice of Shaping a More Beautiful Mind

    Keynote Speaker: David Whyte

    David Whyte will look at daily practices that cultivate a sense of real physical presence, real conversation and most transformatively, real invitations to the world and to others; invitations to a life that from the outside looks creative and zestful, but springs from a deep form of resting into our bodies and our way of living.

    Making real invitations, and asking increasingly beautiful questions of life - of others and of ourselves - is one of the foundational ways we can practice and shape a more beautiful mind. It is interesting to think that we might be able to practice shaping our imaginations, our perceptions and our minds, just as we practice a musical instrument, and that there are ways of improving ourselves that are pleasurable and rewarding in and of themselves, without necessarily having puritanical goals.

    The creative life is no source of immunity from the difficulties of existence, but a creative, invitational life is one that has as much rest, joy, intellectual and physical enthusiasm and surprise as it does grief, stress and angst.

    Keynote

  • 9:00 AM – 9:40 AM
    Break in Exhibit Hall
  • 9:40 AM – 12:40 PM
    Compulsive Sexual Behavior Assessment and Treatment: A sex positive approach

    Presenter: Eli Coleman, PhD – University of Minnesota Medical School

    This workshop will describe the assessment and treatment process of a sex positive and integrated approach to compulsive sexual behavior disorder. Case illustrations and discussion will be used throughout the workshop. We will also discuss recent research on the relationship between CSBD and religiosity, moral incongruence, attachment styles and emotion dysregulation and how to incorporate those issues into treatment.

    Workshop

  • 9:40 AM – 12:40 PM
    Ethics - Part II

    Presenter: Denise A. Beagley, MSc – Banner University Health Plans

    This workshop is designed to provide an overview of National ethical standards. In today's world, healthcare professionals, psychologists, psychiatrists, and counselors are facing ethical dilemmas in a high technology and social media world. Additionally, this seminar will review self‐disclosures in the age of the internet, privacy, security, clinical supervision, and ethical reasoning. An overview of the moral concepts of goodness, right, and obligation, and the ways in which they operate in society, religion, and law. These concepts are further enhanced during workshop discussions and group work.

    Workshop

  • 9:40 AM – 12:40 PM
    Managing the Crisis of Infidelity: How to Lead Your Clients from Raw Pain to Constructive Action

    Presenter: Ellyn Bader, PhD – The Couples Institute

    Therapists often feel challenged working with couples in the aftermath of infidelity. The relationship is in crisis, emotions are intense, and PTSD symptoms can surface and become unrelenting. You are required to quickly organize a lot of complex information into a coherent treatment plan. How do you do this with confidence?

    Ellyn will describe the three stages of infidelity treatment, show how to uncover the meaning of infidelity, describe when and why obsessing is valuable and when it is not and demonstrate via video how to move partners past the crisis stage into deeper work.

    Workshop

  • 9:40 AM – 12:40 PM
    Safe Conversations

    Presenter: Harville Hendrix &. Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD – Imago International Training Institute

    Talking is the most dangerous thing most of us do, and listening is the most infrequent. Safe Conversations Dialogue is talking without judgment, listening without criticism and connecting beyond difference.

    Workshop

  • 9:40 AM – 12:40 PM
    Symptoms as Solutions: Transforming Chronic Suffering into Positive Solution

    Presenter: Stephen Gilligan, PhD – Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D.

    Generative Psychotherapy sees a client’s negative states—depression, anxiety, addictions, negative habits-- as not-yet-valued attempts to satisfy core needs. The premise is that each core human experience—anger, vulnerability, not-knowing, playfulness--has equivalent potential to be positive or negative, depending on its human connections. Thus, a child’s anger becomes a negative symptom when met with hostile rejection, but a resource when engaged with skillful compassion.

    This workshop will explore ways that this understanding can transform negative problems into positive resources. A general framework will be presented, illuminated by multiple techniques, mini-demos, case examples, and a guided process. A major emphasis will be on the underlying nonverbal presence needed to make all this work.

    Workshop

  • 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM
    Lunch Innovation Theater (Non-Accredited)
    Innovation Theaters are informational sessions designed to complement your educational experience by further enhancing your knowledge and confidence of disease states or products. No CE credits are offered at these programs. Lunch will be served. Seating is limited to 400 attendees and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please plan to arrive early to ensure a seat.
  • 12:40 PM – 1:55 PM
    Exhibit Hall Break
  • 1:55 PM – 3:25 PM
    Hypnosis in Family Therapy

    Presenter: Camillo Loriedo, MD – Istituto Italiano di Psicoterapia Relazionale - Rome - Italy

    The demonstration of a family hypnotic session offers a clear idea of the powerful and subtle resistances a family members may develop in the course of their therapeutic treatment as well as of the many different solutions a therapist may adopt to overcome these resistances.
    Bodily communication, minimal cues and ideomotor responses can activate emotions in the family and make them available to produce change
    Indirect as well as direct forms of hypnosis to be used in the family interview will be presented and special attention will be dedicated to the criteria to follow in order to combine properly direct and indirect hypnotic communication in the different phases of the therapeutic process.

    Clinical Demo w/ Discussant

  • 1:55 PM – 3:25 PM
    Lessons Learned when Dealing with a Personal Loss - Clinical Implications

    Presenter: Donald Meichenbaum, PhD – University of Waterloo Ontario

    The tragic death of my beloved wife of 58 years provides a basis for an examination of treatment implications for individuals who experience traumatic bereavement.

    Clinical Demo

  • 1:55 PM – 3:25 PM
    Purpose-Centered Couple Therapy

    Presenter: Stan Tatkin, PsyD, LMFT – PACT Institute

    As with any approach, couple therapy must have a clear vision toward which the couple can navigate. We may call this the therapeutic goal or therapeutic narrative. The clarity by which the therapist holds this vision and expects the couple to meet this goal largely determines therapeutic success. We might ask the couple before us, “Why are you a couple?” “What’s the point of your relationship?” “Who or what do you both serve?” Most partners will say, “We love each other,” or, “We have children,” or, “We have similar things in common.” This workshop focuses on what predicts long term success in adult romantic relationships. We will discuss how purpose and shared vision sets the stage for meaningful, long-lasting relationships, and how a lack of purpose, shared meaning, and shared principles of governance (guardrails that protect partners from each other) is a predictor of accumulated, psychobiological threat and eventual dissolution. Here we examine couple capacity to co-regulate distress states as essential to threat reduction as well as confront the couple attitude when it comes to what sustains relationships over the long run. Love is not enough to ensure relationship endurance given the ever-present, survival-based nature of the human primate.


    Speech w/ Discussant

  • 1:55 PM – 3:25 PM
    The End of Mental Illness: Toward a new paradigm for psychiatry

    Presenter: Daniel G. Amen, MD – Amen Clinics

    The End of Mental Illness discards an outdated, stigmatizing paradigm and replaces it with a modern brain-based, whole-person program rooted in science and hope. Based on the world’s largest functional brain imaging database, Dr. Amen believes we should stop talking about mental illnesses, and call them what they really are – brain health issues that steal your mind that can be helped when we heal your brain.

    Speech w/ Discussant

  • 3:25 PM – 3:45 PM
    Break
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM
    Conversation Hour w/ David Whyte

    Presenter: David Whyte

    Join in a conversation hour with David Whyte, discussing topics from the Plenary Address: The Invitational Identity: The Art and Practice of Shaping a More Beautiful Mind.

    Conversation Hour

  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM
    Conversation Hour w/ Temple Grandin

    Presenter: Temple Grandin, PhD – Colorado State University, Dept. of Animal Science, Fort Collins CO

    In this presentation, Temple Grandin will discuss how different kinds of thinkers approach problem solving. The first step is understanding that different kinds of thinking exists. I am an object visualizer and everything I think about is in photo realistic pictures. Another kind of thinker thinks in patterns and numbers. The third type thinks in words. Many people are mixtures of the different kinds of thinking.

    Conversation Hour

  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM
    Eight Ways of Hoping

    Presenter: William R. Miller, PhD – University of New Mexico

    Hope predicts better outcomes in psychotherapy, whether measured from the perspective of clients or their therapists. Hope is also a universal human experience and a component of mental health more generally. Research and scholarship on hope are blossoming in the fields of ecology, economics, medicine, nursing, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, and theology. Yet what IS hope? In his forthcoming book on the subject, Bill Miller describes eight different kinds and ways of hoping. It can be probability, possibility, desire, optimism, trust, meaning, perseverance, or that elusive hope against hope. When working with clients in need of hope, here are eight different sources to explore.

    Speech

  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM
    Hypnosis Re-Imagined: How Milton H. Erickson Changed Our Minds

    Presenter: Michael D. Yapko, PhD – Private Practice

    Presenter: Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD – The Milton H. Erickson Foundation

    Great Conversation

  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM
    The 7 Steps of Generative Psychotherapy

    Presenter: Stephen Gilligan, PhD – Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D.

    This clinical demonstration will feature the 7 necessary conditions for sustainable therapeutic change: (1) a state of positive well-being; (2) a positive resonant goal; (3) resources; (4) welcoming obstacles; (5) integration of the parts into a creative whole; (6) commitment to practical action, and (7) commitment to daily practices. The practical ways to develop and integrate these complementary dimensions will be highlighted.

    Clinical Demo

  • 4:45 PM – 5:05 PM
    Break
  • 5:05 PM – 6:05 PM
    The Evolution of a Psychotherapist

    Keynote Speaker: Cloé Madanes, LIC, HDL – Madanes Institute

    Cloe Madanes will present the highlights of what she learned during her career, starting as teacher of family therapy to teacher of life coaching. She will present several case studies to illustrate some of the important values and principles of our profession as therapists.

    Keynote

  • 6:05 PM – 7:30 PM
    Reception in Exhibit Hall
  • Thursday, December 14, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
    Infidelity

    Keynote Speaker: John and Julie Gottman, PhD – The Gottman Institute

    There has NEVER been a controlled study on treating couples recovering from an extra-relationship affair. This presentation will review current approaches to this issue and present an alternative intervention, and the results of the first controlled study on the topic, with preliminary successful results post therapy, including questionnaires and observational data of conflict interactions. Couples were both same-sex and heterosexual relationships. Follow up data are now being collected.

    Keynote

  • 9:00 AM – 9:40 AM
    Break in Exhibit Hall
  • 9:40 AM – 11:10 AM
    Imago Dialogue

    Presenter: Harville Hendrix &. Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD – Imago International Training Institute

    When conversation changes from monologue to dialogue, safety is created connection can occur.

    Clinical Demo w/ Discussant

  • 9:40 AM – 11:10 AM
    Learning to Focus on the Person: How Science is Changing to Finally Get it Done

    Presenter: Steven C. Hayes, PhD – University of Nevada, Reno

    Scientific approaches to clinical intervention have hidden the individual behind a fog of normative concepts, latent variables, and treating the uniqueness of people as an "error term." WIth the help of properly focused artificial intelligence and new "idionomic" statistical methods that is finally changing. In this talk I will show how badly empirical science has interfered with the kind of understanding clinicians need; how wrong headed most of our theories are as a result; but also how a revolutionary change is now clearly underway. Science can be an ally to our deepest humanistic yearnings as practitioners, but not if the normal order remains as it has been.

    Speech w/ Discussant

  • 9:40 AM – 11:10 AM
    Re-thinking the Therapeutic Alliance: Suggestibility and Treatment Responsiveness

    Presenter: Michael D. Yapko, PhD – Private Practice

    Virtually all clinicians recognize the importance of the relationship between the therapist and the client. Whether it’s called a therapeutic alliance, an attunement, or a rapport, a positive interrelationship is routinely characterized as being the most important factor shaping the client’s progress. While the alliance is certainly a key factor, a key question then is, what makes some clients more responsive to the alliance and intervention and others less so? What role does suggestibility play in the process? The art and science of clinical hypnosis offers some valuable insights into the multiple factors shaping a client’s response to clinical interventions. Some of these insights will be presented and discussed in this speech that is an ode to the merits of suggestion and hypnosis in psychotherapy.

    Speech w/ Discussant

  • 9:40 AM – 11:10 AM
    Working with Trauma in Couples Therapy

    Presenter: Ellyn Bader, PhD – The Couples Institute

    Clients coming for Couples Therapy have often been impacted by early developmental trauma, systemic or intergenerational trauma, or acute interpersonal trauma.

    Partners with early developmental trauma or acute trauma at young ages are complex to work with and take patience, and persistence from the therapist to recognize moments of exposure and self-expression in order to develop a stronger sense of self. Yet, couples therapy can be a very powerful form of therapy for alleviating shame and developing a much stronger and more integrated sense of self.

    Speech w/ Discussant

  • 11:10 AM – 11:30 AM
    Break
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Autobiography of Trauma - A Healing Journey
: The Evolution of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™)

    Presenter: Peter A. Levine, PhD – Ergos Institute of Somatic Education and Somatic Experiencing International

    We all have our stories to tell; and this is mine, my trauma, my truth. Like Russian nesting dolls, it is one story folded into many others. I am now at the point in my life where I am ready to share the arc of my nested stories, my soul’s journey. It is the often-lonely path taken by an unsuspecting, unlikely, and deeply-flawed missionary.

    One of the core tenets of the trauma healing method I’ve developed, {over the past fifty years} is that we don’t guide people towards confronting their traumas directly, head-on. Rather, we gently encourage them to come to the periphery of these experiences, helping them access certain pivotal positive bodily experiences first.

    During my talk, I will discuss the evolution of SE and give an example of the application of this work by sharing two of my exuberant childhood experiences filled with safety, warmth, joy, and love. Implementing these powerful resources into my felt sense with support allowed me to process and come to terms with violent and terrifying experiences that occurred throughout my youth.

    I hope you can join me in exploring how trauma affects us, influences us, and how we can move it through our bodies to find peace and connect with our authentic Self.

    Invited Address

  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Healing of Psychological Suffering

    Presenter: Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD – Johns Hopkins Medicine

    To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal. My talk will be about the healing of psychological suffering not only through medicine, but more essentially through psychotherapy; what makes a great healer, and the role of imagination and memory in the regeneration of the mind. It will discuss the early psychological treatment of trauma in the shell shock hospitals of the First World War; the origins of psychotherapy in religion and magic in the early rites carried out in the Egyptian and Greek temples , and the more recent practice of psychotherapy in European and American consulting rooms. The role of accompaniment, courage, and heroic exemplars will also be discussed.

    Invited Address

  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture

    Presenter: Gabor Maté, MD – Gabor Maté M.D.

    Half of North American adults suffer from chronic illness a fact Western medicine views largely in terms of individual predispositions and habits. Western medicine imposes two separations, neither tenable scientifically. First, it separates mind from the body, largely assuming that most chronic illnesses have nothing to do with people's emotional and psychological experiences. And yet, a large and irrefutable body of research has clearly shown that physiologic and behavioural functioning of human beings can be understood only if we integrate our body functions with those of the mind: functions such as awareness, emotions, our interpretations of and responses to events, and our relationships with other people. Second, Western practice views people's health as sep arate from the social environment, ignoring social determinants of health such as class, gender, economic status, and race. Such factors, in reality, are more important influences on health and longevity than individual predispositions and personal factors such as genes, cholesterol levels, blood pressure and so on.

    This talk shows how a society dedicated to material pursuits rather than genuine human needs and spiritual values stresses its members, undermines healthy child development and dooms many to chronic illness, from diabetes to heart disease, from autoimmune conditions to cancer.

    Invited Address

  • 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
    Exhibit Hall Break
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    A Personal and Professional Journey with Don Meichenbaum: The untold stories of Cognitive behavior therapy

    Presenter: Donald Meichenbaum, PhD – University of Waterloo Ontario

    As one of the persons " in the room" when Cognitive behavior therapy was being developed and challenging the field of behavior therapy, this presentation will share the untold stories of this development. It will trace the history and consider the critical contributors, as well as provide a critique of the current status of Cognitive behavior therapy.

    Speech

  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    Conversation Hour w/ Cloe Madanes

    Presenter: Cloé Madanes, LIC, HDL – Madanes Institute

    Join in a conversation hour with Cloe Madanes, discussing topics from her keynote address.

    Conversation Hour

  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    Conversation Hour w/ Gabor Mate

    Presenter: Gabor Maté, MD – Gabor Maté M.D.

    Join in a conversation hour with Gabor Mate, discussing topics from the invited address, Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture.

    Conversation Hour

  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    Conversation Hour w/ Kay Jamison

    Presenter: Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD – Johns Hopkins Medicine

    Join in a conversation hour with Dr. Kay Jamison, discussing topics from her invited address.

    Conversation Hour

  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    Conversation Hour w/ Peter Levine

    Presenter: Peter A. Levine, PhD – Ergos Institute of Somatic Education and Somatic Experiencing International

    Join in a conversation hour with Dr. Levine, discussing topics from the Invited Address: Autobiography of Trauma - A Healing Journey The Evolution of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™).

    Conversation Hour

  • 2:45 PM – 3:05 PM
    Break
  • 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM
    Alternatives to the DSM and Implications for Treatment

    Presenter: Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP – Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology

    Participants in this workshop will become familiar with approaches to diagnosis that are more dimensional, inferential, contextual, and clinically oriented than the DSM and ICD taxonomies. The upcoming third edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual will be presented in some depth, with emphasis on its clinical applications, but there will also be some attention to the Power Threat Meaning Framework, the HiTOP model, the DSM Alternative Personality Disorder model, and other alternative approaches to classifying personality and psychopathology.

    Speech w/ Discussant

  • 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM
    Experiential Approaches to Empowerment.

    Presenter: Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD – The Milton H. Erickson Foundation

    Discussant: Stephen Gilligan, PhD – Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D.

    Clients can benefit from evocative experiences more than from didactic information. Assessment and treatment can be based in the use of experiential methods.

    Clinical Demo w/ Discussant

  • 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM
    Generative Change

    Presenter: Robert B. Dilts – NLP University

    Remedial change is like pulling weeds from a garden. Generative change is about planting new seeds, Both are important to create and sustain a healthy and productive garden. The same is true for mental health, The core focus in Generative Change is creativity: How do you create a successful and meaningful work life? How do you create great personal relationships? How do you develop a great relationship with yourself—your body, your past, your future, your wounds, and your gifts? Generative change means creating something beyond what has ever existed. To do this, a person’s state of consciousness is the difference that makes the difference. Generative change involves learning how to build the generative states, for yourself and others. It then focuses on how to maintain these states in dealing with whatever challenges arise on a creative journey, so that new and meaningful results can occur.


    Speech w/ Discussant

  • 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM
    The Space-Between

    Presenter: Harville Hendrix &. Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD – Imago International Training Institute

    Imago Relationship Therapy shifts the location of therapy from the Space-Withing to the Space-Between. The Space-Between is where life is lived, where suffering happens and where healing occurs. The Space-Within is where all this is remembered and repeated. Shifting from the Space-Within to the Space-Between moves from change to transformation.

    Speech w/ Discussant

  • 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM
    The Use of Containers in Couple Therapy

    Presenter: Stan Tatkin, PsyD, LMFT – PACT Institute

    Couple therapists must be able to organize each session in such a way that allows for measuring progress in their treatment plan. One such way is to think of placing the couple and therapist in discreet “containers” or exercises that stress the couple. These exercises, tasks, or games allow the therapist to test and retest hypotheses, test a particular capacity, or otherwise allow the therapist to view couple performance in real time. These containers include a task, timing, and possible roles casted by the therapist and may include a role the therapist must also play. An example might be a psychodrama whereby partners must replay a recent event – step by step – as the therapist, or as “the investigator,” gets the facts. Or another container might involve a deal breaker issue whereby partners are required to persuade each other out of a deal breaker while the therapist plays the role of mediating only the way partners argue their points.

    In this demonstration, attendees will learn how containers may be used within a couple sessions. This unique way of organizing therapeutic investigations/interventions can help couple therapists assess problems and progress in each session.

    Clinical Demo w/ Discussant

  • 4:35 PM – 5:05 PM
    Exhibit Hall Break
  • 5:05 PM – 6:05 PM
    How to Spot HYPE in the Field of Psychotherapy

    Keynote Speaker: Donald Meichenbaum, PhD – University of Waterloo Ontario

    Research indicates that the relative efficacy pf psychotherapy has not improved over the past three decades, and moreover the quality to the therapeutic alliance is three times as important in predicting treatment outcomes than the specific treatment modality. Against this background, Dr. Meichenbaum discusses the HYPE and exaggerated claims in the field of psychotherapy, A Consumer Checklist will be presented that helps both therapists and patients become more critical consumers of psychotherapeutic approaches.

    Keynote

  • Friday, December 15, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
    Transference Focused Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders

    Keynote Speaker: Otto F. Kernberg, MD, FAPA – Weill Cornell Medical College

    This presentation will cover strategy, tactics, and techniques of TFP, with particular emphasis on Interpretation, Transference Analysis, Technical Neutrality and Countertransference Utilization. A brief summary of Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory as the underlying theoretical model will be introduce the lecture.

    Keynote

  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
    Exhibit Hall Break
  • 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Core Tasks of Therapy: What " expert " therapists do

    Presenter: Donald Meichenbaum, PhD – University of Waterloo Ontario

    Research indicates that 25 % of therapists obtain 50 % better treatment outcomes and have 50% fewer dropouts from treatment than do their fellow therapists. This presentation will discuss what the "expert" therapists do that leads to such favorable treatment outcomes.

    Workshop

  • 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Fast, Effective Treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder

    Presenter: David D. Burns, MD – Stanford Medical School

    Co-Presenter: Jill Levitt, PhD – Director of Training, Feeling Good Institute

    In this workshop, Drs. David Burns and Jill Levitt will illustrate powerful techniques to heal your social anxiety patients, and yourself as well! You’ll learn how to
    • Reduce patient resistance to Interpersonal Exposure Techniques
    • Identify and smash the distorted thoughts that trigger social anxiety
    • Modify the Self-Defeating Beliefs that trigger social anxiety
    • Use mind-blowing Interpersonal Exposure Techniques such as
    o Rejection Practice
    o Self-Disclosure
    o Shame-Attacking Exercises
    o And more

    Workshop

  • 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Feedback Informed Treatment: A Pantheorectical, Evidence based Approach for Improving Outcomes

    Presenter: Scott D. Miller, PhD – International Center for Clinical Excellence

    It’s not a pretty picture. Available evidence indicates that the effectiveness of psychotherapy has not improved despite 100 years of theorizing and research. What would help? Not learning a new model of therapy or the “latest” so-called “evidence-based” treatment approach. And no, not attending another CEU event or sorting through that stack of research journals by your desk. A simple, valid, and reliable alternative exists for maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency of treatment based on using ongoing feedback to empirically tailor services to the individual client needs and characteristics. Research from multiple randomized clinical trials documents that this simple, transtheoretical approach as much as doubles the effectiveness of treatment while simultaneously reducing costs, drop-out rates and deterioration.

    Workshop

  • 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Motivational Interviewing

    Presenter: William R. Miller, PhD – University of New Mexico

    Motivational interviewing (MI) is a particular way of talking with people about change to strengthen their own motivation and commitment. With over 2,000 controlled trials worldwide, its applications have spread far beyond psychotherapy into corrections, education, health promotion, leadership and management, medical care, social work, and sports. Based on the 2023 4th edition of their text, Bill Miller will illustrate after 40 years of research the “simplicity beyond complexity” of MI through explanation, demonstration and experiential practice of some foundational clinical skills.


    Workshop

  • 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Transforming Limiting Beliefs

    Presenter: Robert B. Dilts – NLP University

    Beliefs are a type of “neurolinguistic program” that can exert a very powerful force on our behavior. Our beliefs about ourselves and what is possible in the world around us greatly impact our capacity for change and healing. Limiting beliefs, and “thought viruses,” can act like an invisible force that interfere with our capacity to be resourceful and trap us in unhealthy patterns of behavior. Empowering beliefs help us to identify and take best advantage of potential opportunities. This workshop will explore how to identify and transform limiting beliefs by uncovering their deeper structure, identifying the positive purpose they serve and introducing new perspectives that “reprogram” the limiting belief to a more productive and ecological form.

    Workshop

  • 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Treating Affair Couples

    Presenter: John and Julie Gottman, PhD – The Gottman Institute

    Co-Presenter: Taylor Irvine, PhD, LMHC, NCC – Nova Southeastern University

    Co-Presenter: Paul Peluso, LMHC, LMFT – Florida Atlantic University

    Infidelity remains one of the most frequent presenting problems in couple therapy. Yet, despite infidelity's prevalence, clinicians have continually rated infidelity as one of the most challenging issues to address and the one they feel least prepared to treat for decades. This gap is attributable to a lack of available research and education to treat infidelity-related issues, facilitating clinician challenges including but not limited to countertransference, difficulty navigating triangulation, and heightened emotional reactivity. Therefore, clinicians must be equipped to effectively conceptualize and treat infidelity to help guide couples through the affair recovery process. This presentation will review the current infidelity literature, spotlighting current prevalence rates, consequences, and risk factors of affairs. The presenters will also outline a Gottman Method Couples Therapy blueprint for effectively working with couples dealing with an affair, drawing from findings from a recent randomized control trial validating Gottman Method as an evidence-based treatment for infidelity. Finally, this presentation aims to increase clinician confidence in treating infidelity by engaging attendees through interactive case studies, noting strategies for best practice.

    Workshop

  • 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
    Exhibit Hall Break
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    Coaching and/or Psychotherapy: A Birdseye View

    Keynote Speaker: Martin Seligman, PhD – University of Pennsylvania

    More session details TBA

    Keynote

  • 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
    Exhibit Hall Break & Passport to Prizes Drawing
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
    Addressing Multiple Levels of Change

    Presenter: Robert B. Dilts – NLP University

    Any system of activity is a subsystem embedded inside of another system, which is embedded inside of another system, and so on. This kind of relationship between systems produces different levels of processes that create different types and levels of impact. According to the NeuroLogical Levels model, the life of people in any system, and indeed, the life of the system itself, can be described and understood on a number of different levels: environment, behavior, capabilities, values and beliefs, identity and purpose. Each level of change involves different dynamics and produces a different type and degree of influence. This presentation will explore the significance of each of these levels in supporting clients to create meaningful and sustainable change.

    Clinical Demo

  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
    Better Results through Deliberate Practice

    Presenter: Scott D. Miller, PhD – International Center for Clinical Excellence

    Despite widespread belief to the contrary, the evidence shows clinicians do not improve with experience or training. One professional development activity shows promise: deliberate practice. In two recent books -- "Better Results" and "The Field Guide to Better Results -- Scott Miller and colleagues reviewed the science and described the steps. In this clinical demonstratrion, audience members will engage in a structured, eivdence-based deliberate practice exercise documented to improve a key facilitative interpersonal skill.

    Clinical Demo

  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
    Conversation Hour w/ John and Julie Gottman

    Presenter: John and Julie Gottman, PhD – The Gottman Institute

    Join in a conversation hour with Drs. John and Julie Gottman, discussing topics from the keynote session: Infidelity.

    Conversation Hour

  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
    Conversation Hour w/ Martin Seligman

    Presenter: Martin Seligman, PhD – University of Pennsylvania

    Join in a conversation hour with Dr. Seligman, discussing topics from the keynote session: Coaching and/or Psychotherapy: A Birdseye View.

    Conversation Hour

  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
    Conversation Hour w/ Otto Kernberg

    Presenter: Otto F. Kernberg, MD, FAPA – Weill Cornell Medical College

    This conversation will center on the initial evaluation of patients with severe personality disorders. The detailed study of the patient’s symptomatology, his/her realistic motivation for treatment, and the structural approach to interviewing will be explored.

    Conversation Hour

  • 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM
    Break
  • 4:50 PM – 5:50 PM
    Clinical Demo using Couples Assessment to Plan Targeted Treatment

    Presenter: Ellyn Bader, PhD – The Couples Institute

    When couples come to therapy, a lot is happening quickly. How do you make sense of the hostility, pain and urgent distress? Ellyn will demonstrate powerful questions and interventions you can use in first sessions to develop a treatment plan that offers hope.

    Clinical Demo

  • 4:50 PM – 5:50 PM
    Effective Psychotherapists

    Presenter: William R. Miller, PhD – University of New Mexico

    Presenter: Scott D. Miller, PhD – International Center for Clinical Excellence

    It’s a subject the field has studiously avoided: that some therapists are consistently more effective than others. Instead, clinicians have been promised that improved effectiveness can be found in mastering one method or another. What actually differentiates the best from the rest? Based on a thorough analysis of 70 years of psychotherapy research, Bill Miller will explain eight characteristics of providers who deliver significantly better (or worse) outcomes relative to their peers. These attributes are reliably measurable from observation of practice and typically account for more variance in client outcomes than do particular treatment techniques that are offered. Scott Miller will review research documenting how the characteristics of the most effective providers are acquired – an activity known as deliberate practice. Together, research in these two areas has important implications for training and professional development as well as hiring and retraining of mental health practitioners.

    Great Conversation

  • 4:50 PM – 5:50 PM
    Process Based Empirical Case Formulation

    Presenter: Steven C. Hayes, PhD – University of Nevada, Reno

    In this demonstration I will show how high temporal density idiographic information on clients can now be combined into an empirical case formation. With only minimal prior contact I will reveal what the data suggest for a volunteer and will applied specific evidence-based intervention kernels based on these empirical algorithms.

    Clinical Demo

  • 4:50 PM – 5:50 PM
    Supervision

    Presenter: Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP – Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology

    Discussant: Otto F. Kernberg, MD, FAPA – Weill Cornell Medical College

    This conversation will address the art and science of clinical supervision, framing it as a developmental process and identifying recurring themes and controversies in the literature on the topic.

    Great Conversation

  • 4:50 PM – 5:50 PM
    Survivors Responses to Growing up with Abandonment

    Presenter: Claudia A. Black, PhD – The Meadows

    To grow up in an impaired family system and experience various forms of abandonment leave a legacy of internalized toxic shame. Dr. Black will describe the under pinning's and consequences to shame based beliefs that fuel self defeating behaviors.

    Speech

  • 5:50 PM – 7:30 PM
    Break
  • 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Mozart and the Art of Listening

    Keynote Speaker: Rob Kapilow – G. Schirmer, Norton/Liveright

    At the heart of psychotherapy is the idea that listening to someone is an inherently healing act. Can an understanding of the grammar of music help us better understand the grammar of how patients communicate? Can Mozart help transform how we listen? Join NPR and PBS conductor/composer/author Rob Kapilow for a unique exploration inside the language of music to see if it can help us learn to listen like Mozart.

    Keynote

  • Saturday, December 16, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
    The Expansion of the Self: Cultivating Awareness, Resilience and Belonging through Mind Training

    Keynote Speaker: Daniel Siegel, MD – Mindsight Institute

    Keynote

  • 9:00 AM – 9:20 AM
    Break
  • 9:20 AM – 12:20 PM
    Couples: Reading Faces, Body Cues and Tracking Autonomic Nervous System Trending in Partners

    Presenter: Stan Tatkin, PsyD, LMFT – PACT Institute

    The clinician in general, and the couple therapist specifically, would benefit from training in microexpressions and micromovements to track real time somatic shifts and changes that occur in patients and partners, particularly when under stress. Facial training can also help clinicians discover emotions in partners during their initial stages, in key parts of the face, allowing partner emotions to be amplified and explored by the therapist. Noticing nascent emotions through microexpressions often leads to patients feeling seen. It can also assist the clinician in determining when partners are using certain emotions as substitutes for others (sad for angry, angry for scared) or for deceptive purposes.

    This three-hour workshop will introduce attendees to the intricacies of the facial striated muscles, various ways humans express emotions, how facial expressions often point back to a patient’s family of origin, the patient’s attachment organization, the importance of signaling, and how facial expression and vocal prosody is vital to partner co-regulation of arousal states. Through lecture and demonstration, attendees will learn how to apply this knowledge to clinical work of any kind.

    Workshop

  • 9:20 AM – 12:20 PM
    Elite Brain Fitness Training Program: How the World’s Best Keep Their Minds Sharp, Bodies in Shape to Achieve World Class Performance

    Presenter: Daniel G. Amen, MD – Amen Clinics

    In this program psychiatrist and neuroscientist Daniel Amen will discuss his work with some of the elite athletes and performers he has treated, what makes them different, and what therapists can learn from them that helps their day-to-day clinical practices. Working with them to optimize performance is generally more desirable to top performers rather than admitting to and treating flaws. He will discuss the 4 circles of elite performance, including biological factors, including his BRIGHT MINDS Model, psychological, social, and spiritual strategies on developing clarity of purpose.

    Workshop

  • 9:20 AM – 12:20 PM
    Healing from Infidelity

    Presenter: Michele Weiner-Davis, LCSW – The Divorce Busting Center

    Without a highly concrete road map for helping couples heal from infidelity, it’s easy for therapists to get lost in the labyrinth of emotions. Additionally, generic therapy skills often don’t work with couples dealing with the aftermath of betrayal. Using illustrative video clips, this workshop will provide a nuts-and-bolts, step-by-step plan including unorthodox strategies for dealing with different phases of recovery. The emphasis in this workshop, however, will be on concrete clinical tools required to guide clients through and beyond the often shocking discovery of their partners’ affairs. Learn how to effectively coach both betrayed and unfaithful partners to undertake specific tasks to heal personally, strengthen their relationship, and master skills for navigating the complex, zigzag road to recovery, where progress can alternate with setbacks from week to week. You’ll explore how to work with an array of post-affair issues, and learn:

    Workshop

  • 9:20 AM – 12:20 PM
    How to Use an Expanded Psychological Flexibility Model to Expand your Own Practice

    Presenter: Steven C. Hayes, PhD – University of Nevada, Reno

    Clinical interventions are characterized by a cacophony of models and methods. In workshop I will show how a process based psychological flexibility model can be used to bring greater consilience across models and methods, allowing a new and more disciplined kind of eclecticism and treatment integration. A process-based approach can break down needless barriers between traditions and increase an effective and more integrative focus on the whole person. In this workshop we will work on the clinical microskills needed to accomplish this goal.

    Workshop

  • 9:20 AM – 12:20 PM
    The Experiential and Strategic Treatment of Depression

    Presenter: Michael D. Yapko, PhD – Private Practice

    Depression is the most common mood disorder in the world, one that is still growing steadily in both prevalence and severity. How a clinician thinks about the nature of depression and answers fundamental questions - such as what causes depression - naturally determines what treatment approaches they are most likely to take. Regardless of one’s preferred theoretical orientation, however, depression experts agree that treatment needs to be multi-dimensional and active in teaching skills in key areas such as coping, social, and problem-solving skills. Furthermore, the more we learn about the neuroscience of mood, especially neuroplasticity and neurogenesis, the more important well designed experiential learning processes become in treatment. These include the use of task assignments and focusing processes such as hypnosis and mindfulness, which can be applied in treatment to teach mood self-regulation skills. Learning to think strategically requires a better-than-average understanding of the patterns that regulate depression as well as an appreciation for how active the client needs to be in the treatment process. Such approaches are unapologetically goal-oriented because the larger goal is obvious: We want the client to not only feel better but be better. A video demonstration of a clinical hypnosis session addressing depression will be included.

    Workshop

  • 12:20 PM – 1:30 PM
    Lunch Break
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Conversation Hour w/ Dan Siegel

    Presenter: Daniel Siegel, MD – Mindsight Institute

    Conversation Hour

  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Conversation Hour w/ Rob Kapilow

    Presenter: Rob Kapilow – G. Schirmer, Norton/Liveright

    At the heart of psychotherapy is the idea that listening to someone is an inherently healing act. Can an understanding of the grammar of music help us better understand the grammar of how patients communicate? Can Mozart help transform how we listen? Join NPR and PBS conductor/composer/author Rob Kapilow for a unique exploration inside the language of music to see if it can help us learn to listen like Mozart.

    Conversation Hour

  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Overcoming Toxic Shame

    Presenter: David D. Burns, MD – Stanford Medical School

    Drs. David Burns and Jill Levitt will take you through the single-session treatment of Melanie, a prominent and beloved mental health professional who has struggled with intense feelings of anxiety and shame for nine years. We will illustrate dramatic video clips from our work with Melanie, emphasizing key features of her assessment and treatment, and including her rapid and mind-blowing recovery, and multi-year follow-up.


    Clinical Demo

  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Sex Starved Marriage

    Presenter: Michele Weiner-Davis, LCSW – The Divorce Busting Center

    One out of every three couples struggles with mismatched sexual desire---a formula for marital disaster. When one spouse is sexually dissatisfied and the other is oblivious, unconcerned, or uncaring, sex isn’t the only casualty; a sense of emotional connection can also disappear. Complicating matters is that fact that many couples (and some therapists) feel uncomfortable discussing sex and remain focused on “Red Herring” issues. This workshop offers a hands-on, collaborative model for addressing the "elephant in the room" and restoring sexual and emotional connection.

    Speech

  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Some Thoughts on the Nature (and desperate need for) Therapeutic Revolutions.

    Presenter: Scott D. Miller, PhD – International Center for Clinical Excellence

    More session details TBA

    Speech

  • 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM
    Break
  • 2:50 PM – 3:50 PM
    Couples Therapy

    Co-Presenter: Harville Hendrix &. Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD – Imago International Training Institute

    Discussion on different perspectives on Couples Therapy.

    Invited Panel

  • 2:50 PM – 3:50 PM
    Intercultural Issues

    Presenter: Derald Wing Sue, PhD – Teachers College, Columbia University

    Presenter: Robert B. Dilts – NLP University

    Presenter: Helen A. Neville, PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Presenter: Patricia Maria Arredondo, EDD – Arredondo Advisory Group

    Derald Wing Sue will discuss the four goals of becoming culturally competent in clinical practice: (1) Becoming aware of your own worldview, (2) Becoming aware of the worldviews of those who differ from you in terms of race, culture, ethnicity, gender, etc., (3) Developing culturally sensitive and appropriate intervention strategies, and (4) Understanding how systemic forces impact your clinical approach.

    Invited Panel

  • 2:50 PM – 3:50 PM
    Milton Erickson’s Legacy: It's evolution into the next generations

    Presenter: Stephen Gilligan, PhD – Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D.

    Presenter: Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD – The Milton H. Erickson Foundation

    Invited Panel

  • 3:50 PM – 4:10 PM
    Break
  • 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM
    A Conversation with Dr. Burns

    Presenter: David D. Burns, MD – Stanford Medical School

    Dr. Burns will answer your questions on a wide range of topics, including:
    1. What research led you to develop TEAM-CBT
    2. How does TEAM-CBT differ from traditional, Beckan CBT?
    3. What does research on your new Feeling Good App show?
    And more, including YOUR questions! Join us for a fun and inspirational hour, with some of David's famous stories thrown in!

    Conversation Hour

  • 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM
    Adult Children Concept

    Presenter: Claudia A. Black, PhD – The Meadows

    The Acronym ACA or ACoA has been a part of the therapy community for several decades. As the pioneer in the framework for its meaning and influence in the recovery field Claudia Black will discuss her history with the meaning and value this term offers the client.

    Speech

  • 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM
    Conversational Connectedness Between the Two Mind/Brains: The key to mental health

    Presenter: Stephen Gilligan, PhD – Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D.

    Evolutionary consciousness has unfolded for eons via nonverbal “nature” intelligences, only recently joined in human consciousness by the verbal/virtual mind. This has produced both heavens and hells, depending on whether the two “brain/mind” intelligences are interconnected (eco-mind) or dissociated (isolated ego-mind). We will examine multiple research findings suggesting that dissociation between these two mind/brains is the common underlying condition for pervasive suffering, and how the restoration of positive interconnectedness can be skillfully done in psychotherapy and the larger community. Special attention will be given to recent neuroscience findings, accelerating trends of diagnostic disorders, and relevant clinical methods.

    Speech

  • 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM
    The Healing Power of Relationships: From Trauma to Reconnection

    Presenter: Terry Real, LICSW – Relational Life Institute

    This workshop adds a live clinical demonstration.
    In a very focused brief time, participants will see how to focus in on the couple’s core dynamic, their repetitive “vicious circle,”
    each partner’s role, their “relational stance.”
    We address this “couple’s choreography “ as “the more … the more.” (The more she pursues, the more he distances… and the more he distances…”
    We move from stance (The Adaptive Child part of the client) to Trauma - what was that child adapting to?
    And we do deep trauma work in the presence of the partner.
    Relational Life Therapy occurs in three phases
    1- loving confrontation
    2- deep trauma work
    3- education and skill building
    It is the combination of all three that produce profound change quickly.

    Clinical Demo w/ Discussant

  • 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM
    The Structural Interview

    Presenter: Otto F. Kernberg, MD, FAPA – Weill Cornell Medical College

    This presentation will show the video of an initial evaluation of a patient with severe personality disorder carried out by Otto Kernberg. It will illustrate the typical sequences of structural interviewing, namely, 1) symptom exploration, 2) assessment of work and profession, love and sex, social life and creativity, 3) exploration of self and others representation to assess identity, and 4) testing of reality testing.

    Clinical Demo

  • 5:10 PM – 5:30 PM
    Break
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
    Job Burnout: Definition, assessment, organizational interventions

    Keynote Speaker: Christina Maslach, PhD – University of California, Berkeley

    Burnout is an occupational phenomenon that results from chronic workplace stressors that have not been successfully managed. Research on burnout has identified the value of fixing the job, and not just the person, within six areas of job-person mismatch. Improving the match between people and their jobs is the key to managing the chronic stressors, and can be done on a routine basis as part of regular organizational checkups. Better matches enable people to work smarter, rather than just harder, and to thrive rather than to get beaten down.

    Keynote

  • Sunday, December 17, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    Borderline Personality Disorder

    Presenter: Otto F. Kernberg, MD, FAPA – Weill Cornell Medical College

    This informal presentation and discussion will explore the differential diagnosis of severe personality disorders, with an emphasis on the differential diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. The internal relationship of histrionic and borderline personality disorder, the differentiation of BPD from narcissistic personality disorder, and the broader assessment of antisocial behavior will be discussed.

    Workshop

  • 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approaches

    Presenter: Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP – Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology

    The term "psychoanalysis" evokes images of a patient reclining on a couch, while a therapist sits quietly out of sight, taking notes and saying very little. Although there have been some psychoanalytic subcultures in which clinical practice has resembled this stereotype, especially in the middle of the last century, the contemporary psychodynamic landscape is both diverse and in stark contrast to such images.

    Workshop

  • 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    The Healing Power of US: Teaching Couples to Live Relationally

    Presenter: Terry Real, LICSW – Relational Life Institute

    The toxic culture of individualism and patriarchy rests on the delusions that we stand apart from nature and in control of it. Whether the ‘nature’ we are trying to control is our partner, our kids, our bodies (I must lose 10 pounds) or our own minds (I must be less negative).

    Our autonomic nervous system scans our bodies 4 times a second “am I safe?”, “am I safe?”, “am I safe?”, “am I safe?” If the answer is ‘yes, I feel safe’, we remain seated in the wise adult part of ourselves, our prefrontal cortex. We remember the whole, the relationship. But when the answer is ‘no, I feel in danger’, we shift into subcortical parts of the brain, knee jerk automatic responses in which we see the world as a zero sum, I win, you lose power struggle.
    In heated moments we lose the wisdom of us. We need to equip our clients to cultivate the ongoing practice of ‘relational mindfulness.’ Shifting from you and me consciousness into the centered adult parts of ourselves. Remembering love—that the person we are speaking to is someone we care about and not the enemy. This is the critical first step, the first skill from which all other skills depend.

    Once we equip our clients to think ecologically and relationally, all of the terms change. For example, the relational answer to the question of who is right and who is wrong, is who cares? The real question is how are you and I going to work on this as a team? Come learn how to help people deal with their own trauma effectively triggering and not inflict it on their families to deal with.

    Workshop

  • 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    Using Hypnosis with Families

    Presenter: Camillo Loriedo, MD – Istituto Italiano di Psicoterapia Relazionale - Rome - Italy

    More than as an individual/linear event hypnosis can be conceived in a systems perspective, as a circular and evolving process. This view of hypnotic trance demonstrates to be particularly useful when intergenerational conflicts develop in the family with the consequence of blocking the course of the natural family life cycle.

    Adopting an Ericksonian Naturalistic approach, families can be considered as a source of natural resources that the therapist should discover and activate in order to solve interpersonal conflicts.

    Specific direct and indirect techniques to induce a deep and meaningful change of the most rigid family patterns will be described. The demonstration of a family hypnotic session will introduce the different stages of the hypnotic treatment as well as of how naturalistic systemic hypnosis can transform resistances in the required solutions of family conflicts.

    Workshop

  • 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM
    Break
  • 11:20 AM – 12:20 PM
    Keynote and Closing

    Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD – The Milton H. Erickson Foundation

    Keynote and Closing Remarks

    Keynote

  • Virtual Only
  • Healing the wounds of Trauma with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy

    Presenter: Sue Johnson, EdD – international Center for Excellence in EFT

    EFIT – Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy is the individual version of the well known and well validated couple therapy, EFT. Attachment science and 35 years of research on EFT offer the therapist a map to the structure of emotion - our deepest needs and fears and how the inability to regulate frightening, alien and unacceptable emotion leaves clients trapped in the recurring nightmare of PTSD. This map allows the therapist to be attuned, focused and on target, moving clients into a new secure connection with themselves and with others. New ways of moving into and through no-solution vulnerability and the sculpting of new identity dramas leave the client in a state of emotional balance with the confidence and competence to deal the echoes of trauma. EFIT offers a systematic, reliable guide to shaping the emotional epiphanies that are necessary for recovery and post-traumatic growth.

    Workshop

  • Polyvagal Theory

    Presenter: Stephen W. Porges, PhD – Indiana University

    Speech