Attachment disturbances begin imprinting in the body and nervous system before infants have the benefit of words or concepts. It’s this preverbal, subpsychological aspect that highlights the importance of emphasizing bottom-up interventions to help shift deeply held patterns in the body that talk therapy can’t cure. Somatic Attachment processing

In recent years, while mindfulness has become omnipresent in psychotherapy, too often clinicians have adopted a passive-observer form of witness consciousness, believing it’s enough just to help clients observe thoughts and emotions from a place of separation and extend acceptance toward them. This workshop will provide a comprehensive overview

Addiction and relapse are demanding and bewildering issues, often leaving therapists unsure of what to do. This workshop will present a comprehensive overview of treatment, recovery, and relapse. You’ll learn that relapse is a process with 11 identifiable steps in the downward spiral and participate in a skills training that will explain the dynamics

As therapists, we like to think that the primary antidote to clients’ feelings of self-loathing, shame, and personal worthlessness is our own demonstration to them of our total acceptance, unconditional positive regard, and confident hope in the therapeutic outcome. Unfortunately, many clients are so alienated from some despised part or parts of themselves---

Many hard-pressed therapists believe the best they can do is help the couple take their relationship from abysmal to okay. This workshop will present Relational Life Therapy (RLT), an approach that counters that conventional view. RLT focuses on helping each partner move below the childish “first consciousness” feelings of anger, self-righteous indignation,

The Enneagram, a system of nine basic personality patterns, can be an invaluable tool for recognizing core individual themes in both our clients and ourselves, providing insights into the way we think, feel, and physically experience reality. In this workshop, we’ll discuss how the three basic aversive emotions of fear, anger, and distress---

Recent neuroscience research has shown that multisensory messages, especially those involving visual images and metaphor, can have far greater impact than mere word-bound communication. In this workshop we’ll explore together how to apply these findings clinically to more fully engage clients, improve their memory of therapeutic discoveries

Every therapeutic approach has its distinctive strengths and limitations, so knowing how to combine differing approaches can increase our therapeutic effectiveness. Through case histories and demonstrations, this workshop will show the value of integrating Imago Relationship Therapy with Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT). You’ll learn

For some clients, it’s tougher to open up about money problems than about sex. Yet, as therapists, we need to be aware that the financial traumas of the economic downturn---job loss, home foreclosure, wiped out retirement accounts, the creeping fear of downward mobility---are experienced as psychological traumas. How can we help clients

Many therapists are drawn to Positive Psychology with its emphasis on paying attention to what’s good in life, gratitude, and optimism, but don’t know how convert these attitudes into clinical interventions. In this workshop, you’ll learn an approach based on Focusing, a body-mind method devised by psychologist Eugene Gendlin, which encourages clients