Are you ready to deepen your understanding and use of DBT, FAP or exposure based procedures?
Are you willing to be intellectually AND emotionally connected as you explore how to bring out the best in yourself and your clients?
In new, unique distance learning formats, you and 8-10 colleagues will meet online weekly for 90 minutes in an interactive and engaging consultation group. Experts will lead didactic and experiential exercises. Weekly practice assignments and the opportunity to present your own work will further facilitate your learning. Easy-to-use technology allows anyone who can send an email to participate in online group meetings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Led by Kelly Koerner, Ph.D. THURSDAY 1:30-3 p.m. (Pacific) 1/19,1/26, 2/2, 2/9, 2/16, 2/23 OR MONDAY 12:30-2 p.m. (Pacific) 1/23, 1/30, 2/6, 2/13, (2/20 off for U.S. holiday of President’s Day), 2/27, 3/6. This consultation group will emphasize therapy for the therapist. Each 90 minute meeting will be divided between homework review, occasional teaching topic and case consultation. Teaching topics and between session practice assignments will focus on: deepening and further integrating mindfulness into one’s clinical work; DBT case conceptualization; identifying, defining and working on difficulties you experience in doing DBT. You will have the (optional) opportunity to present your own work. Contact Kelly Koerner at k.koerner@comcast.net or 206-265-2507
Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) Led by FAP co-developer Mavis Tsai, Ph.D. Fridays 9:30am-11am (Pacific) Jan. 13th – March 3, 2006. Topics include case conceptualization; methods to deepen emotional contact; understanding the hidden meanings of what your clients say; theoretically and behaviorally integrating a focus on mind, body, emotions and spirit; and how to best use yourself as a potent agent of change. For more information or to register, contact Mavis at 206-322-1067 or mavist@gmail.com.
Exposure Procedures: Join Amy Wagner, Ph.D., and Stacy Shaw Welch, Ph.D. Spring 2006. Topics include: Motivating clients for exposure; the nitty gritty of imaginal, interoceptive and in vivo exposure; how to avoid under- and over-engagement; informal exposure and more.