Presented by Martha Stark, MD Recorded on Friday, November 17th, 2023 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page There are clients who, never having fully confronted – and grieved – the pain of their early-on heartbreak, cling tenaciously to their hope that perhaps someday the object of their desire will be forthcoming. But there are others who, in the…
Presented by Martha Stark, MD Recorded on Friday, July 21, 2023 Access provided upon registration on “My Courses” page "Pretending that it can be when it can't is how people break their hearts." -Elvin Semrad Relentless hope is a defense to which clients cling in order not to have to feel the pain of their disappointment in the object – the…
Presented by Donald Moss, Ph.D. This program was recorded on April 2, 2021 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page Adjunctive therapies are interventions that combine well with clinical hypnosis and psychotherapy. These adjunctive techniques augment the therapeutic effect of the hypnosis and psychotherapy. The combined therapeutic effect of hypnosis and adjunctive skills together is often greater than the effect…
Presented by Martha Stark, MD Recorded on Friday, October 25, 2024 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page Dr. Martha Stark will present a comprehensive approach to deep and sustained (second-order) change that integrates three psychodynamic paradigms –(Model 1) the interpretive perspective of classical psychoanalysis (a 1-person psychology with a focus on "interpreting resistance," "developing insight," and "resolving internal conflict");…
Presented by Kate McNulty, LCSW Friday, March 7, 2025 9am-11:30am PT / 11am-1:30pm CT / 12pm-2:30pm ET Event held online via Zoom, link to access provided upon registration. This class applies principles from the neurodiversity movement to the task of differential diagnosis in psychotherapy. Self-advocates in need of mental health services promote disability rights and social justice. This clinically complex…
Presented by Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD This program was recorded on Friday, July 8th, 2022 Access provided upon registration on “My Courses” page Hypnosis is the progenitor of experiential approaches to psychotherapy. At its essence hypnosis is an evocative orientation that targets a conceptual realization; it is not an informative method. A logical extension is to seamlessly extend hypnotic principles into clinical…
Presented by David Patterson, PhD, ABPP, ABPH Recorded on Friday, October 11, 2024 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page This webinar will discuss rapidly increasing use of psychedelics in psychotherapy, particularly psilocybin and MDMA, the application of these therapies to treating complicated grief, and how hypnosis is related to this new wave of therapies. The presenter has been a…
Presented by Robert Staffin, PsyD, ABPH Recorded on Friday, September 8th, 2023 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page Ask a group of clinicians, even those with advanced training in hypnosis, “What is hypnosis?” and you will get a variety of descriptions ranging from neurophysiological to socio-cognitive. In addition to how one conceptualizes hypnosis, the term itself is used…
Presented by Geoff Bathje, PhD Recorded on Thursday, September 12, 2024 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page Ketamine can amplify emotional experience and access to memory, while disrupting defenses, creating what has been called a "pivotal state" where change is possible in a therapeutic set and setting. Yet, ketamine is often administered without the inclusion of psychotherapists, who are…
Presented by Martha Stark, MD Recorded on Friday, March 1st, 2024 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page If deep and enduring psychodynamic change is the ultimate goal of treatment, then periodically juxtaposing seemingly contradictory "forces" (Hegel's thesis and antithesis) will eventually jump-start the patient's "adaptive recovery" by creating optimally stressful, growth-incentivizing "mismatch experiences." Dr. Stark will be proposing use…
Presented by Gregory Jones, Psy.D. and Janelle Takyi-Micah, M.A. Recorded on Friday, October 25, 2024 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page Despite Ketamine being a widely used dissociative anesthetic for years, it is only recently that psychologists are able to utilize ketamine for the treatment of treatment resistant depression, PTSD, depression, anxiety, addictions, and as an augment to…
Presented by Martha Stark, MD Recorded on Friday, September 27th, 2024 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page Although you pride yourself on being able to offer your clients plenty of support, do you sometimes worry that you might not be providing them quite enough challenge? My workshop will teach you to construct a series of growth-incentivizing interventions specifically…
