Susan Warren Warshow and Jon Frederickson will be presenting a workshop titled “Penetrating Defenses and Surmounting Shame” in Los Angeles, 26-27 September, 2015. Susan and Jon have presented together over the years in a spirit of mutual respect for each other’s unique therapeutic styles. Utilizing rich recorded session material, both will offer analysis and discussion of the change process that takes place by reaching buried affect with compassion and skill. At this annual conference, always featuring new case material, you will discover how they:
• Disarm Distancing Defenses and Shame States
• Accurately Identify and Attend to Somatic Signals
• Sustain an Internal Focus for Accelerated Results
• Heal through an Authentic Attachment Relationship
• Apply an Evidence-Based, Dynamic Treatment
Topics to be covered in 2015 include: “Shame Sensitive Interventions to Disarm Defenses”; “Working with Self-Destructiveness—Barriers to Emotional Closeness”; “Guilt—the Driver of Self-punishment”; “Metabolizing Unconscious Emotions: the Calm after the Storm”; “Addressing Devaluation of the Therapist”; “Confronting Lying in Therapy”. Each day will end with processing of the therapist’s internal experience.
For more information and to register, visit www.ceuregistration.com
Your Presenters:
Jon Frederickson, LICSW, is the Founder of the ISTDP Training Institute and the co-chair of the ISTDP training program at the Washington School of Psychiatry; chair of the ISTDP Core Training for the Norwegian Society for ISTDP; and on the faculty of the Laboratorium Psykoeducaji in Warsaw and the Italian EDT Society. He is the author of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives and the award winning Co-Creating Change: Effective Dynamic Therapy Techniques.
Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW, LMFT is the founder of the Dynamic Emotion Focused Therapy Institute. She serves on the board of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association and is a Certified IEDTA Teacher/Supervisor. She is on the faculty of the ISTDP Institute and presents at numerous national and international conferences and local teaching institutions. She has published articles in professional journals and has a private practice in Woodland Hills, CA, treating individuals and couples.
Please check the registration site for current agenda items as sometimes presenters update workshops.