Susan Warren Warshow and Jon Frederickson will be teaming up again in Los Angeles on September 27/28, continuing their gratifying partnership to discover increasingly effective methods to teach both the art and skill of “Penetrating Defenses to Awaken the Self.”  Watch Susan and Jon “co-create” relationships with clients that are collaborative, respectful and capable of profound intimacy.

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Extensive video analysis using new clinical material will help illuminate the change process with emphasis on the following:

• Disarming Defenses with Compassionate Interventions
• Attending to Emotions and Somatic Signals
• Sustaining an Intrapsychic Focus and Therapeutic Alliance
• Accessing and Processing Buried Affects
• Healing Through Authentic Attachment
• Applying an Evidence-Based, Accelerated Treatment

Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW, LMFT, is the founder of the DEFT Institute (Dynamic Emotion Focused Therapy), offering an ongoing training program that is held monthly in Los Angeles. She is on the faculty of the ISTDP Institute, the Southern California Society for Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, and is a Certified IEDTA Teacher/Supervisor. She has published several journal articles and presents at conferences and workshops nationally and internationally.

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 forthcoming Co-Creating Change: Effective Dynamic Therapy Techniques.