DEFT Institute and Insight Center Present
Surmounting Shame: Video Analysis of the Change Process

with Susan Warren Warshow

April 16, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, West Los Angeles

For CE information, and to register, click here.

Early registration: $125
Full tuition: $165
Please note that early registration ends March 11, 2016

Susan Warshow will demonstrate how Dynamic Emotion Focused Therapy (DEFT) can effectively overcome therapeutic obstacles and facilitate depth emotion processing and integration, an approach to healing attachment trauma.

DEFT interventions emphasize sensitivity to shame states that are triggered by self-exposure and emotional intimacy within the therapeutic relationship. Research validates that the more we facilitate the expression of affect in treatment, the more we will see positive positive change. Clinicians also know that accessing complex trauma-related affect, to be distinguished from explosive rage or helpless weepiness, is no easy matter.

Numerous self-protective barriers shield the most vulnerable parts of the self, and they are often deeply entrenched, unconscious and powerful. DEFT teaches specific skills and also greater awareness of the factors contributing to neurobiological attunement, the development of self-compassion and a strengthened sense of self. When the therapeutic relationship is experienced as sufficiently safe, it becomes possible for transformational shifts in the self to occur along with greater relational capacity.

This workshop will illustrate through video analysis of client sessions:
An approach to accessing unconscious emotions
Elements of shame-sensitive psychotherapy
DEFT interventions to disarm defenses
How to monitor and attend to anxiety
Tracking of feelings, sensations and cognitions
An integration of evidence-based methods

At the end of this workshop students will learn how DEFT:
Activates a therapeutic partnership
Responds to vulnerable client states
Uses a graded, attuned approach to fragility
Makes meaning of somatic signals
Recognizes the neurobiology of emotion
Tailors interventions to client capacity
Conveys compassion for the cost of defenses
Uncovers the roots of character armor
Repairs and reduces ruptures

Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW, Board Certified Diplomat, LMFT, is the founder of the Dynamic Emotion Focused Therapy Institute (DEFT), which began its three-tier training program in January 2012. She is an international presenter, has published several professional journal articles and is an IEDTA Certified Teacher/Supervisor. She has a private practice in Woodland Hills, CA, and offers online therapy for individuals and couples, specializing in anxiety, depression, relationship issues and defeating personality traits. She also offers clinical supervision, coaching and consultation.