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May 2020
Introduction to Affect Phobia Therapy Workshop: An Experiential Integrative Approach with Kristin Osborn, Jenny Svebeck and Elisabet Rosen (Hosted by Umeå University)
Learn about Affect Phobia Therapy – an integrative approach that combines cognitive-behavioral, psycho-dynamic and experiential techniques into a powerful whole that can increase the effectiveness of therapy and help it to proceed more rapidly. Affect Phobia Therapy (APT) is based on the premise that internal conflicts about feelings underlie most psychologically-based disorders. APT is an integrative model of short term dynamic psychotherapy that was developed by Harvard Medical School psychologist and researcher, Leigh McCullough. In this workshop, participants will learn…
Find out more »Therapist Affect Phobia Workshop: How to create a system of self-care when working remotely with Kristin Osborn, Jenny Svebeck and Elisabet Rosen – Online Workshop
Learn the importance of continued self-care when working remotely.
Find out more »Welcome to the new and improved APT Therapist Hour! Join in for a 6 Week Series (May 18th – June 22nd)
Featuring our Host, Kristin Osborn and the 1st Guest Speaker, Dr. Jonathan Egan! In this Therapist Hour (Osborn & Egan) will reflect on the marriage of APT and attachment theory. They will discuss how modern attachment theory and APT interweave with each other, allowing the relational context of the model to become vibrantly alive. You will learn how they have applied their approach in training therapists to cultivate and maintain a strong therapeutic presence and sense of vitality in their…
Find out more »June 2020
Transforming Resistance: Working with the Challenges of Defense and Anxiety to Promote Rapid Therapeutic Change
Ironically, many clients interfere with the very progress they seek either through their own resistance to the psychotherapy process or because their anxiety is too high and there is too much dysregulation to use the process effectively. Not infrequently, they terminate prematurely before reaching their goals. This results in tragic consequences for the client, as well as frustration and a sense of failure for the therapist. While clients enter treatment with conscious motivation, resistance is unconscious and, therefore, difficult to…
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