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May 2020
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…
Find out more »July 2020
EDT Introductory 10 Week Online Summer Course with Lindsay Chipman MA
CLASS SCHEDULE Monday July 27th 12-2pm Monday August 3rd 12-2pm *possible rescheduling to Tuesday August 4th for holiday Monday August 10th 12-2pm Monday August 17th 12-2pm Monday August 24th 12-2pm Monday August 31st 12-2pm Monday September 7th *possible rescheduling to Tuesday September 8th for holiday Monday September 21st 12-2pm Monday September 14th 12-2pm Monday September 28th 12-2pm *possible rescheduling of this date for Jewish holiday To Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/edt-introductory-course-10-weeks-tickets-106868173584
Find out more »August 2020
Mastering the ISTDP Trial Therapy: 6th Danish Immersion in ISTDP
Intensive Short–Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) begins with an intensive and comprehensive evaluation and treatment session called the Trial Therapy. The Trial Therapy seeks to establish both a conscious and unconscious therapeutic alliance, gather a complete history of problem areas, past and present relationships, and related medical and social factors, while testing a client’s response to this therapeutic mobilization of the unconscious. By the end of the interview, therapist and patient should both have information about the suitability of this treatment,…
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