Events

This 6 week intensive workshop will enable an in-depth exploration of the neuropathological and psychosocial attributes of the full array of dementing disorders; the diagnostic evaluation components and the life-changing impacts of progressive symptoms upon patients and their families will be covered.

Music therapy provides an evidence-based, integrative approach to supporting birthing individuals and their families throughout the perinatal continuum, particularly in the context of high-risk pregnancy.

This workshop explores the importance of authenticity in social work practice, especially in times of uncertainty.

Technology and social media shape the identities and worldviews of today’s teens.

Sexuality is ever present in couple therapy.

During this conference, we would like to open a dialogue about the importance of joy in our work and our lives, our tendency to avoid joy, and how we might reclaim and/or preserve our capacity to experience joy during difficult times. 

In this seminar we address approaches that work best as a function of the idiosyncratic qualities of every couple we see clinically.

Picturing Change is a course that will harness the power of this visual second language and utilize it for positive change. 

This introductory class explores the foundational principles of attachment theory and its application to understanding adult relational styles.

This workshop targets clinicians seeking an intermediate level of Motivational Interviewing training.

As we find ourselves mired in multiple layers of uncertainty and alarm, including the unfolding climate and ecological crisis, ongoing sociopolitical harm and emergent political upheaval, how do we as couple therapists work with these realities as they emerge in the clinical landscape?

This course will provide mental health providers with what they need to know to identify codependency in themselves and in their clients and learn interventions to address this relational strategy.

Technology has revolutionized access to mental health services for people around the world. 

Trauma manifests itself in a variety of psychological and physiological ways. This workshop will explore how the mind and body are connected to experiencing and processing trauma.

This seminar builds on Dr. Stern’s 2019 paper, “Airless Worlds: The Traumatic Sequelae of Identification with Parental Negation” (Psychoanalytic Dialogues).

This course walks clinicians through assessing suicidality in care, safety planning strategies, and identifying and/or monitoring high-risk clients.

Many couples enter therapy carrying unresolved trauma that interferes with emotional connection, trust, and conflict resolution. 

Join Dr. Victoria Grinman for an interactive workshop about the utility of yoga and mindfulness in working with children and teens with traumatic stress.

Adolescence is a time when many young people explore romantic and sexual relationships and form their sexual identities. 

In this interactive webinar, participants will deepen their understanding of how the “use of self” shapes the supervisory relationship and fosters professional growth.

Anxiety is the most common mental health concern facing children and adolescents today, and it’s getting worse.

Many professionals throughout the United States are mandated reporters of suspected child maltreatment. However, the legal requirement to report is often confusing to navigate in relation to our other professional and ethical responsibilities.

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) offers an empirically validated approach to the treatment of PTSD and other trauma-related symptoms like unwanted thoughts, feelings, memories, and nightmares.

Mental health professionals are charged with the legal and ethical responsibility to maintain professional boundaries, but the obligation isn’t always so easy to discern.

While the twinkle and glow of holiday lights are undeniably beautiful, they can also provide majestic cover for the homes and spirits that are quietly dimmer on the inside than they would prefer to be.

This conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of people with the goal of heightening self-awareness and broadening thinkability—the ways that we think about and respond to gender diverse children.

Group supervision offers unique opportunities for learning, collaboration, and professional connection—when done well.

Ethical challenges in supervision often require balancing complex dynamics—between support and accountability, autonomy and responsibility.

Building on the insights of Part 1, this workshop continues the exploration of how unresolved childhood trauma can shape the professional and personal lives of social workers.