Online, with Edward Patzelt, PhD & Amie Roe, LCSW, 2.0 CEUs for qualifying practitioners

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Mentalization Based Treatment - Group (MBT-G) is a once weekly, group therapy intervention designed for the treatment of personality disorder. In this experiential workshop, participants will be guided through a modified Mentalization-Based Treatment - Group (MBT-G) session. Co-clinicians Edward Patzelt, PhD and Amie Roe, LCSW will guide participants in mentalizing one another, seeking to generate multiple perspectives and increased flexibility in relating to emotionally charged interpersonal situations. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect on their observations and personal experiences of the group as Amie and Edward conclude the workshop with a brief presentation on MBT-G structure and principles. Participants will consider and discuss the ways in which this model of group therapy may facilitate the experience of “feeling felt” or “being seen” for individuals whose identities commonly are denied such experience in our culture.

Online, with Edward Patzelt, PhD & Amie Roe, LCSW, 2.0 CEUs for qualifying practitioners

In this workshop, clinicians will gain a basic understanding of MBT theory and techniques, including how to become more aware of patients’ mentalizing difficulties and meaningfully intervene to assist patients in regaining this ability. Participants will explore the potential utility of MBT techniques as meaningful methods of fostering epistemic trust with individuals who have experienced marginalization on the basis of gender, racial, sexual, or other identities.

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Participants may enroll for this workshop as a stand alone or in addition to the 12/8/23 (12-2pm ET) workshop Group Treatment for Personality Disorders, an experiential workshop exploring the application of MBT principles and techniques in a group setting.

with Anastasia Gochnour, LCSW, 2.0 CEUs for qualifying practitioners

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“As much support as necessary and as little as possible” -Laura Perls.

This fundamental principle provides a clear guide for a particular approach to working within a therapeutic frame. The value of supporting our clients to develop their own resources is widely supported and understood. So why then do we sometimes find ourselves wanting to do more and even acting on that urge? Our desire to 'help' our clients can emerge in a variety of ways and in response to our client's times of joy and distress. How do we maintain a steady open internal therapeutic stance of our client's experience of economic and emotional deprivation (racism, abuse, heterosexism, misogyny, and sizeism) without 'doing' anything? How do we internally and externally respond to our client's positive experiences? In both instances, we may notice ourselves extending the boundaries of the therapeutic frame by reducing our fees, stretching our schedules, making suggestions, jumping forward to 'figure things out,' and offering unsolicited referrals.

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For the public and practitioners, this presentation looks at the pressures of "grind culture" which have existed for centuries especially for work provided by disenfranchised people: the poor and people of color and women etc. It will encompass Tricia Hersey's views of 'Rest is Resistance' and how the broad scope of resting problems is parallel to eating problems as described by WTCI and interferes with people being their best Selves. These notions apply to work with clients as well as and especially to Our Selves and our lives.

This is a live and interactive online event.

Participants will be introduced to the process of relating more comfortably to food and one’s body during this interactive offering for the public.

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with Lara Sheehi, PsyD, 2.0 CEs for qualifying practitioners

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This talk will focus on how internationalist feminism and the labor of women of the Global South can help ground us in our ethical imperative to not only work toward, but also enact, an anti-oppressive psychoanalytic praxis.

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with Carol Bloom, LCSW, PC, Online, 2.0 CEs for qualifying practitioners

How do therapists listen for and address food, feeding and body troubles in an ongoing treatment not specifically dedicated to eating problems?

This workshop will help the general therapist find a more secure and informed therapeutic voice amidst the culturally induced and sanctioned “every day speak “ of food and feeding distress and embodiment troubles. Training your ear to listen will invite patients to talk more openly. This in turn will help determine if a specialist or intervention is required.

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I love my mother but...

Who else is loved so deeply and, conversely, blamed so intensely as one’s mother? The mother stories we carry can empower or derail us. Many of us struggle with limiting cultural myths about motherhood and old stories about our mothers that cover hidden longings. Using guided imagery, meditation, journal writing and group processing we will explore our stories and expand your life.

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RELATIONSHIP TO THE EARTH: COLONIALIST AND INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES

Marisa Mabli and Aleksandra Rayska will showcase contemporary theory and clinical implications related to climate crisis anxiety. They will focus on the feminist perspective on climate change, forefronting the intertwined issues of gender, colonialism, and social justice. In sharp contrast, Carol Crowe will walk us into the indigenous ways of relating to the land, flora, fauna, water, wildlife, and each other. Through storytelling, she will share the knowledge of the Elders and their wisdom of how to see the land and sacred places, illuminating environmentally conscious ways of connecting to and “being" in the world.

In a world where marginalized bodies are most vulnerable to the oppression of diet culture, self-attuned eating is an act of resistance. Our relationships to food and body do not develop in a vacuum. This course for the public explores how Western culture disrupts self-attuned care for marginalized bodies as a means of social control. Through intuitive and self-attuned eating, we reclaim and rediscover a more authentic relationship to ourselves.

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“Coming Apart & Coming Together,” Contemporary Intersectional Feminist Theory and its Application to the Body, Society, and Identity

During this nine-week online seminar for practitioners, attendees will explore current challenges in psychotherapeutic encounters in this seminar that incorporates intersectional feminist theory and includes three pillars: body, society, and identity. PURCHASE TICKETS AND LEARN MORE

Qualifying practitioners will receive 18.0 CEUs upon completion of both sessions and completion of a course evaluation.

In a world where marginalized bodies are most vulnerable to the oppression of diet culture, self-attuned eating is an act of resistance. Our relationships to food and body do not develop in a vacuum. This course for the public explores how Western culture disrupts self-attuned care for marginalized bodies as a means of social control. Through intuitive and self-attuned eating, we reclaim and rediscover a more authentic relationship to ourselves.

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This online workshop for practitioners will present the framework of DBT: Dialectical Behavior Therapy, an evidence-based therapeutic approach teaching the art and science of emotional regulation. DBT is a widely utilized treatment approach across diagnostic categories. This model can be incorporated into any psychodynamic or psychoanalytic way of working. Reji Mathew, PhD, LCSW, will present a unique DBT – Expressive Approach, how to translate principles of mindfulness, self-soothing, and emotional regulating utilizing expressive techniques.

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Qualifying practitioners will receive 2.0 CEUs upon completion of both sessions and completion of a course evaluation.

This online workshop for practitioners will present the framework of DBT: Dialectical Behavior Therapy, an evidence-based therapeutic approach teaching the art and science of emotional regulation. DBT is a widely utilized treatment approach across diagnostic categories. This model can be incorporated into any psychodynamic or psychoanalytic way of working. Reji Mathew, PhD, LCSW, will present a unique DBT – Expressive Approach, how to translate principles of mindfulness, self-soothing, and emotional regulating utilizing expressive techniques.

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This online workshop for practitioners will showcase contemporary theory related to climate crisis anxiety at the cutting edge of current clinical thinking. Presenters Marisa Mabli, LCSW, and Aleksandra Rayska, PhD, both graduates of WTCI, will focus on the feminist perspective of the issue of climate change, which brings to the forefront the intertwined issues of gender, oppression, and social justice. We will also look at ways in which both clients and therapists are impacted by the trauma of climate change anxiety.

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At this year’s Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture, we welcome back Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, who will introduce the philosophy of ubuntu—I am who am I am because we are who we are—and introduce her work on fierce love (in relation to self, community and world) in order to explore what it means to engage the client as agent in making a both a better life and a better, antiracist world. This online event offers 2.0 CEUs for qualified practitioners (see link below for details) and is also open to the public.

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For 30 years, The WTCI has celebrated influential leaders and body activists at INDWELLING. The 2021 program -- rescheduled and online -- includes a performance by INDWELLING honoree, Caroline Rothstein, as well as performances by Ciara Renée and Carmen LoBue, followed by a Speakout -- a forum for people to find their individual voices and share a collective experience of living more securely in their bodies.

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This workshop for practitioners explores the new normal of providing teletherapy via two-dimensional platforms as well as therapists’ embodiment and its effect on treatment.

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In this workshop for practitioners, learn how to work with climate crisis anxiety in the clinical setting.

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For the public and practitioners: Learn about techniques being used with survivors of interpersonal abuse in Palestine.

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Loss is a universal human experience. This workshop is meant for adults who have experienced loss in their lifetime and are seeking greater self understanding and self compassion. We will explore the various kinds of grief and loss as well as how grief and loss impacts an individual on a personal and collective level.

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In this workshop, we will explore ways of working with psychosomatic issues, and ways of understanding them as communications of psychic/somatic process.

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In this workshop, facilitated by Jessica Lora, LCSW-R, explore the relationship between one’s body image and the influence of media.

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REGISTER for the Open House

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Join WTCI Board and Faculty members Barbara Buloff, LCSW, ACSW and Eve Blatt, LCSW in a weekly open support group.

https://zoom.us/j/95357291261?pwd=NEt5V0FsTlZSZkV1eXlaZEhlbHluUT09

Join WTCI Board and Faculty members Barbara Buloff, LCSW, ACSW and Eve Blatt, LCSW in a weekly open support group.

https://zoom.us/j/95357291261?pwd=NEt5V0FsTlZSZkV1eXlaZEhlbHluUT09