General Admission: $50 | Dues Paying Members: $42.50 | Earn 2 CEUs for Qualifying Practitioners*

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About the Workshop:

In this workshop, the instructor will guide you through an insightful overview of IV Ketamine therapy, from its fascinating clinical history to its unique effects on brain chemistry. You’ll gain practical tools for assessing patient suitability, learn best practices for collaborating with experienced Ketamine providers, and explore essential preparation steps to set both yourself and your patients up for successful outcomes. Join us to expand your therapeutic skill set with this innovative treatment option.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will gain an understanding of the clinical history and development of IV Ketamine therapy as a treatment option for mental health.

• Participants will improve their knowledge around Ketamine’s mechanism of action and its effects on brain chemistry, enabling them to better explain this therapy to patients.

• Participants will develop the skills to assess patient suitability for IV Ketamine therapy,

• Participants will be able to identify strategies for preparing both themselves and their patients for the process, addressing expectations, and potential outcomes.

About the Instructor:

Lisa Thaler, LCSW moved to Austin in October, 2019 after having maintained a private practice in New York City for the past 29 years. She received her BA from Amherst College and her MSW from New York University. She completed her psychoanalytic training at The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute.

She has dedicated the majority of her career to the treatment of eating disorders. She has taught and supervised other clinicians interested in the treatment of this complex population In 2014, she began to treat couples with a variety of diagnostic presentations and to treat those folx for whom gender is non-binary. She studied with esteemed couples and sex therapist Esther Perel.

She became interested in the use of therapeutic Ketamine to treat mental health disorders and began working collaboratively with Dr. Glen Brooks at the NY Ketamine Center in 2014. She continues this innovative treatment option here in Austin with Dr. Paul Foster at Austin Ketamine Specialists.

Participants should be prepared to join with audio and video. This is an interactive workshop. Please contact WTCI at admin@wtci-nyc.org if you require accommodations.

*Qualifying practitioners: WTCI has been recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0102 and creative arts therapists #CAT-0018, by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Workers as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed social workers #SW-0361, and by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0049.

Refund policy: Recipients who give notice of cancellation two weeks or more ahead of the date of the event will receive a full ticket-price refund. Recipients who give notice of cancellation one week to thirteen days ahead of the date of the event will receive a refund of 50% of the ticket price. Except in the case of dire emergency circumstances, to be determined by Administration, refunds will not be permitted if notice is given in less than a week of the date of the event start date/time. Service fees will not be refunded.

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September 9th, 3pm-5pm EST | Earn 2 CEUs for Qualifying Practitioners

General Admission: $50 | Dues Paying Members: $42.50

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Aging and the aging body are universal experiences that impact us both personally and in our clinical work. People as they age often respond with disbelief seeing their reflection in the mirror and are taken aback with the difference between how they feel on the inside and their reflection. 

This didactic and experiential workshop illuminates the numerous and necessary tensions we hold, (ex. Fight versus to accept, dependence versus interdependence, etc.), while navigating our individual aging processes. We explore the multiple dialectics of aging, and look deeply at issues of accepting, challenging, and honoring diverse narratives and lived experiences of aging. 

We see/interpret aging and aging bodies against the backdrop of social and cultural constructs, economic inequities, and marginalization. From this broader perspective we open the door to more expansive thinking that can engender curiosity instead of dread in both us and our clients. Further, we elucidate some of the countertransference challenges that may emerge in our clinical work.

Learning Objectives:

1. Demonstrate a greater understanding of social-cultural constructions/constrictions and how they are enacted through numerous tensions related to aging and the aging body.

2. Identify the commonalities and differences between our aging bodies, our clients’ aging bodies, our similar and diverse experiences, and the clinical and countertransferential
implications.

3. Apply new ways of thinking about and intervening with aging clients.

About the Instructors:

Lela Zaphiropoulos, LCSW, ACSW

Lela Zaphiropoulos, psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice for over 30 years working with individuals, couples, groups, is a WTCI Board and faculty member as well as co-director emeritus of the postgraduate training program. She leads didactic, experiential workshops for practitioners on issues of food/eating/disembodiment. Prior to private practice she worked at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital and at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. She completed postgraduate training at The Institute for the Study of Psychotherapy. She is co-author of Eating Problems: A Feminist, Psychoanalytic Model (1995), and of Kids, Carrots, and Candy: A Practical, Positive Approach to Raising Children Free of Food and Weight Problems (revised 2012). She is a founding member of Endangered Bodies NY, a global initiative to challenge the industries that promote body insecurity.

Debra Kram-Fernandez, PhD, LCSW, MS-DMT, 200-RYT

Debra Kram-Fernandez obtained her PhD in Social Welfare from the City University of New York Graduate Center/Hunter College School of Social Work after obtaining her LCSW-R. She also holds a MSW and MS in Dance-Movement Therapy from Hunter College. Dr. Kram-Fernandez is a graduate of WTCI’s postgraduate training program. Her areas of expertise include understanding serious mental illness, group work facilitation, and diversity in human services. She is currently an Associate Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) Empire and has a small private practice.

Participants should be prepared to join with audio and video. This is an interactive workshop. Please contact WTCI at admin@wtci-nyc.org if you require accommodations.

*Qualifying practitioners: WTCI has been recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0102 and creative arts therapists #CAT-0018, by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Workers as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed social workers #SW-0361, and by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0049.

Refund policy: Recipients who give notice of cancellation two weeks or more ahead of the date of the event will receive a full ticket-price refund. Recipients who give notice of cancellation one week to thirteen days ahead of the date of the event will receive a refund of 50% of the ticket price. Except in the case of dire emergency circumstances, to be determined by Administration, refunds will not be permitted if notice is given in less than a week of the date of the event start date/time. Service fees will not be refunded.

July 22nd, 3pm-5pm EST | Earn 2 CEUs for Qualifying Practitioners

General Admission: $50 | Dues Paying Members: $42.50

Buy Tickets Here

Aging and the aging body are universal experiences that impact us both personally and in our clinical work. People as they age often respond with disbelief seeing their reflection in the mirror and are taken aback with the difference between how they feel on the inside and their reflection. 

This didactic and experiential workshop illuminates the numerous and necessary tensions we hold, (ex. Fight versus to accept, dependence versus interdependence, etc.), while navigating our individual aging processes. We explore the multiple dialectics of aging, and look deeply at issues of accepting, challenging, and honoring diverse narratives and lived experiences of aging. 

We see/interpret aging and aging bodies against the backdrop of social and cultural constructs, economic inequities, and marginalization. From this broader perspective we open the door to more expansive thinking that can engender curiosity instead of dread in both us and our clients. Further, we elucidate some of the countertransference challenges that may emerge in our clinical work.

Learning Objectives:

1. Demonstrate a greater understanding of social-cultural constructions/constrictions and how they are enacted through numerous tensions related to aging and the aging body.

2. Identify the commonalities and differences between our aging bodies, our clients’ aging bodies, our similar and diverse experiences, and the clinical and countertransferential
implications.

3. Apply new ways of thinking about and intervening with aging clients.

About the Instructors:

Lela Zaphiropoulos, LCSW, ACSW

Lela Zaphiropoulos, psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice for over 30 years working with individuals, couples, groups, is a WTCI Board and faculty member as well as co-director emeritus of the postgraduate training program. She leads didactic, experiential workshops for practitioners on issues of food/eating/disembodiment. Prior to private practice she worked at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital and at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. She completed postgraduate training at The Institute for the Study of Psychotherapy. She is co-author of Eating Problems: A Feminist, Psychoanalytic Model (1995), and of Kids, Carrots, and Candy: A Practical, Positive Approach to Raising Children Free of Food and Weight Problems (revised 2012). She is a founding member of Endangered Bodies NY, a global initiative to challenge the industries that promote body insecurity.

Debra Kram-Fernandez, PhD, LCSW, MS-DMT, 200-RYT

Debra Kram-Fernandez obtained her PhD in Social Welfare from the City University of New York Graduate Center/Hunter College School of Social Work after obtaining her LCSW-R. She also holds a MSW and MS in Dance-Movement Therapy from Hunter College. Dr. Kram-Fernandez is a graduate of WTCI’s postgraduate training program. Her areas of expertise include understanding serious mental illness, group work facilitation, and diversity in human services. She is currently an Associate Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) Empire and has a small private practice.

Participants should be prepared to join with audio and video. This is an interactive workshop. Please contact WTCI at admin@wtci-nyc.org if you require accommodations.

*Qualifying practitioners: WTCI has been recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0102 and creative arts therapists #CAT-0018, by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Workers as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed social workers #SW-0361, and by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0049.

Refund policy: Recipients who give notice of cancellation two weeks or more ahead of the date of the event will receive a full ticket-price refund. Recipients who give notice of cancellation one week to thirteen days ahead of the date of the event will receive a refund of 50% of the ticket price. Except in the case of dire emergency circumstances, to be determined by Administration, refunds will not be permitted if notice is given in less than a week of the date of the event start date/time. Service fees will not be refunded.

Online | Friday, May 3 | 12:30-4:30pm ET | 4 credit hours

General Admission Fee: $95 | WTCI Member Fee: $80.75

The perspectives of both the Internal Family Systems model and psychodynamic approaches will be compared and contrasted to show how countertransference can be utilized by therapists of both modalities. We will create a space to enhance awareness of countertransference, both known and unknown. Participants learn ways to work with their own system as well as how to refine attunement to the client’s unconscious experience. In order to facilitate integration, this workshop is structured to be both experiential and didactic. Case examples and group discussion will also be used to support application of insights into the therapeutic relationship.

We will accept a maximum of 18 participants to maintain the intimacy cultivated by WTCI clinical training. This virtual seminar provides 4 credit hours for qualifying practitioners.*

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*Qualifying practitioners: WTCI [dba for The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute] has been recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0102 and creative arts therapists #CAT-0018, by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Workers as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed social workers #SW-0361, and by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0049.

The Embodied Psyche
Two-Year Postgraduate Training Program
2022-2024

Online Open House

Tuesday, June 14 • 7 to 8:15pm ET • On Zoom

Register - Registration is required to a receive link to join.

Scholarships available

About the Program: Our decades of experience reading the body in multiple and complex ways has evolved a theory and practice that widens and deepens our understanding of how psyche, soma and institutionalized power relations construct our psychologies. We see the body as the living vital center of feelings and experience and as a canvas where power relations, multiple forms of control, creative expression and protest are taken up and expressed. WTCI’s two-year program educates postgraduate clinicians from a feminist relational perspective, informed by our commitment to social justice. Our overall mission and thus the mission of the training program are to amplify an intersectional feminist voice in the evolving dialogue of contemporary relational theory. Learn more!

Questions? Email us: admin@wtci-nyc.org