Subjective, Intersubjective and Technical Domains of Therapists’ Retirement
Two-session Workshop: Mon., January 24 and January 31, 2022, 6-8pm
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
Qualifying practitioners—see below for details—will receive 4.0 CEUs upon completion of both sessions as well as completion of a course evaluation.
Though originally planned as in-person workshop, with the surge in COVID 19 cases, we have decided to move the workshop online. Ticket-holders will receive Zoom information within a week of the first meeting of this two-session workshop.
This two-part workshop is for practitioners at any stage of considering and/or planning for retirement and will offer an exploratory approach that emphasizes locating where you are and what you know, while offering a conceptual framework which integrates the relational and technical aspects of the termination work with clients.
The first session will focus on the therapist’s subjectivity, emphasizing why it is important for yourself and your clients to know and start where you are in considering retirement. We will draw from and reflect upon aspects of the professional literature that shed light on the therapist’s’ subjectivity in order to demystify and ultimately anticipate issues such as: the therapist’s feelings and response to leaving clients, personal, intersectional and professional identity in this life transition, disclosure and navigating the associated shift in boundaries that arise as a function if the relationship becoming the focus of the work. The second session will build upon the first and help practitioners gain a conceptual understanding of the therapist initiated ending process. The tension between the subjective and intersubjective domains will be emphasized as related to the mutative aspects of the ending process, while at the same time offering a framework from which to approach and integrate the technical tasks that unfold and culminate in the termination stage.
Learning Objectives:
~ Gain an understanding of the self-in-relation to each client, and how therapist and client work through similar experiences in the process of termination in order to focus on the client's achievement of a safe ending.
~ Gain an understanding of the technical tasks of the termination stage, including how to integrate the technical and dynamic aspects of the ending process.
About the facilitators:
Catherine Balletto, PhD is a licensed social worker and a graduate of WTCI’s three-year program. With over two decades of experience treating diverse populations across a broad spectrum of traditional and nontraditional public and private settings, she is an experienced supervisor, program developer, administrator and educator. Her research interests include social class and macroeconomic aspects of intersectional identity, as well as, teaching forced termination in the internship setting. Catherine has taught psychodynamic theory at Hampshire College, Smith College School of Social Work and also in the field with psychology pre-doctoral interns. Licensed in both NY and MA, her hybrid in-person/telehealth practice located in Northampton, MA, includes clinical consultation to psychotherapists. She is a member of the WTCI Alumni Association, the Climate Psychology Alliance and is presently undergoing training in EMDR.
Audrey Laibson Wolf, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker in New York State. She is a graduate of WTCI’s three-year program. She received her Master’s Degree from The New York School of Social Work, Columbia University and her undergraduate degree from Vassar College. She also trained with The Suffolk County Institute for Psychotherapy. Her social work positions have been with Head Start, Englewood NJ, Victims information Bureau, Smithtown, NY, Port Jefferson Nursing Home, Port Jefferson, NY University Health Services of SUNY, Stony Brook, NY. Audrey has been the supervising social worker of United Cerebral Palsy, NYC, social worker and sexual health counselor at The Door, NYC. Audrey has had a private practice in psychotherapy since 1993. She is a member of WTCI Alumni Group, National Association of Social Work and The New York State Society of Clinical Social Workers.
Qualifications for receiving certificate of continuing education: WTCI is recognized by the New York State (NYS) 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.