We are excited to announce an upcoming SEPI webinar featuring Rhonda Goldman, PhD, on June 10th at 10:30 am EST, 9:30 am CDT, 7:30 am PDT, and 4:30 pm CET in Europe. The webinar will last for 90 minutes.
Title: Working with the Body in Emotion-focused Therapy
Abstract: Rhonda Goldman will explore the crucial role of the body in Emotion-focused Therapy (EFT) and discuss techniques to deepen emotional experiences through the body. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from Dr. Rhonda Goldman and enhance your understanding of working with the body in EFT.
German-speaking individuals are invited to join the German Speaking Regional Network of SEPI on Saturday, June 10, 2023, at Hotel Messmer, Kornmarktstrasse 16, 6900 Bregenz. The conference's theme is "Body and Emotions". It will explore the interaction between body and mind in various psychotherapeutic approaches. The program includes presentations and workshops on topics such as Philosophy of the Body, Overcoming Resistance, and Body Work in Emotion-Focused Therapy.
For more details and registration for the full-day online and on-site seminar, please visit www.intpsy3.at.
We look forward to your participation!
Past Webinars
Becoming a More Integrative Psychotherapist: An Introduction to Training in Unified Psychotherapy (TUP)
Jeff E. Harris, Ph.D.
Friday, February 11, 2022
12:00 noon (Eastern Time) / 9:00 a.m. (Pacific Time) / 6:00 p.m. (Central European Time)
Unified Psychotherapy (UP) represents a comprehensive approach to integrative practice. UP is a meta-theoretical approach that organizes theories and techniques within a holistic framework. This framework encourages psychotherapists to build and expand their competency over time. UP represents a fifth route to psychotherapy integration.
Training in Unified Psychotherapy (TUP) is a systematic method for teaching therapists and counselors to think and practice in an integrative manner. TUP describes psychological functioning in a multidimensional manner, highlighting the way current functioning is shaped by both external and influence influences. This approach to training is organized around a unified framework that describes the relationship between nine approaches. First, TUP encourages psychotherapists to work interactively, focusing on three dimensions of current functioning: (1) cognition, (2) emotion, and (3) behavior. Each of these dimensions can support or hinder adaptation. Second, TUP encourages psychotherapists to understand the impact of four external influences: (4) development across life experiences, (5) interpersonal patterns, (6) families and other microsystems, and (7) sociocultural macrosystems. Therapists can explore how each of these factors can shape cognition, emotion, and behavior. Third, TUP encourages psychotherapists to explore the impact of two internal influences: (8) unconscious processes, and (9) biological health. Therapists can understand how these factors impact the way clients think, feel, and act.
TUP teaches psychotherapists how to formulate a multitheoretical conceptualization using different theories as complementary perspectives. TUP supports unified treatment planning that allows psychotherapy to be customized based on the individual needs of each client. This webinar will provide an overview of TUP and encourage participants to consider Level One Training that will be offered for free through SEPI in the summer of 2022.
The Core & Becoming Model Focused on Secure Attachment
Nurşen Şirin, Ph.D.
Monday, January 24, 2022
12:00 noon (Eastern Time) / 9:00 a.m. (Pacific Time) / 6:00 p.m. (Central European Time)
The Core & Becoming Model Focused on Secure Attachment is a developmental, humanist, holistic, and existential model. The first relationship experience with the caregiver when the child is born is sometimes not enough for healthy self-development. When the deprivations rise above a certain level, they can turn into attachment traumas.
The child can transform this first experience of establishing a relationship into an insecure attachment pattern. By carrying this pattern into life, children can acquire an inner orientation to meet their needs. This orientation can turn into models that operate automatically within time.
These internal and automatic models continue to exist even if they do not meet the needs of the child on time and adequately. Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, it can cause developmental arrest, pushing the child towards the same deprivations. These hesitations can prevent children from actualizing themselves and meeting their needs. This situation transforms into various symptoms, affecting children’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and may adversely affect the well-being of both the children and the social environments in which they live.
The Core & Becoming Model Focused on Secure Attachment puts its focus on the reorganization of these developmental pauses or deviations. It aims at the repair of cognitive, emotional, physical, social, behavioral, and value areas, which are the dimensions of development. For this it makes use of the methods, information, and techniques given by the theories. Theories are used holistically in the repair of attachment injuries. There are movement, art, dance, rhythm, music, sound, drama, nature, metaphors, mythology, and fairy tales in the content of therapy games created by and fueled by the theories.
The egalitarian and secure relationship experience developed with the child in the therapy room is rearranged with the orientations of the theories. This developed relationship is supported by focusing on the thoughts, feelings, body, images, social area, behavior, and value necessary for the child to meet his needs. While the system is being organized, they are also supported in parenting by sharing knowledge and experience so that the family is ready for this attachment. Thus, it is ensured that the family regains its competence to be a safe harbor.
In this webinar, the Core & Becoming Model Focused on Secure Attachment will be introduced and the knowledge, skills, and experiences on how the model works (Assessment, Case Conceptualization, Process, Evaluation, Follow-up) will be shared in a general and holistic manner.
Bearing Witness to Emotional Vulnerability Between Partners: Choreographing EFT Enactments in a Psychoeducational Group for Couples
For 15 years, Montefiore’s Supporting Healthy Relationships Program has delivered psychoeducational groups to thousands of Bronx families, emphasizing a secure stable relationship as integral to optimal emotional well-being. For low-income families, relationship stability seems unattainable, due to the stress of intergenerational trauma and structural inequity. According to our outcomes study, participants showed significant improvements in relationship satisfaction, communication, and emotional intelligence. What is driving these outcomes? At the heart of Montefiore’s culturally adapted and experiential approach is the choreographing of new, emotionally vulnerable conversations between partners, using EFT interventions, in the context of a psychoeducational group. While these emotionally risky dialogues are challenging to facilitate in-person, doing so virtually can be especially challenging. We have found, however, that the complexity and nuance of these EFT enactments have translated readily from in-person to virtual. Through video presentations of group leaders in action, participants will learn how to: orchestrate EFT enactments to allow partners to safely access, express, and respond to vulnerable emotion (virtually and in-person); and utilize here-and-now processing to facilitate a self-reflective feedback loop between the couple and group, thereby ushering emotional change among all group members. This workshop focuses on the integration of psychodynamic group therapy, multicultural psychology, emotionally focused therapy, and Gottman Method couple therapy to facilitate corrective emotional experiences between intimate partners in a psychoeducational group.
Treating Children impacted by Autism using DIR/Floortime: A Developmental, Individual Difference, and Relationship-based Approach.
Esther Hess, Ph.D. & Jeff Harris, Ph.D.
Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 12:00 pm Eastern Time (NY)
Interventions for children/adolescents with developmental delays such as autism have often been limited to behavioral approaches that focus on the successful completion of a task rather than in the joyous reciprocal interaction of individuals relating to one and another. DIR/Floortime (Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship-based) offers an alternative perspective to therapy that takes into account an individual’s intrinsic level of interest and then expands on that initial level of motivation to incorporate mutual interest of others, all the while supporting various neurological differences that may be impeding the actual level of development in the first place. The result is a reciprocal interaction that results in an overall improvement in actual brain development processing. This workshop offers an overview of the theoretical, conceptual, and practical approach to the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children/adolescents with developmental delays such as autism through the developmental relationship intervention known as DIR/Floortime. Adaptation of play techniques will be examined for use with those impacted, in individual, and family therapy contexts as the primary area of focus.
Deliberate Practice for Multicultural Orientation
Jesse Owen & Karen Tao, Ph.D.
Led by Tracy Prout, Ph.D.
Wednesday, June 16, 2021, 6:00 - 7:30 pm Eastern Time (NY)
Many mental health therapists are deeply committed to providing equitable and culturally relevant care to their clients. However, a common challenge for newer as well as more experienced therapists is how to translate their multiculturally oriented aspirations into practice. What does a multiculturally oriented therapist say? When and how do MCO therapists highlight cultural moments in therapy? How do they incorporate clients’ worldviews and values into therapy sessions?
In this webinar, we will introduce attendees to the multicultural orientation (MCO) framework and the strong empirical literature that supports integrating it into therapy and supervision. We will discuss how a Deliberate Practice approach can help therapists infuse MCO into their therapeutic interventions. We also will utilize video examples for practicing interventions with clients. Additionally, we will focus on understanding therapists’ intersectional identities and how those identities can influence their expression of the three MCO pillars: Cultural Opportunities, Cultural Comfort, and Cultural Humility.
This free webinar was co-sponsored by SEPI and the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology – is part of a research study. Participants completed several, brief measures (10 minutes) prior to and after the webinar.
Trainees who attended this webinar also have the opportunity to participate in a free, 4-week DP for MCO coaching groups that begin in late June.
Advancing Psychotherapy Integration by Creating Common Ground
Marvin R. Goldfried, Ph.D., Jeffrey Smith, MD, & Gregg Henriques, Ph.D.
Led by Michael Mascolo, Ph.D.
Thursday, May 13, 2021, 2:00 - 4:00 pm Eastern Time (NY)
This webinar brought together leaders in the psychotherapy integration community to explore ways to advance the field by generating greater degrees of consensus about the core aspects of psychotherapy. SEPI co-founder, Dr. Marv Goldfried spoke to the need for greater consensus and delineated several core principles that might serve as foundational guides. Dr. Jeffery Smith, leader of the Special Interest Group on Consensus in Psychotherapy, shared his views on the key change mechanisms that he sees to be at the root of the work of psychotherapy. Dr. Gregg Henriques is SEPI-President elect who has done work on metatheory and offered his perspective on a unified vision that bridges the science of psychology and the practice of psychotherapy. The discussion was led by Professor Michael Mascolo, who is a developmental psychologist and expert in communication and conflict resolution and has developed a vision for how groups can create common ground. Each panelist discussed their vision and position, and then Dr. Michael Mascolo engaged in the process of exploring avenues for creating common ground. The webinar was Part I of a two part conversation. Part II will take place during the SEPI online conference in June.
This webinar introduces an integrative formulation of the alliance and the Alliance-Focused Training model, highlighting rupture (markers of complications in communication) and repair (strategies to improve communication and promote a corrective experience). The presenters define withdrawal (movements away) and confrontation (movements against) ruptures and introduce repair principles and strategies to renegotiate an in-session therapy task or to explore desires and needs underlying a rupture (via the principle of metacommunication: communication about the communication process as it unfolds). The definitions, principles and strategies presented are based on research supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and will be clarified with video illustrations.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe an integrative formulation of the alliance, from purposeful collaboration and affective bond to intersubjective negotiation.
2. Describe alliance ruptures (including confrontation and withdrawal markers) as negative process involving both patient and therapist.
3. Apply alliance development and rupture repair strategies, including immediate and expressive interventions.
Working with Emotions in Therapy the EFT Way
A Fireside Chat with...
Les Greenberg, Rhonda Goldman, & Alberta Pos
Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 7:00 - 8:30 pm Eastern Time (NY)
How can we, as therapists, work effectively with emotions in therapy? In this free-format conversation about emotion in psychotherapy. Drs. Greenberg, Goldman & Pos, trainers in the Society of Emotion-Focused Therapy (ISEFT) will engage in discussion on how we can target the emotions of our clients in a principled, yet integrative EFT way.
Opening the discussion, Alberta Pos, the incoming SEPI President and Program Chair of SEPI's Annual Meeting in Lausanne, will introduce the conference theme and describe how broadly emotion work in therapy can be conceived. Following this, Les Greenberg will introduce how integrative EFT treatment offers guidance for clinicians to work emotionally with many populations. He will also discuss new research that offers clinicians new perspectives on working with emotion. Dr. Goldman, is past SEPI President and co-author of several volumes relating to EFT in general and also writes about couples work in EFT. She is, as well, identified as an expert on interpersonal issues related to emotion and how to help couples co-regulate their affect through working with maladaptive emotional patterns. Finally, Dr. Pos will discuss recent research that highlights the importance of emphasizing emotion skills and emotional intelligence with our clients. Audience participation and questions will be encouraged.
Becoming a More Effective Therapist: Using Reliable, Personalized Case Formulations
Presented by George Silberschatz & David Kealy
Moderated by Alexandre Vaz
Recorded September 22, 2020
How is it that therapists of vastly different temperaments, attitudes, therapeutic approaches and styles are able to achieve comparable results? There must be a thread that runs through effective treatment, independent of therapist personality style or therapeutic technique that promotes healing in patients – a thread that explains how and why psychotherapy works or fails to work. Over the past 50 years, the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group (SFPRG) has been developing an empirical basis for how psychotherapy works, how to understand individual patient needs and treatment goals, and how to develop an idiosyncratic, patient-centered formulation to guide treatment success. In short, the theory is developed on the foundation that psychological safety is the key to allowing patients’ defenses and old patterns to release so that they may develop new patterns in their life. As therapists, it is our job to decode a patient's unique psychological needs for safety and then to create a treatment atmosphere -- through interventions, attitudes, and approach -- that communicates that safety to the patient. This is facilitated by the Plan-Formulation Method, an empirically derived and learnable skill that significantly improves one's efficacy as a therapist across diagnoses and treatment modalities. In this workshop, participants will learn the fundamental principles and methods of case formulation that have been developed by the SFPRG. The workshop will cover the major theoretical assumptions informing the Plan-Formulation Method, and will outline the process of developing unique formulations for individual patients.
An Overview of Psychotherapy Integration: History and current issues
Presented by Paul Wachtel & Marvin Goldfried
Recorded July 13, 2020
Enjoy this lively conversation with two giants in the field of psychotherapy integration. Marvin Goldfried and Paul Wachtel, co-founders of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, discuss the history of psychotherapy integration, current issues in the field, and the future of psychotherapy integration. Alex Vaz and Tracy Prout moderate the discussion about this complex topic. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from and connect with two of the most prolific and powerful voices in the field of psychotherapy integration today.
Dr. Shari Wade Telepsychotherapy with Children and Families: Lessons Gleaned from Two Decades of Translational Research. Dr. Shari Wade's Slides
Dr. Stéphane Bouchard Telepsychotherapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Impact on the Working Alliance. Dr. Stéphane Bouchard's Slides
Dr. Camilo Ruggero eHealth to Redress Psychotherapy Access Barriers Both New and Old: A Review of Reviews and Meta-Analyses Dr. Camilo Ruggero's Slides
Reaching for Clinical Expertise: Deliberate Practice in Psychotherapy
Presented by Tony Rousmaniere & Alexandre Vaz
Recorded May 29, 2020
Deliberate practice, an evidence-based method for increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of therapist development and skill acquisition, is one of the hottest topics in psychotherapy today. Tony and Alex will teach us about the theory and principles of deliberate practice and how it can enhance our clinical skill development for all levels of clinical experience.
SEPI’s deliberate practice webinar is based on the upcoming American Psychological Association Press's book series "The Essentials of Deliberate Practice", and the published books, "Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists", "Mastering the Inner Skills of Psychotherapy: A Deliberate Practice Handbook", and the edited volume "The Cycle of Excellence: Training, Supervision, and Deliberate Practice". Free resources on Deliberate Practice are available at the Deliberate Practice Institute here: www.dpfortherapists.com
Prior Webinar Recordings
Louis Castonguay, Ph.D.
Conducting Practice-Oriented Research: What to Do and What Not to Do in Building Partnerships
Catherine F. Eubanks
An introduction to the Rupture and Resolution Rating System (3RS)
Jon Frederickson, MSW
Psychodynamic Case Consultation
Marvin Goldfried, Ph.D.
On Possible Consequences of NIMH Funding for Psychotherapy Research and Training
Marvin Goldfried, Ph.D.
Psychotherapy Integration Past, Present, and Future
Michael J. Lambert
The Powerful Effects of Progress Feedback and Problem Solving Tools in Maximizing Positive Outcomes
John Norcross
Psychotherapy Relationships that Work
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