Upcoming Classes

Boost your professional knowledge and expand your expertise with The Ferentz Institute’s in-person and online training classes.

October 2024

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Tuesday,
October 15, 2024
8:45 AM - 12:00 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn • Owings Mills, MD
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

In this workshop we will look at the unique developmental aspects of the adolescent brain and why it is so vulnerable to the negative effects of social media and video gaming.

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Monday,
October 28, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

In this 6-hour workshop we will make the connection between the inevitable coping strategies that emerge for abused and neglected children and how those behaviors create suffering and dysfunction in adulthood.

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Wednesday,
October 30, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn • Owings Mills, MD
Presenter:
Presenter:
Denise Tordella

This workshop will define coercive control and how coercive control is a multi-faceted form of abuse that includes many different types of abuse.

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Thursday,
October 31, 2024
8:45 AM - 12:00 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Sabrina N’Diaye

This workshop is an opportunity to check the “pulse” of your life as a supervisor.

November 2024

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Friday,
November 1, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Patricia Papernow

This workshop will give you a framework that integrates research and clinical experience on three levels: psychoeducational, interpersonal, and intrapsychic/family-of-origin.

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Monday,
November 4, 2024
8:45 AM - 12:00 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Aliza Scharf-Bendov

This workshop will provide a definition and brief history of antisemitism for clinicians.

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Thursday,
November 7, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

In this 6-hour workshop we will experientially process a variety of techniques designed to help traumatized clients somatically and emotionally feel safe, grounded, and within the optimal window of arousal.

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Tuesday,
November 12, 2024
8:45 AM - 12:00 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn • Owings Mills, MD
Presenter:
Presenter:
Jake Ferentz

This workshop will equip participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to support the developmental and relational success of students with ADHD.

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Thursday,
November 14, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn • Owings Mills, MD
Presenter:
Presenter:
Peggy Kolodny

In this highly informative and engaging workshop, learn about dissociation and trauma treatment.

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Tuesday,
November 19, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Kevin Scott Ferentz
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

In this 6-hour workshop participants will learn about the etiology, epidemiology and diagnostic criteria for all of the affective and anxiety disorders in DSM-5.

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Friday,
November 22, 2024
8:45 AM - 12:00 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn • Owings Mills, MD
Presenter:
Presenter:
Joyanna Silberg

In this workshop, you'll learn to identify the best procedures for assessing sexual abuse in children and identify the reasoning, flaws, and myths that often interfere with accurate assessment.

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Monday,
November 25, 2024
12:45 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn • Owings Mills, MD
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

This workshop will explore the importance of maintaining an integrative approach to treatment.

December 2024

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Monday,
December 2, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

In this 6-hour workshop we will explore creative ways to empower clients to continue their work outside of therapy by introducing “invitations” to be accomplished in between their sessions.

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Tuesday,
December 3, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Denise Tordella

This workshop will focus on the gender-specific needs of women seeking treatment for substance abuse disorders.

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Monday,
December 9, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn • Owings Mills, MD
Presenter:
Presenter:
Yehuda Bergman

This workshop will give participants creative tools to explore and access those traumatic experiences in a gentle way, yet directly to the core of the pain, for healing and real recovery purposes.

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Tuesday,
December 10, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

In this 6-hour workshop we will process the inherent challenges of working with traumatized clients in a variety of practice settings.

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Thursday,
December 12, 2024
12:45 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin

In this workshop, you'll explore a step by step process to help couples recover from infidelity.

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Monday,
December 16, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Susan Osofsky

In this workshop, we’ll explore Exposure/Response Prevention (Ex/RP), a model that’s been shown to be highly effective.

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Thursday,
December 19, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

This workshop will focus on ethical issues that can arise in therapy when treating traumatized clients, as well as issues related to termination.

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Friday,
December 20, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn • Owings Mills, MD
Presenter:
Presenter:
Wayne Evans

This workshop explores how prescribed roles and inherited narratives can be questioned, modified or replaced.

January 2025

On hiatus for winter break.

February 2025

We are currently not offering any trainings this month. Please check again later!

March 2025

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April 2025

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