Online Training – Art-Informed IFS: Illustrating Parts of the Eating Disordered Client

Zoom MD

This workshop will explore the integration of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the use of art making when treating clients with eating disorders. IFS is based on the concept of multiplicity, where there is Self and three groups of inner parts: exiles, managers and firefighters. Self is innate, present at birth, and includes qualities such...

(NEW) In Person Training – Creative Non-Pharmacological Strategies for Treating Depression

Hilton Garden Inn 4770 Owings Mills Blvd., Owings Mills

Many clinicians encounter clients who have had long-term struggles with Major Depression. In this training we will look at that diagnosis through the lens of hypo-arousal, giving both clinicians and clients a framework to understand the cognitive, emotional, somatic, and behavioral symptomatology that accompanies depressed experiences. We will also put clients in a psychosocial lens,...

(NEW) Online Training – Working with Avoidance and Intellectualization

Zoom MD

Abusers capitalize on their victims’ vulnerability.  Without the power to escape or fight back, children are helpless in an unsafe world.  They can’t cry, look frightened or voice any emotional needs for fear of punishment.  They instinctively develop strategies to avoid showing emotion because they have no other choice than appearing “fine.” These strategies are...

Online Training – Meeting the (Big!) Challenges for “Blended Families”: What Works and What Doesn’t

Zoom MD

“Blended families” begin with such high hopes. However, all too often the adults find themselves facing unhappy “resistant” children, mired in unexpected and painful stepcouple ruptures, struggling with differences over everything from discipline to the “appropriate” cost of a pair of sneakers, and caught in tangles with ex-spouses. The longing captured in that language of...