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Michael Alpert, co-founder of the IEDTA, and Kristin Osborn, past president, offer this workshop to teach the foundational elements of EDT and share new techniques and theory.

This highly interactive workshop will help you understand yourself and your work with your clients. You will have the opportunity to participate through role-plays, case consultations, live and video demonstrations.

You will learn how to use Malan’s Two Triangles for assessment and interventions, as well as, a new triangle, the Triangle of Self.

Michael Alpert, MD trained with Habib Davanloo and has developed treatment models and training programs including Accelerated Empathic Therapy, Sensation Therapy & Self-Connection Therapy. He focuses on helping therapists and clients discover new ways to experience themselves.

Kristin A. R. Osborn MA, LMHC trained with Harvard Medical School psychologist and researcher, Dr. Leigh McCullough and founded the Certified APT™-Training Program in 2009. She has a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is Director of the Harvard Medical School Psychotherapy Research Program. She is president emeritus of the IEDTA and co-authored the book, Paraverbal Communication in Psychotherapy: Beyond the Words (2016). Her passion is teaching clinicians how to integrate research in their clinical training.

Transportation is available from and to the Boston Hyatt Regency for a fee of $10.00 each way.

If you have any questions, please email Michale Alpert, or Tel: 212-213-6156

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Welcome to the new home of APT to see the offices of Kristin Osborn and meet her Boston colleagues.

The 9th international conference of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA) will focus on emerging applications and settings for Experiential Dynamic Therapy (EDT). EDTs are experiential, emotion-focused, psychodynamic psychotherapy models. EDTs use video recording of psychotherapy sessions to enhance training, supervision, research, and treatment. More information about EDTs can be found on the IEDTA website, iedta.net/edt/about-edt.

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Learn how to cultivate closeness within the therapeutic relationship

It can be hard to help your client experience closeness when you struggle with it yourself. Cultivating an honest and close relationship with your client is an essential therapeutic goal, but it leaves many clinicians feeling lost or anxious, especially if they have not worked through their own blocks to closeness. In this workshop, we’ll teach you a step-by- step approach on how to cultivate closeness with your client. You’ll learn how to avoid inadvertently encouraging compliance, dependency or a therapeutic rupture. You’ll learn how to help your client experience a deep sense of self-compassion, self-love and self-care. You’ll then learn how to assess your client’s capacity for closeness and how to intervene where they are at, rather than where you want them to be. You’ll also learn how to help your client feel an increased sense of trust and develop the skills to set limits within their relationships.

Learning Objectives:

• How to build a working alliance
• How to identify a block to closeness
• How to cultivate self-compassion, self-love and self-care
• How to use exposure and desensitization for a positive ‘sense of self’
• How to assess your clients attachment style
• How to use exposure and desensitization for a realistic ‘sense of other’

Learning Methods:

• Video-segments of psychotherapy sessions
• Interactive Exercises
• PowerPoint presentation
• APT-Forms

Literature:
Donovon, J., Osborn, K., & Rice, S., Parverbal Communication in Psychotherapy: Beyond the Words, 2016
Brown, S. & Vaugn, C., Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul, 2010
McCullough, L. et al, Treating Affect Phobia: A Manual for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, 2003
Najavits. L.M., ‘Researching therapist emotions and countertransference’. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2000; 7:322-328
Panksepp, J. & Biven, L., The Archeology of the Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions, 2012
Perry, B., The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories by a Child Psychiatrist, 2006
Searls, H., Coutertransference and Related Subjects: Selected Papers, University Press, 1979
Maroda, K., Psychodynamic Techniques: Working with Emotion in the Therapeutic Relationship: Guilford Press, 2010

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Certified APT™-Core Training is an experiential, intensive, hands-on, group learning experience for mental health clinicians. Trainees meet 4 weekends a year, for three years, to learn how to utilize the theory and techniques of APT.

Each training weekend includes presenting video segments of psychotherapy sessions, research, exploring case studies, role-playing exercises, and setting goals for professional development.

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Learn how to turn therapeutic ruptures into opportunities for connection

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Certified APT™-Core Training is an experiential, intensive, hands-on, group learning experience for mental health clinicians. Trainees meet 4 weekends a year, for three years, to learn how to utilize the theory and techniques of APT.

Each training weekend includes presenting video segments of psychotherapy sessions, research, exploring case studies, role-playing exercises, and setting goals for professional development.

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Learn the importance of timing, creativity, and choosing interventions that are the right fit for your client

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