BRAND-NEW!
Dynamic Group Therapy Series 1: Treating Attachment Wounds & Trauma by Building Cohesive Therapy Groups
Presented by: Hannah Smith, MA, LMHC, CGP
When: Monday, January 27th, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM with optional skills practice at 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Pacific Time
Where: Live at the Shoreline Center
Continuing Education Credit Hours:
Morning Session: 3 CEs | $95.00 for morning session
Optional Afternoon Session: 2 CEs | $135.00 for both sessions
This is a three-part series but you do not need to register for all three or have taken another one to take this session. Full series:
- January 27th, 2025: Dynamic Group Therapy Series 1: Treating Attachment Wounds & Trauma by Building Cohesive Therapy Groups MORE INFO>>>
- February 10th, 2025: Dynamic Group Therapy Series 2: Addressing Difficult Group Interactions MORE INFO>>>
- April 17th, 2025: Dynamic Group Therapy Series 3: Addressing Special Populations in Group Therapy Practice MORE INFO>>>
If you are like many therapists these days, you are tired! Does having greater impact on more clients in a shorter amount of time sound good to you? If so, then you want to use the powerful tool of group therapy.
Not only is group therapy more efficient, advances in Attachment Theory and other whole-person sciences and approaches have revealed the crucial nature of secure connections. We know attachment issues are often comorbid to and exacerbating of many of the mental health disorders. The issues that bring people into therapy often develop in relation to others. Therefore, a healing, therapeutic community provides one of the best roads to healing and abundant life available today.
But how do we create a strong and cohesive group? What are the terms, skills, and modern science & approaches needed to create emotional safety, enhance attunement, and build cohesive groups? This short session will answer these questions and more.
This is not “just another training program.” Through both information sharing and experiential practice, you will not only be better informed, but motivated and energized to return to your practice with greater confidence, enthusiasm, and creativity. If you want learning that is also stimulating and fun, then this is the seminar for you!
Optional Afternoon Session (1:30 PM – 3:30 PM)
**Optional** Ever feel like learning the skills and theories, even with a bit of practice, isn’t enough? If you have, then return after the session for two additional hours of in-depth, hands-on practical applications, consultation, and case studies. This extra focus will solidify learning and enhance competence and confidence for skills learned in the main session.
Objectives:
- Identify terminology (such as immediacy, bridging, etc) to increase group connections and build emotional safety and intimacy in groups
- List and explain core principles of popular modern theories, methods, and approaches in group psychotherapy, such as Modern Psychoanalytic and Systems-Centered approaches as they pertain to building cohesive therapeutic community
- Explain the impact of brain processing and nervous system activity as it relates to group process and use evidence-based methods to reduce hyper or hypo arousal to facilitate intimacy and connection in a safe manner
- Apply knowledge in real-time group-related activities with immediate feedback