OUTLINE

• Emotion assessment: increasing therapist’s in-session awareness of different types of emotional states
• What is productive and unproductive emotional processing?
• How to regulate and bypass secondary emotions, activate maladaptive emotion schemes, and transform maladaptive emotions into adaptive emotional processes
• Principles of Emotional Change
• Two types of Emotion Regulation: Coping and Transformative
• Activate and deepen emotions
• Self-soothing: A powerful intervention to transform and regulate emotions
• Imaginal Re-entry: Transformation of emotional schematic memories and memory reconsolidation

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Through this seminar, participants will: 

1. Gain a deeper understanding of: primary and secondary emotions; productive and unproductive emotional processes; and principles of emotional change.
2. Learn how to recognize and assess primary, secondary, productive, and unproductive emotional states during psychotherapeutic sessions.
3. Learn how to transform unproductive emotional states to productive emotional processes.
4. Learn to activate and deepen emotions
5. Learn self-soothing and imaginal re-entry interventions

Each workshop stands alone and registration in all workshops is not required. Please note, a discount is offered to participants who register for more than one workshop.

CE CREDITS

Ontario Psychological Association (OPA) - Pending Approval

Medical Psychotherapy Association of Canada (MDPAC) - Pending Approval

Ontario Association of Mental Health Practitioners (OAMHP) - Pending Approval

FEES AND REGISTRATION 

The cost of each individual workshop is $190 (+ applicable taxes).   

Additional discounts are available for participants who register for multiple workshops.

Please contact training@cpeh.ca to gain access to our Student Rate.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Dr. Leslie Greenberg is a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario. He created and co-developed Emotion-Focused Therapy for individual and couples. He received a Distinguished Research Career Award from the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in 2004. His work has also been acknowledged with the Carl Rogers Award of the American Psychology Association, the Canadian Council of Professional Psychology Program Award for Excellence in Professional Training and the Canadian Psychological Association Professional Award for distinguished contributions to Psychology as a profession. In 2012 he was awarded the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution to Applied Research. His teaching style is highly praised and his workshops are well-known for their atmosphere of authenticity and warmth.

Dr. Serine Warwar is a Clinical Psychologist and the Director of the York University Emotion-Focused Therapy Clinic in Toronto, Ontario. She is also the Founder and Director of the Centre for Psychology and Emotional Health, a centre for: individual, couple and family therapy; professional trainings; and a satellite training site for the Emotion-Focused Therapy Clinic at York University. She co-developed, with Drs. Greenberg and Malcolm, an empirically validated Emotion-focused psychotherapy treatment and research program to help couples and individuals resolve emotional injuries. In addition, her process-outcome research has improved our understanding of emotional processing in therapy. She also provides supervision, training, and consultation to graduate students and therapists and conducts international trainings and workshops on emotion regulation, emotion-focused therapy for individuals and couples. In addition, she has been an Emotion-focused therapy skills trainer for 28 years.