Live recording December 6 and 7, 2024

Do you ever feel unsure about how to effectively work with emotions in your therapy sessions? Do you struggle to access, regulate, or deepen your clients’ emotional experience? Do you have trouble helping your clients process emotions productively? 

Working with emotion is an essential component of psychotherapy, and therapists can encounter challenging emotional processes during treatment. For example, clients often present with secondary symptoms (for example: symptomatic anxiety, depression, aggressive anger, unhealthy coping mechanisms, etc.), which are frequently mistaken for the main problem. These secondary symptoms obscure the deeper emotional issues that require focused attention and intervention. In this workshop, you will learn evidence-based skills to help you assess specific emotional issues and apply targeted interventions to address them. Principles and skills from this workshop can be integrated into any psychotherapeutic approach. 

This workshop is designed by Dr. Leslie Greenberg and Dr. Serine Warwar, leaders in the field of psychology and world-renowned experts in emotion and emotional processing. It is aimed at mental health professionals from various training backgrounds who wish to acquire specialized skills in working with emotions in psychotherapy. Video recordings of real therapy sessions will be used to illustrate client processes and interventions.

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

CE CREDITS

Ontario Psychological Association (OPA) - 6 Credits

Medical Psychotherapy Association of Canada (MDPAC) - 6 hours of Group-CE credits and 1 hour of MDPAC CCI credits

Ontario Association of Mental Health Practitioners (OAMHP): 6 Credits

Participation in this workshop allows OAMHP members to apply 6 hours (CECs) towards their required continuing education hours. OAMHP’s review of the general content of this workshop recognizes the learning objectives meet and support the criteria (1) for best known practice in continuing education and (2) for educational requirements for mental health professionals.

FEES AND REGISTRATION 

Regular Admission: $225 (+ applicable taxes).   

Student Rate: $160 (+ applicable taxes) Please sign up here to access student benefits.

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.