OUTLINE

Working with Depression

• Theory of emotional processes in depression
• Shame in self-critical depression
• Sadness and Fear in Loneliness/abandonment depression
• Working with a client’s core pain and maladaptive emotion schemes in each type of depression
• Accessing and transforming maladaptive emotion schemes in depression into adaptive emotional processes

Working with Anxiety

• Theory of emotional processes in anxiety
• Insecurity and abandonment in Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Shame in Social Anxiety
• Working with symptomatic anxiety (eg. health anxiety)
• Working with a client’s core pain and maladaptive emotion schemes in each type of anxiety
• Accessing and transforming maladaptive emotion schemes in anxiety into adaptive emotional processes

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Through this seminar, participants will: 

1. Gain an understanding of the emotional processes involved in the development and maintenance of self-critical/shame-based depression and loneliness/abandonment-based depression
2. Gain an understanding of the emotional processes involved in the development and maintenance of different types of anxiety: social anxiety, generalized anxiety  disorder, secondary symptomatic anxiety (eg. health anxiety)
3. Learn to assess adaptive and maladaptive emotion schemes in depression and anxiety
4. Learn to identify and work with core emotions in different types of depression and anxiety
5. Learn how to access maladaptive emotion schemes in different types of depression and anxiety and transform them into adaptive emotional processes 

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. For those who are not able to attend the broadcast, recordings of the workshops will be available for a period of time.

FEES AND REGISTRATION 

The cost of each individual workshop is $190 + HST. Additional discounts are available for participants who register for multiple workshops.

ABOUT THE THERAPISTS

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.

RELATED WORKSHOPS

Workshop 2: ASSESS, REGULATE, ACTIVATE, AND TRANSFORM EMOTIONS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY with Dr. Leslie Greenberg & Dr. Serine Warwar

Workshop 3: Working with Self-Interruptive Processes, Emotional Blocks and Avoidance of Emotions in Psychotherapy with Dr. Leslie Greenberg & Dr. Serine Warwar