OUTLINE

• Theory of self-interruptive processes
• Self-interruption, emotional avoidance, and emotional blocks: Self-protective mechanisms affecting the therapeutic process
• How to work with and resolve self-interruptions, emotional avoidance, and emotional blocks:

1. Accepting and Allowing
2. Psychoeducation
3. De-automatizing
4. Resolving Unfinished Business
5. Focusing
6. Empathic Conjecture
7. Repeated Homework and Practice between sessions

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Through this workshop, participants will:

1. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the development and maintenance of self-interruptive processes, emotional avoidance, and emotional blocks (eg. self-protection) and their impact on clients and the therapeutic process.
2. Learn how to recognize and work with self-interruptive states in-session.
3. Learn to resolve self-interruptive processes, emotional avoidance, and emotional blocks, and help clients access underlying blocked emotions.

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.

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 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.

RELATED WORKSHOPS

Workshop 1: Working with Emotions in Depression and Anxiety with Dr. Leslie Greenberg

Workshop 2: Assess, Regulate, Activate, and Transform Emotions in Psychotherapy with Dr. Leslie Greenberg & Dr. Serine Warwar