WHEN: FRI FEB 9 2024

TIME: 9:00 A.M. – 11:00 A.M. PST

COST: FREE

CEs: 2.0

SPEAKERS: DR. MARK SCHWARTZ & LORI GALPERIN, LCSW

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2.0 CEs provided

with the completion of an online evaluation form. This workshop provides 2.0 CEs. Application made to CEPA for specified hours of Continuing Education Credit for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and LCSWs as is required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

ABSTRACT

Relational Therapy has traditionally maintained a behavioral focus, aiming to modify communication patterns, conflict styles, anger, stress management, and more. While these changes are often necessary, they are seldom sufficient.

Trauma-based therapies have concentrated on developmental issues within the family and the original attachment environment that contributes to Complex and Episode Specific Traumas. When parents have not addressed legacy burdens including their own unresolved traumas, these issues pass down to their children. Often children tend to reenact unconscious patterns in their close relationships.

It is our belief that the most fully effective therapies require a tri-directional focus.

1. Original Context
2. Introjected Dynamics
3. Unconscious Interpersonal Reenactment, to fully “break the trauma bond” and allow emergence of genuine intimate engagement.

In this LIVECAST WEBINAR, we'll describe dysfunctional family attachment patterns and their manifestations in adult children’s intimate relationships. Our primary focus will be on interventions to facilitate removing blocks to close relationships.

We'll provide amelioration in deficits in differentiation and share templates for self-formulation, esteem, affect, ability to attune to others, mastery, and romance — each will be specifically delineated. Learn how anxious and avoidant strategies in dyads become the dance that maintains superficial levels of intimacy.

WEBINAR OBJECTIVES

• To classify dysfunctional family patterns and the consequences to relational patterns in their children
• To discuss intrapsychic and interpsychic blocks to closeness with couples
• To outline how the therapist can optimally facilitate differentiation
• To review the Ideal Parent Paradigm to facilitate forming a template for secure, romantic attachments

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With more than 30 years of experience and a degree in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University, Mark Schwartz, D.Sc., LMFT specializes in working with 1) couples, marriage, and intimacy disorders; 2) family difficulties; 3) eating disorders, 4) PTSD, addiction, and; 5) sexual difficulties, sexual dysfunction, and sexual addiction.

His national recognition afforded him the experience of lecturing to over 50,000 therapists nationally, as well as editing three books. He specializes particularly in working with the deeper issues from childhood. He is extremely compassionate and forms exceptional connection with his clients.

Dr. Schwartz was the Director of Masters & Johnson Institute and Masters & Johnson Trauma and Dissociative Disorders Programs as was one of the founders of Castlewood and Monarch Cove Treatment Centers, specializing in eating disorders. He was trained directly by sex experts Masters & Johnson for treatment of sexual dysfunction and lack of sexual desire and arousal

Lori Galperin, LCSW, MSW, HPM lead therapist, has been a program founder, clinical director, teacher and writer for 30+ years. She is highly skilled in multiple types of therapeutic treatment.

Her current areas of specialization focus on working with individuals and couples around issues of: 1) intimacy, relational and attachment problems, sexual dysfunction, and; 2) trauma, compulsivity, and eating disorder recovery, (from anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating) and; 3) clinical writing, focused on the process of recovery from addictive behaviors and mental health problems to a state of vital aliveness, meaningfulness, and relatedness.

Lori’s training includes EMDR, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Processing Therapies, and psychodramatic techniques, as well as the original Masters & Johnson model of marital and sexual co-therapy, as taught by its founders. She’s co-authored book chapters and journal articles, lectured and trained professionals both nationally and internationally.