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- Topic Areas:
- Speeches | Trauma
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2018 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Janina Fisher, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:05:26
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 09, 2018
- Short Description:
- Janina Fisher explores how traumatic memories continue to impact individuals through persistent symptoms like depression and anxiety. She introduces the concept of implicit memory, explaining how emotional and visceral memories shape current behavior. Fisher offers practical techniques for helping clients understand their trauma responses, emphasizing a transformational approach that focuses on healing and creating new experiences rather than reliving past events.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Great Conversations | Depression
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2018 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Judith Beck, PhD | Michele Weiner-Davis, LCSW
- Duration:
- 59:10
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 08, 2018
- Short Description:
- This conversation explores CBT-informed approaches to depression, emphasizing behavioral activation, therapeutic alliance, and clinical flexibility. Beck and Weiner-Davis discuss how hope, core beliefs, and relational support shape recovery, while also addressing medication, family inclusion, and the value of comprehensive evaluation.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Topical Interactions | Depression
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2018 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Michele Weiner-Davis, LCSW
- Duration:
- 1:00:11
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 08, 2018
- Short Description:
- This presentation offers a candid exploration of personal experience with depression and its clinical implications. Drawing from her own journey, Weiner-Davis highlights the healing role of daily structure, supportive relationships, and meaning-making. The talk underscores the value of therapist self-disclosure, normalizing client experiences, and integrating empathy with clinical skill to foster connection and hope in treatment.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Depression
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 2017 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Michele Weiner-Davis, LCSW | Michael Yapko, PhD | Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:04:08
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 15, 2017
- Short Description:
- This panel explores fresh ways of understanding and treating depression, moving beyond rigid diagnoses toward a more experiential, state-based approach. The conversation blends clinical strategy with personal story, underscoring the power of connection, early intervention, and skill-building. Biological treatments are considered, but the heart of the work lies in thoughtful, attuned therapeutic relationships.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Multicultural | Community
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2016
- Faculty:
- Erving Polster, PhD | Michael Yapko, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:01:39
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 09, 2016
- Short Description:
- Yapko and Polster examine the idea of “life focus” groups as a natural extension of psychotherapy, designed not for problem-solving but for cultivating reflection, belonging, and continuity in community. Highlighting themes like design, congregation, and continuity, the keynote draws parallels to religion, the arts, and large-scale social movements while imagining new, non-clinical spaces for shared growth. Participants gain a broader vision of how psychotherapy’s principles can inspire communal practices that enhance meaning and vitality in everyday life.
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Multicultural | Existential Therapy | Brief Therapy | Meditation, Spirituality and Yoga
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2014
- Faculty:
- Naji Abi-Hashem, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:06:56
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 11, 2014
- Short Description:
- This short course reframes resilience as a cultural, communal and spiritual force rather than just an individual trait. Through stories, cross-cultural examples and practical questions, the presenter shows how people draw strength from heritage, community bonds, generational wisdom and meaningful relationships. Participants learn how to help clients reconnect with cultural identity, mobilize resources, and build resilience that supports adaptation, creativity and purpose in a rapidly changing world.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Family Therapy | Couples Therapy | Aging and Mortality
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2013
- Faculty:
- Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
- Duration:
- 47:07
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 21, 2013
- Short Description:
- This keynote offers a moving, often funny, and deeply honest look at what it means to care for an aging parent or partner. Drawing on personal stories and clinical insight, it explores caregiver exhaustion, guilt, sibling conflict, end-of-life decisions, and the emotional whiplash of loving someone who is fading. Participants hear practical ways to set boundaries, honor complex feelings, locate moments of grace, and repair unfinished business so that caregiving becomes not just a burden but a meaningful act of connection and dignity.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Clinical Demonstrations | Hypnosis | Empowerment
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2012
- Faculty:
- Michael Yapko, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 57:17
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2012
- Short Description:
- In this demonstration, hypnosis helps a volunteer struggling with travel anxiety shift from anxious detail-tracking to a broader sense of ease and confidence. Through guided imagery, reframing, and experiential absorption, the session illustrates how hypnosis creates openings for clients to discover untapped internal resources. Participants witness how the process transforms fear and rigidity into a more spacious, empowered way of experiencing everyday challenges.
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Brief Therapy | Multicultural | Social Issues
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2010
- Faculty:
- Naji Abi-Hashem, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:52:01
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 09, 2010
- Short Description:
- This wide ranging seminar looks at how globalization, secularism and rising fundamentalism shape the lives of clients and caregivers. The presenter explores identity, culture shock and the psychological fatigue created by rapid change, then offers ways to understand rigidity, polarization and radicalization without reducing them to pathology. Participants learn how to work more sensitively and flexibly across cultures, strengthen their own “cultural self” and support clients navigating loss, dislocation and shifting worldviews.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Forgiveness | Couples Therapy | Pain and Healing
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
- Duration:
- 2:00:49
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- Short Description:
- This workshop offers a clear, empowering alternative to forgiveness when an offender cannot or will not make amends. Participants learn a structured model of **acceptance**, a self-healing process that helps people release obsession, understand the offender’s behavior without excusing it, protect their own dignity, and move forward without living in resentment. Through stories, clinical examples, and ten practical steps, the session shows how acceptance restores agency, reduces self-blame, and creates the option of reconciliation only when it is safe and genuinely earned.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Hypnosis
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 2007
- Faculty:
- Michael Yapko, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:33:32
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 09, 2007
- Short Description:
- This workshop examines how hope and positive expectancy shape clinical outcomes and how hypnosis can help clients internalize these attitudes. Participants learn how beliefs about change influence treatment response across therapy and medication, and how to build optimism experientially rather than just cognitively. Through discussion, demonstration, and practice, the training offers a hypnotic framework for fostering resilience, future orientation, and self-fulfilling patterns of growth in therapy.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Hypnosis | Positive Psychology
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 2007
- Faculty:
- Michael Yapko, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:03:33
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 08, 2007
- Short Description:
- Blending humor, neuroscience, and clinical insight, this keynote explores what positive psychology can learn from hypnosis about focus, perception, and human potential. The talk shows how hypnotic principles—attention, suggestion, imagination, and expectancy—can deepen the science of well-being and foster authentic change. With vivid examples, including work with elephants at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, it illustrates how compassion, mindfulness, and learned optimism can expand both personal and therapeutic effectiveness.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Brief Therapy | Couples Therapy
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD | Peter Pearson, PhD
- Duration:
- 2:38:13
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 09, 2006
- Short Description:
- Dive into an innovative approach to couples therapy with Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson. Learn transformative techniques for creating safe, meaningful dialogues, focusing on trust, mutual accountability, and personal growth. Through practical exercises, personal stories, and powerful communication strategies, discover how to break negative patterns and build stronger, more resilient relationships. Ideal for therapists seeking to enhance their couples work with compassionate, effective interventions.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Intimacy | Forgiveness | Healing
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2005
- Faculty:
- Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
- Duration:
- 1:59:31
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 04, 2005
- Short Description:
- This workshop presents an in depth, practical model of “acceptance,” a healing alternative when an offender cannot or will not make amends. Participants learn how hurt parties can honor their emotions, reduce obsessive rumination, protect themselves from further harm, and see the offender’s behavior in a broader context without excusing it. Through vivid clinical examples, the session offers a step by step roadmap for resolving injury, reclaiming dignity and moving forward even when genuine forgiveness is not possible.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Grief | Trauma | Aging and Mortality
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2002
- Faculty:
- Naji Abi-Hashem, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:19:24
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 12, 2002
- Short Description:
- This short course offers a clear, compassionate framework for working with grief, trauma and the many losses that shape people’s lives. The presenter distinguishes normal and complicated grief, explores how trauma reactions overlap with mourning, and shows how culture, attachment and past experiences shape the healing process. Participants learn practical steps for assessment, emotional expression, meaning making and reintegration, helping clients move toward resolution with greater stability and resilience.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Children and Adolescent Therapy | Psychotherapy | Family Therapy | Strategic Therapy
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1995 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Claudia Black, PhD | Stella Chess, MD | Cloe Madanes, HDL, LIC | Donald Meichenbaum, PhD
- Duration:
- 55:37
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 15, 1995
- Short Description:
- This panel focuses on children’s mental health in high-risk environments, with experts presenting strategies across developmental, systemic, and therapeutic domains. Topics include the impact of addiction on children, symptom function in youth, the role of temperament in treatment, and the importance of early academic success. Case studies and creative interventions are shared, alongside calls for community-based solutions, culturally sensitive parenting programs, peer counseling, and school engagement to support resilience and long-term well-being. Moderated by Brent Geary, PhD.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Clinical Demonstrations | Resources | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 1994
- Faculty:
- Michael Yapko, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 54:49
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 10, 1994
- Short Description:
- This clinical demonstration uses hypnosis to help a client access inner resources and self-trust while navigating anxiety and uncertainty. Through age regression, metaphor, and guided exploration, the session connects early experiences of curiosity and discovery to present challenges, showing how empowerment arises from embracing the unknown. Participants observe how hypnosis fosters self-awareness, resilience, and confidence in managing life’s unpredictability with courage and balance.
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- Topic Areas:
- Clinical Demonstrations | Hypnosis | Resources
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 1993
- Faculty:
- Michael Yapko, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 51:14
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 11, 1993
- Short Description:
- In this demonstration, hypnosis becomes a bridge to personal strengths as a new mother struggling with sadness reconnects with empowering childhood memories. Through age regression and guided recall, she discovers how past experiences of joy and mastery can inform her parenting with greater confidence and wisdom. The session illustrates how hypnosis helps clients access internal resources and reframe challenges without imposing outside interpretations.
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Family Systems | Family Therapy | Psychotherapy
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1985 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Murray Bowen, MD
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 28 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 13, 1985
- Short Description:
- A workshop focusing on a strategic family therapy case by exploring marital conflict, individual growth, and emotional differentiation through systemic therapeutic intervention. Concludes with a comprehensive exploration of family systems therapy.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Case Discussions | Psychotherapy
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1985 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Bruno Bettelheim | Murray Bowen, MD | Mary Goulding, MSW | Thomas Szasz, MD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 45:13
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 11, 1985
- Short Description:
- This panel of expert therapists explores a complex case of a woman navigating family challenges, guilt, and personal growth after her mother's death, revealing diverse therapeutic approaches and insights into family dynamics. Moderated by William R. McLeod, MD.
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