BT10 Workshop 42 - Single-Session Psychotherapy: Enhancing One-Meeting Potentials - Michael Hoyt, PhD
Many therapies involve brief lengths of treatment. A structure will be presented for organizing the tasks and skills involved in different phases (pre, early, middle, late, and follow-through) of therapy. Numerous case examples, including video, will illustrate brief therapy techniques both in initial sessions and in the course of longer treatments.
BT10 Workshop 43 - The Keys to Connecting with Clients: The First Five Minutes - Dan Short, PhD
Whether the client returns for a second appointment depends on the strength of connection made during the earliest moments of therapy. In this workshop, you’ll learn to recognize subtle clues that reveal how a client needs to be treated in order to feel comfortable, understood, and satisfied. This is how therapy is individualized and how to reach clients at their deepest area of need. Participants will also receive an instrument that indicates clients’ most and least helpful therapy experiences.
When people feel “stuck,” they often describe it metaphorically—being “blocked,” “in quicksand up to my neck,” “beating my head against a wall,” “in the pit of despair,” etc. Andrew T. Austin (author of The Rainbow Machine) has discovered how metaphors can be used to clarify and resolve the problem.
BT10 Workshop 45 - Using Hypnosis with Children and Their Parents - Lynn Lyons, LICSW
Hypnosis harnesses the powerful imaginations of children to interrupt problematic cognitive and physical patterns. Participants will learn how to use hypnotic techniques to manage common childhood problems, such as phobias, sleep issues, school/test anxiety, and fear of medical treatment. How to include parents as subjects and hypnosis “assistants” will be addressed.
BT10 Workshop 46 - The Initiator-Inquirer Process: Not a Communication Technique - Ellyn Bader, PhD
Couples come to therapy and say “we can’t communicate.” They want your help with communication. Yet effective communication often reveals trauma, accumulated resentment, narcissism or anxiety about intimacy. Resolution requires internal self development that may be resisted by one or both partners. This advanced workshop will use video and clinical transcripts to demonstrate the intricacies of resolving predictable communication breakdowns and supporting development.
BT10 Workshop 47 - Transforming Survival Strategies - Robert Dilts
A key issue in brief therapy involves clients’ regression into survival strategies. Survival strategies are activated by a perceived threat to our physical or psychological survival, and include: fight (attack), flight (escape), freeze (paralysis) or surrender (submit). Updating survival strategies involves reviewing key life situations and bringing new resources into these experiences at several levels.
BT10 Workshop 48 - Interaction Focused Therapy - Wendel Ray, PhD
Knowledge of Interaction Focused Therapy (IFT) equips the therapist with skill in immediately understanding problematic behavior. Derived from the Communication Theory of Don Jackson, Gregory Bateson and colleagues, and effective with the widest range of problems, basic premises of this evidence-based approach will be taught, with emphasis on specific strategies for promoting change.
BT10 Workshop 49 - Advances Techniques of Psychotherapy: Making the Moment Visually Alive - Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
Experiential methods enliven therapy through dynamic experiences that promote dynamic realizations. We will explore methods that make therapy a visual art, recognizing the visual realizations are neurologically encoded more robustly than words, hence more easily accessed when needed. We will explore the use of gestures, objects, and even sounds to empower change. We will learn the latest advances in therapist sculpting. Lecture, demonstration, and small group exercises will be used.
BT10 Workshop 50 - Sensory Acuity: The Key to Making Brief Therapy Last - Philip Barretta, MA, Norma Barretta, PhD
A huge difference between skill and artistry in doing therapy briefly is the ability to observe and listen with astute understanding. Noticing and then utilizing subtle non-verbal responses transmitted by the patient enhances the therapist’s credibility at deeper levels and gives him/her a distinct advantage. This workshop presents a series of experiential activities to sharpen visual and auditory sensory acuity.
The current model of delivering psychotherapy services – one fee for one session—may not sustain us as we move further into the 21st century. One answer is a “multiple streams of therapy income” business - to create passive income for therapists. This workshop will discuss the steps to creating your first information product.