Surmounting Shame: Video Analysis of the Change Process
January 18th, 2016 adminDEFT Institute and Insight Center Present
Surmounting Shame: Video Analysis of the Change Process
April 16, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm with Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW
West Los Angeles, CA
Register: https://insightcenter.org/schedule/video-analysis-with-susan-warshow/
Early registration: $125
Full tuition: $165
Please note that early registration ends March 11, 2016.
This is the first in a series of video workshops presented by Susan Warshow and co-sponsored by the DEFT Institute and the Insight Center. Upcoming events: 7/30, 9/16 & 9/17 (with Jon Frederickson) and 10/29.
To pre-register for 7/30, 9/16 &9/17 or 10/29, visit: https://deftinstitute.com/dvdday.html
Susan Warshow will demonstrate how Dynamic Emotion Focused Therapy (DEFT) can effectively overcome therapeutic obstacles and facilitate depth emotion processing and integration, an approach to healing attachment trauma.
DEFT interventions emphasize sensitivity to shame states that are triggered by self-exposure and emotional intimacy within the therapeutic relationship. Research validates that the more we facilitate the expression of affect in treatment, the more we will see positive positive change. Clinicians also know that accessing complex trauma-related affect, to be distinguished from explosive rage or helpless weepiness, is no easy matter.
Numerous self-protective barriers shield the most vulnerable parts of the self, and they are often deeply entrenched, unconscious and powerful. DEFT teaches specific skills and also greater awareness of the factors contributing to neurobiological attunement, the development of self-compassion and a strengthened sense of self. When the therapeutic relationship is experienced as sufficiently safe, it becomes possible for transformational shifts in the self to occur along with greater relational capacity.
This workshop will illustrate through video analysis of client sessions:
- An approach to accessing unconscious emotions
- Elements of shame-sensitive psychotherapy
- DEFT interventions to disarm defenses
- How to monitor and attend to anxiety
- Tracking of feelings, sensations and cognitions
- An integration of evidence-based methods
At the end of this workshop students will learn how DEFT:
- Activates a therapeutic partnership
- Responds to vulnerable client states
- Uses a graded, attuned approach to fragility
- Makes meaning of somatic signals
- Recognizes the neurobiology of emotion
- Tailors interventions to client capacity
- Conveys compassion for the cost of defenses
- Uncovers the roots of character armor
- Repairs and reduces ruptures
Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW, Board Certified Diplomat, LMFT, is the founder of the Dynamic Emotion Focused Therapy Institute (DEFT), which began its three-tier training program in January 2012. She is an international presenter, has published several professional journal articles. She is on the faculty of the ISTDP Institute and is an IEDTA Certified Teacher/Supervisor. She has a private practice in Woodland Hills, CA, and offers online therapy for individuals and couples, specializing in anxiety, depression, relationship issues and defeating personality traits. She also offers clinical supervision, coaching and consultation.
