Classes

Relationally Focused Psychodynamic Therapy 2-Year Post-Graduate Certificate Program

          2 years                    4 intensive retreats                       32 consultation sessions

Did you become a therapist because you believe in the power of relationship? Are you eager to revitalize your practice with greater depth? Are you isolated in your work and looking for community? Do you desire more integration of relational theory with practical application?

Relational Psychoanalysis 101 - 8-week class with Erin Pierson and Brian Pendergast

Relational Psychoanalysis 101 is a class ideal for psychotherapists interested in exploring how to work and think clinically and theoretically in a manner that incorporates the subjective ways the experience of relationships forms our minds, personalities, and lives.  This class is essential to diving deeper into relationally-oriented psychoanalytic work, and will bring the participant into contact with some of the historical and contemporary writings and thoughts in the field.

Entrenched Defenses, Shame and the Depressive Position class

In the Kleinian Object Relations tradition coming into the experience of facing life as it really is, with all of its complexities and possibilities, has been described as the depressive position, depressive because it involves the essential processes of loss and grief and guilt. In the depressive position we can come to know ourselves and others more deeply and develop more capacities in ourselves for living creatively.

CLASS CANCELED "Thinking About Infancy" by Margaret Bergmann-Ness, MA, LICSW and Dana Blue, LICSW, FIPA

WE APOLOGIZE BUT THIS CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELED.  WE PLAN TO OFFER IT AT A LATER DATE.  
 
We all begin life as infants, subject to a wide array of experiences with few tools for making meaning. In this seminar we will consider the experience of infancy and its clinical relevance in adult treatment. We will think about how the everlasting internal world of infancy is established and about the value of infant observation as a path for cultivating sensitivity to this internal world in our work.

Clinical Study Group for Advanced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists

Practicing psychoanalytic therapy may at times involve feeling lonely, even isolated. You can have a  well-functioning social network and still feel alone with your most intimate thoughts and feelings evoked by the therapeutic process and setting. 
 
Our work requires that we spend large amounts of time alone with our own thoughts and feelings in the clinical hour.

Exploring Racism in Analytic Treatment Classes

Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Seattle Fall Class
 

Greetings Alliance Community. Hope you are enjoying your summer. We want to share news about what we’re planning for 2018-2019. We begin with a fall class. This class looks at the relational analytic literature with a focus on clinical implications of racism and othering. Each author in the curriculum highlights ways to move toward greater awareness of the ways race and othering may play out in the transference/countertransference field. 

 

Comprehensive Non-Medical Treatment of Chronic Pain: Pathways out of the Abyss

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