Workshops and Training Seminars
Wendy Behary, Director - Facilitator
The Center for Interpersonal Effectiveness
The Cognitive Therapy Center of NJ
28 Millburn Avenue, Suite 7-A
Springfield, New Jersey 07081, USA
(973) 218-1776 x807
Announces:
International Schema Therapy Certification Program - 2010
January 21-25, 2010 - Sunday is a day off
September 23-27, 2010 - Sunday is a day off
wendy.behary@gmail.com - request further information
March 27-28 2010: Washington DC
Psychotherapy Networker Symposium 2010
www.psychotherapynetworker.org
Saturday 11AM – 1 PM
#428 - Bringing Narcissists into Relationship
Wendy Behary
Narcissists--notoriously arrogant, condescending, lacking empathy, emotionally detached--often seem incapable of genuine relationship with anyone, therapists included. So how can we summon compassion for narcissists and engage them in treatment when they’re more likely to attack than cooperate with us? In this workshop, we’ll explore a method of empathic confrontation to gain and keep leverage in therapy, tolerate our own fear in the face of our client’s intimidation, avoid power struggles, maintain compassion through curiosity, and help the client begin to understand and change his or her own emotional and behavioral patterns. This integrated approach incorporates cognitive restructuring, attachment and re-parenting work, behavioral-skills training, and experiential techniques.
Wendy Behary is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The New Jersey Institute for Schema Therapy. She’s the author of Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed.
Sunday 10:30AM - 3:30PM
#606 - Schema Therapy: Basics and Beyond
Wendy Behary
Many people grow up with maladaptive internal psychological schemas--pervasive, dysfunctional, and self-defeating themes or patterns regarding themselves and their relationships with others developed during childhood, which they keep repeating throughout life. Emerging in response to unmet needs in childhood, schemas lead to long-term, often damaging ways of responding to life circumstances. They’re particularly apparent in clients with borderline, narcissistic, and other chronic, debilitating symptoms. In this workshop, we’ll explore a therapy model that helps clients recognize triggering life events that activate these self-defeating behavioral patterns, as well as the underlying, childhood-based schemas. You’ll learn an approach to therapy that emphasizes the therapeutic relationship--with a special focus on adaptive re-parenting strategies, like empathic confrontation and limit-setting--as a clinical response to early unmet needs that enhances attunement, stability, safety, and support.
Wendy Behary is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The New Jersey Institute for Schema Therapy. She’s the author of Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed.
June 14 2010: Parsippany, New Jersey
Rutgers School of Social Work – Continuing Education
https://ssw-web.rutgers.edu/ssw/ce/
Advanced Clinical Training...
Overcoming the Obstacles in the Treatment Room:
The Art of Empathic Confrontation
ID: 5576
This workshop will help therapists to better engage in an exploration of their most challenging moments in the treatment room, while taking on imbedded schemas and long-standing coping modes that interfere with effective interpersonal interactions, as well as attuned and adaptive modeling.
Fee: $125.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 5.00 Clinical
Instructor: Wendy Behary
Date: Monday, June 14, 2010
Time: 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Location: 1719 Route 10 E., Parsippany, NJ
October 15 2010: London / Fulham Palace
The Art of Empathic Confrontation:
Overcoming the Obstacles in the Treatment Room
Guest Speaker: Wendy Behary
Friday, October 15th 2010 - 10:00am – 5:00pm (Registration opens at 9:00am)
Venue: Schema Therapy Institute
The Courtyard, Fulham Palace, Bishop’s Avenue, London SW6 6EA
Telephone: 020 7384 9212
www.schemainstitute.org
Some of the most challenging moments in our clinical work can be effectively overcome by deepening our understanding of the
parallel process that occurs between patient and therapist, i.e. the activation and healing of our patients’ maladaptive life themes/
schemas and modes, and the activation and healing of our own.
The therapy relationship can be fertile soil for the eruption of painful re-enactments from early experience. It can also be fraught
with missed opportunities for confrontation, limit setting, attunement, empathy, and a host of other adaptive strategies when we
ourselves captured by our own schemas. For example, a therapist with a profound defectiveness/inadequacy issues may become
abruptly defensive or inappropriately apologetic when her highly avoidant, narcissistic patient is harshly critical of her or chronically
complains of not getting better fast enough.
The proposed seminar will help therapists to better engage in an exploration of their most challenging moments in the treatment
room, while gaining access to and taking on the most diffcult patients like rigid avoiders, bullying and self deprecators, who can
push the buttons of the most sturdy, well trained therapist.
The workshop will offer: didactic lecture, interactive dialogues, role-plays, and experiential exercises.
Cost: TBA