You can join the training groups at any time, space permitting. Call 212-228-3467 or email me at drsehl@aol.com if you are interested in attending. There are a few spaces left. It may be possible to attend through teleconference. Click Dr. Sehl's bio to view details about his training and experience.

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them,

we learn by doing them" Aristotle

Effective Interventions in Psychotherapy 

Dr. Sehl's workshops combine learning through theory, case discussion, and experience. Total cost per month - $50 for one group, $100/month for both groups. Taking both groups is recommended but not required.
 

Supervisory/Educational Group (every other Tuesday starting Sept. 15th)
Fee: $25        Time: 7:00 to 8:00 PM  

• Working with the * “difficult” client. Interventions that help clients stay in treatment. How do we help patients get to a place where affects can be tolerated? How can we help someone reduce self attacks?  Case examples will illustrate interventions that can resolve resistances and avert patient acting-out and premature termination.
• Which interventions help patients feel connected to the therapist? Which ones can disturb this connection? What are the best interventions with preoedipal patients?
• We will look at the positive and negative impact of interpretations, particularly with preoedipal patients. Also how can we respond to personal questions and have the best therapeutic outcome?
• Harm reduction and modern analytic approaches for people with drug & alcohol problems will be discussed. We address such questions as: If opioids serve an anti-rage function, what interventions help a client deal with rage as they cut down on their use?

    Transference/Resistance Group   (meets every other Tuesday following the Supervisory/Educational Group) Call or email Mark Sehl to discuss this.

Fee: $25        Time 8:00 to 9:00 PM

* To understand our patient's hesitancy to talk freely we need to understand our own motives behind a resistance to speak openly. When working with the "difficult client" therapists often get stuck, resulting in a treatment stalemate. This is often due to the therapist's lack of awareness of attitudes and feelings toward patients and can occur with clinicians at any level of experience. The consequences often culminate in abrupt termination of treatment. It is challenging for therapists to resolve a resistance in a group, yet it is one of the most effective learning experiences a therapist can have. Taking risks in a supportive accepting environment is how we grow as therapists, and how we develop courage to help clients take risks. If we can't take risks how can we help our patients do the same? See link below for workshop details.

Join workshop at any time, space permitting. 
Time and place: Every other Tuesday. Groups resume Tuesday, Sept. 15. 59 West 9th St., Bell #2 
One-time fee waiver for first-time attendance of Dr. Sehl's workshops!

(212) 228-3467 or drsehl@aol.com  to register and reserve a place.   
  for workshop details. 

     This ongoing workshop will concentrate on effective interventions in psychotherapy. We will focus on interventions that help patients feel connected to the therapist as well as interventions that disturb this connection. Resistance is a constant in our work. How can we work with the various kinds of resistance, including the treatment destructive resistance, which can bring an abrupt end to treatment? Silence is an effective intervention but can be misused. We will look at the positive and negative impact of interpretations, particularly with preoedipal patients. Also how can we respond to personal questions and have the best therapeutic outcome?

     To what extent do we frustrate or gratify patients and why? Suicide creates anxiety in most therapists. What is the best way to respond to suicidal patients and suicidal threats. Our patients often suffer from narcissistic problems that involve low self-esteem, self-attacks, and self-destructive behavior. Therefore we will consider what interventions can be effective in helping a client reduce harmful self-attacks. 

    Since many of our clients are involved in some problematic substance use, workshop content will include harm reduction and analytic approaches with people who experience problems involving drugs and alcohol. Cases will be discussed illustrating classical and modern psychoanalytic techniques integrated with a harm reduction approach resulting in successful treatment outcomes.

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