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December 2020
The Wounded Healer
Due to health and safety precautions with Covid-19, this three-hour workshop will be virtual. Therapists are often taught to hide their vulnerabilities. We may consider the wounds from our childhoods to be a dangerous liability. This perspective fosters secrecy, shame and isolation. Woundedness, I have come to believe, is a metaphor for our shared humanity.…
Find out more »January 2021
Conscious Connections: A Trauma Book Discussion Group – Baffled by Love (Part 1 of 3)
This is a free virtual book club for trauma therapists and will be conducted through zoom. This program is free but is intended to benefit a number of social justice and anti-racism organizations. Please see listing below to make your donation. Womencare is excited to announce that Laurie Kahn, our founder and director, will bring…
Find out more »Postgraduate Fellowship Program Virtual Open House
JOIN US FOR AN OPPORTUNITY to learn about the Natalie Haimowitz Postgraduate Training Program. At our open house you will be able to learn more about the program, ask questions, review the application process, and meet our therapists, program mentors, and graduates. WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS VIRTUAL EVENT: Therapists with commitment to the further…
Find out more »February 2021
Institute on the Relational Treatment of Trauma – A Virtual Series
This will be a virtual event facilitated on zoom. You will receive a zoom link a few days prior to the event. The Institute on the Relational Treatment of Trauma is a six-session institute intended for therapists developing their skills in the treatment of trauma. For six Friday mornings, therapists who value the therapeutic relationship…
Find out more »March 2021
The Wounded Healer
Due to health and safety precautions with Covid-19, this three-hour workshop will be virtual. Therapists are often taught to hide their vulnerabilities. We may consider the wounds from our childhoods to be a dangerous liability. This perspective fosters secrecy, shame and isolation. Woundedness, I have come to believe, is a metaphor for our shared humanity.…
Find out more »The Pregnant Therapist: Navigating the Therapeutic Relationship
Due to health and safety precautions with Covid-19, this three-hour workshop will be virtual. A therapist's pregnancy is an unavoidable self-disclosure, which impacts the therapeutic relationship in both challenging and enriching ways. For therapists pregnant during Covid-19, there are further considerations: the therapist's full body is not visible over telehealth; there is less certainty as…
Find out more »April 2021
The Parent Therapist: Holding Two Worlds
Due to health and safety precautions with Covid-19, this three-hour workshop will be virtual. Being a parent can be an inspiring, exhausting, and transformative endeavor. The same might be said of being a therapist. Our commitment to being the best parent and the best therapist we can be often leads to feeling conflicted, divided and…
Find out more »May 2021
Awakening Possibilities: Cultural Healing for Clinicians of Color*
Due to health and safety precautions with Covid-19, this three-hour workshop will be virtual. The current sociopolitical climate has magnified historical wounds of racism and oppression. Additionally, the current global pandemic has disproportionately impacted people of color with people of color dying at higher rates than non-people of color. This is yet another crisis…
Find out more »June 2021
The Pregnant Therapist: Navigating the Therapeutic Relationship
Due to health and safety precautions with Covid-19, this three-hour workshop will be virtual. A therapist's pregnancy is an unavoidable self-disclosure, which impacts the therapeutic relationship in both challenging and enriching ways. For therapists pregnant during Covid-19, there are further considerations: the therapist's full body is not visible over telehealth; there is less certainty as…
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