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Connecting Inner Worlds: The Role of the Therapist’s Heart in Counter-transference

In-Person
3 CE Hours
Clinical
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Description

This presentation explores the deep emotional interplay between therapist and client that shapes the therapeutic alliance. Attendees will gain insight into how a therapist’s own emotional responses—often unconscious—can influence the therapeutic process, either enhancing or hindering client outcomes. The session will emphasize the importance of self-awareness and emotional attunement in managing countertransference, offering practical strategies for therapists to maintain professional boundaries while utilizing their emotional experiences to foster healing connections. This presentation is ideal for clinicians seeking to deepen their understanding of the nuanced dynamics in therapeutic relationships.

Target Audience
  • • Counselor
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Psychologist
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
  • • Social Worker
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to highlight the importance of self-awareness and emotional attunement in managing countertransference, offering practical strategies for therapists to maintain professional boundaries while utilizing their emotional experiences to foster healing connections.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify at least three common signs of countertransference in clinical practice that may arise from a therapist’s emotional responses during sessions.

  • Analyze the impact of a therapist's unmanaged countertransference on the therapeutic alliance and client outcomes through case study examples.

  • Apply two specific self-reflection and mindfulness techniques to recognize and manage personal emotional responses that contribute to countertransference in therapy.

  • Demonstrate the ability to conceptualize countertransference awareness as a tool for enhanced therapeutic effectiveness.

References

  • References: Prasko, J., Ociskova, M., Vanek, J., Burkauskas, J., Slepecky, M., Bite, I., ... & Juskiene, A. (2022). Managing transference and countertransference in cognitive behavioral supervision: Theoretical framework and clinical application. Psychology research and behavior management, 2129-2155.

  • Tishby, O., & Wiseman, H. (2022). Countertransference types and their relation to rupture and repair in the alliance. Psychotherapy Research, 32(1), 16-31.

  • Bhola, P., & Mehrotra, K. (2021). Associations between countertransference reactions towards patients with borderline personality disorder and therapist experience levels and mentalization ability. Trends in psychiatry and psychotherapy, 43, 116-125.

Intermediate
Clinical
Counselor

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Marriage & Family Therapist

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Psychologist

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LEPs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Trusted Provider Network maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0125.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group:

Social Worker

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 3 Clinical continuing education credits.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by Family First Adolescent Services. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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  • 1 Hour Lunch
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  • Workshop Ends
Note: Time designated for lunch or breaks cannot be counted toward CE credit.
Mike Giresi

Mike found his passion for helping others through his own healing journey. He began his career supporting adults with complex trauma, PTSD, and addictions. Mike is a Florida Certified Addiction Counselor and an Internationally Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor through the IC&RC. He is also a nationally Certified Trauma Professional and a NARM® Master Practitioner, having assisted in teaching NARM® principles for working with complex trauma to professionals around the world and consulting on their application to adolescent treatment.

Mike currently serves as Chief Clinical Officer for Family First Adolescent Services, a premier residential treatment center in South Florida. He uses his extensive training in trauma, somatic psychology, interpersonal neurobiology, and addiction treatment to develop individual, group, and family programming for clients and families. Additionally, Mike is a national speaker, educator, and consultant on developmental trauma, addiction, and adolescent treatment.

Jill Weinstein

Over the last 20 years, Jill has worked with adolescents and their families in the areas of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorders, helping them to evolve into their best selves.

She is passionate about helping individuals develop their inner strength while they learn specific skills that will prove to them that their struggles can evolve into a source of personal power.

As a creative person, Jill enjoys using a variety of therapeutic modalities and draws from various philosophies, including Positive Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral, Rapid Resolution, as well as Various Experiential Therapies.

Over the last 5 years, Jill has developed a daily practice of yoga and meditation and has experienced firsthand the power that doing so has had on her and her family. Because she wanted to share all these benefits with others, she became a registered yoga instructor. Since then, Jill has incorporated mindfulness techniques into her clients’ psychotherapy sessions. Teaching mindfulness to children, adolescents, and their families can be a powerful preventative tool. She also works with schools to help them integrate mindfulness programs into their curriculum.

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