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Presenter: Steven Shapiro, PhD Date: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm Location: Virtual Online 6.25 CEs/CMEs Program Description: Can you relate to the common misconception of Experiential Dynamic Therapy as being harsh, confrontive and unrelenting? Do you tend to think of "experiential” as equivalent to “emotional?” Are you tempted to over emphasize feeling as if the goal is simply catharsis? It is natural to rely on overly simplified guidelines to help understand a process as unpredictable and complex as intensive psychotherapy. With good intentions, in the spirit of efficiency, have you had your share of (unnecessary) ruptures? I certainly have! Analyzing a case initially involving Severe & Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) that progresses through various stages will give us the opportunity to emphasize “Phase-Specific treatment.” Primarily using video demonstration, we will examine ways to understand the intrapsychic and interpersonal action in the room (conceptual knowledge) to inform interventions (procedural knowledge) in a way that is not only attuned, but “contingent” in each moment. Alliance building is not just about avoiding ruptures; it is also about leveraging these challenging interpersonal moments into growth and capacity building experiences. Click Here for Full Conference Program and Agenda Click Here for Conference Learning Objectives and References Speaker Bio:
Accreditation Statement and AMEDCO Continuing Education Certification pending Registration closes Sep 19, 2025 at noon ET. |
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Steven Shapiro, PhD is a clinical psychologist who maintains full-time private practice in suburban Philadelphia and has over twenty-five years of clinical and teaching experience. He has been practicing various forms of Experiential Dynamic Therapy (EDT), since the mid-1990’s, including Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). He is a founding member and currently an adjunct faculty member of the AEDP Institute in New York City. Dr. Shapiro conducts training of psychotherapists internationally. His instruction is often commended for translating complex clinical theory into clear, precise, and practical techniques which are easily understandable and readily applied immediately and deliberately in clinical settings by therapists of all orientations. For 16 years, Dr. Shapiro was the Director of Psychology and Education at Montgomery County Emergency Service (MCES), an emergency psychiatric hospital, where he worked with a range of severe disorders and those committed involuntarily to treatment. This intensive experience has helped inform his approach to transforming resistance with challenging patients who have a history of trauma, a high degree of resistance, or excessive anxiety and dysregulation.
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The Other Significant Others: Rethinking Friendship’s Potential When the child finally finds a chum—somewhere between eight-and-a-half and ten—you will discover something very different in the relationship namely, the child begins to develop a real sensitivity to what matters to another person: Harry Stack Sullivan on the importance of friendship in human development. Presenter: Rhaina Cohen Date: Sunday, October 5th, 2025 Time: 11:00am – 1:00pm Location: Maggiano's Little Italy, 5333 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC No CEUs for this event Program Description: In this meeting, join NWSP colleagues at Maggiano's for brunch and a talk by author and NPR reporter, Rhiana Cohen elaborate on the importance of friendships and share insights from her recent book “The Other Significant Others: Rethinking Friendship’s Potential”. Based on years of reporting, Cohen tells the stories of people who have chosen friends as life partners — taking on roles typically reserved for romantic relationships, including co-homeownership, caregiving, and co-parenting. This talk will explore how these platonic partnerships can help us better understand the nature of intimacy, commitment, and family. By examining this alternative relationship model, we can gain fresh perspectives on what constitutes meaningful partnership. Cost: NWSP Members: $40; Non-members: $50, Students: $25 Speaker Bio: Rhaina Cohen is an award-winning journalist who tells deeply reported, intimate stories. She’s the author of the national bestseller The Other Significant Others and a producer and editor for NPR’s documentary podcast Embedded. Rhaina also contributed to a forthcoming anthology about shared living, A Home For Tomorrow (Beacon 2026). Her writing, which often focuses on social connection, has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post and elsewhere. Seating is limited: Register before September 27, 2025. |
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Planning Committee/Faculty: Esther Rosen-Bernays, Chair Mona Abuhamda Antonietta Corvasce Carolyn Curcio Stacey Saltzman Margo Silberstein Click Here for the Full Program and Learning Objectives. Click Here for Conference References. Accreditation Statement and AMEDCO Continuing Education Certification pending Registration Fees:
For information about NWSP membership, go to the NWSP website — newwsp.org. For information about potential scholarship opportunities for these workshops, contact Stacey Saltzman at stacey_saltzman@yahoo.com. PLEASE NOTE: Participation is limited to 40 people. Registration closes Nov 14, 2025 at noon ET. |
