THE 56th ANNUAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE IS NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION. SIGN UP NOW!
THE 56th ANNUAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE IS NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION. SIGN UP NOW!
ACE Foundation Programs
This presentation will explore current research and clinical material focused on therapists’ varying abilities to be both aware of and utilize the information that they receive from their bodies as insight into the emotional and somatic experiences of their clients. We will start from the perspective of attachment research on synchronicity, or lack thereof, that occurs between a mother and her infant. Then, we will explore the field of interoceptive research that attempts to analyze how accurately aware one is of one’s own bodily states through physiological and subjective measures. Additionally, we will review the research on the relationship between interoception and emotional awareness. Clinical examples will further this discussion through the phenomenon that occurs when the client’s conscious or unconscious emotional material is projected onto and introjected through the therapist’s body. Lastly, we will discuss working with clients who have experienced trauma and the impact that dissociation plays when you “know what you are not supposed to know and feel what you are not supposed to feel” (Bowlby, 1979).
*NYSSCSW Discount applies to NYSSCSW current members only.
**Student Discount only applies to full time students currently enrolled in social work and MHP master level programs.
Please register by Thursday, April 24 at 5pm.
Live In Person:
St. Thomas Aquinas College
Private Dining Hall at McNelis Commons
Route 340, Sparkill, NY
The Advanced Clinical Education (ACE) Foundation of the NYS Society for Clinical Social Work, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0028; licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0045; licensed psychoanalysts #P-0017; licensed psychologists #PSY-0121; licensed social workers #SW-0056; and licensed creative art therapists #CAT-0120.
Out-of-state providers are welcome to request a certificate upon completion of the presentation evaluation but must check with their own state licensing boards to inquire about whether or not the certificate is recognized as transferrable for CEs in their state’s jurisdiction.
1. Understand somatic awareness and the importance of identifying what they are feeling in their bodies, as well as how to talk to their clients about this potentially meaningful information.
2. Explore with clients what they are feeling in their body in session, and be able to provide psychoeducation to their clients about how emotions and unconscious traumatic experiences manifest themselves on a physiological level.
3. Develop a further understanding of how their clients may have been impacted by trauma or a lack of synchronicity in their early attachment, and how these experiences may result in feelings of disembodiment.
4. Understand how their clients might seek embodied experiences through examples that will be discussed of how to drop into their bodies and self-soothe.
Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed psychoanalysts, nurse practitioners and family and marriage/couple therapists, mental health counselors and licensed creative art therapists.
This seminar is appropriate for clinicians with all levels of experience.
Dr. Amanda Arena-Miller is a limited permit psychologist at Vienna Praxis, a private practice in New York City. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research in 2023. Her training was enhanced by clinical experiences at Greenwich House chemical dependency program, the inpatient psychiatric unit at Lenox Hill Hospital, the Safran Psychotherapy Center, as well as the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. For her dissertation, her research focused on interoceptive awareness, or one’s awareness of one’s internal bodily states, and how different life experiences and somatic practices impact interoception. In her clinical work she specializes in working with clients who have experienced attachment trauma, and its impact on bodily and emotional awareness.
Contact Hours will be awarded once the entire course is completed, as evidenced by signing in and out and completing a course evaluation. Certificates will be emailed approximately ten business days after the completion of the course.
ACE welcomes participants with diverse abilities. Please contact Kristin or Debbie at info.acefoundation@gmail.com, at time of registration, to request accessibility accommodations. Accommodation requests are considered in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities ACT (ADA), Section 505 of the Rehabilitation ACT.
Cancellations made at least five days before the event will be refunded less a 10% cancellation fee. For cancellation please call 1-800-288-4279, or email us at info.acefoundation@gmail.com.
Should Inclement weather occur, we will be notifying all registrants via the email by which the registrant signed up. Please be sure to check your email before you leave for the course.
