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Thursday Afternoon Keynote

Diana Fosha

Developer of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy)

Diana Fosha, Ph.D. is the developer of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), a healing-based, transformation-oriented model of psychotherapeutic treatment, and she is the founder and director of the AEDP Institute. For the last 20 years, Diana has been active in promoting a scientific basis for a healing-oriented, attachment-emotion-transformation focused trauma treatment model. Fosha's work focuses on integrating positive neuroplasticity, recognition science, and developmental dyadic research into experiential and transformational clinical work with patients. Her most recent work focuses on promoting flourishing as a seamless part of AEDP's therapeutic process of transforming emotional suffering. Drawing on affective neuroscience, attachment theory, mother-infant developmental research, and research documenting the undreamed-of plasticity in the adult brain, AEDP has developed an experiential clinical practice, which reflects the integration of science, research, and practice in psychotherapy.

Based in New York City, where she lives and practices, Fosha has been on the faculties of the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology of NYU and St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Medical Centers (now Mount Sinai) in NYC, and of the doctoral programs in clinical psychology at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University and at The City University of New York.

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Thursday
8:30AM – 4:30PM PT

101 - Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues for the Advanced Practice Clinician

Terry Casey
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Thursday
8:30AM – 4:30PM PT

102 - Multicultural Awareness & Diversity

Lambers Fisher
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Thursday
8:30AM – 4:30PM PT

103 - The Ultimate Grief Treatment Toolbox: A Certified Grief Informed Professional (CGP) Training

Erica Sirrine
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Thursday
8:30AM – 4:30PM PT

104 - Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional Training

J. Eric Gentry
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Thursday
12:00PM - 4:30PM PT

105 - Suicide in Context

Emily St. Amant
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Friday Morning Keynote

Bessel van der Kolk

World-Leading Trauma Expert

Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, is a clinician, researcher, and teacher in the area of post-traumatic stress. His work integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment.

Dr. van der Kolk and his various collaborators have published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, such as dissociative problems, borderline personality and self-mutilation, cognitive development, memory, and the psychobiology of trauma. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles on such diverse topics as neuroimaging, self-injury, memory, neurofeedback, Developmental Trauma, yoga, theater, and EMDR.

He is the founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, and President of the Trauma Research Foundation, which promotes clinical, scientific, and educational projects.

His 2014 #1 New York Times bestseller, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma, transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring – specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, somatically based therapies, EMDR, psychodrama, play, yoga, and other therapies.

Dr. van der Kolk is the past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. He regularly teaches at conferences, universities, and hospitals around the world.

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Friday
11:00AM – 1:00PM PT

201 - Therapy with the One Who Cheats

Tammy Nelson
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11:00AM – 1:00PM PT

202 - Imposter No More

Jill Stoddard
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11:00AM – 1:00PM PT

203 - Attachment Centered Play Therapy with Traumatized Tweens & Teens

Clair Mellenthin
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Friday
11:00AM – 1:00PM PT

204 - How Cognitive Processing Therapy Heals PTSD

Kate Chard
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Friday
11:00AM – 1:00PM PT

205 - Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery

Arielle Schwartz
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Friday
3:00PM – 5:00PM PT

301 - One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Bessel van der Kolk
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Saturday Morning Keynote

Nedra Glover Tawwab

Relationship expert and bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace

Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW, is a New York Times bestselling author, licensed therapist, and sought-after relationship expert. She has practiced relationship therapy for 15 years and is the founder and owner of the group therapy practice, Kaleidoscope Counseling. Every day she helps people create healthy relationships by teaching them how to implement boundaries. Her philosophy is that a lack of boundaries and assertiveness underlie most relationship issues, and her gift is helping people create healthy relationships with themselves and others.

Nedra earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She has additional certifications in working with families and couples and in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, plus advanced training for counseling adults who've experienced childhood emotional neglect.

Nedra has appeared as an expert on Red Table Talk, The Breakfast Club, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning Show to name a few. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vice and has appeared on numerous podcasts, including Good Life Project, Sofia with an F, and Therapy For Black Girls. She runs a popular Instagram account where she shares practices, tools, and reflections for mental health and hosts weekly Q&As.

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Saturday
11:00AM – 1:00PM PT

401 - Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)

Janina Fisher
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11:00AM – 1:00PM PT

402 - Healing Through Difficult Times

David Kessler
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11:00AM – 1:00PM PT

403 - Trauma-Informed Hypnotherapy for Pain

Courtney Armstrong
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Saturday
11:00AM – 1:00PM PT

404 - Disrupting Negative Narratives with Kids in Mind

S. Kent Butler
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Saturday
11:00AM – 1:00PM PT

405 - Emotional Freedom Techniques & Tapping

Robin Bilazarian
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Saturday
3:00pm – 5:00pm PT

501 - C-PTSD & Systemic Trauma from an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Perspective

Frank Anderson
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Sunday Morning Keynote

Daniel Siegel and Frank Anderson

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Daniel J. Siegel, MD, is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. He is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, founding co-director of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center, founding co-investigator at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and Development, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, institutions, and communities.

Dr. Siegel's psychotherapy practice spans thirty years, and he has published extensively for the professional audience. He serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which includes over 70 textbooks. Dr. Siegel's books include his five New York Times bestsellers: Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence; Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain; Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, and two books with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.: The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. His other books include: The Power of Showing Up also with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., The Developing Mind, The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, The Mindful Therapist, Parenting from the Inside Out (with Mary Hartzell, M.Ed.), and The Yes Brain (also with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D). He has been invited to lecture for the King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Google University, and TED.

Frank Anderson, MD, completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.

Dr. Anderson is a Lead Trainer at the IFS Institute with Richard Schwartz and maintains a long affiliation with, and trains for, Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center. He serves as an advisor to the International Association of Trauma Professionals (IATP) and was the former chair and director of the Foundation for Self-Leadership.

Dr. Anderson has lectured extensively on the Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation and wrote the chapter “Who’s Taking What” Connecting Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Internal Family Systems for Trauma in Internal Family Systems Therapy – New Dimensions. He co-authored a chapter on What IFS Brings to Trauma Treatment in Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy, and recently co-authored Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual.

His most recent book, entitled Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems, was released on May 19, 2021.

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Sunday
9:00AM – 11:00AM PT

601 - Managing the Fallout of Narcissistic Abuse

Ramani Durvasula
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9:00AM – 11:00AM PT

602 - Trauma Breakthroughs in a Flash

Phil Manfield & Lewis Engel
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9:00AM – 11:00AM PT

603 - Advanced Treatment Considerations for Women with ADHD

Michelle Frank
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9:00AM – 11:00AM PT

604 - Big Behaviors in Small Containers

Paris Goodyear-Brown
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9:00AM – 11:00AM PT

605 - Beyond Toxic Positivity

Jonah Paquette
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