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April 2012
The Institute Insider
Keeping you connected ~ Nurturing your professional growth
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Meet our Faculty
 Jeremy HarlowJeremy brings a wide variety of experience to Dances with Spirit LLC of which he is the owner. He is a co-founder of the Qi Center of Maryland, which is a Qigong school that offers a Qigong teacher certification program. Through the National Qigong Association, Jeremy is a level III certified Advanced Qigong Instructor and Qigong Clinical Practitioner. He has been studying and practicing Native American Ceremony and shamanism since 1996. In addition to his experience as an energy practitioner and mental health nurse, he has studied the healing and martial arts since 1994. Graduating from the Baltimore School of Massage in 2001 and from nursing school in 1999, Jeremy specializes in several bodywork techniques, with his core practice emphasizing Craniosacral Therapy and Shamanic Energy Healing.
To learn more about Jeremy, click here.
Jeremy will facilitate our March 30th workshop Qigong Movement, Meditation and Massage: Healing Trauma through Mind Body Integration. Click here for details and registration. |
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Message from Lisa Ferentz LCSW-C, DAPA
Founder and President
Dear Friends,
The fact that we can step outside without a coat on and enjoy the beautiful pink, yellow and white flowering blooms on the trees are wonderful harbingers of Spring. Nature gives us this gift of renewal and regrowth and I always see it as a metaphor for the resiliency of the human spirit. Even when clients have spent much of their lives in darkness, appearing to be as bereft of hope and resources as the most barren tree in winter, there lives within them the possibility of rebirth and healing. Just like the buds that magically reappear and open, seemingly against all odds, when Spring returns.
As we embrace the new season, let us remember in our w ork with clients that all things are possible. And as we continue to grow as creative clinicians, we can bring more to the therapeutic alliance, helping to access and nurture our clients' inner wisdom and strengths.
Lisa
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Spring Trainings for April and May 2012
Click on each class for details and registration
* Earn Ethics CEU's for these classes
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May 2012
Friday, May 4Using EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) for Affect Regulation and Trauma HealingThursday, May 10 The Social Atom: Using Psychodrama to Explore Personal RelationshipsMonday/Tuesday, May 14 & May 15 Making Them Whole Through the Sum of Their PartsThursday, May 17 *
Analyzing HBO's "In Treatment": Ethical Considerations in the Client-Therapist RelationshipFriday, May 18 Using Dance/Movement to Enhance Attachment and Healthy Embodiment in Trauma SurvivorsTuesday, May 22 Art Therapy as a Tool for Trauma TreatmentWednesday, May 23 Master Class Consultations: Working with Trauma - Class 3Thursday, May 31 Using Visualization Focusing and Guided Imagery for the Mgmt. of Anxiety, Depression and FlashbacksClick on each class for details and registration Please note: The Institute accepts both credit cards and checks for payment of classes. We use PayPal to administer credit cards payments. However, you do not need a PayPal account in order to use this service. Learn more about all of our classes. |
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When Clients Don't Leave Dysfunctional Relationships
 Is this scenario familiar to you? You are working with a client who has spent a great deal of time complaining bitterly about a relationship that doesn't meet his or her needs, yet they cannot seem to ever fully extricate themselves from it. They may describe dynamics of emotional neglect or abuse; feeling invisible, invalidated, bullied, or ridiculed. There may be verbal abuse including name calling, yelling or a steady barrage of demeaning messages. The psychological abuse of a partner who plays head games, make them feel inferior, discounted or "crazy" can be just as debilitating. Oftentimes, substance abuse, compulsive gambling or shopping, sexual addictions, eating disordered behaviors, workaholism, toxic extended family dynamics, an inability to commit or sustain intimacy are thrown into the mix as well. The ante is upped even more when clients allude to scenarios of domestic violence. And we sit with our clients week after week, listening to their pain narratives and witnessing, even feeling, their suffering and unhappiness. We try to provide comfort, resources, strategies for change, validation for their feelings, even permission to contemplate leaving the relationship- and our clients won't budge! Click here to read the rest of this article. |
 Now Available at 20% off on all orders purchased on line
Lisa Ferentz' new book, "Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in
Trauma Survivors," is also available at all Institute trainings at the same
20% discount.
Learn more about Lisa's book Order your copy today (at 20% off)
Join Lisa when she celebrates the publishing of her new book at a May book-signing and dessert reception, to be held at the Pikesville Hilton. Date soon to be announced. |
 The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
~Bern Williams |
The Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy Training and Education, Inc. is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland. CEU approval for all trainings is also granted to Psychologists, LCPC's and MFT's. In addition, reciprocity has been granted for clinicians in Washington, D.C., Virginia, and West Virginia.
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