Cultivating Emotional Mindfulness and Healing Attachment Trauma: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

an AEDP Rocky Mountains Workshop in Denver, CO.

with Dr. Ron Frederick, PhD

The ability to mindfully experience, regulate, and respond to one’s feelings, capacities borne out of our early attachment experiences, is essential to mental health and well-being.  Yet problems managing emotion abound and play a central role in most psychiatric disorders.  How can we best help so many of our clients who, regardless of diagnosis, have difficulty being present with and making good use of their emotional experience, and emotionally connecting with others?

“Emotional Mindfulness” provides a conceptual framework through which we can more readily identify, understand, and help cultivate the skills of affective competence and help resolve attachment trauma.

Grounded in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), an attachment-based, healing oriented model of therapy, and incorporating current experiential, relational, mindfulness-based, and cognitive-behavioral therapies, the presenter will introduce a proven four-step, approach to emotional mindfulness that can be integrated into any treatment orientation.  Dr. Frederick will illustrate practical and powerful techniques for: 1) Increasing awareness, 2) Reducing anxiety and fear, 3) Developing emotional competence, and 4) Expanding one’s capacity for expression and reception.  Through lecture, demonstration, and video clips you will learn how to integrate these strategies into your practice and help clients develop essential capacities, stimulate and strengthen new neural pathways, and develop skills they can apply in their daily lives—thus accelerating their therapeutic progress.

Who Should Attend:

The workshop is intended for psychologists, social workers, professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, graduate students, and interns.

Meet the Presenter

Ronald J. Frederick, PhD

Ronald J. Frederick, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, co-founder of the Center for Courageous Living in Los Angeles, California and author of the book Living Like You Mean It (Jossey-Bass, 2009). Since 1994, Dr. Frederick has been training in and practicing AEDP, and has received extensive training and supervision from Dr. Fosha. Past experience includes a Clinical Supervisor role at Abbott Northwestern Hospital’s Park House Day Treatment Program. He also completed a year-long training rotation in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City. Dr. Frederick is currently the lead supervisor/teacher for an AEDP Core Training Group in San Francisco, supervises trainees in AEDP, and has co-facilitated, with Dr. Fosha, AEDP Immersion Courses in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Dr. Frederick travels throughout North America as a speaker and trainer. He has written articles for several publications and has been an invited contributor to three books by The Haworth Press, Inc. His work has been featured in The Star Tribune, Lavender Magazine, the APA Monitor on Psychology, and Clinical Psychiatry News: The Leading Independent Newspaper for the Psychiatrist.” Dr. Frederick now teaches and has a private practice in Los Angeles, California.

Fee and Credits

Early Bird Registration Through 09/07/16

• Participants of prior Colorado AEDP workshops; 11/14/15, 01/23/16 or 04/16:  $150
• All Others: $175
• Students/Interns: $75

After 09/07/2016All Participants:

• Professional Rate $190
• Student/Intern Rate $100

Late Registration Begins 09/20/2016

• Professional Rate: $210
• Student/Intern $125

A $20 charge for all cancellations before September 08, 2016.  No refunds for cancellations on or after September 08, 2016

Register Online

CE Information

Building Healthy Relationships, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6722.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Building Healthy Relationships, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Licensing Boards and education program regulations change.  Please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and for reciprocal approval as approvals vary per board regulations.  Your should save the course outline, the certificate of completion and any other documentations required by your board and contact your state board or licensing organization to determine specific filing requirements.  If you have questions about this course meeting your specific boards approval or CE requirements, we recommend that you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.

Workshop Completion:  Saturday October 08, 2016 workshop offers 6.5 contact hours of NBCC CE credits.  Attendees must have paid registration fee, signed in, attended the entire day, completed an evaluation, and signed out in order to receive a certificate of completion.  Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the day of the course.  No exceptions will be made and partial credit is not available.  Please contact Lia Jones, workshop coordinator, at 303-344-5405 if you have questions or concerns regarding this workshop.

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