Public Speaking

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Whether you’re interested in any aspect of DEEP Therapy or an attachment-based experiential approach, I enjoy sharing my passion for knowledge about these areas. I’ll educate and engage your audience while focusing on the topic of your choice.

Interested in scheduling a public speaking event or want to discuss a specialized workshop?
Contact me for more information.

 

Past presentations and workshops include:

2014

The Differences Between Grief and Depression

A conversational presentation for My Healing Place, a grief support center in Austin, TX, helping clinicians and other professionals who help people with grief know how to discern the differences between natural, circumstantial expressions of grief, and symptoms of depression.

 

Repair Generates Resilience: How to Own Our Lapses to Heal Shame and Reveal Compassion

An experiential continuing education course, offered through Austin IN Connection’s Year of Conversations program, showing how relationship repair is part of fostering a secure attachment, and how the act of offering repair heals shame, removes the need for defensiveness and self-consciousness, and builds freedom and resilience as therapists and people.

 

Transforming Pain into Growth: How to Harness Attachment Theory and Interpersonal Neurobiology to Heal Trauma and Deepen Therapy

A continuing education workshop for the Capital of Texas Counseling Association in Austin, TX, an overview for clinicians of applying DEEP’s attachment-based experiental therapy to trauma work.

 

Caring matters: Taking Care of Ourselves and Our Staff With Mindful Empathy

A presentation on how to use mindfulness and exquisite empathy to prevent burnout and compassion fatigue, given at the national conference of the Special Needs Alliance, held in Austin, TX, a national nonprofit organization for attorneys who help individuals with disabilities, their families and the professionals who serve them.

 

DEEP Enriched Skills and Theory Training

An intensive, 80-hour educational and experiential training course for therapists, offered in Austin, TX in a weekly and a weekend format.

 

2013

Right-Brained Grieving in a Left-Brained World: How Understanding the Natural Purpose of Grief Helps Therapists Work With Grieving Patients

A continuing education workshop for the YWCA in Austin, TX, presenting a compassionate and clear context for grief to help therapists work with grief in a flexible, open, nonpathologizing way.

 

Transforming Pain into Growth: How to Harness Attachment Theory and Interpersonal Neurobiology to Heal Trauma and Deepen Therapy

A continuing education workshop for the YWCA in Austin, TX, an overview for clinicians of applying DEEP’s attachment-based experiental therapy to trauma work.

 

Grief and Attachment: Transformation Through Meeting

A presentation at the national conference for the Association for Death Education and Counseling, Hollywood, CA, an experiential workshop for therapists, teaching about working with grief from an attachment-based, emotion-focused, experiential perspective, rooted in cutting-edge neuroscience.

 

DEEP Enriched Skills and Theory Training

An intensive, 80-hour educational and experiential training course for therapists, offered in Austin, TX in a weekly and a weekend format.

 

DEEP Enriched Skills and Theory Training for Spanish-Speaking Therapists

An 80-hour intensive training course for therapists in Mexico City.

 

2012

Connection Undoes Aloneness: Looking at Group Through the Lens of Attachment

A workshop for the Austin Group Psychotherapy Society, Austin, TX, perspectives on how therapy groups and group leaders can provide safety and attachment security, thus melting defenses against connection, providing connected emotion regulation, and ushering in deep and profound healing.

 

Don’t Leave Me Alone in the Dark: Grief in the Context of Attachment and Psychodynamics

A continuing education workshop for the YWCA in Austin, TX, an overview of a DEEP model for working with grief.

 

Transforming Trauma: The Power of Attachment-Based Experiential Therapy to Heal Trauma and Relational Difficulties

A continuing education workshop for the YWCA in Austin, TX, an overview of DEEP therapy for clinicians.

 

Transformation Through the Experience of Attachment

Lecture for the Kaleidoscope of Counseling Conference, San Marcos, TX, an introduction to DEEP work.

 

DEEP Enriched Skills and Theory Training

An intensive, 80-hour educational and experiential training course for therapists, offered in Austin, TX in a weekly and a weekend format.

 

2011

Grieving in Relationships: Psychological and Spiritual Perspectives on Suffering and Renewal in Families

Continuing education workshop for the Austin Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, on the use of attachment theory and experiential therapy in working with grief in families.

 

The Polyvagal Theory in Action

Presented along with Stephen Porges at a conference presented by Austin IN Connection. I showed videotape of my therapy sessions while Dr. Porges paused to illustrate examples of his polyvagal theory in action in my therapeutic work.

Transformation Through Persistent Attunement: How Emotional Curiosity Sustains Us

Presented lecture and videotape, along with Diana Fosha for a day-long workshop in, Austin, TX, on the therapist qualities and skills necessary for working in a close-in experiential manner.

 

Basic Intro to AEDP

Lecture and videotape introduction to AEDP for graduate class in counseling theories and St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX.

 

2010

Don’t Leave Me Alone In the Dark: Using AEDP to Integrate Grief and Psychodynamic Therapy

Lecture and video presentation at the inaugural presentation of an AEDP seminar series in Austin Texas, on how to work with people who are grieving, based on cutting-edge research in interpersonal neurobiology, attachment, and emotion theory.

 

Swimming Through Trauma to Healing

Lecture and video presentation at the national AEDP Conference, The Heart of Healing, in New York City, on the necessity of therapist affective competence in working with grief and trauma, what might get in the way of that competence, and what can be    done to facilitate it.

 

2009

Faith in the Night: Staying With What Is

A talk for AEDP West in San Francisco, CA. AEDP West asked me to repeat the talk I gave in January 2008 for the New York AEDP Seminar Series. (See below.)

 

2008

My Version of AEDP

A lecture and video presentation for the Austin, TX AEDP Immersion Course, illustrating the way I personally apply AEDP techniques.

 

AEDP and Allan Schore

A presentation for the Austin, TX Allan Schore study group about how AEDP is the “how” of Allan Schore’s “why” for working with the right-brain unconscious.

 

Faith in the Night: Staying With What Is

A lecture and video presentation for the New York AEDP seminar series about the affective competence therapists need to have in order to remain present with clients when they tap into powerful affects such as intense grief, murderous rage, despair, or terror, including tape of work with a patient who comes into session in a deeply traumatized state, followed by a tape showing the positive affect that can emerge after such a session.

 

2007

Intro to AEDP

A video and lecture introduction to the work of AEDP for the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology.

 

2005

The Mind and Mindfulness

A four-week course for lay people on the latest neurobiological research and how it can spur and inform healing through mindfulness practice. University of Texas Informal Classes, Austin, TX

 

Good Intentions: On Needs, Grief, and Self-Compassion

A talk for heart transplant candidates and recent recipients on compassionately dealing with the difficulties that arise in managing a medical lifestyle. Seton Medical Center, Austin, TX.

 

Seismic Growth: Conversations in Grief

A four-week workshop for lay people using the lectio divina method for joining in conversation about the pain and growth of grief. University of Texas Informal Classes, Austin, TX.