Auckland PSI^TM  Institute and Psychotherapy

eating and body image issues

psi^tm seminar: ongoing training in psychosomatic integration

Meets fortnightly on Tuesdays from 1-3 PM
Cost: $67.50 GST inclusive per meeting paid 2 months in advance

PsychoSomatic Integration (PSI TM ) is for counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists from all disciplines including analytic, narrative, action-based, cognitive and somatic. The training blends lecture, experiential exercises, live and video demonstrations, case presentations, and role-play practice sessions to help clinicians integrate the theoretical material in a way that fits with their own common sense and years of education, clinical and personal experience. Particular attention is paid to the practitioner's countertransference while developing strategies for self-care. Skills learned include: somatic resoursing, embodiment, pacing, titration, self-soothing; and EMDR derivatives designed to build ego strength and process and integrate dissociated experiences and aspects of self. To learn more, check the links below:

1. Bodily mindfulness therapies (including Hakomi, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and BFF (Best Foot Forward)
2. Attachment repair approaches such as Lifespan Integration and the DNMS (Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy)
3. Ego state therapy
4. All based on a feminist relational  foundation.

Half day, whole day and weekend trainings can be developed and adapted to the unique needs of your particular group or agency. Contact the PSI Institute to make arrangements. Below are some examples of past presentations and workshops.

Sample of Past Conference Presentations, Workshops, and In-service Trainings

• Keynote Address: Women Food and Beauty, 2007, for Auckland Women's Centre AGM

• Somatic and Lifespan Integration with Dissociative Eating Disturbances, 2006, for the 23rd International ISSD Conference in Los Angeles, CA

• Dissociative Processes in Eating Disturbances, 2005, for the 15th Annual Renfrew Center Foundation Conference in Philadelphia PA Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders: Enduring Wisdom, New Frontiers

• EMDR and Dissociation Workshop, 2005, for the Northern California EMDRIA Conference

• The Dissociative Continuum: An Introductory Workshop, 2001, for the East Bay Chapter of CAMFT (California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists)

• Women, Food and Beauty: A Feminist Object Relations Approach, 1998-2000, workshops for the East Bay Collegial Learning Center

• Working With a Couple System through in-depth Psychodynamic Work with one Partner, 1997, Case Presentation for the Berkeley  Psychotherapy Institute Case Conferences

• Feeding the Feeders: Compulsive Eating in the Helping Professions, 1996, workshop for East Bay CAMFT Conference

• Working with Dissociative Disorders: A Team Approach, 1995, workshop for EBCAMFT "We & Me" Conference

• Understanding Eating Disorders: Seeing Beyond the Symptom, 1994,  agency training for Marin Assisted Independent Living Services

• Compulsive Eating in MPD,  1994, for CAPSAC (California Professional Society On The Abuse of Children) Conference

• The Elusive Phenomena of MPD, 1994, Respondent for the Psychotherapy Institute Case Conference

• Addiction and Dissociation, 1992-93, In-Service Agency Workshop Series for East Bay Recovery Center

1. Working With Dissociation: Diagnosis and Assessment (see above)

2. Working With Dissociation: Treatment Goals and Approaches (see above)
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Meets fortnightly on Thursdays from 10:15 -11:00 AM in Ranui, West Auckland
Size limited to 6 participants
Cost: $67.50 GST inclusive per meeting paid 2 months in advance

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Working with trauma survivors day to day requires perspective, good self care, and clear boundaries. There is a high risk of developing secondary PTSD if the work is done in isolation. Working with folks who were traumatized so severely as to develop a dissociative disorder and/or Complex PTSD (also called DESNOS- Disorders of Extreme Stress) requires that we come out of isolation and support each other in this profoundly rewarding and sensitive work.  Paying particular attention to transference and counter transference and issues of parallel process in the consultation meeting, this size limited group meets fortnightly on an ongoing basis. Size is limited to 5 participants.
 

Individual in-person or telephone/video over the internet supervision sessions for psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, and body therapists can be arranged as time permits. The fee for this service is $135 for a 50 minute session, GST inclusive.  The therapeutic relationship is understood from a feminist relational  perspective, and supervision helps you adapt your individual learning of PSI approaches and techniques to meet the needs of your specific clients. To arrange a session, call the PSI Institute at (09) 835-1929 or email jlightstone@gmail.com For online training or supervision for those not in the Auckland area, please click here.