The Therapist-as-Patient: The Nuances of Treatment and Its Implications

The Therapist-as-Patient: The Nuances of Treatment and Its Implications for Care 1.5 CEUs

This live and interactive webinar is created for therapists who provide therapy to patients who are themselves, therapists. While working with patients has a general ebb and flow covered in most training programs, the patient, who is also a trained and practicing therapist, comes with a distinctive dynamic woven into the fabric of treatment. This dynamic can either limit or prevent the therapist-as-patient from engaging in deeper work or propel them into a greater understanding and love of themselves and others.

This program will offer an introduction on how to understand and address the unique dynamics of working with the therapist-as-patient and various ways that the treating therapist can navigate through what can be powerful projective and defensive terrain.

Learning Objectives

The webinar will:

1) Provide an overview of the process when working with a therapist-as-patient

2) Identify common elemental dynamics that arise during treatment (Paper airplanes and 747’s)

3) Differentiate when a therapist-as-patient is looking to heal or have an experience of being in therapy

4) Techniques that can help move the patient-as-therapist move through an impasse

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Presenter: Dr. Jinnie Cristerna, Rh.D, LCSW, CHt.

ABOUT THE EVENT

This workshop will take place via Zoom. Access information will be shared via email at least 48 hours prior to the start of the program. The workshop will not be recorded.