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Surveillance Expansion, Technology, and Paranoid Symptoms in the Therapy Room

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Presenter: Rihab Mahmood, Psy.D.

Date: Friday, September 25, 2026 - 2:00 PM ET

This presentation will cover:

• Explore markers of paranoia, persecutory delusions, and micro-psychotic experiences
• Gain insight into the history and current use of surveillance practices
• Consider the psychosocial impacts of the expansion of AI
• Reflect on the clinician's role in inadvertently exacerbating symptoms and reviewing accommodations to increase psychological safety

Navigating High-Risk Medical Illness with Patients: When Death Enters the Conversation with Psychotherapy Patients

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Presenter: Jessica Boerma, LCSW

Date: Friday, July 31, 2026 - 2:00 PM ET

This presentation covered:

• Identify high risk illnesses in cancer and learn how to implement necessary practical and psychological interventions.
• Be able to describe the unique challenges and benefits of the therapeutic space when involving multiple members of the client's care team, including the medical team, caregivers, family, partners, and children.
• Discuss practical ways to navigate personal and professional reactions to a patient's decline from their diagnosis or the uncertainty of their prognosis.
• Identify the patient's locations of self and how this impacts their autonomy, decision-making, and navigation of the healthcare system, which may promote systemic inequities.

Beyond Being Nice: Building Rapport That Drives Change

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Presenter: Melissa Donovan, LCSW

Date: Friday, June 26, 2026 - 2:00 PM ET

This presentation covered:

• Build stronger therapeutic relationships by learning strategies to foster trust, collaboration, hope, and engagement from the very first session.
• Increase client retention by identifying common reasons clients disengage and developing approaches to address barriers to treatment.
• Enhance rapport through relational and attachment-based perspectives, including recognizing therapeutic dynamics, utilizing feedback, and strengthening self-awareness.
• Support long-term client engagement and growth through effective treatment planning, rupture repair, ongoing assessment, and thoughtful termination conversations.

Your Legacy, Your Loved Ones: Estate Planning Through a Mental Health Lens

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Presenters: Fisher Stone | Cavallo & Cavallo Law - Gregory Stone, Esq and Andrew Mozorosky, Esq

Date: Friday, May 22, 2026 - 2:00 PM ET

This presentation covered:

• Estate planning isn't just a legal process - it's a deeply human one, shaped by stress, grief, trauma, and family dynamics. In this session, Fisher Stone, P.C. explores how mental health influences decision-making around wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and healthcare proxies, and how therapists can recognize when clients facing illness, loss, or end-of-life planning may benefit from legal or financial support.
• For clients with aging parents, the stakes are especially high. We'll discuss how adult children can help parents get a plan in place - and how to navigate those conversations when grief, avoidance, or family conflict are already in the room.

Rethinking Resistance: Modern Perspectives on Resistance, Ruptures, and Retention

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Presenter: Brandon Patallo, Ph.D.

Date: Friday, April 17, 2026 - 2:00 PM ET

This presentation covered:

• Redefining Resistance: Understand resistance not as noncompliance, but as meaningful feedback about safety, fit, and unmet needs within the therapeutic relationship to be addressed.
• Why a Relational Approach: Reviews core alliance factors (agreement on goals, tasks, and bond) and the strong evidence linking alliance quality to outcomes, retention, and repair - often outweighing modality or technique.
• Power, Rupture, and Repair: Examine how power dynamics and misattunements create ruptures - and how transparency, meta-communication, and collaboration reduce disengagement.
• Repair That Strengthens Treatment: Learn practical strategies to prevent unaddressed resistance, improve meta-communication, and repair ruptures in ways that deepen trust and strengthen therapeutic relationships over time.

EMDR Therapy in Clinical Practice: What It Is, How It Works, and When to Use It

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Presenter: Shelby Keyworth, LCSW

Date: Friday, March 27, 2026 - 2:00 PM ET

This presentation covered:

• EMDR Foundations & Framework
• Process & Structure
• Indications & Clinical Fit
• Applying EMDR in Clinical Practice

Overview of Diagnostic Strategies and Psychopharmacology for ADHD: A Medical Management Lens

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Presenter: Jason Shimiaie, M.D.

Date: Friday, February 27, 2026 - 2:00 PM ET

This presentation covered:

• Core clinical features that differentiate ADHD, anxiety, and personality disorders.
• How symptom overlap can complicate diagnosis in therapy settings.
• When medication considerations suggest one diagnosis over another.
• Collaborative strategies for therapists working with psychiatric providers.