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Robert Taibbi LCSW has 41 years of experience primarily in community mental health. He is author of 8 books on family therapy, couple therapy, clinical supervision, brief therapy, as well as over 300 magazine and journal articles. He writes an online column for Psychology Today entitled Fixing Families, and provides trainings in the areas of supervision, family therapy and brief therapy nationwide. Today we are discussing his 2016 book, The Art of The First Session: Making Psychotherapy Count from The Start. He is currently in private practice in Charlottesville VA.

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Jungian Psychotherapy Part 1 (6 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 2 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 3 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 4 (6 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 5 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Package of the Five Above (33 CEUs)

Wisdom of The Dream (4 CEUs)

Positive Psychology (6 CEUs)

Pros and Cons of Positive Psychology (5 CEUs)

The Fundamentals of Positive Psychology (7 CEUs)

CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (39 CEUs)

Body-Mind: Goodbye to Dualism (6 CEUs)

Brain: Insights from Neuroscience (8 CEUs)

Meditation & Psychotherapy (8 CEUs)

Crisis & Trauma: Identification, Assessment, & Treatment (15 CEUs)

Neuroscience and Healing (8 CEUs)

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Nathan Ehrlich M.A. is a freelance multimedia Journalist. After attaining his Masters degree from the Columbia Journalism School he very quickly realized his style was not suited to the rapid daily news cycle and became more attracted to making longer form and meditative human interest pieces. He is currently working on a feature-length documentary, The Wounded Healer, a film about the New York City based photographer, instrumentalist, shaman, and agoraphobic, Michael Reed. He is also working on a first novel based on his life called, Jeremy’s Journal, a story told through the diaries of a teenage boy diagnosed with Leukemia.

His work has appeared, among other places, in the Boston Globe, Backpacker Magazine, Audubon Magazine, and the podcast, Israel Story. When Ehrlich is not producing journalism he is working as a paralegal, training to be a therapist, traveling, and attending healing ceremonies. He lives in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn with his wife Shula, and female cats, Apple and Tigresse.

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Patrick Kelly, M.D. is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at The David Geffen School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California. He completed both his general psychiatry residency and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and is a Board Certified practitioner in both fields. After practicing as an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and directing the training program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, he moved back home to California and now directs Emergency Services and Consultation Liaison Services for Child Psychiatry at Harbor UCLA Medical Center, a UCLA affiliate hospital in Torrance, CA. His research is focused on the emergency management of children and adolescents, and in pediatric delirium on the inpatient medical units. He has co-authored 2 books about specific topics: “Borderline Personality Disorder, New Reasons for Hope” and “Adolescent Depression, A Guide for Parents.”

Sandeep Vaishnavi, MD, PhD is the director of The Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners and a neuropsychiatrist at The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University Medical Center, where he offers evaluation, testing, and treatment of mood, behavioral, and cognitive symptoms of neuropsychiatric illnesses, such as traumatic brain injury, ADHD, and dementia, to adults. He is a clinical associate in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke Medicine and a consulting associate in the department of Community & Family Medicine at Duke Medicine. Dr. Vaishnavi is also the co-author of The Traumatized Brain: A Family Guide to Understanding Mood, Memory & Behavior After Brain Injury” (Johns Hopkins University Press 2015) with Vani Rao, MD.

Dr. Vaishnavi earned his BS in Biology from Georgia Institute of Technology, his PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Alabama, and his MD in Psychiatry from the University of Alabama. He completed a residency in Psychiatry at Duke University, a residency in Clinical Psychopharmacology at Duke University and GlaxoSmithKline, and a fellowship in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Vaishnavi is board-certified in Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties, as well as board-certified in General Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Vaishnavi recently completed a Visiting Fellowship in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation at Duke University.

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Jungian Psychotherapy Part 1 (6 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 2 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 3 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 4 (6 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 5 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Package of the Five Above (33 CEUs)

Wisdom of The Dream (4 CEUs)

Positive Psychology (6 CEUs)

Pros and Cons of Positive Psychology (5 CEUs)

The Fundamentals of Positive Psychology (7 CEUs)

CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (39 CEUs)

Body-Mind: Goodbye to Dualism (6 CEUs)

Brain: Insights from Neuroscience (8 CEUs)

Meditation & Psychotherapy (8 CEUs)

Janet Steinwedel, PhD, is the President of Leader’s Insight, an Executive Coaching and Leadership Effectiveness consultancy. Janet provides thought leadership as a consultant and executive coach. She assists leaders in clarifying their goals and objectives and becoming more aware of themselves and their behaviors in service to their aspirations and business results. With 25 years of experience working in industries including pharmaceutical, health care, financial services, insurance, communications, retail, and hospitality, Janet works effectively with a broad range of leaders. She uses an analytical framework which provides a foundational understanding of personality and human behavior—conscious and unconscious processes.

Areas of focus include relationship building and stakeholder management; personal branding, communication and collaboration; creating and sustaining work/life balance; critical thinking and decision making; issues of diversity and cross-cultural working; and developing agility and resilience for success in today’s work place.

Janet has held significant leadership roles including Senior Director of Leadership and Business Effectiveness at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, where she led Executive Coaching, Leadership, Organizational Development and Diversity groups; Assistant Vice President of Leadership and Organization Development at Delaware Investments; and Director of The 5th Avenue Club at Saks Fifth Avenue.

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Jungian Psychotherapy Part 1 (6 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 2 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 3 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 4 (6 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 5 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Package of the Five Above (33 CEUs)

Wisdom of The Dream (4 CEUs)

Positive Psychology (6 CEUs)

Pros and Cons of Positive Psychology (5 CEUs)

The Fundamentals of Positive Psychology (7 CEUs)

CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (39 CEUs)

Body-Mind: Goodbye to Dualism (6 CEUs)

Brain: Insights from Neuroscience (8 CEUs)

Meditation & Psychotherapy (8 CEUs)

Crisis & Trauma: Identification, Assessment, & Treatment (15 CEUs)

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Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor in Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry at the UC San Francisco, the founding director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center, and director of the Gazzaley Lab. His lab’s most recent studies explore neuroplasticity and how we can optimize our cognitive abilities via engagement with custom-designed video games, and how this can be bolstered by closed loop systems using neurofeedback and transcranial electrical stimulation. Dr. Gazzaley is co-founder and Chief Science Advisor of Akili Interactive, a company developing therapeutic video games. He has filed multiple patents based in his research, authored over 110 scientific articles, and delivered over 450 invited presentations around the world. Dr. Gazzaley has received many awards and honors, most recently the 2015 Society for Neuroscience – Science Educator Award.

His laboratory studies neural mechanisms of perception, attention and memory, with an emphasis on the impact of distraction and multitasking on these abilities. His unique research approach utilizes a powerful combination of human neurophysiological tools, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG) and transcranial magnetic and electrical stimulation (TMS & TES). A major accomplishment of his research has been to expand our understanding of alterations in the aging brain that lead to cognitive decline. His most recent studies explore neuroplasticity and how we can optimize our cognitive abilities via engagement with custom-designed video games, and how this can be bolstered by closed loop systems using neurofeedback and TES. Dr. Gazzaley is co-founder and Chief Science Advisor of Akili Interactive, a company developing therapeutic video games, and is also a co-founder and Chief Scientist of JAZZ Venture Partners, a venture capital firm investing in experiential technology to improve human performance. Additionally, he is a scientific advisor for over a dozen technology companies including GE and Nielsen. His research and perspectives have been consistently profiled in high-impact media, such as The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Discover, Wired, PBS, NPR, CNN and NBC Nightly News. He wrote and hosted the nationally televised, PBS special “The Distracted Mind with Dr. Adam Gazzaley

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Jungian Psychotherapy Part 1 (6 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 2 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 3 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 4 (6 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 5 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Package of the Five Above (33 CEUs)

Wisdom of The Dream (4 CEUs)

Amy Oestreicher is a PTSD peer-peer specialist, artist, author, writer for The Huffington Post, award-winning health advocate, actress and playwright. As a survivor and “thriver” of nearly 30 surgeries, a coma, sexual abuse, organ failure and a decade of medical trauma, Amy has been challenged with moments of extreme difficulty. But as an artist, newlywed, actress, 28-year old college student and overall lover of life, Amy eagerly shares the lessons learned from trauma and has brought out the stories that unite us all through her writing, mixed media art, performance and inspirational speaking.

To celebrate her own “beautiful detour”, Amy created the #LoveMyDetour campaign, to help others cope in the face of unexpected events. Amy has devoted herself to providing college students with an empowered approach to mental health and sexual assault prevention through her traveling advocacy program and “Student Detourist” movement. In 2015, Amy launched the Student Detourists Outreach Program, enabling students to create outreach chapters on their campuses.

As the 2014 Eastern Regional Recipient of Convatec’s Great Comebacks Award, Amy is a passionate voice in the ostomy community, founding the online community Fearless Ostomates, speaking for the National WOCN conference, and writing for the official print publication of the UOAA.

Amy has written, directed and starred in a one woman musical about her life, Gutless & Grateful, has flourished as a mixed media and acrylic artist, with her art in multiple galleries and mounting dozens of solo art shows, and continues to share her story through her art, music, theatre, workshops and writings, which have appeared in Washington Post and On Being with Krista Tippet. Her story has appeared on the TODAY Show, CBS, WNBC and Seventeen, and her one-woman show has been seen in theatres across the country, earning rave reviews and accolades since it’s BroadwayWorld Award-nominated NYC debut.

Amy has collaborated with Beechwood Arts founder Jeanine Esposito in creating a series of monologues titled “Five windows on a Resilient Journey”, expressing the life-altering detours and ultimately the invaluable gifts of her resilience journey.

Amy is currently touring the country with her one-woman musical, Gutless & Grateful, her keynote presentations, workshops and signature talkbacks, which she has devised specialized versions for corporations, college campuses, survivors, healthcare professionals, and artists. She is leading mixed media creativity workshops to promote creativity as a mindset, an essential survival skill. Amy also offers private coaching to help others navigate their own beautiful detours. and prides herself most on ending each night with a gratitude list. Visit amyoes.com for more information or contact her directly.

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Jungian Psychotherapy Part 1 (6 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 2 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 3 (7 CEUs)

487 STAR WARS PSYCHOLOGY- Dark Side of the Mind with Travis Langley

Travis Langley PhD authored the book Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight and edits Sterling Publishing’s series of books on psychology and popular culture. The series launches with The Walking Dead Psychology: Psych of the Living Dead and Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the Mind in 2015, followed by volumes on Game of Thrones and Star Trek in 2016. Dr. Langley received his bachelor’s degree from Hendrix College and his M.S. and Ph.D. in psychology from Tulane University. A psychology professor at Henderson State University, he teaches on crime, social behavior, mental illness, and media, including courses titled “Batman” and “Psych of the Living Dead.”

Thousands follow him as @Superherologist on Twitter, where he ranks among the ten most followed psychologists. He was an invited speaker for this year’s Southwestern Psychological Association conference. An organizer of the Comics Arts Conference, he regularly speaks as a panelist discussing both heroism and antisocial behavior at conventions like San Diego Comic-Con International, New York Comic Con, and Wizard World conventions, joined by people such as Bat-Films executive producer Michael Uslan, legendary comic book writer Dennis O’Neil, and a diverse mix of actors that includes Adam West, Lee Meriwether, and Sir Patrick Stewart. He speak on college campuses throughout the world.

Dr. Langley has also been a child abuse investigator, courtroom expert, and undefeated champion on the Wheel of Fortune game show. He appears as a featured interviewee in the documentaries Legends of the Knight, Comic Book Literary, Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics, and others in production.

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Check out the following Psychology CE Courses based on listening to Shrink Rap Radio interviews, offered through Zur Institute:

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 1 (6 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 2 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 3 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 4 (6 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 5 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Package of the Five Above (33 CEUs)

Wisdom of The Dream (4 CEUs)

Positive Psychology (6 CEUs)

Pros and Cons of Positive Psychology (5 CEUs)

The Fundamentals of Positive Psychology (7 CEUs)

David Wallin, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Albany, CA. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard who received his doctorate from the Wright Institute, he has been practicing, teaching and writing about psychotherapy for more than three decades. Presently being translated into eleven languages, his book, Attachment in Psychotherapy, has been described as “a brilliant leap in realizing the clinical promise of attachment theory, a synthesis that should be required—and will be rewarding—reading for every psychotherapist” (Daniel Goleman, PhD, author of Emotional Intelligence and Focus). He is also coauthor (with Stephen Goldbart) of Mapping the Terrain of the Heart: Passion, Tenderness, and the Capacity to Love. He has lectured on attachment and psychotherapy in Europe, Canada, Australia, and throughout the United States. His next workshop for therapists will take place on January 30, 2016 in Sacramento. The focus will be the matter closest to his heart for the last several years—namely, the impact on therapy of the attachment history and patterning of the therapist.

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Check out the following Psychology CE Courses based on listening to Shrink Rap Radio interviews, offered through Zur Institute:

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 1 (6 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 2 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 3 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 4 (6 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Part 5 (7 CEUs)

Jungian Psychotherapy Package of the Five Above (33 CEUs)

Wisdom of The Dream (4 CEUs)

Positive Psychology (6 CEUs)

Pros and Cons of Positive Psychology (5 CEUs)

The Fundamentals of Positive Psychology (7 CEUs)

CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (39 CEUs)

Body-Mind: Goodbye to Dualism (6 CEUs)

Brain: Insights from Neuroscience (8 CEUs)

Meditation & Psychotherapy (8 CEUs)

Crisis & Trauma: Identification, Assessment, & Treatment (15 CEUs)

Neuroscience and Healing (8 CEUs)

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