Lectures and Workshops

I provide training and education to professionals, paraprofessionals and lay audiences through workshops, lectures and media appearances on news and talk shows.

Contact me to discuss lectures, experiential workshops and training events that can be tailored to the needs of your agency or organization.

Short term and long term supervision, in groups or individually, can also be arranged for your s staff either in your agency or at my office.

Representative Past Offerings of Professional Development
and Continuing Education Events

Meaning of Midlife

  • Sample Titles
    • “Mastery in the Midlife Transition”
    • “Midlife, Madness and Mourning”
  • Selected Venues
    • American Group Psychotherapy Association, Washington DC
    • International Group Psychotherapy Meeting, London, England
    • Northern Ireland Conference on Group Psychotherapy, Belfast, Ireland

Endings: Grieving the Loss

  • Sample Titles
    • “The Good Ending: When Sad is Satisfying”
    • “Termination: Getting to the Good in Goodbye”
    • “Ending: When it’s Hard to Say Goodbye”
  • Selected Venues
    • Northeastern Group Psychotherapy Association, Wellesley MA
    • American Group Psychotherapy Association Annual Meetings: New York NY, San Francisco CA, Austin TX, Washington DC, Chicago IL

Women’s Treatment Issues

  • Sample Titles
    • “Women’s Groups and Life Transitions”
    • “Fifty/Fifty: The Meaning of Midlife for Women”
    • “Sex-role Values and Bias in Alcohol Treatment Personnel”
  • Selected Venues
    • American Psychological Association Women’s Health Conference, Washington DC
    • Northeastern Group Psychotherapy Association, Wellesley MA
    • International Group Psychotherapy Association, Jerusalem, Israel

Treatment of ACOAs

  • Sample Titles
    • “Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics: What’s New and What’s Not?”
    • “Adult Children of Alcoholics: The Myths and the Magic”
    • “ACOA Therapy Groups: Dynamics and Common Themes”
  • Selected Venues
    • Grand Rounds, North Shore University Hospital/Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY
    • Keynote Address: Group Therapy and Action Conference, San Francisco, CA
    • BANFF International Conference on Behavioral Sciences, Banff, Canada
    • Growing Up with Addictions Conference, London, England

Moderation Training for Problem Drinkers

  • Sample Titles
    • “Guided Self-Management: A New Alternative to Abstinence for Problem Drinkers”
    • “Moderation Training for Problem Drinkers”
    • “The Prudence of Moderation: Opposing Perspectives Revisited”
  • Selected Venues
    • Harvard University/Cambridge Hospital Annual Conference on Addictions, Boston, MA
    • American Group Psychotherapy Association, Houston, TX
    • Plenary Address Washington University School of Medicine, Office of Continuing Education National Football League/NFL Players Association, Seattle, WA

Women and Alcoholism

  • Sample Titles
    • “Addressing the Needs of Women Alcoholics — Barriers to Treatment”
    • “Research on Alcoholism Problems in Women: Problems and Solutions”
    • “Effect of Sex Bias on Women’s Studies in Alcoholism”
  • Selected Venues
    • Human Resource Institute’s Conference on Women, Boston MA
    • Medical-Scientific Conference of the National Alcoholism Forum, Washington, DC
    • Alcohol Research Center Symposium, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
    • International Congress of Psychology, Acapulco, Mexico

Group Therapy in the Treatment of Alcoholism

  • Sample Titles
    • “Group Techniques in the Treatment of Alcoholics”
    • “Group Psychotherapy with Alcoholic Patients – Clinical Case Review”
    • “Opposing Perspectives: Group Treatment of Alcohol Abuse”
  • Selected Venues
    • Grand Rounds, Marlboro Hospital, Marlboro, MA
    • Grand Rounds, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle, WA
    • Brazilian Conference on Alcoholism, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • International Group Psychotherapy Association, Zagreb, Yugoslavia

Countertransference Issues

  • Sample Titles
    • “The Dual Therapist: Countertransference Complications”
    • “How the Therapist Helps and Hinders: The Role of Countertransference”
    • “Dilemmas and Countertransference Considerations in Group Psychotherapy with ACOAs”
    • “Leader Dilemmas and Countertransference in Group Therapy with Substance Abusers”
  • Selected Venues
    • Grand Rounds, Spaulding Hospital, Boston MA
    • Academy of Medicine, Cincinnati OH
    • American Group Psychotherapy Association Annual Meetings: San Francisco, CA, New Orleans, LA, New York, NY

Treatment of Alcoholism

  • Sample Titles
    • “Treatment Contracts in Groups with Alcoholic Clients”
    • “Family Problems: Implications for Treatment and Outcome with Alcoholic Patients”
    • “Treatment Outcomes of Male versus Female Alcoholics”
  • Selected Venues
    • Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Honolulu HI
    • Second Congress of the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism and Research Society on Alcoholism, Santa Fe NM
    • International Congress of Group Psychotherapy, Mexico City, Mexico

Treatment of Substance Abusers and Family Members

  • Sample Titles
    • “Group Work with Alcoholic Couples”
    • “Dilemmas in the Treatment of Substance Abusers, ACOAs and Other Family Members”
    • “Contemporary Issues in the Treatment of Substance Abusers: What’s New and What’s Not?”
    • “Who’s Unmotivated? Treating the Ambivalence in Substance Abusers”
  • Selected Venues
    • Association of Drug and Alcohol Counselors, Roanoke VA
    • American Group Psychotherapy Association, Washington DC
    • University of Washington School of Social Work, Seattle WA
    • International Congress of Psychology, Brussels, Belgium

Effective Practice Management

  • Sample Title
    • “Streamlining Private Practice: Increasing the Gain and Decreasing the Pain.”
  • Selected Venue
    • Northeastern Group Psychotherapy Association, Boston MA