Become an Ackerman trained family therapist. Our most comprehensive program is the Core Curriculum sequence, involving a progression from the Foundations of Family Therapy course to the Live Clinical Supervision course to the Clinical Externship in Family Therapy program. Course begins September 2018.

In this short course, Marcia Sheinberg will offer the opportunity to learn from and explore the treatment of a couple over time using the Ackerman Relational Approach. Each week participants will look closely at a session with the opportunity to discuss choice points and to connect how the therapist both conceptualizes and conducts the session.

This workshop will be about the key dimensions for assessing human problems and evolving healing solutions. Genograms are the core mapping tool of this work and a map of who you belong to. Dr. Monica McGoldrick will focus on viewing each person in the context of their cultural background, social class, gender and sexual orientation, family history, life cycle trajectory, and multiple identities.

In this intimate advanced course/consultation group presented by Michele Scheinkman, LCSW, participants will learn to use the Vulnerability Cycle (VC) as a major tool in their clinical work. The course will use integrative framework, multi-cultural conceptualization of intimacy, and video clips to help couples articulate, define and prioritize their unique expectations and dentify and overcome intimacy blocks.

In this workshop, Martha B. Straus, PhD, will describe Developmental-Relational Therapy (DRT), an attachment-based model of adolescent trauma treatment. Through lecture, discussion, exercises, and video clips, you will learn and practice mindful, empathic strategies that can help even the most challenging and distressed teens feel more secure, connected, present, and regulated.

This course is for family therapists of color who want to bring to print their perspectives, experiences, and work in family therapy training and practice in peer-reviewed journals, popular media, or on professional websites. Writing focused on cultural sensitivity and healing from social injustice is particularly encouraged. Presented by thandiwe Dee Watts-Jones, PhD.