Workshops
Ackerman workshops are one-day intensive trainings designed for today’s mental health professional. Our workshops explore a diverse range of topics in couple and family therapy, and provide a unique opportunity to train with leading therapists in the field.
Continuing education contact hours / CEUs are available for social work practitioners who hold LCSW, LMSW or LMFT licensure in the state of New York; or LCSW/LMSW licensure in the state of Connecticut.
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Upcoming Workshops
Spring 2019
Digging Deeper: Working with Unfinished Business in Individuals, Couples, and Families
Friday, January 18, 2019
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Judith P Siegel, PhD, LCSW
5 CE Contact Hours
From Reactivity to Intimacy: An Advanced Workshop for Couple Therapists
Friday, January 25, 2019
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Michele Scheinkman, LCSW
5 CE Contact Hours
Expanding Sexual Frames in Theory and Practice in Couple Therapy
Friday, February 1, 2019
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Suzanne Iasenza, PhD
5 CE Contact Hours
On the Eve of Destruction: Last Chance Couple Therapy
Friday, February 15, 2019
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Peter Fraenkel, PhD
5 CE Contact Hours
An Ecological and Culturally Relevant Framework for Preventive and Clinical Interventions with Latinxs: One Size Does Not Fit All
Friday, March 1, 2019
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Ruben Parra-Cardona, PhD
5 CE Contact Hours
Youth Suicide Risk Management: Risk Assessment, Safety Planning, and Family Engagement
Friday, March 8, 2019
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Guy S. Diamond, PhD and Suzanne A. Levy, PhD
5 CE Contact Hours
Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Youth and Young Adults Struggling with Depression and Suicide
Friday, March 15, 2019
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Guy S. Diamond, PhD
5 CE Contact Hours
Integrating the Spiritual Dimension in Clinical Practice: Suffering, Healing, and Resilience
Friday, March 29, 2019
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Froma Walsh, MSW, PhD
5 CE Contact Hours
Ambiguous Loss and the Myth of Closure
Friday, April 5, 2019
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Pauline Boss, PhD
5 CE Contact Hours
Narrative Therapy with Couples: Working with Power and Privilege
Friday, April 19, 2019
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Dr. Victoria C. Dickerson
5 CE Contact Hours
Infidelity and Its Discontents: The Sex Esteem Model in Clinical Practice with Individuals and Couples
Friday, April 26, 2019
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Sari Eckler Cooper, LCSW-R, CST
5 CE Contact Hours
Multi-Cultural Considerations in Play Therapy
Friday, May 10, 2019
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Sonia Hinds, APRN, PMH-BC, RPT-S
5 CE Contact Hours
Healing Intergenerational Wounds: A Relational-Neurobiological Approach to Transform Family Relationships
Friday, May 17, 2019
9:30 am–3:30 pm
Mona D. Fishbane, PhD
5 CE Contact Hours
Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients: Nine Principles of Clinical Support
Friday, May 31, 2019
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Shannon L. Sennott, LICSW, CST
5 CE Contact Hours
Social Justice and Person-of-the-Therapist: Showing Up Personally and Professionally in Times of Joy and Sorrow
Friday, June 7, 2019
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Melba J. Nicholson Sullivan, PhD
5 CE Contact Hours
Workshop Location:
• All workshops are take place at the Ackerman Institute’s state-of-the-art training facility in NYC’s Flatiron District, unless otherwise indicated. 936 Broadway, 3rd Fl., New York, NY 10010 [View on Map]
Continuing Education / CEUs:
• The Ackerman Institute for the Family is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0049.
• The Ackerman Institute for the Family SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0052.
• The Ackerman Institute for the Family has been approved for Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work Licensure renewal.
