Integrating Somatic Modalities with Relational Psychoanalysis (In-Person)
About this Event
This course will focus on incorporating the body into relational psychoanalytic work. Synthesizing relevant research and theory from the fields of neuropsychology, infant development, relational psychoanalysis as well as research on interactional synchrony in psychotherapy the course will review the significance of body-to-body communication in development and psychotherapy. We will explore how the body holds cues into the affective and relational world as well as past trauma and embodied social structures.
Active learning and skills training will be emphasized. Students will practice skills to track their own sensations, fine tune their interoceptive sense and use it as a tool to expand associative capacities and containment in the session. There will also be a focus on expanding observational skills and integrating various aspects of nonverbal expression into the meaning making process. Basic skills from somatic modalities will be practiced in class to strengthen students’ capacities to achieve grounding and regulation in the session as well as facilitating access to emotions and associations.
This course can be taken as a stand-alone course, or as a required part of NIP’s Certificate Program in Psychotherapy Integration. The course will be taught at NIP in eight seminar-style classes, each lasting one hour and fifty minutes. Class meetings are held on Mondays, October 19, 26; November 2, 9, 16, 23; December 7, 14 from 1:00 to 2:50pm.
Learning Objectives
I. Identify which physical tendencies of the client to track, and how to bring to the client's attention those that are relevant.
II. How to derive psychological or emotional meaning from bodily sensations and physical tendencies and how somatic cues can used as an access route to the emotions, thoughts, images, and memories that are associated with the narrative.
III. How to use somatic modalities to effectuate change and to alter unconscious beliefs, motivations, expectations/assumptions, and relational patterns that are not optimal or beneficial.
Continuing Education
This class will be held in-person at NIP and is approved for 14.0 CE contact hours for psychologists, social workers, and licensed psychoanalysts.
The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education credits for psychologists. The National Institute for the Psychotherapies maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The National Institute for the Psychotherapies 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 #SW-0018.
The National Institute for the Psychotherapies 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 psychoanalysts #Psyan-0004.
The National Institute for the Psychotherapies 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 psychologists #PSY-0131.
Attendance on all days are mandatory for CE credits.
Refunds, & Cancellation Policy
Cancellation requests made more than a week prior to the event will be given a full refund of registration fees. Refunds will not be granted for cancellation requests made within a week of the first day of the event or for no-shows on any of the days event take place.
Zeynep Catay, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City, working with both adults and children. She is also a dance/movement therapist and a certified Somatic Experiencing practitioner. Alongside her clinical work, Dr. Catay serves as part-time faculty in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program at The New School for Social Research and is an advanced candidate at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
From 2005 to 2019, Dr. Catay served as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Istanbul Bilgi University. She also established and directed the certificate program for creative movement and dance/movement therapy at Istanbul Bilgi University. She currently continues to conduct research in collaboration with Bilgi University Child Psychotherapy Process Research Lab and the New School Center for Attachment Research; exploring nonverbal dynamics, somatic countertransference, and embodiment in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 749.55
