Article archive / February 1, 2012
Originally published: . Volume 3, No. 6. Source pages: 16.
On February 13, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., LPA will host Dr. Carolyn Weyand’s, “Using Dreams in Psychotherapy.” Dr. Weyand notes that sharing dreams expresses patients' trust in their therapists and their desire to know themselves more deeply. Contemporary psychotherapy dream work melds empirical data with a century plus of clinical experience and will explore this data in the two-hour workshop.
Dr. Weyand is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice, faculty member of the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center, and also on the faculty of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance, teaching psychotherapy to mental health professionals in China.
LPA will host “An Experiential Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy,” presented by Dr. Emily Sandoz on Feb 16, from 9 to 11 am, online.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is based on emerging clinical science that demonstrates the broad utility of mindfulness and values in psychological wellbeing. ACT is part of a growing group of psycho- therapeutic approaches that represent a shift in focus from diminishing distress to building psychological skills in the presence of distress.
Dr. Sandoz is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and the director of the Louisiana Contextual Psychology Research Group. She is the co-author of three books, five chapters and three articles on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and has provided 28 workshops on mindfulness and values-based interventions in 6 countries.
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