VIRTUAL SESSIONS FOR THE 2025 GSAP CONFERENCE INCREASED ENGAGEMENT WITH ONLINE PARTICIPANTS
PRESENTERS WILL BE HOLDING VIRTUAL SESSIONS FOR ONLINE PARTICIPANTS ONLY. There will be the inclusion of 3-5 in-person attendees in two online sessions: the Friday afternoon session Thriving Through
Turmoil: Adler and the Intersection of Resilience and Mental Health and the Sunday morning session Self-care: Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, & Recovery .
THE SCHEDULE BELOW IS FOR VIRTUAL ATTENDEES ONLY.
The Georgia Society of Adlerian Psychology has been Approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6816. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Georgia Society of Adlerian Psychology is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
All sessions for Psychologists are available in-person only.
Adlerian Task of Love & intimacy and Social
Interest -
Relationships frequently challenge our
clients. This session offers tools to further the clinicians' ability to
improve the client’s core relationship skills. Utilizing the Adlerian Tasks of
Love/Intimacy & Social Interest, and utilizing Narrative Therapy and other
relationship concepts, participants learn to identify communication patterns,
challenge relationship narratives, and link past experiences with present
dynamics.
This workshop is designed to help you: 1) Discuss Adler's concepts of Life
Task of Love/Intimacy and Social Interest. 2) Identify and assess communication
patterns or relationship styles contributing to conflict. 3) Demonstrate the ability to assist
clients in re-writing their relationship stories, utilizing narrative therapy
strategies. 4) Apply an Adlerian framework to help
clients identify connections between present & past
experiences/interactions.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSION 1:00PM-5:30PM (4 CE HOURS with breaks)
Thriving Through Turmoil: Adler and the Intersection of
Resilience and Mental Health
(Introductory)
Tara Overzat, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS
During times of crisis, building resiliency can be key to
survival and recovery. In this interactive session, we will explore Adlerian
strategies for fostering perseverance in the face of adversity. Ways to connect
these strategies to your clients’ lived experiences will be examined and
practiced.
This workshop is designed to help you: 1)
Describe the unique challenges clients now
face, along with emerging challenges from social changes, from an Adlerian
lens. 2)
Apply Adlerian therapeutic techniques to case
studies regarding new challenges. 3)
Synthesize their current therapeutic modality
with newer techniques and interventions through an Adlerian lens.4)
Evaluate the efficacy of certain therapeutic
methods in building resiliency.
FRIDAY EVENING SESSION 5:45PM-6:45PM (1 CE HOUR)
Codes of Ethics: Understanding Differences,
Diversity, Multiculturalism and Discrimination
(InTRODuctory) Ethics
Jody Housker, PhD, NCC, ACS, NBCCH,
LPC
In this session we will examine the
specific codes of ethics that pertain to Differences, Diversity,
Multiculturalism and Discrimination.
This workshop is designed to help you: 1)
Analyze the ACA, NBCC, APA and State codes of ethics regarding Difference,
Diversity, Multiculturalism & Discrimination. 2)
Discuss and explain how the various codes of ethics address differences in
clients.
SATURDAY AUGUST 16th (Lunch 12PM-1PM)
SATURDAY MORNING SESSION 8:30AM-10AM (1.5 CE Hours)
The Magic of Metaphors and Early
Recollections Working Together with Traumatized Clients
(Introductory)
Michele Frey, PhD, LPC, ACS, CPCS, DNASAP &
Carla
Jefferson
This presentation will be an interactive lecture on the
concepts of metaphors and early recollections. Participants will be educated on
the use of metaphors and early recollections in mental health therapy. The
presenters will lead a discussion on the merging of the two concepts using a
real-life case study.
This workshop is designed to help you: 1) Verbalize an understanding of using metaphors in
mental health therapy. 2) Verbalize an understanding of using early
recollections in mental health therapy. 3) Discuss the merging of metaphor and early recollection
strategies in mental health therapy.
SATURDAY MORNING SESSION 10:15AM-11:45 AM (1.5 CE Hours)
The Ethics of Self-care: Why Is
It Important?
(Intermediate) Ethics
Wendy
Price, MA
Are
your needs as important as your client’s needs? Of course, they
are but we are all guilty of putting client’s needs before our own.
We
are important too!
This workshop is designed to help you: 1) Summarize
the importance of self-care for the clinician and how it
benefits the client. 2)
Discuss and analyze ACA ethical guidelines
pertaining to self-care.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSION 1PM-4:15PM (3 CE Hours with break)
Metaphors and Trauma: A Case Study
Integrating Internal Family Systems and Adlerian Theory
(Introductory)
Michele Frey, PhD, LPC, ACS, CPCS, DNASAP & Carla
Jefferson
This workshop will focus on the use of metaphors and the integration
of Internal Family Systems with Adlerian Theory. It will cover the steps
outlined by Richard Kopp (Kopp, 2015/1995) for processing metaphors as well as
the process for Internal Family Systems. Participants will be involved in an
interactive lecture.
This workshop is designed to help you: 1)
Verbalize an understanding of metaphors used
in processing trauma in clients. 2)
Explain the integration of Adlerian Theory
and Internal Family Systems when working with metaphors and trauma. 3)
Connect the integration of Adlerian Theory
and Internal Family Systems using a real-life case study.
SATURDAY EVENING SESSION 4:30PM-6:45PM (2 CE Hours)
Chronic Illness and Adlerian Concept
of Whole Person and their Strengths
(Introductory)
Stacy Sampson, MS, LPC, CPCS
Chronic illness impacts every area of
a person’s life. An Adlerian focus on a person’s strengths and investigation of
the whole person allows a counselor to meet the client where they are and help
the client reframe their struggles, leading the counselor to provide support
and increase coping skills.
This workshop is designed to help you: 1) Discuss how Adler's concepts of
holism and strengths can be applied to assist clients living with chronic
illness. 2) Apply an Adlerian framework to help
clients living with chronic illness to cope using creativity and self
determination.
SUNDAY AUGUST 17th (Lunch 12PM-1PM)
SUNDAY MORNING SESSION 8:30AM-11:45AM (3 CE Hours)
JODY HOUSKER, Phd, ncc, acs, nbcch, lpc & Susan Belangee LPC, NCC, ACS, DNASAP - filling in for Dawn M. Echols, MS, LPC
This workshop will focus on personalized awareness in
recognizing potential indicators of the development or onset of compassion
fatigue in care professionals, along with risks of burnout. The primary
objective of this workshop is to support the needs of participants in
developing an effective, practical, and specific self-care plan for existing or
potential burnout by addressing compassion fatigue in the present or future.
This workshop is designed to help you: 1) Discuss multiple life domains according to various
theories, with a focus on Adlerian life tasks. 2) Discuss the concept of self-care as well as strategies
suggested from literature and participant experience. 3) Review signs of compassion fatigue as defined in the
mental health industry.
SUNDAY CLOSING SESSION 1PM-3PM (2 CE Hours)
Using Adler's Life Tasks in Practice
(Intermediate)
Susan Belangee LPC, NCC, ACS, DNASAP
Adler's life tasks concept is crucial to establishing the
holistic nature inherent in Adlerian psychology. This session provides a unique
model for understanding and using the life tasks in practice settings.
This workshop is designed to help you: 1) Describe the 5 life tasks used in Adlerian psychology.
2) Explain holism as a core concept in Adlerian
psychology. 3) Demonstrate the Hand model and how it is used in
practice.
