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Transforming Core Beliefs with Voice TherapyChallenging Defenses and Freeing Clients to Live in the Present
Voice Therapy is a powerful technique that quickly taps into clients’ core negative beliefs. It is a process of identifying and eliciting negative thought patterns that are
driving a person’s maladaptive behavior. It is called Voice Therapy because clients learn
to verbalize the negative thoughts they are aware of in the second person, as though
another person were talking to them. Shifting to this second person format brings to
the surface the emotional content of these negative thoughts. This also helps clients
to separate their own point of view from the hostile point of view toward themselves.
It allows them to “take their own side” and identify the sources of these destructive
cognitions which originated in traumatic attachment experiences. Therapist and client
then collaborate on suggestions for behavioral change. This includes both resisting
destructive acting out and increasing positive goal-directed behavior.
Voice Therapy is a cognitive/affective/behavioral approach that accesses core
beliefs in the presence of emotional arousal, thereby facilitating significant changes in
attitudes and actions. This method combines insight with affect in a way that profoundly
shifts clients’ point of view toward self and others to a more compassionate and realistic
perspective. This modality facilitates greater levels of intimacy in relationships, lifts
depression, increases work satisfaction and helps prevent relapse into self-defeating
behaviors such as addiction and self-harm.
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Learning Objectives |
- Apply the comprehensive theoretical model underlying Voice Therapy, deepening
your understanding of clients.
- Increase your knowledge of attachment theory, neurobiology and the impact of
early experience on the development of destructive thought processes or “voices”.
- Understand the need for interventions that access deep emotions for treating all
types of trauma and unresolved loss.
- Integrate Voice Therapy techniques as an adjunct to your practice of psychotherapy
to facilitate more positive treatment outcomes.
- Use the exercises provided to enhance clients’ awareness of negative core beliefs
and how their behavior is impacted by destructive thinking facilitating change.
- Apply Voice Therapy to addiction, problems at work, depression, and couple relationships.
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| Friday Evening 6:30 PM to 9 PM
6:30 PM to 7 PM
Registration and networking (appetizers included)
7 PM to 9 PM
Voice Therapy- Background and Theory
- Separation Theory-integrates psychodynamic and existential constructs
- Relating attachment theory and interpersonal neurobiology
Major Concepts
- The Fantasy Bond
- The Voice Process
- Division of the Mind
The Steps of Voice Therapy- Video Examples
Saturday 9 AM to 5:30 PM
8:30 AM to 9 AM
Breakfast
9 AM to 12 Noon
Basic Assumptions and Goals of Voice Therapy
- Therapeutic Stance
- Case Conceptualization
- Exercises to facilitate change
Therapists personal development
Recovering from addiction: Voice Therapy Applied to Addictive Behaviors
Lunch
Saturday Afternoon
1 PM to 5:30 PM
Interactive Role-play of Voice Therapy techniques
Overcoming depression: Voice Therapy applied to mood disorders
Sunday 9 AM to 12 Noon
8:30 AM to 9:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM to 12 PM Noon
Facilitating Change in couples: Voice Therapy applied to relationship issues
- Effectively challenging fears of intimacy
Role Play: Apply Voice Therapy technique with a couple
Specialized journaling exercises
Wrap up
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| | Continuing Education: |
| Psychologists CA: R. Cassidy Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program. (12) hours.
Social Workers CA: Course meets the qualifications for (12) hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE418.
Marriage and Family Therapists CA: Course meets the qualifications for (12) hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE418.
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