American Academy of Psychotherapists: Tapping the Gifts of the Collective Unconscious through Ancient WisdomsAmerican Academy of Psychotherapists

We have come to understand that growth and wellness depend upon coming into wholeness – alignment with one’s values and traditions, one’s right mind and body. Listening is the first step to encouraging healing in our clients. Understanding the parameters of our clients’ physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual worlds helps provide a holistic view of our clients. Cultural competence is an essential tool in psychotherapy, assisting us in building strong and effective healing relationships.

Recent clinical research has exploded with divergent evidence-based treatment modalities which combine mind and body approaches to treat trauma. Therapists-in-training can now learn modern analytic techniques, DBT, meditation, psychedelic assisted therapy, and EMDR models. As practitioners, we must continue to grow our awareness of tools available to assist our clients in healing.

At this Institute and Conference, therapeutic cultural wisdoms will be highlighted. We will examine time-honored analytic concepts of transference-countertransference relationships, unconscious awareness, and early attachment relationships. Moreover, healing practices from Native American, African, South American, Eastern, and other cultures will be featured throughout our program. We encourage you reflect upon your own healing experiences as well as your clients’ experiences to reexamine the therapeutic process.

We are inviting thought-leaders in psychotherapy to present either a 3-hour workshop or process group or a 6-hour process group over 2 days.