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Clinical Work with Men Level I: Emerging Best Psychotherapy Practices in Working with Men

 

Workshop Description:

Over the last ten years, we have seen a unique intensification of issues related to men: “Mars and Venus,” “Me Too,” “Toxic Masculinity,” “Gender-Inclusive Practices,” “White Male Privilege,” and the recent APA’s “Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men.”  Clearly, opportunities and challenges related to males arrive almost daily in our therapy offices. We psychotherapists are invited to consider how to best serve our male clients in such gender-turbulent times.

 

This workshop supports clinician’s in reexamining, and better mastering the use of clinical assessment, strategic treatment interventions, and longer term post-therapy thriving of men through the following: instruction, case review and vignettes, examples of emerging practices, and research findings that include interview data from local women clinicians working with male clients.

 

Learning Objectives for Participants:

 

  1. Demonstrate greater clinical effectiveness by better understanding brain research on males…specifically neurobiology of brain dominance, language capacity, and communication styles.

 

  1. Utilize creative techniques to support male clients to develop greater emotional awareness, fluency of expression, and relational accountability.

 

  1. Learn to effectively collaborate with other therapists to support the developmental and therapeutic needs of shared male clients.

 

  1. Understand how to use an integrative model in order to assess, treat, and serve men for long-term therapy / personal gains.

 

  1. Learn to use imagery, story, and archetypes in session to transform therapeutic concepts from abstract to concrete, in order to motivate client’s personal growth.

 

  1. Understand effective non-verbal therapies that facilitate depth processing as an alternative to insight focused & emotionally expressive psychotherapies

 

Time Frame:  This workshop can be taught in 6 hours.

Therapy with Men Testimonials

Judy McCleery
Educator

“Jeffry’s entertaining, insightful analysis of the issues young men face had a great impact on the men and women in my classes.  His presentations sparked much thoughtful discussion and a re-framing of the roles men play in today’s society.  His perspective gives a window into the many dilemmas of modern manhood with advice and effective coping strategies to deal with these problems.  I would enthusiastically recommend him as a speaker!”

Dennis Coyne
Attorney

“Jeffry is a very effective communicator, and engages well with his audience.  His years of experience provide him with a depth of understanding and real compassion for those he is talking about.  Jeffry not only knows the topics he addresses regarding men, but also cares about the topics – a wonderful fusion of understanding and engagement.”

Lisa Taylor, MSW, LICSW
Expert Neurofeedback Practitioner and Psychotherapist

“With such potency and ease, Jeffry connects, and engages with his audience.  He draws participants in with metaphors, stories, humor, and great case examples.  Jeffry’s enthusiasm for working with men is contagious!  As a women psychotherapist, I am glad to know that I can count on him as a resource regarding men with whom I work.  Jeffry’s presentations and content are organized, credible, and dynamic, I look forward to the next one.”

Julie Ann Moylan, MA, LPC, LADC
Psychotherapist

“There is no way to describe how important the work is that Jeffry is doing around working with men. We need to have a national conversation about the lost-ness of our male people in this current socio-political context.  This presentation was excellent, and I leave it feeling hopeful and engaged!”

Jessica Metzger, MA, LMFT, ATR-BC
Psychotherapist

“I found the workshop very beneficial for considering the specifics of working with male clients from neuroscience to moving beyond two emotions to a symphony of emotions. I especially found the neuroscience of men extremely illuminating in understanding male clients better. There was so much richness and depth in the content that I’m grateful for the handouts to refer to as needed.”

Anonymous
Licensed Graduate Social Worker

“I appreciated Jeffry’s extensive knowledge on the subject, as well as his passion in talking about best practices when working with men. I feel I learned some valuable concepts and have a better understanding as a woman working predominantly with men in my line of work.”

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