Interested in expanding your network, or learning about a therapy approach that’s new to you? Our event listing includes seminars, workshops and events. Some events are suited for therapists, while others may be of interest to members of the public as well.
Please note that CAPT does not evaluate any of the events advertised below.
22nd Annual Day in Applied Psychoanalysis
September 18, 2021 from 9:20 am to 2:30 pm
Between Hours: Interdisciplinary Dialogues, Applied Psychoanalysis Programme of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, presents: Strangers in a Virtual Land: The Impact of Disembodied Relatedness on Psychic Development and the Sense of Self The global pandemic hurled all of us into a virtual world, wherein a two-dimensional sense of instant contact masks the loss of real connection…Location
A Zoom Conference Event – online participation only
Read MoreThe Problem of Empty States of Mind and the Uninteresting Internal Object
September 25, 2021 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Classical psychoanalysis has taught us much about the passions. Less explored are the passionless, often mindless and empty states which certain passive patients present to us. These may in some instances be the result not of a defensive or aggressive retreat but of having given up in despair or boredom. Such patients seem to be…Location
A Virtual Zoom Conference Event
Read More2022 PACT Training
PACT training and scholarship details
PACT training empowers therapists to work more effectively and more confidently to help couples manage conflict and move forward in their relationships. The complete PACT program includes three levels of training: In PACT Level 1 Global Online Training, you will learn the fundamentals of the PACT methodology and how to lead even your most challenging couples… Read MoreSelf-Compassion as the Foundation for Healing Trauma
October 29, 2021, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Healing with trauma requires cultivation of self-compassion which has been validated with rapidly expanding research demonstrating how self-compassion provides a foundation for wisdom, strength and courage. Cultivating self-compassion is the emotional attitude that buffers suffering. It forms a bridge between attachment theory and traditional meditation allowing us to be with the pain of life without…Location
Online (recording available until December 4th)
Read MoreThe 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques
October 3 & 4, 9 am-noon
Speaker: Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D (author of Pandemic Anxiety) In The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques, Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D.(author of Pandemic Anxiety) presents the most useful psychotherapeutic approaches to stress and generalized anxiety, panic and social anxiety. Drawing on the latest research for the neurobiological basis of anxiety to explain why psychotherapy is so effective, Dr.…Location
Online (recording available until November 6th)
Read MoreThe Dance of Reciprocity with Couples
September 16 & 17, 2021 from 9:00 am-3:00 pm
This is Margherita’s second annual seminar “The Dance of Reciprocity” at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto, this time applied to her unique approach to working with couples. The training includes underlying theory and experiential practice, exploration of the life of a couple, the role of the therapist, and her dynamic model for “dancing” with couples.…Location
Online
Read MoreOAMHP’s 2nd Annual Conference: Adapting, Building, Changing: Rethinking Normal in a Post-Pandemic World
September 23 to October 2, 2021 - Virtual
The conference will be held virtually this fall from September 23 to October 2, 2021. Our conference this year will focus on the mental health implications of COVID-19. The conference will also showcase the latest in student psychological research. Students, please send us your Poster Abstract by May 31, 2021. Read MoreOnline Sandplay Therapy training from the Canadian Association for Sandplay Therapy
September 18 & 19, 2021
TWO-DAY INTRODUCTORY VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY INTENSIVE TRAINING MODULES Completion of all components – workshop and the intensives – provides 100 hours toward Sandplay Therapy certification with both CAST and ISST, or toward Sandplay Practitioner status with CAST. This workshop is intended for professionals already practicing in the field, offering an opportunity to…Location
Held virtually
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