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Introduction to Psychodynamic Theory and Practice with Dr. Bree McDaniel
12:00 AMThursday, January 23 2025
11:00 PMThursday, January 23 2025
10:00 PMThursday, January 23 2025
9:00 PMThursday, January 23 2025
8:00 PMThursday, January 23 2025
7:00 PM
Dr. Bree McDaniel (she/her) is a licensed clinical psychologist and organizational consultant, and the founder of Integrative Consulting & Psych Services, a psychotherapy and consulting practice based in Los Angeles, California. Her work is profoundly informed by her lived experience as a Black Queer Woman and her extensive training in psychodynamic theory and practice. Employing a contemporary relational psychodynamic and Intersectional approach, Dr. McDaniel centers BIPOC communities in her practice. She is also a psychoanalytic candidate at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy. In the past, she has trained and supervised mental health professionals in various settings, including community mental health, inpatient, substance use treatment, school-based, human rights, and university settings. Dr. McDaniel completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Ann Martin Center, where she received psychodynamic training to provide psychotherapy to children, adolescence, and families, including youth with lived experience in foster care. She values the importance of a healthy life-work balance. To achieve this, she regularly engages in creative practices, meditation, time and nature, and spending quality time with loved ones in her community.
As part of an 8-week clinical series, clinicians will learn how to integrate and apply psychodynamic principles into their psychotherapy work with individuals with lived experience in the foster care system.
During this week participants will learn about the history of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory and practice, as well as psychodynamic techniques.
This course is eligible for 3 continuing education credits.
This course is suitable for Psychologists, LMHCs, MFTs, Social Workers, LPCs, and Counselors.
Introductory
9:00am-9:45am – Participant and Instructor Introductions, Clinical Series Agreements, and Objectives
9:45am-10:05am – Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory
10:05am-10:25am – Introduction to Psychodynamic Theory and Practice
10:25am-10:45am – Introduction to Psychodynamic Techniques and the way in which they Can be Applied in Psychotherapy Work with Individuals with Lived Experience in the Foster Care System
10:45am-11:10am – Discussion
11:10am-11:35am – Instructor Sharing of Client Process Note
11:35am-11:50am – Criticisms of Psychoanalytic Theory
11:50am-12:00pm – Closing for the Day
- Identify 3 principles of psychoanalytic theory.
- Describe what a psychodynamic therapy session looks like.
- Apply 5 psychodynamic techniques they can use with their clients -- individuals with lived experience in the foster care system.