The Clinic
Deepen your practice at The Clinic, a series of specialized workshops designed to hone your skills and capacity as a practitioner. Inspired by the focused training methods used in sports clinics, these sessions are facilitated by seasoned practitioners who offer teaching on their modality of focus, bring these concepts to life with a live session with a client volunteer, and hold space for integration through honest discussion and group consultation.
Each clinic will focus on an approach to the work, providing you with advanced techniques, practical tools, and new perspectives to integrate into your work. Whether you’re looking to refine your approach, deepen your capacity to drop into the human experience of this work, or renew your imagination for what’s possible in the in between, these clinics offer a unique opportunity for growth and connection.
Apertures: How To Feel Feelings in Psychotherapy
Before there is ever a word spoken, there is a hovering. This Clinic, facilitated by D. Michael Louderback, explores the emotional aperture inside of the practicing psychotherapist: how to receive, how to hover, and how to name what rises, from the gut and heart upward.
As Freud knew, every aperture is shaped by the culture, history, and body it lives in—so this Clinic also asks how to receive, hover, and name across difference, trusting that the capacity to feel is inseparable from the capacity to feel with someone whose world is not our own.
Through this workshop, participants will be able to:
Receive (Open the Aperture). Participants will be able to think of at least one emotion they experienced in a clinical encounter that they previously set aside or did not name.
Hover (Tolerate Not-Knowing). Participants will practice remaining with an unformed or confusing emotion rather than rushing to explanation, interpretation, or defense.
Name (Create a Sentence). Participants will translate a felt and embodied emotional experience from the gut and heart upward and outward to give words to that one emotion—giving words to that emotion in a way that honors the patient’s world.
Container
This is a hybrid offering. We will gather in person at Shelterwood’s home base in Pioneer Square and virtually via Zoom. You’ll receive the link to join the morning of the offering
Exchange
Members — included in monthly membership fee
General Public — $55 with CEUs / $25 without CEUs
Authorization
Participation includes 2 [Professional Roles and Boundaries / Professional Ethics and Law / Health Equity]-applicable continuing education units, if desired. These CEUs are authorized and approved by the NASW Washington State Chapter. Our provider #1975-507. Licensed social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors are eligible.
D. Michael Louderback
LMHC, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Educator
he/him
D. Michael Louderback, LMHC is an eclectic and passionate psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has been in private practice in Seattle for over 14 years. His work includes clinical psychotherapy, supervision, consultation, and teaching across a variety of psychoanalytic institutes and communities throughout the city. He enjoys his husband, ferocious reading and writing, and the occasional ferry ride.