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.
These learning spaces are human, messy, playful, and inspiring. We launched this series in our 2024-25 learning canopy and we’re so excited to return with season two!
Psychoanalytic Passions
Come get immersed into foundational psychoanalytic passions where we will deepen ways of paying attention and working with the complexity of the human experience. This clinic will guide you through three core values and passions of a psychoanalytic mindset: from saying everything possible through free association to learning how cure is facilitated through love for both your patient and yourself in the therapeutic process.
What to Expect:
Expert-led clinics with a focus on real-time observation and practical application
In-depth exploration of specialized topics
Opportunities for discussion, case studies, and peer learning
A supportive environment for professional growth and skill enhancement
Exchange
Members — included in monthly membership fee
General Public — $60 with CEUs / $40 without CEUs
Continuing Education
2 CEUs are available.
Continuing education units have been 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
Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor & Educator
My name is Michael (he/him.) I'm a passionate and eclectic psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice for thirteen years, splitting time between supervising and practicing. I'm a believer that most of our personhood is unknown and, therefore, unconscious. With the help of various theories and approaches and philosophies, as therapists, we help our people make what they can out of trying to get to know themselves a little deeper and a little better. I have been privileged to sit with a wide variety of different human beings in my time—older and younger, artistic and professional, straight and transgender and queer, BIPOC and immigrant and emigrant—and am committed to forever learn alongside and learn from whomever sits across from me. My niches are supervision, narcissism, shame, and queer issues, as well as ferocious reading and writing.