Saturday, May 10, 2025
10:30 am-2:45 pm (US Eastern/New York Time)
Virtual Zoom Event

4 CE Credits will be offered

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Registration closes at noon ET on Thursday, May 8th, 2025.

This will be a virtual event. We hope you can join us!

We are born with a Core Self that expects to be met with love, nurturance, and unconditional acceptance.  But when the world we meet is traumatizing, when those expectations are dashed, we respond by tragically disavowing our Core Self, creating a Wounded Self built upon false beliefs about the worth of the self and its place in the world.

Core Self Reclamation Therapy (CSRT) is a relationally bold new clinical model of psychotherapy devoted to undoing the structure of the Wounded Self so that the Core Self can be reclaimed.  The CSRT Therapist targets the entrenched defenses and toxic shame states created by distorted mirroring and other traumatic experience, standing in on behalf of the patient’s Core Self to guide our patients back to their birthright of love.

In this workshop, we will explore how to enhance and accelerate healing through specific interventions that target the deepest intrapsychic wounds. The conference will include didactic as well as live videos to describe and illustrate the model.  There will be opportunities for Q&A throughout.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this conference, participants will be able to:

  1. Summarize the importance of the Tripartite Self in CSRT:  Distinguishing between Core Self, Wounded Self and Present-Day Self.
  2. Explain the significance of the Core Self and its integral role in CSRT.
  3. Describe how the Wounded Self forms in the wake of trauma.
  4. Distinguish between Internal Laws and Core Erroneous Beliefs.
  5. Apply concepts from CSRT such as how Parts Work plays in healing complex trauma.
  6. Describe the importance of empowering the Present-Day Self to embrace the role of new internal caregiver for the child parts in need of healing.

References:

Bach, B., Lockwood, G., & Young, J. E. (2018). A new look at the schema therapy model: Organization and role of early maladaptive schemas. Cognitive behaviour therapy, 47(4), 328-349.

Ecker, B. (2020). Erasing problematic emotional learnings. In R.D. Lane & N. Nadel (Eds.), Neuroscience of enduring change: Implications for psychotherapy (pp.273-299). Oxford University Press.

Lorenzini, N., Campbell, C., & Fonagy, P. (2018). Mentalization and its role in processing trauma. In B. Huppertz (Ed.), Approaches to psychic trauma: Theory and practice (pp.403-422). Rowman & Littlefield.

Lumma, A. L., Valk, S. L., Böckler, A., Vrtička, P., & Singer, T. (2018). Change in emotional self‐concept following socio‐cognitive training relates to structural plasticity of the prefrontal cortex. Brain and Behavior, 8(4), 1-15.

Pilkington, P. D., Bishop, A., & Younan, R. (2021). Adverse childhood experiences and early maladaptive schemas in adulthood: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 28(3), 569-584.  https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2533

Piliero, S. (2021). Fierce love: Championing the core self to transform trauma and pathogenic states. In D. Fosha (Ed.), Undoing aloneness & the transformation of suffering into flourishing:AEDP 2.0 (1st ed., pp. 269–293). American Psychological Association.   https://doi.org/10.1037/0000232-000

Rockwell, D. (2019). Mindfulness in psychotherapy and love as the healing balm. The Humanistic Psychologist, 47(4), 339-343.  https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000127

This conference is appropriate for clinicians at all levels of experience and offers 4 CEs.

CE Credit is granted to participants with documented attendance for the entire duration of the event and a completed evaluation form.Credit will not be granted to registrants who are more than 15 minutes late or depart more than 15 minutes early from a session. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the scheduled start time to allow time to check in.

PLEASE NOTE: Recording in any form of this live streaming event is NOT permitted.

About our presenter:

Dr. SueAnne Piliero has been developing Core Self Reclamation Therapy (CSRT), formerly called Fierce Love, for over a decade, working with patients and teaching the model to a wide range of clinical audiences across the country and around the world. SueAnne has been an invited speaker at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium and the Cape Cod Institute. Her clinical work was featured by the American Psychological Association (APA) as part of their video series featuring renowned psychotherapists doing live demonstrations with real patients. She is a founding member of the AEDP Institute (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) where she is currently Senior Faculty Emerita. Currently she is writing a book on CSRT with her partner, Raoul Rosenberg. SueAnne received her doctorate from Adelphi University, and her master’s degree in human development and psychology from Harvard. She is known for her warm, open, engaging teaching style and her ability to communicate complex topics with humor and clarity. She teaches, supervises, provides individual and group consultation and is in private practice in Nyack, NY. She is the author of the chapter Fierce Love: Championing the Core Self to Transform Trauma and Pathogenic States in Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing AEDP 2.0 edited by D. Fosha.

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Registration closes noon ET on Thursday, May 8th, 2025

Conference Fees:

$160ICP+P Members
$100ICP+P MITs, Emerging Professionals, Graduate Student Members, Fellows, 1st and 2nd Year Members
$100Unaffiliated Students
$125International Attendees (Outside US)
$180Non-members

For more information, email administrator@icpeast.org. A refund for cancellation is available up to 10 days before the conference.

To register by mail, Print the Flyer – May 10 2025 Annual Conference 1.30.25  and send payment to:

ICP+P

c/o Nilou Mostofi
3298 Governor Drive, Suite 22270
San Diego, CA 92192

Continuing education credit: 4 CE credits available for full attendance. The Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ICP+P) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. ICP+P maintains responsibility for this program and its content. ICP+P is approved by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners to offer Category I continuing education credit. As our CE program receives oversight from a licensed social worker, the CE credits we award are highly likely to be recognized by licensing boards in Virginia and the District of Columbia. These continuing education credits meet the ANCC standards for nurses. Marriage and family therapists licensed in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia may submit these CE credits to their licensing boards. (Marriage and family therapists in other jurisdictions and licensed counselors should inquire with their local Boards regarding continuing education credit.) Attendees from the above professional groups will earn 4.0 CE credits for attending the CE activity. Full attendance is required to receive the designated CE credit. ICP+P is accredited by MedChi, the Maryland State Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. ICP+P designates this educational activity for a maximum of 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

* SueAnne Piliero , as presenter, and the planners have informed us that they do not have a conflict of interest and have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationship with any commercial interests pertaining to this educational activity. Additionally, the presenters have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during this presentation. This presentation will not contain any references to off-­label (non-­FDA approved) use of products or devices.

CE Credit is granted to participants with documented attendance at individual workshops and completed evaluation forms for those sessions. Credit will not be granted to registrants who are more than 15 minutes late or depart more than 15 minutes early from a session. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the scheduled start time to allow time to check in.