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How Do We Get A Body: Body Troubles in The Consulting Room (non-member)

How Do We Get A Body: Body Troubles in The Consulting Room (non-member)

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Saturday, November 8th 2025 9:00am - 12:00pm

Title: "How Do We Get A Body: Body Troubles in The Consulting Room "

Speaker: Dr. Susie Orbach

Format: In person

Cost:
$100 for Non-Members
$80 for Members - Log into the Member Area to purchase
$20 for *Students - Click here to request a student discount
 $0 for current Foundation 1 Students

*Full-Time Undergraduate, Graduate, Doctoral students, and LMFT, LADC, LPC, Social Work, Psychology, and Psychoanalytic licensure/certification candidates

Credit: 3 CEUs approved for Psychologists, Social Workers, LPCs/LMFTs and LADCs

Description:

***NEW LOCATION FOR 2025-2026: White Buffalo Event Center***

  • 8:30am-9:00am: Registration & Coffee Social (pastries, coffee, and tea provided)
  • 9:00am-12:00pm: Presentation (White Buffalo Event Center)
  • 12:00pm-1:00pm: Lunch (Sandwiches, chips, coffee, tea, and water provided)

Description:

Over the last few decades more and more people mention issues with their bodies from eating disorders of all variations, to body dysmorphias, to cutting, to over exercising, to sleep and sexual troubles.
Psychoanalytically orientated theories introduce the body as both foundational and also as the site of psychological distress. The Talking Cure came out of Freud and Breuer’s understanding that what could only been felt needed to be verbalised. The idea was that the body held the conflicts and distress that could not be released until words, images, ideas were articulated by the patient.
This workshop will share new theory on the relationship between mind and body.
I will explore the question of how bodies are made at a psycho-physical level which is to say, the felt body experience. We will discuss what happens between the client and the therapist in the clinical encounter.
We shall look at the variety of body countertransferences that might be evoked.
We shall provide a means to address body based difficulties the counsellor and psychotherapist might unwittingly be bringing to the session.
We shall endeavour to understand body to body relating from the rhythms of how an individual (or couple), enter the therapy room to the interplay between therapist and client.

Learning objectives:

  1. To enable the practitioner to understand new theory about the relationship between body and mind.
  2. To enable the practitioner to understand body countertransferences and find ways to manage the scrutiny of their own bodies by their clients
  3. To find ways of deconstructing the defensive or ‘false’ bodies of their clients.
  4. To enable practitioners to ‘lend’ their bodies or allow their clients to rely on their bodies much as they ‘lend’ their psyches in the process of the treatment as a means to offer a stable psyche-soma for the client to grow from.

Speaker’s bio:
Susie Orbach has been thinking about bodies for 50 years. Her first book Fat is a Feminist Issue came out in 1978. Her most recent one on the topic is Bodies (2011 updated 2018). She has written on the mother-daughter relationship, the therapy relationship, and contemporary cultural issues. For ten years she was a columnist for The Guardian. She was Visiting Professor at LSE, a visiting scholar at the New School and Hartford College Oxford. Her series for the BBC is called In Therapy. She has a practice seeing individuals and couples.

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How Do We Get A Body: Body Troubles in The Consulting Room (non-member)
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