Transference and Countertransference in Trauma Treatment

Faculty: Kate Szymanski, PhD
Dates: September 12, 19, 26; 2021
Time: 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Tuition: $720
CE credits: 12

This course addresses intense transference and countertransference enactments in the context of trauma-related treatment. It will suggest coping mechanisms to enable therapists to optimally handle these reactions and turn them into therapeutic tools. Clinical illustrations will be used in order to facilitate students’ understanding and ability to navigate these experiences.

Kate Szymanski, PhD

Dr. Kate Szymanski is a NYS licensed psychologist and certified psychoanalyst with a private practice in Garden City. She is an Associate Professor at the Derner School of Psychology. Her main areas of interest are traumatization (Chronic and Acute) in children, adolescents and adults, resiliency, posttraumatic growth, trauma-centered psychotherapy, stigma of mental illness, mentalization and suicide, somatic awareness, emotional intelligence,
family systems and ambiguous loss, trauma assessment (implicit), psychodynamic treatment of traumatized adolescents and children, poverty and mental health, depression and creativity. She co-edited the book Expressions of the Unspeakable: Narratives of Trauma and is a popular invited speaker in the area of trauma.

Trauma Treatment Online Seminar Series

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This continuing education seminar, seminar instructor/s, and the Postgraduate Programs as the seminar’s sponsor, receive no commercial support for the content of instruction (e.g., research grants funding research findings etc.), or benefit for endorsement of products (e.g., books, training, drugs, etc.) that are known to present a conflict of interest.

Credentialing Information

Adelphi University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Adelphi University maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Adelphi University, Derner School of Psychology, Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0185; by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0083; and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0607; ; and by New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0024.

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