Presenters (2020)

Titles of Plenaries:

Mindfulness Games: Moving Insight to Experience in Restoration

Live Demonstration: Working with Experiential Techniques

Research and RT: What We Are Finding Out

Description:

As a result of attending Mindfulness Games: Moving Insight to Experience in Restoration Therapy, participants will be able to:

1. Describe at least two methods of creating experiential elements of practice or conceptualization
neuropsychologically with clients.
2. Demonstrate ability to have clients utilize movement, art or drama to create impactful practice
using restoration therapy.
3. Utilize at least two techniques in personalizing self-regulating messages personally.

As a result of attending Live Demonstration: Working with Experiential Techniques, participants will be able to:

1. Identify at least two experiential techniques involved with mindfulness practices.
2. Demonstrate practical knowledge of how to move clients to integrate actions and experience
when doing the four steps.
3. Utilize the typology of different experiential techniques to be effective in moving experiences
to affect different elements of clients emotions, cognitions and body memory.

As a result of attending Research and RT: What We Are Finding Out, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the general research design of the outcome project on intensive marital therapy.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of at least two outcomes from the two year follow-up study on
intensives.
3. Identify at least two findings of the survey of Level II Therapists Practices.

Presenter:

Terry Hargrave, Ph.D. Founder

Terry Hargrave, Ph.D. (Marriage and Family Therapy, Texas Woman’s University) is nationally recognized for his pioneering work with intergenerational families. Dr. Hargrave has authored numerous professional articles and fourteen books including Restoration Therapy: Understanding and Guiding Healing in Marriage and Family Therapy (co-authored with Franz Pfitzer) and The Essential Humility of Marriage: Honoring the Third Identity in Couple Therapy. Dr. Hargrave has presented nationally and internationally on the concepts and processes of family and marriage restoration, aging and is known for his clear and entertaining presentations. His work has been featured in several national magazines and newspapers, as well as ABC News 20/20, Good Morning America and CBS Early Morning. He has been selected as a national conference plenary speaker and as a Master’s Series Therapist by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
He is a Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California and is licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in both California and Texas (MFC #47906, CA; MFT #364, TX).

Title of Plenary:

Working with Anxiety: The Next Steps

Live Demonstration: Using Anxiety Techniques

Description: As a result of attending Working with Anxiety: The Next Steps, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the differences between fears and anxieties and how these emotions can be used as
teachers or tutors to clients.
2. Demonstrate at least one way anxiety can be calmed utilizing truths concerning safety.
3. Utilize at least one methodology stemming from therapeutic methodologies around restoration
therapy and anxiety in client sessions.

As a result of attending the Live Demonstration: Using Anxiety Techniques, participants will be able to:

1. Identify at least two techniques that calm anxiety in client behavior.
2. Articulate how to link calming truths of the client to experiences that make self-regulation
possible.
3. Identify at least one method used in diverting the impact of anxiety on client identity.

Presenter:

Rhett Smith, Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Rhett Smith, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (TX) and has degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary (MDIV, MSMFT). Author and Speaker, and in private practice in Plano, TX.  He is passionate about helping guide people into the transformation of their life’s journey personally and relationally. Rhett works with individuals, couples, families, groups and organizations. He is the author of two books, What it Means to be a Man and The Anxious Christian, and records a weekly podcast focused on living a more thriving life.

Title of Session:

Adolescents and Restoration Therapy: Continuing the Therapy Conversation

Description:

As a result of attending Adolescents and Restoration Therapy: Continuing the Therapy Conversation, participants will be able to:

1. Identify at least two developmental issues adolescents face and how those issues often result in
individual or family problems.
2. Demonstrate at least two elements of practice that are helpful to adolescents participating in
therapy.
3. Utilize at least one helpful insight or techniques from the group discussion on restoration
therapy with adolescents.

Presenter:

Michael Cox, Licensed Professional Counselor

Michael Cox seeks to utilize his training in assisting individuals, marriages and families to discover their God-given potential and see it actualized. Together with his wife they conduct marriage seminars, coach couples in preparation for marriage and walk with families seeking to live healthy lives. Michael Cox is also an Elite Trainer for the National Council for Behavioral Health in Mental Health First Aid. Additional areas of focus include suicide ideation recognition, parent and child relationships, youth development, depression, anxiety, sexual identity, and working with individuals struggling with their faith and mental health. Michael Cox is the proud husband of wife Coloma and father to their three young boys.

Title of Session:

Live Demonstration: Working with Issues of Forgiveness

Description: 

As a result of attending Chronic Issues and Restoring Agency to Clients, participants will be able to:

1. Describe and define chronic issues that present in therapy.
2. Articulate at least two areas where restoration therapy is helpful in assisting clients manage chronic issues.
3. Identify at least two methods or techniques used in restoration therapy that regulate pain of chronic issues clients experience.
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Presenter:

Nicole Zasowski, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Nicole Zasowski is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of Connecticut, where she maintains a private practice and lives with her husband, Jimmy. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Pepperdine University and received her Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fuller Theological Seminary. Nicole is also a contributor to several publications, speaks regularly at local seminars, and is a part-time adjunct professor at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, NY, where she teaches a course titled, “Marriage Enrichment.”  She is the co-author of Families and Forgiveness, 2^nd Ed. along with Terry Hargrave.

Title of Session:

Working with Enneagrams to Include Pain and Peace Cycles

Description:

As a result of attending Working with Enneagrams to Include Pain and Peace Cycles, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the basic elements of the Enneagram.
2. Articulate at least two ways in which the Enneagram can be used to help a client understand his or her pain cycle.
3. Identify at least two methods or techniques therapists can utilize the Enneagram to help direct clients toward self-regulating truths and peace.

Presenter:

Katie Gohde, LPC

Katie Gohde received a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University in 2005.  After a brief stint as a family therapist at an inner-city ministry in Chicago, she and her husband relocated to Atlanta. Katie enjoys a diverse caseload of women, new moms, and couples. She also co-leads marriage intensives for couples in crisis.

Katie Gohde facilitates workshops for churches, schools and businesses in the Atlanta area and enjoys speaking to audiences on subjects like maternal mental health, understanding and managing emotions, healthy relationships and strong marriages. She and Steve have been married for 16 years and have 2 children.

Title of Session:

Restoration Therapy and the Self of the Therapist: A Change of Heart

Description:

As a a result of attending The Self of Therapist and a Change of Heart:  Reflection and Waiting During the Heart Transplant Process, participants will be able to:

1. Identify at least two factors of how personal learning facilitates professional growth.
2. Demonstrate practical personal stories that have resulted in resilience and character building in the self of therapist.
3. Utilize at least two methodologies that make personal learning and reflection helpful in therapy.

Presenter:

Stephenie Lievense, LMFT

Stephenie is a Level II Certified Restoration Therapist and Supervisor. She is the founder and director of La Canada Family Therapy where she sees clients, supervises associates and leads consultation groups for other therapists.

Stephenie is also an adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary School of Psychology where she supervises students and teaches Child and Family Development.