Upcoming Classes

Boost your professional knowledge and expand your expertise with The Ferentz Institute’s in-person and online training classes.

September 2024

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September 10, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Dee Preston-Dillon

This course explores the use of expressive therapies to validate, facilitate, and empower clients, and support therapist’s cultural sensibilities.

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September 16, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn
Presenter:
Presenter:
Jill Penaloza

In this workshop you’ll learn and practice trauma sensitive techniques for helping clients move safely into felt sensation so that they can understand and begin to master skills for expanding their Window of Tolerance.

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September 20, 2024
8:45 AM - 12:00 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Nick Farr
Presenter:
Alex Timoshenko

This workshop will explore how mental health counselors and related professionals can ethically incorporate the creative arts into their clinical practice.

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September 24, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

In this six-hour workshop we will look at the ways in which our brains are adversely impacted by trauma and how the concept of neuroplasticity can reverse that impact.

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September 27, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

This workshop will provide a clinical framework so therapists can compassionately assist their clients in understanding and addressing the root causes of guilt and shame.

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September 30, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn
Presenter:
Presenter:
Sabrina N’Diaye

This course explores the premise that peacebuilding is a multi-faceted approach to changing relationships between individuals and groups.

October 2024

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October 7, 2024
12:45 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Salicia Mazero

This workshop will explore the integration of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the use of art making when treating clients with eating disorders.

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October 8, 2024
8:45 AM - 1:00 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn
Presenter:
Presenter:
Arielle Seidler

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October 9, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

In this 6-hour workshop we will use videotaped examples to explore the four major attachment styles: secure; avoidnt; ambivalent; and disorganized.

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October 15, 2024
8:45 AM - 12:00 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

In this workshop we will look at the unique developmental aspects of the adolescent brain and why it is so vulnerable to the negative effects of social media and video gaming.

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October 28, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

In this 6-hour workshop we will make the connection between the inevitable coping strategies that emerge for abused and neglected children and how those behaviors create suffering and dysfunction in adulthood.

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October 30, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn
Presenter:
Presenter:
Denise Tordella

This workshop will define coercive control and how coercive control is a multi-faceted form of abuse that includes many different types of abuse.

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October 31, 2024
8:45 AM - 12:00 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Sabrina N’Diaye

This workshop is an opportunity to check the “pulse” of your life as a supervisor.

November 2024

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November 1, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Patricia Papernow

This workshop will give you a framework that integrates research and clinical experience on three levels: psychoeducational, interpersonal, and intrapsychic/family-of-origin.

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November 4, 2024
8:45 AM - 12:00 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Aliza Scharf-Bendov

This workshop will provide a definition and brief history of antisemitism for clinicians.

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November 7, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

In this 6-hour workshop we will experientially process a variety of techniques designed to help traumatized clients somatically and emotionally feel safe, grounded, and within the optimal window of arousal.

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November 12, 2024
8:45 AM - 12:00 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn
Presenter:
Presenter:
Jake Ferentz

This workshop will equip participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to support the development and relational success of students with ADHD.

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November 14, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn
Presenter:
Presenter:
Peggy Kolodny

Details coming soon!

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November 19, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Kevin Scott Ferentz
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

In this 6-hour workshop participants will learn about the etiology, epidemiology and diagnostic criteria for all of the affective and anxiety disorders in DSM-5.

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November 22, 2024
8:45 AM - 12:00 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn
Presenter:
Presenter:
Joyanna Silberg

In this workshop, you'll learn to identify the best procedures for assessing sexual abuse in children and identify the reasoning, flaws, and myths that often interfere with accurate assessment.

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November 25, 2024
12:45 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

This workshop will explore the importance of maintaining an integrative approach to treatment.

December 2024

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December 2, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

In this 6-hour workshop we will explore creative ways to empower clients to continue their work outside of therapy by introducing “invitations” to be accomplished in between their sessions.

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December 3, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Denise Tordella

This workshop will focus on the gender-specific needs of women seeking treatment for substance abuse disorders.

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December 9, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn
Presenter:
Presenter:
Yehuda Bergman

This workshop will give participants creative tools to explore and access those traumatic experiences in a gentle way, yet directly to the core of the pain, for healing and real recovery purposes.

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December 10, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

In this 6-hour workshop we will process the inherent challenges of working with traumatized clients in a variety of practice settings.

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December 12, 2024
12:45 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin

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December 16, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Susan Osofsky

In this workshop, we’ll explore Exposure/Response Prevention (Ex/RP), a model that’s been shown to be highly effective.

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December 19, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
Virtual Training on Zoom
Presenter:
Presenter:
Lisa Ferentz

This workshop will focus on ethical issues that can arise in therapy when treating traumatized clients, as well as issues related to termination.

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December 20, 2024
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM (ET)
Location:
In-Person at The Hilton Garden Inn
Presenter:
Presenter:
Wayne Evans

This workshop explores how prescribed roles and inherited narratives can be questioned, modified or replaced.

January 2025

On hiatus for winter break.

February 2025

We are currently not offering any trainings this month. Please check again later!

March 2025

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April 2025

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