The Clinic
Deepen your practice at The Clinic, a series of specialized workshops designed to hone your skills and capacity as a practitioner. Inspired by the focused training methods used in sports clinics, these sessions are facilitated by seasoned practitioners Smruti Desai, D. Michael Louderback, and Abby Wong-Heffter.
Each clinic will focus on an approach to the work, providing you with advanced techniques, practical tools, and new perspectives to integrate into your work. You will have the opportunity to witness and observe the work in real-time and there will be ample opportunity for dialogue and collaborative learning.
Whether you’re looking to refine your approach, deepen your capacity to drop into the human experience of this work, or renew your imagination for what’s possible in the in between, these clinics offer a unique opportunity for growth and connection.
Psychoanalytic Pragmatism
With D. Michael Louderback we will delve into a psychoanalytic way of working with the complexity of the human experience. This clinic will guide you through the psychoanalytic process, from understanding unconscious patterns to facilitating deeper insights and curiosity in your clients and yourself in the process.
Format
This is a hybrid offering. You have the option to join us in person at our space in Pioneer Square or virtually via Zoom. Please let us know how you intend to gather with us when you register. Folks who RSVP will receive a note with building and/or Zoom access the evening prior to the workshop.
Exchange
General Registration — $22
with 1.5 CEUs — $44
Member Registration —$0
with 1.5 CEUs — $20
Authorization
Continuing education units have been authorized and approved by the NASW Washington State Chapter. Our provider #1975-507. Licensed social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors are eligible.
Save the Dates
Join us on the 1st Friday of each month from 10:00-11:30am as we dive into core elements of interpersonal work, refining the tools and techniques that make a profound difference in our capacities to feel, heal, relate, and create.
The Clinic: Nervous Systems & Somatics with Smruti Desai
October 4 / January 3 / April 4 (Virtual)
The Clinic: Psychoanalysis with D. Michael Louderback
November 1 / February 7 / May 2 (Hybrid)
The Clinic: Limbic Resonance with Abby Wong-Heffter
December 6 / March 7 / June 6 (Hybrid)
D. Michael Louderback
Psychotherapist & Clinical Supervisor
I'm Michael (he/him.) I'm a passionate and eclectic psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice for over a decade. I'm a believer that most of our personhood is unknown and, therefore, unconscious. With the help of various different theories and approaches and philosophies, in psychotherapy, we make what we can out of trying to get to know ourselves a little deeper and a little better. I have been privileged to sit with a wide variety of different human beings in my time—older and younger, artistic and professional, straight and transgender and no queer, BIPOC and immigrant and emigrant—and am committed to forever learn alongside and learn from whomever sits across from me. My niches are supervision, narcissism, shame, and queer issues, as well as ferocious reading and writing.