TAMFT 2025 Annual Conference

This workshop will focus on an approach to supervision that is in sync with contemporary challenges and uncertainties. Collaboration is viewed as critical to success in many professional practices-- psychotherapy, organizational leadership, education, and research among others.

This session introduces EMDR equine-assisted therapy, exploring its application with couples and families. It covers the 8 phases of EMDR, integrating equine-assisted interventions, and includes a video demonstration of a state change exercise. Join us for an interactive discussion to understand and apply these combined therapeutic models!

This presentation explores a phenomenological study that examines how mental health supervisees with marginalized identities experience telesupervision. By analyzing focus groups and individual interview data, the study identifies themes related to the impact of telesupervision. Additionally, the study highlights supervisees’ requests for enhancing telesupervision practices to better support underrepresented populations.

Many adolescents in addiction treatment have experienced complex trauma from extensive physical and sexual abuse. In our experience, EMDR alone often results in a re-experiencing of trauma. Integrating EMDR with Post-modern therapies facilitates a firmer grounding process, fewer abreactions, and sense of hope for clients who are easily over stimulated.

This session explores how Internal Family Systems (IFS) can inform ethical supervision in marriage and family therapy. Participants will learn to identify and address power dynamics, fostering a non-exploitative, compassionate approach to supervision that promotes growth and systemic understanding within clinical relationships.

The NeuroEmotional Technique (NET) is a muscle-response, mind-body technique that uses a methodology of finding and removing neurological imbalances related to the physiology of unresolved stress patterns. Emotional responses are naturally ‘hard wired’ in the body. A stimulus happens, we respond, and then the body should return to normal. However, emotional trauma in the presence of a neurological or meridian deficit can cause a physio-pathological pattern in the body that does not resolve itself. NET helps improve many emotional, behavioral, and physical stress conditions, and facilitates the resolution of stress trapped in the mind and body. Attendees will learn about the research and science behind NET, and observe demonstrations of the technique in practice, led by an LMFT and an LPC-S who utilize the technique uniquely in each of thier practices and Dr. Joy Rincones, D.C., who will demonstrate how holistic physical health practitioners also utilize the technique.

It can be unclear when referring a client due to a clinician's lack of cultural competency is ethical, or when it crosses into discrimination. This workshop explores the nuanced ethical considerations therapists face when working with diverse populations, offering guidance on maintaining cultural sensitivity in practice.