• Group Therapy Techniques for Women In Addictive Love Relationships
• How To Write Commercial Psychology Books For The Masses?(Self-help trade books)
• Promoting Your Private Practice
• Niche Building In Your Private Practice

Group Therapy Techniques for Women In Addictive Love Relationships

Rhonda Findling shares her group therapy techniques to help women replace self defeating addictive behaviors with men, with healthier relating skills. In this seminar she will share how she helps her patients:

1. Decrease self-sabotaging, compulsive, acting out behavior that results in feelings of humiliation and alienating romantic partners.
2. Dismantle masochistic (self-punitive, self-devaluing) thoughts and beliefs.
3. Become more emotionally separate and autonomous.
4. Increase their ability to contain feelings and self soothe.
5. Improve their judgment of romantic partners.

Rhonda Findling will show therapists how to:

1. Utilize the group as a container for mourning and grieving to work through feelings of loss of present and past romantic partners.
2. Utilize the group to process anxiety, anger, fear and rejection.
   
3. Utilize the group for support, mirroring, validation and to heal damaged object relations.
   
4. patriarchal belief systems.
   
5. Role model assertive behaviors to men.
   
6. Use confrontation to address masochistic behaviors and thoughts.
   
7. Confront counterproductive belief systems.
   
8. Help patients increase productive coping skills.
   
9. Teach healthier relating skills to replace self-defeating behaviors.
   
10. Utilize Gestalt therapy techniques to integrate different parts of themselves and work through their feelings.
    
11. Explore historical family issues that cause reenactments.

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How To Write About Psychology Books For The Masses (Self-Help Trade Books) 

Do you want to publish a self-help commercial psychology books (non-academic) that can take your practice to the next level? Psychotherapist and author Rhonda Findling can show you how. Some of the topics she will discuss are:

1. How to write about psychology simplistically for the non-professional.
   
2. Deciding what you want to write about.
   
3. Finding an agent.
   
4. Finding your audience.
   
5. Writing a book proposal.
   
6. Self publishing pro?s and con?s.
   
7. Marketing your book.
   
8. How to handle private practice as an author (long distance phone session, fee structure, one time consultation vs. ongoing therapy sessions etc.).

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Promoting Your Private Practice

Although self-promotion is often very difficult for some psychotherapists, it is essential to keep referrals coming in to keep your practice thriving. Author and psychotherapist Rhonda Findling will explore many of the aspects of promoting that have worked for her to the point of helping her get a book deal with a major publishing house. Some of the topic she will discuss are:

1. Creating your own website.
   
2. Getting on TV and radio.
   
3. Getting written up in magazines and newspapers.
   
4. Putting together a press kit.
   
5. Building e-mail lists.
   
6. Having your own newsletter.
   
7. Speaking engagements and workshops.

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Niche Building In Your Private Practice

To succeed in a private practice it is often necessary to have a niche. Author and psychotherapist Rhonda Findling who has successfully developed her own niche of helping women manage their romantic lives, will give you the basic tools to accomplish this goal. Some of the topics she will discuss are:

1. The process of deciding what you?re an expert at.
   
2. The necessity of having passion for your area of expertise.
   
3. Importance of tenacity and consistency when building your niche.
   
4. Building up credibility in your area of expertise.
   
5. The necessity of taking risks.
   
6. Marketing your niche.
   
7. The financial benefits of starting and running a group.
   
8. The private practice essentials when your referrals start pouring in. (cancellation policies, fee structure etc.).