The PPSC Learning Lab
The PPSC Learning Lab provides opportunities for health and wellness practitioners, teachers, parents, nurses, counselors and therapists to augment their experience and training with specialized seminars and short-term courses.
Each presentation is devoted to helping practitioners enhance and deepen their skills when working with people in their dedicated field. The Learning Lab offers a wide range of topics in a variety of areas, such as hospital trauma, parenting, childcare, creative arts therapies, emotional, psychological and social well-being, mind-body theory and technique, special needs education, and more.
For information about our upcoming workshops, please visit our Eventbrite ticketing page.
We look forward to seeing you at the PPSC Learning Lab!
— Judy Levitz, PhD, and Casey Pant, LCSW, co-coordinators
Upcoming PPSC Learning Labs: Live Online via Zoom
SATURDAY, November 8, 2025
10:00AM-12:ooPM (EST)
“The Mutual Influence of the Psyche and the Body: An Introduction to Rolfing®”
Liz Stewart, Advanced Rolfer®, BCSI, GSI
$45 Regular Admission and $30 Student/PPSC Refugee Program Volunteers
This talk is open to all teachers, counselors, nurses, parents, health practitioners and community members.
It provides 2 hours of continuing education credits for LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMHCs, LCATs, and licensed psychologists.
SATURDAY, November 15, 2025
10:00AM-1:ooPM (EST)
“Keeping Good Boundaries: Finding Clarity and Negotiating Gray Areas Including the Use of AI in Clinical Practice”
Valerie Frankfeldt, Lauren Ginsberg, and David Pauley
$105 Regular Admission and $75 Current Students/Candidates
This workshop is appropriate for all licensed therapists; it meets NYS requirements for 3 CE hours of training on professional boundaries for licensed psychologists, social workers (LMSW/LCSWs), mental health counselors, art therapists, marriage and family therapists and psychoanalysts.
This course qualifies for the 3 hours of Ethics training required as of 4/15/23 by NYS for Social Workers, Psychologists, LPs, LMHCs, LCATs and LMFTs.
Past PPSC Learning Lab Events
2025
4/12/25: “Abusive Traumatic Bonding™: Hell in a Relationship” - Karen Landmann, LCSW
3/8/25: “Abandonment Trauma, Eating Disorders, and Underearning: Filling the Deepest Needs and Restoring Wholeness” - Dr. Marcia-Elizabeth Thompson, DACM
2/1/25: “The Multiple Pathways of Intergenerational Trauma” - Karen Landmann, LCSW
9/6/25: “Somatic Therapy Protocols for Cultivating Trust and Improving Treatment Outcomes” - Dr. Marcia-Elizabeth Thompson, DACM
10/18/25: “Understanding the Impact of Stockholm Syndrome” - Karen Landmann, LCSW
2024
11/23/24: “Coming Home Again: Rapprochment, Separation, and Individuation in Cross-Cultural Treatment”- Fred Aiese, LCSW-R & Christina Chang, LP
9/28/24: "Keeping Good Boundaries: Finding Clarity and Negotiating Gray Areas in Clinical Practice" - Valerie Frankfeldt, LCSW, Ph.D., David Pauley, LCSW, Lauren Ginsberg, LCSW
4/3/24: "Understanding Infertility" - Marni Rosner, DSW, LCSW
3/20/24: "Helping Patients to Feel Real: New Ways to Understand and Respond To Impostor Syndrome Complaints in Psychotherapy" - Ben Bernstein, Ph.D
2/10/24: "Integrating EMDR and Psychoanalysis in the Treatment of Trauma" - Patricia Tidwell, Ph.D., LCSW
2023
12/2/23: "Keeping Good Boundaries: Finding Clarity and Negotiating Gray Areas in Clinical Practice" - Valerie Frankfeldt, LCSW, Ph.D., David Pauley, LCSW, Lauren Ginsberg, LCSW
11/1/23: "Get Them to Play: Creative Methods for Increasing Therapeutic Engagement with Anxious Adolescents and Their Families" - Ben Bernstein, Ph.D
10/21/23: “The Body Is Good: Unpacking and Healing From Christian Religious Trauma” — Teresa Thompson, LCSW
10/4/23: “What to Expect as the Partner or Friend of a Childhood Trauma Survivor” — Johanna Dobrich, M.A., LCSW-R
9/9/23: “Keeping Good Boundaries: Finding Clarity and Negotiating Gray Areas in Clinical Practice”* — Valerie Frankfeldt, LCSW, PhD, Lauren Ginsberg, LCSW, and David Pauley, LCSW
* This workshop was a combined PPSC Annex / PPSC Learning Lab event.6/10/23: “Trauma Informed Eating Disorder Treatment; Contemporary Practices in Treatment of ED Symptoms and Underlying Trauma” — Whitney McMullan, LCSW
5/24/23: “Dreaming 101: An Introduction and User-Friendly Approach to Engaging with Dreams” — Michael Jenkins, LCSW, Artist
3/18/23: “The Secret Social Phobia: How to Identify and Treat Paruresis (Shy Bladder)” — Dan Rocker, LCSW-R
3/11/23: “Working Therapeutically with Special Needs Children and Adolescents” — Molly Lang, LCSW
2/11/23: “It's All in the Family" - Working with Family Systems Theory” — James Wells, LCSW-R
1/28/23: “The Challenge and Enigma of ADHD in Couples” — Lee Crespi, LCSW
2022
10/26/22: “Adolescent Identities: Working with Issues of Gender and Sexuality” — Deborah Glazer, PhD
10/1/22: “Working Therapeutically with Special Needs Children and Adolescents” — Molly Lang, LCSW
*The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0040, licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0166, licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0083, and licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0119. We are recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0054 and by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0118.
PPSC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, national/ethnic origin, or analytic orientation in the administration of its admissions and education policies.