Connect with Mindful ISTDP at these upcoming events. We can't wait to meet you and share how we can help you find more effectiveness and enjoyment in your career.
Complimenting Your Work With Strategies From EFIT July 17, 2026 10am - 2pm
Join us on July 17, 2026, as we explore relationship issues and attachment injuries with presenter Dave Isbell! Relationship issues, interpersonal injuries/trauma and emotional regulation continue to be hot topics with many clients in individual therapy. In this training, you will have the chance to explore Emotionally Focused Interpersonal Therapy (EFIT) and to practice applying strategies that can be incorporated into your work, regardless of your preferred theoretical framework. You can continue to help resolve your client's diagnostic symptoms while also supporting them to feel more secure in themselves when they face interpersonal problems!
Credits: 4 CE
Cost: $200
Date: 7/17/2026
Time: 10am - 2pm EST
Location: Virtual
About the Presenter
Dave Isbell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Emotionally Focused Therapist (EFT) who is trauma informed and deeply trained in EFT and EMDR and has also completed training in Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems, and Narrative Therapy. In his private practice he specializes as a Couple Therapist who works with couples to heal from attachment injuries and to deepen intimacy in their relationship. He also works as a Mental Health Therapist at Spring Forest Counseling where he primarily works with adult individuals on issues related to relationship issues, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life-stage transitions.
Prior to becoming a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, he spent nearly 15 years as a professional Career Coach in nonprofit, private practice, and college settings and still enjoys supporting adults through mental health issues that often result from career change and college adjustment.
Dave also completed training in Clinical Supervision from NASW and provides Clinical and Macro Supervision and Consultation for Social Workers. Additionally, he is a Certified Online Instructor and teaches clinical classes in the MSW program at Michigan State University. In the Fall of 2026, he will also begin Supervising Clinical Students at the Couple and Family Therapy Clinic at MSU.
He is the Co-Founder and Immediate Past-President (Emeritus) of Mid-Michigan Emotionally Focused Therapy, a not-for-profit organization that exists to train therapists in the EFT model and to support them as they grow in their understanding of how apply the science of adult attachment to people in need.
Plus: Bonus Training in Defense Mechanisms July 24, 2026 12pm - 2pm & 2pm - 4pm
Join us at this networking and presentation style GRC event, hosted at Therapy Today Counseling and Consulting. All attendees will have the opportunity to network together from 12-2pm, and an optional training will be offered from 2-4pm.
The training is an introduction to working with different forms of defense mechanisms, provided through the framework of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP). The workshop will include real client video vignettes, which will teach therapists how to identify defense mechanisms, understand their function, and learn to effectively intervene. This training is optional, free, and provides 2 clinical, general CEUs approved by NASW-MI.
Credits: 2 CE
Cost: FREE!
Date: 7/24/2026
Time: 12pm - 2pm & 2pm - 4pm EST
Location: 2008 Hogback Rd, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105 - located in Atria Park Business Center
About the Presenter
The training is presented by Mindful ISTDP instructors, Leslie Auld, LMSW, ACSW and Reid Depowski-Knowles, LMSW.
Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy July 29, 2026 1pm - 2:30pm
A talk presented by Howard Schubiner, MD based on his most recent book (the talk’s title) on Wednesday, July 29, 2026 over Zoom (time coming soon).
Migraines, headaches, back pain, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue, and a host of other chronic illnesses have crippled the modern American population. For the past twenty years, Dr. Howard Schubiner has been conducting clinical trials and authoring more than 100 scientific papers and lectures to get to the root cause of how to reverse these insidious illnesses. In Unlearn Your Pain, he shares in inspiring and step-by-step detail the program steeped in the latest neuroplasticity research that has proven most effective in treating chronic pain, anxiety, and depression. The source of much of chronic pain is neurological and the book details a revolutionary program to better health that has saved thousands from a lifetime of misery and depression. Using the latest practices in the mind-body connection, all confirmed by clinical trials and studies, Dr. Schubiner leads readers to a new understanding of how the mind affects our pain, physical and emotional, and how we can gain control over our bodies and minds to live a healthier and better life.
Credits: N/A
Cost: FREE!
Date: 7/29/2026
Time: 1pm - 2:30pm EST
Location: Virtual
About the Presenter
Coming soon!
Join us for a 3-part series presented by Lisa Gottlieb, MSW, held on 3 consecutive Wednesdays 9/9/2026, 9/16/2026, and 9/23/2026 from 11am-1pm over Zoom.
This experiential workshop series covers empathy as a way to build understanding and connection, understanding universal human needs to reduce conflict, gratitude through the lens of Compassionate Communication, and how to make effective requests. This will include skill building for preparing for connecting conversations, how to have these conversations, using natural language, and practice time with real examples and situations to build communication skills. Your experiences in this workshop will improve your personal wellbeing and support your work with patients.
Credits: N/A
Cost: $225
Date: 9/9/2026, 9/16/2026, and 9/23/2026
Time: 11am - 1pm EST
Location: Virtual
About the Presenter
Lisa Gottlieb is passionate about Compassionate-Nonviolent Communication and is deeply invested in supporting individuals, couples and families by teaching skills and offering tools to bring more ease, peace, connection and empathy into their lives. In addition to her work as a school social worker and as a coach and teacher using Nonviolent Communication, Lisa's work is also informed by her ongoing interest in brain science and overall health and wellbeing.
Lisa works with businesses, non-profits, faith-based organizations, schools and other groups to find effective methods to improve communication with participants, staff and customers, solve problems and increase productivity and worker satisfaction. Lisa also offers classes and workshops integrating NVC in our daily lives.
Presented by Deborah Pollack, Ph. D on 2/10/2026