Pine River
Psychotherapy Institute
"Focusing on the Person of the Therapist"
Since 1975

Psychotherapy is both an art and a science. The science of psychotherapy provides us with an array of therapeutic techniques, but the art of the therapeutic relationship is the core of effective psychotherapy.

The Pine River Psychotherapy Institute offers workshops that emphasize a more personal approach to psychotherapy and learning. Our workshops emphasize the continuing unfolding of the person of the therapist. Participants will learn didactically and participate in experiential exercises, group consultation and group process.

Pine River Psychotherapy Associates is the longest continuous psychotherapy practice in the metro Atlanta area. We have been offering psychotherapy training for 30 years and our faculty average 25 years of post-doctoral clinical and teaching experience.


We also offer a year long training group that meets monthly beginning in the Fall of every year.

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Spring 2009 Workshops

The Pine River Psychotherapy Institute offers workshops that emphasize a more personal approach to psychotherapy and learning. Our workshops emphasize the continuing unfolding of the person of the therapist. Participants will learn didactically and participate in experiential exercises, group consultation and group process.

I. Advanced Relational Psychotherapy
Debbara Dingman, Ph.D.
& Avrum G. Weiss, Ph.D.
Apr. 24, May 29, June 26 1:00-4:00 PM
Cost $300.00
The therapeutic relationship is the heart of effective psychotherapy. Therapists have long wrestled with contrasting models of this connection. This series of workshops will present a personal, mutually subjective model of the therapeutic relationship rooted in making connections rather than maintaining distance. The group will collaboratively decide on the mix of didactic, experiential learning, case consultation, demonstration, group process and relevant research. Workshop participants often report recapturing a sense of vitality in their clinical practice.

II. The Process of Change in Psychotherapy: An Experiential Model
Avrum Geurin Weiss, Ph.D.
Dates: Mar. 27, May 1 & 22 1:00-4:00 PM
Cost $300
Psychotherapy is the art and science of helping people to change. Research and training in psychotherapy have primarily focused on measuring the relative effectiveness of techniques designed to help people change. This workshop will emphasize the actual process by which people change and present an integrative model of change. Participants will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the process of change in psychotherapy and in their own lives.


III. Therapeutic Listening: The Foundation for Psychotherapy
Bernhard Kempler, Ph.D., ABPP
Date: April 17 9-Noon & 1:00-4:00 PM
Cost $200
Therapeutic listening, a unique combination of empathic receptivity and creative responsiveness, is the foundation for psychotherapy. Unless the therapist listens in depth, interventions can only have limited value. In this workshop we will explore the theoretical writings on listening, and we will use experiential exercises to generate meaningful material for discussion and sharing. Participants will access “the unconscious” and apply the imagination to hearing the meaning of what is said and not said.

IV. Psychotherapy and Today’s Adolescent: A Collaborative Symposium
Marlyne Israelian, Ph.D.
& Mark Timberlake, Ph.D.
Date: May 8 10:00AM - 1:00 PM
Cost $100
Today’s adolescents and the world they live in present difficult challenges for the therapist. This symposium will address the current life pressures that make the transition to adulthood riskier than ever before. The presenters will provide a framework for participants to explore effective means of working with adolescents. We will also explore ways to engage the parents in collaborative relationships that respect and support the adolescent’s therapy.

V. Psychotherapy and Addiction
Robert Coyle, Ph.D.
Date: May 29 9-Noon
Cost $100
Our culture has a seemingly endless array of addictive substances and activities available to all. Many of our clients struggle with over-reliance on a drink, drug or potentially addictive activity to get through a difficult night or work day. In the workshop we will briefly review some of the exciting new research concerning the psychobiology of addiction and its relationship to attachment disorders. We will explore therapeutic options in working with these issues in psychotherapy. Workshop activities will include discussion, case examples and role play.

REGISTER FOR SPRING 2009
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