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Workshop and Online trainings

Workshop and Online trainings

Here you can find information on in-person workshops and online trainings.

Tools for Therapists and Researchers

Tools for Therapists and Researchers

Therapist and researchers can find tools here for their work.

Find a Trainer/Consultant/Supervisor

Find a Trainer/Consultant/Supervisor

This is a directory for therapists who are looking for FAP training from certified FAP trainers.

Find a Therapist

Find a Therapist

Below you will find a list of therapists who do FAP-informed work.

Links to Important Organizations and Fellow Travelers

Links to Important Organizations and Fellow Travelers

Informational Links

Updates

20 Nov

Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) 10-week Therapist Training Group

When: Wednesdays, 1:00pm-3:00pm PST, from January 13th through March 24th 2021 (skipping February 17th) Where: Online, via Zoom How: Send questions and/or...

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11 Dec

Level One FAP Online Training with Matthew Skinta and Monnica Williams

Start Date: Jan 10 Days: Thursdays (8-9 sessions, depending on enrollment) Time: 9 am - 11 am PST / 12 pm -...

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01 May

Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP): Deepening and Generalizing Your Clinical Skills of Awareness, Courage and Therapeutic Love

Dates & Location of this 2-Day Workshop: Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, Montréal, CanadaContact Hours/CE credits available: 13 9:00 a.m. - 5:15 p.m....

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20 Apr

New Book on FAP in Spanish

Luis Valero Aguayo  and Rafael Ferro have published a new book on FAP in Spanish. You may find it on Amazon : Valero-Aguayo,...

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23 Jul

Level II/III FAP online Training with Priscila Rolim and Michel Reyes

This Online Training looks for enhancing therapist’s skills to: think functionally about the therapeutic interaction, create circumstances in session to...

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Comments on FAP

  • A client
  • A DBT therapist
  • A CBT therapist
  • FAP trainers
  • A graduate student

A client note to her therapist: “You’ve always asked for free association, and this morning I awakened at 6:30 just full of it. So, here goes. Why, I kept asking myself, are you being so persistent about this “perverse” path of whistling in the dark, in which you are at once encouraging my attachment to you (ostensibly), while talking about the end of our therapy and presumably other endings as well? In what kind of uneasy truce, I also wondered, would Freud and the Behaviorists sit at the same table and drink tea? Well, it occurred to me that you are using therapeutic attachment/transference for desensitization/exposure therapy. You are asking me to be, again and again, at the edge of my comfort zone, in the space in which one is ‘knowingly’ attached, trusting you, myself really, to cushion the end, even delight in it. ‘Transference-based Exposure Therapy,’ huh?”

“FAP is about living fully by experiencing emotion, risking as much as our patients, wanting to change the world, wanting to relieve suffering and moving towards love and the capability for love. I just love the blend of creativity, pushing borders, intensity, existential meetings and potent therapeutic technique.”

“Learning how to ‘be’ in a therapeutic relationship has been one of the most valuable ‘take home’ ideas FAP has given me. I now find that much of the time that I am working with a client I am mindful of how ‘I am’ and focus on the intention to be fully present--and it has been a powerful process, even when it is uncomfortable. I have been impacted in a very profound way, both professionally and personally. I am much more aware of my avoidance patterns. I have become more in touch with my desire to link my personal self and my professional self that is more real, more human and more present. Learning FAP has been a healing and broadening force in my life, has enriched my life so much. This has been a life-changing experience.”

“FAP is an interpersonally-oriented psychotherapy designed to help alleviate client problems that are fundamentally about human relationships. Client suffering may occur in the presence or absence of people. Yet the emotional pain clients feel is about their lack of meaningful connection. What makes FAP unique is the use of basic behavioral assumptions about contingent shaping and the application of reinforcement during a therapy session. At the core of FAP is its hypothesized mechanism of clinical change, through contingent responding by the therapist to client problems live, in-session, while they occur.” “FAP uses behavioral principles to create a sacred space of awareness, courage and love where the therapeutic relationship is the primary vehicle for client healing and transformation. FAP shapes interpersonal effectiveness by nurturing clients’ abilities to speak and act compassionately on their truths and gifts, to engage in intimacy and to fully give and receive love.”

“FAP pushes me to stretch and to grow and to be theoretically and values-consistent in all aspects of my life. FAP challenges me to see therapy through the client’s eyes, to engage in self-introspection and to more accurately analyze myself in my interactions.”

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