What Will We Learn?
Participants will develop a clear clinical framework for working with anger directed at the therapist, including:
• Recognizing the shift from anger to attack in real time
• Understanding the link between anger, anxiety, defenses, and underlying conflicts
• Differentiating levels of patient organization and adapting interventions accordingly
• Responding effectively: when to clarify, regulate, confront, or take responsibility
• Using the real relationship as the central pathway for change
• Transforming rupture into emotional closeness and therapeutic movement
Learning Format
This is a 5-hour live clinical workshop combining:
• Theoretical framing
• Video-based clinical material
• Moment-to-moment intervention analysis
• Experiential discussion
Participants will follow a clinical continuum – from subtle resistance to intense relational attack – and observe how therapeutic responses shift accordingly.
🧭 A Central Theme
A key focus of the seminar is the therapist’s internal response under pressure.
Rather than viewing this as an obstacle, we will explore how it can become a clinical compass – guiding interventions and opening the way to deeper therapeutic contact.
A practical therapeutic tool will be introduced to help transform moments of rupture into emotional closeness.
Who is this seminar for?
The seminar is open to therapists of all modalities: psychotherapists and students in an advanced stage of training in a relevant mental health field. It is designed for those seeking to deepen their clinical skills and integrate a focused, experiential, and effective clinical model into their practice.
📅 Seminar Details
Date: Monday, May 25, 2026
Israel Time: 16:00–21:00 (UTC+3)
CET: 15:00–20:00
EST: 09:00–14:00
Format: Live online via Zoom
Language: English
About the EDT Approach
Experiential Dynamic Therapy (EDT) places the patient’s direct emotional experience at the center of the therapeutic process.
Originating in the work of Habib Davanloo, EDT has evolved into a family of approaches that focus on helping patients face avoided emotions, regulate anxiety, and access authentic emotional experience.
In working with anger and aggression, EDT offers powerful tools for:
Identifying defenses in real time
Regulating anxiety under pressure
Working directly within the therapeutic relationship
🔗 An Integrative Perspective
This seminar integrates key voices within EDT – combining approaches that emphasize challenge, clarity, regulation, and relational depth.
The aim is to develop a coherent clinical stance that can hold intensity without collapse and transform attack into connection.
Please be advised that this seminar serves as the opening event for the EDT Core Training program in Israel. The Core Training is a professional certification track recognized by the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA).
👤 About the Facilitator
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