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
"Internal Family Systems Applications for the Treatment of DID" *A Six-Week Clinical Study of Parts Work, Somatic Interventions and Classical Eastern Philosophy
Dr. Marcia-Elizabeth Thompson, DACM
Beginning SATURDAY, October 17, 2026 until SATURDAY, November 21, 2026
10:00AM-12:ooPM (EDT)
Ticket Pricing & Registration Options
*Choose between enrolling in the full six-week series at a discounted rate or selecting individual sessions that fit your schedule. Discounted rates are available for students and PPSC Refugee Program Volunteers.
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Full 6-Week Series Pass
$215 (Save $55 off individual week pricing) - Regular Admission
$145 (Save $35 off individual week pricing) - Student / PPSC Refugee Program Volunteer
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Individual Session Admission
$45 per session - Regular Admission
$30 per session - Student / PPSC Refugee Program Volunteer
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Note: All single-session and full-series tickets include live participation access. Access to recording for each session can be made available upon request. Email ppsc.learninglab@gmail.com for more information.
*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, LMFTs and licensed psychologists
Past PPSC Learning Lab Events
2026
6/20: “Staying Alive? Alienation in Digital Culture and Intimate Life” - Valerie Frankfeldt, PhD
4/25: “Introduction To Neurofeedback: Dysregulation To Regulation Within The Therapeutic Context” - Aurora Fields, LCSW
4/18: “Internal Family Systems: Basics and Applications for Dissociative Identity Disorder” - Dr. Marcia-Elizabeth Thompson, DACM
4/11/26: “Deprivation & Containment: Using Creative Interventions with Traumatized Youth” - Laura Meyers, LCAT, ATR-BC and Maria Sossi, LCAT, ATR-BC
3/21/26: “Deconstructing the Depression-Suicide Connection” - Karen Landmann, LCSW
2025
12/6/25: “Understanding Immigrant Realities, Social Landscapes, and Mental Health” - Galina Itskovich, LCSW and Federica Franze, Ph.D
10/18/25: “Understanding the Impact of Stockholm Syndrome” - Karen Landmann, LCSW
9/6/25: “Somatic Therapy Protocols for Cultivating Trust and Improving Treatment Outcomes” - Dr. Marcia-Elizabeth Thompson, DACM
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
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.