Utilizing Imaginal and Relational

Interventions in Working with Trauma

Presenter : Matt Fried, MA, Ph.D., MFA

Sunday Oct. 1, 2023

Time:10:00 am – 12:00 pm [EST]

The NYSPA Trauma Special Interest Group is pleased to announce this very special webinar. Utilizing Imaginal and Relational Interventions in Working with Trauma.

Matt Fried, MA, Ph.D., MFA 

Date: Oct. 1, 2023                    Time:10:00 am – 12:00 pm [EDT]

Registration Link: https://www.nyspa.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1778869&group=

  2  approved CE credits included

Fees: All categories include the CE fee

NYSPA Trauma SIG Members: $20

NYSPA  Member.                       $30
NYSPA Student Members:          $0
Non-NYSPA Members:               $40
Non-Member Students:               $10

This presentation will articulate the task of the trauma therapist as providing the client with two basic types/tiers of experiences: (1) a caring dyadic relationship environment which consistently and explicitly embodies the opposite/reverse of what the client has experienced—and creates new data base of positive lived experiences; and (2) the collaborative application of imaginative skills in which traumatic history can be re-worked. The brain’s capacity to suspend disbelief is key to this work.

The presentation will be both didactic and experiential, providing participants wsith practical new options in both the relationship and imaginative dimensions. This presentation will teach skills and understanding from AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dyadic Psychotherapy), and from PBSP (Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor).

Matt Fried, MA, Ph.D., MFA, a board member of the NYSPA Trauma SIG, is a NYS licensed psychologist with over five decades of clinical experience. He is currently in private practice in New York City and Delaware County, New York, working with individuals, groups and couples and supervising therapists learning AEDP and PBSP.  He’s a certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor and has presented about AEDP in various settings including the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, the Mid-Hudson Chapter of the NY State Society for Clinical Social Work, He is a Certified PBSP (Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor) Supervisor and International trainer. He trained personally with Albert Pesso from 1987-2015 and has presented workshops on PBSP in Atlanta, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Asheville, Atlanta, Kingston, Ithaca, NYC and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is a certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and has trained in interpersonal psychoanalytic and psychodynamic models and in strategic therapy with Milton Erickson, MD and has been certified in NLP.