Dr. Butch Losey

Understanding Narcissism: From Healthy to Disordered (January 2025)-Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

• Topics included assessment of how narcissism can impact functioning in different people, approaches for addressing narcissism in couples and family therapies, change and progress in pathological narcissism, treating significant character pathology in psychodynamic couple therapy, the human core of the narcissist, and transference focused psychotherapy.

 

Systemic Family Therapy Conference (Nov 2024) - Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, Florida.

• Topics included affair recovery, perinatal mental health, generational trauma, and the neurobiology of couples’ relationships.

 

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Retreat (Jan 2024) - Montego Bay, Jamaica.

• This 4-day retreat focused on mindfulness practices and how to open up to thoughts and feelings without getting entangled in them, identify what truly matters, and take meaningful action. 

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Counseling and Technology Conference: Innovation or Invasion (Jan 2024) - Tucson, Arizona.

• I attended this 3-day conference of the American Association of State Boards as one of two voting delegates representing the state of Ohio.

• Discussed the intersection of counseling and AI, including digital therapeutics and state policies for digital counseling.

 

Treating Couples: Surmounting Challenges (Nov-Dec 2023) - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

• Focused on experiential models like Internal Family Systems and Emotion-Focused Therapy for couples therapy.

 

The Person of the Therapist: Understanding the History and Identities We Bring to Couples Work (Oct 2022) - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

• Emphasized the therapist’s personal history in effectively conducting couples therapy.

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Optimizing Therapeutic Efficiency (Oct 2022) - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

• Discussed a single-session therapy model and how it can lead to significant change for couples.

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Seeing Beyond the Couple in the Room: Couples Sensitive Individual Therapy (Oct 2022) - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. 

• Addressed the potential harms of individual therapy when therapists take sides in a relationship conflict.

 

Complex Developmental Trauma and Couples: The Collaborative Change Model (Sept 2022) - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

• Focused on trauma-informed care for couples to facilitate emotional regulation and healing.

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​Internal Family Systems (IFS) Lab (Aug-Sept 2022) - Cincinnati, Ohio.

• Led clinical labs to develop skills in IFS, with live supervised therapy sessions.​​​

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​Internal Family Systems Model Two-Day Conference (April 2022)-Cincinnati, Ohio.

• The model helps therapists support their clients in healing trauma though understanding their internal experience. 

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International Human Learning Resource Network Annual Conference (Nov, 2020)- Los Angeles, California

• This non-traditional conference is experiential, creating opportunities for personal growth of the clinician. The conference has an international scope and it fosters intimate connections with other professionals from other countries.

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Sex, Sexuality and Gender Conference (2019)-Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

• Healthy sexuality is essential to the wellness and vibrancy of intimate relationships.

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Deconstructing Shame: A Gestalt Approach (2019)-Cleveland, Ohio

• ​Deconstructing our shame response is paramount to creating intimacy, particularly for couples in troubled relationships and those experiencing infidelity.

• When we lack awareness of our shame, we become less available in our ability to be in relational contact with our partner.

 

Satir Growth Model & Transformational Systemic Therapy(July 2019) - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

• 6-day intensive, residential training program 

• Focused on gaining clarity about our own thought processes and feelings, which are crucial elements in improving our communication skills and increasing intimacy with others. 

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Treating Couples Conference (2018)-Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 

• The focus this year was on using brain science to work with couples, treating traumatized couples and working with couples "that hate each other and the therapist".

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Satir International Trainers Program (2018) - Satir Institute of the Pacific, Vancouver, Canada.

• 7-day intensive, residential training program in Transformational Systemic Therapy

• Focused on leadership training for teaching other therapists the Satir model.​​​

 

Treating Couples Conference (Dec 2017)-Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

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Use of Self in Family Therapy (2017)-Satir Institute of the Pacific, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Canada

•    Completed a 7-day intensive, residential training program on the clinician's "use of self" in the therapeutic context.

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Transformational Systemic Therapy (2017)- Satir Institute of the Pacific, Langley, British Columbia, Canada 

• Completed an 10-day intensive, residential training program.

 

Milan Systemic Marriage and Family Therapy Training (2006) - Cincinnati, Ohio.

• An impactful year-long clinical training in Milan systemic family therapy.