The Kolmac School

Join Us For the April Kolmac School Event

Title

• Getting Unstuck:  Moving Clients Forward by Changing Dysfunctional Patterns

Description

• One of the most common challenges for therapists is the client who is motivated, willing, aware of their issues and well read on the subject but isn’t changing.  This workshop addresses this challenge through increased focus on process and patterns and less on problems and “why.”  Ann Smith will offer methods for shifting perspective away from details and problem solving toward recurring survival patterns and change.  It will be both didactic and experiential.

• Objectives:
  • Learn the difference between process and problem solving and how to shift between them.
  • Obtain tools to move clients away from knowing to truly experiencing who they are.

  • Recognize the paralyzing force of shame and fear and the positive power of validation and affirmation in inspiring and promoting change.

Presented By

• Ann Smith, MS, LPC, LMFT

  Executive Director, Breakthrough at Caron

Caron Treatment Centers

Breakthrough at Caron

About Ann Smith

• Ann Smith is the Executive Director of Breakthrough at Caron, a five and a half day residential group therapy program designed to help adults shift destructive life patterns, improve relationships and foster personal growth. For nearly 30 years, her focus has been on addiction, family systems and experiential therapy. 

Ann is best known for developing innovative residential treatment programs for adults from painful families. She returned to Caron in January of 2009 with her patented Breakthrough program. A pioneer of codependency treatment, she was instrumental in designing and directing the original five-day program for Adult Children of Alcoholics from 1984 to 1991 at Caron, which reached more than 14,000 people.

Ann has a master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and is licensed as both a Professional Counselor and a Marriage and Family Therapist in Pennsylvania.  For more than 25 years, she has lectured and taught workshops on topics ranging from addiction in the family to dysfunctional relationships. She is the author of two books titled Grandchildren of Alcoholics: Another Generation of Co-dependency and Overcoming Perfectionism: The Key to a Balanced Recovery.

Date

• Friday, April 16, 2010

Time

• 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Location

• Kolmac Clinic

  1003 Spring Street
  Silver Spring, MD 20910

  Map

Registration

• To register for this event, please fill out the registration form

• Presentation open to treatment professionals and referral sources
• Cost is free and lunch will be served
• This program will yield 1.5 hours of Category II continuing education for social workers
• This program has been approved for 1.5 CEU's by the District of Columbia Certification Board for Professional Alcohol and Drug Counselors (Course # 1122008-6)
• This CE Program has been approved by the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists for Category A
• EACC PDH approval pending
• For more information on Kolmac School events, contact Lynne Peterson, (301) 589-0255 or lpeterson@kolmac.com

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