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About the Presenter:
Sarah Miller, PhD is a clinical psychologist specializing in women’s issues, life transitions, trauma, and bereavement. She serves as Supervising Psychologist in Ezra Medical’s Women’s Health Department and maintains a private practice. Dr. Miller has volunteered with Knafayim (perinatal loss), served on the board of NEFESH International, and facilitates workshops through SIMHA’s female leadership training initiative.
Yitzi Horowitz, LCSW maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Long Island, NY. He lectures regularly on topics at the intersection of religion, spirituality, mysticism, and psychology, and has also served on the board of NEFESH International.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe a psycho-spiritual conceptual framework for working with religious clients who struggle with sinfulness, and apply skills and tools to support repair and growth without reinforcing destructive shame.
- Identify manifestations of guilt, shame, grief, and rupture in both sin-related and non-sin-related contexts (e.g., trauma, infertility, or loss).
- Analyze the role of therapist countertransference when engaging with clients’ experiences of guilt, shame, and spiritual crisis, and apply strategies to remain grounded and effective.
- Demonstrate culturally responsive clinical strategies that integrate spiritual repair with psychological healing to support Orthodox Jewish clients navigating spiritual struggle and rupture.
Agenda:
Agenda (2 Hours)
Introduction (10 min)
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Teshuva as rupture and repair with self, others, and Hashem
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Dimensions of guilt, shame, and repair
Yitzi Horowitz, LCSW (45 min)
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Sin, guilt, and shame in religious & psychological contexts
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Developing a psycho-spiritual stance towards sin
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Therapist stance and countertransference
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High Holiday liturgy as expressions of hope and healing
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Psycho-spiritual framework and clinical tools for repair and growth
Dr. Sarah Miller, PhD (45 min)
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Trauma, grief, and ruptures not rooted in sin (e.g., loss, infertility, suffering)
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Teshuva as return and re-engagement with self, others, and God
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Symbolization and the movement from constriction to expansiveness
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Clinician countertransference when facing clients’ spiritual crisis
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Liturgy as healing or retraumatizing
Integration & Q&A (20 min)
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Synthesizing frameworks
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Clinical applications across diverse contexts
Accreditation - These webinars offer 2.5 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits
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This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an intermediate level, and is beneficial for an intermediate level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
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