Developmental Perspectives on Narcissism and Addictions: The Shame Dynamic

Lisa Erickson, MS, LMHC

About the workshop

This training is designed to deepen your knowledge and increase your effectiveness in working with narcissism, addiction and shame. While the topic may be intense, we will strive to learn in a setting that mixes didactic information with discussion and active learning. You will leave the training with a full set of handouts and hopefully, renewed optimism about working with people who may have this challenging cluster of problems.

Participants will be able to:

Identify the difference between shame and guilt and employ new strategies for working with shame.
Describe the consequences in adulthood of early shame-based experiences.
Identify the common underpinnings of narcissism and addiction and understand why they so often occur together.
Identify the many faces of narcissism beyond what is described in the DSM.
Articulate how early attachment injuries play a role in the development of both narcissism and addiction.
Use concrete treatment suggestions for working with these challenging diagnoses.

About the presenter

Lisa Erickson, MS, LMHC , has been a therapist for over 30 years. In agencies she has been a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and program director. She has been a past president of Seattle Counselors Association, and the Washington Mental Health Counselors Association. Before starting her private practice, she was the program director at a large outpatient drug and alcohol treatment program. She has taught adult learners in the graduate psychology program at Antioch University for many years. Lisa has trained regionally and nationally on issues related to the development of psychotherapists, including how to do clinical supervision, and private practice development. She maintains a full time private practice in Seattle doing object relations psychotherapy and consulting and supervising other clinicians.

About the particulars

Location: Shoreline Center
When: October 17th, 2008
Hours: 9:00am-4:30pm
Fee: $125.00 US
CEU info:

NAADAC Approved Education Provider 6 CEHs. Provider #632.

6 CEU's Cascadia Training is approved by the NASW, Washington State Chapter, to provide continuing education units to Licensed Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists. Certificates of Completion are awarded to attendees at the end of each workshop. Provider number #1975-118, and is an OSPI approved provider of in-service education. This is a "Washington State Approved Clock Hour Offering Workshop."