Love and Compassion in Therapy:

How to say "I love you" in session

Sometimes, being the therapist means saying "I love you" first. It means putting one's heart on the line in service of the client. For the clinician it can be wonderful to provide care, yet it can also be a real risk. Our own issues around commitment, intimacy and attachment are always present. This workshop explores how love and compassion play into the therapeutic relationship. It helps mental health workers better understand themselves as a therapist and how their attachment styles inform their work. Through lecture, personal reflection and activities, participants will come to better understand how love and compassion shows up in their work.

Date:
Saturday February 11, 2:00-3:30pm

Location:
David Klow & Associates, LLC

5225 Old Orchard Rd., Suite 37
Skokie, IL 60077

Cost: free

For more information and to register, please contact:

Niki Prugh, MS, AMFT at 847-529-8300 x 2 or niki@davidklow.com

Facilitator:

Niki Prugh is a licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who works with individual adults and adolescents, couples, families, and children. Her warm, empathic and energetic approach focuses on collaborating with clients to deepen their understanding of themselves and their relationships in order to bring about the transformation they seek. She received her Master of Science in Marital and Family Therapy from The Family Institute at Northwestern University along with clinical training at The Family Institute’s Bette D. Harris Family and Child Clinic.

Niki works from an integrative perspective, allowing her to take a client-centered approach that draws on a variety of healing and therapeutic models to create therapy that is uniquely suited to each client. Incorporating her background in arts and education, she also enjoys bringing an assortment of creative tools to her work with children and families.

Areas of interest include individual personal growth and transition, family of origin issues, couple intimacy and communication, family relationships, adoption, divorcing and post divorce families, adult children and their parents, adolescent adjustment and group therapy.