The Clinic
Deepen your practice at The Clinic, a series of specialized workshops designed to hone your skills and capacity as a practitioner. Inspired by the focused training methods used in sports clinics, these sessions are facilitated by seasoned practitioners Smruti Desai, D. Michael Louderback, and Abby Wong-Heffter.
Each clinic will focus on an approach to the work, providing you with advanced techniques, practical tools, and new perspectives to integrate into your work. You will have the opportunity to witness and observe the work in real-time and there will be ample opportunity for dialogue and collaborative learning.
Whether you’re looking to refine your approach, deepen your capacity to drop into the human experience of this work, or renew your imagination for what’s possible in the in between, these clinics offer a unique opportunity for growth and connection.
Limbic Resonance
With Abby Wong-Heffter we will explore the profound impact of limbic resonance on therapeutic relationships and outcomes. This clinic will focus on the nuances of emotional attunement, attachment, and trauma. We will also explore how learning narrative and relational patterns can aid in movement and transformation.
Format
This is a hybrid offering. You have the option to join us in person at our space in Pioneer Square or virtually via Zoom. Please let us know how you intend to gather with us when you register. Folks who RSVP will receive a note with building and/or Zoom access the evening prior to the workshop.
Exchange
General Registration — $22
with 1.5 CEUs — $44
Member Registration —$0
with 1.5 CEUs — $20
Authorization
Continuing education units have been authorized and approved by the NASW Washington State Chapter. Our provider #1975-507. Licensed social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors are eligible.
Save the Dates
Join us on the 1st Friday of each month from 10:00-11:30am as we dive into core elements of interpersonal work, refining the tools and techniques that make a profound difference in our capacities to feel, heal, relate, and create.
The Clinic: Nervous Systems & Somatics with Smruti Desai
October 4 / January 3 / April 4 (Virtual)
The Clinic: Psychoanalysis with D. Michael Louderback
November 1 / February 7 / May 2 (Hybrid)
The Clinic: Limbic Resonance with Abby Wong-Heffter
December 6 / March 7 / June 6 (Hybrid)
Abby Wong-Heffter
Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, Consultant & Teacher
I’m Abby (she/her). I reside and work on occupied Duwamish land and identify as a cis, straight, neuro-typical, able-bodied, thin-privileged, mixed-Chinese woman of color. This long list of identities is important to me because it locates me in my awareness (and sometimes lack thereof) of how I move through the world and where I have more or less access (usually the former). I believe it is imperative in our work that we constantly and continuously explore who we are and how we are experienced. I believe that this is some of the privilege of getting to sit across from someone who could be experiencing deep isolation, fragmentation, worry, anxiety, and/or loneliness. We get to learn how they have come to find themselves in their unique circumstance and often help them begin to understand how they “make sense” given what they have lived through. When belonging has been elusive, we get to give them tastes of it with us. I am deeply curious and passionate about how our early relationships form us and so the lens of attachment informs most of my work. I specialize as a trauma and abuse therapist, working with transracial adult adoptees, survivors of sexual and spiritual abuse, and those engaging racial identity. I’m drawn to those who experience feeling “outside” or “other.” In addition to practicing therapy, I supervise, teach, and train.