Relational Therapy Training: Year of Study & Community

September 2025 – June 2026

Oak Park, IL

Earn 24 CEUs | In-Person

For therapists who want to build a more collaborative relationship with their clients, in order to navigate anything that enters the room, Relational Therapy Year of Study is the community based and theory informed workshop that creates safety for therapists to practice developing themselves as their most powerful therapeutic intervention.

This year of study and community might be for you if...

• You are a skilled therapist, confident in your work with clients across a range of presenting concerns, but who desires to deepen into your clinical practice.

• You would like support around working from a "collaborative clinical framework" that informs how to work with moments of discomfort, uncertainty, and feeling stuck with your clients.

• You are excited about sharing time and expertise with other clinicians and building a growing community of colleagues.

The therapist/client relationship is a complex endeavor. While our work is informed by many modalities -- IFS, EMDR, somatic therapies, and more -- ultimately, no matter your skill set, the capacity to work with the unfolding process of the relationship itself is critical to effective intervention and treatment.

It also develops the greatest tool of our trade: ourselves.

Clients harmed in their relationships often need more than skillful interventions. They also need a relationship to experience what they have not had yet, or have experienced in lesser ways: consistency, attunement, boundaries, shared expectations and action, compassion and present-centered, honest engagement.

Relational wounding requires relational healing.

Clients come to us with needs and hopes and deep longings - yet often get stuck in treatment, or continue to make choices that seem contradictory to their goals. As therapists, we observe this, apply interventions that have worked for others and end up feeling ineffective and "de-skilled."

Relational Therapy Training: Year of Study & Community

Laying the Foundation

Opening Workshop: Friday, September 12, 9am-4pm

And then, first Fridays

(Lunch Included)
We will lay the foundation for the year: working from a collaborative frame, tending to regulation, building awareness of our own experiences.

October - June, 12pm - 2pm

Reading discussion and case consultations

We will hold these tenets as essential and set the frame for the year:

1. Our best work is done with support from community. Just as our clients do not heal in isolation, we do not progress in isolation.

2. Effective relational treatment requires capacity to work with unconscious processes.

3. The ability to effectively assess for trauma and attachment wounding is critical for ethical, anti-oppressive practice.

4. Working in the present, grounded in a well-formulated clinical frame, is the access route to lasting change.

What to Expect From The Training:

Study foundational and modern relational therapy texts

Learn to work with unconscious process and enactments and attachment dynamics

Build confidence and courage in clinical work

Join a community of reflective practitioners committed to anti-oppressive practice

Curriculum Highlights:

• Principles of relational therapy

• Clinical formulation of a collaborative treatment frame

• Incorporating a “parts model” in practice for deeper attainment

• Theory- informed clinical case consultation each month

These guest colleagues will join Meghan one month each, to teach from their areas of expertise:

Richla Davis, LCPC on working with racism and bias in the clinical space.

Morgan Vance, LCSW on ethically navigating complex case collaboration with colleagues.

Join the Relational Therapy Training: Year of Study

Open to clinicians currently seeing clients, who are committed to: use of self as clinician and working with implicitly held biases.

Tuition: $1,500

10% discount if paid in full

Applicants of all racial and gender identities and sexual orientations are welcome.

If cost would prohibit you from joining, a sliding scale is available.

708.689.3041