Are you a skilled therapist, confident in your work with clients across a range of presenting concerns, but who desires to deepen into your clinical practice?

Would you 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?

Are you excited about sharing time and expertise with other clinicians and building a growing community of colleagues?

This year of study and community might be for you!

Always, and maybe now more than ever, we need each other.

Let's grow together in our work.

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Relational Therapy Training:

a Year of Study and Community

Oak Park, IL | In-Person | September 2025 – June 2026

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.

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."

Opening Workshop

Friday, September 12th, 2025 from 9:00-4:00 pm

Lunch included

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

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.

https://idalillie.com/therapist/richla-davis

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

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/morgan-vance-chicago-il/128099

Program Details:

Friday, September 12th, 2025

9:00-4:00 pm

1st Friday of each month, Oct-June

12pm-2pm

Open to fully licensed clinicians, currently seeing clients, who have been in practice several years and who are committed to: use of self as clinician and working with implicitly held biases.

Please contact Meghan to express interest and apply:
meghanreillylcsw@gmail.com

(708) 689-3041

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.

In this year-long training, therapists will study the unfolding relational process and develop intentional skills in the use of the therapeutic relationship itself as a vehicle for transformation. Building your capacity to track experience in the room and think complexly about intervention via the relationship, will allow you to work with more ease, confidence and creativity -- opening new pathways for client growth and insight.

Throughout the year, we will read, discuss and apply psychodynamic and relational concepts to case study.

We will hold these tenets as essential:

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 treatment requires capacity to work with unconscious processes.

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

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