6.5 CE/CME
(PENDING APPROVAL)

CE/CMEs will be available for psychologists, social workers, counselors and physicians. 

†The content for this activity has been submitted for continuing education credits. For questions email: cce@ubhc.rutgers.edu

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the therapeutic mechanisms that make an interpersonal process group uniquely effective, including group composition factors.
2. Evaluate a patient's appropriateness for a group therapy referral through an assessment of their ego strength, current readiness, and resistances.
3. Make appropriate group therapy referrals that consider the importance of timing, contextualizing group within a patient's existing treatment plan, and working effectively with common forms of resistance.
4. Identify how their own countertransference(s) may impact a group's launch and strategies for effectively managing these reactions.
5. Employ here-and-now facilitation techniques that set a frame and foundation for process-oriented work from the first session.

Sonia Kahn PsyD, CGP is a licensed clinical psychologist working in private practice in Arlington (Rosslyn), VA. She treats individuals and couples using a relational, psychodynamic approach (heavily influenced by self-psychology). She co-leads three process groups, including two with her co-presenter, Dr. Michael Magenheimer. Sonia has always been fascinated by the way that humans try to make sense of the world, be it through artistic expression (writing, film, theater, music, art), research, debate or psychotherapy. As an undergraduate, her studies in psychology and English allowed her to explore the interconnections between literature and psychological constructs like emotion, thought, attachment, and human connection.

Since graduating from George Washington University, Sonia has sought to give voice to these passions through therapeutic practice, supervision and writing. In 2017, Sonia completed the Intensive T raining Program in Couples Therapy at ICP&P. She is a long-term Board Member at MAGPS and is currently serving as the Director of Technology and Website Administrator.  

Michael Magenheimer PsyD, CGP is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified group psychotherapist in private practice in Arlington, VA. He treats individuals, couples, and groups, using a modern analytic and relational approach in long-term treatment. He leads four therapy groups in his practice, two with his co-presenter Dr. Sonia Kahn. After graduating from the Loyola Maryland PsyD program and working as a post-doc at the George Washington Center Clinic he has both been dedicated to his practice work and ongoing learning and teaching.

A graduate of the Washington School’ s National Group Psychotherapy Institute (NGPI), he has been an active member in the Mid-Atlantic Group Psychotherapy Society, both serving on the board of directors and a small process group leader. He has presented on diversity issues in clinical practice at the GW Center Clinic and at APA Division 39, in addition to teaching a seminar on the beginnings of long term psychotherapy groups to new group clinicians. Outside of clinical practice you can find Michael spending time with his family chasing his wonderfully precious young children or training for an upcoming rock climbing adventure in the mountains.