Defining Your Clinical Style: 7 Foundational Concepts

When
Friday, September 11, 2026
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location
Online ZOOM
Spaces left
100

Registration

Affiliate Society Member – $50.00
$25 per credit hour
GWSCSW Member – $50.00
$25 per credit
GWSCSW Student/Graduate/Retiree Member – $30.00
$15 per credit hour
Non-member – $80.00
$40 per credit hour

Presenter: Robert Taibbi (VA), LCSW

DC, VA, MD Social Work -- Category 1 | 2.0 CEUs

Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in is DC, Maryland, and Virginia to sponsor social work continuing education learning activities and maintains full responsibility for this program.

NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider -- 2.0 Credit Hours

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Like it or not, each clinician develops a clinical style, a blend of personality and skills, and, like any style, one built on certain foundational concepts. In this workshop, I offer my own set of concepts, both clinical—relationship triangle, emotional wounds, anxiety style, Bowen differentiated self—and the mechanics of running a practice—treatment maps, stuckpoints, seeing problems as bad solutions—that shape what happens in the room.

Through vignettes and discussion, the goal is to provide food for thought, shake up your assumptions and thinking, and offer something to bounce your own style off of. The hope is that it helps you not only learn something new but, more importantly, more clearly define your own way of working.

Workshop Objectives:

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

Describe the relationship triangle & emotional wounds, and their application to relationships.
Define the 3 major anxiety styles and how they affect diagnoses.
Describe how process shapes problems and implications for clinical practice.
Describe how treatment maps increase the effectiveness and efficiency of clinical treatment

About the Presenter:

Robert Taibbi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 50 years of experience primarily in community mental health working with children, couples and families as a clinician, supervisor and clinical director.

He is the author of 13 books in the areas of anxiety, family and couple therapy, brief therapy, clinical supervision, as well as over 300 magazine and journal articles. He writes an online column for Psychology Today entitled Fixing Families that has received over 21 million views, as well as regular contributions to several online mental health websites and advice columns.

In addition, Robert provides trainings both nationally and internationally in couple therapy, family therapy, brief therapy, and clinical supervision. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina, and has served as adjunct professor at several universities. He is currently in private practice in Charlottesville, VA.

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