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WILA is excited to share the Alumni Association's next online CE event for clinicians: “Transference and Countertransference: Re-considering the relationship in the therapeutic dyad during times of great strain for both therapist and patient” with Leigh Tobias, PhD FIPA BCPsa!

Register between now and September 7th to receive early bird pricing. And don't forget to share this event with your clinical community!

Learn more and register at https://buff.ly/3Mk33Rq

It’s a season of change! We’ve got all the usual changes—Summer is coming to a close, people are going back to school, and WILA is preparing to say goodbye to one cohort and hello to another. But we’ve also got a special change happening:

A new cycle of WILA’s Trauma Group for Women!

The next iteration of the Trauma Group for Women will begin in September, and we have just a couple spots left! If you are interested to learn more about the group for yourself, a loved one, a client, etc., scroll through this post and then head to the !

In WILA's most recent blog post, Roseli Ribeiro, MA explores the ideas of isolation, insulation, and feeling real, as well as how they are related. Read the full blog at https://buff.ly/3AkFtRw !

📢 LAST CALL📢
for the next round of WILA's Voices of Warriors sexual trauma group!

Check out our flyer and then head to the link below for more information about the group and how to get started:

https://buff.ly/4bJvrXF

Welcome to WILA! The Wright Institute Los Angeles is proud to introduce our incoming Summer 2024 cohort of therapists. Learn more about Joan, Nikki, Gisèle, Cat, and Camila at https://buff.ly/3z4yLL7

The Wright Institute Los Angeles is proud to introduce the July 2024 graduating class. Congratulations, graduates! We will miss you. 💙

Sometimes we want to ignore it and think it will go away but that isn't always the case. Allow us to help.

Who will therapize AI after it replaces therapists?
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Working through it can be intimidating but we can help guide you.

WILA offers affordable psychodynamic Couples Therapy to explore relational dynamics toward understanding the recurring interplay of activating old wounds and patterns that attempt to address past emotional experiences reenacted as current conflict.

A simple visual example of the psychodynamic/psychoanalytic framework don’t you think? Repost

Anger is our body's alarm system, signaling when our boundaries have been crossed or when something important to us is at stake. It's not about being out of control; it's about paying attention to what matters

People can feel stuck for a lot of different reasons. Talking to someone can help get things moving.

"Realizing its inescapable nature, we can see heartbreak not as the end of the road or the cessation of hope but as the close embrace of the essence of what we have wanted or are about to lose. It is the hidden DNA of our relationship with life." David Whyte

What’s your clinical moment? Repost

Easier said than done but we are here to help you through it.

What messages might your body be trying to give you?

We learn what is emotionally tolerable through the mirroring and lack thereof within our earliest relational constellations. Re-accessing the parts of ourselves that have been compromised past our thresholds -- over and over and over again -- is often our opportunity to re-envision the quality of our self-regard.

Imagine psychoanalytic therapy as a painting process. It may feel messy and unpredictable, yet something new arises from expressing suffering with the spontaneous movement of colors and shades. Your inner world plays out on a canvas where the WILA therapist takes in the rich layers of your emotional core and facilitates an unfolding journey into deeper understanding and transformation. Watch how Dr. Banny Lary created the painting "Psychoanalysis" https://buff.ly/4aYmZDU

Even in a galaxy far far away, Oedipal tensions run high.

How it sometimes feels when therapists come back from vacation Repost 🖊️

Letting someone in is often the hardest step but if we try, it can lead to something beautiful.

Accepting the distance/difference between self and other initiates the first movement toward love, which begins from loving the unlovable parts of the self that might be projected onto the distance between self and other. WILA offers affordable therapy for individuals and couples to work on the differences that appear as conflict.

On reflecting this past Earth Day, consider the place and function of silence in your life and being. At WILA, we consider silence to be integral in the process of growth and change as much as making space for what wants to be known and expressed from within.

Wishing everyone a day of anxiety suspension and comical iridescence.

Many of us associate rain with doom and gloom, but it's a vital part of life and its beauty. The same can be said about tears. We often assume tears indicate something negative, but that's not the whole story. Beyond their biological benefits for us, tears are a reflection of our emotions, and thus, our engagement with life.

When clients lean into it….what feelings come up for you? Repost

It's never too late to start making healthier choices!