Narcissism in Therapy: Strategies For Effectively Navigating Narcissism Issues in the Treatment Room

• Integrate the Schema Therapy model into the the therapist’s work and conceptualize Narcissism and NPD in formulating treatment strategies.
• Apply a highly effective strategy known as empathic confrontation to gain and maintain leverage and avoid power struggles, address entitlement and lack of reciprocity, access reasonable responsibility, and set limits with the narcissist.
• Observe and utilize specific strategies, such as replacing self-defeating patterns and coping modes with healthy and adaptive modes via the moment-to-moment encounters in the therapy relationship.
• Develop a sturdy self in the chair by identifying and stabilizing the therapist’s personal challenges—our own schemas—a major obstacle to treatment effectiveness.
• Create customized dialogues that maintain leverage and enhance opportunities to access client vulnerability and emotion.
• Receive an overview of how to facilitate treatment with offended partners; the recovery and fortifying of a voice of advocacy; setting limits; cultivating leverage for accountability; identifying the impact of unacceptable behaviours; and enforcing reasonable consequences that act as motivational drivers for the narcissist to seek treatment.

With 30 years of professional experience and advanced level certifications, Wendy Behary is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. She has been treating clients, training professionals, and supervising psychotherapists for more than 20 years.

Wendy was on the faculty of the Cognitive Therapy Center and Schema Therapy Institute of New York (until the Institutes merged in 2012), where she trained and worked with Dr. Jeffrey Young since 1989. She is a founding fellow and consulting supervisor for The Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Aaron T. Beck’s Institute).

Wendy served as the President of the Executive Board of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) from 2010-2014 and served as the Training and Certification Coordinator for the ISST Executive Board from 2008-2010. She is currently the chair of the Schema Therapy Development Programs Sub-Committee for the ISST.

Wendy Behary has co-authored several chapters and articles on Schema Therapy and Cognitive Therapy. She is the author of the international bestselling book, Disarming the Narcissist…, which was translated in 16 languages. The Third Edition of the book was selected by Oprah Daily as one of the top books on the subject of Narcissism.

Wendy specializes in treating narcissists and the people who live with and deal with them. As an author and subject matter expert on narcissism, she is a contributing chapter author of several chapters on schema therapy for narcissism for professional readers. She lectures both nationally and internationally to professional and general audiences on schema therapy, narcissism, interpersonal relationships, anger, and dealing with difficult people. Wendy receives consistent high praise for her clear, articulate teaching style and her ability to bring the therapy to life through dramatic demonstrations of client interactions in the treatment room.

Wendy Behary’s speaking engagements focus on interpersonal conflict resolution. Her private practice is primarily devoted to treating narcissists, partners/people dealing with them, and couples experiencing relationship problems.

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This training offers 6 hours of direct contact (not counting breaks or lunch). It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards/regulatory body to verify CE requirements for their license to practice.

For Attendees of the On-Demand Recorded Version

You will need to complete a Post-Webinar Quiz with a pass of at least 80% in order to verify your attendance.

For US Participants

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For Canadian and Non-US International Participants

Upon fulfillment of the above requirements, Canadian and non-US international participants will be issued a Certificate of Participation that includes:

• Name of participant
• Title of training
• Name of presenter plus their credentials
• Number of hours of training
• Date of training
• Confirmation that you have passed a quiz with at least an 80% grade to verify your attendance

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