Memory Reconsolidationin Psychotherapy and Psychological Assessment

ACTA’s 22nd 3-Day Workshop – Fall 2025 in Tokyo

Co-hosted by TAI the Therapeutic Assessment Institute

 Website:http://therapeuticassessment.com/ 

Saturday, October 11 | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm JST

Sunday, October 12    | 9:30 am – 5:00 pm JST

Monday, October 13   | 9:30 am – 5:00 pm JST

Presented by:  Stephen E. Finn, Ph.D., with Carol Middelberg, Ph.D. (Austin, TX, USA)

Location: Urbannet Kanda Conference

　　　　　Urbannet Kanda Building, 3-6-2 Uchikanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo　

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Access:JR Kanda Station (1-minute walk)

The workshop will be in English with Japanese translation.

Recent neurobiological research has improved our understanding of psychotherapeutic techniques that produce long-term changes in our clients. In this seminar, Stephen Finn will illustrate how many of these new discoveries have been integrated into psychotherapeutic theories and techniques focused on memory reconsolidation, for example, within Coherence Theory (B. Ecker and L. Hulley), EMDR (Shapiro), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (Ogden), Somatic Experiencing (Levine) and Therapeutic Assessment (Finn). The process of memory reconsolidation allows clinicians to help clients modify and transform painful memories from the past and change their core narratives, sometimes in a short period of time. Starting from a review of recent research on memory reconsolidation and its neurobiological correlates, Dr. Finn will teach the general phases necessary to identifying the emotional learnings connected to our clients’ symptoms and helping clients change these core beliefs. A goal is for workshop participants to be able to adopt these phases flexibly within their own clinical work in psychotherapy and psychological assessment. Another goal of the workshop is experiential learning of the techniques of memory reconsolidation through video illustration, small groups, and role-plays.

Learning Objectives of the Workshop

At the end of the training, participants will have learned how to:

•  integrate memory reconsolidation into different psychotherapeutic models, including Therapeutic Assessment;

•  establish and maintain a safe context with the client before using the memory reconsolidation techniques, so that the client remains within the window of tolerance;

•  elicit clients’ emotional states in the here-and-now of the session while they are remembering a painful and/or traumatic event;

•  identify the underlying core belief (Pro-symptom Position);

•  help the client assimilate information that conflicts with that belief (Juxtaposition Phase);

•  metaprocess what happened in the session (Verification Phase).

Deadlines

• Early Registration:　Before September 27, 2025

• Regular Registration:　On or Before October 4, 2025

PRICING

For Professional Members of the Therapeutic Assessment Institute (TAI):

• Early Registration (Before September 27, 2025):

    (3 days) ¥55,000

• Regular Registration (On or Before October 4, 2025):

     Same as Early Registration

For Professional Non-Members of the TAI:

• Early Registration (Before September 27, 2025):　

     (3 days) ¥56,000

• Regular Registration (On or Before October 4, 2025):　

     (3 days) ¥61,000

Payment Method: We accept credit cards only (Visa・Mastercard・American Express・JCB・Diners Club・Discover)

The Asian-Pacific Center for Therapeutic Assessment and the Therapeutic Assessment Institute are not accredited by any external institution to offer continuing education credits. However, participants will receive an attendance certificate they may be able to use for continuing education credits in their own locality.

The Presenter

Stephen E. Finn, Ph.D.

Founder of the Center for Therapeutic Assessment, Austin, Texas, USA is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and Senior Researcher and Director of Training at the European Center for Therapeutic Assessment at Catholic University of Milan, Italy. He has published 90+ articles and chapters on psychological assessment, psychodiagnosis, and other topics in clinical psychology. 

He is the co-author of two recent books, Therapeutic Assessment with Adults and Therapeutic Assessment with Children, both published by Routledge in 2022. Dr. Finn is the recipient of the 2011 Bruno Klopfer Award from the Society of Personality Assessment, for his distinguished lifetime contributions to the field of personality assessment. Among his other awards is the Carl Rogers Award for distinguished contributions to humanistic psychology, presented by Division 32 of the American Psychological Association in 2018.

To Register Psychologists, psychotherapists, and graduate students in a recognized mental health training program are welcome to attend this workshop.

• After submitting this registration form, we will send you the payment method for the participation fee you have selected and a confidentiality pledge form. Please sign the confidentiality agreement and return the scanned or photographed version as an email attachment (please note the deadline for return).

• Registration will be completed upon confirmation of 1) payment of the registration fee and 2)signature on the confidentiality agreement.

• The registration fee includes the cost of materials.

• No refunds will be made for cancellations after payment has been made.

• If you don’t receive the confirmation email within 2 weeks, please contact us at asiancta@gmail.com

Register→https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScodK1yPxwSdXKVVHagcfJWr0b_hzhnpmlY0HWeANh9o-x9qQ/viewform

Flyer

ACTA_22nd_Tokyo_Workshop_English_Flyer_RCM_Rev (2).pdf

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