Speakers
All the leading international names will participate, bringing new and original contributions, sharing experiences and applications, and teaching the principles and foundations underlying their Single Session Therapy methods.
Single Session Therapies:
What, Why and How single session mindset and practices are
EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT AND EXCELLENT
Since that time, she has been engaged in clinical, training and consultation work developing and helping others develop their own single session approaches.
12 Nov – h 9.45am
Title: Making the most of every encounter (with some help from Beethoven!)
Summary: What does a good single therapy session look like? Is it different from any other therapy session? If so, how? Is there a difference between SST, One-at-a-time, and One-off session therapies? How do we make the most of whatever time is available? And how do we know whether what we offer is useful to our clients?
Dr. Talmon is the founder and Director of the International Center for SST. He provides training and supervision worldwide. He is the author of the bestselling Single-Session Therapy: Maximizing the Effect of the First (and Often Only) Therapeutic Encounter (which has been translated into many languages); as well as the follow-up book (intended for clients who avoid therapy), Single Session Solutions: A Guide to Practical, Effective, and Affordable Therapy; and (in Hebrew) Worthwhile for Every Soul: The Brief Way to an Effective Psychotherapy. Talmon is a co-editor of several other books and articles on the subject.
10 Nov – h. 9.45am
Title: SST as a Pivot Chord in Psychotherapy
Summary: Every therapist wants to help the patient to ‘help himself’. In real life, at the end of each hour of therapy our clients return to self-care mode until the next session.
This is what led the speaker, together with Hoyt and Rosenbaum, to strive to maximise the effectiveness of each session and to give birth to SST.
11 Nov – h 3.50pm
Title: Scaling Single-Session Interventions to Bridge Gaps in Mental Healthcare Ecosystems
Summary: The author will explain how in her research laboratory she has developed several free Single Session Interventions for adolescents and their positive effects.
Jeff Young (PhD) is Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a clinical psychologist and family therapist who has worked, published and presented in the area of Mental Health for over 38 years. He was Director of The Bouverie Centre, the world’s largest specialist family therapy centre between 2009 & 2022.
Jeff interests include single session thinking, chronic conditions, blame, family grief and mental illness, Indigenous health and well-being, contextually compassionate health services and how to implement them. He has co-edited two seminal texts and two special editions of the ANZJFT on Single Session Therapy. With his colleague Pam Rycroft, Jeff created the first self-paced online learning suite for Single Session Thinking
More recently Jeff has generated a lot of interest in No Bullshit Therapy – an approach to counselling he developed to engage people who don’t like counselling or counsellors.
Jeff has been the President of the Victorian Association of Family Therapists, the President of the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) and member of the editorial committee for the Dulwich Centre Newsletter. He is a past winner of the Morawetz Research prize and in 2017, was awarded the ANZJFT Special Award for Distinguished Contributions to Family Therapy and the THEMHS exceptional contributions to mental health in 2022.
10 Nov – h 3.50pm
Title: When it works and when it doesn’t
Summary: The speaker will explain the difference between Single-Session Therapy and Single-Session Thinking, sharing an innovative clinical model that combines Single-Session Thinking, telehealth, and walk-in services to provide accessible help that reduces waiting lists.
Published six books in Swedish and several articles in international journals. Author of Single Session One at a Time Counselling with Couples. Challenge and Possibility. (2023). London: Routledge.
12 Nov – h 10.25am
TItle: Invitations, Embedded Hopes & Creative Collaboration. Important focus in One at a Time (OAAT) sessions
Summary: the author will present the use of OAAT (One At A Time) therapy with couples at his center in Malmö, Sweden. The presentation will describe and elaborate the ways the counsellors invite and respond/lead and follow the couples, how the descriptions of the problems also include embedded hopes and how this can be focused in creative collaboration.
He is an author/editor of numerous publications, including Brief Therapy and Beyond, The Handbook of Constructive Therapies, Creative Therapy in Challenging Situations, Single Session Thinking and Practice in Global, Cultural, and Familial Contexts, and Brief Therapy Conversations: Exploring Efficient Intervention in Psychotherapy.
10 Nov – h 11.05am
Title: The SST/OAAT mindset and using single session thinking to teach an SST workshop
Summary: The speaker, one of the creators of the Single-Session Therapy approach, will highlight the importance of the therapist’s mindset and describe how a Single-Session Thinking and Practice mindset helps him to organize and teach workshops on Single-Session Therapy.
He has authored or edited over 260 books.
His current interests are in single-session and very brief interventions within a therapy and coaching context. His latest book on SST is:
Dryden, W. (2023). ‘Single-Session Therapy and Regret’ Sheffield: Onlinevents.
He has run training courses in SST in Britain and abroad and has contributed to the provision of single-session therapy within university and college counselling throughout the UK. His single-session clinical work is done with Square Health an organization that offers a range of digital health services.
11 Nov – h 9.45am
Title: Bringing a Single-Session Mindset to Counselling in a Digital Health Service
Summary: the author will show how he applies a single-session mindset to the 30-minute video consultations he offers to people for an organization that delivers a range of digital health services for people insured with specific insurance companies.
He was a Fulbright Specialist teaching walk-in/single-session services in Canada. He is co-editor of When One Hour Is All You Have: Effective Counseling for Walk-in Clients (2011) and One At A Time: Single-Session Therapy By Walk-In Or Appointment (2018).
11 Nov – h 3.05pm
Title: Open Access Single-Sessions
Summary: The author will focus on Single-Session Therapy services with open access, i.e., without an appointment, describing their advantages and discussing the main concerns that are raised when discussing this type of service. Several examples will be presented.
She has worked predominately with children, young people, their families/carers and significant others for over 20 years. She is incredibly passionate about offering services/treatment at the right time and preventing crisis intervention.
10 Nov – h 3.05pm
Title: The benefits of SST in early intervention and prevention in Child and Adolescent Mental Health services.
Summary: The speaker will focus on the use of Single Session Therapy in child and adolescent mental health services, addressing those who are looking for innovative ideas to intervene early and prevent long-term interventions.
He was a Fulbright scholar at the National Institute of Mental Health Neurosciences in India and is also a recognized teacher in Ordinary Mind Zen and Wild Goose Qigong. Since retiring from direct clinical service he continues to consult on single-session therapy with special interest in its application in primary care medicine and university counseling centers.
10 Nov – h 10.25am
Title: Beyond Is and Is Not
Summary: the author willl examine how applying the tetralemma (a logic of Buddhist philosophy) and the 4E approach to the neuroscience of cognition and emotion to clinical work liberates new dimensions for transformative experiences.
She is a member of the COST Action European Network on Individualized Psychotherapy Treatment of Young People with Mental Disorders founded by the European Commission, the International Academy of Body Image, Eating Problems and Health, the Italian Society for the Study of Eating Disorders (SISDCA), the Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN), and the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) – Italian group.
11 Nov – h. 9.00am
Title: Single Session (Re)-Thinking Research & Future Directions
Summary: Starting with a summary explanation of some key research concepts, the speaker’s contribution aims to provide an overview of the state of the art in SST (Single Session Thinking) research and discuss future directions in the field.
His career has been dedicated to brief, strengths-based approaches to psychotherapy. He has published dozens of papers and book chapters in brief therapy, family therapy, supervision, and single-session therapy. In 2011, he and Arnie Slive co-edited When One Hour is All You Have: Effective Therapy for Walk-In Clients. In 2018, he and Arnie also published (with Hoyt, Young, and Talmon) Single-Session Therapy by Walk-In or Appointment. In 2019, he and Hoyt published Creative Therapy in Challenging Situations, a collection of chapters illustrating the creativity of several innovative therapists.
From 2011 to 2014 he was awarded a series of grants to provide walk-in/single-session therapy in a large multiservice shelter for the homeless in San Antonio. In 2011, he was awarded a Garcia-Robles Fulbright Specialist Grant to help develop a walk-in service in a university clinic in Mexico City; he has since consulted on the opening of several other walk-in/single-session clinics in Mexico. He has taught graduate courses in single-session/walk-in therapy at universities in the U.S. and México. He has provided workshops in single-session therapy in Canada, Mexico, and Australia. He has developed training workshops in single-session/walk-in services for university counseling centers in the US, México, and Canada.
At OLLU he was involved in developing programs designed to train culturally and linguistically competent psychologists to work with Spanish-speaking populations. He has co-led several immersion programs to Mexico for graduate students over the last 25 years. He was the recipient of the Texas Psychological Association’s 2012 Outstanding Contribution to Education Award, and OLLU’s 2013 Fleming Award for Teaching Excellence. More recently, he has been consulting with university counseling centers about implementing WI/SST services in a SteppedCare2.0 context for their student populations.
11 Nov – h 11.05am
Title: The Canadian-Texan Model of Single-Session Therapy
Summary: the author will discuss the unique benefits and challenges of offering SST when an appointment is not required. He will discuss issues related to structuring the encounter, setting workable goals, and reducing risk. He will describe several experiences in applying this model both locally in Texas and nationally in Canada.
12 Nov – h 11.05am
Title: When “How” wins over “Why”: the first 3 fundamental interventions of Single Session Therapy according to the Method of the Italian Center for Single Session Therapy
Summary: The speaker will introduce the Italian Single-Session Therapy method, focusing particularly on the first three interventions: defining the problem in operational terms, clarifying the goal and setting priorities, asking for constant feedback
His publications include “Terapia a Seduta SIngola. Principi e pratiche.” (2018, Giunti, translated into English and Japanese) and “Terapia breve centrata sulla soluzione. Principi e pratiche” (EPC).
10 Nov – h. 9.00am
Title: The here and now of Single-Session Therapy: questions that need answers
Summary: The presentation will answer questions that both private and public health systems can no longer avoid asking, such as: what are new ways of doing psychotherapy with which SST can be married? Does the medical model still make sense? Should the psychotherapy patient be ‘cured’? What about diagnoses? Is a person diagnosed as ‘borderline’ not suitable for SST? What will be the role of the private practitioner now that, inevitably, SST is becoming more and more dominant?
His applicative theoretical formulations are considered an authentic “School of Thought” that inspires scholars and practitioners worldwide. He has been giving specialized lectures and seminars for decades and has so far presented his work in more than 36 different countries.
12 Nov – h 9.00am
Title: Strategic Dialogue and Hypnotherapy Without Trance
Summary: Strategic Dialogue and Hypnotherapy without trance are advanced techniques for conducting a first session as not diagnostically evolution but a real change focused intervention.
Helen’s interest in making psychological interventions available to everyone led her to launch One Session in 2020 with experienced psychologists. The company provides Single Session Therapy to employees through their employers. As co-director for Yet, a startup that offers Single Session Therapy provided by a broader range of professionals, including budget coaches, career coaches, life counselors, and work-life coaches, Helen is committed to ensuring that employees have access to the best help available.
In addition to her work with One Session and Yet, Helen provides SST training courses at RINO and will publish her first book this year, the first Dutch book about Single Session Therapy.
11 Nov – h 10.25
Title: Single Session Therapy in the Corporate World
Summary: The speaker will examine the potential and immediacy of Single Session Therapy (SST) in addressing mental health issues within the corporate landscape. The exploration will further delve into how to make SST more accessible to corporate employees.