Los Angeles, California

This is a special opportunity to learn new deliberate practice methods hands-on and in-person with three widely recognized leaders in the field:

  • Tony Rousmaniere, Psy.D. is President of Sentio Marriage and Family Therapy MA program and Executive Director of the Sentio Counseling Center. He is author/editor of many books on deliberate practice, supervision, and psychotherapy training. Dr. Rousmaniere is President of the Psychotherapy division of the American Psychological Association.

  • Special Guest Hanna Levenson, PhD, is an internationally recognized expert in brief dynamic, emotionally focused, and relational psychotherapy. Dr. Levenson is author of books on deliberate practice for psychodynamic psychotherapy, emotionally focused couples therapy, and accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy, as well as over 80 chapters, papers, and DVDs on psychotherapy.

  • Alexandre Vaz, Ph.D. is the Director of Training at the Sentio Marriage and Family Therapy MA program and the Sentio Counseling Center. He is author of many books on deliberate practice and is co-editor of two book series: The Essentials of Deliberate Practice (APA Books) and Advanced Therapeutics, Clinical and Interpersonal Skills (Elsevier).

This will be the most significant in-person deliberate practice event of 2024!

… and the only two-day, in-person event that Tony Rousmaniere and Alexandre Vaz will offer all year.

Location: Embassy Suites by Hilton Los Angeles International Airport South

1440 East Imperial Avenue El Segundo, California 90245 USA

The Deliberate Practice Summit is an Experiential Conference

  • Learn new cutting-edge deliberate practice methods.

  • Receive in-person guidance and feedback from world-class deliberate practice experts.

  • Network with the global community of deliberate practice practitioners and

    researchers.

  • Learn and practice applications of deliberate practice for both the "common factors" of therapy and popular psychotherapy models including:

    • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

    • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

    • Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples

Participants will receive a comprehensive set of PDF files to guide their use of deliberate practice, including:

  • Sentio Supervision Model

  • Sentio Teaching Model, including four complete graduate-level courses with embedded DP exercises and videos

  • Deliberate Practice Diary Form

  • Deliberate Practice Supervision Form

  • Deliberate Practice Reaction Form

  • Recent published research on Deliberate Practice

  • All slides from the conference

Day One Schedule

Faculty: Tony Rousmaniere & Alexandre Vaz

Note: all sessions include experiential practice!

Morning Session

  • The Principles of Deliberate Practice

  • New Research in Deliberate Practice

  • Using Video and Outcome Data in Deliberate Practice

  • Deliberate Practice for Common Factors

  • Deliberate Practice for Specific Therapy Models

Lunch: boxed lunch provided

Afternoon Session

  • Deliberate Practice for Therapists: New Methods and Models

  • Deliberate Practice for “Inner Skills” / Person of the Therapist

  • Deliberate Practice in Supervision: the Sentio Supervision Model

  • Deliberate Practice for Faculty: the Sentio Teaching Model

Day Two Schedule

Faculty: Tony Rousmaniere & Alexandre Vaz with Special Guest Hanna Levenson

Note: all sessions include experiential practice!

Morning Session

  • Deep Dive: Deliberate Practice for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

  • Deep Dive: Deliberate Practice for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

Lunch: boxed lunch provided

Afternoon Session

  • Deep Dive: Deliberate Practice for Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples

  • Innovations and Future Directions in Deliberate Practice

  • Common Challenges in Deliberate Practice & Solutions

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Special Early Bird Tickets for $397

The full price of this event is $697.

Now until April 30th tickets are $300 off.

Then, ticket price increases each month as follows:

$497 through 7/30

$597 through 9/30

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Location: Embassy Suites by Hilton Los Angeles International Airport South

1440 East Imperial Avenue El Segundo, California 90245 USA

To book a room the special convention rate, please call (800) 362-2779 and give them our Group Code 907.

FAQs

  • This two day conference will take place at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Los Angeles International Airport South. The address is 1440 East Imperial Avenue, El Segundo, California 90245.

    To book a room the special convention rate, please call (800) 362-2779 and give them your Group Code 907.

  • The education and experience at this event will build on itself, so attendees are asked to attend both days in full.

  • A ticket to the event incudes access to all sessions, participation in those sessions and a box lunch each day.

  • To book a room the special convention rate, please call (800) 362-2779 and give them your Group Code 907.

  • This conference provides 14 CE hours for LMFT, LCSW, LPCCs who are licensed in California, and 2 CPD units for Psychologists licensed in California. The conference does not provide CEs for professionals with other degrees or professionals licensed in other states.

Continuing Education

✅ This conference provides 14 CE hours for LMFT, LCSW, LPCCs in California.

✅ This conference provides at least 2 hours of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for Psychologists in California. (CPD hours are for “Conference/Convention Attendance”. See here for the CPD rules by the CA Board of Psychology.)

❌ The conference does not provide CE hours for professionals licensed outside California.

Sentio University is an entity recognized by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to provide continuing education pursuant to California Code of Regulations section 1887.4.3. This conference meets the Board of Behavioral Sciences qualifications for 14 hours of continuing education credit for LMFT, LCSW, and LPCCs in California.

Conference participants who wish to receive a certificate for continuing education credit must complete an evaluation that will be sent via email upon completion of the conference. Continuing education credit from this conference cannot be claimed by psychologists or psychiatrists as Sentio University is not an APA-approved provider of continuing education.

Regulatory agencies of states outside of California may not recognize continuing education credits from this conference. Sentio University is not responsible for providing information related to continuing education credit for attendees registered or licensed outside of California. The continuing education grievance policy can be viewed here.