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Psychotherapy for a Changing World: A Practice of Unlearning for Uncertain Times

Psychotherapy for a Changing World: A Practice of Unlearning for Uncertain Times

Apr. 4, 2026

10:00 AM - 1:15 PM (EST)

Virtual Event
3 CE Credits
In the midst of global uncertainty, psychotherapy must evolve—not by adding more tools, but by unlearning what no longer serves us. This experiential seminar invites clinicians to release performance, objectivity, and the pressure to fix, making room for relational presence, embodied awareness, and radical not-knowing. Grounded in developmental psychology, somatics, cultural awareness, and consciousness studies, we’ll explore what it means to practice with integrity in a world unraveling. This isn’t about doing more, it’s about becoming more fully human in our work and evolving alongside our clients.

In a time of unprecedented crises—climate grief, economic uncertainty, political division, and spiritual disconnection—psychotherapy must do more than deliver techniques. It must become a space for collective unlearning.

This highly experiential gathering invites clinicians to shed the inherited norms of clinical detachment, performance, and premature certainty. Instead of adding more tools to an already overcrowded toolbox, we will explore what it means to release what no longer serves us in psychotherapy: the need to fix, the illusion of objectivity, and the pressure to know.

Through an integrative, experiential framework grounded in developmental psychology, somatic healing, embodied cultural awareness, and expanded models of consciousness, participants will engage in practices that challenge dominant norms, foster relational integrity, and support their own evolution alongside their clients.

This is not a seminar to help you do more. It’s an invitation to integrate our humanity back into our therapy practice: present, curious, and alive in the face of a rapidly changing world. Together we will make space for uncertainty, complexity, and the kind of healing that emerges when we stop pretending to already know.

Session Highlights
  1. Unpack and unlearn the 12 certainties of modern psychotherapy.
  2. Explore the ethics of healing alongside our clients.
  3. Investigate how perfectionism, power-hoarding, and certainty creep into the therapy room (and how to shift away from these traps).
  4. How to know your clients better through not knowing.
  5. The clinical magic of holding mystery.

This live interactive webinar is designed for behavioral health professionals, including:

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychotherapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Substance Use Disorders Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Physicians
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Sarah Buino, LCSW, RDDP, CADC, CDWF, NMT

Sarah Buino, LCSW, RDDP, CADC, CDWF

Sarah is a speaker, educator, consultant, therapist, and the founder of Head/Heart Therapy and Head/Heart Business Therapy.  As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker; Registered Dual Diagnosis Professional; Certified Alcohol and other Drug Counselor; Certified Daring Way facilitator; and NARM Master Therapist; Sarah holds a master’s degree from Loyola University in Chicago and undergraduate degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.  For more than a decade, Sarah has applied her social work skills supporting individuals, groups, helping professionals, and organizations with issues as varied as wellness for helping professionals; shame resilience; anti-racism in healthcare; and healing developmental trauma. Sarah founded Head/Heart Therapy in 2014, which quickly grew into an important resource for clients and professionals alike, both in Chicago and nationally.

After this training, participants will be able to:

  • Recognize how dominant cultural norms (e.g., urgency, perfectionism, individualism) and systemic pressures (e.g., capitalism, climate trauma) shape mental health and therapeutic practice.
  • Integrate somatic and embodied awareness into therapeutic presence.
  • Engage existential, spiritual, and transpersonal experiences ethically.

10:00 – 10:15 | Opening & Orientation: Crossing the Threshold

1. Welcome + Why Psychotherapy Must Evolve Now
2. Personal Story + Invitation
3. Meta-Crisis Framing
4. Tone-Setting + Shared Agreements
5. Experiential Prompt + Connection

10:15 – 10:45 | Part 1: The Wounded Healer & Therapist Development

What We’re Unlearning
● That professionalism means hiding our pain
● That healing only flows outward (not inward, not mutual)

Key Concepts
● Therapists are themselves embedded in collective trauma
● Burnout and vicarious trauma are signals, not personal failings
● Ethical clinical work requires therapists to engage their own healing

Experiential Elements
● Story Prompt + Optional share
● Story-Sharing Circle
● Reflective Journaling
● Group Reflection

10:45 – 11:15 | Part 2: Unlearning Dominant Culture in the Body

What We’re Unlearning
● That professionalism = perfectionism, urgency, hierarchy, disembodiment, certainty

Key Concepts by Cluster
● Control & Certainty: Perfectionism, Belief in One Right Way, Objectivity, Either/Or
● Time & Efficiency: Urgency, Quantity over Quality, Progress is More
● Power & Control: Power Hoarding, Paternalism, Defensiveness
● Avoidance: Comfort, Conflict Avoidance, Individualism, Written Word Worship

Experiential Elements
● “Messy Middle” group dialogue
● Slow Practice reflection
● Power Mapping
● Conflict Dialogue

Break 11:55-12:10

12:10 – 12:40 | Part 3: Embodied Development & Language as Limitation

What We’re Unlearning
● That understanding = language
● That knowledge is purely cognitive
● That meaning is static and shareable

Key Concepts
● Meaning-making is embodied, relational, contextual
● Assumption of shared understanding is flawed
● Presence can precede comprehension

Experiential Elements
● Somatic Check-In
● Role Play: Guessing vs Clarifying
● Teaching Reflection

12:40-1:00 | Part 4: Consciousness, Mystery & the Transpersonal Field

What We’re Unlearning
● That only the measurable is real
● That the therapist must always understand

Key Concepts
● Clients bring spiritual, existential, and mystical material
● Holding mystery is a clinical skill
● Presence can invite deeper healing than explanation

Experiential Elements
● Guided Meditation
● Group Dialogue
● Meaning-Making Pause

1:00-1:10 | Part 5: Integrating Multiple Lenses in Practice

What We’re Unlearning
● That any one theory is enough
● That complexity is something to fear

Key Concepts
● Wilber’s Four Quadrants
● Integration beyond eclecticism
● Dialectically Integrated Psychotherapy (DIP)

Experiential Elements
● Client Moment Mapping
● Partner Reflection

1:10-1:15 | Closing & Next Steps
● Integration circle: What are you unlearning?
● Invitation to ongoing practice and curiosity
● Resource offerings

Intermediate to advanced.

Registration Cost

Registration $67 | Apr. 4 | Virtual Event | 3 CE Credits | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm ET

Registration Deadline:  Apr. 4, 2026

Cancellation Policy

All registrations are non-refundable. However, you may request a full credit toward a future training if:

  • You notify us at least 72 hours before the event start time.
  • Credit is valid for up to 6 months from the original event date.
  • No credit will be issued for no-shows or cancellations made on the same day.
  • When you register for an event, you agree to these terms

Please email info@clinicalevents.org to request a credit or reschedule.

A total of 3 CE credits are available.

Additional Approvals Pending.


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NJ State Board of Social Workers & Professional Counselors

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