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Full Agenda

December 15-18, 2025 | ANAHEIM, CA

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December 15-18, 2025 | ANAHEIM, CA

8:30 AM – 5:45 PM

Registration & Bookstore
- Room
  - Plaza Level
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Ethical Principles and Processes in the Complex Real-World Practice of Psychotherapy: An Experiential Case-Based Conference (Part I)
- Speaker
  - Bruce Liese PhD, ABPP (Board Certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology, Addiction Psychology, and Family Psychology)
- Room
  - ACC North 257
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM

From Apps and Pixels to Progress and Outcomes: The Evolution of Digital Tools in Mental Health
- Speaker
  - Saundra Jain MA, PsyD, LPC
- Room
  - ACC North 255 A-C
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Break
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Ethical Principles and Processes in the Complex Real-World Practice of Psychotherapy: An Experiential Case-Based Conference (Part II)
- Speaker
  - Bruce Liese PhD, ABPP (Board Certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology, Addiction Psychology, and Family Psychology)
- Room
  - ACC North 257
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Anxiety in Adolescents and Young Adults: What's Working and What's NOT
- Speaker
  - Lynn Lyons LICSW
- Room
  - ACC North 260 A-C
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM

Break
5:15 PM – 5:45 PM

New & Returning Attendee Orientation
- Room
  - ACC North 255 A-C

7:00 AM – 7:30 PM

Registration & Bookstore
- Room
  - Plaza Level
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM

Welcome & Convocation
- Speaker
  - Jeffrey Zeig PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 158-163
8:15 AM – 9:15 AM

The End of Mental Illness
- Speaker
  - Daniel Amen MD
- Room
  - ACC North 158-163
9:00 AM – 1:45 PM

Exhibit Hall Open, Re-Opening for Reception at 6 PM
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM

Networking Break in Exhibit Hall
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM

Author's Hour- Book Signings
- Author
  - Bruce Liese PhD, ABPP (Board Certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology, Addiction Psychology, and Family Psychology)
  - Donald Meichenbaum PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
9:25 AM – 9:35 AM

Vision Session: Thriving in Private Practice: Human Connection in a Tech-Driven Era
- Speaker
  - Amy Eskelsen LICSW, LCSW-S
- Room
  - Exhibit Hall Theater
9:35 AM – 9:45 AM

Vision Session: Behind the Demo: What AI Can and Cannot Do for Your Clinical Practice
- Presenter
  - Surabhi Bhandari
- Room
  - Exhibit Hall Theater
9:45 AM – 9:55 AM

Vision Session: It isn't Insomnia!
- Speaker
  - Avi Bhar MD, MBA
- Room
  - Exhibit Hall Theater
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

What's Sex Got to Do With It? Addressing Underlying or Co-occurring Sexual and Gender Issues in Psychotherapy
- Speaker
  - Eli Coleman PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 252 A-C
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Intimacy as Insurrection: Love in an Unloving World
- Speaker
  - Terry Real LICSW
- Room
  - ACC North 257
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Encouraging Hindsight in Advance: Looking Ahead to Get Ahead
- Speaker
  - Michael Yapko PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 260 A-C
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

The Thin Line Between Genius and Madness: Exploring the Link Between Mood Disorders and Creativity
- Speaker
  - Kay Jamison PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 255 A-C
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM

Break
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM

Creative Mind: The Integration of the Two Human Mind/Brains
- Speaker
  - Stephen Gilligan PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 257
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM

What Lies Beneath: Complexities in Treating the Young Adult
- Speaker
  - Claudia Black PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 252 A-C
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM

Treating Bipolar Illness
- Speaker
  - Kay Jamison PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 255 A-C
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM

Conversation Hour with Dr. Donald Meichenbaum
- Speaker
  - Donald Meichenbaum PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 260 A-C
12:15 PM – 1:45 PM

Networking Break and Table Talks in Exhibit Hall
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
1:45 PM – 4:45 PM

Transforming Relationships: The Nuts and Bolts of Relational Life Therapy
- Speaker
  - Terry Real LICSW
  - Desirae Ysasi LPC-S
- Room
  - ACC North 257
1:45 PM – 4:45 PM

Treating Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder: Illustrating a Sex Positive and Integrated Model of Treatment
- Speaker
  - Eli Coleman PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 255 A-C
1:45 PM – 4:45 PM

Activating Creative Mind: A 7-Step Process
- Speaker
  - Stephen Gilligan PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 260 A-C
1:45 PM – 4:45 PM

What If Mental Health Was Really Brain Health? A Revolutionary New, More Effective Paradigm for Psychiatry and Psychology
- Speaker
  - Daniel Amen MD
- Room
  - ACC North 252 A-C
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM

Break
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

What “Expert” Therapists Do: Core Tasks of Psychotherapy
- Speaker
  - Donald Meichenbaum PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 158-163
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Opening Reception in the Exhibit Hall
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
6:00 PM – 6:45 PM

Author's Hour- Book Signings
- Author
  - Daniel Amen MD
  - Stan Tatkin PsyD, LMFT
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157

7:30 AM – 5:30 PM

Registration & Bookstore
- Room
  - Plaza Level
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Contemporary Psychoanalysis: What Does it Offer to Clinicians of All Persuasions?
- Speaker
  - Nancy McWilliams PhD, ABPP
- Room
  - ACC North 158-163
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM

Networking Break in the Exhibit Hall
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Exhibit Hall Open
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM

Author's Hour- Book Signings
- Author
  - Lynn Lyons LICSW
  - Robert Dilts
  - Steven Hayes PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
9:05 AM – 9:35 AM

Vision Session: What if we didn't diagnose first? Resilience-based feedback in clinical practice
- Presenter
  - Richard Levak PhD
- Room
  - Exhibit Hall Theater
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM

No Time To Waste: The Keys to Active, Instructive First Sessions with Parents
- Speaker
  - Lynn Lyons LICSW
- Room
  - ACC North 257
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM

What Lies Beneath, Part II
- Speaker
  - Claudia Black PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 252 A-C
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM

Trauma and Spirituality: Resilience and the Human Spirit
- Speaker
  - Peter Levine PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 255 A-C
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM

Conversation Hour with Dr. Nancy McWilliams
- Speaker
  - Nancy McWilliams PhD, ABPP
- Room
  - ACC North 260 A-C
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Sleight of Mouth: How Words Create Worlds
- Speaker
  - Robert Dilts
- Room
  - ACC North 257
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Confrontation Without Defensiveness: 6 Skills Leading to Growth, Authenticity and Transformation
- Speaker
  - Ellyn Bader PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 260 A-C
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Solution Focused Brief Therapy: An Approach as Lasting as a Diamond
- Speaker
  - Elliott Connie MA, LPC
- Room
  - ACC North 252 A-C
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Somatic Experiencing®: A Clinical Demonstration of Body-Based Trauma Healing
- Speaker
  - Peter Levine PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 255 A-C
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Networking Break and Table Talks in Exhibit Hall
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

The Transformational Power of Integrating Levels of Learning and Change
- Speaker
  - Robert Dilts
- Room
  - ACC North 252 A-C
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

The Relational Slot Machine: Dynamics and Impacts of Narcissistic Relationships
- Speaker
  - Ramani Durvasula PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 255 A-C
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

A Live Demonstration of Solution Focused Brief Therapy
- Speaker
  - Elliott Connie MA, LPC
- Room
  - ACC North 260 A-C
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

PACT: Repairing Partner Betrayal
- Speaker
  - Stan Tatkin PsyD, LMFT
- Room
  - ACC North 257
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM

Break
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

Introversion and Its Discontents: Working Clinically with Clients with Schizoid Psychologies
- Speaker
  - Nancy McWilliams PhD, ABPP
- Room
  - ACC North 255 A-C
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

Working with Clients Experiencing Betrayal in Narcissistic/Antagonistic Relationships
- Speaker
  - Ramani Durvasula PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 252 A-C
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

Couples Say "We Can't Communicate!" Here is Why...
- Speaker
  - Ellyn Bader PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 260 A-C
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

In-Session Couple Attachment/Trauma Assessment Using Physical Movement
- Speaker
  - Stan Tatkin PsyD, LMFT
- Room
  - ACC North 257
3:45 PM – 4:30 PM

Networking Break in the Exhibit Hall
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
3:45 PM – 4:30 PM

Author's Hour- Book Signings
- Author
  - Ramani Durvasula PhD
  - Peter Levine PhD
  - Jeffrey Zeig PhD
  - Elliott Connie MA, LPC
  - Michael Yapko PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
4:00 PM – 4:10 PM

Vision Session: From Breakthrough to Built-In: How Ketamine-Assisted Therapy and Holistic Mental Healthcare Transforms Your Practice and Accelerates Patient Outcomes
- Presenter
  - Jeanette Leal MD
- Room
  - Exhibit Hall Theater
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Helping Couples Connect
- Speaker
  - Harville Hendrix PhD
  - Helen LaKelly-Hunt
- Room
  - ACC North 158-163

7:30 AM – 5:30 PM

Registration & Bookstore
- Room
  - Plaza Level
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Personality and Wholeness in the Cultivation of Well-Being
- Speaker
  - Dan Siegel MD
- Room
  - ACC North 158-163
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM

Networking Break in the Exhibit Hall
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Exhibit Hall Open
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
9:20 AM – 9:30 AM

Vision Session: When will Therapists Be Replaced by AI?
- Speaker
  - Jeff Kashou LMFT
- Room
  - Exhibit Hall Theater
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM

Mind, Self, and Consciousness - IntraConnected: Integrating Identity and Broadening Belonging as MWe
- Speaker
  - Dan Siegel MD
- Room
  - ACC North 252 A-C
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM

Conversation Hour with Dr. Harville Hendrix & Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt
- Speaker
  - Harville Hendrix PhD
  - Helen LaKelly-Hunt
- Room
  - ACC North 260 A-C
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM

Evocative Approaches to Psychotherapy
- Speaker
  - Jeffrey Zeig PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 255 A-C
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM

Dirty From Day 1: Why Our Diagnostic System Has Failed Us and How to Fix It
- Speaker
  - Steven Hayes PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 257
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Personality in Therapy
- Speaker
  - Dan Siegel MD
- Room
  - ACC North 255 A-C
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Video of a Therapy Session with a Man with Central Schizoid Dynamics
- Speaker
  - Nancy McWilliams PhD, ABPP
- Room
  - ACC North 252 A-C
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Applying Process-Based Idionomic Analysis to Clinical Change
- Speaker
  - Steven Hayes PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 260 A-C
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Conversation Hour with Dr. David Burns
- Speaker
  - David Burns MD
- Room
  - ACC North 257
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Networking Break and Table Talks in Exhibit Hall
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Wise Effort: Integrating Therapist Wisdom and Processes of Change to Have BIG, Meaningful Impact on our Client's Lives
- Speaker
  - Diana Hill PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 252 A-C
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Therapist’s Emotions and their Role in Psychotherapy
- Speaker
  - Camillo Loriedo MD
- Room
  - ACC North 255 A-C
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Testing: A Boring Topic with Extraordinary Implications!
- Speaker
  - David Burns MD
- Room
  - ACC North 257
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Connected: Understanding the Allure and Impacts of Online Gaming
- Speaker
  - Dustin Weissman PsyD
- Room
  - ACC North 260 A-C
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM

Break
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

Network Modeling: A Bio-Psycho-Social Approach to Case Conceptualization
- Speaker
  - Diana Hill PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 255 A-C
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

Using Hypnosis with Families
- Speaker
  - Camillo Loriedo MD
- Room
  - ACC North 252 A-C
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

Back to Reality: Empowering People with Online Gaming Addiction to Re-Engage IRL
- Speaker
  - Dustin Weissman PsyD
- Room
  - ACC North 260 A-C
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

Beyond CBT- When Eating Disorders are Driven by Complex Trauma
- Presenter
  - Julie Anné Zeig PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 257
3:45 PM – 4:30 PM

Networking Break in the Exhibit Hall
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
3:45 PM – 4:30 PM

Author's Hour- Book Signings
- Author
  - Nancy McWilliams PhD, ABPP
  - Dan Siegel MD
  - Diana Hill PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 151-157
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Was Epictetus Right? Do Cognitions Actually Cause Emotions? Or Is It the Other Way Around?
- Speaker
  - David Burns MD
- Room
  - ACC North 158-163

7:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Registration & Bookstore
- Room
  - Plaza Level
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

The Discriminating Therapist: Helping Clients Make Better Decisions by Making Better Distinctions
- Presenter
  - Michael Yapko PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 252 A-C
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

An Introduction to Hypnosis: An Ericksonian Orientation
- Speaker
  - Jeffrey Zeig PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 257
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

How to Talk with Anyone About Anything
- Presenter
  - Harville Hendrix PhD
  - Helen LaKelly-Hunt
- Room
  - ACC North 255 A-C
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Process-Based ACT: Learning How to Increase Psychological Flexibility Using Eclectic Methods
- Speaker
  - Steven Hayes PhD
- Room
  - ACC North 260 A-C