Second Fridays – March
March 13th, 2026
International Visiting Scholar Gail Lewis
April 11th, 2026
Why Should a Psychotherapist Care About the Brain
Why Should a Psychotherapist Care About the Brain : How Neuroscience Supports and Expands Our Clinical Perspective
Dr. Maggie Zellner
Saturday Oct 11, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
In this lecture, Dr. Maggie Zellner will discuss how an understanding of the emotional systems of the brain can deepen our clinical work.
In this lecture, Dr. Margaret Zellner will discuss how an understanding of the emotional systems of the brain can deepen our clinical work. She will describe these emotional systems, as well as the ancillary circuits involved in affect regulation and fantasy. She will discuss the early formation of automatized predictions, and the importance of attachment and early environment in shaping these deep, embodied cognitions or expectations. Dr. Zellner will propose that we can reconstruct the primary prediction based on the emotional linking of past and present experiences, working both explicitly and implicitly in sessions. Clinical vignettes will be presented, and invited, to illustrate how the understanding of emotional systems, automatized prediction, and embodied cognition can be used in the working through process.
CE Credits offered: 3
Course Objectives
After completing this course participants will be able to:
- describe the primary emotion systems of the brain, and the circuits involved with affect regulation and fantasy
- discuss the formation of early automatized predictions and how they can be addressed, both implicitly and explicitly, in session
- formulate clinical hypotheses about how we use embodied cognition in the working-through process
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Event Start
Location
In-person and via zoom (Pacific time zone)
530 Bush Street Suite 703
San Francisco, CA
United States
530 Bush Street Suite 703
San Francisco, CA
United States
Event Fee(s)
| Admission | |
| Non-Member | $65.00 |
| PINC/NPSA Member | $55.00 |
| Students Candidates and CMH workers | $25.00 |
| CE Credits | $30.00 |