CIP PRESENTS A SEMINAR FOR PROFESSIONALS: Mental Health, A Vanishing but Critical Concept with Nancy McWilliams, PhD. Saturday, January 29, 2011, 9 am - 4 pm at Four Points Sheraton, 1010 Northgate Drive, San Rafael. 6 CEUs approved for MFTs & LCSWs, and 6 CEUs approved by the MCEPAA for Psychologists. Cost: $120 or $140 after January 15, 2011. Please visit us at www.cipmarin.org or call 415-459-5999x101 with questions. 

CIP STUDY GROUPS & CLASSES: Love in the Therapy Relationship with Bryan Wittine, Ph.D., LMFT; Betsy Cohen, Ph.D., LCSW; Jane Jordan, Psy.D.; Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D. Saturdays: February 12, March 12, and April 9, 2011, 9 am - 1 pm at CIP, 1330 Lincoln, San Rafael, Suite 201. 4 CEUs per session approved for MFTs & LCSWs, and 4 CEUs approved per session by the MCEPAA for Psychologists. Cost: $70 per session up to 2 weeks prior to each session or $90 late registration. This course may be attended on a per session basis. Please visit us at www.cipmarin.orgor call 415-459-5999 x101 with questions.

CIP STUDY GROUPS & CLASSES: Treatment of the Traumatized Child with Julie Robbins, LCSW. Friday, March 18, 2011, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm at Town Center, Corte Madera, Community Room. 5 CEUs approved for MFTs & LCSWs, and 5 CEUs approved by the MCEPAA for Psychologists. Cost: $85 or $105 after March 4, 2011. Please visit us atwww.cipmarin.org or call (415) 459-5999 x101.

WORKING WITH DIFFICULT CLIENTS: Clinical consultation groups for child, adolescent and adult cases. This ongoing group utilizes readings of Bion, Winnicott, and contemporary clinical thinkers to help guide us to work closely and deeply with our patients' inner world. Convenient Rockridge location. Mondays 2 - 3:20 pm. Reyna Cowan, LCSW, reynacowan@gmail.com, (510) 601-0232.

PSYCHOANALYTIC OBJECT RELATIONS CONSULTATION GROUP: Meets Monday from 1:45 - 3 pm in Palo Alto. Are you curious about how to work analytically? Whether you meet with patients once a week or multiple times a week, face to face or on the couch, you can think analytically by understanding the concepts of transference/countertransference, the unconscious and the frame. Clinical material from the group is highlighted by relevant papers. Co-lead by: Diane Strongwater, MFT (408) 737-1337 or Carol Harrus, M.D. (650) 328-8935.

LARGE OFFICE LOCATED IN PRESIDIO: Ideal for patients from San Francisco or Marin County. Includes shared waiting room, kitchen, bathrooms. Easy parking. Excellent colleagues in building. Office is sublease from the SF Psychotherapy Research Group. Rent is $1772 per month. Telephone Rob for information and walk-through. (415) 561-6771.

SPACIOUS BERKELEY OFFICE SUBLET: Two and 1/2 days per week. Lovely window views;charming building on College near Alcatraz. Therapist parking. Call Alan Swope at (510) 428-1877.

NARRATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: A psychoanalytic consultation group. The characters, real or imagined, that populate a patient's life come alive in our consulting rooms. The stories they tell -- of past and present, fear, fantasy, and desire -- play out in transference, counter-transference, displacements, dreams, and enactments. This ongoing group will focus on listening at multiple levels to how patients tell us their story; understanding how, when, and why we say what we say to patients; and interpreting the impact of these interventions. We'll discuss cases that members bring to the group, occasionally adding relevant readings from various theoretical perspectives. This group is specifically designed to develop and expand ways of thinking and working psychoanalytically, and to support and encourage each participant's unique voice. Palo Alto, Tuesdays, 11:00-12:15, beginning April 5, 2011. Cia Foreman, Ph.D., Member and Faculty SFCP. (650) 322-3204.