Misso Psychology & Consulting

26/12/2024

**Reminder:** We are hosting a live webinar on January 3rd, 2025, at 6:30 PM Brisbane time for participants enrolled in our Professional Development Tour to South Africa from 28 March to 12 April 2025. In this webinar, we will discuss the itinerary details, logistics, and seminar topics. Please contact Donna if you require further information.

26/12/2024

We are pleased to introduce an exceptional professional development opportunity. Adjunct Professor Robert Schweitzer has developed the INSIGHT Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program, a one-year program designed for practitioners who wish to deepen their understanding of contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy. This program will help practitioners explore a broad range of emotional components involved in interpersonal and clinical presentations. INSIGHT is suitable for mental health workers and GPs. Please contact Donna at admin@misso.com.au or training@iipt.com.au for more information and registration details. https://iipt.com.au/courses/insight-psychodynamic-psychotherapy-training-program

02/11/2024

This is a unique opportunity for psychologists and psychotherapists.
Join fellow mental health professionals for an enriching exploration of traditional African healing practices and their integration with depth psychology.
This specialised tour offers:
• Explore Indigenous healing methodologies
• Cross-cultural dialogue with local practitioners
• Integration of traditional wisdom with modern therapeutic approaches
• Practical applications for clinical practice
• Deepen your understanding of cultural contexts involved in healing
Our focused approach sets this experience apart: a small group of practitioners working together to bridge cultural perspectives and enhance therapeutic understanding.
This 15-day professional development tour combines structured learning with meaningful cultural immersion, designed specifically for psychologists and psychotherapists seeking to broaden their clinical framework.

Tour Dates: March 29 - April 12, 2025
There are only a limited number of spots available to ensure quality engagement.
For details about this unique professional development opportunity and to secure your place, please visit:

Healing Horizons A South African Odyssey for Psychologists and Psychotherapists Request Pricing Get in touch Tour Schedule 29th March – 12th April 2025 Contact training@iipt.com.au Pricing Contact for pricing Bridging Inner Wisdom and Cultural Practices A Transformative Professional & Personal Dev...

03/08/2024

Misso Psychology and the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapies invite mental health professionals to join us in a live six-week webinar series with Dr Giancarlo Dimaggio on Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy (MIT).

(MIT) is not just a theoretical concept but an empirically supported treatment for personality disorders and other severe conditions. It is based on a structured and manualised set of procedures that aim to guide the clinician's therapeutic engagement and treatment from the first session to the conclusion of treatment, making it a practical and effective method in your practice.

Please visit our Institute website, www.iipt.com.au or email training@iipt.com.au for more information and registration details.

07/04/2022

Promoting Recovery in People with Psychotic Spectrum Disorders. Training in Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT) With Prof Paul Lysaker
Webinar: 11 and 25 June 2022 - 8.00am - 12.00pm

Optional Supervision of MERIT informed practice
2 July, 16 July, 30 July and 6 August 8.00am 10.00am (limited to 8 participants)

Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT) is a form of integrative individual psychotherapy that seeks to assist adults diagnosed with psychosis to make sense and meaning of the challenges and possibilities in their lives and to find ways to manage these and direct their own recovery.

Building from advances in both cognitive and interpersonal research, MERIT seeks to expand the boundaries of cognitive-behavioral, personal centered and psychodynamic approaches to treatment by focusing on how persons make sense of their experiences of their own purposes and place in the world allowing the development of a sense of belonging to our larger communities. In contrast to other approaches, MERIT focuses on core processes that should be present in a given session, rather than a predetermined curriculum. This allows for a therapy to be truly tailored to meet the needs of unique individuals in real world clinics while also unlocking therapists’ unique potential for creativity as they seek to jointly make meaning with the person diagnosed with psychosis.

This webinar will present the scientific basis for MERIT as well as detailed descriptions of its practice allowing practitioners to begin to think about how to integrate this approach into their practice. Clinical examples will be offered.

Specific Objectives
By the end of the introductory workshop, you will be able to:
1. Articulate the theory underpinning MERIT
2. Elicit a client agenda informing the approach
3. Demonstrate capacity to attend to your own thoughts in
promoting therapist transparency
4. Elicit meaningful narrative episodes
5. Define and agreeing on problems to be addressed in the
therapy
6. Develop ways on including the therapist-client interaction as
part of the approach
7. Elicit the client’s reflections on their aims of the therapy
consistent with a recovery model
8. Promote metacognition by stimulating the patients to think
about their own and other’s thinking
9. Simulate the patient’s ability to use knowledge of themself
and others to respond to social or psychological problems

About the Presenter:
Paul H Lysaker is a clinical psychologist who received his doctorate from Kent State University in 1991. He has over 35 years of experience providing and supervising recovery-oriented forms of psychosocial interventions to adults diagnosed with psychosis. He is also an active researcher and teacher with over 20 years of federal funding for projects related to recovery and the practice of psychosocial rehabilitation. This work has resulted in over 500 peer reviewed publications to date and several books. His latest book is Recovery, Meaning-Making, and Severe Mental Illness: A Comprehensive Guide to Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy, co-authored with Reid Klion. Paul is the primary architect of an emerging recovery-oriented form of integrative psychotherapy: Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy.

Contact Donna on 07 3342 1838 for more information and registration
Email: admin@misso.com.au

On-line registrations
https://www.trybooking.com/BYTXG

17/09/2021

Improving your relationship: Addressing domestic violence through participation in research

If you are concerned that your relationship is at risk, then this program developed at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) may provide you with the skills and abilities to help improve it.

QUT is conducting research into treatment interventions for men who are overly controlling or who lose control and become aggressive. We are providing this program at no cost to people who would like to improve their relationship through participating in this new research.

The program may help participants to improve their thinking and behaviour with the aim of improving the quality of their relationships. Participation involves attending a 12-week group treatment program where participants are offered the opportunity to discuss their behaviours within a personally supportive context, and to engage in discussion aimed at enhancing thinking styles and self-control.

The men’s female partners are also invited to be a part of the program by participating in information sharing and do not attend the men’s 12-week program. Issues around safety will be prioritised. The program will be evaluated for research purposes.

If you would like more information on this free treatment program or would like to refer potential participants to the program, please contact Dave Misso on (07) 3342 1838 or dd.misso@hdr.qut.edu.au.

04/04/2021

Domestic violence is responsible for significant social, psychological and economic costs. Its impact is felt across all levels of society. While there have been major developments in treatment programs for men who use violence against their intimate partners, research shows that the results are still varied. Dave Misso, counselling psychologist and Co-Director, has developed a group treatment program as part of his PhD research at QUT with the aim of developing more effective treatment responses.

Domestic violence is rarely out of the news and increasingly the term ‘coercive control’ is in the spotlight. A QUT PhD researcher and psychologist is looking for volunteers for a program tackling what he says is the primary mechanism that helps erode a victim’s sense of self and agency.

23/08/2020

General mental health and wellbeing during Covid-19

Remember physical distance is essential to control the rate of infection. This does not mean social isolation.

Social contact and maintaining routines is important for mental health and wellbeing.

In circumstances where this is not possible, staying connected with colleagues, staff, friends and family online or by phone may assist.

Links and resources:

The Australian Psychological Society’s Coronavirus information for Australians resource, with strategies to help adults and children.

Explore the insights psychology and psychologists provide into challenges we face at work, at home and in society.

27/04/2020

A great initiative for teens

The Black Dog Institute’s BITE BACK project is very first online positive psychology program designed to improve the resilience and wellbeing of 12-18 year old Australian youth.

02/04/2020

Looking after your mental health during the coronavirus outbreak