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ACE Talks 2025

Therapy for Therapists: Why Therapists Can Only Take Clients as Far As They've Gone

Brad Reedy, PhD, LMFT
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Description

In this workshop, Dr. Reedy will explore how attachment theory underscores the critical role of a therapist’s own personal work in shaping the quality and effectiveness of their clinical practice. Just as a parent’s self-work is a strong predictor of their capacity to foster healthy attachment and resilience in a child, a therapist’s self-work is fundamental to providing treatment that is attuned to a client’s needs. As Dr. Eliana Gil writes, “The process requires a therapist who has been able to work through his or her own attachment issues and is capable of creating a secure pattern. Such a therapist is likely different from one's parents. Most importantly, the therapist can listen and resonate where the family could not.”

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop for participants to learn how a therapist’s own self-work is essential for providing effective, attuned treatment.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Explain transference and countertransference and how they impact therapy and the therapist/client relationship.

  • Summarize how attachment theory explains that the best predictor of a parent's support for a child is based on their awareness of their history.

  • Describe the risk of emphasizing techniques over the therapist/client relationship.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Brad Reedy, PhD, LMFT
Dr. Brad Reedy is the Co-Founder, Owner and Chief Clinical Officer for Finding You Therapy Programs near Park City, Utah. Finding You is an experientially based therapy program grounded in attachment theory for families, couples, and individuals. Prior to founding Finding You Therapy Programs, Dr. Brad Reedy served for more than 25 years as a Co-owner and Clinical Director of Evoke Therapy Programs. While at Evoke, he created Finding You Intensives, an attachment-based, experiential therapeutic intensive program that helps participants to connect their past to their current questions and issues. Finding You Programs’ Intensives offer a springboard into therapy for those new to the journey, and for those already on their therapy journey, these programs offer an offer participants an accelerator and compliant to their work. Brad also served as a primary therapist, Clinical Director and Executive Director for Second Nature Wilderness Programs helping that program to become the most successful wilderness therapy program in the country. He has served on the Board of the Utah Department of Child and Family Services, the Board of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs, the Choose Mental Health board, and the En Garde Arts Board, a New York based theatre company. He is a prolific public speaker and has been invited to deliver keynote addresses at conferences, private events, nationally syndicated radio shows, and universities on experiential therapy, mental health issues treatment, childhood issues, and parenting. After years as a parent educator, having broadcast over 1,600 webinars on parent and family issues, he authored The Journey of the Heroic Parent: Your Child's Struggle and the Road Home and The Audacity to be You: Learning to Love Your Horrible, Rotten Self. He also hosts the podcast, Finding You: with Dr. Brad Reedy.

Financially Sponsored By

  • BrentCare Behavioral Health