There are moments in clinical work when a single sentence from the therapist changes everything.

A well-timed disclosure can:

·      Regulate a nervous system

·      Deepen alliance

·      Reduce shame

·      Model integration

·      Accelerate healing.

But a poorly timed disclosure?

·      Gratifies the clinician

·      Shifts focus

·      Blurs boundaries

·      Activates reenactments

The difference is not technique. The difference is integration.

This advanced 2-hour seminar moves beyond the simplistic question, “Should I self-disclose?”

Instead, we explore the far more powerful inquiry: From which layer of myself is this disclosure emerging?

Using the SWEET Institute’s Four Layers of Transformation — Conscious • Pre-Conscious • Unconscious • Existential — we will examine how self-disclosure becomes either leakage or leadership.

Grounded in:

·      Attachment science

·      Countertransference research

·      Polyvagal Theory

·      Neuroscience of co-regulation

·      Therapeutic alliance data

This seminar offers a refined, developmentally sophisticated framework for using self-disclosure as a relational intervention, instead of as a personality expression.

Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Time: 12-2pm (EDT)

CEUs: 2

Online via Zoom

This course is eligible for 2 CEUs for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Mental Health Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psychologists in New York State

For more information about CEU approval, please click here.

What You Will Learn

By the end of this seminar, clinicians will be able to:

·      Differentiate therapeutic self-disclosure from countertransference-driven disclosure

·      Apply the SWEET Four-Layer Model to clinical decision-making in real time

·      Recognize unconscious motives that drive the impulse to disclose

·      Understand the neuroscience of vulnerability, co-regulation, and trust

·      Use self-disclosure strategically to deepen alliance without collapsing boundaries

·      Develop a precision-based decision algorithm for clinical practice

·      Transform disclosure from information-sharing into embodied modeling

 This Seminar Is For Experienced Clinicians Who Want To:

·      Refine their relational precision

·      Strengthen therapeutic presence

·      Move from technique to mastery

·      Integrate psychodynamic depth with neuroscience

·      Practice at the highest level of congruence and clarity

SWEET Insight

The most powerful disclosure is not personal. It is integrated. It heals. When it bypasses those layers — It leaks.

This is not a seminar about talking more. It is a seminar about knowing yourself deeply enough to speak with precision. And when clinicians operate from integration, their presence becomes the intervention.

Join us now. 

Here's what attendees have been saying about SWEET seminars:

"Karen always does an excellent presentation, provides a lot of material in a concise way using examples, and utilizes her time very well." - Janice, LCSW-R

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"Really enjoyed it, wish it was longer!" - Bianca, LMHC