Judy McLaughlin-Ryan MFT

I offer CEU's (Continuing Education Courses) on (PTSD) Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder and Addictions, on-line. Also, I provide therapy for individuals, therapy for couples, therapy for blended families, and group therapy.

I am in Private Practice, as a psychotherapist, in Westwood, California. Additionally, I teach Continuing Education Courses to Licensed Marriage, Family Therapists and Licensed Social Workers. In my Private Practice, I provide: Individual Psychotherapy, Group Psychotherapy, Couples Counseling, Family Counseling, and Marital Counseling. I also teach Continuing Education Courses. Groups for Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder for men and women are available as per schedule.

Therapy for Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder, Addictions, Eating Disorders, and Relationship Issues is provided. Therapy that is psychodynamic in origin is the focus, with affect (mood) and state (body) regulation (balance) as a focal point of healthy attachment.

Secure and healthy attachments and/or relationships are key. Community and groups are a key focus.

What's new ...

Most recently I have expanded my practice as a CEU provider, by offering retreats addressing Restoration, Recovery, and Regulation. As a CEU provider for Nurse Practitioners, LMFT's, and LCSW's, the focus of regulation as it applies to professional life, creativity, health, fulfillment, and improved interpersonal relationships with self and others, is my focus.

I have also added creative experiences, such as painting with creating as the goal and conducted a Retreat for The Western Doctors, addressing Restoration and Recovery, as creativity and micro-experiences were addressed.

Restoration and Recovery Through Micro-Steps and 'The Small'

Judy recently conducted a retreat for Western Doctor’s In Recovery. During the retreat, watercolor on Hungi paper was taught as a mechanism for creativity and relaxation. Please inquire if you’d like information on upcoming retreats that are restorative in nature.

This is an example of some of the objectives the retreat offers:

• Attendee will list 3 micro actions of ‘the small’ that contribute to an increased sense of restorative balance within a 24-hour period.
• Attendees will participate in writing and art activities, over on 24-hour period, listing three effects micro-actions have on the quality of their program.
• Attendees will describe and discuss how micro-actions effect their relationship with emotional sobriety, and/or health, as applied to their daily program of recovery.
• Attendees will be able to identify two changes that occurred in mood, thought, physiology, a sense of belongingness, as a result of group micro-resting.
• Attendees will be able to identify one shift in mood, post engaging in group interactive experiences (increased affiliative behaviors).

Self Experiences in Group, Revisited
Affective Attachments, Intersubjective Regulations, and Human Understanding

Edited by Irene Harwood, Walter Stone, and Malcolm Pines, Self Experiences in Group, Revisited is a completely revised and updated application of self-psychological and intersubjective perspectives to couples, family, and group work, incorporating many of these recent findings and theories of the past decade.

Part IV: Working with Trauma. McLaughlin-Ryan, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Addictive Disorders: The Effects of Group Interactions on Affect/State/Intimacy and Isolation.

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Video Excerpt:

Form a presentation in July of 2011 for ESTSS
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Group Therapy

Women's Group for PTSD, Complex PTSD, Addictions, and Process Addictions.
This group meets on Thursday nights, in Westwood Village.
The focus of the group is on bridging the developmental gaps between any or all traumatic disruptive experiences over the lifespan, into a life based on today's experience, vs. flooded with memory and/or the past. The group is both a supportive group and a process group. It is a longer term group. If you are interested in this dynamic group, please call 310-209-0740.

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Articles
Please view some of the articles that describe in detail my clinical views.
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Resources
Further reading, websites, and books.
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Online Courses

Continuing Education Courses on line are offered – current offerings include:

PTSD 1
Course Description: Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorders and Addiction Treatment:
Twelve-Step Groups/Clincial Groups, and Affect-State-Regulation

PTSD2
PTSD / Complex-Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder / (CPTSD (mp2)
PTSD-Affect and State Regulation.

Please note that the online courses are currently unavailable.
Check back soon for updates.