Demystifying Personalization in Psychotherapy

• Maria Karekla
• Stavroula Sanida
• Vasilis S. Vasiliou
• Alexandros Maragakis

Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists, Trainees, and other Mental Health Professionals from diverse backgrounds (e.g., Nurses, Occupational therapists, Social Workers) looking to elevate their clinical work with cutting-edge, evidence-informed tools.

This bootcamp is designed to inspire and equip you with actionable strategies for making psychotherapy more personalized and impactful. You’ll leave with the confidence to adapt your therapeutic approach to meet the needs of each client—whether you’re working with complex cases or everyday challenges.

This interactive workshop will be led by Clinical and Health Psychologists with a combined wealth of experience from the US, UK, Cyprus, and Greece. The presenters will introduce a new way of providing treatment to clinical practice. They will introduce clinicians how to tailor a personalized approach to psychotherapy, enabling them to make informed decisions based on data coming from the daily lives of their clients.

What You’ll Gain

• A systematic approach to ongoing client assessment using innovative PBT tools, including network graphic conventions
• Ideas on how to leverage apps to collect data between sessions and keep your clients’ engaged
• Skills to design and implement personalized treatment plans based on your clients’ real-world experiences.
• Hands-on practice through a plethora of role-plays and group activities, with real-time feedback to refine your skills.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe how PBT can increase the clinical utility of clinicians’ work
• Employ PBT network graphic conventions and other digital tools to gain important insights about clinical cases
• Identify adaptive and maladaptive responses related to individuals’ problems
• Utilize the network case conceptualization to understand what led to the presenting problem, which factors maintain them, and where they might effectively intervene
• Apply the tool of the EEMM matrix (Extensive Evolutionary Meta-Model) to a case’s problems
• Apply the tool of the EEMM matrix to identify personalized processes of change
• Identify therapeutic kernels (techniques) that can be used in personalized treatment plans and implementations
• Understand how the use of ongoing weekly data collection via digital apps can inform their clinical decision-making that can maximize therapeutic effects

The era of rigid steps, protocols, and manuals in psychotherapy is giving way to a personalized approaches. Process-Based Therapy (PBT) is at the forefront of this transformation, helping clinicians focus on core biopsychosocial processes tailored to each client’s unique goals and needs.

PBT’s approach comes to organize known processes, used in clinical practice, from different therapeutic traditions, such as cognitive-behavioural, mindfulness-acceptance, systemic, and psychodynamic- making it relevant to your current practice, no matter your therapeutic orientation. Instead of changing your school of thought, PBT enhances your ability to personalize treatment with precision and depth.

Join Greece’s Unique PBT Bootcamp!

This immersive, hands-on workshop will introduce you to the PBT framework in a clear, practical, and engaging way. Over two days, you’ll develop foundational skills to incorporate PBT into your practice, including:

• Client conceptualization: Learn how to gather insights from clients’ daily lives to inform treatment
• Core processes to target: Matching your clients’ problems in core biopsychosocial processes to guide your clinical work
• Overcoming barriers: Discover strategies to resolve treatment roadblocks and enhance treatment progress by using digital and other tools.
• Cultivate therapeutic fluidity: Use PBT to create flexible, process-driven interventions during sessions.

Certificate of Attendance
In order to be awarded the Certificate of Attendance from the Deree – Center of Professional and Continuing Education, participants need to attend all sessions.