Crucible® Neurobiological Therapy Conference

Seeing & Dealing With What’s Right In Front Of You

Presented by: Natalie Westera & Lacy Stump

April 29, 2024-May 3, 2024

(Conference begins at 9am ET on the 29th and concludes at 3pm ET on the 3rd)

Island Vista Resort-Myrtle Beach, SC

$1200 USD ($1150 if you register by Jan 31st)

Do you want to learn more about how to treat couples using Crucible Neurobiological Therapy, including sharpening your ability to see and handle what is going on in the therapy room?

We aim to do just that in this highly interactive workshop that’s designed to engage the right brain through case material, video, group activity and live role play.  Increasing the depth of your ability to map your clients accurately is at the core of this training as it leads to increased traction and moments of meeting that create real change in therapy. There will be a significant focus on the personal development of the therapist, including increasing the therapist’s ability to be the solid person in the room as well as the potential to clear up therapist blind spots.

Key concepts to be covered include:

  •  Improving therapist resiliency to traumatic mind mapping

  • Working through spaghetti brain in real time

  •   Identifying and dismantling client rubrics

  •   Identifying and better handling clients who engage in mind masking, implanting ideas and mind twisting

  •   Identifying and treating reflexive batting away responses

  •   Understanding what client’s brains say about the homes they came out of

  •   Creating intense moments of meeting with clients

  •   Improving the therapist’s ability to engage in and maintain a collaborative alliance

    This conference is designed to enhance the development of therapists with prior experience in the Crucible Approach and Crucible Neurobiological therapy. Beginners to the approach are also welcome.

Meet your presenters

Natalie Westera is a Crucible therapist who trained with Dr David Schnarch from 2011 to 2020. She currently teaches Crucible Therapy to consultation groups in Europe and in Australia.  Natalie is a member of the steering committee for the International Crucible Therapy Education Center.

Natalie works in private practice in Norway and is a couple therapist with 20+ years of experience. She has also worked at the Family Department at Modum Bad in Norway, private practice in Australia, Ullevaal Hospital, Logan Hospital and Child and Youth Mental Health.  Personally, Natalie has been married for 24 years and has two teenage daughters.

Natalie Westera

Lacy Stump is a Marriage and Family Therapist and Crucible Therapist who trained with Dr. David Schnarch from 2016 to 2020.  She currently co-facilitates a Crucible consultation group in the U.S. and engages in individual supervision for those desiring to become better Crucible therapists.  She is a member of the steering committee for the International Crucible Therapy Education Center (ICTEC) and is committed to furthering the training and development of Crucible Therapy and Crucible Neurobiological Therapy.

Lacy works in private practice in Wichita, KS where she lives with her teenage son and Bichon Frise.  She spends most of her clinical time treating couples and engaging in intensive couples therapy.  Lacy has 16 years of clinical experience and spent her early therapy career working with severe and persistent mental illness in community mental health.

Lacy Stump