Video Recording: Using It Effectively to Revolutionize Your Clinical Work
As PACT therapists, we’re taught to record sessions to help our clients see their micro expressions and reactions to their partners in real time moment to moment.
But what about us – as therapists – and our own micro expressions and reactions in session?
In this class, you’ll learn to look critically at yourself and use video effectively for your own professional development.
Watch Yourself Improve and Grow
Video recording sessions is a vital part of PACT. In fact, when you register for PACT Level 3, you’ll be asked to confirm that you video record your sessions. Video recording is used in many other therapeutic models as well. In this training, Instructor and PACT Level 3 therapist, Margaret Martin, will help you discover your learning edge and how to use video effectively to improve your competency as a therapist. You can literally watch your own progress on video.
Why Not Record Sessions?
Therapists have so much to gain from recording sessions, yet many therapists balk at implementing the technique.
Sure, technology can be frustrating; it takes precious time to learn something new; and it’s not easy to change up your usual way of doing things. Not to mention, watching yourself work can be cringeworthy, let alone showing that video to a colleague or supervisor. It sure requires a lot of vulnerability.
Once implemented, however, the long-term benefits of recording sessions greatly outweigh any initial awkwardness.
Vast Benefits of Recording Sessions: Become a Better Therapist
This four-hour training is specifically designed to explore the clinical benefits of video recording sessions and to help you, as a therapist. For example, you try to keep your cool when partners repeatedly act out, but what is your face or body language really saying? Participants will learn how to use session recordings to:
- Build your affect tolerance
- Identify your growth edge
- Practice interventions
- Improve competency
- Work with countertransference
The training will also help you overcome barriers to incorporating video recording into your clinical practice. We will explore multiple aspects of this valuable therapeutic and learning tool, including:
- The benefits to both therapists and clients
- How to best utilize recordings
- How to confidently answer client questions about recording sessions
- Possible contraindications for recording client sessions
In this interactive course, participants will explore their own vulnerabilities related to recording sessions and practice discussing the technique with clients. While the training includes some didactic instruction, participants should come prepared to engage in role plays and practice using video recordings to incorporate deliberate practice into their PACT work.
You will benefit from this class if you:
- Are a student or clinician who has not yet started recording sessions
- Have limited experience or are new to the practice of recording sessions
- Want to increase your confidence with recording and benefit from using video
“Learning to use video recording effectively is the one transtheoretical practice that will revolutionize your work in any model. Seriously.”
~Margaret Martin, LCSW, SEP
"Margaret shares years of experience using deliberate practice and PACT couples therapy. She is a natural at couples skills and use of video feedback and helped me overcome the initial video recording jitters, and it has helped my quality of work tremendously."
Austin PACT Therapist
"Margaret is one of my most trusted colleagues. Her warmth and humor will put you immediately at ease, ready to take in what she has to offer: depth of expertise with individuals and couples and an uncanny capacity to convey what she knows in a straightforward, easily understood manner."
Liz Alfson, MD
"Margaret knows her stuff! She is a seasoned, extremely talented, and highly trained clinician, and also a skilled, caring teacher. She helps people find their growth edges in a way that is direct while also gentle and compassionate."
Charles Couchman, PhD
"Margaret's power, as a facilitator, is in her commitment to excellence in her own practice. Her perpetual searching for impactful modalities, her rigorous approach to client outcomes, and her earnest examination of her own practice all impact her facilitation."
Salt Lake City PACT Therapist
"Margaret is wonderful. She thoughtfully integrates theory with real life experience -- and a dash of humor... She's extremely knowledgeable in clinical concerns related to trauma and the impact in couples work. She offers a wide array of perspectives that support the spirit of PACT. "
Kathryn Barksdale, MA, LPC, PACT Level 1
"In her trainings, I've been supported to explore my own skills, ideas and questions, but I've also taken away so much from both Margaret's rich toolkit and the space she provides for other practitioners to share their expertise."
Salt Lake City PACT Therapist
What you’ll learn:
At the end of the training, participants will be able to:
- Understand important benefits and risks of videotaping sessions
- Identify four levels of consent regarding client permission to record sessions
- Identify at least three approaches to using video for self-supervision and deliberate practice
- Recognize three client populations with whom recording sessions is contraindicated
- Apply practice skills acquired in training to discuss video recording sessions with clients
Friday, Feb. 25, 2022
8am - 12pm Pacific time
10am – 2pm Central time
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$180
Registration closes on February 23. This course is limited to 24 participants.
Register NowNote: Participants will not be provided with any legal recommendations or advice. Participants should contact their own licensing boards, liability insurance company, and/or legal representation regarding consent, liability, HIPAA, and any legal and ethical issues related to recording client sessions.
Scholarships
We are pleased to offer equity and financial need-based scholarships for eligible applicants. These scholarships will cover 25 percent of the cost of the course.
The deadline to submit an application for a scholarship is February 4, 2022.
The PACT Institute will notify scholarship recipients no later than February 11, 2022.
About Margaret Martin, LCSW
Margaret Martin, LCSW, is a PACT Level 3 therapist in private practice in Austin, Texas, where she specializes in complex trauma and works with couples and individuals. A self-described video-evangelist, Margaret began using video recording for self-supervision and peer consultation in 2014. Since then, she has used video as an integral part of her work with couples in the PACT model, as well as with individual clients.
Margaret began training with Stan Tatkin, Psy D, MFT in 2012 and receives regular supervision of video recorded sessions from a master therapist as part of her ongoing training and deliberate practice. She is a founding member of a video-based, peer-led consultation and process group. She coaches and trains fellow therapists in the clinical use of video recording techniques, provides training to clinicians and organizations on trauma-informed care, and provides consultation and coaching in PACT couple therapy.
Margaret recently completed a three-year ISTDP core training. She is also trained in Somatic Experiencing, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, and Emotional Transformation Therapy.