Johanna Beyers PhD, CAST-ISST Certified Sandplay Therapist, ATC, Member CAPT

Professional Training, Workshops and Meetings

2011 DW Winnicott revises psychoanalysis, E. Young-Bruehl, Jackson Humanities Institute

2011 Individuation starts with a heartbreak, G. Paris, CG Jung Foundation

2011 From Freud to Prozac, A. Scull, Priestly Memorial Lectures, University of Toronto

2011 Brief Dynamic Therapy, March-April with other members of the Toronto Therapy Network

2011 A primer for psychologists on health law, Robert Solomon & OPA

2011 Striving Styles Personality System, Qualifying workshop

2010 Collaborative Family Law Practice, Level 1 & Level 2

2009 Trauma and attachment in psychotherapy, with David Wallin

2009 5th National Conference on Sandplay Therapy, CAST

2007 Coaching for Collaborative Work Groups and Teams

2005 The Organizational Shadow: An Integrative Approach to Organizational Assessment

2003 Solutions Focus, Mark McKergow Associates

2003 Interpersonal Mediation and Advanced Interpersonal Mediation, St. Stephen's

Publications

I am working on a book, The Inward Journey. Some of the material for it was published as a chapter in the following collection.

2007 "A Personal Koan," in Sandplay and the Psyche: Inner Landscapes and Outer Realities, eds. B. Weinberg and N. Baum (Toronto: Thera Art).

Presentations and workshops

I give workshops to interested groups with a variety of goals, including improved organizational health, leadership development, and dreams. Here's a sample.

2011 "Image of the entangled Self: suspended structure in Sandplay", ISST Congress, Ittingen, Switzerland

2011 "In search of the emperor: ego emergence in a child with multiple diagnoses", CAST 6th National Conference, Toronto

2010 "Psychotherapy as healing path: five thoughts on valuing beauty and meaning as a way of life," CAWEE, Toronto

2010 "Sandplay: Building resilience through creativity – an experiential workshop," TESL, Hamilton

2005 "Contradictions and Competing Demands – Resolution Strategies," with Dave Crisp, ACCORD, Toronto

2004 "Sandplay: A place for the creative imagination in conflict resolution," Conflict Resolution Network Conference, Kitchener-Waterloo

Selected additions to the reading shelf

Franko et al. (2008). What's love got to do with it? Family cohesion and healthy eating behaviors in adolescent girls

Holst (1997). Aboriginal spirituality and environmntal respect

Satir et al. (2009). Countertransference Reactions to Adolescents with Eating Disorders: Relationships to Clinician and Patient Factors

Sim et al. (2009). Family functioning and maternal distress in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa�

Smyth et al. (2008). The influence of reported trauma and adverse events on eating disturbance in young adults�

Asthma, S.T. (2009). On monsters: an unnatural history of our worst fears. New York: Oxford.

Fitzgerald, J. (2010). What disturbs our blood: a son's quest to redeem the past. Toronto: Random House Canada.

Furth, G. M. (2002). The secret world of drawings: a Jungian approach to healing through art. Toronto: Inner City.

Hall, J. S. 2004. Roadblocks on the journey of psychotherapy. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.

The Journal of Sandplay Therapy (2004-).

Knox, Jean (2003). Archetype, attachment, analysis: Jungian psychology and the emergent mind. London: Routledge.

Moncrieff, J. (2009). The myth of the chemical cure: a critique of psychiatric drug treatment. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Ogden, P., Minton, K. & Pain, C. (2006). Trauma and the body: a sensorimotor approach to psychotherapy. New York: Norton.

Tustin, F. (1992). Autistic states in children. (Revised ed.). London: Tavistock/Routledge.

Winnicott, D. (2005). Playing and Reality. London: Routledge Classics.

Woodman, M. (1980). The owl was a baker's daughter. Toronto: Inner City.

I am a member of CAST and the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (CAPT).

My office is located at Avenue Road and St.Clair West. There is parking, and it on the westbound TTC streetcar line. Feel free to contact me if you would like more information for yourself or a child. You may reach me confidentially by phone or by email.