PACE: Navigating The Chaos of Family Therapy

PACE: Navigating the Chaos of Family Therapy, Mervin Maier, LMFT PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy) is an internationally recognized therapeutic approach that facilitates intersubjectivity, allowing therapists, parents, and children to have a profound influence upon each other while upholding parental autonomy. Participants will familiarize themselves with this attachment-focused stance and learn how to integrate into their family therapy practice. Attendees will learn how to help parents to be more available, sensitive, and responsive as well as how to repair family conflicts through a compassionate based model in contrast to the social learning theory model. Mervin Maier is a licensed therapist in Pasadena with over 40 years of experience. His work in residential treatment in Italy shaped his belief in the importance of supporting families for effective therapy. Since 2006, he has focused on private practice, helping families, couples, and individuals with attachment, trauma, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, neurodiversity, and adoption issues. Mervin also trains others in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and PACE, teaching in the U.S., U.K., and Europe.