Welcome to Psych Ascend! We are passionate about bringing relevant, high quality professional development to Australian Mental Health practitioners, both in-person and online. Our first national tour with Dr Michael Garrett and Dr Nancy McWilliams sold out! Here, we bring you recordings from this tour, with more trainings to come.


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Pathological Narcissism and Psychopathy - including treatment considerations (3 month access)

Pathological narcissism has lately been getting a lot of attention – and considerable oversimplification. This 2hr 45 minutes lecture is intended to help therapists deepen their understanding of people whose narcissistic qualities are problematic. Using examples, Dr. McWilliams covers the range from normal to highly pathological versions of narcissism (e.g., Kernberg’s “malignant narcissist” and Shaw’s “traumatic narcissist”). The lecture also covers approaches to the treatment of narcissistic individuals, highlighting specific interpersonal processes such as helping the narcissistic person to express normal dependency, remorse, and gratitude. She also suggests some ways to help “victims” of pathological narcissism who are repeatedly devalued and criticized. Case vignettes help to illustrate these topics.

Psych Ascend

Psych Ascend

$275

Enactment, Rupture, and Repair in the Clinical Process (3 month access)

In this one hour lecture, eminent Clinical Psychologist Dr. Nancy McWilliams reviews evidence for the critical importance of the therapeutic alliance to therapy outcome. Enactments are now widely assumed to be inevitable in psychotherapy, and sometimes lead to ruptures of the alliance that need to be repaired. She outlines general principles of therapy process relevant to the rupture-repair cycle in psychotherapy, with examples from her clinical experience of enactments and efforts at repair of the therapeutic alliance.

Psych Ascend

Psych Ascend

$165

BUNDLE: Dr Michael Garrett - Psychotherapy Roadshow Lectures (3 month access)

In this series of 5 lectures recorded in Australia in 2025, Dr Michael Garrett brings his warmth, wisdom and humour to the understanding and treatment of psychosis using CBT and psychodynamic approaches. The series includes case presentations, videos and extensive theoretical foundations.

Courses: 5

$440