Speaking

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Book Dr. Barsness for a lecture, symposium a Saturday Dialogue seminar or for an extended weekend seminar. Future bookings will be dependent on the outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tentative bookings can be made by contacting Dr. Barsness.

He will be speaking at the following upcoming events: 

October 2020-2021 [Online]
Relationally Focused Psychodynamic Therapy Post Graduate Certificate Program
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November 2020
Intersubjectivity: The work of Jessica Benjamin
Friday, November 13, 2020 1:30pm – 4:30pm PT via Zoom
Sponsored by: NW Alliance
REGISTER HERE

February 2021
Reprise of the November Seminar
Intersubjectivity :  The work of Jessica
Friday, February 5th, 1:30pm-4:30pm PST via zoom
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Sponsored by: NW Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study

October 2021
Christian Association for Psychological Studies Annual Conference
DETAILS COMING SOON

June 2022
International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Annual Conference
June 17-20, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA
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“So much of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy—of any relationship really—is an intimate working-with of internal material in the outside world alongside an interested other. One could say the same, or something similar, regarding the teacher/student dynamic. I knew I was interested in Roy as soon as he uttered some of his provocative introductory remarks in a graduate class with him at the helm. I knew he was interested in me that first time I scheduled an office hour and found myself pouring my soul out to his truly empathetic and attentive ear. Across my career Roy has given me more of the same—his time, his heart and mind and soul, his experience, and his passion to help me with all of that internal material that any starting therapist has to navigate and sort out. Better still, he’s given me his interest—which of course is but another name for love.” 
– Michael Louderback

“I have to say Roy’s class was better than I expected. And I don’t say that lightly, either. I was luckily familiar with the material Roy was covering, which let me focus on the students and Roy’s teaching with more ease. I think Roy’s big point of the class dovetailed nicely with some of what we were talking about – the relationship between theory and practice, and the importance of how you are being, rather than what you are saying, in the therapeutic relationship. Roy is an amazing teacher and hearing him talk about the clients he’s had in the past was moving.”
– Visiting Student

Contact Dr. Barsness

Phone: 206-329-3370

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