Friday, January 30th, 2026
11:00 AM - 4:45 PM Eastern CA/USA 8:00 AM - 1:45 PM Pacific CA/USA 4:00 PM - 9:45 PM London, UK 5:00 PM - 10:45 PM Madrid, Spain 5:00 PM - 10:45 PM Berlin, Germany 5:00 PM - 10:45 PM Copenhagen, Denmark 6:00 PM onwards - Helsinki, Finland
Live Online via Zoom
Video via Home Study
(1 YEAR access)
Introductory/intermediate
$155 CAD + tax
$125 USD
Psychologists, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, MFTs, LPCs, graduate-level Counselors, any other mental health professionals/providers.
Program Description
When adults raised by borderline or narcissistic parents enter therapy, their presentations can vary widely. Some appear high-functioning and insightful, while others struggle with emotional instability, identity confusion, or emerging personality traits. Despite these differences, many share a common developmental legacy: disrupted attachment, chronic guilt around autonomy, and difficulty feeling safe within themselves or in relationships.
This workshop will teach you how parental personality pathology shapes attachment, identity, and emotional regulation, and how these patterns impact clients well into adulthood. Dr. Fox will demonstrate how to build a clear, structured clinical formulation for adults raised by borderline or narcissistic caregivers, allowing therapists to understand not only the client’s symptoms but also the adaptive functions beneath them.
A phase-based treatment framework will be presented to guide targeted interventions. Clinicians will learn practical strategies for strengthening emotion regulation, increasing self-definition, reducing survival-driven behaviors, and supporting clients as they develop healthier relational patterns.
This workshop will also address how to manage countertransference, maintaining therapeutic boundaries, and navigating systemic and family dynamics. Dr. Fox will discuss when and how to involve family members, when to recommend limited contact or separation, and how to coach clients through ongoing interactions with personality-disordered parents in a way that is both supportive and clinically sound.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Identify at least two (2) of the common emotional, relational, and developmental patterns seen in adults raised by borderline or narcissistic parents.
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Describe how early exposure to emotional volatility, control, and conditional affection affects attachment, self-concept, and emotion regulation in adulthood.
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Compare adaptive survival strategies from emerging personality features to improve clinical formulation and treatment planning.
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Apply at least two (2) therapeutic approaches that balance empathy, boundaries, and containment when working with emotionally reactive or guilt-driven clients.
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Apply therapeutic approaches to facilitate client movement from survival-based patterns toward greater stability, autonomy, and authentic connection in relationships.
The Envision Difference
100 % online: Develop your skills from the comfort of your home or office via Zoom.
Live Q&A: Ask Questions during the Live Q&A with the presenter and participants
1 YEAR access: Can't Attend Live? Watch Later. 1 year of access to the program recording and materials and receive a certificate with CEs for home study learning. *Exception applies, see CE section below
Program Schedule - Eastern Time (ET)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET
Understanding the Developmental Impact
Goal: Define how parental personality pathology shapes attachment, identity,
and emotional regulation.
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The family system: emotional unpredictability, control, and conditional acceptance
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Mechanisms of transmission: genetic vulnerability, emotional modeling, and attachment disruption
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Typical adaptation patterns: caretaker, peacekeeper, scapegoat, invisible child
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Internalized schemas: “Love equals compliance” and “My worth depends on others’ stability”
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Developmental outcomes: chronic guilt, emotional hypervigilance, shame-based self-concept
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Protective and resilience factors: presence of a stable caregiver, outside mentorship, and social learning
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Integrating the Five PD Assessment Characteristics:
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Cognitive distortion and belief systems
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Affective regulation and fear of rejection
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Interpersonal boundary diffusion
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Impulse and control dynamics
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Fragmented or externally defined self
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Conceptualizing the Adult Presentation
Goal: Apply a structured formulation for adult clients raised by borderline or narcissistic parents.
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Understanding the “loyalty bind”: love and fear coexisting toward the same parent
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The oscillation between independence and guilt-driven enmeshment
12:30 pm - 12:45 pm ET
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Break
12:45 pm - 2:15 pm ET
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Live Q & A
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Using the Five Components Framework for case formulation:
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Surface behaviors – compliance, avoidance, perfectionism, emotional caretaking
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Internal experience – shame, anxiety, fear of rejection, guilt for individuation
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Defensive system – appeasement, overcontrol, self-blame, emotional numbing
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Core content – fear of abandonment, insignificance, or loss of connection
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Functional impairment – relational chaos, self-neglect, and empathy overextension
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How the child’s adaptive roles mirror the parent’s defensive system
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Recognizing reenactment cycles in therapy: client seeks reassurance, then withdraws when seen
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Establishing therapeutic containment: consistency, transparency, and manageable emotional pacing
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Case vignette: Adult client torn between caring for a narcissistic mother and building personal autonomy
Treatment Structure and Core Interventions
Goal: Provide phase-based structure for stabilization, differentiation, and integration.
Phase 1: Containment and Stabilization
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Create emotional safety through clear, reliable structure
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Psychoeducation on personality dynamics without pathologizing family members
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Validate grief for unmet needs and normalize ambivalence toward the parent
2:15 pm to 2:45 pm ET
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Break
2:45 pm to 3:45 pm ET
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Live Q & A
Phase 2: Differentiation and Boundary Formation
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Reframe guilt as a conditioned attachment response
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Teach clients to identify inherited emotional roles and reclaim agency
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Build functional boundaries that separate empathy from responsibility
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Core techniques: guided imagery, assertive communication scripts, and self-compassion reframing
Phase 3: Integration and Self-Redefinition
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Strengthen emotional regulation and distress tolerance
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Introduce schema and parts work to unify conflicting self-states
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Reconstruct narrative identity: “Who am I without the family role?”
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Foster post-traumatic growth, transforming survival traits into resilience skills
3:45 pm to 4:30 pm ET
Therapist Dynamics, Family Context, and Long-Term Progress
Goal: Equip clinicians to manage countertransference, systemic influences, and long-term recovery markers.
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Countertransference themes: rescue pull, frustration, overidentification, depletion
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Maintaining the therapeutic stance: empathic, consistent, and boundary-driven
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Working within family systems: when to involve family, when to recommend separation or limited contact
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Coaching clients through ongoing interactions with personality-disordered parents
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Signs of clinical progress:
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Reduction in guilt-based decision making
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Improved emotional regulation and impulse awareness
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Emerging self-definition and value-based living
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Sustainable boundaries without excessive defensiveness
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Long-term goals: integration, internal validation, relational reciprocity, and capacity for authentic intimacy
4:30 pm to 4:45 pm ET
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Live Q & A
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About Dr. Daniel Fox, PhD
Dr. Fox has been teaching and supervising students for over 20 years at various universities across the United States. He is currently a staff psychologist in the federal prison system, Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Houston, as well as maintaining a private practice that specializes in the assessment and treatment of individuals with complex psychopathology and personality disorders. Dr. Fox has given numerous workshops and seminars on ethics and personality disorders, personality disorders and crime, treatment solutions for treating clients along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum, emotional intelligence, managing mental health within the prison system, and others.
Continuing Education (CE) Credit:
5 CE credit/contact hour awarded
*CE credit also available for the home study version!
See our FAQ section below for more information
Association of Social Work Board (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program
Envision Counselling and Consulting, Inc., #1895, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 1/19/2025-1/19/2028. Social workers completing this course receive 5 clinical continuing education credits.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
National Board for Certified Counselors
Envision Counselling and Consulting has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7241. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Envision Counselling and Consulting is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)
Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program.
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)
CCPA has reviewed and approved the content of this workshop for 5 CEC
Please ensure to check with your individual state boards/regulatory body to verify Continuing Education Credit Hours requirements and if the workshop you are planning to take qualifies. Licensing Boards change regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about a specific course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.
FAQ
What are the requirements for obtaining the CE?
Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in at the start of the live interactive program and logged out at the end, and attended the entire program to receive a certificate. Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire program. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates will be available following program completion. If participants watch the recording (home study) version of the presentation, they will have access to Self-Study CE credit after completion of a short quiz.
Do I have to pay extra for CE credit?
No. The cost of CE credit is included with your workshop registration fee.
If I cannot attend live, can I still get the CE credit?
Yes. You can access the recording in the home study version, watch it in its entirety, and then pass a quiz with a score of 75% or higher. After taking the quiz, you will be able to download a certificate as proof of completion.
How do I access the home study version when it becomes available?
You will be emailed 5 business days after the live event with instructions on how you can access Envision's online learning platform. Sign in to your online account: Locate the email and click on your personal sign-in link to set your password. You cannot locate the email we sent? Login directly through the platform. Copy and paste the link below into your web browser: https://on-demand.envisionworkshops.com/pages/home-page To login, use the email address you provided when you registered for the program. To create your password, click on "Forgot Password" and set up a password for your account. If you already have an account and password, use those credentials to login.
How long do I have to review the recording?
You will have 1 year to review the recording. The recording will be made available approximately (5) business days after the live program.
What is the refund policy?
Refunds on purchased tickets are available up until 15 days before the date of the live program. There is no refund after this date. Refunds will include the ticket price less a $50 processing fee for all refunds/price adjustments. *Prices subject to change. Refunds within 15 days of the program will be in the form of a workshop credit. These credits do not expire. Please email registration@envisionservices.ca if cancellation is required.
If I have special needs or require accommodations, what do I do?
Email registration@envisionservices.ca at least five (5) business days prior to the live program to request accommodations or discuss your needs. Envision cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
If I have a complaint or grievance, who do I contact?
Please email registration@envisionservices.ca. All grievances must be in writing and will be replied to within 5 - 10 business days.
Is there commercial support or a conflict of interest for this presentation?
Dr. Daniel Fox receives a speaking honorarium from Envision. There are no known conflicts of interests or commercial support for this program. Envision does not receive any financial support for this presentation. Literature may be referred to during the presentation. Envision will not receive any book royalties and was not offered any financial incentives for the mention of those books. Please note that authors of these books will get a royalty from any sale made of their books as per their agreement with the publishing company. For more information on any potential conflict of interest or financial support, attendees may email Envision at registration@envisionservices.ca.
What are the course interaction and system requirements?
This live workshop is fully interactive. Attendees may ask questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led discussions. System requirements: • Operating Systems: Windows XP or higher, MacOS 9 or higher, Android 4.0 or higher • Internet Browser: Internet Explorer 9.0 or higher, Google Chrome, Firefox 10.0 or higher • Broadband Internet connection: Cable, High-speed DSL & any other medium that is internet accessible