Scientific Meeting
Saturday, October 18, 2025
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Online
via Zoom (link will be sent via email the day before the event)
Childhood Bereavement: An Analysis of a Six-Year-Old Girl Who Experienced Loss
Speaker: Felecia Powell-Williams, Ed.D., LPC-S, RPT/S
Discussant: Norka Malberg, PsyD
Non-WNEPS member
$35.00
WNEPS members, candidates and all students/trainees
$0.00
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The case presentation will focus on clinical material of a four-year analysis that has continued therapeutically from childhood into adulthood, and her early attachment disruptions in relationship with her mother and father. The presentation will illustrate the internal conflicts concerning a difficulty with aggression surrounding traumatic loss of the maternal object and explore the relationship throughout the analytic process.
Learning Objectives
1. Illustrate how psychoanalysis provides a safe place to rework difficult experiences to support progressive developmental movement.
2. Describe how in grieving, the psychic apparatus is faced with mastering overwhelming stimuli and steps towards restoring areas of ego functioning.
3. Identify how Parent Work creates a therapeutic alliance to provide support within the analytic development of the child and adult.
Speaker: Felecia Powell-Williams, Ed.D., LPC-S, RPT/S
Dr. Powell-Williams is a Child & Adolescent and Adult Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston, Texas, where she also holds the positions of President of Board of Directors and faculty member in the Child and Adult Training Programs. Dr. Powell-Williams provides clinical supervision for the State of Texas licensing board, as well as supervision as a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor with the Association for Play Therapy.
CME/CE Accreditation
No CE/CME credits are available for this event.
