Professional Speaking & Training
Dr. Steiner is passionate about helping patients and therapists live life to the fullest. She gives keynote addresses, leads workshops, is a motivational speaker, and consults with patients, organizations, practicing therapists, attorneys, and health care workers. Her Law and Ethics presentations can be presented as inspirational keynote presentations, in-service training events, half or all-day workshops, group discussions, etc.
Dr. Steiner first made her comprehensive professional will system available in 1999, and has continued to make it more user-friendly and accessible. She has been giving Law and Ethics workshops about The Psychotherapist’s Professional Will since 2004 and teaching about this taboo topic since 1999. Organizations she has presented this topic to include: The American Group Psychotherapy Association, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Herrick Hospital Dept. of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, International Human Learning Resources Network, Kaiser Hospital, Contra Costa Psychological Association, and The Psychotherapy Institute.
Continuing Education presentations related to the professional will have included:
- Law & Ethics: The Therapist’s Professional Will: A Practice Necessity?
- Planning for Therapist Absence: Illness, Retirement, or Relocation
- How to Write Your Own Therapist’s Professional Will: Preparing and Planning for the Expected, Unexpected & Inevitable Absences
Upcoming & Recent
Events
American Group Psychotherapy Association
On February 20, 2027, Dr. Ann Steiner will be presenting "Your Professional Will: The Ethical Care of Your Practice and Yourself" at the Amereican Group Psychotherapy Association in Denver, Colorado.
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Interested?
If you would like to invite Dr. Steiner to present to your group or organization, please get it touch!
Dr. Steiner customizes each presentation to address the particular needs of each organization and audience. Depending on your needs, the format may include interactive sections, short small group discussions, or other engagement formats.
If you have any questions or discuss working together, please complete the contact form and include a variety of times when it would be convenient for her to return your call.
Meeting planners and conference organizers may contact Dr. Steiner at (925) 962-0060 or complete the contact form to discuss how she can tailor a presentation for your group’s needs.
Past Workshops
& Presentations
What follows are highlights of presentations and workshops about the professional wills. Please contact Dr. Steiner for a complete list of all past workshops.
Annual presenter for the International Human Learning Network, in Prague, Tours, France, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the US since 2007, presenting her workshops about the professional will and the nuts and bolts of Groups that Thrive.
Frequent invited presenter about the professional will for the American Group Psychotherapy Association since 2021.
Frequent invited presenter about the professional will for The Virginia Satir Global Network since 2021.
Law and Ethics Workshop Presentations: “Your Professional Will: The Ethical Care of Your Practice and Yourself” and other related titles for:
- American Group Psychotherapy Association, Virtual/New York, February, 2026
- International Human Learning Resources Network, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, August, 2025
- The Virginia Satir Global Network June, 2025
- Grand Rounds, Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, CA: May, 2025
- American Counseling Association’s Business of Counseling Virtual Summit, May 2025
- California Association for Clinical Social Work, April, 2025
- Society Clinical Social Workers, Virtual, April, 2025
- The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley, CA January, 2025
- Alameda County Psychological Association in conjunction with Redwood Psychological Association and Marin Psychological Association, January 2024
- California Society for Clinical Social Work, January 2022
- Feeling Good Whole Health, May, 2022
- American Group Psychotherapy Association: March, 2022
- California Society for Clinical Social Work, January, 2022
- International Human Learning Resource Network, November, 2021
Highlights of Recent Presentations about Group Work
In addition to her trainings about the professional will, Dr. Steiner enjoys teaching about group work. Here is a sample of those presentations:
- Screening and Preparation: Keys to Starting and Maintaining Groups that Thrive: Didactic for The Group Therapy Training Program, The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkely, CA., 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023
- The Nuts and Bolts of Saying Goodbye in Groups. Didactic for The Group Therapy Training Program, The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley, CA., 2022, 2021
- Ethics and Termination Didactic for the Group Psychotherapy Training Program: The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley, CA., 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017.