Pinny Farkas, LCSW

Full-service psychotherapy practice supporting individuals, couples and families.

Pinny incorporates his approachable, compassionate, client-centered approach to deliver workshops and trainings to parents, educators and organizational leaders across diverse institutions and organizations.

To customize a workshop for your team or membership group, contact Pinny at hello@pinnyfarkas.com.

Workshop & Speaker Offerings

Pinny offers interactive workshops and presentations for diverse organizations, including schools, universities, businesses, and spiritual groups as well as family, youth and counseling centers. In addition to the below sampling, Pinny can collaborate with your team to develop a session tailored to the unique needs of your audience.

Conscious Coupling

Forging and maintaining healthy relationships requires that one first understand and care for the self. Recognizing our personal style of communication can illuminate how our habitual patterns of interaction influence connections with loved ones. By learning to focus on our well-being and appreciate our true selves, we can be present, available and supportive to our significant other. This interactive workshop underscores how honoring our authentic self-identity will enable fulfilling, long-lasting romantic partnerships.

Banishing Burnout

Achieving work-life balance may seem an impossible feat until one can build and enforce boundaries. Learning to prioritize and say no, without guilt or shame, is critical to flourishing across the various areas of one’s life. In this workshop, professionals learn how to prioritize their personal and professional responsibilities and then ensure these prioritize are honored.

Parenting with Poise

Managing the many hats of parenting requires that mom and dads first care for themselves. This workshop will help parents reflect on their habitual responses to handling a hectic household and offer tools to promote balance and well-being for themselves and their families.

Teen Talk: Raising Happy, Healthy Adolescents

The challenges of adolescence are multifold: teens are grappling with peer pressure, developing self-identity and managing burgeoning responsibilities of school and extracurriculars. Helping your child understand the importance of self-care is critical in supporting healthy development. This workshop teaches parents how to work with their teen to maintain a positive relationship and create replenishing routines that will support them in the decades to come.

Balance Bootcamp: Self-Care for Caregivers

The only way to truly care for others is to first care for oneself. Integrating restorative practices into a hectic schedule is not as daunting as it first may seem. In this workshop, caregivers learn how to structure a practical self-care plan fit for the needs of their personality and schedule.