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• Marin CAMFT Networking Event - Novato

  • When
    Sat, April 25, 2026
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Blue Barn, 819 Grant Ave, Novato CA 94945
  • Registered
    15 registrants

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  MARIN CAMFT NETWORKING APRIL 25TH
  

  Join us on Saturday, April 25th for an in-person networking event
  

  
  

  Please come and join fellow Marin CAMFT therapists for a networking event on SATURDAY APRIL 25th from 11am to 1pm.
  

  Blue Barn Novato

  819 Grant Ave
  

  Novato, CA 94945
  

  
  

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• Trama Resource Team Book Group - May 4

  • When
    Mon, May 04, 2026
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    online on Zoom
  • Registered
    11 registrants

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  TRAUMA RESOURCE TEAM BOOK GROUP

  The TRT are continuing our book group:  We’d love you to join us!

  
  

  

  The Trauma Resource Team (TRT) is an active group within Marin CAMFT, where members support each other to expand their knowledge and experience working with trauma.  For 2026 we are introducing a book club alongside our other offerings, which will work as follows:

  Each book group will be led by a Marin CAMFT member who selects a book that focuses on an aspect of trauma they are interested in, and they will lead the discussion for that month.  Members can sign up to join in for just one time or each time, whatever works for your schedule.  We want to come together in community, share our knowledge and learn something new.

  Register for our next book group on May 4th at 6.30pm on Zoom when we will be discussing Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta

  
  

  
  
  
  

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• Friday CE Series: Big Brother in the Therapy Room: Tech Surveillance and Privacy Guidelines for Mental Health Clinicians

  • When
    Fri, May 08, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    online via Zoom
  • Registered
    54 registrants

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  Understand how devices may be intruding into the therapeutic space

  Big Brother in the Therapy Room: Tech Surveillance and Privacy Guidelines for Mental Health Clinicians

  Presented by Dr. Lisa Wenninger, LPCC, NCC, BC-TMH

  2 CEs available

  Free for Marin CAMFT members and RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members

  This training will not be recorded. Please plan to attend the "live" session on Zoom if you are interested in this learning activity. 

  PLEASE NOTE: After you sign up here, you'll be sent instructions on how to complete a separate registration step with Zoom, which is how you will get your Zoom link. You can do that in advance, or right before the meeting begins. This registration step lets us more accurately track attendance in the Zoom meeting for our compliance purposes as a CE provider.

  
  

  Workshop Description

  This workshop came about following a post on the RECAMFT listserv on this topic from Diane Gleim, LMFT. That post was shared with the Marin CAMFT listserv too. This generated a robust discussion among colleagues who expressed concerns and raised questions about technology in the therapy room, which inspired this program to be created. Thank you, Diane, for starting the conversation! RECAMFT members are able to join this Marin CAMFT training for free through the reciprocal benefits between both chapters.

  This 2-hour training for therapists offers a practical explanation for how technology works in the world around us, with a focus on everyday devices such as cell phones, home security, and speaker systems that might be listening in on our sessions or tracking our behaviors. Participants will think through the implications of privacy and confidentiality together, and gain concrete guidelines for how to integrate awareness of technology into the therapeutic frame. The training will spell out what therapists' obligations are under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, with specific recommendations for telehealth practice. Using real-world examples, the training will walk through how ambient recording, cloud storage, and data subpoenas may function in practice. A core component of the training focuses on building awareness within clinicians for how specific client populations such as Black and Brown clients, religious minorities such as Muslim clients, or clients with presenting concerns involving experiences of paranoia or even milder distrust, may be differently affected by the realities of surveillance, with emphasis on sensitively offering psychoeducation and informed consent based on client culture and identity.
  
  
  

  Educational Goals

  This training is designed to increase awareness of the infiltration of surveillance technology into modern life, and the potential impact on privacy and confidentiality in the treatment room. The intention behind this training is to equip therapists with information needed to possibly change their own use of certain technology within the therapeutic space, and give them confidence in speaking with at-risk clients about digital privacy.
  
  

  Learning Objectives

  Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
  

  1. Describe the difference between confidentiality and privacy, and explain what a therapist is obligated to protect.
  2. Identify at least 3 ways that modern technology may be tracking all of us in everyday life, including in the therapy room.
  3. Name at least 3 specific aspects of client identity, lived experience, or presenting concern to consider before discussing surveillance technologies with clients.
  4. Explain the topic of digital surveillance to clients and the implications of technology within therapy in a culturally-sensitive way.
     
     
     
     

  Presenter Dr. Lisa Wenninger

  Dr. Lisa Wenninger, LPCC, BC-TMH has a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from Antioch University Seattle, an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Northwestern University, and an MBA from Columbia University. She holds the NBCC Board credential as a telemental health provider. She is a National Certified Counselor and is licensed in California, Washington, Idaho, and Virginia, with a telehealth-only social justice counseling practice working with individuals with marginalized identities. Dr. Wenninger serves on the Board of Counselors for Social Justice, which is a division of the American Counseling Association. She is also Founder and Executive Director of Resonant Equity, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that offers innovative equity-forward continuing education, mentorship, and advocacy, supervised practicum experiences, and trainee-facilitated counseling groups to support those being affected by the complexities of our chaotic world.
  

  
  

  Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version.

  You will be sent instructions on how to register with Zoom to get your personal Zoom link to use for attendance. Please read the email confirmation you receive after signing up on the Marin CAMFT website for these instructions.
  

  Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).

  Date: Friday, May 8
  Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific

  Cost: Free for current Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal chapter members (registration code required), $40 for non-members.
  Location:  Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.

  Register for: Big Brother in the Therapy Room: Tech Surveillance and Privacy Guidelines for Mental Health Clinicians

  
  

  Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
  

  For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.
  

  • Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
    
    
  • Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
    
    
  • Refund Policy: Our refund policy for paid registrations requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please allow up to a week from requesting the refund to it being processed. Participants who register for free may choose to cancel by emailing info@marincamft.org if they will not be attending, though this is not necessary.  Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
    
    
  • Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.

  • Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
    
    
  • Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
    

  
  

  
  Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
  
  

  
  
  

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• In Person Saturday Workshop: Treating Anxiety at the Root: A Recovery Model for OCD and Related Disorders

  • When
    Sat, May 30, 2026
  •  
    8:45 AM - 12:15 PM
  • Location
    IN PERSON: Town Center Corte Madera Community Room, 770 Tamalpais Drive, Suite 201, Corte Madera CA 94925
  • Spaces left
    55
  • Registered
    15 registrants

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  IN PERSON TRAINING! Dive deeper into Exposure and Response Prevention techniques

  Treating Anxiety at the Root: A Recovery Model for OCD and Related Disorders

  Presented by Dr. Peter Aston

  3 CEs available

  This training will not be recorded. If you are interested in this learning opportunity, please plan to attend this in-person event.  Please read the full event description for all registration terms including refund policy.

  
  

  Workshop Description

  
  This three-hour clinical training presents a structured, recovery-oriented approach to Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD and related anxiety disorders. While grounded in traditional ERP, the model expands into a transdiagnostic framework applicable to generalized anxiety, panic, health anxiety, social anxiety, and related presentations. The training integrates principles from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, self-compassion research, and inhibitory learning theory to create a cohesive and clinically actionable treatment system.

  Participants will first learn a clear maintenance model of clinical anxiety and OCD, including the roles of triggers, beliefs, mental and behavioral compulsions (components), classical conditioning, inference of danger, and threat bias (mechanisms). The training then introduces a recovery model that targets reduction in the brain’s tendency to generate false alarms, rather than focusing solely on coping after anxiety appears. A core recovery skill, distilled into a practical acronym, will be taught and applied across clinical examples.

  The second half of the training focuses on integrating self-compassion and humor into exposure-based treatment. Participants will observe a live demonstration of a three-chair self-compassion exercise adapted from Kristin Neff’s work, and will learn how compassionate dialogue enhances willingness and reduces shame. The therapeutic function of humor will also be explored through a false alarm theory framework, linking humor to inhibitory learning processes.

  This is an intermediate to advanced level training appropriate for licensed therapists familiar with basic CBT concepts who want to deepen and refine their exposure-based work.
  
  

  Educational Goals

  Participants will gain a clinically actionable framework for conceptualizing and treating anxiety and OCD using a transdiagnostic exposure-based recovery model. The training will clarify how maintenance processes differ from recovery processes and demonstrate how structured homework, self-compassion, and humor can be integrated into ERP to enhance long term outcomes.
  
  

  Learning Objectives

  Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
  

  1. Describe at least three mechanisms that maintain anxiety and OCD.
  2. Diagram a maintenance model of anxiety.
  3. Apply a structured recovery skill to a clinical case example and identify at least three corresponding homework interventions.
  4. Organize at least three exposure based homework assignments that align with specific aspects of the recovery model/process.
  5. Demonstrate how to integrate at least two self compassion interventions into exposure based treatment.
  6. Explain at least two mechanisms through which humor enhances inhibitory learning in exposure therapy.
  7. Describe and assess the ways perceived threat can vary across clients based on their membership in different identity groups, using a clinical case.
  8. Collaboratively evaluate threat with clients, ensuring that exposure work remains both culturally responsive and clinically appropriate.
     
     

  Presenter Dr. Peter Aston

  Dr. Peter Aston is a licensed clinical psychologist (PSY32050) and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He specializes in cognitive behavioral and other evidence-based treatments for anxiety disorders, OCD, depression, stress, and trauma, with particular expertise in exposure and response prevention (ERP). At Stanford, he provides psychotherapy for individuals with mood and anxiety disorders and leads OCD groups and health anxiety programming within the department. He is also Co-Associate Director of Training for the PAU–Stanford PsyD Consortium, where he has received multiple student-voted teaching awards for his course The Nature and Treatment of Clinical Anxiety.
  
  Dr. Aston is the co-founder and co-director of California Psychology Center, a psychologist-led group practice with specialty clinics in anxiety and OCD. He regularly provides graduate-level and continuing education training on ERP, transdiagnostic treatment models, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and has developed structured recovery models that package and integrate evidence-based treatments to enhance inhibitory learning and long-term resilience. In addition to his clinical and academic work, he serves as the team psychologist for the San Jose Sharks (NHL), drawing on his background as a former professional hockey player to support individuals performing in high-pressure environments.

  Attendance at the training in full and completion of the course evaluation afterwards qualifies for 3 hours of Continuing Education (3 CEs).

  Date: Saturday, May 30

  Time: Please arrive by 8:45am to register. Training begins at 9:00am and goes to 12:15pm (3 hours of training plus time for a break)

  Cost: $45 for licensed Marin CAMFT members; $35 for our pre-licensed members; $60 for licensed therapists who are not members of Marin CAMFT. Other rates including reciprocal rates for members of RECAMFT also available, see registration panel.

  Location:  IN PERSON: Town Center Corte Madera Community Room: 770 Tamalpais Drive, Suite 201, Corte Madera CA 94925  (in the office building on the south end of the property). 

  Register for Treating Anxiety at the Root: A Recovery Model for OCD and Related Disorders

  
  

  
  

  Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
  

  For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs Arianna Sifuentes.
  

  • Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of this in-person program, with attendance demonstrated by signing the attendance logs at both the beginning and the end of the training, and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
    
    
  • Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
    
    
  • Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant.  Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
    
    
  • Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.

  • Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
    
    
  • Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
    

  
  

  
  Continuing education credits are available for attendance at the entirety of the training, including signing in and out on the attendance logs at the beginning and end of the training. The course evaluation will be provided to confirmed attendees after the training.

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• Friday CE Series: Understanding Second Adolescence: Supporting LGBTQ+ Adults Who Grew up in Anti-Queerness

  • When
    Fri, June 12, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    online via Zoom
  • Registered
    64 registrants

  Register

  Expand your knowledge of the unique experiences of queer clients

  Understanding Second Adolescence: Supporting LGBTQ+ Adults Who Grew up in Anti-Queerness

  Presented by Adam Cohen, LMFT

  2 CEs available

  Free for Marin CAMFT members, RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members, and BHRS staff!

  This training will not be recorded. Please plan to attend the "live" session on Zoom if you are interested in this learning activity. 

  PLEASE NOTE: After you sign up here, you'll be sent instructions on how to complete a separate registration step with Zoom, which is how you will get your Zoom link. You can do that in advance, or right before the meeting begins. This registration step lets us more accurately track attendance in the Zoom meeting for our compliance purposes as a CE provider.

  Marin CAMFT is grateful to Marin County Department of Health and Human Services Behavioral Health and Recovery Services for co-sponsoring this event. Note: To receive annual Cultural Humility credit, BHRS staff must obtain a Certificate of Completion.

  

  Workshop Description

  
  Many LGBTQ+ adults enter therapy feeling “behind,” emotionally younger than their peers, or confused by the intensity of their relational, identity, and developmental experiences. These presentations are often misunderstood—or mispathologized—when they are, in fact, rooted in disrupted developmental processes caused by growing up in an anti-queer world.
  
  This training introduces "Second Adolescence" as a clinical and developmental understanding of the post-coming-out years many LGBTQ+ adults experience. "Second Adolescence" is a way to conceptualize this period as a necessary stage of growth and healing in which clients work to reclaim missed psychosocial experiences, repair the impact of chronic shame from anti-queer culture, and develop a more integrated, authentic sense of self.
  
  Participants in this training will explore how heteronormativity, anti-queerness, internalized shame, and the need for concealment interrupt normative adolescent development, often resulting in a developmental “freeze” that reemerges later in adulthood. The training will focus on how these dynamics show up clinically and how therapists can respond with clarity, attunement, and clinical intention for their LGBTQ+ clients.
  
  

  Educational Goals

  This training aims to provide a trauma-informed understanding for treating LGBTQ+ adults navigating the post-coming-out period often referred to as Second Adolescence. Participants will deepen their understanding of how growing up in heteronormativity and anti-queerness disrupts normative development and how these disruptions present in adulthood. Emphasis will be placed on translating theory into clinical practice, including how to conceptualize presenting concerns through a developmental lens, normalize delayed or intensified experiences, and support clients in reclaiming missed psychosocial milestones, healing shame, and fostering integration of their identity.
  
  

  Learning Objectives

  Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
  

  1. Describe "Second Adolescence" as a developmental and clinical lens through which to understand post-coming-out experiences of LGBTQ+ adults.
  2. Identify at least three ways internalized anti-queerness and chronic shame disrupt adolescent development and present clinically in adulthood for LGBTQ+ clients.
  3. Apply trauma-informed, LGBTQ+ affirmative interventions to support clients navigating missed developmental milestones, identity integration, and self-compassion during "Second Adolescence."
     
     
     

  Presenter Adam James Cohen, LMFT 

  Adam James Cohen, LMFT specializes in LGBTQ+ mental health. His private practice in San Francisco and Marin has focused on serving LGBTQ+ adults and adolescents since 2017. He developed Second Adolescence as a clinical framework for understanding and healing from the trauma of growing up queer in an anti-queer world. He is the executive producer and host of the podcast, Second Adolescence.

  
  

  Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version.

  You will be sent instructions on how to register with Zoom to get your personal Zoom link to use for attendance. Please read the email confirmation you receive after signing up on the Marin CAMFT website for these instructions.
  

  Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).

  Date: Friday, June 12
  Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific

  Cost: Free for current Marin CAMFT members, reciprocal chapter members, and BHRS staff (registration code required for reciprocal and BHRS attendees), $30 for non-members; $5 off if you have a referral code.
  Location:  Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.

  Register for: Understanding Second Adolescence:Supporting LGBTQ+ Adults Who Grew up in Anti-Queerness

  
  

  Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
  

  For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.
  

  • Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
    
    
  • Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
    
    
  • Refund Policy: Our refund policy for paid registrations requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please allow up to a week from requesting the refund to it being processed. Participants who register for free may choose to cancel by emailing info@marincamft.org if they will not be attending, though this is not necessary.  Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
    
    
  • Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.

  • Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
    
    
  • Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
    

  
  

  
  Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
  
  

  
  
  

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• Friday CE Series: Career Counseling with Immigrant Bicultural Youth of Color

  • When
    Fri, September 11, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    online via Zoom
  • Registered
    1 registrant

  Register

  Engage with Liberation Psychology as a supportive framework for clients of color

  Empowering Futures: Career Counseling with Immigrant Bicultural Youth of Color Through a Liberation Psychology Framework

  Presented by 

  2 CEs available

  Free for Marin CAMFT members and RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members!

  This training will not be recorded. Please plan to attend the "live" session on Zoom if you are interested in this learning activity. 

  PLEASE NOTE: After you sign up here, you'll be sent instructions on how to complete a separate registration step with Zoom, which is how you will get your Zoom link. You can do that in advance, or right before the meeting begins. This registration step lets us more accurately track attendance in the Zoom meeting for our compliance purposes as a CE provider.

  
  

  Workshop Description

  
  This introductory level training introduces Liberation Psychology as a culturally responsive and socially grounded framework for working with immigrant and bicultural youth of color in career counseling and related clinical contexts. Many clinicians work with clients who are navigating complex intersections of culture, identity, family expectations, and systemic barriers that shape educational and vocational decision making. This training offers a structured lens for understanding these experiences while moving beyond purely individual level explanations of distress.

  Participants will be introduced to key concepts of Liberation Psychology including critical consciousness, problematization, de ideologization, recovery of historical memory, and praxis. These concepts will be translated into clinically relevant language and applied to career related concerns such as academic pressure, family obligation, identity conflict, internalized oppression, and limited access to opportunity. The training will emphasize how sociopolitical forces, immigration related stressors, and dominant cultural narratives can influence clients’ self perceptions, career choices, and sense of agency.

  Using a case example, the presenter will demonstrate how Liberation Psychology can be integrated into assessment, conceptualization, and intervention within therapeutic and career focused work. Practical strategies will be discussed for helping clients develop critical awareness, reconnect with cultural strengths, and make career decisions that are both contextually informed and personally meaningful.

  While the primary focus is on immigrant and bicultural youth, the framework is applicable to clinicians working with adults who continue to carry unresolved cultural and vocational tensions.

  This training is designed for licensed therapists seeking an introductory exposure to Liberation Psychology and its application in clinical and career related practice. No prior knowledge of Liberation Psychology is required. Attendees who work with adolescents, emerging adults, immigrants, or clients from marginalized communities may find this training particularly relevant. The presentation will be experiential, reflective, and clinically oriented, with attention to ethical and culturally responsive practice.
  
  

  Educational Goals

  This training provides an introduction to working with transgender youth who are experiencing self-harm and suicidal ideation.
  
  

  Learning Objectives

  Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
  

  1. Identify at least three core concepts of Liberation Psychology and describe their relevance to clinical and career related work with immigrant and bicultural youth of color.
  2. Explain how sociopolitical context, cultural identity, and systemic barriers can influence vocational distress, identity conflict, and career decision making in therapeutic settings.
  3. Apply Liberation Psychology informed principles to a case example by identifying culturally responsive assessment considerations and intervention strategies.
  4. Demonstrate at least one clinically applicable strategy that supports client agency, critical awareness, and integration of cultural strengths in career related counseling.
     
     
     

  Presenter Cecile Bhang, PhD 

  Cecile Hyewon Bhang, Ph.D., Psy.D. (she/her) is a licensed psychologist, researcher, and educator with extensive clinical and academic experience. She serves as an Assistant Professor in the Counseling Department at Sonoma State University and has worked across university counseling centers, community mental health agencies, and private practice settings focusing on working immigrant and bicultural and multicultural individuals and families. Dr. Bhang’s clinical work is grounded in culturally responsive, integrative approaches that center relational and contextual understanding, including Relational Cultural Theory along with skills-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

  Dr. Bhang’s scholarship focuses on culturally contextualized frameworks for understanding identity development, resilience, and career related concerns among marginalized youth and young adults. Her work bridges theories of culture, power, and psychological well being to enhance clinical practice and training. She provides consultation and professional trainings on multicultural competence, social justice oriented practice, and the application of Liberation Psychology in counseling.

  In addition to her academic and clinical roles, Dr. Bhang maintains a private practice and provides bilingual services in Korean and English. She is committed to advancing equitable, strengths based mental health care and mentoring future clinicians. For more information about her work and clinical services, please visit www.drcbhang.com.

  
  

  Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version.

  
  

  You will be sent instructions on how to register with Zoom to get your personal Zoom link to use for attendance. Please read the email confirmation you receive after signing up on the Marin CAMFT website for these instructions.
  

  Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).

  Date: Friday, September 11
  Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific

  Cost: Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal members, $30 for non-members.
  Location:  Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.
  

  
  

  Register for Empowering Futures: Career Counseling with Immigrant Bicultural Youth of Color Through a Liberation Psychology Framework

  
  

  
  

  Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
  

  For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.
  

  • Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
    
    
  • Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
    
    
  • Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please allow up to a week from requesting the refund to it being processed. Participants who register for free may choose to cancel by emailing info@marincamft.org if they will not be attending, though this is not necessary.  Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
    
    
  • Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.

  • Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
    
    
  • Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
    

  
  

  
  Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
  
  

  
  
  

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