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• Coffee & Connections: Sip, Socialize and Network

  • When
    Sun, May 05, 2024
  •  
    10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur CA 94939
  • Registered
    28 registrants

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  MARIN CAMFT COFFEE & CONNECTIONS MAY 5TH
  

  Join us May 5 for an in-person networking event
  

  
  

  Please come and join fellow Marin CAMFT therapists for a coffee gathering on SUNDAY MAY 5th from 10:30am to 12:30pm.
  

  2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur CA 94939
  Across from the Larkspur Ferry Terminal

  We will meet in the middle area of the shopping center.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Friday CE Series: DBT for Non-DBT Therapists

  • When
    Fri, May 10, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    online via Zoom
  • Registered
    57 registrants

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  Gain new skills to enhance your practice.

  DBT for Non-DBT Therapists
  

  Presented by Marielle Berg, LMFT

  2 CEs available

  Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal chapter members!

  Workshop Description

  This presentation introduces the DBT model to non-DBT therapists so they can gain a deeper understanding of who DBT is for and how the treatment works, as well as learn some key DBT Skills that can be applied right away.

  The difference between comprehensive and DBT-informed therapy will be discussed, helping clinicians understand when and if to refer to comprehensive DBT, when to refer an individual client to a skills training group and when and how to integrate DBT skills into the work they are already doing with clients.

  Specific skills from the four skill modules will be taught and workshops participants will gain both an intellectual and experiential understanding of key DBT skills that they can choose to integrate into their clinical work. Come ready to learn and practice skills together as the best way to teach the skills to clients is to use them yourself first.

  Educational Goals

  The goal of this workshop is to learn the basic principles of the DBT model and to understand how to utilize specific DBT skills in individual therapy sessions.

  Learning Objectives

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

  1. Define the basic assumptions and elements underlying DBT

  2. Define emotional dysregulation, including how systems of power and privilege impact experiences of emotional dysregulation for those with marginalized identities.

  3. Assess which populations benefit most from DBT including how sexism, racism, heterosexism and other oppressive structures influence assessment
  4. Explain the 4 skill sets in DBT: Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness and Distress Tolerance
  5. Apply Interpersonal Effectiveness skills to help clients learn to communicate more effectively in relationships
  6. Apply Mindfulness skills to help clients learn how to be present, rather than lost in the past or worrying about the future
  7. Apply Distress Tolerance skills to help clients learn how to tolerate distressing emotions

  
  

  Presenter Marielle Berg, LMFT

  Marielle Berg, MFT provides individual and couples therapy to those who struggle with strong emotions. She leads 3 DBT Skills training groups as well as a group solely for therapists who want to learn the skills themselves. She completed a 2-year intensive training in DBT with Behavioral Tech in 2015. She works with a diverse range of folks and has special interest in working with the queer community. She hosts a podcast focused on DBT called The Skillful Podcast. www.bayareadbtcc.com

  
  

  PLEASE NOTE: This event will be recorded. By registering for this event you are consenting to a recording being made which may include your voice and/or image. This recording may be available for review and downloading. By registering for this event, you are agreeing for your likeliness to possibly be used by Marin CAMFT.

  
  

  The Zoom link and password are provided in the registration confirmation email after sign-up is completed.
  

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

  Date: Friday, May 10
  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. Zoom link sent upon registration.

  Register for DBT for Non-DBT Therapists 

  
  

  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 Norman Hering.
  

  • 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 units 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 at marincountycamftchapter@gmail.com 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 at marincountycamftchapter@gmail.com with any questions.
    
    
  • Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs at marincountycamftchapter@gmail.com.

  • 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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• Saturday Workshop Series: Telehealth: Law & Ethics, Technology, and Best Practices for Connecting with Your Clients

  • When
    Sat, May 18, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:15 PM
  • Location
    online via Zoom
  • Registered
    26 registrants

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  Get your BBS-required telehealth training with Marin CAMFT
  

  Telehealth: Law & Ethics, Technology, and Best Practices for Connecting with Your Clients
  

  3 Law & Ethics CEs available

  This course is designed to satisfy the requirements of California AB 1759 (Chapter 520, Statutes of 2022) and also qualifies for 3 law and ethics CEs.  The California Board of Behavioral Sciences requires current license holders up for renewal and future applicants for licensure to have completed three hours of training in the provision of mental health services, including law and ethics related to telehealth.

  Workshop Description
  

  In many ways, providing therapy through Zoom or other online options is similar to working with a client in person – except when the technology glitches out, or the client is in crisis. Are you prepared for these situations? This course offers specific guidance on the legal requirements and practical considerations for providing therapy by telehealth in California, including informed consent, assessing appropriateness for telehealth, telehealth across state lines, HIPAA and confidentiality, and documentation. You’ll learn about important safety plans that should be prepared for each client, along with suggestions for implementing a simple technology failure protocol. The focus will be on best practices for two-way video therapy conducted on Zoom or other platforms, though all telehealth modalities will be discussed.

  Educational Goals
  

  This course covers the California laws for delivery of telehealth by LMFTs, LPCCs, LCSWs, and LEPs, along with ethical requirements established by professional associations including CAMFT, ACA, etc., with a focus on client safety and unique considerations for clinical care via telehealth.

  Learning Objectives
  

  Upon completion of this morning presentation, participants will be able to:

  1. Assess a prospective client for suitability for therapy via telehealth.
  2. Identify 3 requirements in California law for documenting telehealth sessions with clients.
  3. Name 3 components of a client telehealth safety plan.
  4. Explain when telehealth is permitted across state lines and describe how a California therapist should assess legality of providing telehealth to a specific client in a specific state before providing care.
  5. Describe 2 ways that telehealth may increase equity in mental health for marginalized populations and support social justice.
  6. Apply an ethical decision-making model to common scenarios that uniquely arise in the provision of telehealth.
     

  
  

  Presenter Lisa Wenninger
  

  Lisa Wenninger, MA, MBA, NCC, LPCC, BC-TMH (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in Counselor Education & Supervision at Antioch University, with a research focus on antiracist skills in counseling, and coursework and experience in teaching teletherapy skills to counseling students. Lisa was herself trained in telehealth starting in early 2019 in her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. She is a CCE Board Certified TeleMental Health Provider and received the 2022 CCE Board Certified-TeleMental Health Provider training award by the NBCC Foundation. Lisa has an MBA from Columbia and extensive experience in technology from a 20-year career in software development before becoming a therapist. Lisa is a California LPCC and a National Certified Counselor. Lisa's clinical website is https://theworkiswithin.com. 
  
  
  

  
  

  Attendance for the entirety of the Zoom event and completion of the course evaluation afterwards will qualify for 3.0 Law & Ethics Continuing Education hours.

  
  

  Note: If you attended this telehealth training by this presenter before, you are welcome to retake it however based on BBS rules you would not be able to claim the CEs for it again within the same license renewal period. However, if you attended a different telehealth training from a different presenter, then you're invited to take this training which would count towards your law and ethics requirements and the standard CE requirements. This curriculum is updated from the original content presented, to account for changes in telehealth laws as of 2024.
  

  
  

  Upon registering you will receive a Zoom link and password.

  • Date: Saturday, May 18
  • Time: 9:00 am to 12:15 pm Pacific (3 hours of instruction plus 15 minutes for breaks)
    
  • Location:  Online via Zoom. Password and link sent upon registration.

  
  

  Additional Information

  For more information about the Saturday Workshop Series or about joining the Committee, please contact Marin CAMFT's Director of Programs Norman Hering.
  

  • 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 CEUs 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 units for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive CE completion certificate. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact the 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: Refunds are available up to 7 days in advance event, subject to a $20 administrative fee. We're sorry but we do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. To request a refund, please email marincountycamftchapter@gmail.com. If you have questions about this policy, please contact the Director of Programs.
    
    
  • 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.
    
    

  CEs are available only with attendance for the entirety of the Zoom session. You must complete the course evaluation afterwards in order to receive a completion certificate, which will be emailed to you when the evaluation is submitted. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom meeting late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted from the waiting room. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed event start time.

  
  

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• Saturday Workshop Series: From Aging to Eldering: Helping Clients with their Fear of Aging

  • When
    Sat, June 22, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    online via Zoom
  • Registered
    7 registrants

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  Depth workshop to gain perspectives for supporting elder clients
  

  From Aging to Eldering: Helping Clients with their Fear of Aging
  

  Presented by Nader Shabahangi, Ph.D., MFT
  

  Saturday, June 22nd 10:00am to 3:30pm
  

  4 CEs available

  Workshop Description
  

  Drawing upon the philosophical roots, literature, and practices of humanistic psychology and philosophy, as well as the latest research in gerontology, participants will reflect on their own beliefs and fears of aging and their ideas of adulthood and elderhood, in the context of working with clients in this population.
  
  Participants will be invited to explore their personal identities and work interactively in groups and dyads toward developing new identity constructions and frameworks for conceptualizing aging, meaning, and purpose for clients in old age.
  
  This new perspective potentially nourishes personal well-being, enlarges the context of psychotherapy practice, and contributes to the health of each person’s inner and outer world.
  
  

  Educational Goals

  This workshop presents concepts and practices for treating clients through the perspective that moving away from the dominant decline narrative of aging, to a fuller understanding aging as eldering, creates a new attitude that welcomes aging as the maturation, deepening and development of each human being.
  

  
  

  Learning Objectives

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

  1. Describe the principle goals of eldership in the practice of psychotherapy.
     

  2. Explain about the history and ways in which the humanistic movement dovetails with the emergence of a new eldership concept.
  3. Describe of the concept of “eldering” as relevant to both personal health and well-being, and to psychotherapy practice.
  4. Apply skills through an eldership view of a human being’s life with oneself and with one’s clients.
  5. Name the individual and societal health implications of eldering and eldership, of a nonhierarchical, systemic view of humans in relationship with other forms of planetary life. 
  6. Describe the concept of neurodiversity as a way to conceptualize different attitudes to life and the influence of culture on the way we understand aging and elders.
     
     

  
  

  Presenter Dr. Nader Shabahangi
  

  Nader Shabahangi, PhD., MFT, Nader received his training as an existential-humanistic therapist from Jim Bugental, a pioneer in existential humanistic thought and practice. He co-founded the Existential Humanistic Institute in 1997 to train therapists in an existential-humanistic approach to helping clients. At the same time, he embarked on becoming a diplomate in ProcessWork and began an innovative humanistic training program for beginning therapists working in eldercare communities. In 2003, Nader founded Eldership Academy which further focused his interest in working with elders and explores the meaning of our aging process as an inward journey connecting us to our inner nature or soul.
  
  His current project is to re-conceptualize eldercare from a custodial model to a spiritual approach he calls Elder Ashram. He is a licensed psychotherapist in California. His love for the humanities, philosophy and psychology, earned him his doctorate from Stanford University.
  

  PLEASE NOTE: This event will be recorded. By registering for this event you are consenting to a recording being made which may include your voice and/or image. This recording may be available for review and downloading. By registering for this event, you are agreeing for your likeliness to possibly be used by Marin CAMFT.

  
  

  The Zoom link and password are provided in the registration confirmation email after sign-up is completed.
  

  Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 4 hours of Continuing Education (4 CEUs).

  Date: Saturday, June 22
  Time: 10:00 am to 3:30 pm Pacific with time for breaks/lunch
  Cost:  $20 for Students/Associates; $59 for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal members, $69 for non-members.
  Location:  Online via Zoom. Password and link sent upon registration.

  Register for From Aging to Eldering: Helping Clients with their Fear of Aging 

  
  

  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 Norman Hering.
  

  • Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 4 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 units 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 at marincountycamftchapter@gmail.com 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 which will be deducted from any registration fee before refunding.   Please contact our Director of Programs at marincountycamftchapter@gmail.com with any questions.
    
    
  • Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs at marincountycamftchapter@gmail.com.

  • 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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