BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Community Institute for Psychotherapy - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cipmarin.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Community Institute for Psychotherapy REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251206T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251206T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20250606T150528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251116T155819Z UID:10000566-1765011600-1765026000@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:Developing an Advanced Ethical Framework for Clinical Practice: A Psychoanalytic Approach - Presented by Jennifer Kunst\, PhD [Class] DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nThis seminar will offer an advanced framework for clinical practice through a psychoanalytic lens\, taking seriously the need for an “outside in” and an “inside out” approach to ethical considerations. The external established framework of legal and professional ethics serves as the foundation for an internal model that is fluid\, lived\, applied\, and emerging within the context of the clinical work itself. General rules and guidelines about ethical behavior serve as our compass. However\, we also need to develop an internal framework that can help us think and find our bearings in the challenging conditions that we encounter in the stormy conditions of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic work. Clinical examples and vignettes will be presented to deepen this exploration. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\nDistinguish between a rule-based model of ethics and a model of lived ethics;\nCompare paternal and maternal models of legal/ethical principles;\nDifferentiate the features of serious boundary violations and ethical misdemeanors;\nDescribe a clinical scenario that illustrates the conflict between ethical ideals and clinicians’ basic human nature;\nList three factors that make it impossible for clinicians to realize their ethical ideals in psychodynamic psychotherapy;\nList three examples of ethical delinquencies or misdemeanors that might occur in a therapy session;\nIdentify two ways in which telephone sessions increase the possibility of minor ethical enactments.\n\n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE – 4 HOURS: \n9:00 am-10:30 am: Ethics from the Outside In and the Inside Out \nDr. Kunst will offer a presentation exploring the differences between legal\, ethical\, moral\, and technical considerations in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. She will present a model in which the external framework of legal and ethical issues is valued as a foundation for the internalization of an ethical model that can be fluidly applied to unique clinical situations. She will ground this ethical framework in a modern theory of the Oedipus Complex that distinguishes paternal and maternal modes of functioning.  \n10:30 am-10:45 am: Break \n10:45 am-11:30 am: Impossible Ethics \nDr. Kunst will explore Sarah Ackerman’s paper\, Impossible Ethics\, in which she highlights the inevitable strains of psychodynamic work and the ways in which we must aspire to but cannot uphold our ideal ethics due to our human limitations\, conflicts\, and desires. She will explore concepts related to deferred action and neighborly love as essential to ethical work in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. \n11:30 am-11:35 am: Break \n11:35 am-12:15 pm: Ethical Misdemeanors \nDr. Kunst will explore Joyce Slochower’s paper\, The Analyst’s Secret Delinquencies\, distinguishing between boundary violations and boundary crossings. Ethical misdemeanors are ubiquitous in clinical work and can be understood as manifestations of clinical phenomena as well as the personal challenges that every clinician must face. A case example will illustrate these concepts. \n12:15 pm-12:20 pm: Break \n12:20 pm-1:00 pm: Altruism and Boundary Violations \nDr. Kunst will explore Beth Seelig’s paper\, Altruism and Boundary Violations\, a case study of a serious boundary violation by a therapist and the steps taken to understand and work through challenging clinical dilemmas in an ethical manner. \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM: \n1) Doctoral programs in psychology focus on establishing a rule based model of legal and ethical principles that is necessary but not sufficient for advanced clinical practice. In this workshop\, an advanced ethical framework will be presented that upholds the external legal and ethical framework and deepens ethical practice through the internalization of this framework\, drawing from a psychoanalytic theoretical model. \n  \n2) The knowledge the participant gains will enhance their psychological practice by teaching clinicians how to apply legal and ethical guidelines in specific challenging clinical situations in a fluid way. \n  \n3) The target audience is everyone who is working clinically in the mental health field.  The concepts will be explained simply enough so that they will be accessible to participants who are beginners in the field\, as well as those with advanced knowledge. \n  \n4) The content is grounded in peer-reviewed literature from highly regarded psychoanalytic journals. While psychoanalytic ethics is largely conceptual and clinically derived\, many of the principles discussed (e.g.\, therapeutic boundaries\, enactments\, countertransference) have also been discussed in broader psychotherapy outcome research. Limitations include the reliance on a single theoretical orientation and the need for appropriate supervision to avoid misapplication.. \n  \n5) While psychoanalytic theory has not always foregrounded cultural or identity-based differences\, this seminar will include examples and discussions of how ethical dilemmas can manifest differently depending on cultural context\, identity\, and therapist–client dynamics. The presenter will demonstrate how internalized ethical frameworks can be applied sensitively across diverse populations. \n\nBIO: \nDr. Jennifer Kunst is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Pasadena\, CA where she works with adults\, adolescents\, couples\, and families. She trained at the Psychoanalytic Center of California\, where she is a Training and Supervising Analyst and teaches courses on Kleinian theory and technique.  She is passionate about distilling the complexity of psychoanalysis into ideas that can be applied to everyday life. Her outreach projects include her Psychology Today blog\, “A Headshrinker’s Guide to the Galaxy”; her book\, “Wisdom from the Couch: Knowing and Growing Yourself from the Inside Out” (Central Recovery Press\, 2014); and her online continuing education program for mental health professionals\, “Psychoanalytic Essentials”. \n  \n\nCOST: \nCIP Members: \n$100 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $120 after \nNon-members: \n$120 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $140 after \n  \nCEs: \n4 CEs for LMFTs & LCSWs\, LPCCs and 4 CEs for Psychologists \n*Meets Requirements for Law & Ethics Continuing Education Credits* \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. \n  URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/developing-an-advanced-ethical-framework-for-clinical-practice-a-psychoanalytic-approach-presented-by-jennifer-kunst-phd-class/ LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1748878535274-c761db10-1484-4b7a-842b-7fbdacb68879_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251018T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251018T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20250606T150100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251116T162224Z UID:10000565-1760778000-1760792400@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:What Every Psychotherapist Needs to Know About Divorce: Know the Factors that Create Healthy Break Ups - Presented by Stephen H. Sulmeyer\, J.D.\, PhD [Class] DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \n  \nDivorce has long been seen as a battle fought by adversarial attorneys\, often leaving both partners—and especially their children—as casualties. Ample research has explored the emotional and developmental toll of such high-conflict divorces\, and clinicians must be conversant with this body of work. Since the rise of divorce mediation in the 1970s\, the process of divorce has evolved significantly\, creating alternative\, less adversarial pathways and generating new research. \nIn California\, where over half of all first marriages end in divorce\, psychotherapists must understand the factors associated with both successful and poor outcomes for divorcing individuals and their children. In addition to research literacy\, clinicians benefit from psychodynamic and empathic skills that allow them to help patients navigate this complex transition. \nThis workshop will familiarize clinicians with the research on both litigated and non-litigated divorce processes\, their effects on parents and children\, and the various alternatives to traditional litigation. Participants will explore key risk\, resilience\, and stabilizing factors associated with different divorce trajectories\, as well as interventions available to help high-conflict couples co-parent effectively after separation. Clinicians will leave with tools to support their patients in ways that enhance psychological resilience and post-divorce family functioning. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\n Identify key legal\, ethical\, and clinical issues relevant to working with patients navigating divorce.\n Describe how therapists can communicate and collaborate with legal and divorce professionals to support clients during the divorce process.\n Identify at least five divorce process options\, including alternatives to litigation.\n Summarize research on risk and resilience factors for both adults and children undergoing divorce.\n Explain three core aspects of divorce law and the litigation process.\n\n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE – 4 HOURS: \n8:30 am – Registration \n9:00–9:15 am – Introduction \n\nPresenter introductions\nOverview of the day’s topic and structure\n\n9:15–10:15 am – Divorce: More Than a Legal Event \n\nReframing divorce as a multifaceted process (legal\, financial\, emotional)\nCultural and socioeconomic factors\nBasics of family law for clinicians\n\n10:15–11:00 am – Effects of Divorce on Adults \n\nDivorce as potential growth vs. trauma\nComparisons with dysfunctional intact families\nCo-parenting challenges\nEconomic and relational impacts\n\n11:00–11:15 am – Break \n11:15–12:00 pm – Divorce and Children: Risk and Resilience \n\nParenting plans: developmental considerations\nInfluence of parental mental health\, substance abuse\, domestic violence\nTailoring plans for diverse child needs\n\n12:00–12:30 pm – Working With Divorcing Patients \n\nHow and when to tell children\nSupporting patients emotionally through the process\n\n12:30–1:00 pm – Divorce Process Options \n\nMediation\, collaborative divorce\, litigation\, DIY approaches\nChoosing the right lawyer\nSupporting clients in making informed choices\n\n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM: \n1)  This program builds on the foundations of doctoral-level training by applying clinical\, legal\, and ethical concepts to the specific context of divorce. It offers both research-based insights and real-world applications to enhance clinical judgment and effectiveness. \n2) All clinicians will encounter patients affected by divorce. This program equips therapists to understand\, explain\, and apply relevant legal and psychological knowledge\, improving patient care and confidence in navigating complex family dynamics. \n3) This training is suitable for clinicians at all levels—from newly licensed practitioners to experienced therapists—who wish to deepen their understanding of divorce-related issues in clinical work. The material will be accessible to beginners while offering nuance and depth for advanced learners. \n4)  The content is based on peer-reviewed research with well-established validity and reliability. However\, research findings are statistical and do not always predict individual experiences. A central risk lies in overly rigid application of generalized data. Clinicians are encouraged to use this information as a framework for individualizing care. \n5) This program takes into account the diversity of clients in the Bay Area and beyond\, including intercultural marriages\, immigrant families\, non-marital co-parents\, and LGBTQ+ families. Discussion will include the importance of humility and cultural sensitivity when working with diverse populations\, and how to adapt divorce support to individual differences in background and worldview. \n  \n\nBIO: \nSTEPHEN H. SULMEYER\, J.D.\, Ph.D. is a mediator with JAMS in San Francisco and a clinical psychologist working with patients throughout California. As a mediator he specializes in complex and high-conflict disputes in a wide range of subject areas\, including family and divorce\, probate and elder\, family businesses\, business/commercial\, intellectual property\, employment\, discrimination\, partnerships\, and community matters. Steve has trained divorce professionals privately and at conferences sponsored by groups such as the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts\, the Association of Professional Family Mediators and the\nInternational Academy of Collaborative Professionals\, as well as local chapters of these and other organizations. Steve received his undergraduate and law degrees from Stanford University\, and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sophia University)\, in Palo Alto\, California\, where he taught as a member of the adjunct faculty. He is the co-founder (with Judge Verna Adams) of the Marin Superior Court’s interdisciplinary settlement conference program\, in which mental health professionals and lawyers team up to assist judges in settling custody and other cases. He is also the founder and past president of\nIntegrative Mediation Bay Area\, a group that teams up mental health professionals and attorneys in a conjoint mediation model in family law and other cases. For further information see Steve’s website\, www.sulmeyermediation.com\, and his JAMS profile\, https://www.jamsadr.com/sulmeyer/. \n  \n\nCOST: \nCIP Members: \n$100 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $120 after \nNon-members: \n$120 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $140 after \n  \nCEs: \n4 CEs for LMFTs & LCSWs\, LPCCs and 4 CEs for Psychologists \n  \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. \n  URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/what-every-psychotherapist-needs-to-know-about-divorce-know-the-factors-that-create-healthy-break-ups-presented-by-stephen-h-sulmeyer-j-d-phd-class/ LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-10-18-Sulmeyer-Photo-900x1080-web-e1748877756681.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20240523T202954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241015T041923Z UID:10000554-1729846800-1729861200@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:Individualities: Ten Angles of Vision on Personality Differences and the Difference They Make for Therapy Presented by: Nancy McWilliams\, PhD\, ABPP [CLASS] DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nAppreciating the implications of personality differences for clinical and supervisory work has been a central concern for psychotherapists since the early part of the twentieth century. Everyone has a personality\, whether or not it can be considered pathological. Ever since the 1980 revision of the DSM\, personality issues have been relegated to a section of “disorder” categories and described by measurable traits. In this workshop\, Dr. McWilliams will offer ten different lenses through which individuality has been viewed (temperament\, attachment style\, observed clinical pattern\, defensive structure\, affective organization\, implicit cognition\, drive tendencies\, self-definition versus self-in-relation orientation\, core relational theme\, and level of severity). She will offer empirical support for each perspective and\, using examples\, discuss practical clinical implications of each angle of vision\, especially that of level of severity\, for both psychotherapy and supervision. There will be time for questions and discussion. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to \n\nEnumerate ten angles of vision by which personality has been conceptualized by mental health Professionals and scholars\nDifferentiate between conceptualizing personality in terms of traits and construing it in terms of intersubjective themes;\nDescribe how to apply that knowledge toward more nuanced formulations of the psychologies of their clients and supervisees;\nDescribe eight areas in which experts of differing orientations agree about the treatment of borderline psychologies.\nList eight qualities of effective therapists that meta-analyses have identified.\nExplain how they can improve their work with patients based on such formulations\, especially in challenging professional circumstances;\n\n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE – 4 HOURS: \n9:00 – 10:15 am \nDr. McWilliams will discuss 8 different perspectives on individuality\, with examples\, emphasizing implications for clinical work. She will cover temperament\, attachment style\, observed clinical pattern\, defensive structure\, affective style\, implicit cognition\, motivational systems (drive)\, and self-definition versus self-in-relationship orientations. \n10:15 – 11:00 am \nDr. McWilliams will cover the last two perspectives: inner working models (also called internalized object relations\, core conflictual relationship themes\, schemas\, and other labels) and level of severity. She will apply these concepts to working with patients organized at a healthy/neurotic level and a psychotic level\, respectively\, emphasizing the difference in the therapist’s approach. \n11:00 – 11:15 am  \nBreak \n11:15 – 12:00 pm \nDr. McWilliams will review the literature on working with patients in the borderline range of personality organization\, including but not limited to patients meeting DSM diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder. She will emphasize the areas on which therapists of diverse theoretical orientation are in agreement rather than taking a position in favor of a particular approach. \n12:00 – 1:00 pm \nDr. McWilliams will apply these concepts to the supervisory process and engage in a discussion with audience members about how they might apply them clinically. \nContent Curriculum:\n\n \nThis workshop will expand the participant’s knowledge about personality and its relevance to outcome in psychotherapy\, adding to the participant’s knowledge about how to increase the solidity of the therapeutic alliance based on an appreciation of the patient’s individuality. \nThe empirical literature on psychotherapy outcome has repeatedly demonstrated that the two factors responsible for the lion’s share of variance are personality factors (in both patient and therapist) and relational factors (the “fit” between them). \nThe target audience is everyone who is working clinically in the mental health field.  The concepts will be explained simply enough so that they will be accessible to participants who are beginners in the field\, as well as those with advanced knowledge. \nThe content is based on published empirical and clinical studies that have been peer-reviewed. None of the content involves risks. \nThere will be a special section in the lecture about appreciating individual differences based on age\, gender\, sexual orientation\, ethnicity\, class\, ability\, religious orientation\, and other factors. The cases selected for discussion will reflect diverse populations. \n  \n\nBIO: \nNancy McWilliams is Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and has a private practice in Lambertville\, NJ. She is author of four textbooks (on psychoanalytic diagnosis\, case formulation\, therapy\, and supervision) and is co-editor of both editions of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual. A former president of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the American Psychological Association\, she is a member of the Austen Riggs Center Board of Trustees. Her books are available in 20 languages and she has taught in 30 countries. \n  \n\nCOST: \nCIP Members: \n$80 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $100 after \nNon-Members: \n$100 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $120 after \nCEs: \n4 CEs for LMFTs & LCSWs and 4 CEs for Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. \n  URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/individualities-ten-angles-of-vision-on-personality-differences-and-the-difference-they-make-for-therapy-presented-by-nancy-mcwilliams-phd-abpp-class/ LOCATION:FOUR POINTS by Sheraton San Rafael\, 1010 Northgate Dr\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/8a.-Nancy-McWilliams-Photo-scaled-e1716496326778.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240413T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240413T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20230622T045146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T213826Z UID:10000472-1712998800-1713013200@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:Climate Change in the Consultation Room: Treating Climate Distress and Increasing Pro-Environmental Behavior - Presented by Barbara Easterlin\, PhD [Class] DESCRIPTION:**This event is zoom only** \nNARRATIVE \nThis presentation will provide a foundational background about the origins and mental health impacts of climate change\, how to identify clients’ climate distress\, and therapeutic practices that enhance resilience\, adaptation\, and coping. \nThe climate and environmental crisis is the most complex existential threat humanity is facing. According to recent research (2021) by the Yale School of Climate Communications\, 73% of Americans feel that the climate crisis is real and 60% believe it is human caused. In the world of mental health\, we know that internal factors such as emotions\, beliefs\, and attitudes influence behavior\, but behaviors occur within a powerful context of cultural beliefs\, social networks\, social status inequalities\, race\, and income\, as well as government policies and the larger environmental ecosystems within these individual factors exist. \nPsychotherapy of climate distress must occur within these larger systems\, but an individual’s coping skills and action that enhance each person’s resilience are important. Research and psychotherapeutic practices will be presented that help to identify climate distress within the context of a client’s biographical and psychological frame\, and to integrate these knowledge bases. In addition\, the nascent field discussion of ethical responses to the climate crisis from mental health practitioners will be discussed. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES \n By the end of this course\, participants will be able to: \n\n Describe climate change impacts on mental health including common emotional responses as well as psychological defenses and behaviors that accompany climate crisis awareness.\nDefine the key principles of the emerging field of Climate Psychology and the field’s attention to the inequitable impact of climate change on vulnerable social\, racial\, regional\, and demographic populations.\nDescribe human evolutionary and neuropsychological limitations that inhibit individual and collective action to mitigate the destructive impact of climate change and how these can be surmounted to address the emerging crisis.\nDevelop clinical strategies to improve sense of agency\, emotional regulation\, and resilience and to identify and treat challenging climate change related emotions\, such as anxiety about the future\, existential despair\, grief\, anger\, confusion\, and the amplifying impact of the climate crisis on existing mood and anxiety disorders.\n\n COURSE OUTLINE \n 9:00 -10:00 am; \n\nArriving and Brief Introductions\nIntroduction to Climate Psychology: 5 key points with attention to the impact of climate change on vulnerable populations (social\, racial\, regional & impoverished populations)\nEvolutionary neurobiology and socio-cultural-economic conditions that underlie origins of the current climate emergency\n\n10:00 -10:05 am: \nBreak \n10:05-11:15 am:  \nMental Health Impacts of the climate crisis and climate events — common emotional responses\, and defenses \n 11:15-11: 20 am: \nBreak \n11:25 am-12:45 pm: \nVignettes and Clinical psychotherapy skills for addressing climate distress \n12:45-1 pm: \nQ&A \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \n\nClimate change and the social justice issues surrounding the global ecological and biodiversity loss crisis have been recognized by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) as issues that have significant mental health impacts. Our patients bring these issues as well as related existential dilemmas to our consultation rooms\, however\, a very recent study published in the March edition of the journal Ecopsychology showed that fewer than a third of 770 therapists “report feeling well to discuss mental health impacts of climate change with their clients.”\nContent will provide an overview of the field of climate psychology using vignettes and small group discussion of ethical issues that bear on discussing these issues in the consultation room\, as well as social and psychological research that describes how the climate crisis is tied to behavior\, emotion\, and psychological defenses. Skill development is woven throughout the presentation.\nThis course is at the beginner level and appropriate for Mental Health clinicians\, climate communicators\, activists and educators.\nAll material sourced for this presentation will represent current clinical research in the field of climate psychology\, which is frequently survey- and behavior reporting-based. Statistics provided as part of this presentation are derived from peer reviewed journals in climate science\, psychology\, and social psychology.  Assessment instruments for climate distress\, presented for this topic\, have been validated and normed in a variety of countries around the world.\n\nThe limitations of the material being taught include: \n\nClimate psychology is a fairly new discipline; interventions have not yet been tested in large populations;\nThere are a variety of ethical principles and emotional tone that come into play when any topic has a political or controversial base.\nConversations have the potential to become polarized; participants will be reminded that this workshop is for clinical skill development\, not to expose or thresh out their own views on the veracity of climate science or politics.\nThe topic of climate change can be emotionally triggering for some. Participants will be provided a preview of what will be covered in the workshop as well as self-care strategies and methods of contacting the instructor to “sidebar” if necessary.\nA good part of the introduction to climate psychology describes the impact of colonization and marginalization of vulnerable populations. These include BIPOC & LGBTQ groups\, Aging people\, and women.  Some of these same populations who are impacted the worst also have rich traditions of earth care that will be touched on in the presentation.  Clinical work with BIPOC groups especially requires a culturally sensitive knowledge of ways in which they are doubly or triply damaged by climate change — due to systemic failures of social and cultural equity\, these groups are often situated near damaged ecosystems and have been denied access to resources that might mitigate some of this harm.\n\n\nCOST: \nCIP Members: \n$75 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $90 after \nNon-Members: \n$100 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $115 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \nCancellations must be received in writing by email: admin@cipmarin.org\, 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/climate-change-in-the-consultation-room-treating-climate-distress-and-increasing-pro-environmental-behavior-presented-by-barbara-easterlin-phd-class/ LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/8.-Easterlin-professional-photo-2-e1688148851512.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T120000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20230622T035715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T213534Z UID:10000469-1708678800-1708689600@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:Why Am I Feeling (or Behaving) this Way? How Working with Trauma Impacts the Clinician - Presented by Julie Robbins [Class] DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nThis workshop will focus on issues related vicarious and secondary trauma that impact professionals who work with vulnerable populations and populations with histories of child maltreatment\, trauma\, and complex trauma. The class will also address those clinicians who work regularly with clients with intense pain\, grief\, and loss.  Definitions and differences between burn out\, countertransference (how our personal experiences may interfere with our work)\, compassion fatigue\, and secondary trauma will be reviewed.  Signs and symptoms of secondary trauma\, as well as indications that it is interfering in one’s work or personal life\, will be discussed. A self-assessment tool(s) will be given.  Specific triggers that could activate secondary trauma will also be presented. The workshop will conclude with strategies for restorative work\, self-care\, and prevention. There will be an opportunity for clinicians to bring examples of their own experiences and how this is currently (or in the past) being managed during the Q and A time slot. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\n\n\nDefine secondary traumatization\nList and explain three characteristics of secondary traumatization\nList and describe three ways to prevent secondary traumatization\nUnderstand how to develop a self-care plan and list two ways that you can use this for your own self-care\n\n\n\n COURSE OUTLINE – 3 HOURS: \n9:00 – 9:30 am \nJulie Robbins will present an overview of countertransference and secondary traumatization. \n9:30 – 10:00 am \nJulie Robbins will describe the indicators of secondary trauma. \n10:00 – 10:30 am  \n                        Julie Robbins will present on self-assessment tools. \n10:30 – 10:45 am BREAK \n10:45 – 11:15 am \nWe will explore ways to identify countertransference and secondary traumatization. \n11:15 am– 12:00 noon \nJulie Robbins will present on how to work with countertransference and secondary traumatization self-care and restorative work\, and also will discuss prevention. \n CONTENT CURRICULUM: \n\n\n\nThis class builds on the already existing doctoral program by expanding the participant’s base knowledge of countertransference and trauma by explaining the differences between the two and how not only one’s own trauma\, but exposure to client’s trauma can cause secondary trauma.\nTrauma\, particularly interpersonal abuse and violence\, affects a significant portion of the general population. This class will enhance participants’ knowledge of trauma\, as well as provide some tools to work more effectively with trauma both in and out of sessions.\nThis workshop is applicable to all providers in the field of mental health who are currently (or in the future will be) working directly with treating child and adult survivors of trauma. The concepts are basic enough to be integrated by a new clinician\, as well as to expand an experienced clinician’s knowledge base.  This workshop applies mostly to those who have had some experience working directly with clients with trauma (especially interpersonal/chronic/complex) experiences.\nThe content is not only based on textbooks fairly common to the treatment of trauma and other publications (peer reviewed) directly addressing issues of secondary trauma but based on the instructor’s over 40 years of clinical experience (directly doing long-term treatment of child\, adolescent\, and adult survivors of interpersonal trauma. There is little risk in presenting this material and it may be limited (in sustainability) without each participant following up their individual needs with a clinical supervisor and/or therapist.\nThe material presented can be applied to all clients\, gender\, sexual orientations\, and culture. Each participant will be welcome to ask specific questions regarding a case where they may be having difficulty applying the concepts to a specific culture/religion/sexual orientation\, etc.\n\n\n\n  \n\nCOST: \nCIP Members: \n$75 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $90 after \nNon-Members: \n$100 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $115 after \nCEs: 3 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \nCancellations must be received in writing by email: admin@cipmarin.org\, 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/why-am-i-feeling-or-behaving-this-way-how-working-with-trauma-impacts-the-clinician-presented-by-julie-robbins-class/ LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-15-091418-1-e1688148921241.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231209T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231209T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20230622T044259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231204T180859Z UID:10000471-1702112400-1702126800@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:What’s Gone Wrong with the American Mind and What We Clinicians Can Do About It - Presented by Bryant Welch\, JD\, PHD\, ABPP [Class] DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE \nOver the last decade the political climate in America has been especially perplexing for therapists and their patients alike. In this workshop\, Dr. Welch\, a highly trained psychotherapist and political advocate for mental health and social justice\, will describe in clinical terms just how and why so many minds are running amok. He will illustrate how minds are overtaxed and what needs to be done to refortify them so they can fill the many demanding tasks of participating in a democracy. \nDr. Welch’s written works on the topic\, based on his personal experience in Washington\, D.C.\, have been extremely prophetic as he has predicted since the early 2000’s the increasing deterioration of Americans’ psychological functioning in the political arena and their increasing vulnerability to authoritarian minds. More specifically\, he explains the psychological vulnerabilities the contemporary mind has to challenge its ability to form a solid reality sense; essential to uphold the demands a democracy place on its citizens. \nHe will show how and why the reality functioning has been undercut by social and political forces\, some of them by design and some not. He will also show how other shifts in the structure of our society are further disrupting our embattled minds. Finally\, drawing on many changes in the mental health community\, he will show how we can begin to reverse these corrosive forces. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES \n Upon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\nList three impacts current forms of political manipulation have on the American Mind.\nIdentify areas of the mind that are particularly vulnerable to political manipulation.\nList three reasons why political gaslighting has been so much more powerful in contemporary America.\nExplain the vulnerabilities of the mind in key areas in a way that will help attendees’ patients develop an ability to see through and resist the impact of political gaslighting.\nDescribe the relationship between trauma and political confusion.\nExplain three reasons why conspiracy theories and irrational political attitudes are the inevitable result of contemporary political manipulation.\nIdentify how eastern contemplative traditions can be helpful at the present time for strengthening the mind of patients and therapists alike.\n\n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE – 4 Hours \n9:00 to 10:15 am   \nDr. Welch will provide the dynamic model of the mind that has been so traumatized that people are now unable to form their own view of reality. \n10:15 to 11:00 am    \nIn this section\, Dr. Welch will describe what he calls the true battleground states in America; paranoia\, sexual perplexity\, and envy\, and illustrate how they are used to manipulate the mind and cause people to support candidates who do not have their best interest at heart and divide Americans from one another. \n11:00 to 11:15 am \nBreak \n11:15 am to 12:00 noon \nDr. Welch will show how critical professions and institutions that have historically supported the independent functioning of the mind have been themselves undermined and are now largely unable to fulfill their historical roles to help stabilize the American mind in its hour of crisis. \n12:00 noon to 1:00 pm \nDr. Welch will explain why\, despite these assaults on the mind\, there is great hope for the American mind\, especially given the increasing penetration of Eastern contemplative practices. \n  \nCOURSE CURRICULUM \n\n\n\nThe program shows attendees how to apply the psychological concepts of reality testing\, regression\, paranoia\, envy\, and sexual perplexity to the instability in the American political world.\nThe knowledge participants gain will enhance their clinical work by helping them see that many of the psychological concepts they employ in assessing and treating the human mind in their practices are very powerful explanatory agents for the massive chaos currently confronting the American political realm.\nThe target audience is everyone who is working clinically in the mental health field. The concepts will be explained simply enough so that they will be accessible to participants who are beginners in the field\, as well as those with advanced knowledge.\nThe content is based on many materials and articles that have been peer reviewed and others that have been reviewed by leading legal\, political\, and psychological scholars. None of the content involves risk.\nThe clinical approach presented can be applied to all clients\, independent of cultural and role differences. Most importantly\, however\, it explains at length how primitive racist attitudes\, unconscious homophobic feeling states\, and misogyny have been used to manipulate the mind in the political arena.\n\n\n\n  \n\nCOST: \nCIP Members: \n$75 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $90 after \nNon-Members: \n$100 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $115 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs and Psychologists; Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours’ notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/whats-gone-wrong-with-the-american-mind-and-what-we-clinicians-can-do-about-it-presented-by-bryant-welch-jd-phd-abpp-class/ LOCATION:Embassy Suites San Rafael\, 101 McInnis Pkwy\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/8.-Welch-Photo-2021-03-11-at-1.14.05-PM-e1688149063299.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T120000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20220725T203417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T214819Z UID:10000463-1683968400-1683979200@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:Developments in Interventional Psychiatry: ECT\, TMS\, Psychedelic Medicine and the intersection with psycho-spiritual experience accessed through expanded states of consciousness - Presented by: Kaila Compton\, MD\, and Eleanor Woodward\, MD [CLASS] DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nWe’re in a rich and revolutionary time\, exploring a new landscape of interventions in psychiatry – and new understandings about what leads to psychic relief. Evolving brain science and a resumption of research into the beneficial effects of psychedelics on mental health is leading to new interventions for patients who have not responded to traditional psychiatric medications and therapy. The early research findings signal a paradigm shift in how we understand and treat human suffering and personal growth in all its forms. Many of these treatments have been historically misrepresented\, misunderstood\, or met with healthy skepticism by the medical and psychological communities\, and wariness by patients. As the benefit and mechanism of action in these interventions is better understood and the outcomes are more widely recognized and established through clinical research trials\, their use is becoming more familiar and easily integrated into our armamentarium of approaches to psychological distress and wellness. \nThis seminar is an opportunity to hear from two psychiatrists from our community who are on the cutting edge of providing these treatments. We will explore the history and current research on these new interventions\, and how they give us a different perspective on the treatment of specific mental health conditions\, and on experiences of wholeness\, self-acceptance\, and safety. We’ll consider when to refer patients for treatment\, how to access evidence-based interventions and practitioners\, what the process looks like for patients\, and what benefits and risks to anticipate. We will look at clinical material to reflect on how psychiatric and psychological approaches overlap and inform each other as a patient integrates these experiences\, and the role of psychotherapy as a critical complement. Finally\, we’ll look forward to what the future of psychiatry may offer in years to come\, and how the promise of these treatments may contribute to greater wellness for individuals\, communities\, and even society as a whole. \n  \n2. SOURCE MATERIAL: \nFitzgerald\, P B.\, Daskalakis\, J Z. An Introduction to the Basic Principles of TMS and RTMS. Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Treatment for Depressive Disorders\, 2013. \nPinna\, M.\, et al. Clinical and biological predictors of response to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): a review. Neuroscience Letters\, 2018. \nSerafini\, G.\, et al. The Role of Ketamine in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Systematic Review. Current Neuropharmacology\, 2014. \nSial\, O.\, et al. Ketamine: The final frontier or another depressing end? Behavioral Brain Research\, 2020. \n  \n3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: \n\nAttendees will have a greater understanding of the history and current state of Interventional Psychiatry.\nAttendees will be able to identify TMS as a treatment for mental health conditions\, which symptoms are targeted in this intervention\, which patients are most likely to benefit\, and what the risks and benefits are.\nAttendees will be able to identify Ketamine infusion as a treatment for mental health conditions\, which symptoms are targeted in this intervention\, which patients are most likely to benefit\, and what the risks and benefits are.\nAttendees will be able to identify ECT as a treatment for mental health conditions\, which symptoms are targeted in this intervention\, which patients are most likely to benefit\, and what the risks and benefits are.\nAttendees will be able to identify 3 myths and misperceptions about Interventional Psychiatry.\nAttendees will be able to identify 2 mechanisms of change when using psychedelic medicine\, and 3 typical benefits of these interventions.\nAttendees will understand how to access evidence-based interventions and practitioners using Interventional Psychiatry in their community.\n\n  \n4. COURSE OUTLINE – 3 hrs.: \n9:00 – 9:05 a.m. \nCIP staff welcome participants\, review program schedule\, explain. \nCE process. Introduce Drs Compton and Woodward \n9:05 – 9:45 a.m.  \n Introduction to Interventional Psychiatry: \nThe core elements: TMS\, Ketamine\, ECT\, and other interventions. \nThe history of Interventional Psychiatry – myths and misperceptions \nFrom the past to current – recent research as a cause for hope \n9:45 – 10:30 a.m. \nBreaking it down: \nTMS – what is it\, what is happening in the break that provides benefit\, what symptoms does it target\, which patients are most likely to benefit\, risks and contra-indications; how patients access this kind of treatment. \nKetamine – what is it\, what is happening in the break that provides benefit\, what symptoms does it target\, which patients are most likely to benefit\, risks and contra-indications; how patients access this kind of treatment \nECT – what is it\, what is happening in the break that provides benefit\, what symptoms does it target\, which patients are most likely to benefit\, risks and contra-indications; how patients access this kind of treatment \nMDMA – what is it\, what is happening in the break that provides benefit\, what symptoms does it target\, which patients are most likely to benefit\, risks and contra-indications; how patients access this kind of treatment \n10:30 – 10:45 a.m. \nMorning Break \n10:45 – 11:15 a.m.    \nPsychedelic medicine\, expanded states of consciousness\, and psycho-spiritual connections for treatment and for wellness \nQuestions and discussion \n11:15 – 11:55 a.m. \nIntegrating Interventional Psychiatry and Psychotherapy\, as part of treatment and making meaning of the treatment experience \nQuestions and discussion \n11:55 – 12:00 p.m.      \nConclusion. CIP staff thanks presenters\, explains CE process. Attendees complete evaluations. \n  \n5. CRITERION 1.1 to 1.3: \nThis program meets Criterion 1.2\, as it reflects ethical\, professional\, or regulatory developments relevant to the discipline of psychology. \n  \n6. COURSE CURRICULUM \n1) Describe how your program content will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology. \nThis program offers psychologists and other mental health clinicians a greater understanding of Interventional Psychiatry. This serves psychologists to more effectively collaborate with allied professionals\, and to better serve the needs of clients with difficult-to-treat mental conditions through knowledge of and access to a greater range of treatment interventions. \n2)  Describe how your content is specifically relevant to psychological practice\, education\, or science. \nThe field of Psychiatry continues to develop and reveal novel interventions that research indicates can have a significant impact on the reduction of psychological suffering. The ability of mental health practitioners to provide the highest quality of psychological services is enhanced by understanding the history\, mechanism of action\, benefit\, risk\, and means to refer patients to treatments offered by Interventional Psychiatry. \n3)  Describe your target audience and the instructional level of your content (introductory\, intermediate\, or advanced) \nThis advanced program is targeted to providers of psychological services in private practice or community mental health; to mental health professionals involved in the education\, training\, or supervision of psychological trainees; or leaders of mental health agencies that may provide referrals and recommendations in best practices in care for specific psychiatric conditions. \n4)  Describe the accuracy\, utility\, and the empirical basis of the materials that you will present. What are the limitations of the content being taught and their most common risks? \nThis program will present specific and general guidelines for assessing and referring patients to Interventional Psychiatry\, based on outcome research indicating that these treatments may offer more effective remission of symptoms than traditional psychopharmacologic interventions. The empirical bases of these findings were on hold for many years\, when these treatments were misunderstood or politicized. A resumption of research has led to a wider acceptance of\, and interest in\, novel approaches to psychological suffering and wellness. While many aspects of Interventional Psychiatry are still under investigation\, these treatments rely on policies\, procedures\, and general ethical and clinical guidelines published by the APA. Limitations include a) providing information about all possible benefits and potential risks is beyond the scope of this program\, b) treatment for individual patients requires professional assessment of that individual’s psychiatric and medical appropriateness\, c) treatment protocols are still in development\, and may include titration of dosing or a series of treatments to achieve the best remission of symptoms. \n5) Describe how your content reflects the appreciation of a diverse populations and how you intend to acknowledge and respect the richness of cultural\, individual and role differences. \nMental health practitioners serve a wide range of diverse clients. Therefore\, the content of this program will specifically address how providers take client diversity into consideration when considering Interventional Psychiatry treatments\, their perceived benefits\, and patient’s trepidation based on historical or cultural experiences of being subjected to novel medical treatment in the service of research. Sensitivity towards and accommodations for multiple areas of diversity will be addressed in this program. \n  \n\nCOST: \nCIP Members: \n$75 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $90 after \nNon-Members: \n$100 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $115 after \nCEs: 3 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours’ notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/developments-in-interventional-psychiatry-ect-tms-psychedelic-medicine-and-the-intersection-with-psycho-spiritual-experience-accessed-through-expanded-states-of-consciousness-presented-by-kaila/ LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Kaila-Compton_-e1658781177675.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T160000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20220714T213446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T212148Z UID:10000539-1682683200-1682697600@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:The Lively Language of the Dreaming Mind - Presented by Meredith Sabini\, PhD [CLASS] DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nInterested in a fresh perspective on dreams and dreaming? Although dreams can be hard to understand due to their metaphoric and imagistic language\, much can be gleaned using the practical approach this workshop offers. How to obtain dreams on intake\, discern diagnostic and prognostic information from them\, and help clients link dream content to their ongoing issues—these will be our focus. \nUsing the “Anatomy of a Dream” protocol with dreams provided or brought in\, this in vitro workshop offers the unique opportunity to discover that dreams can clarify a client’s resilience\, object relations\, executive functions\, and core conflicts. By taking this workshop\, you will no longer feel stymied when a client asks what a dream “means” OR have to fall back on the standard clinical cliché\, “What do you think/feel?” By focusing your natural curiosity and good observational skills on what’s actually in a dream\, you will be able to formulate relevant questions and make sensitive and sensible comments that link dream content with a client’s situation. Suitable for psychotherapists of any orientation and experience level. \n  \n2. SOURCE MATERIAL \nBolstad\, C. et al. (2021). Factor analysis of disturbing dreams and nightmares. Dreaming\, 31:4\, 329–41. \nEllis\, L. (2019). Common factors leading to a universal approach to dreamwork. Dreaming\, 29:1\, 22–34. \nOlsen\, M. R. (2020). Conscious use of dreams in waking life for decision-making\, problem-solving\, attitude formation\, and behavioral change. Dreaming\, 30:3\, 257–66. \nRimish\, A. et al. (2020). Dreams in anxiety disorders. International Journal of Dream Research\, 13:1\, 1–16. \nSabini\, M. (2013). Dreams: In sickness and in health. Dream Time\, 30:2\, 6–9\, 30. \nSaez-Uribarri\, I.\, Oberst\, U. (2018). Attributes of the dream self related to anxiety upon awakening. International Journal of Dream Research\, 13:1\, 29–30. \nVedfelt\, O. (2020). Integration versus conflict between schools of dream theory and dreamwork. Journal of Analytical Psychology\, 65:1\, 88–115. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES \nBased on participating in this didactic/experiential workshop\, attendees will be able to: \n\nObtain nightmares\, recurring\, and recent dreams from clients in any clinical setting\nDiscern clients’ resilience\, executive functions\, core conflicts\, and object relations based on specific components in dreams\nElicit relevant associations from clients that help them link dream content to their psychodynamic issues and life context\nShift the focus from “what a dream means” in the abstract to an active and creative engagement with clients\, jointly exploring their dream life.\n\n  \n3. COURSE OUTLINE – 4 HRS \nHour 1 \nGeneral query re sleep patterns \nSegmented sleep: the new normal \nToo few or too many dreams: symptoms? \n3 specific questions re nightmares\, recurring\, and recent dreams \nRe-telling a dream for clarification lets client hear it for the first time \nDoing a dream inquiry to flesh out scenes \nHour 2 \nAnatomy of a Dream basic components: setting\, atmosphere\, theme\, figures\, dreamer’s stance\, resources\, dynamic tension \nElucidating these components for/with the client \nClinical implications/correlations of each component based on empirical research \nTeaching clients to make relevant associations \nWhat qualities might a dream figure represent? \nTitling the emotional/imagistic core of the dream as a narrative \nHour 3 \nLinking dream content to client’s past\, present\, future \n\n\n\nWhat does the opening line suggest about a dream’s topic?\nIs the setting from childhood or adult life?\nA demonstration “unpacking” of a dream using Anatomy protocol\nBreaking into dyads to try out the Anatomy protocol\n\n\n\nHour 4 \nDepending on group size and preferences\, we will do dreamwork in dyads in 15-minute segments\, with presenter listening in and offering suggestions \n  \n4. CRITERION 1.1 to 1.3 \nThis program meets Criterion 1.1. \n  \n5. CONTENT CURRICULUM \n\nDescribe how your program content will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology.The course teaches clinicians in-depth strategies for working therapeutically with client’s dreams and unconscious.\nDescribe how your content is specifically relevant to psychological practice\, education\, or science.Dreaming is an important gateway to the unconscious\, thus helping clients be curious about their dreams\, their function and possible interpretations is valuable.\nDescribe your target audience and the instructional level of your content (introductory\, intermediate\, or advanced).This class is appropriate for intermediate and advanced licensed clinicians\nDescribe the accuracy\, utility\, and the empirical basis of the materials that you will present. What are the limitations of the content being taught and their most common risks?This presentation focuses on training therapists to work therapeutically with dream material. As in all aspects of clinical work\, care must be taken with any interpretations.\nDescribe how your content reflects the appreciation of a diverse populations and how you intend to acknowledge and respect of the richness of cultural\, individual and role differences.This class focuses on dream material and is relevant across cultures.\n\nBio \nMeredith Sabini\, PhD (CA lic 7397)\, founder-director of The Dream Institute of Northern California\, in Berkeley\, has been a frequent presenter at CIP. She has publications on dreams related to illness\, women’s issues\, creativity\, spiritual practice\, and ecopsychology. A psychotherapist for the first 20 years of her career\, she has been specializing in dream consultation and training since 1997. \n  \n\nCOST: \nCIP Members: \n$75 early registration 10 business days prior to class; $90 after \nNon-Members: \n$100 early registration up to 10 business days prior to class\, $115 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/the-lively-language-of-the-dreaming-mind-presented-by-meredith-sabini-phd-class/ LOCATION:San Rafael Community Center\, 618 B Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/8.-Meredith-Sabini-photo-NEW.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221203T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221203T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20220725T203417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221104T183957Z UID:10000462-1670058000-1670072400@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:Embodied Anti-racism: Bringing a Systems Framework into Clinical Work - Presented by Rachel Wilson\, LCSW [CLASS] DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nIn this workshop\, we will be examining how we can integrate anti-racism principles into our work with clients in order to create a therapeutic space that acknowledges the ways that systemic oppression and racism impact how we do our clinical work. Somatics will be utilized as a tool to help build practitioners’ capacity to examine their own cultural frame and explore how that frame impacts transference and countertransference in clinical work. We will reflect upon the importance of understanding white racial socialization and the importance of bringing the conceptualization of race into work with all of our clients. We will explore microaggressions and the ways that they can show up in the therapy room\, as well as explore ways to take accountability and build capacity to have difficult conversations about race in our clinical work. We will utilize a variety of methodologies to dive into these topics\, including lecture\, multimedia\, small group activities\, clinical vignettes and role plays. \n  \n2.  SOURCE MATERIAL: \nComas-Díaz\, L.\, & Rivera\, E. T. (Eds.). (2020). Liberation Psychology: Theory\, Method\, \nPractice\, and Social Justice. American Psychological Association. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1chs1sn \nMenakem\, R. (2017). My Grandmother’s Hands. Central Recovery Press. \nPorges\, S. W. (2011). The polyvagal theory: Neurophysiological foundations of emotions\, attachment\, communication\, and self-regulation. New York: W.W. Norton. \nOkun\, Tema. (2021). White Supremacy Culture- Still Here. https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/ \nSalter\, P. & Adams\, G. (2013). Toward a critical race psychology. Social & Personality Psychology Compass\, 7(11)\, pp. 781-793. \nSue\, D. W.\, Capodilupo\, C. M.\, Torino\, G. C.\, Bucceri\, J. M.\, Holder\, A. M. B.\, Nadal\, K. L.\, & Esquilin\, M. (2007). Racial microaggressions in everyday life: Implications for clinical practice. American Psychologist\, 62(4)\, 271–286. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.62.4.271 \nWinerman\, L. (2016\, October). Left out. Monitor on Psychology\, 47(9). http://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/10/left-out \n  \n3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: \n Upon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\nDefine systems of oppression\, white supremacy\, antiracism\, and liberation psychology\nUnderstand how systems and societal structures impact issues that show up in the therapy room\nDescribe the importance of examining white racial socialization in clinical work\nIdentify their own cultural frame and describe how that impacts their experience with clients\nBe able to utilize somatic practices and tools to better understand their own reactions to engaging in conversations about race\nUnderstand and describe microaggressions that can occur in therapy\nIdentify strategies to have effective conversations about race in the therapy room\n\n  \n4. COURSE OUTLINE – 4 HOURS: \n9:00 – 10:15 am \nRachel Wilson will provide context through a lecture format to build a shared understanding of systems of oppression and provide an overview of the framework of liberation psychology. She will utilize clinical vignettes to explore how a systems framework can be helpful in clinical conceptualization and building a better understanding of the connection between individual and collective issues. \n10:15 – 11:00 am \nRachel will provide an overview of how culture and racial socialization impact our clinical work. We will explore the importance of understanding our own socialization in the context of transference and countertransference. The group will explore the Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture. We will use small group activities to explore the connection between these characteristics and mental health issues. \n11:00 – 11:15 am \n          Break \n11:15 – 12:00 pm \nRachel will lead the group in somatic practices and provide context for the importance of understanding the somatic manifestations of systems of oppression. We use multimedia experiences to explore the somatic response to different racial conversations in order to build self-awareness of our own personal reactions to topics of race. \n12:00 – 1:00 pm \nFinally\, we will explore microaggressions and how they show up in the therapy room. We will explore tools to manage defensive emotional reactions and take accountability for our actions and words during difficult conversations about race. We will utilize role playing to practice having emotionally charged conversations about race in the context of therapy. \n  \n5. CRITERION 1.1 TO 1.3: \n This program meets Criterion 1.1. \n  \n6. CONTENT CURRICULUM: \n1) Describe how your program content will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology. \nThis workshop will expand the participants’ personal experiences and expand knowledge about how to bring in the ways that societal issues arise in the therapeutic context.  It will also add to a personal understanding of their own cultural and racial socialization as it relates to their therapeutic work. \n2) Describe how your content is specifically relevant to psychological practice\, education\, or science. \nThe knowledge the participants gain will enhance their clinical work by teaching clinicians how to understand the ways that our culture\, societal conditioning\, and systems of oppression show up in clinical work\, as well as provide tools to be able to navigate the work in a culturally responsive manner. \n3) Describe your target audience and the instructional level of your content (introductory\, intermediate\, or advanced). \nThe target audience is everyone who is working clinically in the mental health field.  The concepts will be explained simply enough so that they will be accessible to participants who are beginners in the field\, as well as those with advanced knowledge. \n4) Describe the accuracy\, utility\, and the empirical basis of the materials that you will present.  What are the limitations of the content being taught and their most common risks? \nThe content is based on materials and articles that come from multiple disciplines from both psychological texts to social justice organizing publications. There is limited information available in psychological services to fully address the issues of oppression in clinical practice\, so there is limited peer-reviewed literature on this topic. There is a risk of participants being emotionally triggered by the content due to the personal nature of the topics covered and potential conflict within the group as these issues are discussed. \n5) Describe how your content reflects the appreciation of a diverse populations and how you intend to acknowledge and respect of the richness of cultural\, individual and role differences. \nThe clinical approach presented can be applied to all clients\, independent of cultural and role differences. The cases selected for discussion will reflect diverse populations and the use of multimedia and resources from diverse thinkers. Authors selected for discussion in the theoretical part of this course are from diverse backgrounds and other sources of information will be offered to dive deeper into BIPOC thinkers on the subjects of anti-racism and liberation psychology. \n  \nBio \nRachel (she/her) is a psychotherapist\, yoga therapist\, and facilitator committed to supporting people who are impacted by personal\, systemic and vicarious trauma to re-embody and reconnect. She is passionate about providing a sanctuary for people to tell their stories\, to settle their nervous systems\, and to decolonize their minds in order to support individual and collective healing. She currently runs a private practice and has worked many years in community mental health with people from all different backgrounds. She integrates ancient wisdom and modern science into her practice to help people find balance in their mind\, body\, and spirit. \n  \n\nCOST: \nCIP Members: \n$75 early registration 10 business days prior to class; $90 after \nNon-Members: \n$100 early registration up to 10 business days prior to class\, $115 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours’ notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/embodied-anti-racism-bringing-a-systems-framework-into-clinical-work-presented-by-rachel-wilson-lcsw-class/ LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/8.-Wilson-Photo-Rachel-Headshot.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221015T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221015T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20220714T213651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220725T203745Z UID:10000459-1665828000-1665838800@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:Healing the Cultural Outsider Wound in Psychotherapy - Presented by Dennis Portnoy\, LMFT [CLASS] DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nMany who seek psychotherapy were either born in the United States of parents from another culture\, or they arrived here as children. Surrounded by peers who look and speak differently\, they often have the added burden of parents relying on them to help navigate in a new country. Eager to “fit in” they become hyper-focused on conforming and achieving\, feeling tremendous pressure to go above and beyond what is expected. The very qualities that contribute to their success in the world often perpetuate their unhappiness and disconnection from themselves. \nThere are some consistent psychological dynamics regardless of the specific cultural background. In their early experience in school\, these clients are aware that they look\, sound and view the world differently than their peers. The cultural outsider wound stems from a profound sense of being “other” that often leaves one feeling shame and a sense of inferiority. Becoming adept at taking their cues for how to act by looking outside of themselves\, cultural outsiders mold their responses to fit other’s expectations. \nThrough lecture as well as dyad work\, this course will offer a deeper understanding into the unique survival strategies employed in an attempt to cope with the difficulties that arise from feeling different. There will be particular emphasis on how these clients define themselves and measure their self-worth. Participants will also learn a powerful intervention called “piercing the threat” designed to deconstruct an identity and sense of worth that revolves around performance\, how one is being perceived\, and their usefulness to others. \n  \n2. Source Material: \nAsendorpf\, J. B.\, & Motti-Stefanidi\, F. (2017). A longitudinal study of immigrants’ peer acceptance and rejection: Immigrant status\, immigrant composition of the classroom\, and acculturation. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology\, 23(4)\, 486–498 \nChandra\, R. (Mar 06\, 2017) The Shadow side to being an Asian American over-achiever: What our Asian parents didn’t teach us about life. Psychology Today Blog Psychologytoday.com/the-pacific-heart201703 \nGarcia Coll C & Magnuson K. (2014). “The psychological experience of immigration: a developmental perspective” in the New Immigrant and the American Family. Orozco M S & Qin-Hilliard\, Eds. (Mahwah\, NJ): Lawrence Erlbaum Associates\, Inc. \nCourtois\, C (2004). Understanding Complex Trauma\, Complex Reactions\, and Treatment Approaches. Psychotherapy: Theory\, Research\, Practice\, Training. 41\, (4). 412-425 \nIgoa\, C. (1995) The Inner World of the Immigrant Child. (Mahwah\, NJ): Lawrence Erlbaum Associates \nRobbins\, A. (2006) The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids. (Paris\, France) Hachette Books \n  \n3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to:\n1. Describe how to assist clients’ in accessing and affirming their intrinsic worth\n2. Explain the concept of core assumptions and how it differs from beliefs\n3. Apply the “piercing the threat” intervention for effectively working with outdated survival strategies\n4. Assess how the “outsider experience” shapes self-concept and sense of worth\n5. Utilize techniques that facilitate clients’ shift from an external to an internal orientation \n  \n4. COURSE OUTLINE – 3 HOURS: \n1. Introduction \ni. Who are Cultural Outsiders?   (15 minutes)\nii. Acculturation stress and contributions from psychology \n2. Survival Strategies (10 minutes) \ni. A self-organized around achievement\, usefulness and external validation.\nii. Focusing outwardly to ward off shame\, isolation and inadequacy.\n(Overly-accommodating\, self-deprecating\, hyper-vigilant\, the quest to fit in / conform).\niii. Two case examples\niv. Q and A (10 minutes) \n3.Therapeutic Goals \ni. Therapeutic focus (10 minutes)\nii. Shifting to an internal frame of reference/de-constructing the externally based self\niii. Connecting with and affirming intrinsic worth Experiential Activity – Journaling and Sharing in dyads (40 minutes)\niv. Discussion \nTen-minute break \n4. Addressing obstacles to affirming intrinsic worth (10 minutes) \ni. Working with the inner critic\nii. Aversion to discord and confusing self-referenced with selfishness\niii. Recognizing/challenging the primary markers of identity \n5. Working with outdated survival strategies \ni. Experiential activity – Journaling (30 minutes)\nii. Sharing- groups of three\niii. Piercing the Threat (30 minutes)\niv. Identifying and challenging core assumptions\nv. Distinguishing core assumptions from beliefs\nvi. Re-parenting the younger self (10 minutes) \n6. Wrap up -Q and A (15 minutes) \n  \n5. CRITERION 1.1 TO 1.3:\nThis program meets Criterion 1.1. \n  \n6. CONTENT CURRICULUM: \n\nDescribe how your program content will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology. The course teaches clinicians in-depth strategies for working therapeutically with clients.\nDescribe how your content is specifically relevant to psychological practice\, education\, or science. Central to this teaching is how clinicians can get right to the heart of how clients define themselves and measure their worth.\nDescribe your target audience and the instructional level of your content (introductory\, intermediate\, or advanced). Intermediate and advanced\nDescribe the accuracy\, utility\, and the empirical basis of the materials that you will present. What are the limitations of the content being taught and their most common risks? This presentation is intended to be an introduction to working therapeutically with cultural outsiders. Participants should not expect to exhaustively understand the topic\, nor should they expect to receive more than preliminary training.\nDescribe how your content reflects the appreciation of a diverse populations and how you intend to acknowledge and respect of the richness of cultural\, individual and role differences. The central focus of this course addresses diverse populations and their unique survival strategies for dealing with “being different” and “other”.\n\n  \nBio \nDennis Portnoy is a psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco for over 30 years. He is author of THE INTRINSIC SELF: How defining yourself and your worth by your achievements and usefulness is undermining your happiness and serenity. \nIn addition to publishing numerous articles\, Dennis has been conducting workshops and presentations for several decades. More information is available at dennisportnoy.com \n  \n\nCOST: \nCIP Members: \n$57 early registration 10 business days prior to class; $68 after \nNon-Members: \n$75 early registration up to 10 business days prior to class\, $87 after \nCEs: 3 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours’ notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/healing-the-cultural-outsider-wound-in-psychotherapy-presented-by-dennis-portnoy-lmft-class/ LOCATION:Embassy Suites San Rafael\, 101 McInnis Pkwy\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/8.-Dennis-Portnoy-Photo-e1658781438815.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220205T140000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20210623T043638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211227T195855Z UID:10000456-1644055200-1644069600@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:Moving from Chaos to Clarity: Core-Focused Family Therapy – Presented by Judye Hess\, PhD [SEMINAR] DESCRIPTION:A major strength of Core-Focused Family Therapy (CFFT) is that it addresses all three dimensions of our experience: individual\, interpersonal and systemic. One of the major critiques of family therapy in general is that\, while it focuses on the interpersonal dynamics\, it lacks the depth of individual therapy. CFFT attempts to correct this problem by encouraging clients to experience their core truths in several ways\, including\, the somatic level. This assists in communication among the family members. When the family can express their deepest truths to one another\, profound changes can occur that lead to greater differentiation authenticity and closeness. The role of the therapist is to help families uncover and communicate these truths by teaching better communication\, which\, in turn\, helps them to take greater responsibility for their role in conflict and alliances.  When dyads or triads change\, this leads to a systemic change in the family. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\nSummarize the clinical techniques and skills used in Core-Focused Family Therapy.\nExplain the concept of the “identified patient” (IP) and how it both serves and debilitates the family.\nRecognize\, elicit and deepen client emotions to further change by utilizing skills of:\ndeep empathy for each member\,\nguiding family members to move from defensiveness to open-hearted communication\nmaintaining a position of neutrality\nExplain “surface area of problem”\,\nDemonstrate Checking In at the start\, Checking Out when done.\nSelect and assess families in terms of readiness for Core-Focused Family Therapy.\nIdentify how the IP may be “holding” a certain emotion for the family.\nExplain how family therapy helps the family to see the broader context of a particular member’s difficulties\, by increasing the “surface area” of the problem.\nRecognize when the family dynamic shifts from a one-person interaction with the therapist\, to a dyadic encounter between two family members\, e.g. direct interaction\nExplain the 11 common mistakes therapists make when working with families.\nIdentify and utilize the five techniques of working with a family from start (initial phone call) to finish (termination).\n\n  \nJudye Hess graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a PhD in clinical psychology in 1975 and have been licensed in the state of California since 1978\, and has a private therapy practice in Berkeley since 1980 where she sees couples\, families and facilitates groups. \nShe has been teaching experiential classes in Family Dynamics\, Couple counseling and Group Dynamics at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco over the last 27 years\, where she is a Professor and Core Faculty member. She has also taught these courses at John F. Kennedy University\, the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology\, and California State East Bay University. \nJudye is an active member of the Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society (NCGPS) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) where she has facilitated groups (Interpersonal Gestalt\, Interpersonal Growth\, and Group Process in the NOW) at both local and national conferences and Institute. She is active in the Association for Family Therapy of Northern California (AFTNC)\, the American Family Therapy Association (AFTA)\, and the International Family Therapy Association (IFTA).  \nShe has written many articles and has presented at national and international conferences in the Netherlands\, Turkey and Vancouver\, Canada\, on her method of family therapy as presented in her book Core-Focused Family Therapy: Moving From Chaos to Clarity\, which she wrote with Ross Cohen\, LPC. (Idyll Arbor\, 2008) \n  \n\nCOST: \nCIP Members: \n$75 early registration 10 days prior to seminar; $90 after \nNon-Members: \n$100 early registration up to 10 days prior to seminar\, $115 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs\, \nLCSWs\, and Psychologists. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/moving-from-chaos-to-clarity-core-focused-family-therapy-presented-by-judye-hess-phd-seminar/ LOCATION:Zoom\, Virtual\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development,Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Hess-Photo-e1624386058781.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20210623T043638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T172834Z UID:10000457-1642237200-1642251600@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:Hooked on a Feeling: Using Attachment Theory and Object Relations to Inform Work with Substance Misusing Patients – Presented by Benjamin Fife\, PsyD [SEMINAR] DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 pandemic has confronted psychoanalytic psychotherapists with the need to respond to an increase in substance use and misuse in our patients and their family members.  According to multiple studies\, since March 2020 substance use has increased by as much as twenty percent for people with existing substance use disorders (NIDA. 2020)\, and it is widely understood that social isolation and stress related to illness and medical trauma can increase susceptibility to substance misuse\, addiction\, relapse and overdose.  Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic clinicians\, including Gabor Mate\, Alistair Sweet\, and Mary Brady have made important contributions to understanding the complex relationships between attachment patterns\, internal object relationships and patterns of substance use and misuse. \nThis presentation will review the relevant contemporary thinking connecting attachment patterns\, internal object relations\, and substance use and abuse patterns and will offer participants the opportunity to think through clinical dilemmas surrounding substance use that come up in both private practice and community mental health outpatient settings. Participants will be aided in thinking through the meanings that substance use can take on for patients within family relationships and as a relationship in itself.  Participants will also learn ways of addressing risk and safety issues that come up when the substance user and abuser enters treatment. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:   \nParticipants in this program will be able to: \n\nIdentify (number of) clinical\, legal and ethical issues related to addressing substance use and misuse in the context of outpatient psychotherapy.\nList three ways in which attachment and trauma research can be relevant in the outpatient psychotherapeutic treatment of people who use substances.\nIncrease their repertoire of available psychotherapeutic interventions when working with patients who use substances.\nIdentify four harm reduction strategies they can introduce in psychotherapeutic work with substance using patients who do not have sobriety as a goal.\nIdentify three fears and biases they bring to work with substance using and abusing clients.\n\nBenjamin Fife\, PsyD is a clinical psychologist working in San Francisco where he sees children\, adults\, couples and families in his private practice.  Dr\, Fife has worked as a clinical supervisor at the UCSF Infant-Parent Program and has provided training and supervision to groups and individuals in a number of hospital and non-profit training settings in the Bay Area. Dr. Fife has a strong interest in infant and child development within family and social contexts. \n\nCOST: \nCIP Members: \n$75 early registration 10 days prior to seminar; $90 after \nNon-Members: \n$100 early registration up to 10 days prior to seminar\, $115 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs\, \nLCSWs\, and Psychologists. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/hooked-on-a-feeling-using-attachment-theory-and-object-relations-to-inform-work-with-substance-misusing-patients-presented-by-benjamin-fife-psyd-seminar/ LOCATION:Zoom\, Virtual\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development,Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Fife-Photo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20200624T131908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210216T212237Z UID:10000524-1619859600-1619874000@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:White Privilege and Racism: How to Address It in the Therapy Room – Lane Arye\, PhD & Annie Chen\, LMFT [CLASS] DESCRIPTION:The legacy of colonialism and white supremacy manifests in the therapeutic relationship as unconscious bias\, microaggressions\, white fragility\, and internalized oppression within our work with clients. These dynamics can show up in the therapeutic relationship whether we are aware of them or not. They can lead to disconnection\, conflict\, and empathic failure\, and can prolong the pain our clients feel as a result of racial oppression. They can also contribute to racism and exclusion within our profession. In this training we will: \nThe presenters will reflect on how we each came to understand our race or racialized identities within the context of US society and culture. Recognize how patterns of colonialism and whiteness permeate our lives and profession. Examine how the legacy of white supremacy centers whiteness and assigns more value to the experiences of White People and less value to those of Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Color (BIPOC). Explore the attitudes and patterns of white supremacy and how this may show up in the therapy room between therapists of different racialized identities and clients of different racialized identities. Unpack how white fragility and internalized anti-black\, anti-indigenous\, anti-Asian\, and anti-Latinx sentiments can stop conversations and inhibit curiosity and awareness about our racial impact. Articulate the potential social impact and ethical consequences of remaining unconscious about race in the therapy room. Begin to develop resilience so we can sit in the fire of conversations about race without retreating into defensiveness or fragility. Brainstorm ways to support anti-racism in our profession and institutions. \nThey will also discuss and brainstorm about cases and scenarios in which white privilege and racism (whether it is our own or our clients’) arise in the therapy room. \nLane Arye\, Ph.D. is a senior trainer of Processwork (developed by Arnold Mindell) and a founding faculty member of the Process Work Institute in Portland. He works with individuals and couples\, and also facilitates organizations and communities locally and around the world. He co-led a six-year UN funded project in the Balkans that brought together Serbs\, Croats\, and Muslims after the war to work on ethnic tension and post-war trauma. He’s been deeply researching whiteness\, and leading groups for white folks about race\, resilience and repair. He lives with his wife and two teens\, who grow his heart every day. \nAnnie Chen\, LMFT \n \nis a 1.5 generation Chinese immigrant who is settled on Chochenyo Ohlone (East Bay) lands. She is a marriage and familytherapist who has been helping people have better relationships for over ten years. She authored a book on attachment theory and uses tools that are informed by neuroscience\, trauma\, and somatic psychology. \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Member:  \n$75 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to seminar\, $90 after \nNon-Members:\n \nNon-member Rate: $100 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to seminar\, $110 after \nCEs: \n4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/white-privilege-and-racism-how-to-address-it-in-the-therapy-room-lane-arye-phd-annie-chen-lmft-class/ LOCATION:Zoom\, Virtual\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Lane-Arye-Ph.D.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210403T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210403T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20200622T221309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210215T153603Z UID:10000522-1617440400-1617454800@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:Creating Triangular Space and Promoting Symbolic Thinking in Psychdynamic Therapy – Helen Schoenhals Hart\, PsyD [CLASS] DESCRIPTION:Narrative: \n  \nIn this workshop we will be examining how we can help our clients to feel understood\, while simultaneously promoting their ability to think symbolically – a necessary prerequisite for being able to handle the emotional dilemmas they present.  We will first learn about Ronald Britton’s concept of triangular space and what this looks like in the clinical setting. \nHelen Schoenhals Hart will then show us how she applies this concept in order to develop what she calls the analytic triangle in the clinical setting.  Clinical examples will be presented that show what it looks like when this analytic triangle is not established.  We will then turn to Hanna Segal’s triangular conception of symbol formation and the difference between a symbol and what she calls a symbolic equation.  Examples of what a symbolic equation looks like in the clinical situation will be presented and discussed.  Finally\, we will study how the analytic triangle\, the Depressive Position\, the Oedipal triangle and the triangular conception of symbolic thinking all hang together.  Clinical examples and vignettes from the participants will be encouraged for our discussion. \nDr. Helen Schoenhals Hart\, originally from Michigan\, studied medicine and trained to be a psychoanalyst in Frankfurt\, Germany.  She worked for many years as a training analyst of the German Psychoanalytic Assoc. (DPV) and worked intensively with the London Kleinians.  Since moving to California in 2008 she has a psychoanalytic practice in San Rafael and is a training and supervising analyst at SFCP. \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Member:  \n$75 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to seminar\, $90 after \nNon-Members:\n \nNon-member Rate: $100 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to seminar\, $110 after \nCEs: \n4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/creating-triangular-space-and-promoting-symbolic-thinking-in-psychdynamic-therapy/ LOCATION:Zoom\, Virtual\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Dr.-Helen-Schoenhals-Hart.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210123T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210123T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20200622T141131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201008T103817Z UID:10000520-1611392400-1611406800@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:What Every Psychotherapist Needs to Know About Divorce: Know the Factors that Create Good Break Ups – Stephen H. Sulmeyer\, JD\, PhD [CLASS] DESCRIPTION:Narrative: \nDivorce has traditionally been viewed as a battle\, fought by vicious litigators who specialize in scorched-earth tactics\, that leaves both of the parties\, and especially their children\, as the losers in the process.  A great deal of excellent research has been done on the effects of such battles on the parties and the children\, with which clinicians need to be conversant.  At the same time\, the ways in which couples divorce has been changing continually since the advent of divorce mediation in the 1970s\, which in turn has generated further research.  Given the fact that in California over 50% of first marriages end in divorce\, clinicians need to understand what factors tend to be correlated with good and poor outcomes during and after divorce\, as well as be familiar with the various modalities available to assist divorcing couples to get through the dissolution process in an optimal way.  Such information\, when coupled with particular clinical skills including empathy and attention to psychodynamic details\, can help clinicians to work optimally with individual patients who are coping with the process and aftermath of divorce. \nIn this training\, the instructor will familiarize psychologists and other therapists with the basic research on litigated and non-litigated divorces\, including the emotional and developmental effects on parents and children\, as well as introduce participants to the various alternatives that now exist to traditional adversarial litigation.  Participants will learn the risk\, resilience and stabilizing factors that are associated with various divorce and post-divorce scenarios.  Attention will also be given to high-conflict couples\, including the effect of conflict on children\, and the various options available to help such individuals co-parent and resolve disputes post-separation.  This information will be synthesized to help clinicians work optimally with divorcing patients\, both in terms of maximizing resilience of parent and children\, and in terms of parenting post-divorce. \nStephen H. Sulmeyer\, JD\, PhD is a mediator with JAMS in San Francisco.  He specializes in complex and high-conflict disputes in a wide range of subject areas\, including family and divorce\, probate and elder\, family businesses\, business/commercial\, intellectual property\, employment\, discrimination\, partnerships\, and community matters.   In addition to his work as a lawyer and mediator\, Steve has a clinical psychology practice in Marin County\, California\, and works as a collaborative family specialist (coach).  He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Stanford University\, and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sophia University)\, in Palo Alto\, California\, where he taught as a member of the adjunct faculty.  He is the co-founder (with Judge Verna Adams) of the Marin Superior Court’s interdisciplinary settlement conference program\, in which mental health professionals and lawyers team up to assist judges in settling custody and other cases.  He is also the founder and past president of Integrative Mediation Bay Area\, a group that teams up mental health professionals and attorneys in a conjoint mediation model in family law and other cases. \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Member:  \n$75 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to seminar\, $90 after \nNon-Members:\n \nNon-member Rate: $100 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to seminar\, $110 after \nCEs: \n4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. \nThis event will take place on Zoom. Please register for the event to receive the link.  URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/what-every-psychotherapist-needs-to-know-about-divorce-know-the-factors-that-create-good-break-ups-stephen-h-sulmeyer-jd-phd-class/ LOCATION:https://cipmarin.org/event/what-every-psychotherapist-needs-to-know-about-divorce-know-the-factors-that-create-good-break-ups-stephen-h-sulmeyer-jd-phd-class/ CATEGORIES:Classes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Picture1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20200511T082532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201008T103647Z UID:10000519-1603530000-1603544400@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:When Self-Hate is Self-Protection: Understanding Eating Disorders– Lisa Bograd\, MA\, MFT [CLASS] DESCRIPTION:Narrative: Eating disorders are very complex disorders that can be very difficult for clinicians to treat both because of the life threatening nature of these disorders as well as the tendency of those afflicted with them to cling desperately to them despite the grave risk they pose to their physical health and emotional wellbeing. But if we really understand what is at stake for these patients in giving up their disorder\, if we can appreciate the profound way in which these afflictions have protected our patients from the pain of abuse\, neglect\, and from myriad parental failures and privations\, we may have a much better chance of helping to loosen their grip. \nIn my class we will delve into some of the writings of Freud\, particularly his paper\, “On Mourning and Melancholia\,” and we also explore some of the seminal contributions of Melanie Klein and Heinz Kohut as we seek to understand the deeper underpinnings of eating disorder symptomology. I will also incorporate examples from my own case material and do a mock session to elucidate some of the concepts I will be exploring as a means to give clinicians a better understanding of how to work psychodynamically with eating disorder sufferers\, and\, in so doing\, to begin to engage in the kind of work that can be far more rewarding and can lead to deep and lasting change. Lastly\, I will discuss eating disorders against the backdrop of race\, gender\, and sexual orientation with a focus on how eating disorders affect different minority groups. \nLisa Bograd\, MA\, MFT\, has been working with people with eating disorders and their partners and parents for close two decades. She has trained for 4 years with the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute in their East Bay Year Long programs and for 3 years with the Northern California chapter of the Institute for Contemporary Psychanalysis. Lisa gives lectures to professionals and to interns and trainees on eating disorder treatment and assessment\, and she runs workshops for parents and for people with eating disorders and their loved ones. She has a private practice in San Francisco and Berkeley where she specializes in working with adults\, preteens and teens with eating disorders\, addictions\, depression and anxiety and codependency. \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Member:  \n$75 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to class\, $90 after \nNon-Members:\n \n$100 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to class\, $110 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFT & LCSWs and 4 CEs for Psychologists \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. \nThis event will take place on Zoom. Please register for the event to receive the link.  URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/when-self-hate-is-self-protection-understanding-eating-disorders-october/ LOCATION:https://cipmarin.org/event/when-self-hate-is-self-protection-understanding-eating-disorders-october/ CATEGORIES:Classes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/lisa-bograd-headshot-e1565910758908.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200620T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200620T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20200330T153945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200609T185926Z UID:10000516-1592643600-1592658000@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:Lust\, Rage\, Chaos and Love: Erotic Transference in Psychotherapy– Felicia Matto-Shepard\, LMFT [CLASS] [CANCELED] DESCRIPTION:Narrative: While all psychotherapists are trained to understand that “therapy never includes sex\,” few feel adequately train in how to navigate sexual content that might emerge in the course of treatment.  And when the sexual content is directed toward the therapist\, many feel unprepared to respond. Merely setting boundaries with the patient without exploring the meaning of the erotic transference risks the loss of a vital archetypal energy that could be critical to the patient’s development.  At the same time\, eros has the potential to create chaos and destruction.  When we don’t address eros in the room\, it is relegated to the shadow of the unconscious where it can cause more harm. \nThis workshop will provide a framework for understanding the archetypal nature of erotic transference and its potential to function as a defense or as a healing force.  Based in Jungian psychology\, the presentation will include a theoretical framework of mythology and archetype\, case examples of both the healing and destructive nature of eros\, and experiential exercises to apply the material.  We will consider variations of gender and sexual orientation\, lust and rage as defenses against connection and the place of love in psychotherapy. \nFelicia Matto-Shepard\, MFT is a certified Jungian Analyst in private practice in Petaluma.  She works at the intersection of psychology\, embodiment and imagination.  She has a long time interest in sexuality\, power and gender.  In addition to psychotherapy\, Felicia teaches classes in active imagination through process art.  Felicia is an Analyst Member of the CG Jung Institute of San Francisco. \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Member:  \n$75 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to class\, $90 after \nNon-Members:\n \n$100 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to class\, $110 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFT & LCSWs and 4 CEs for Psychologists \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/lust-rage-chaos-love-erotic-transference-psychotherapy-june/ LOCATION:Zoom\, Virtual\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200509T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200509T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20190626T192125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200511T083445Z UID:10000506-1589014800-1589029200@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:When Self-Hate is Self-Protection: Understanding Eating Disorders– Lisa Bograd\, MA\, MFT [CLASS] [CANCELED] DESCRIPTION:This class has been canceled. It has been rescheduled to October 24\, 2020 at 9AM.  \nNarrative: Eating disorders are very complex disorders that can be very difficult for clinicians to treat both because of the life threatening nature of these disorders as well as the tendency of those afflicted with them to cling desperately to them despite the grave risk they pose to their physical health and emotional wellbeing. But if we really understand what is at stake for these patients in giving up their disorder\, if we can appreciate the profound way in which these afflictions have protected our patients from the pain of abuse\, neglect\, and from myriad parental failures and privations\, we may have a much better chance of helping to loosen their grip. \nIn my class we will delve into some of the writings of Freud\, particularly his paper\, “On Mourning and Melancholia\,” and we also explore some of the seminal contributions of Melanie Klein and Heinz Kohut as we seek to understand the deeper underpinnings of eating disorder symptomology. I will also incorporate examples from my own case material and do a mock session to elucidate some of the concepts I will be exploring as a means to give clinicians a better understanding of how to work psychodynamically with eating disorder sufferers\, and\, in so doing\, to begin to engage in the kind of work that can be far more rewarding and can lead to deep and lasting change. Lastly\, I will discuss eating disorders against the backdrop of race\, gender\, and sexual orientation with a focus on how eating disorders affect different minority groups. \nLisa Bograd\, MA\, MFT\, has been working with people with eating disorders and their partners and parents for close two decades. She has trained for 4 years with the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute in their East Bay Year Long programs and for 3 years with the Northern California chapter of the Institute for Contemporary Psychanalysis. Lisa gives lectures to professionals and to interns and trainees on eating disorder treatment and assessment\, and she runs workshops for parents and for people with eating disorders and their loved ones. She has a private practice in San Francisco and Berkeley where she specializes in working with adults\, preteens and teens with eating disorders\, addictions\, depression and anxiety and codependency. \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Member:  \n$75 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to class\, $90 after \nNon-Members:\n \n$100 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to class\, $110 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFT & LCSWs and 4 CEs for Psychologists \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/when-self-hate-is-self-protection-understanding-eating-disorders-2/ LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/lisa-bograd-headshot-e1565910758908.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20190626T185904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200313T180035Z UID:10000505-1584176400-1584190800@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:Lust\, Rage\, Chaos and Love: Erotic Transference in Psychotherapy– Felicia Matto-Shepard\, LMFT [CLASS] [CANCELED] DESCRIPTION:This class has been canceled. It has been rescheduled to June 20\, 2020. \nNarrative: While all psychotherapists are trained to understand that “therapy never includes sex\,” few feel adequately train in how to navigate sexual content that might emerge in the course of treatment.  And when the sexual content is directed toward the therapist\, many feel unprepared to respond. Merely setting boundaries with the patient without exploring the meaning of the erotic transference risks the loss of a vital archetypal energy that could be critical to the patient’s development.  At the same time\, eros has the potential to create chaos and destruction.  When we don’t address eros in the room\, it is relegated to the shadow of the unconscious where it can cause more harm. \nThis workshop will provide a framework for understanding the archetypal nature of erotic transference and its potential to function as a defense or as a healing force.  Based in Jungian psychology\, the presentation will include a theoretical framework of mythology and archetype\, case examples of both the healing and destructive nature of eros\, and experiential exercises to apply the material.  We will consider variations of gender and sexual orientation\, lust and rage as defenses against connection and the place of love in psychotherapy. \nFelicia Matto-Shepard\, MFT is a certified Jungian Analyst in private practice in Petaluma.  She works at the intersection of psychology\, embodiment and imagination.  She has a long time interest in sexuality\, power and gender.  In addition to psychotherapy\, Felicia teaches classes in active imagination through process art.  Felicia is an Analyst Member of the CG Jung Institute of San Francisco. \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Member:  \n$75 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to class\, $90 after \nNon-Members:\n \n$100 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to class\, $110 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFT & LCSWs and 4 CEs for Psychologists \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. \n\nThis class has been canceled. It has been rescheduled to June 20\, 2020. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/lust-rage-chaos-love-erotic-transference-psychotherapy/ LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200118T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200118T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20190626T185006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191209T133801Z UID:10000504-1579338000-1579352400@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:Working in the Eye of the Storm: Helping Families through Separation and Divorce– Nancy Oleson\, PhD DESCRIPTION:Narrative: The time around the decision to separate/divorce is one of intense distress and provides a common reason for people to consult a mental health professional.  Adults and children are often flooded with anger\, fear and guilt\, and it is very common for the confusion parents experience to lead to actions that harm themselves and their children. However\, these are also fertile period for growth and development in which the person’s underlying psychological structures are “softer” and more open to change.  The presenter will provide information about ways to work effectively with people in acute distress\, as well as current laws\, rules of court\, guidelines for ethical professional practice\, and best practices for participants to use to ground their work with divorcing clients. There will be a focus on balancing empathic joining and therapeutic neutrality. \nDr. Nancy Olesen is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin\, with a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She works as a child psychologist and forensic expert in juvenile and family courts as well as training mental health and legal professionals who work with the families involved in divorce or other family disruptions. She is licensed in California and Hawaii. \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Member:  \n$75 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to class\, $90 after \nNon-Members:\n \n$100 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to class\, $110 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFT & LCSWs and 4 CEs for Psychologists \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/working-eye-of-storm-helping-families-through-separation-divorce/ LOCATION:CIP Group Room\, 1330 Lincoln Ave # 201\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/nancy-oleson-headshot.jpg GEO:37.9762699;-122.5225763 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=CIP Group Room 1330 Lincoln Ave # 201 San Rafael CA 94901 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1330 Lincoln Ave # 201:geo:-122.5225763,37.9762699 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20190626T152615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191025T204934Z UID:10000503-1572685200-1572699600@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:Traversing the No Cry Zone: Psychotherapy with Men – Daniel S. Ellenberg\, PhD DESCRIPTION:Narrative: Male clients often present challenges to psychotherapists. Men are socialized to feel threated by the very nature of the therapeutic process: the language of feelings\, the disclosure of vulnerability\, and the admission of dependency needs. Male clients’ discomfort with the developing intimacy of a therapy relationship can manifest as early termination\, anger at the therapist\, unproductive intellectualizing\, and other forms of resistance. Yet\, emerging theory and research suggests that men can benefit from psychotherapy approaches that incorporate empathy and sensitivity to a man’s unique personal and socialized experiences. \nMale pain is not always obvious. Many men do suffer from depression and anxiety-related disorders\, but often it is manifested in and reflected through addiction\, violence\, interpersonal conflict\, and general irritability. Many mental health professionals see men as reluctant visitors to the consulting room\, coerced by family or legal pressures to attend. Initial resistance to psychological intervention might lead to the conclusion that men are not good candidates for therapy. This course will help therapists understand the damaging impact of male socialization\, the problems men are likely to present in therapeutic environments\, and the special skills and treatment modalities most effective in making progress with male clients. It will also address the personal and countertransference issues that often emerge for both male and female clinicians in their clinical work with men. \nDaniel Ellenberg\, PhD\, is a leadership coach\, licensed therapist\, seminar leader\, and group facilitator. He is a principle in both Rewire Leadership Institute and Relationships That Work. He leads Strength with Heart men’s groups and workshops\, is a member of the APA division for the psychological study of men and masculinity\, is a founding member of the Men’s Counseling Guild\, and wrote his dissertation on psychological aspects of the male sex role. He is co-author (with his wife) of Lovers for Life: Creating Lasting Passion\, Trust\, and True Partnership.  He co-created and delivered a resilience training program for several NASA space centers. \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Member:  \n$75 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to class\, $90 after \nNon-Members:\n \n$100 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to class\, $110 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFT & LCSWs and 4 CEs for Psychologists \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/traversing-no-cry-zone-psychotherapy-with-men/ LOCATION:CIP Group Room\, 1330 Lincoln Ave # 201\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Daniel-Ellenberg-Head-shot-2011-e1565910662294.jpg GEO:37.9762699;-122.5225763 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=CIP Group Room 1330 Lincoln Ave # 201 San Rafael CA 94901 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1330 Lincoln Ave # 201:geo:-122.5225763,37.9762699 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190511T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190511T130000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20180801T102626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190509T222352Z UID:10000484-1557565200-1557579600@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:The Emotional Truth of the Moment: The Power of Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy – Presented by Stephen H. Sulmeyer\, JD\, PhD [CLASS] DESCRIPTION:Both existential therapy and the approaches of a number of modern psychoanalysts (e.g.\, Bion\, Ogden) focus on aliveness—both the patient/client’s capacity to be fully alive\, as well as the aliveness or deadness of any moment of the therapy itself. This focus on aliveness\, particularly how it expresses itself in the therapeutic relationship\, is a key element of therapy that is truly life-changing for both therapist and patient/client. \nExistential-Analytic psychotherapy powerfully blends the best of existential (including existential-humanistic and existential-phenomenological) and contemporary\, interpersonal psychoanalytic therapy to create an approach to psychotherapy that is powerful\, transformative\, uncanny\, unsettling\, and deeply relational.  In particular\, it avoids the collusion that frequently exists between therapist and client to ward off the most deeply unsettling and anxiety-provoking issues that are present in the consulting room between therapist and client. \nIn this workshop we will explore both the theoretical underpinnings and methodology of existential-analytic psychotherapy\, as well as engage in experiential exercises that will allow participants to have a direct taste of this powerful approach to therapy. \nLearning Goals and Objectives: \n\nSelect and assess patients appropriate for existential-analytic psychotherapy\nBecome familiar with clinical techniques and skills of existential-analytic psychotherapy\nGrasp the use of the “analytic third subject of analysis” to gauge what’s happening in the room\nRecognize and work effectively with the aliveness or deadness of the therapy\nAvoid falling into the “content trap”\nDiscern the ways in which patients pull for the therapist to collude with them to undermine the therapy\n\n  \nStephen H. Sulmeyer\, JD\, PhD\, is a lawyer\, clinical psychologist\, mediator and collaborative coach in Marin County\, California. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Stanford University\, and his doctorate in psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto\, California\, where he has taught as a member of the adjunct faculty.  His theoretical orientation is existential-analytic\, which is a blend of contemporary\, interpersonal psychoanalysis (which tends to focus on the depths of patients’ psyches and histories as illuminated by the therapeutic encounter) and existential-humanistic psychology (which tends to emphasize key human concerns such as aliveness\, authenticity\, meaning\, maturation\, and mortality). He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the psychology of meaning\, and specializes in helping people find more meaning in their lives and work. \n\nCOST:  \nNon Members:\n$75 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $85 after \nCIP Members:\n$50 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $60 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. \nAccommodation for Special Needs: Accommodations will be made wherever possible to accommodate those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure that proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/the-emotional-truth-of-the-moment-the-power-of-existential/ LOCATION:CIP Group Room\, 1330 Lincoln Ave # 201\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/steve_headshot_crop-e1536950459214.jpg GEO:37.9762699;-122.5225763 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=CIP Group Room 1330 Lincoln Ave # 201 San Rafael CA 94901 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1330 Lincoln Ave # 201:geo:-122.5225763,37.9762699 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190323T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190323T140000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20180802T031756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190204T190753Z UID:10000487-1553335200-1553349600@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:What’s Your Gender? Gender Affirmative Model for Working with Transgender and Gender Expansive Children and Youth – Presented by Diane Ehrensaft\, PhD [CLASS] DESCRIPTION:This course will present the gender affirmative model for treating transgender and gender expansive children and youth and their families\, based on the premise that variations in gender equal health\, not pathology\, and the role of mental health is to 1) explore gender and its meanings to the child or youth; 2) affirm an authentic gender self; 3) build gender resilience; 4) facilitate family\, institutional\, and social supports. \nContent will include the need to re-learn gender; description of the gender web; the role of the family in gender development; the psycho-social terrain for gender expansive children and youth; recognition of the wide diversity of gender and the difference between gender identity and gender expressions; controversy about mental health gender diagnoses for children and youth;  interventions for children and youth\, including gender assessments; gender social transitions; puberty blockers\, masculinizing/feminizing hormones; and building family supports. Clinical tools that rely on non-binary gender principles will be presented\, along with case material of children in their various hues of gender.  \nLearning Goals and Objectives: \n\nDifferentiate between gender identity and gender expressions and implications for treatment\nAssess whether a youth is demonstrating gender stress or distress or dysphoria\nDelineate the three major therapeutic models for treating gender-nonconforming youth and their families\nApply a non-pathologizing developmental model of gender variations in youth to clinical work\nDemonstrate increased capacity to explore the psychodynamics of parenting a gender-nonconforming youth\nImplement a treatment plan with a therapeutic goal of increasing gender health\nIdentify co-existing psychological problems or issues that may accompany gender nonconformity\nRecognize the significance of collaborative interdisciplinary team work in promoting gender health\n\n  \nDiane Ehrensaft\, PhD\, is a developmental and clinical psychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and the Director of Mental Health and founding member of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center\, a partnership between the University of California San Francisco and community agencies to provide comprehensive interdisciplinary services and advocacy to gender nonconforming/ transgender children and youth and their families.  She is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco and the chief psychological at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic. Dr. Ehrensaft has a clinical practice in Oakland\, California\, where she sees adults\, children\, and adolescents in individual psychotherapy\, both long- and short-term. Her areas of specialization include: gender nonconforming and transgender children; families using assisted reproductive technology; divorce issues; children with developmental issues or neurodiversity; parenting. \n\nCOST:  \nNon Members:\n$75 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $85 after  \nCIP Members:\n$50 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $60 after   \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists.   \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. \nAccommodation for Special Needs: Accommodations will be made wherever possible to accommodate those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure that proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/whats-your-gender-gender-affirmative-model-for-working/ LOCATION:CIP Group Room\, 1330 Lincoln Ave # 201\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Diane-Ehrensaft-e1536950323162.jpg GEO:37.9762699;-122.5225763 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=CIP Group Room 1330 Lincoln Ave # 201 San Rafael CA 94901 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1330 Lincoln Ave # 201:geo:-122.5225763,37.9762699 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181201T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181201T140000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20180802T031529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190204T194701Z UID:10000486-1543658400-1543672800@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:The Power of Mindfulness and Compassion to Healthy Brain Functioning – Presented by Shauna Shapiro\, PhD [CLASS] DESCRIPTION:Based on Dr. Shapiro’s recent text\, The Art and Science of Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness into Psychotherapy and the Helping Professions (2017)\, the program offers scientific research and meditative practices for therapists interested in awakening the mind and opening the heart. We begin by defining mindfulness as involving three synergistic elements\, Intention\, Attention and Attitude. We focus particularly on the attitude of compassion as an essential element of mindfulness and key to its application and practice. We then draw on current research in psychology\, medicine and cognitive neuroscience; we will investigate the effects of mindfulness practice on decreasing pathology and increasing positive psychological and physiological states. \nWe will learn about the convergence of neuroscience and mindfulness\, and the optimistic message about the brain’s capacity to change. We will identify specific mindfulness practices for both therapist and client\, and delve into methods of integrating mindfulness and mindfulness-based therapies into clinical work. Through didactic presentation\, case examples\, meditation practices\, and small group activities\, we will explore methods of developing mindfulness personally and professionally. The program will emphasize the development of mindful awareness as the fundamental ground for the therapeutic process\, regardless of theoretical orientation or specific techniques. From the perspective of mindfulness\, healing does not require changing or fixing our experience\, but discovering the capacity to find freedom in the midst of our authentic experience and innate human vulnerability. \nLearning Goals and Objectives: \n\nIdentify the three key elements of mindfulness.\nList key research findings of current meditation research.\nEnumerate research findings regarding the convergence of mindfulness and neuroscience.\nDescribe how mindfulness practice can help relieve ruminative and anxious thought patterns.\nExplain how mindfulness can enhance therapist qualities essential to therapeutic work.\nIdentify how mindfulness practices can decrease therapist stress and burnout.\nArticulate a vision of mindfulness that includes both reduction of pathology as well as enhancement of well-being and optimal health.\n\n  \nShauna Shapiro\, PhD\, is a professor\, author\, and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness. Dr. Shapiro has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters\, and co-authored the critically acclaimed texts\, The Art and Science of Mindfulness\, and Mindful Discipline\, translated into nine languages. Her 2017 TEDx talk was rated one of the top 10 TED-talks on Mindfulness\, and has received over 800\,000 views. Dr. Shapiro has presented her work to the King of Thailand\, the Danish Government\, Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Summit\, and the World Council for Psychotherapy as well as to Fortune 100 Companies including Google\, Cisco Systems\, P&G\, and Genentech. Her work has been featured in Wall Street Journal\, Wired Magazine\, Mashable\, USA Today\, Shape\, Dr. Oz\, the Huffington Post\, Yoga Journal\, and The American Psychologist. \n\nCOST:  \nNon Members:\n$75 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $85 after \nCIP Members:\n$50 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $60 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. \nAccommodation for Special Needs: Accommodations will be made wherever possible to accommodate those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure that proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/the-power-of-mindfulness-and-compassion-to-rewire-our-brains/ LOCATION:Community Institute for Psychotherapy\, 1330 Lincoln Ave.\, Suite 201\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Shauna-Shapiro-Photo-e1536949684961.jpg GEO:38.0048043;-122.5324126 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Community Institute for Psychotherapy 1330 Lincoln Ave. Suite 201 San Rafael CA 94901 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1330 Lincoln Ave.\, Suite 201:geo:-122.5324126,38.0048043 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181103T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181103T140000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162823 CREATED:20180801T102831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190204T202821Z UID:10000485-1541239200-1541253600@cipmarin.org SUMMARY:The Meaning and Value of Suffering in Jung’s Psychology – Presented by Bryan Wittine\, PhD\, LMFT[CLASS] DESCRIPTION:C. G. Jung pioneered new and important ideas for the therapeutic treatment of psychological and spiritual suffering. Counter to the cultural belief that suffering is a bad thing to be eliminated or transcended as quickly as possible\, he believed neurotic defenses develop when the soul has not discovered the authentic feelings and deeper meanings of her suffering. For suffering without meaning is very hard to bear\, yet it is also often astounding to see how much a person can endure when he or she understands the why and wherefore of that suffering. In fact\, directly encountering and embracing our suffering may lead to important personal and spiritual realizations. \nIn this workshop\, Dr. Bryan Wittine\, a certified Jungian analyst practicing in Marin County\, will explore depth psychotherapy that encourage patients to find greater wisdom and maturity by authentically experiencing their sorrows and dark nights of the soul. Bryan will integrate readings from Jung and Jungian analysts with ample clinical material to illustrate how our patients can be helped by connecting with a wisdom greater than their own. As he will suggest\, under some conditions suffering can be harmful to the development of the personality\, but under other conditions we can grow and even find fulfillment when we cope with life’s tragedies and contemplate their deeper meanings. \nLearning Goals and Objectives: \n\nExplain the difference between authentic and inauthentic suffering from Jungian perspectives.\nArticulate the conditions under which depression might be regarded as a dark night of the soul rather than a symptom of a disorder.\nIdentify two therapeutic strategies for  helping to elicit and deepen a client feelings state.\nExplain how suffering can be  harmful or helpful to the process of individuation.\nArticulate under which conditions might the focus on diagnosis be counterproductive by creating distance from the suffering patient’s deeper personal and transpersonal needs.\n\n  \nBryan Wittine\, PhD\, LMFT\, is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Marin County.  He is cofounder and former chair of the graduate program in transpersonal counseling psychology at John F. Kennedy University where he also served as Associate Dean of the former Graduate School of Consciousness Studies.  He has served on the adjunct faculty at CIIS\, ITP\, and other graduate schools.  Having trained in Existential-Humanistic psychotherapy\, his long-standing practice of contemplative spirituality and studies in psychoanalytic psychology brought him to train at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco where he now regularly teaches on such topics as deepening clinical work; depth psychotherapy and spiritual inquiry; and the integration of Jungian and transpersonal psychology. \n\nCOST:  \nNon Members:\n$75 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $85 after \nCIP Members:\n$50 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $60 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. \nAccommodation for Special Needs: Accommodations will be made wherever possible to accommodate those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure that proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP 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. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/the-meaning-and-value-of-suffering-in-jungs-psychology/ LOCATION:CIP Group Room\, 1330 Lincoln Ave # 201\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cipmarin.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Bryan-Wittine-Photo-e1536949267913.jpg GEO:37.9762699;-122.5225763 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=CIP Group Room 1330 Lincoln Ave # 201 San Rafael CA 94901 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1330 Lincoln Ave # 201:geo:-122.5225763,37.9762699 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR