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NARRATIVE:   Divorce 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…

**This event is zoom only** NARRATIVE This 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. The climate and environmental crisis is the most complex existential threat humanity is facing. According to recent…

NARRATIVE: This 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,…

NARRATIVE: We'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…

NARRATIVE: In 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…