Presented By: Dr. Dan Neuharth, PhD, LMFT

Narcissism can be among the most malignant of personality disorders. Parents with narcissism can warp their children’s experience of healthy boundaries, communication, sense of self, and self-care. An estimated 15 million adults in the United States come from narcissistic family systems. Because of the powerful and destructive dynamics of narcissistic family systems, clients from these families tend to seek psychotherapy in high numbers. In addition, among psychotherapists, a disproportionately high number have themselves been raised in narcissistic families.

In this workshop, clinicians will learn various approaches to helping clients raised by narcissistic parents move beyond unhealthy aspects of their family-of-origin legacy. Clinicians will learn tools for helping clients individuate and cope with parents, as well as others who intrude narcissistically. In addition, therapists who were themselves raised in narcissistic family systems will gain material and exercises that can aid personal growth as well as professional development.

Learning Objectives - After completion of the presentation the attendees will:

1. Learn several approaches for helping clients copy with the negative effects of a legacy of having been raised in a narcissistic family system.

2. Learn tools and perspectives to help clients individuate, grieve as needed, move on, and cope with aging parents and others who intrude narcissistically.

3. Learn how to help clients raised by narcissistic parents identify the unhealthy distortions inherent in many narcissists' worldviews and behaviors.

4. Gain material and exercises to aid both personal growth and professional development for therapists who themselves were raised in narcissistic family systems.

About our speaker

Dan Neuharth, PhD, LMFT is a best-selling author based in Marin County. He specializes in helping people cope with unhealthy narcissism in those close to them. He writes a regular blog on narcissism and has given numerous presentations on the topic to both clinical and consumer audiences. He is the author of If You Had Controlling Parents: How to Make Peace with Your Past and Take Your Place in the World (HarperCollins Publishers) and Secrets You Keep From Yourself: How to Stop Sabotaging Your Happiness (St. Martin's Press). He has been featured extensively on national media including Oprah, Good Morning America, and CNN. He has more than 25 years’ experience providing individual, couples, and family therapy. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and is licensed as a marriage and family therapist in California, Florida, Texas and Virginia. He is the current president of the Marin County chapter of CAMFT.

10:30 - 11:00 Social networking and registration

Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.

CEU Certificate: You must stay for the entire meeting to receive your certificate. If you have signed IN and OUT of the course, you will receive an email with a link to the course evaluation. Once you complete the evaluation, the CE Certificate will open. If you do not immediately see the certificate, check your downloads folder. Fill in your name and license number on the certificate, and right click on it to save it to your own computer. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hrs of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

CEUs are free for RECAMFT members, or members of other CAMFT Chapters. Non-members who desire CEUs pay $15.

Grievances: direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.

Map to Odd Fellows Hall here. 

Join the RECAMFT Board of Directors for our monthly meeting, the SECOND Friday of each month from 9 am -11 am.  All RECAMFT members are always welcome.

The Board meeting is at the Oddfellows Hall, 545 Pacific Ave. (just off Mendocino Ave.), Santa Rosa. The meeting is in a conference room near the entrance, and is accessible. 

Map here. 

Chaired By: Reyna Seminara, LMFT, Ethics Roundtable Chair

Got a case that's bothering you? Have you found yourself pondering an ethical dilemma? Come and discuss it with colleagues in a confidential setting, and set your mind at ease. You don't have to have a case to discuss, but can just come to gain some knowledge from seasoned colleagues. The Ethics Roundtable will help you feel better and more confident in your clinical work. No CEs, but the 90 minutes will be well spent. No food/drink is allowed in the living room - sorry. 

• Where: Odd Fellows Hall, Conference/living room (very cozy)
• Address: 545 Pacific Ave., Santa Rosa
• When: Fri., Sept. 20, 2019
• Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
• Map to Odd Fellows Hall here. 
  

About our committee chair

Reyna Seminara, LMFT is a past president of RECAMFT. She specializes in EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) therapy.  You can learn more about the Ethics Roundtable which meets approximately three times each year here. 

Contact Reyna at RECAMFTethics@gmail.com

Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.

Grievances: direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.

Don't miss California's newly mandated 6 CE workshop! Yes, you need this even if you are licensed and had it in school. 

Suicide Prevention,

Assessment, and Intervention:

New Research, 

New Approaches

With Dr. Benjamin Caldwell, PsyD, LMFT

• Speaker/author Ben Caldwell, PsyD, LMFT
• Friday, September 27,  2019
• 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
• Agatha Furth Center, Windsor, CA - map
• 6 CEs for LMFTs, LPCCs, LCSWs & LEPs
• Lunch/snacks included!
• Register here.

This workshop meets the new Suicide Prevention CE requirement for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and LPCCs per Assembly Bill 1436 mandated by the State of California and the BBS.

Learning objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify two recent research findings in suicide that are causing clinicians to re-evaluate their assessment and intervention procedures.
• Integrate two recent changes in preferred language around suicide.
• Identify three current trends in suicidality.
• Identify five risk factors for suicide.
• Explain the difference between absolute risk and relative risk for suicide, and how this impacts suicide intervention strategies.
• Describe their responsibilities under California law related to terminally ill clients considering death by suicide.

There will be time for networking during the sign-in and the lunch break. Feel free to bring business cards and information about your therapy practice.

Location 

• Mary Agatha Furth Center
• 8400 Old Redwood Highway,
• Windsor, CA 95492
• Map here.
• Lunch is included. Vegetarian and vegan alternatives available. 
  

About our speaker

Benjamin Caldwell, PsyD, LMFT is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 42723). He currently serves as adjunct faculty for California State University Northridge in Los Angeles and as Education Director for SimplePractice Learning. He is the author of several books, including Basics of California Law for LMFTs, LPCCs, and LCSWs, and Saving Psychotherapy. He has served on the AAMFT Ethics Committee, and for several years as Chair of the Legislative and Advocacy Committee for AAMFT-California.

Cost

• Early registration as follows until 9/1/19: 

• Licensed RECAMFT members or sister CAMFT chapter members $129

• Prelicensed RECAMFT members or sister CAMFT chapter members $49
• Non-CAMFT members $139
• Regular registration beginning 9/2/19 $149
• Register here.

RECAMFT is very grateful to our sponsors who will have tables at this event.

Thank you so much to Paradigm San Francisco, who welcomed the opportunity to be our Grand Sponsor! Paradigm SF is a teen treatment center who treats addiction and mental illness, including bipolar disorder, suicide/depression and eating disorders. Their number is 866-298-8364. 

Grand Sponsor ($2500)

We welcome and thank Dr. Bob Casanova, LMFT and Rosa Toral, LMFT (ph. 707-544-7000) as our Platinum Sponsor! Bob and Rosa provide educational and therapeutic placement and consulting to parents and teens. 

Platinum Sponsor ($1500)

To learn more about becoming a RECAMFT Community Sponsor, please visit our Sponsorship page, and RECAMFT Salutes. Sponsors help RECAMFT carry out our valuable education and recovery efforts. We love our sponsor partners!

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Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.

CE Certificate: You must stay for the entire meeting, sign in and out and complete an evaluation to receive your CE credit certificate. At the conclusion of this educational event, an email with a link to the evaluation form will be sent to all attendees who signed in AND out of the event. Once you complete and submit your evaluation, you will have immediate access and be able to print your CE Certificate. Course meets the qualifications for 6 hrs of continuing education (CE) credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Grievances: Direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.

RECAMFT.org is a CAMFT Approved Continuing Education Provider. Our License number is 57173. 

Presented By: Randy Cheek, LMFT, Collaborative Divorce Coaching, Co-Parent Counselor

How would you work with a client who thinks they have a better relationship with the children than the other parent and should have a greater portion of timeshare?

Your client says “I am the parent who makes certain the children do their homework and extracurricular activities therefore the children should be with me”. How might you respond?

Your client is struggling with choosing an attorney after hearing from friends. They are also afraid to initiate divorce proceedings because they are not sure what approach might work for them. How could you assist them?

Divorce Options is a program offered to the public throughout California. It is offered in Santa Rosa on the second Saturday of the month for people considering divorce. Randy Cheek, LMFT, has taught the Divorce Options program at state, national and international conferences, and will help us understand how to better serve our clients facing divorce.

Learning Objectives - After completion of the presentation the attendees will:

1. Attendees will have a better understanding of the process options available to clients going through divorce.

2. Attendees will have at least three new strategies to offer to divorcing parents for assisting their children during the divorce.

3. Attendees will have new ways of supporting clients as they go through their divorce.

About our speaker

Randy Cheek, LMFT has a private practice in Santa Rosa. He offers collaborative coaching through divorce, an alternative dispute resolution approach, and co-parent counseling. 

10:30 - 11:00 Social networking and registration

Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.

CEU Certificate: You must stay for the entire meeting to receive your certificate. If you have signed IN and OUT of the course, you will receive an email with a link to the course evaluation. Once you complete the evaluation, the CE Certificate will open. If you do not immediately see the certificate, check your downloads folder. Fill in your name and license number on the certificate, and right click on it to save it to your own computer. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hrs of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

CEUs are free for RECAMFT members, or members of other CAMFT Chapters. Non-members who desire CEUs pay $15.

Grievances: direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.

Map to Odd Fellows Hall here. 

Join the RECAMFT Board of Directors for our monthly meeting, the SECOND Friday of each month from 9 am -11 am.  All RECAMFT members are always welcome.

The Board meeting is at the Oddfellows Hall, 545 Pacific Ave. (just off Mendocino Ave.), Santa Rosa. The meeting is in a conference room near the entrance, and is accessible. 

Map here. 

Presented By: Doreen Van Leeuwen, LMFT, Certified Imago Relationship Therapist

Couples therapy can be exhilarating and exciting when your approach, techniques and abilities enable you to stand apart from the pull to get caught in the couple’s plight, and instead assist them in redirecting their behavior in the service of healthy connection.

Couples develop a dance, a sequence of moves, at which they become adept and practiced. It is when those moves cause pain and damage that couples reach out for help, but inevitably they tend to think their partner is the REAL problem, and each wants you to side with them.

Imago Relationship Therapy allows you to come alongside the couple with a structure and a process that steers well clear of placing blame, and instead, accent the strong and healthy aspects of each other.

Learning Objectives - After completion of the presentation the attendees will:

1. Be able to summarize their understanding of Harville Hendrix’s concept of Imago Partner Attraction, and 3 specific techniques for nurturing that attraction over the life of the relationship.

2. Understand and describe the concept of “Sacred Space” and its relevance to creating and protecting the integrity of the relationship.

3. Be able to describe the roles of the visitor and the host during a “visit across the bridge” for a relational encounter.

About our speaker

Doreen Van Leeuwen, LMFT runs a successful private practice in Santa Rosa, CA where she offers mindfulness group therapy, conjoint couples sessions, individual coaching and counseling as well as remote treatment via virtual telehealth. She obtained her Bachelor’s from Calvin College, Grand Rapids, and a Master’s from Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA. Her specialties include Imago Relationship Therapy, Mind-Body Mindfulness Healing, and Critical Incident Debriefing & Disaster Mental Health. Along with earning the Outstanding CAMFT Chapter Leader Award in 2018, she was chosen as the 2019 recipient of the prestigious CAMFT Mary Riemersma Distinguished Clinical Member Award.

10:30 - 11:00 Social networking and registration

Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.

CEU Certificate: You must stay for the entire meeting to receive your certificate. If you have signed IN and OUT of the course, you will receive an email with a link to the course evaluation. Once you complete the evaluation, the CE Certificate will open. If you do not immediately see the certificate, check your downloads folder. Fill in your name and license number on the certificate, and right click on it to save it to your own computer. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hrs of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

CEUs are free for RECAMFT members, or members of other CAMFT Chapters. Non-members who desire CEUs pay $15.

Grievances: direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.

Map to Odd Fellows Hall here. 

Join the RECAMFT Board of Directors for our monthly meeting, the SECOND Friday of each month from 9 am -11 am.  All RECAMFT members are always welcome.

The Board meeting is at the Oddfellows Hall, 545 Pacific Ave. (just off Mendocino Ave.), Santa Rosa. The meeting is in a conference room near the entrance, and is accessible. 

Map here. 

Chaired By: Reyna Seminara, LMFT, Ethics Roundtable Chair

Got a case that's bothering you? Have you found yourself pondering an ethical dilemma? Come and discuss it with colleagues in a confidential setting, and set your mind at ease. You don't have to have a case to discuss, but can just come to gain some knowledge from seasoned colleagues. The Ethics Roundtable will help you feel better and more confident in your clinical work. No CEs, but the 90 minutes will be well spent. No food/drink is allowed in the living room - sorry. 

• Where: Odd Fellows Hall, Conference/living room (very cozy)
• Address: 545 Pacific Ave., Santa Rosa
• When: Fri., Sept. 20, 2019
• Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
• Map to Odd Fellows Hall here. 
  

About our committee chair

Reyna Seminara, LMFT is a past president of RECAMFT. She specializes in EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) therapy.  You can learn more about the Ethics Roundtable which meets approximately three times each year here. 

Contact Reyna at RECAMFTethics@gmail.com

Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.

Grievances: direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.

By: Andy Wallace, PhD, Chair, SSU Philosophy Department. 

A common mistake that many health care practitioners make is assuming that compassion causes burnout. ‘Compassion fatigue’ is the colloquial expression for this mistake. In fact, ‘compassion fatigue’ is a misnomer for empathic distress, which refers to the over-identification with the suffering of others. A powerful antidote for empathic distress is the cultivation of compassion. More compassion, not less, is the answer. Research on compassion indicates that compassion is an activating, energizing, and uplifting state of mind. The more one develops one’s own innate compassion response the more one is capable of holding the pain of others without losing emotional balance or becoming disabled by it.

Part of becoming more compassionate includes becoming more compassionate towards oneself. Self-compassion refers to unconditional loving-kindness from the self for the self. We need to distinguish self-compassion from self-esteem, which refers to conditional self-acceptance. Compassion for self and others is an innate disposition that persons can cultivate intentionally. Cultivating compassion provides a means for health care practitioners to remain engaged and vital in their work of service for others.

Learning Objectives - After completion of the presentation the attendees will:

1. Understand the difference between empathic distress and compassion.

2. Understand current research on the health benefits of compassion.

3. Learn practices for cultivating compassion responses.

About our speaker

Dr. Andy Wallace earned his PhD in moral philosophy from University of California, San Diego. He is a full professor and chair of the philosophy department at Sonoma State University, where he has taught since 1998. He is a Stanford Certified Compassion Cultivation Training Teacher and teaches at the Compassion Institute in Petaluma, CA. 

Dr. Wallace's research focuses on compassion, especially the ontogenetic developmental mechanisms that help to explain why becoming more compassionate produces such remarkable health benefits for the compassionate individual. He is also am interested in the ethical implications of compassion: how best to understand the role that compassion plays in moral experience. Current empirical research on compassion suggests that it can represent a powerful antidote to burnout in the helping professions.

An international speaker, he will present current research on the energizing or activating nature of compassion and offer participants practices to cultivate their own compassion responses.

10:30 - 11:00 Social networking and registration

Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.

CEU Certificate: You must stay for the entire meeting to receive your certificate. If you have signed IN and OUT of the course, you will receive an email with a link to the course evaluation. Once you complete the evaluation, the CE Certificate will open. If you do not immediately see the certificate, check your downloads folder. Fill in your name and license number on the certificate, and right click on it to save it to your own computer. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hrs of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

CEUs are free for RECAMFT members, or members of other CAMFT Chapters. Non-members who desire CEUs pay $15.

Grievances: direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.

Map to Odd Fellows Hall here. 

Join the RECAMFT Board of Directors for our monthly meeting, the SECOND Friday of each month from 9 am -11 am.  All RECAMFT members are always welcome.

The Board meeting is at the Oddfellows Hall, 545 Pacific Ave. (just off Mendocino Ave.), Santa Rosa. The meeting is in a conference room near the entrance, and is accessible. 

Map here. 

By: Jane Kennedy, Certified Family Nurse Practitioner, MN, MPH

Integrative and Functional Medicine has for decades used the principle of finding the underlying cause of imbalance in the whole person system and treating with modalities that cause the least side effects to return the patient to optimal balance. By using this approach, we can successfully evaluate changes in psychological health through the life cycle and determine if underlying hormonal imbalances of various types or dysfunctional states of metabolism, can be the the cause.

These include sex hormones, thyroid and adrenal hormones, insulin and glucose control, and neurotransmitters along with other hormones, for women and men at at any age. By promoting optimal life style choices, supplementation and bio-identical hormone replenishment when appropriate, we can offer approaches which have low risks of side effects.

The journey with patients to regain lost balance can be one filled with deep satisfaction as they reclaim their lives with a new sense of optimal health and well-being physiologically and psychologically.

Learning Objectives - After completion of the presentation the attendees will:

1. Identify points of physiologic hormonal changes in the life cycle when psychological changes are likely to occur for women and men.

2. List 3 major hormonal systems causing psychological symptoms and 2 of the most common with each system.

3. List 3 physiologic features patients demonstrate of hormonal or metabolic imbalance.

About our speaker

Jane Kennedy, CFNP, MN, MPH has concentrated her Santa Rosa clinical practice over the past 18 years on helping women and men regain their health and vitality after experiencing hormonal imbalance and decline. Her extensive training and experience with experts in the field of Integrative and Functional Medicine have made her into a leading hormonal health practitioner. Trained as a Nurse Practitioner at UCLA, Jane has been in clinical practice for over 40 years in Family Practice, Women's Health, and Dermatology. With an additional Master's Degree in Public Health, she has always focused on disease prevention and embraces a mind-body-spirit model of health.

10:30 - 11:00 Social networking and registration

Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.

CEU Certificate: You must stay for the entire meeting to receive your certificate. If you have signed IN and OUT of the course, you will receive an email with a link to the course evaluation. Once you complete the evaluation, the CE Certificate will open. If you do not immediately see the certificate, check your downloads folder. Fill in your name and license number on the certificate, and right click on it to save it to your own computer. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hrs of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

CEUs are free for RECAMFT members, or members of other CAMFT Chapters. Non-members who desire CEUs pay $15.

Grievances: direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.

Map to Odd Fellows Hall here. 

Join the RECAMFT Board of Directors for our monthly meeting, the SECOND Friday of each month from 9 am -11 am.  All RECAMFT members are always welcome.

The Board meeting is at the Oddfellows Hall, 545 Pacific Ave. (just off Mendocino Ave.), Santa Rosa. The meeting is in a conference room near the entrance, and is accessible. 

Map here. 

By: John Schempf, LMFT, Active Duty US Coast Guard.

What kind of person decides to join the military for low pay, arduous duty, separation from loved ones and inherent danger from life threats? What kind of person decides that marrying a military person is a good idea? Separation from and loss of loved ones, frequent moving, and a new job are standard operating procedure for military members and their families, often with young children, on an annual basis.

Furthermore, the military presents a cornucopia of diversity issues including hyper-masculinity (sometimes called "toxic masculinity"), locker room mentality, sexual assault, power and control, homophobia and transphobia. As an active duty member of the US Coast Guard, specializing in domestic violence issues in families, marriage and family therapist, John Schempf, will be able to provide an intimate look on the unique problems encountered when working with families who have a member serving in our military.

Learning Objectives - After completion of the presentation the attendees will:

1. Have a working knowledge of military family life challenges and its effect on relationships.

2. Have knowledge of military resources and the challenges involved in accessing resources.

3. Discuss approaches to providing counseling therapy to military and their families.

About our speaker

John W. Schempf, LMFT is employed by the US Coast Guard Health Safety and Work-Life Division as a Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC), Family Advocacy Specialist (FAS), and Employee Assistance Program Coordinator (EAPC). He specializes in sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, and suicide. John received his Master’s Degree in Psychological Counseling MFT Track from the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in 2010.

As an Active Duty member of the US Coast Guard, John provides drug and alcohol counseling, develops and implements substance abuse prevention programs, and provides case management for the US Coast Guard. Additionally, he provides training, education and counseling for active duty US Coast Guard young men and women, as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and Federal Law Enforcement Officer and subject matter expert instructor/trainer and course developer in both emergency medicine and law enforcement as well as engaging in numerous search and rescue and law enforcement cases. John works with Hope Counseling Petaluma to provide low-fee counseling for Sonoma County residents.

10:30 - 11:00 Social networking and registration

Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.

CEU Certificate: You must stay for the entire meeting to receive your certificate. If you have signed IN and OUT of the course, you will receive an email with a link to the course evaluation. Once you complete the evaluation, the CE Certificate will open. If you do not immediately see the certificate, check your downloads folder. Fill in your name and license number on the certificate, and right click on it to save it to your own computer. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hrs of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

CEUs are free for RECAMFT members, or members of other CAMFT Chapters. Non-members who desire CEUs pay $15.

Grievances: direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.

Map to Odd Fellows Hall here. 

Join the RECAMFT Board of Directors for our monthly meeting, the SECOND Friday of each month from 9 am -11 am.  All RECAMFT members are always welcome.

The Board meeting is at the Oddfellows Hall, 545 Pacific Ave. (just off Mendocino Ave.), Santa Rosa. The meeting is in a conference room near the entrance, and is accessible. 

Map here. 

By: Christina Ingenito, LCSW and Jim Matto-Shepard, PhD.

Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy consistently shows remarkable and dramatic results from the serious psychological distresses of treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD, and end-of-life existential angst. Clients and clinical trial participants describe these experiences as one of the most spiritual of their lives. Increased compassion and empathy have also been consistently reported. Many voices of vision recognize these treatments as the most significant advancements in psychiatry and psychology in decades.

Our speakers will provide an embodied experience of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy by sharing Christina’s personal experience as a participant in an MDMA research study, thus grounding the presentation in the palpable reality of the potent, healing effects of this treatment. Discussion will include currently available psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy treatments; highlight the importance of “set and setting;” and share what’s coming soon through the FDA MDMA Expanded Access program. They will also talk about their work as founders of the first psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy clinic in Sonoma County - the Northern California Center for Integrative Psychotherapy in Petaluma.

Learning Objectives - After completion of the presentation the attendees will:

1. Have a basic understanding of the protocol and effectiveness of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), and understand the differences between KAP, ketamine infusions, and the new esketamine medication by Johnson & Johnson.

2. Understand the protocol of FDA-approved clinical trials utilizing MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, and have a clear understanding of the consistent and dramatic results of these trials. Understand what will be available through the FDA MDMA Expanded Access program coming in late 2019.

3. Understand the importance of “set and setting” in the psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy model and the non-directive clinical approach to the work.

About our speakers

Christina Ingenito, LCSW is a transpersonal and somatic psychotherapist with a private practice in Petaluma. She has been an LCSW since 1986, has done hospice work for over 25 years; and she facilitates a restorative justice group for men serving life in prison at San Quentin. She works at the intersection of mystery, social justice, and empowerment.

Jim Matto-Shepard, PhD is a licensed psychologist with specializations in somatic, couples and group psychotherapy. He was licensed in 1997. He is also a certified conscious dance (Soul Motion) teacher. Jim is passionate about authenticity in relationship and has been immersed in ritual and meditation since 1978.

Both Christina and Jim are certified in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and are recent graduates of the CIIS Certificate in Psychedelic Therapies and Research Program. Along with two colleagues, they have founded and opened the first psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy clinic in Sonoma County — the Northern California Center for Integrative Psychotherapy in Petaluma.

10:30 - 11:00 Social networking and registration

Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.

CEU Certificate: You must stay for the entire meeting to receive your certificate. If you have signed IN and OUT of the course, you will receive an email with a link to the course evaluation. Once you complete the evaluation, the CE Certificate will open. If you do not immediately see the certificate, check your downloads folder. Fill in your name and license number on the certificate, and right click on it to save it to your own computer. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hrs of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

CEUs are free for RECAMFT members, or members of other CAMFT Chapters. Non-members who desire CEUs pay $15.

Grievances: direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.

Map to Odd Fellows Hall here. 

Join the RECAMFT Board of Directors for our monthly meeting, the SECOND Friday of each month from 9 am -11 am.  All RECAMFT members are always welcome.

The Board meeting is at the Oddfellows Hall, 545 Pacific Ave. (just off Mendocino Ave.), Santa Rosa. The meeting is in a conference room near the entrance, and is accessible. 

Map here. 

Chaired By: Reyna Seminara, LMFT, Ethics Roundtable Chair

Got a case that's bothering you? Have you found yourself pondering an ethical dilemma? Come and discuss it with colleagues in a confidential setting, and set your mind at ease. You don't have to have a case to discuss, but can just come to gain some knowledge from seasoned colleagues. The Ethics Roundtable will help you feel better and more confident in your clinical work. No CEs, but the 90 minutes will be well spent. No food/drink is allowed in the living room - sorry. 

• Where: Odd Fellows Hall, Conference/living room (very cozy)
• Address: 545 Pacific Ave., Santa Rosa
• When: Fri., Sept. 20, 2019
• Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
• Map to Odd Fellows Hall here. 
  

About our committee chair

Reyna Seminara, LMFT is a past president of RECAMFT. She specializes in EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) therapy.  You can learn more about the Ethics Roundtable which meets approximately three times each year here. 

Contact Reyna at RECAMFTethics@gmail.com

Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.

Grievances: direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.

Join the RECAMFT Board of Directors for our monthly meeting, the SECOND Friday of each month from 9 am -11 am.  All RECAMFT members are always welcome.

The Board meeting is at the Oddfellows Hall, 545 Pacific Ave. (just off Mendocino Ave.), Santa Rosa. The meeting is in a conference room near the entrance, and is accessible. 

Map here. 

By: Kristine Jensen, LCSW

The current epidemic of unrecognized and untreated toxic shame threatens the success of our work as therapists. Shame is not just an element of abuse. In this presentation, we will learn about the complex nature of this syndrome—its origins, and the various forms it takes that look nothing like how we generally think of shame. We will see that shame is often at the core of atypical depression, anxiety, OCD, pathological narcissism, domestic violence, attachment disorders and various Axis II diagnoses. We will see how shame can begin as early as the mother-child relationship, how shame disguises itself in four major behavioral patterns, and what specific relational elements of the treatment relationship are essential in the healing balm. Clinicians will leave this workshop with practical tools and insights that we can use Monday morning.
Learning Objectives - After completion of the presentation the attendees will:

1. List four primary behavioral patterns that people use to defend against shame: the Compass of Shame.

2. Explain how shame becomes toxic and remains toxic.

3. Name the two keys to healing in the therapeutic relationship.

About our speaker

Kristine Jensen, LCSW has practiced individual and couples therapy for over four decades. For fifteen years she specialized in DID treatment, consultation and workshops. In 2010, Kristine closed her practice and worked with active military in Germany and Japan for two years. Having relocated to Monterey, she now has a part-time practice and is the president of the Monterey Chapter. Kristine has advanced training with John Gottman, Susan Johnson, and has for the past three years studied and read extensively on shame. She is in the process of writing a book on shame for the layperson.

10:30 - 11:00 Social networking and registration

Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.

CEU Certificate: You must stay for the entire meeting to receive your certificate. If you have signed IN and OUT of the course, you will receive an email with a link to the course evaluation. Once you complete the evaluation, the CE Certificate will open. If you do not immediately see the certificate, check your downloads folder. Fill in your name and license number on the certificate, and right click on it to save it to your own computer. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hrs of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

CEUs are free for RECAMFT members, or members of other CAMFT Chapters. Non-members who desire CEUs pay $15.

Grievances: direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.

Map to Odd Fellows Hall here. 

Join the RECAMFT Board of Directors for our monthly meeting, the SECOND Friday of each month from 9 am -11 am.  All RECAMFT members are always welcome.

The Board meeting is at the Oddfellows Hall, 545 Pacific Ave. (just off Mendocino Ave.), Santa Rosa. The meeting is in a conference room near the entrance, and is accessible. 

Map here. 

By: Orit Weksler, LMFT

What makes our early experiences meaningful and useful? What helps us know ourselves and make sense of the world? Using viral videos from the early days of YouTube, we will attempt to answer these questions using Winnicott’s ideas about “The Full Experience”; “Personal Gestures”; “A Holding Environment” and Transitional Space”. We will think about attachment, metallization, play and discuss ideas about rhythm, knowledge and the importance of pausing in an interactive and fun training.

Learning Objectives - After completion of the presentation the attendees will:

1. Know about Winnicott's concepts of "The full experience", "Transitional space", "Holding environment".

2. Understand the relationship between "rhythm", "knowledge" and "pause" in creating a transitional space that allows for growth and creativity.

3. Experience a "holding environment" in the presentation itself and reflect on how to use this experience in their clinical work.

About our speaker

Born and raised in Jerusalem, Orit Weksler, LMFT studied Expressive Arts Therapy following her work in theater, spoken word and alternative education. Upon emigrating to the US in 2002 she comleted in MFT license requirements in CA and opened her private practice in Berkeley in 2008 where she sees adults, teens and children.

Orit's interest in early development has brought her to the study of psychoanalytic theory, attachment, EMDR, IFS and more. She is passionate about attempting to translate different theoretical models into practice in a way that would make sense to a diverse audience. She has developed this presentation as a way to connect with teachers, parents and clinicians from different backgrounds. Her specialties include working with children and adults on the autism spectrum, giftedness, adoption, creativity and mental illness.

10:30 - 11:00 Social networking and registration

Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.

CEU Certificate: You must stay for the entire meeting to receive your certificate. If you have signed IN and OUT of the course, you will receive an email with a link to the course evaluation. Once you complete the evaluation, the CE Certificate will open. If you do not immediately see the certificate, check your downloads folder. Fill in your name and license number on the certificate, and right click on it to save it to your own computer. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hrs of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

CEUs are free for RECAMFT members, or members of other CAMFT Chapters. Non-members who desire CEUs pay $15.

Grievances: direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.

Map to Odd Fellows Hall here. 

Join the RECAMFT Board of Directors for our monthly meeting, the SECOND Friday of each month from 9 am -11 am.  All RECAMFT members are always welcome.

The Board meeting is at the Oddfellows Hall, 545 Pacific Ave. (just off Mendocino Ave.), Santa Rosa. The meeting is in a conference room near the entrance, and is accessible. 

Map here.