pROFESSIONAL Workshops

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This workshop is designed specifically for mental health providers who are looking to deepen their understanding of perfectionism and enhance their therapeutic approaches. Perfectionism, while often seen as a positive trait, can lead to significant mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, and burnout. This workshop aims to equip professionals with the knowledge and tools necessary to effectively address perfectionism in their clients.

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This workshop is designed to provide professional participants with comprehensive tools to help conceptualize disorganizations of the self in relation to developmental experiences with codependency. This workshop provides tools to help guide clients to explore the relationship between boundaries with others and the health and wellbeing of the self, with grounded application for practice. 

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This workshop takes a look at modern depictions of black feminism in popular media and movies. We discuss the erasure of black womanhood in conversations of gender equality and representation in public discourse and we analyze how black feminisms can show up and support how practitioners interact with black female clients.

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As we examine our habits, our minds may gravitate toward cleaning schedules, personal hygiene, work routines, and exercise. Essentially a plethora of mundane tasks that we must continually complete to decrease stress, decision burden, as well as to increase our efficiency in day-to-day life. It’s common knowledge that adopting or fine tuning our habits will ultimately be in our best interest. It ensures we are giving the proper attention necessary to free up mental energy so we can give our full attention to work, relationships, and relaxation. However, habits may seem overwhelming for clients who have not adopted healthy routines into their lifestyle, or seem like a chore, which may result in neglecting routines and could result in a chaotic environment, or a chaotic mind. As professionals, we can explain the pros and cons of habit formation to our clients. Whether our client’s habits already exist, or a client is making active goals to adopt a habit, we can identify sources of strength, opportunities for growth, and identify values. Habit formation possess the potential to provide protection, support, and emotional regulation. Being that habits have the tendency to be overlooked and not appreciated, this workshop aims to provide a framework to increase our client's attunement to their habits and the practice of mindfulness.

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Many therapists might find themselves facing a lot of imposter syndrome and self-doubt at some point in their careers. It may be difficult to share these feelings as a result of fear of judgment within their close professional network. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Connie Burk discuss in Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others a tendency for individuals in caring positions to turn inward and shut down by over-intellectualizing and numbing when overwhelmed or highly affected by work. One of the first solutions posed in this book is to turn to social support. Part of the group and individual supervision process involves an evolving understanding of the self and hearing from the perspectives of others. This workshop is intended to aid clinicians in reconnecting with the fruitful vulnerability that they might be missing in the supervision and consultation process.