Got a case that's bothering you? Have you found yourself pondering an ethical dilemma? Join us for the Ethics Roundtable and explore solutions to sticky cases with other colleagues, which is a totally enriching and mutually supportive experience together.  

If you are a RECAMFT member, come and discuss your ethical situations 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. 

• Where: Zoom Meeting
• When: Fri., October 25, 2024
• Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
• You will be sent a Zoom link in your confirmation e-mail.

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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.

Affirmative Family Therapy with Gender Diverse People and Their Loved Ones

Presented by

Shawn Giammattei, PhD

Friday, Nov. 1st, 2024

10:00 am - 12:15 pm

Zoom, 2.0 CEs available for LMFTs, LPCCs, LCSWs, and LEPs (through RECAMFT, CE Provider with CAMFT CEPA/BBS) and Licensed Psychologists (through partnership with Gender Health Training Institute, CE Provider with APA/BOP).

Course Description

Many clinicians report struggling with how to approach working with gender-diverse youth and their families, especially when caregivers are having difficulty understanding or possibly accepting their child’s gender diversity. Clinicians also report struggling with how to work with couples or relationships where a partner is on a gender journey. Given the current focus on gender-affirming care and the push to restrict its access in many locations, the expanding restrictions around access to bathrooms, athletics, and safe spaces, as well as the limited number of clinicians who feel competent to work with these clients, it is important that all mental health care providers have a basic understanding of the issues at hand and how to collaboratively work with gender diverse people and their families.

This training will help providers who work with gender-diverse clients across the lifespan understand the basics of gender affirmative care using a collaborative developmental model for working with transgender, non-binary, gender-expansive children, adolescents, young adults, and their families that is inclusive of the many intersections of identity we all hold. We will explore the basics of gender diversity & language, the gender affirmative model, the experiences of gender dysphoria, gender incongruence, gender noise, gender joy, developmental gender journeys, gender minority stress, and the competencies necessary to do this work. This presentation will be interactive and include experiential exercises.

Educational Goals

Clinicians will become familiar with the gender affirmative model and the experiences of gender dysphoria and gender incongruence. They will be able to describe the gender affirmative competencies necessary for working with gender diverse people and their families. Participants will be able to identify, as well as compare and contrast, the developmental phases of gender journeys for gender diverse people and their families.  Clinicians will become aware of the minority stress experienced by gender diverse people and their families.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. List at least 4 tenets of the Gender Affirmative Model and contrast these with other proposed models of care
2. Describe the experience of gender dysphoria, gender noise, and gender joy/euphoria
3. Identify the differences and similarities of gender journeys for gender diverse youth as compared to their families and how this impacts treatment.
4. Identify and address the impact of gender minority stress, trauma, and media messages on families
5. Describe the impact of grief for families on a gender journey
6. List the 6 phases of the family gender journey

Registration

RSVP here.  Please note that once you have RSVP'd for this event, you will receive a link to register for the Zoom Meeting. You must complete this second Zoom-registration step to gain access to the event link.

Pricing

1) Registration for All RECAMFT Members - no charge

2) Reciprocal registration for members of Marin CAMFT (CODE REQUIRED) - no charge

3) Other CAMFT Members - Licensed - $30.00

4) Other CAMFT Members - Pre-Licensed - $15.00

5) Non-CAMFT Members (general public) - $36.00

6) Licensed Psychologists - $30.00

7) Pre-Licensed Psychologists - $15.00

Training Schedule and Attendance Requirements

Please note, this is a 2.0-CE training, comprised of two hours of training plus time for RECAMFT announcements in the meeting. You must be logged on at the beginning of the training, be present during the event (including responding to attendance checks by coming on camera, verbally replying, and/or replying in the chat), and stay logged on for the full duration, to end at 12:15 pm, in order to earn the CEs. If your camera is off the entire time, and RECAMFT cannot verify you were physically present at your computer throughout the training, then RECAMFT cannot issue a CE certificate, as we would not be able to show that the BBS / BOP requirements for your participation were met.

About Our Speaker

Shawn Giammattei, PhD

Shawn Giammattei, PhD is a clinical family psychologist in private practice in Northern CA and the Associate Director of Mental Health for the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF, Benioff Children’s Hospital. He is the founder & CEO of the Gender Health Training Institute, which is dedicated to training providers in culturally attuned, trauma-informed, family-centered gender affirmative care, the TransFamily Alliance, an educational, resource, and support community for parents with gender diverse offspring, and Quest Family Therapy, a group family therapy practice in California. He specializes in family therapy with couples, families, and individuals across the lifespan, with a particular focus on transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive youth and their families. He is a GEI SOC8 certified Mentor for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and is on faculty for their Global Education Institute. He is also a trans-health researcher, author, international speaker, and professor teaching graduate and post-graduate courses in LGBTQ psychology and family systems. He is an advisory member of Mind the Gap, a group dedicated to gender affirming care for trans youth and their families, a past officer and board member of the American Family Therapy Academy and the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California, and the author of several articles and book chapters on gender, sexuality, and family work.

Location 

Zoom Meeting. Requires pre-registration with Zoom using the instructions provided in your RECAMFT confirmation email in order to get your personal Zoom Join Link.

Video Recording and On-Demand Option

RECAMFT plans to record this event, to make it available as an on-demand CE-earning program, barring any unforeseen technical or production issues. The on-demand version would be available for free to RECAMFT members, and for purchase by non-members. (Please note, access to our on-demand programs is a benefit of RECAMFT membership only and is not part of the reciprocal benefits extended to Marin CAMFT members.)

For non-RECAMFT members: Please do not register for this "live" Zoom event if you are only interested in accessing the on-demand version. If you pay to register this "live" event, you are registering for this event only; on-demand access is not included. If you later decide you would rather do the on-demand program and not attend "live", then you would need to cancel your registration for this "live" event per the refund policy below.  If you register for this training under one of the paid registration options, and do not attend, and later ask to get access to the on-demand program, there will be a $10 administrative fee to cover RECAMFT's costs in setting up access to that separate program.

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Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT  (Provider #57173) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. 

The Gender Health Training Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Gender Health Training Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

• Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.
• Refunds: Refunds may be requested up to 7 days before the event by contacting therapy@recamft.org. No refunds are given beginning 7 days prior to the event. If a registrant cannot attend the event due to a mandatory evacuation or Public Safety Power Shut-off the day of the event, they can request and receive a refund with verification of address.
• CE Certificate: You must be physically present at your computer and watching and/or listening to the training while logged onto the zoom meeting for the entire presentation, and complete a post test and an evaluation to receive your CE credit certificate. Within a week after the conclusion of this educational event, once RECAMFT has processed attendance, an email with a link to the test and evaluation form will be sent to all participants whose physical presence during the online meeting is verified. Once you complete and submit your evaluation, you will have immediate access and be able to print or save your CE Certificate. This course meets the qualifications for 2.0 hrs of continuing education (CE) credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, or for Psychologists as required by the California Board of Psychology.
  
• Notice of Recording: Whenever possible, our CE events are recorded or filmed and may appear on our website. Your participation in this event by registering and attending indicates your approval for your likeness to appear in the recording, if any.
  
• Grievances: Direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.
  

NOVEMBER BOARD MEETING

Join the RECAMFT Board of Directors for our monthly meeting, which is held the SECOND Friday of each month from 9 AM - 11 AM.  

All RECAMFT members are always welcome.

This meeting is held via Zoom. 

To join us, please register here! Registration is required.

The Zoom link for this meeting will be e-mailed to confirmed attendees before the meeting.

Please note, no continuing education credits available for board meetings.

Calling all fiber artists, painters, crafters, quilters, woodworkers: Come one, come all!

• Friday, November 8, 2024
• 11:30 am - 12:30 pm 
• Zoom Meeting

Please join us for this opportunity to socially connect with other RECAMFT members in this virtual crafting circle. Bring any project that you're currently working on to this relaxed atmosphere. We can't wait to meet your creative side!

You should receive a confirmation e-mail after registration that contains the Zoom link to join the Crafting Circle. If you do not receive a Zoom link, please e-mail recamftmembership@gmail.com

REGISTER HERE

Hosted by Tara D'Orazio, LMFT, Membership Chair

CE NOTICE: There are no CEs for this event.

Compassion Fatigue Peer Support Group

We can support each other!

• Friday, November 15, 2024
• 10:30 am - 12 pm Pacific
  
  
• Zoom Meeting

    

Within the last 6 years there have been increased stressors for therapist members professionally and personally.  These stressors include but are not limited to:

• The Tubbs Wildfire and its aftermath
• The COVID-19 Pandemic
• Political, racial and world events that have caused unrest and violence and deaths
• The economic issues that have results from the pandemic and other world events

Many therapists have taken on an increased caseload to meet the needs that continue to outstrip the capacity of mental health professionals, while navigating working in a very different way online.  In addition, clients' recoveries are slower and their symptoms, stressors and pain are more acute.  

Come to this group to share your experience and be witnessed by your peers as we navigate this unprecedented time.  This will be a time to not only share what we are experiencing and holding, but to also uplift each other.  Uplifting sharings could include readings, music or art, as well as guest members with healing offerings with body movement, sound, etc.  We will also explore some of the valuable written resources around this topic such as the books Burnout and Trauma Stewardship if there is interest.  We want this group to be what you need and are open to ideas and suggestions.

Know that you are not alone, and come to be supported, validated and lifted up.

Pat Hromalik, RECAMFT Director at Large and Compassion Fatigue Group Facilitator

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RECAMFT members, please register for the November Compassion Fatigue Support Group Meeting here. Remember to enter the email address associated with your RECAMFT account to sign in and register for this members-only meeting.

Please note, this membership event does not qualify for CEs.

Are They Really SO OCD? Identifying and Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Presented by

Steven D. Tsao, PhD

Friday, Dec. 6th, 2024

9:00 am - 12:15 pm

Zoom, 3.0 CEs

Available only as this "live" (on Zoom) training. Will not be recorded, no on-demand option. Please plan to join us on December 6th if you would like to learn from Dr. Tsao.

Course Description

It is estimated that up to 3 million adults in the United States alone are currently suffering with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) – a number which is nearly equal to the population of Los Angeles. Despite this notable prevalence, there is continued stigma, misunderstanding, and inaccurate diagnoses about this highly treatable disorder, both in the public eye as well as within the field of mental health. These inaccuracies prolong the suffering of those with OCD, both by delaying an accurate diagnosis, then again delaying access to effective treatment, both of which can take years. Furthermore, these mistakes often lead well-intentioned but underinformed therapists to be ineffective for their clients suffering with OCD and can often fuel therapist frustration and burnout.

This training aims to help providers learn how to recognize OCD by learning about the diagnosis, and common clinical presentations. Concrete ways to distinguish OCD from other psychiatric disorders frequently mistaken for OCD will also be reviewed. Finally, attendees will learn about the most evidence-based treatments for OCD, namely medication and a specific form of CBT known as Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). Hands-on and practical case examples and interactive exercises will be used to help illustrate concepts and demonstrate what high-quality ERP can look like “in-the-room.”

Educational Goals

Attendees will learn about the DSM-5 diagnosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, including common subtypes, typical clinical presentations, and appropriate differential diagnosis.

Attendees will develop a practical working knowledge of the most evidence-based treatments for OCD, namely medication and Exposure and Response Prevention, to more effectively direct patients with OCD to one of these two treatments.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the features of the DSM-5 diagnosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), including obsessions and compulsions
2. Explain the insight specifiers for OCD, and its impact on treatment selection
3. Recognize common clinical presentations of OCD including contamination fears, excessive doubting, and intrusive, unwanted, sexual or violent thoughts
4. Name at least one way to distinguish OCD from GAD, PTSD, eating disorders, and body-focused repetitive behaviors
5. Discuss recommended medication dosing to target OCD, in contrast to depression
6. Explain the overall rationale for Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD, including the role of both repeated, gradual, deliberate exposure and associated strict prevention of anxiety-reducing compulsions.
7. Give at least one example of a potential exposure with associated ritual prevention for a fictional case of OCD.
   
   

Registration

RSVP here.  Please note that once you have RSVP'd for this event, you will receive a link to register for the Zoom Meeting. You must complete this second Zoom-registration step to gain access to the event link.

Pricing

1) Registration for All RECAMFT Members - no charge

2) Reciprocal registration for members of Marin CAMFT (CODE REQUIRED) - no charge

3) Other CAMFT Members - Licensed - $45.00

4) Other CAMFT Members - Pre-Licensed - $21.00

5) Non-CAMFT Members (general public) - $55.00

Training Schedule and Attendance Requirements

Please note, this is a 3.0-CE training, comprised of three hours of training plus time for RECAMFT announcements and a break during the meeting. You must be logged on at the beginning of the training, be present during the event (including responding to attendance checks by coming on camera, verbally replying, and/or replying in the chat), and stay logged on for the full duration, to end at 12:15 pm, in order to earn the CEs. If your camera is off the entire time, and RECAMFT cannot verify you were physically present at your computer throughout the training, then RECAMFT cannot issue a CE certificate, as we would not be able to show that the BBS requirements for your participation were met.

About Our Speaker

Steven D. Tsao, PhD

Steven D. Tsao, PhD is a Co-Founder at the Center for Anxiety & Behavior Therapy, a specialty clinic in suburban Philadelphia focused on evidence-based care and treatment dissemination for primary anxiety disorders. Dr. Tsao completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Fordham University and his postdoctoral fellowship at McLean Hospital. He has held faculty appointments at Boston University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Tsao was a Staff Psychologist at the OCD Institute at McLean Hospital, the Clinic Director at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Assistant Clinical Director at Rogers Behavioral Health-Philadelphia. He is an internationally-recognized expert on obsessive-compulsive disorder, having presented on empirically-based treatments for complex anxiety disorders at numerous conferences and provided in-depth, specialized trainings for therapists, hospitals, and other mental health organizations.

Location 

Zoom Meeting. Requires pre-registration with Zoom using the instructions provided in your RECAMFT confirmation email in order to get your personal Zoom Join Link.

No On-Demand Option Available

RECAMFT will not be recording this event and an on-demand option will not be available for this training. If you are interested in learning from this presenter, please plan to join us for the "live" training on December 6th.

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Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT  (Provider #57173) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. 

• Disability Accommodation: To request an accommodation for a disability, please email therapy@recamft.org.
• Refunds: Refunds may be requested up to 7 days before the event by contacting therapy@recamft.org. No refunds are given beginning 7 days prior to the event. If a registrant cannot attend the event due to a mandatory evacuation or Public Safety Power Shut-off the day of the event, they can request and receive a refund with verification of address.
• CE Certificate: You must be physically present at your computer and watching and/or listening to the training while logged onto the zoom meeting for the entire presentation, and complete a post test and an evaluation to receive your CE credit certificate. Within a week after the conclusion of this educational event, once RECAMFT has processed attendance, an email with a link to the test and evaluation form will be sent to all participants whose physical presence during the online meeting is verified. Once you complete and submit your evaluation, you will have immediate access and be able to print or save your CE Certificate. This course meets the qualifications for 3.0 hrs of continuing education (CE) credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
• Notice of Recording: Whenever possible, our CE events are recorded or filmed and may appear on our website. Your participation in this event by registering and attending indicates your approval for your likeness to appear in the recording, if any.
  
• Grievances: Direct grievances to therapy@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.
  

DECEMBER BOARD MEETING

Join the RECAMFT Board of Directors for our monthly meeting, which is held the SECOND Friday of each month from 9 AM - 11 AM.  

All RECAMFT members are always welcome.

This meeting is held via Zoom. 

To join us, please register here! Registration is required.

The Zoom link for this meeting will be e-mailed to confirmed attendees before the meeting.

Please note, no continuing education credits available for board meetings.

Calling all fiber artists, painters, crafters, quilters, woodworkers: Come one, come all!

• Friday, December 13, 2024
• 11:30 am - 12:30 pm 
• Zoom Meeting

Please join us for this opportunity to socially connect with other RECAMFT members in this virtual crafting circle. Bring any project that you're currently working on to this relaxed atmosphere. We can't wait to meet your creative side!

You should receive a confirmation e-mail after registration that contains the Zoom link to join the Crafting Circle. If you do not receive a Zoom link, please e-mail recamftmembership@gmail.com

REGISTER HERE

Hosted by Tara D'Orazio, LMFT, Membership Chair

CE NOTICE: There are no CEs for this event.

Compassion Fatigue Peer Support Group

We can support each other!

• Friday, December 20, 2024
• 10:30 am - 12 pm Pacific
  
  
• Zoom Meeting

    

Within the last 6 years there have been increased stressors for therapist members professionally and personally.  These stressors include but are not limited to:

• The Tubbs Wildfire and its aftermath
• The COVID-19 Pandemic
• Political, racial and world events that have caused unrest and violence and deaths
• The economic issues that have results from the pandemic and other world events

Many therapists have taken on an increased caseload to meet the needs that continue to outstrip the capacity of mental health professionals, while navigating working in a very different way online.  In addition, clients' recoveries are slower and their symptoms, stressors and pain are more acute.  

Come to this group to share your experience and be witnessed by your peers as we navigate this unprecedented time.  This will be a time to not only share what we are experiencing and holding, but to also uplift each other.  Uplifting sharings could include readings, music or art, as well as guest members with healing offerings with body movement, sound, etc.  We will also explore some of the valuable written resources around this topic such as the books Burnout and Trauma Stewardship if there is interest.  We want this group to be what you need and are open to ideas and suggestions.

Know that you are not alone, and come to be supported, validated and lifted up.

Pat Hromalik, RECAMFT Director at Large and Compassion Fatigue Group Facilitator

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RECAMFT members, please register for the December Compassion Fatigue Support Group Meeting here. Remember to enter the email address associated with your RECAMFT account to sign in and register for this members-only meeting.

Please note, this membership event does not qualify for CEs.