Please join us in person in Petaluma on January 9th!
RECAMFT's 51st Annual Membership Meeting including lunch, networking, and 2-CE training: "From Shame to Intimacy: Helping Clients Build Connections in a Burnt Out World" with David Khalili, LMFT
Petaluma Community Center (in Lucchesi Park)
Meeting Room 1
320 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma
Full event is 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Training begins promptly at 9:30 AM. Please arrive by 9:00 to register.
Box lunch provided. Please select from salad or sandwich options when you register (Greek salad option is vegetarian).
This event will not be live-streamed nor recorded. If you'd like to participate, please join us in Petaluma on January 9th! Open to RECAMFT members and non-member therapists.
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Networking Activity
We will be engaging in a fun activity based on interests to make connections and build relationships. When you register, you'll choose from these topics:
- Trauma
- Kids and teens
- Couples
- IFS
- EMDR
- Neurodivergence
- LGBTQ
- Sex and intimacy
- Open Topic
And we will have our monthly continuing education program during this in-person event!
"From Shame to Intimacy: Helping Clients Build Connections in a Burnt Out World" with David Khalili, LMFT
Course Description
This 2-hour workshop will equip therapists with essential tools to guide their clients toward deeper connection. The training will explore strategies for identifying needs and pleasure, fostering comfort in discussing sex, and collaboratively creating new sexual expectations. This training integrates a biopsychosocial approach to assessing sexual concerns with relational interventions, empowering mental health professionals to effectively support clients navigating intimacy in today's demanding world. Participants will enhance their clinical skills and help clients move from shame to authentic intimacy.
Educational Goals
This workshop will equip therapists with strategies to help clients' gain access to their needs and pleasure, apply a biopsychosocial approach to sexual concerns, and integrate relational interventions for navigating intimacy in a demanding world.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Identify at least three strategies for assessing clients' needs and pleasure within the context of intimacy and sexual wellness.
- Apply three biopsychosocial approach to the assessment of sexual concerns in their clinical practice.
- Integrate two relational interventions to support clients in navigating intimacy challenges in a demanding world.
About Our Speaker
David Khalili, LMFT
David F Khalili, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist, board-certified sexologist, and founder of Rouse Relational Wellness, a boutique couples and sex therapy center in San
Francisco. He’s authored Mental Health Workbook for Men and Sex Worriers: A Mindfully Queer Guide for Men’s Anxiety to Sex and Dating to enhance men's relationships with themselves and others.
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Location
In-person at the Petaluma Community Center in Lucchesi Park.
We will be in Meeting Room 1.
Google Maps link
Petaluma Community Center at 320 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma CA 94954. This is a lovely site, next to Lucchesi Park. You can sit on the grass by the lake during lunch and feed the ducks. The Lynch Creek Trail is a hiking trail available behind the building and game fields. Photo found here.
Registration
Open to RECAMFT members, and non-member therapists. Register here.
Pricing
Includes choice of lunch and the 2-CE training. If you are a RECAMFT member who would like to only attend the Annual Members Meeting, please plan to arrive at 12:15pm to register on-site at no charge (lunch not included).
1) Licensed RECAMFT Members - $45.00
2) Pre-Licensed RECAMFT members - $22.50
3) Licensed Non-Members - $70.00
This event is open to mental health professionals only.
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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 info@recamft.org.
- Refunds: Refunds may be requested up to 7 days before the event by contacting info@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 sign in and sign out on our attendance logs and be physically present for the entire presentation, and complete an evaluation to receive your CE credit certificate. Within a week after the conclusion of this educational event, once RECAMFT has reviewed attendance, an email with a link to the evaluation form will be sent to all participants whose physical presence during the 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.
- Notice of Recording: This event will not be recorded.
- Grievances: Direct grievances to info@recamft.org, and/or the chapter president at recamftpresident@gmail.com.
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