UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
All of our trainings are "live online" per NYS Education Department as they provide an opportunity for participants to interact in real time with the presenter
Devoted Or Dangerous? Ideological Violence In Emerging Adulthood
Date: Thursday, June 1, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Cost: $65
2 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Brielle Stark-Adler, Ph.D.
Emerging adults’ developmental openness to new ideas, as well as their motivation for connection and belonging, can transform into an all-encompassing worldview that impacts cognition, emotion, and behavior. Explore the psychological trajectory from ideological passion to extremist thinking and violent ideation. Risk and protective factors in personality, behavior, and environment will be reviewed.
This session will examine the psychological process through which the potential for ideologically based violence may develop, with specific focus on the developmental framework of emerging adulthood. The training will address the mental health provider’s role in assessment, consultation, and management of safety concerns both on college campuses and in private practice settings. Clinicians are often in the challenging, perplexing, and sometimes frightening position of assessing emerging adult clients’ potential for violence and advising on action plans for those suspected of violent ideation. Clinical administrators are called upon to recommend safe and ethical courses of action and to respond to personal safety concerns among those interacting with such clients – including other clinicians.
Grounded in a positive, integrative, strengths-based model of mental health and well-being, Brielle Stark-Adler, Ph.D. provides insight-oriented psychotherapy, counseling, supervision, and consultation, with special expertise in clinical work with young adults, college/graduate students, competitive athletes, and religiously observant individuals.
Brielle is a licensed psychologist in New York State and received her Ph.D. In Counseling Psychology from Fordham University. Brielle’s professional background includes years of clinical leadership, clinical supervision, and direct psychotherapy service delivery on college campuses. This equips her with special expertise in working with young adults, college and graduate students, and athletes, including athletes competing at NCAA Division I and national/international levels.
Writing Letters Of Support For Gender Affirming Procedures For TGNC Clients
Date: Fri, June 2, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Cost: $90
3 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Nyx Melody, LMHC
Join Nyx Melody, LMHC in this three-hour virtual training to gain greater competencies in creating, maintaining, and practicing skills to become a gender-affirming provider.
This course provides applicable skills regarding drafting a letter of support for gender-expansive clients seeking gender-affirming medical procedures to affirm the client’s gender identity. Participants will learn about the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) standards of care for gender-affirming surgeries.
With an in-depth exploration of each necessary component of a letter of support for gender-affirming procedures, participants will also be provided a template for letter writing upon completion and an opportunity to ask reflective questions and receive case consultation.
Nyx Melody, LMHC (pronouns: they/them/theirs & fae/faer/faers) is a queer, panromantic, non-binary, trans femme New York State licensed mental health counselor, clinical supervisor, educator and consultant on anti-oppression, mental health, gender/sexuality, and LGBTQIA+ issues. They have had experience working with individuals, couples, and groups who are struggling with various issues, including but not limited to: trauma/abuse, gender/sexual identity, anxiety, depression, substance use, acculturation, racial identity exploration, and dismantling internalized inferiority and/or superiority.
Nyx completed a dual masters degree: Masters of the Arts in Psychological Counseling and a Masters of Education in Mental Health Counseling from Teachers College, Columbia University, where faer took extensive course work and engaged in research initiatives surrounding queer and gender-expansive microaggressions/mental health concerns.
Fae also works as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology & Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development teaching mental health counseling graduate students.
Mindfulness Modalities To Combat Burnout In The Helping Profession
Date: Monday, June 5, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Cost: $65
2.5 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Rebecca Marcus, LCSW
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This virtual workshop focuses on using mindfulness-based interventions to reduce, chronic stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue in helping professionals to improve overall wellness in addition to improving client care.
Primary issues to be covered include understanding and defining burnout and compassion fatigue and understanding how they negatively impact overall wellness and patient care. Participants will also learn about the stress response and how to intentionally stimulate the related relaxation response to better manage and decrease compassion fatigue. Participants will learn practical coping skills and effective tools to reduce their own burnout and develop awareness of the signs of stress and burnout.
Participants will create their own self-care kit to use after the workshop is over to aid in burnout prevention.
Rebecca Marcus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who works with adults and teens, helping them heal from life’s challenges to allow them to thrive.
She specializes in anxiety and relationships and uses a trauma-informed approach. She has expertise in mindfulness-based, and attachment, and relational practices, and uses these tools to empower individuals to overcome their fears so they can live the life they want. By providing guidance and support, she helps her clients develop self-awareness and build effective coping skills to allow them to break free from anxiety and stress.
Rebecca received her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology with minors in Fine Arts and Disaster Studies from the State University of New York at New Paltz and later went on to receive her Masters in Social Work, from New York University with a focus on clinical practice and trauma. She has also pursued post-graduate training at the Family Institute and the School of Psychotherapy in Israel. Rebecca previously treated addictions and other co-occurring disorders as part of the Outpatient program at Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation in New York. She also worked with adolescents young adults at SoHo CBT+ Mindfulness Center. She currently has a private practice in New York City.
Grief: Theoretical Frameworks And Practical Applications
Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT
Cost: $120
4 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Maria Georgopoulos, LMHC, FT,
People who have experienced the death of someone significant in their lives can be quite disoriented by the experience. Grievers can benefit immensely from the help of clinicians who have specialized training in grief.
Participants in this training will have an opportunity to understand contemporary grief theories and how these theories inform goals and interventions that are helpful in grief counseling.
Maria Georgopoulos, LMHC, FT, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Fellow in Thanatology, whose work focuses on grief, loss, and trauma. She obtained her Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Development and received additional clinical training through The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy’s Psychoanalytic Training Program and The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.
Formerly the Director of Bereavement Services at Calvary Hospital, she was responsible for overseeing 33 bereavement support groups across three sites in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Manhattan that serve hundreds of adults, children, and teenagers each year; led a team of 8 bereavement counselors and spearheaded Calvary’s efforts to expand their professional learning programs in the New York area. She also worked with grieving families at The American Red Cross of Greater New York after 9/11.
Ms. Georgopoulos values raising awareness about death and dying in our communities. To support this endeavor, she has taught as an adjunct professor, contributed chapters in various publications for the Hospice Foundation of America and participates in different committees with the Association for Death Education and Counseling and the National Alliance for Children's Grief. She has worked with countless individuals experiencing trauma and loss over the length of her career, conducts trainings and seminars for mental health professionals nationally, and maintains a private practice in New York.
Working With LGBTQ+ Youth/Adolescents: Gender And Sexuality Development
Date: Fri, June 9, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Cost: $90
3 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Nyx Melody, LMHC
This collaborative and interactive training explores the sexuality and gender development for youth and adolescents, covering topics including affirming therapeutic approaches to working with youth and adolescents exploring gender and sexuality, common mental health concerns, strategies for working with families, and becoming an affirming provider for LGBTQ+ youth and adolescents.
This training is geared toward mental health providers seeking to gain greater competencies related to therapeutic interventions to employ when working with queer and gender diverse youth and adolescents.
This training examines theory, research, and the assessment of adolescent sexual and gender development, decision-making, and risk-taking behaviors. The course will cover both health gender development and sexual development of youth and adolescents, providing skills for working with both affirming and non-affirming families and/or primary caregivers of queer and gender diverse youth and adolescents. The course will also cover co-morbid mental health concerns amongst queer and gender diverse youth and adolescents.
Nyx Melody, LMHC (pronouns: they/them/theirs & fae/faer/faers) is a queer, panromantic, non-binary, trans femme New York State licensed mental health counselor, clinical supervisor, educator and consultant on anti-oppression, mental health, gender/sexuality, and LGBTQIA+ issues. They have had experience working with individuals, couples, and groups who are struggling with various issues, including but not limited to: trauma/abuse, gender/sexual identity, anxiety, depression, substance use, acculturation, racial identity exploration, and dismantling internalized inferiority and/or superiority.
Nyx completed a dual masters degree: Masters of the Arts in Psychological Counseling and a Masters of Education in Mental Health Counseling from Teachers College, Columbia University, where faer took extensive course work and engaged in research initiatives surrounding queer and gender-expansive microaggressions/mental health concerns.
Fae also works as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology & Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development teaching mental health counseling graduate students.
Disability Counseling Effectiveness For Mental Health Professionals
Date: Saturday, June 10, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Cost: $60
2 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Dr. Michele Rivas
The mental health professions have made significant strides in recognizing and embracing diversity-related frameworks that affirm diverse communities’ experiences. However, little attention has been given to the intersection of physical/developmental disability and race and the intersecting dynamics that create a variety of social, historical, and political implications for clients. In this virtual training Dr. Michele Rivas will present and discuss clinical insights and research findings related to practitioners’ development of disability counseling effectiveness and will engage in dialogue aimed at elucidating anti-racist and anti-ableist practices to address the many inequalities clients with disabilities experience in the mental health system.
Clinical implications for the inclusive practice of clinicians will be identified and discussed, along with relevant materials to support affirming practice and supervision.
Dr. Michele Rivas is an Assistant Professor of Counseling at Nova Southeastern University and a bilingual licensed mental health counselor whose teaching, research, clinical practice, and service are framed within Critical Disability Studies and Anti-racist Pedagogy lenses.
Through her scholarship, Dr. Rivas aims at amplifying and addressing the intersections of disability, race, and mental health as well as the counseling implications of stigma and criminal justice involvement.
What Happens in Therapy, Stays in Therapy? The Ethics of Confidentiality
Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Cost: $90
3 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., M.S.W
What do I do when a client tells me they’ve contemplated committing suicide? Who do I contact when I’m worried a client is going to hurt someone? Will I get in trouble if I talk about my clients outside of work? This course brings real-world context to ethical concerns related to confidentiality, often experienced by professionals in practice. Join Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., M.S.W in an exploration of the goals and limits of confidentiality through an analysis of ethical and legal complications. This course will provide a framework to contemplate ethical dilemmas and make informed decisions that insulate professionals from legal liability while protecting clients from harm.
Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., M.S.W, Principal Consultant with Krase Consultant, has years of experience consulting with government and community-based organizations to develop policy & practice standards. She is an expert on the professional reporting of suspected child maltreatment and has authored multiple books and articles on the subject
Treating Culturally Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Clients: Competence And Ethics
Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Cost: $85
3 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Dr. Jaimee Arnoff
This training will promote an increased understanding of the Deaf Community as a cultural and linguistic minority, focusing on clients within the Deaf community who use ASL (American Sign Language) as their primary mode of communication. By understanding the historical and current values of these clients, including family dynamics, school dynamics, and language, you will be less likely to misunderstand and misdiagnose. Ethical considerations related to competence, multiple relationships, and confidentiality will also be explored, particularly as they relate to collaboration with certified interpreters.
Dr. Jaimee Arnoff is a licensed clinical psychologist, specializing in teens and young adults, including those in the Deaf Community. Dr. Arnoff has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults across hospital settings, residential treatment centers, and community mental health clinics with a training focus in mood and anxiety disorders. When not providing therapy services at her private practice in Beacon, NY, she also completes forensic evaluations through Family Court in Dutchess County and supervises clinicians working toward licensure in New York State. Dr. Arnoff consults with other providers who work to support individuals who experience suicidal ideation and self-injurious behaviors. As the psychologist at James’s Warriors, a local not-for-profit organization, she has developed and presented on Teen Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in high schools and colleges, as well as in libraries and other community centers throughout NY.
Step by Step: Building a Strong Therapeutic Alliance Through Coregulation
Date: Friday, June 16, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Cost: $85
3 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Dr. Victoria Grinman
This workshop introduces clinical staff to best use of self to support clients in their goals and healing. When there is an impasse in the therapeutic process with clients, even highly skilled and informed professionals can feel burnout. This training hones in on the process of co-regulation and use of self in therapy to maximize the connection and healing. Through understanding how therapists and clients impact one another, providers can connect more deeply, work through challenges and be more proactive against burnout. Practitioners will obtain skills in mindset, techniques for co-regulation, connection and self-care.
Dr. Victoria Grinman is a therapist, consultant, speaker and transformation agent who has been dubbed “the parent whisperer” by those that have been touched by her work. Victoria is a dual-licensed clinician with expertise in the experience of Posttraumatic Growth in parents of young adult children with Autism. She is the founder of Growing Kind Minds LLC, a private practice and global community platform where she is a speaker, trainer, contributing adjunct professor and consultant to educational and corporate institutions.
Victoria is a trauma-informed and trained yoga and mindfulness instructor to children and teens, a certified aromatherapist and a dedicated long-time clinical volunteer for Experience Camps, a free one-week grief camp experience for children who have lost a significant person in their life. She is dedicated to being a facilitator of joy and positive change by highlighting the possibility and power in our struggles.
Grief And The DSM: Conceptualizing Grief Through A Diagnostic Lens
Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT
Cost: $120
4 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Maria Georgopoulos, LMHC, FT,
The death of someone significant in a person’s life can be quite disorienting. The grief that follows is generally a complex and multi-faceted experience that permeates most or all aspects of one’s life.
Grievers often wonder if they are grieving the “right way” and if they will ever “get better” because the intensity of their pain can be so dysregulating. The ways in which people adapt to these losses and re-establish their lives are varied. Although there has always been recognition that some have a more complicated reaction to death than others, recent initiatives have moved those complications into a widely recognized, controversial, and formalized diagnosis. Grief now carries a categorization of “normal” or “disordered”.
After years of heated debate and changes in how grief complications are named and identified, Prolonged Grief Disorder has recently been established as a form of grief that is pervasive and interferes significantly with a person’s functioning in the authoritative manual of the APA, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Maria Georgopoulos, LMHC, FT, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Fellow in Thanatology, whose work focuses on grief, loss, and trauma. She obtained her Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Development and received additional clinical training through The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy’s Psychoanalytic Training Program and The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.
Formerly the Director of Bereavement Services at Calvary Hospital, she was responsible for overseeing 33 bereavement support groups across three sites in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Manhattan that serve hundreds of adults, children, and teenagers each year; led a team of 8 bereavement counselors and spearheaded Calvary’s efforts to expand their professional learning programs in the New York area. She also worked with grieving families at The American Red Cross of Greater New York after 9/11.
Wilderness Therapy: Advanced Practice In Nature-Based Interventions
Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Cost: $85
3 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Andrea Lajoie LCSW-R, KMOG
Join Andrea LaJoie, LCSW-R, KMOG in a three-hour training focused on providing nature-based interventions in outpatient mental health settings.
Topics covered will include specific strategies for working with individuals and groups; how to write progress notes and treatment plans using nature-based interventions; how to manage liability; assessing your client’s comfort in being in nature; assessing your comfort (as a provider) in being in nature; creating an agenda for wilderness group therapy; demonstration of specific guiding/wilderness skills.
Andrea Lajoie (she/her) was born and raised in rural upstate New York, on the ancestral lands of the Gana’dagwëni:io’geh. She received a B.A. in Philosophy for Children from SUNY Plattsburgh before earning her MSW from Wheelock College at Boston University in 2010. Andrea spent the next few years in western Massachusetts in clinical practice and as an adjunct professor. In 2014, Andrea moved back to upstate New York and found a home in the finger lakes on the ancestral lands of the Onödowáʼga. She is licensed as an LCSW-R in New York and as a Certified Kripalu Mindful Outdoor Guide (KMOG). Andrea is also a Level II trained AEDP therapist. Andrea has an outpatient mental health practice in Ithaca, NY that includes traditional office-based therapy for folks of all ages and also clinical supervision for mental health professionals. In 2020, Andrea founded Wolf Tree Wilderness Therapy and has been leading individuals, families, and groups into the more-than-human world since.
Andrea is an unlikely hiker, who celebrates diversity in all forms and encourages folks with different abilities, different shapes and sizes, different backgrounds, and who are underrepresented and marginalized, to find a safe home in the wilderness. She is a queer, white, cis-female, tattooed, spinal fusion warrior who loves spending her free time knitting, playing music, or taking pictures of her two cats. On most days you will find her roaming around the Finger Lakes National Forest or mapping out invasive species on local trails. Despite not having the greenest of thumbs, Andrea is proud of her herb garden (and, if you join in one of her wilderness groups, you will be treated to a cup of homegrown herbal tea).
Domestic Violence, Targeted Violence, And Lethality
Date: Friday, June 30, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT
Cost: $120
4 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Dr. Stephanie Leite
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We work with clients who are the victims and the perpetrators of domestic violence. Sometimes those situations contain a higher level of lethality both for the victim and the general public.
A clinician’s worst nightmare is the death of a client, especially when we are left with the question “could I have done more?” Knowledge helps us change lives. Meanwhile, the topic of domestic violence and lethality is ignored and seldom taught. Dr. Leite is an expert in threat assessment and management.
In this training, she will share the importance of understanding domestic violence and misogyny as a pre-indicator in planned attacks, the importance of victim safety, perpetrator stressors, stalking behaviors, strangulation, and lethality indicators. Join Dr. Leite in problem solving a few cases.
Dr. Stephanie Leite is the principal psychologist at Forensic Intelligence, LLC. She conducts corporate, municipal, and school-based safety assessments, specializing in complex presentations. All threat assessments emphasize the management portion of the process, assisting clients to manage current threats and avoid future threats. She is able to effectively work on a case-by-case basis with extant threat assessment teams requiring a mental health professional.
Dr. Leite received her Psy.D. from the University of Hartford, having previously achieved a Masters from Boston University and a B.A. from Carleton College. She currently practices in the state of Connecticut as a forensic psychologist and in the arena of threat assessment and management.
Dr. Leite held pre-doctoral training positions at Long Lane School and the NW Center for Families and Children, completed her internship at The Village for Families and Children and her postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Living.
Suicidal Ideation And Self-Injurious Behaviors: Assessment And Treatment
Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Cost: $90
3 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Dr. Jaimee Arnoff
Beginning with the first therapy session, clinicians will learn about addressing the limits of confidentiality and the importance of transparency. The focus will transition to managing a disclosure, better understanding the client's perspective in that moment, and understanding how that impacts clinician response.
This training will address assessment of risk and how to proceed accordingly. For those working with minors, there will be discussion about how to share disclosures with a family member prior to ending the session. For those only working with adults, the benefits of signing a release will be highlighted. Safety plans, as well as effective replacement and general coping skills will also be reviewed.
Dr. Jaimee Arnoff is a licensed clinical psychologist, specializing in teens and young adults, including those in the Deaf Community. Dr. Arnoff has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults across hospital settings, residential treatment centers, and community mental health clinics with a training focus in mood and anxiety disorders. When not providing therapy services at her private practice in Beacon, NY, she also completes forensic evaluations through Family Court in Dutchess County and supervises clinicians working toward licensure in New York State. Dr. Arnoff consults with other providers who work to support individuals who experience suicidal ideation and self-injurious behaviors. As the psychologist at James’s Warriors, a local not-for-profit organization, she has developed and presented on Teen Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in high schools and colleges, as well as in libraries and other community centers throughout NY.
Assessing And Treating Problematic Sexual Behavior In Emerging Adulthood
Date: Monday, July 17, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT
Cost: $120
4 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitators: Brielle Stark-Adler, Ph.D. and Shoshanna Must, Ph.D.
This training will provide a framework for clinicians to develop initial competency in working with emerging adult clients with problematic sexual behavior. Within the developmental framework of emerging adulthood, the training will offer strategies for assessing and treating problematic sexual behavior.
The training will review the variety of sexual interests and behaviors that may arise during intake and through the treatment course (i.e. problematic pornography use and interpersonal sexual violence, both contact and non-contact) as well as the prevalence of these behaviors on college campuses.
Brielle Stark-Adler, Ph.D.
Grounded in a positive, integrative, strengths-based model of mental health and well-being, Brielle Stark-Adler, Ph.D. provides insight-oriented psychotherapy, counseling, supervision, and consultation, with special expertise in clinical work with young adults, college/graduate students, competitive athletes, and religiously observant individuals.
Brielle is a licensed psychologist in New York State and received her Ph.D. In Counseling Psychology from Fordham University. Brielle’s professional background includes years of clinical leadership, clinical supervision, and direct psychotherapy service delivery on college campuses. This equips her with special expertise in working with young adults, college and graduate students, and athletes, including athletes competing at NCAA Division I and national/international levels.
Shoshanna Must, Ph.D.
Shoshanna Must, Ph.D. is a forensic psychologist licensed in the state of New York. For over 15 years Dr. Must has been specializing in the evaluation and treatment of persons with sexual behavioral problems, as well as providing support and therapy for family members and loved ones impacted. She also is a consultant for the judicial branch of Connecticut, where she conducts quality improvement audits for psychosexual risk evaluations, as well as provides trainings to court clinicians.
Dr. Must is the clinical director and consultant of the NYC office of Empire State Forensics, where she works together with clinicians to provide the most holistic and humanistic care to persons struggling with their sexual behavior. Dr. Must serves as evaluation coordinator; conducting and supervising psychosexual risk assessments, SORA determination evaluations, as well as general psychological evaluations for the local and federal court system, as well as defense attorneys.
Memory Reconsolidation: Neurobiology Of Shifting The Implicit Memory System
Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Cost: $65
2 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT, LPC, SEP,
Our ability to help clients with a range of symptoms— from depression and anxiety, to destructive behaviors or problems with self-worth— is often thwarted by unconscious understandings that they learned during potent emotional experiences.
Such learnings are sticky and held in parts of the brain that are hard to reach with words alone. We can use recent neuroscientific discoveries in the field of memory reconsolidation to guide us to assist our clients in unlearning the “emotional knowings” that are keeping them stuck. There are key elements to this natural process that, when harnessed in the therapy room, can lead to transformational change in our clients’ subcortical brains.
Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT, LPC, SEP, is a clinician and teacher of neurobiology living in Austin, Texas. In her clinical work, she specializes in trauma recovery, couple therapy and intensive, long form treatment of couples and trauma. She has taught internationally on many different aspects of the clinical application of neuroscience. She is an associate instructor for the Coherence Institute.
Exploring Sexuality And Alternative Sexual Practices In Psychotherapy
Date: Fri, July 21, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Cost: $90
3 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Nyx Melody, LMHC
This training explores the topics of sex, sexuality, sensuality, and the engagement in alternative sexual practices, such as kinks, fetishes, BDSM, and more by offering frameworks and practice strategies to mental health and wellness providers that are essential to provide affirming care to clients who are members of the LGBTQIPA+ community and/or engage in alternative sexual practices.
This course provides distinctions between the aforementioned concepts and how they are practiced and introduces a wealth of terms to become familiar with when working with clients who are members of the LGBTQIPA+ community and/or engage in alternative sexual practices.
Learn helpful strategies to practice and employ with clients in therapeutic settings. This training provides reflective questions and case examples that aim to assist participants with identifying areas that may create barriers and challenges for working with or maintaining relationships with clients who are members of the LGBTQIPA+ community and/or engage in alternative sexual practices.
Nyx Melody, LMHC (pronouns: they/them/theirs & fae/faer/faers) is a queer, panromantic, non-binary, trans femme New York State licensed mental health counselor, clinical supervisor, educator and consultant on anti-oppression, mental health, gender/sexuality, and LGBTQIA+ issues. They have had experience working with individuals, couples, and groups who are struggling with various issues, including but not limited to: trauma/abuse, gender/sexual identity, anxiety, depression, substance use, acculturation, racial identity exploration, and dismantling internalized inferiority and/or superiority.
Nyx completed a dual masters degree: Masters of the Arts in Psychological Counseling and a Masters of Education in Mental Health Counseling from Teachers College, Columbia University, where faer took extensive course work and engaged in research initiatives surrounding queer and gender-expansive microaggressions/mental health concerns.
Fae also works as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology & Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development teaching mental health counseling graduate students.
Preparing Mental Health Professionals For Legal System Involvement
Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Cost: $90
3 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., M.S.W
Are you working with a family involved in a custody case? Have you been asked to serve as an expert witness? Are you worried about being sued? Mental health professionals are often put in a position where they must interface with the legal system.
Many times, these interactions are not voluntary on the part of the mental health professional. As a result, they can be daunting. This course will help prepare mental health professionals with information and skills to competently interface with the legal system, when necessary.
Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., M.S.W, Principal Consultant with Krase Consultant, has years of experience consulting with government and community-based organizations to develop policy & practice standards. She is an expert on the professional reporting of suspected child maltreatment and has authored multiple books and articles on the subject
Climate Change And Mental Health
Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Cost: $85
3 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Andrea Lajoie LCSW-R, KMOG
Join Andrea "Snowy" Lajoie, LCSW-R, KMOG, in this virtual training aimed at providing psychotherapy for clients experiencing ecological grief, climate anxiety, and other related existential crises. Topics covered will include an overview of climate-related mental health issues and the growing impact that environmental destruction has on the psyche, signs and symptoms of climate-related mental health issues, current research on the impact of climate change and environmental destruction on mental health, and therapeutic interventions for supporting and treating clients experiencing eco grief, climate anxiety, and related existential crises. The disproportionate impact that climate change and environmental destruction have on BIPOC and indigenous communities will also be addressed, as well as a brief overview of how providers can manage their own feelings about environmental destruction and their own existential fears.
Andrea Lajoie (she/her) was born and raised in rural upstate New York, on the ancestral lands of the Gana’dagwëni:io’geh. She received a B.A. in Philosophy for Children from SUNY Plattsburgh before earning her MSW from Wheelock College at Boston University in 2010. Andrea spent the next few years in western Massachusetts in clinical practice and as an adjunct professor. In 2014, Andrea moved back to upstate New York and found a home in the finger lakes on the ancestral lands of the Onödowáʼga. She is licensed as an LCSW-R in New York and as a Certified Kripalu Mindful Outdoor Guide (KMOG). Andrea is also a Level II trained AEDP therapist. Andrea has an outpatient mental health practice in Ithaca, NY that includes traditional office-based therapy for folks of all ages and also clinical supervision for mental health professionals. In 2020, Andrea founded Wolf Tree Wilderness Therapy and has been leading individuals, families, and groups into the more-than-human world since.
Andrea is an unlikely hiker, who celebrates diversity in all forms and encourages folks with different abilities, different shapes and sizes, different backgrounds, and who are underrepresented and marginalized, to find a safe home in the wilderness. She is a queer, white, cis-female, tattooed, spinal fusion warrior who loves spending her free time knitting, playing music, or taking pictures of her two cats. On most days you will find her roaming around the Finger Lakes National Forest or mapping out invasive species on local trails. Despite not having the greenest of thumbs, Andrea is proud of her herb garden (and, if you join in one of her wilderness groups, you will be treated to a cup of homegrown herbal tea).
Appropriate Professional Boundaries In Clinical Practice
Date: Fri, August 11, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Cost: $90
3 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.
Facilitator: Nyx Melody, LMHC
This course is geared toward mental health or medical providers seeking to gain greater competencies related to practicing appropriate professional boundaries in clinical practice. This course will briefly address APA Code of Ethics as well as explore various considerations related to confidentiality with clients.
The training will provide helpful tips for managing and addressing moments in which transference and countertransference emerge. This course will discuss the different types of self-disclosure that exist and provide a framework for practicing self-disclosure in sessions through an intersectional feminist and ethical decision-making lens. In this course, we will explore considerations for telehealth services, walk-and-talk therapy, mandated reporting, and strategies to manage communication outside of sessions with your clients.
This training provides reflective questions and case examples that aim to assist participants with identifying areas that may create barriers and challenges when practicing appropriate professional boundaries.
Nyx Melody, LMHC (pronouns: they/them/theirs & fae/faer/faers) is a queer, panromantic, non-binary, trans femme New York State licensed mental health counselor, clinical supervisor, educator and consultant on anti-oppression, mental health, gender/sexuality, and LGBTQIA+ issues. They have had experience working with individuals, couples, and groups who are struggling with various issues, including but not limited to: trauma/abuse, gender/sexual identity, anxiety, depression, substance use, acculturation, racial identity exploration, and dismantling internalized inferiority and/or superiority.
Nyx completed a dual masters degree: Masters of the Arts in Psychological Counseling and a Masters of Education in Mental Health Counseling from Teachers College, Columbia University, where faer took extensive course work and engaged in research initiatives surrounding queer and gender-expansive microaggressions/mental health concerns.
Fae also works as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology & Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development teaching mental health counseling graduate students.
Hudson Valley Professional Development, LLC Attendance Policy
In accordance with the NY State Department of Education guidelines, in order to receive continuing education contact hours, a participant needs to be present for the duration of the workshop/training. Therefore, participants who arrive late or leave the event early will not be granted a certificate of completion.
Cancellation Policy
Refunds will be provided for cancellations made in writing up to three business days prior to the start of the event.
Accommodations and Accessibility
HVPD welcomes participants with diverse abilities. Please contact us at info@hudsonvalleyprofessionaldevelopment to request accessibility accommodations. Accommodation requests are considered in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
