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• Exploring Metaphors In Play Therapy: Utilizing Play Therapy, Sandtray, and Expressive Therapy

  • Start
    30 Mar 2023
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    31 Mar 2023
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    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Retreat Behavioral Health | Palm Beach- 4020 Lake Worth Road, Palm Springs, FL 33461
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  Description: In this 2 day training, participants will be grounded in theories of Adlerian and Child Centered play therapy, sandtray therapy, and principles of Expressive Therapy. We will review categories of miniatures as well as selecting and displaying them. Developmental information and behaviors specific to children’s use of sandtray will be covered. Theoretical approaches, both directive and non-directive, will be included with examples of how to create and enhance metaphors in play therapy sessions.  This training will be experiential and lecture based.
  

  Learning Objectives:

  • Identify basic principles of Adlerian and Child Centered Play Therapy.
  • Analyze the history and rationale for sandtray therapy and its connection to play therapy.
  • Participants will gain knowledge of how to select appropriate sand, trays, and play therapy miniatures
  • Explain the concept of metaphors in play therapy.
  • Describe three key components of creating metaphors in the play therapy session.
  • Discuss and process a sandtray within a play therapy session.
  • Explain one reason that play therapists should not interpret the metaphors which often appear in the children’s sandtray stories.
  • List 4 questions or observations that play therapists can use in witnessing and/or processing sandtrays with children
  • Recite principles of Expressive Therapy and assess how to integrate them into a play therapy session.

  Lunch will be provided by Retreat Behavioral Health 

  CE Broker Tracking #: 20-988136

  General Credits: 12

  APT Approved Provider 20-611. 

  (Play therapy credit will only be approved for mental health providers.) 
  

  This event is sponsored by FMHCA, an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider. FMHCA NBCC Provider# 2058. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  FMHCA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. This course is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling, LMHC, LMFT, LCSW – FMHCA CE Broker #: 50-748

  About the Presenter:

  Stefani Misiph is an LMHC. She is a Registered Play Therapist, Supervisor and has been in private practice for over 20 years. She is an adjunct faculty at Lesley University and has presented both at the national and local level.
  

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• EME™ (Eye Movement Emergence™) Specialist Training

  • Start
    27 Apr 2023
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    28 Apr 2023
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    4:45 PM
  • Location
    2101 Vista Parkway, West Palm Beach, FL 33411
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  Description: Attend this workshop & learn how to use Eye Movement Emergence™ & related tools for mental-emotional control, collapse of nonproductive states quickly & access to more positive & empowering desired states with ease. Come learn about how you can utilize tried & proven eye movement patterning, eye accessing cues & eye scanning techniques to make lasting & profound changes perceptually, conceptually & emotionally. Here we will work directly with how you & your clients access information & memories & how you can actually create & generate resourceful representations internally through your sensory channels (VAKOG).

  In this workshop, you will be experiencing guided trance & participate in experiential exercises. You will leave with a powerful system to gain more mental & emotional state control & mastery of your own internal processes & representations. These advanced skills & abilities will become essential tools to support you in transforming the way you & your client’s sense & perceive & evolve how they think & feel mentally, emotionally & physically.

  With EyePointing™, NeuroPointing™ & EMERGE™ you use “eyepoints” & eye movements to cue & anchor (& collapse) internal representations (visual-auditory-kinesthetic) & transform the way clients express themselves almost instantaneously. With eye accessing & movement as well as eye scanning, clients provide highly valuable information about representations involved in their memories & their unique recall of events or experiences. By identifying the "submodality locations" (location/size/distance/etc.) of the representation (held in mind/brain & projected with Eye Accessing & Movement) we can work with the very structure of the representation to discover & uncover worthwhile information about how this “see-hear-feel” impacts & influences the person (mind-brain-body creations).

  Once we have addressed the neuropoints (physiological indicators of response) involved (read-resolved-released its signal value), a natural resolution is expected & issues will likely release, neurally integrating positively. This allows us to clear the "neuropoints & eyepoints” that clients have developed as neural cues or that have led to so-called “problems or issues" that have previously been negatively emotionalized (so-called "traumatic experience/memories”).

  Learning Objectives:
  

  1. Learn & Demonstrate ability to use the VAK (Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic) Model & how to apply with EME™ from the beginning of your work with clients.

  2. Learn & Demonstrate ability to use language/predicates (VAK) – including time predicates – more precisely.

  3.  Demonstrate ability to work with Visual processes – Enhance Visual & Sensory Acuity Skills.

  4. Identify Sensory Channels involved & engaging in representations/memory.

  5.  Demonstrate ability to use the Visual Field to work directly with the elements of representations (Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic Sensory Modalities & Submodality Features – Size, Location/distance, brightness/color, tone, tactile/sensation/etc.).

  6. Demonstrate ability to engage sensory structures successfully in your work with Traumatic Memories & Post-Traumatic Stress to effect desired change.

  7. Identify Eye Movement Patterns & Eye Accessing Cues involved in representations & learn how to utilize these cues, movements & patterns to change representations, minimize negative or limiting features & optimize & maximize pleasant features.

  8. Use Bilateral Eye Accessing Movement – Left/Right Visual Field (Exercises) to work with past (reconstructed) representations (memories) & future (created) imaginal representations to set goals & insert & seed resources into future situations.

  9. Learn to detect & clear EyePoints & NeuroPoints – Moving eyepoints in & out of the visual field, well-forming with them as anchors (NeuroPoints).

  10. Use Eye Movement to move the response to a different location in the visual field to interrupt & clear it & reemerge a neutral or Desired Response.

  11. Learn EAC (Eye Accessing Cues) – Set Up EAC & Eye Movements with clients.

  12. Conduct Submodality (SM) Shifts in the Visual – Auditory – Kinesthetic Sense Channels – Identifying & working with SM Drivers.

  13.  Learn & Demonstrate How to Ask precise Questions to Elicit & Access Desired Responses with EAC Questioning – Eye Movement.

  14.  Anchoring & Validating/Testing of Response.

  CE Broker Tracking #: 20-919637

  General Credits: 13

  This event is sponsored by FMHCA, an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider. FMHCA NBCC Provider# 2058. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  FMHCA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. This course is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling, LMHC, LMFT, LCSW – FMHCA CE Broker #: 50-748

  About the Presenter:

  Elvis Lester, MA, LMHC, NCC, MAC, AEMT is the Creator & Developer of EME™ & Neurocise®. He is a Licensed Master Trainer of NLP In Hypnosis (Society of NLP), Qualified Supervisor (State of FL), Qualified Teacher of Hypnosis (State of FL) & Licensed Mental Health Counselor (State of FL) who teaches this course personally. For questions related to the course, feel free to contact Elvis Lester at 813-221-5466.

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• Structured Relationship Therapy

  • Start
    10 Aug 2023
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    8:00 AM
  • End
    11 Aug 2023
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    5:00 PM
  • Location
    2101 Vista Pkwy West Palm Beach, FL 33411
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  Description: The purpose of this seminar is to provide a foundation and conceptual model, along with working mechanisms, that can be simply and clearly instituted in the therapeutic environment to restructure and improve relationships, including the relationship with self, with the purpose of initiating and instituting dialogues of negotiation toward the eventual goal of consciously aware consent. The author has observed that utilizing an initial psycho-educational jumpstart process of teaching simple relationship skills and tools, that are easy to teach, and simple for clients to implement, can have an extremely powerful impact on how successful relationship therapy can be, to keep clients engaged, encouraged and empowered, and to minimize the extent to which relationship therapy can damage relationships.

  CE Broker Tracking #:  20-936239

  This event is sponsored by FMHCA, an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider. FMHCA NBCC Provider# 2058. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  FMHCA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. This course is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling, LMHC, LMFT, LCSW – FMHCA CE Broker #: 50-748.

  Obtain a certification in Structured Relationship Therapy

  Snacks & Lunch Provided by Acadia Healthcare

  Learning Objectives:

  At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Attendees will be able to understand and teach the relationship tools as presented in the seminar to clients.
  2. Attendees will be able to list and demonstrate the concept of transactional analysis & the Karpman Game Triangle as a foundational basis for working with relationships.
  3. Attendees will be able to teach and coach the use of all of the psychoeducational construct which form the structure of positive relationships to their clients.

  About the Presenter:

  

  Michael Holler is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, a National Certified Counselor, a Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor, a Certified Forensic Mental Health Evaluator, a Certified Child Custody Evaluator, a Qualified Parenting Coordinator, a Qualified Clinical Supervisor, A Distance Certified Counselor, A Kink Certified Counselor and a Certified Family and County Mediator. Michael has a private practice in Tavernier in the Florida Keys. Michael has been working with individuals, families, relationships and organizations for over 36 years. Michael is also a Neurofeedback provider. Michael has worked in inpatient psychiatric, community mental health and private practice settings. Michael has worked as an adjunct professor in psychology at Florida Keys Community College. Michael was President of the Upper Keys Interagency Council in 1997. Michael was the first Intensive Onsite Services Counselor in the State of Florida. Michael is the Past President and Ethics Committee Chair, and currently serves as Parliamentarian of the Florida Mental Health Counselors Association. Michael conducted his own research and evaluation on the Direct/Inferential Model of Communication in both his senior project (bachelor’s level) and his Masters Thesis. For his Senior Project on this subject, Michael was awarded Second Prize in the Undergraduate Research Competition by the Missouri Psychological Association.

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