Mental wellness news, discussions, and tips
Free Webinar Friday, May 15: Helping Clients Get the Change They Want: Co-Constructing Goal Building Conversations
Join Mind Therapy Clinic's staff for clinical training May 15 from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM. Ethan Schwartz, PhD presents providing tools that tap into clients’ agency and strengths to mobilize change quickly. Free training. CEs for clinicians $25.
Read MoreBeginning Monday, April 20, a free virtual multi-family parent support group opens to friends and family of Mind Therapy Clinic, from 5:30 Pm to 6:30 PM.
Co-facilitated by Mind Therapy Clinic Clinical Director Katy Tarella, LCSW, and Program Director Amelia Howard-Smith, MFT, the group will focus on skill-building, limit-setting and support for parents.
Read MoreMind Therapy Clinic is happy to announce that it has become an approved Spravato® center. Spravato® has a very different action in the brain from commonly used antidepressants. For those suffering from depression that hasn’t responded to a number of antidepressant trials, this new treatment may be a valuable options. Spravato® is a newly FDA approved treatment for difficult to treat depression. This medication is a variant of ketamine and is administered nasally. The FDA requires that the treatment takes place in approved centers.
Read MoreHello Mind Therapy Community,
Mind Therapy Clinic is open during the current COVID situation. However, with the Bay Area-wide shelter in place orders, we have implemented virtual visits or "teletherapy" for individual and group therapy sessions for the near future. Only some medical appointments involving physical treatments will continue on-site.
Please be on the watch for emails coming from your Mind Therapy Clinic’s clinicians from which you will be able to join individual and group video sessions. Mind Therapy Clinic is using a HIPAA compliant system to ensure confidentiality. We are also asking everybody to complete a Telehealth Consent Form. This is available below and at https://www.mindtherapyclinic.com/client and can be scanned or sent back from a photo to info@mindtherapyclinic.com. In addition, we can also send you the form using an electronic signature program if you prefer.
We are very sorry for this turn of events, though our greatest concern is for the health and safety of our patients and our community. We hope that all of you are doing well in this difficult time. We look forward to returning to business as usual soon.
Read MoreFree Training Friday, April 10: Mindful Dating in the Digital Age
Join Mind Therapy Clinic's staff for clinical training Friday, April 10, from 10 AM to 1 PM. Ellis Edmunds presents on using tools to address Mindful Dating. Free training. CEs for clinicians $25.
Read MoreCongratulations to Dr. Schiller for being elected to Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, effective January 1, 2020. He joins an elite group of psychiatrists with this honorary distinction who continue to make significant contributions to the field of psychiatry.
Dr. Schiller will be honored and acknowledged at the 2020 Convocation of Distinguished Fellows, during APA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. The ceremony will be held on Monday, April 27, 2020, from 5:30 - 6:45 pm, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Level 200 - Hall B.
Read MoreFriday, December 6
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Mind Therapy Clinic, Room 7,
240 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 94925
2 CEs - $25
This course provides ethics and boundary information relevant to mental health professionals. In addition to discussions on responding to common ethical and boundary dilemmas, topics include HIPAA, California-specific laws, mandated reporting laws, informed consent and confidentiality.
Attendees at this presentation will be able to:
Describe informed consent and limits of confidentiality
Discuss established ethical and legal requirements contained in the relevant statutes and ethical codes.
The training is free for all clinicians and the public. Two Continuing Education units are offered for $25.
Read MoreJoin Mind Therapy Clinic for a Professional Training with Kenneth Perlmutter, PhD
When: Tuesday, November 19, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Where: Mind Therapy Clinic, 240 Tamal Vista Drive, Corte Madera CA 94925, Upstairs Classroom
Presenter: Kenneth Perlmutter, PhD, Founder, Family Recovery Institute
For Clinicians
Clients requiring intensive treatment for complex psychological issues, including addiction and mood, eating and trauma-based disorders, developed in family systems wounded by legacies of loss from which the members have never fully recovered. Communication patterns among members of such families are fraught with distortions, assumptions, accusations and misdirection. This two-hour workshop will uncover the nature of family system woundedness using the Stress-Induced Impaired Coping model developed by the presenter. Strategies to engage members in the clinical conversation and promote more effective communication among them when outside the office will be presented.
Participants will be able to:
Describe the common environmental characteristics of wounded family systems
Use experiential exercises to deepen family treatment
FREE. 2 CEs for $25.
Read More"Our hormones are sensitive to sunlight,” said Mark Schiller, MD, medical director and founder of Mind Therapy Clinic psychiatric outpatient services. “Hormones regulate our moods and sleep.” If you or a client is affected by SAD, then you can expect the disorder to reoccur every winter, he noted.
Because it is hormonally-based, SAD is probably not completely preventable, but there are many actions you or clients can take to lessen SAD’s effects.
Do you or your clients experience Seasonal Affective Disorder? Take the SAD Self-Inventory here.
Join Mind Therapy Clinic for a Professional Training with Galia Schechter, PsyD
When: Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Where: Mind Therapy Clinic, 240 Tamal Vista Drive, Corte Madera CA 94925, Upstairs Classroom
For Clinicians
Time-limited dynamic psychotherapy (TLDP) is an interpersonal, time-sensitive approach for patients with chronic, pervasive, dysfunctional ways of relating. The goal is not symptom reduction but rather to change ingrained relational patterns. The training is an attachment-based, empirically supported, brief approach that offers experiential learning.
This training will offer a conceptual clinical framework that is attachment-based to support clinicians’ understanding of clients’ relational challenges that often affect depression, anxiety and other common presenting problems and guide their clinical interventions. Clinicians will be able to apply the framework to their work with clients and understand how to offer corrective emotional experiences that are experiential, existential and rapidly effective.
Objectives
Participants will be able to describe the TLDP model
Participants will learn how to apply the TLDP model in their clinical work
Free. 2 CE for $25
Psychotherapy Process-Oriented Group
This process group usually consists of a group of people who meet regularly for the common purpose of finding out more about who they are and what they would like to change in their personal lives and relationships with other. The members and the group as a whole are assisted with guided feedback and process comments from Caleb Birkoff, an experienced psythotherapists, and co-leaders.
The group members will have the opportunity to talk as openly as they possibly can about their interactions and experiences of each other as well as any aspects of the group experience that may come to mind. Many thoughts and feelings associated with the activity of the group may arise and are often reflective of the particular stage of the life cycle in which the group is encountering. By engaging with one another on different emotional levels, individuals can freely gain wider perspectives about the various ways they relate to their inner world, and how this becomes reflected in their relationships with others.
Presenter: Katy Tarella, LCSW
When: Friday, Sep 20, 11:30am – 1:20pm
Where: Il Davide Ristorante, 601 A Street, San Rafael
Cost: $25, includes 1.5 units Continuing Education
Freedom from Burnout for Helping Professionals with Presenter Ellis Edmunds, PsyD
Join Mind Therapy Clinic's staff for a clinical training Friday, August 30, from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Ellis Edmunds presents on using tools to address professional burnout. Free training. CEs for clinicians $25.
Read MoreDialectical Behavior Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
DBT was originally developed to help clients struggling with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Many of these clients also have PTSD, and vice versa. DBT helps clients analyze their emotional and psychological issues and teaches them to enact new behaviors. It encourages clients to identify their emotional experiences and manage them through the skills they learn and practice in therapy. DBT teaches mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance and emotional regulation skills with real-life scenarios. With DBT-PTSD, clients are guided to transfer these skills from therapy to real life and use them to cope with the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety and co-occurring mental and emotional issues.
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Mind Therapy Clinic participates at the annual David E. Smith, MD Symposium with one of the Bay Area's legendary doctors, David E. Smith, MD, founder of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic. Come say hi at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center and learn about the latest in medication-assisted treatment, neuromusicology and recovery, technological advances in addiction treatment, updates on approaches to substance use disorder education in the medical system, and more.
Register here
We have added new groups on Wednesdays to accommodate the IOP/PHP programming, and in response to many of you requesting additional group options. Check out the program calendar to learn more about these new weekly Wednesday groups.
Mindful Process - led by Neil Kobrin, PhD
The Early Recovery Group - led by Amelia Howard-Smith, LMFT
Expressive Arts Group is facilitated by our newest member, HAZAL SELÇUK , AMFT, RDT, REAT, RSME/T.
Multi-Family Group is a group designed to educate and support family members of individuals who are diagnosed with mental health and substance use disorders. Group members will learn about mental illness and addiction, how to support a loved one who is struggling with mental illness and/or addiction, and most importantly, how to take care of oneself in the face of supporting a loved one who is struggling with these issues.
Read More"Love Me" and "The WilliNewbies" are two wonderful stories in a series of books for children.....each with a much needed message for parents beautifully written by Mind Therapy Clinic’s Dr. Claudia Perez.
Stories that reminds parents to love and honor their children, every day and in every way, to love unconditionally and see each child as unique and special, regardless of what life throws their way.
Read More“Emotional Well-Being: Embracing the Gift of Life”, by Mind Therapy Clinic’s Dr. Neil Kobrin shows us how through mindful awareness and embracing the present moment, we can transform our life. It provides a rich illustration of how we developed emotionally and what we can do as adults to lead a happier, more meaningful life.
Pick up a copy at Mind Therapy Clinic or submit your request for a copy.
Read MoreSubstance abuse frequently co-occurs with Borderline Personality Disorder and may cause heightened symptoms in either disorder. Learn how this well researched modality is used to help clients struggling with substance abuse and bring home some DBT skills that can be taught to your clients.
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