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• Lets Talk About Sex Baby, Lets Talk About Sex In Therapy

  • When
    Saturday, September 07, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
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  Presenter: Brittany Hudspeth

  • Licensed Professional Counselor
  • National Certified Counselor
  • Certified Clinical Trauma Professional
  • AASECT Certified Sex Therapist

  CEUs: Category 1 | 3.0 

  Addressing sexual topics in therapy has been something that most therapists report not being trained in properly (Buehler, 2022). This lack of training contributes to the stigma and silence around individuals’ sexual health issues (Buehler, 2022). The purpose of this workshop is to have people talk about sexual topics in a more accessible and humorous way with evidence-based practices. Application of an ACT model can provide support for therapists while guiding their clients through sex work. Understanding how to use the pillars of psychological flexibility in a sexual health context can profoundly help the individual struggling with sexual health issues. Using Sexy Pillars of Open Wide (Willingness & Defusion), Deep In It (Present moment & Self as Context), and Lets Do it (Values & Committed Action) aim to address the Psychological Inflexibility around a client’s sexual health issues. Using sex-specified skills will help the client move from being stuck in their sexual issue to being able to pivot towards their sexual values. For any clinician on any level.

  Workshop Objectives:

  Upon finishing this training, participants will be able to:

  By the conclusion of the class, participants should be able to:
  Discuss how ACT fits into sex therapy work
  Be able to apply and discuss the pillars of flexibility with sex therapy work
  Recognize what tools/activities can be used when there is psychological inflexibility
  The importance of being able to discuss sex in therapy
  

  Agenda:

  1. Intro to Act and how it fits in with sex therapy work
  2. Pillars of psychological flexibility and sex therapy activities
  3. What to do if things go sideways
  4. Q and A

  Recommended Reading:
  

  • Buehler, S. (2022). What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know About Sex. Springer Publishing.
  • Harris, R (2009). ACT with Love: Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences, and Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. (1st ed.). New Harbinger Publications.

  Citations that will be used in the workshop:
  

  • Buehler, S. (2022). What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know About Sex. Springer Publishing.
  • Harris, R (2009). ACT with Love: Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences, and Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. (1st ed.). New Harbinger Publications.

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• Process-Focused Therapy

  • When
    Friday, September 13, 2024
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    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
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  Presenter: Robert Taibbi (VA), LCSW

  CEUs: Category 1 | 2.0 
  

  In this 2-hour workshop we will look at clinical process from 3 interlocking perspectives: Common problems arising from faulty process – what can’t the client do, their stuckpoints; the goal of therapy and sessions on helping clients correct their faulty process; ways to maximizing the effectiveness of session by avoiding replicating faulty process and problems within the session, and intentional creating corrective emotional experiences so that clients leave feeling differently than when they came in. To do this we’ll look at the 4 common stuckpoints for individuals and the 3 common stuckpoints for couples and families. We’ll then discuss treatment maps for each of these problems so that you can hit the ground running, as well as identify what you want to do and not do in the session process to avoid problem-replication and create positive experiences. Finally, we’ll look at Therapy as Performance, the tools and tips for maximizing the session process. If you are relatively new to therapy or a seasoned clinician who wants to look at process in a new way, this workshop will help you be more intentional and creative.

  Workshop Objectives:

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

  1. Identify the 4 most common stuckpoints for individuals
  2. Describe the concept of emotional wounds
  3. Discuss how to use voice and gestures with the session process
  4. Describe how to use the technique of the ideal voice

  Recommended Reading

  Taibbi, R. (2019). Process-focused therapy: A guide for creating effective clinical outcomes. New York: Routledge.

  About the Presenter:

  Robert Taibbi, LCSW is the author of 13 books and over 300 articles in the areas of clinical supervision, brief therapy, couple and family therapy, and an online columnist for Psychology Today entitled Fixing Families that has received over 20 million views. He has provided trainings nationally and internationally and is currently in private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia.

  https://www.bobtaibbi.com/

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• September GWSCSW Happy Hour - Welcome New Members!

  • When
    Friday, September 13, 2024
  •  
    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Location: 3330 Washington Blvd, #150, Arlington, VA
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  The Membership committee invites you to join clinicians of all levels for our upcoming social. Come mingle with fellow social workers; make connections, make friendships! Stay for as little or as long as you'd like.

  Who: Any GWSCSW members who joined in the past year are warmly invited to join us. MSW students that are not current members, and interested in learning about GWSCSW are encouraged to attend. And all current members are invited to come meet new members! 

  Location: 3330 Washington Blvd, #150, Arlington, VA (A seven-story
  black building behind the GMU School of Law)

  Time: September 13th from 5-7 pm. The main building doors lock at 6
  pm, so please text Matt at 703-740-9840 who will let you in if you
  arrive after.

  Transportation: The office is walking distance from The Clarendon and
  Virginia Square Metro stops. There is free street parking on N.
  Kirkwood St. or paid parking in the building lot.

  There will be alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and snacks served.

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• The Gender Transition Process

  • When
    Sunday, September 22, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:15 PM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
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  Presenter Ed Geraty, LCSW-C (MD), LICSW (WV), LCSW (VA), LICSW (DC) 
  

  Special Guest: Siena Lacovezzi

  CEUs: Category 1 | 3.0 

  Teaching your client how to heal their inner child can be a powerful and Transgender people come from every region of the United States and around the world, from every racial and ethnic background, and from every faith community. Transgender people are your classmates, your coworkers, your neighbors, and your friends. With approximately 1.4 million transgender adults in the United States—and millions more around the world—chances are that you've met a transgender person, even if you don't know it. While each person's transition is unique to them, this workshop will focus on one woman’s transition journey and will assist mental health clinicians in understanding the unique medical, psychological, and psychosocial aspects of the transition process.
  

  Workshop Objectives:

  Participants in this workshop will:

  1. Understand the gender transitioning processes.
  2. Become aware of the medical, legal, and psychosocial aspects of the process.
  3. Understand concepts such as non-binary, gender dysphoria.
  4. Learn about the types of gender affirming surgeries.
  5. Become aware of barriers to gender transitioning.

  Agenda:

  • Overview of the gender transitioning processes
  • The medical, legal, and psychosocial aspects of the process.
  • A review of concepts such as non-binary, gender dysphoria.
  • Q@A with Siena; a transgender individual
  • Break
  • Barriers to gender transitioning
  • Discussion
  • Closing

  Recommended Reading:

  • Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children by Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D
  • Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
  • Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
  • She’s Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband by Helen Boyd
  • Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth

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• How to Help a Client Have a Psychologically Flexible BDSM Relationship

  • When
    Saturday, October 12, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
  • Spaces left
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  Presenter Brittany Hudspeth

  • Licensed Professional Counselor
  • National Certified Counselor
  • Certified Clinical Trauma Professional
  • AASECT Certified Sex Therapist

  CEUs: Category 1 | 3.0 

  For any clinician at any level. This workshop will discuss psychological flexibility within an BDSM relationship. How to increase clients discourse of the relationship in a affirming and non judgmental way. This workshop with discuss terminology that is used in BDSM dynamics along with best practices.

  Workshop Objectives:

  1. By the conclusion of the class participates will be able to:
  2. Will be able discuss best practices for working with someone in a BDSM dynamic
  3. Will be able to describe different terms for BDSM dynamics
  4. Create a BDSM dynamic contract with clients
  5. Recognize how to increase client disclosures of BDSM relationships

  Agenda:

  • Introduction to ACT and Psychological Flexibility
  • How to increase clients disclosure
  • Terms
  • How to create a contract/ aftercare
  • Best Practices
  • Q & A

  Recommended Reading:
  

  • Buehler, S. (2022). What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know 
  • The Leather Couch: by Stefani Goerlich

  Citations that will be used in the workshop:
  

  • Buehler, S. (2022). What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know About Sex. Springer Publishing.
  • The Leather Couch: by Stefani Goerlich

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• 2024 Legislation & Advocacy BRUNCH | Focusing on the Interstate Social Work Licensure Compact and Increasing Access on a Local and Nationwide Scale

  • When
    Sunday, October 20, 2024
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    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Maggiano's Little Italy Chevy Chase | 5333 Wisconsin Ave., NW | Washington, DC 20015
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  2024 LEGISLATION & ADVOCACY IN-PERSON BRUNCH

  MAGGIANO’S LITTLE ITALY --  Chevy Chase 
     5333 Wisconsin Ave., NW | Washington, DC 20015

  Please join us for our 2024 Legislation and Advocacy Brunch!

  FREE CATEGORY 1 | 2.5 CEUs FOR MEMBERS (and VA State Society Members)  If you are not a member JOIN TODAY to join us (Non-member price for this event is $75) 

  
  Registration is a free benefit to our members, but you must register to attend. TWO-and-a-HALF (2.5) CATEGORY 1 CEUs (FREE TO MEMBERS). We look forward to seeing you there!
  
  The GWSCSW will host our 9th Annual FREE Legislation and Advocacy Brunch IN-PERSON on October 20, 2024 | 10 am-1 pm. “Focusing on the Interstate Social Work Compact” will feature our lobbyists, Christine Krone (MD) and Mark Smith (VA), as well as all of our committee chairs. Laura Groshong, CSWA Director of Policy and Practice will also join us to give a national view. How can you help to get this passed? What impact will it have on our patients and our practices? What else needs to be advocated for?  Come learn-and help educate us about what’s on your mind!
  

  Registration is a free benefit to our members, but you must register to attend. TWO-AND-A-HALF (2.5) CATEGORY 1 CEUs (FREE TO MEMBERS). We look forward to seeing you there! Our Society needs YOU to help us advocate and impact legislators in many different ways, or our messages simply will not get out. 

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