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• Pre-Licensed Peer Support Group

  • Start
    February 14, 2025
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  • End
    December 05, 2025
  • Schedule
    10 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Pre-Licensed Support Group
  

  Who: Pre-licensed SBCAMFT members and non-SBCAMFT members. Click this link if you would like to become a member of SBCAMFT (Join now!)

  Where: Zoom (link will be provided with registration)

  When: First Friday of every month from 10am-11am (with exceptions)

  Description: This virtual event for pre-licensed clinicians is a great place to come together to support one another during your pre-licensed journey. We will have a guest speaker at each meeting who is a licensed clinician who can share their journey and answer questions the group has for them. Peer support groups do not include case consultations.

  Cost: FREE

  Sponsored by Mission Harbor Behavioral Health 

  

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• CE Event: Psychedelic Supportive Psychotherapy: Supporting clients who use psychedelics outside the psychotherapeutic frame

  • When
    February 19, 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  CE Event: Psychedelic Supportive Psychotherapy: Supporting clients who use psychedelics outside the psychotherapeutic frame

  Who: SBCAMFT members and Non-SBCAMFT members  (Join now!)

  Where: Zoom (link will be sent in registration confirmation email)

  When: February 19 at 12:00-1:30

  Cost: $10 for Student/Associate members, $20 for SBCAMFT members, $25 for all State CAMFT members, and $30 for Non-SBCAMFT members (Join now!)

  Educational Goals: 

  • To provide therapists with a much-needed model for reducing harm and supporting psychotherapeutic benefit for clients who may choose to utilize psychedelics outside of therapy

  • To provide psychoeducation on fundamentals of benefits and risks of psychedelics for therapists in generalist practice

  • To offer therapists specific criteria and structures for optimizing client’s choice to use psychedelics

  • To provide an understanding of the nuanced psychotherapeutic relational dynamics in effectively supporting psychological, spiritual and emotional growth within this model including, application within intensive ongoing psychotherapy.

  Learning Objectives: 

  • Participants will be able to identify four or more reasons why an approach of “Psychedelic-Supportive Psychotherapy” is essential to sound clinical practice in respond to client need within contemporary culture.

  • Participants will be able to describe the legal and ethical constraints and allowances in integrating this approach within their practice

  • Participants will be able to list and explain the primary segments of the arc of the model

  • Participants will be able to name three essential components of a therapeutic relationship which might support client psychological growth and well-being through the arc of the process.  

  Speaker Bio: 

  Dr. Elizabeth Wolfson has been a licensed psychotherapist practicing from an integrative, person- centered perspective several decades. Currently, she offers Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy and Psychedelic- Supportive Psychotherapy within her practice, is a mentor for the California Institute for Integral Studies Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies and Research and is a consultant to Skylight Psychedelics.  In addition to her academic degrees, her training includes Certification in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Research from California Institute of Integral Studies, MDMA Therapy Training from Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy from the Ketamine Training Center. Additionally, she is trained and certified in Embodied Leadership and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy.  From 2020-2023 she served as Vice President of Clinical Services for Field Trip Health, an international Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy company. Prior to that, she was faculty and Chair of Antioch University Santa Barbara’s Clinical Psychology Graduate Program where she developed and directed programs in Healthy Aging, Somatic Psychotherapy, and Leadership. She previously taught at Columbia University School of Social Work.  In her role as Clinical Director within mental health settings, she designed award-winning diversity initiatives and was project associate on two documentary films screened in international film festivals. Dr. Wolfson has also been Organizational Consultant to Pacifica Graduate Institute, is co-founder of two non-profit organizations, and served as Vice President of Professional Development on the Board of the NASW, Santa Barbara Chapter and as VP of Special Projects for the Board of Directors of Santa Barbara California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

  Dr. Wolfson has published and presented on Psychedelic-Supportive Psychotherapy, Ketamine-Assisted Therapy, creativity, intimate relationship, psychotherapeutic processes, trauma, gender, creativity, empowerment, and healthy aging. While her background includes multifaceted leadership positions, her current focus is supporting individual and group healing through psychotherapy and Ketamine-Assisted Therapy and providing consultation to companies and mentoring to practitioners. 

  
  

  
  

  Additional Notes Pertaining To Our Policy As A CE Provider:
  

  1) This course has been designed for a mental health professional that include LMFT's, LCSW's, LPCC's, and LEP's. Also, Pre-licensed and Associate members may earn hours of experience for attending the Santa Barbara Chapter of CAMFT workshops as approved by their supervisor.

  2) Refund/Cancellation Policy: Attendees may cancel registration and request a refund one week from the time of the event.

  3) To request accommodations for special needs, please email the Program Administrator at events@sbcamft.org.

  4) To obtain the grievance policy or report a grievance please email events@sbcamft.org.

  5) Course Completion Certificates will be awarded at the end of the course in exchange for a completed evaluation form.

  6) Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

  7) SB CAMFT provider number (57942).

  8) Santa Barbara Chapter CAMFT is Approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFT's, LCSW's, LPCC's, and LEP's. Santa Barbara Chapter of CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and content.

  9) The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accommodates attendees with disabilities in compliance with state and federal laws and regulations. Event is ADA compliant.

  Additional Information:

  *This webinar will be available by Zoom. If you do not already have a free Zoom account, sign up for it today. The Zoom link will be emailed in advance of the webinar. The webinar will be a mixture of lecture and also Q&A.

  
  

  
  

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• Law & Ethics: Why Should I Care About the CAMFT Code of Ethics? (Register through State CAMFT)

  • When
    February 21, 2025
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    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Law and Ethics: Why Should I Care About the CAMFT Code of Ethics? 

  (Registration through State CAMFT)

  Register here!
  

  Who: SBCAMFT members and Non-SBCAMFT members  (Join now!)

  Where: Zoom (link will be sent from State CAMFT)

  When: February 21, 2025 from 9:00am - 12:00pm

  Description: 

  This three-hour workshop provides a broad overview of the ethical standards found in Part I of the CAMFT Code of Ethics and the procedures expressed in Part II of the Code which govern the actions taken when an ethics complaint is filed.

  The workshop will discuss examples of alleged ethical violations that are reported to the Ethics Committee and offer suggestions to therapists regarding ethical practice.

  Vignettes will be utilized, as appropriate, to illustrate examples of scenarios which often lead to complaints, and to suggest practices which may be helpful to therapists in avoiding ethical problems.

  Attendees at this workshop may earn a total of three hours of continuing education (CEU) credit, as required by the Board of Behavioral Sciences for licensed marriage and family therapists, licensed clinical social workers, and licensed professional clinical counselors.

  Topics to be Discussed:

  What is the purpose of the Code of Ethics?

  What topics are addressed in the Code of Ethics?

  What is the role of the CAMFT Ethics Committee?

  What does it mean to say that something is “unethical?”

  Who is obligated to follow the Code of Ethics?

  What should I do if someone files an ethical complaint against me?

  When should I consult the Code of Ethics for guidance?

  How can therapists avoid ethical complaints?

  Learning Objectives:

  Attendees at this workshop will be able to:

  Explain what the Code of Ethics says about “Ethical Decision-Making.”

  Utilize the Code of Ethics to locate ethical standards which concern Confidentiality; Informed Consent; Telehealth; Responsibility to the Legal System; Financial Arrangements; Advertising; Dual/Multiple Relationships, and other topics.

  Identify one or more ethical considerations when working with clients who are involved with the legal system.

  Identify one or more ethical considerations when a client asks you to write a letter.

  Describe the functions of the Ethics Committee.

  Cost: $60 for SBCAMFT members, $65 for CAMFT-only members (Register on State CAMFT Website), $85 for non-members. 

  Important Details: You will register and pay through the CAMFT website. You will receive the Zoom link directly from CAMFT. 

  About the Presenter: 

  Register through the CAMFT website!
  

  
  

  
  

  Additional Notes Pertaining To Our Policy As A CE Provider:

  1) This course has been designed for a mental health professional that include LMFT's, LCSW's, LPCC's, and LEP's. Also, Pre-licensed and Associate members may earn hours of experience for attending the Santa Barbara Chapter of CAMFT workshops as approved by their supervisor.

  2) Refund/Cancellation Policy: Attendees may cancel registration and request a refund one week from the time of the event.

  3) To request accommodations for special needs, please email the Program Administrator at events@sbcamft.org.

  4) To obtain the grievance policy or report a grievance please email events@sbcamft.org.

  5) Course Completion Certificates will be awarded at the end of the course in exchange for a completed evaluation form.

  6) Course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

  7) SB CAMFT provider number (57942).

  8) Santa Barbara Chapter CAMFT is Approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFT's, LCSW's, LPCC's, and LEP's. Santa Barbara Chapter of CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and content.

  9) The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA accommodates attendees with disabilities in compliance with state and federal laws and regulations. Event is ADA compliant.

  Additional Information:

  *This webinar will be available by Zoom. If you do not already have a free Zoom account, sign up for it today. The Zoom link will be emailed in advance of the webinar. The webinar will be a mixture of lecture and also Q&A.

  
  

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