Bhava Racial Literacy Series
Instructor: Lyrica Fils-Aimé , LCSW-R, RPT-S
Lyrica serves as a Director of Equity Transformation and Culturally Responsive Environments at the New York City Department of Education. Lyrica is a NY State Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Registered Play Therapist, and runs a private practice in Harlem. Lyrica obtained her BA from the University of Richmond in Psychology and Business, an MSW from New York University and a Master of Science in Nonprofit Leadership from Fordham University.
Impact vs. Intent; How BIPOC (Can) Cause Harm to Each Other – 2 CE Credits
Instructor: Lyrica Fils-Aimé , LCSW-R, RPT-S
Oftentimes BIPOC are looked to for solving equity issues in organizations. What are the ways in which BIPOC experience intersectionality of identities that impact and harm each other? We will explore deficit thinking and poverty disciplining within colorism, classism, and much more. How does this harm tend to show up in the work we do with our clients?
*This class is suitable for all levels of practitioners and providers of mental health including Psych, LMSW, LCSW, LMFT, LCAT, LMHC, LP and related fields.
February 18, 2021
Virtual Course – 2 CE Credit – $49
Ancestral Trauma, Wisdom, Resilience – 2 CE Credits
Instructor: Lyrica Fils-Aimé , LCSW-R, RPT-S
What are all the ways that racial trauma is experienced? How do racial reenactments, videos of killings, micro/macro aggressions impact the body and mind? What are the resiliencies involved in survival, cultural and historical wisdoms that we have today, and how do we bring these into our work with our clients and our clients bring into their work?
*This class is suitable for all levels of practitioners and providers of mental health including Psych, LMSW, LCSW, LMFT, LCAT, LMHC, LP and related fields.
March 18, 2021
Virtual Course – 2 CE Credit – $49
NEW LIVE ONLINE CLASSES
Prescriptive Memory-Making for Loss through Dyadic Creativity – 4 CE Credits
Led by Nancy Gershman, LMSW is a memory artist and the developer of Dreamscaping, an imaginal and photo-based therapy supported by the way memories get encoded in the brain. An international presenter, Nancy is also a full-time therapist with Bhava Therapy Group in New York City.
When working with a client’s memory, how do we locate the fleeting, joyful bits so often overshadowed by loss that no new insights can emerge? In this two-part 4-hour workshop, the memory artist and clinical social worker who developed Dreamscaping will introduce her novel technique for arriving at the memory our client needs in order to move from isolation to re-integration in the world. This playful approach begins with excavating a client’s most precious memories—then joining the client there to figure out ways to enhance or build a new (prescriptive) memory from lived experience so that it becomes the place where healing can happen.
Given that the focus of this workshop is on being able to fluidly interview and brainstorm a prescriptive memory with your client, participants will be invited to sketch out their prescriptive memory, which can be executed as a photo collage or some other photo-based art form at a future date. Participants in this part didactic and experiential class will learn how to:
- List identifiers for suitability and contraindications for Dreamscaping.
- Describe two or more ways Dreamscaping’s brain-based approach launches memory reconsolidation and updates a distressing long-term memory.
- State one or more reasons why it is beneficial for the prescriptive memory to “violate the expected” so it can open the bereaved individual to a therapeutic, corrective experience.
- Name three arts intervention skills to help a client transform the prescriptive memory into an image-based tangible object
*This class is suitable for all levels of practitioners and providers of mental health including Psych, LMSW, LCSW, LMFT, LCAT, LMHC, LP and related fields.
*This is a TWO-Part Live Online Class meeting on:
Sunday, February 21, 10am-12pm
Sunday, February 28, 10am-12pm
(attendance at both sessions is required)
Fee: $120
Experiential Dreamwork- 3 CE
Led by Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R
Co-Founder and Executive Director of Bhava Therapy Group
Providing a bridge between our conscious and unconscious, dreams offer rich opportunity to dive into a deeper understanding oneself. Learning how to work experientially and creatively with the imagery and themes presented by our dreams can often shift the therapeutic work and relationship in profound ways. In this 3 hour live online class participants will:
– Look at the neurology of dreaming and the relationship between dreams, life themes, inner conflict and stress and trauma
– Learn techniques and processes for approaching dreamwork from an experiential lens and framework
– Learn how to find trust in the unfolding process of dreamwork as a therapeutic modality
*This class is suitable for all levels of practitioners and providers of mental health including Psych, LMSW, LCSW, LMFT, LCAT, LMHC, LP and related fields.
Thursday April 8th
12:00-3:00pm
Live Online Class
Fee: $79
Dance Movement Therapy & Music in the Virtual Treatment Room – 2.5 CE
Led by Anginese Phillips, LCAT, R-DMT, full-time clinical psychotherapist at Bhava Therapy Group
Movement and sounds are our first forms of expression. Exploring how we move and what moves us is crucial to understanding how we show up in the world and in the treatment room. In this 2.5 hour CE class, participants will have the opportunity to look at their lived non-verbal experience and how to incorporate and explore one’s movement repertoire in a safe and insightful way and utilize it in the therapeutic relationship and process.
- Introduce key theorists and their philosophies in the Dance Movement Therapy Field
- Learn what and how to observe and how to utilize nonverbal communication in the therapeutic relationship/
- Explore and practice with experiential movement techniques
- Learn how to utilize music and lyrics to tap into a client’s lived experience
*This class is suitable for all levels of practitioners and providers of mental health including Psych, LMSW, LCSW, LMFT, LCAT, LMHC, LP and related fields.
Wednesday April 21st
10am-12:30pm
Live Online Class
Fee: $65
Experiential-Relational Methods for Working with Personality Disorders – 3 CE
Led by Amir Levine, PhD, LCSW-R
Co-Founder and Clinical Director of Bhava Therapy Group
Meeting clients with deeply ingrained personality disorders and/or high conflict and intense situations can be an inevitable aspect of working in the field of mental health. In this dynamic and informative workshop, participants will gain essential knowledge for utilizing an experiential and relational approach for working with clients suffering from Personality Disorders. Participants will also learn and practice effective tools and interventions for the management of high intensity situations such as clients who may display demanding, angry, aggressive, dependent, obsessional, and other challenging behaviors.
- Define the experiential-relational approach of working with PD
- Learn to utilize your relational and somatic experience of the client to target your interventions
- Discuss and practice experiential-relational interventions through exploration of different case scenarios
*This class is suitable for intermediate to advanced practitioners and providers of mental health including Psych, LMSW, LCSW, LMFT, LCAT, LMHC, LP and related fields.
Friday May 14th
1-4pm
Live Online Class
Fee: $79
ONLINE COURSES
Relating to Adolescents in the Therapeutic Setting- 1 CE Credits
This course will help you foster a new level of connection with your adolescent clients. It’s filled with creative and novel tools to help bridge the gap between health care professional and client. Taught by Teresita Martinez, LMHC, CAP, ICADC
Online Course – 1 CE Credit – $25
Disarming Fear in 3 Steps- 1 CE Credits
In this 1 credit hour course we explore an experiential process for helping our clients find a new way of relating to and managing their fear & worry. This course is taught by Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R Co-Founder & Executive Director of BHAVA Therapy Group.
Online Course – 1 CE Credit – $25
Meeting the Grieving- 2 CE Credits
This 2 CE course includes a 1.5 hour video segment and 30 min reserved for self-reflective experiential exercises to complete during the duration of the course.
Who is this course for:
This course is ideal for all mental health providers, both seasoned and newer clinicians to the field who wish to refresh, refine and reflect more deeply on how to work with and meet grief in a holistic and experiential way. This course would also be appropriate for lay people who would like to learn how to understand and relate to their own grief or the grief of their loved ones.
This course is taught by Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R Co-Founder & Executive Director of BHAVA Therapy Group.
Online Course – 2 CE Credit – $39
Continuing Education Courses/Credits
NYC Therapy Group is an Approved Provider of Continuing Education Courses/Credits by the New York State Board of Education for PSY, LMSW, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, LCAT, LP Licensed Clinicians.
Refund Policy
Refunds granted until 2 week prior to date of the class. After that date, we cannot accept refund requests. If you are unable to attend the class you registered for, please email Veronica Vaiti to request your credit.
In-Service/On-Site Training & Workshops
The NYC Therapy Group CE Program is also available to provide our continuing education courses and training on-site at your organization. If you or the members of your organization are unable to make it to one of our training or if your organization has a specific request for a training in a particular area of expertise that you don’t see listed as part of our posted curriculum, please email Veronica Vaiti to discuss further.