SUMMER 2021 CE CLASSES
Legal and Ethical Considerations with High Risk Clients – 1CE
Facilitated by Bruce Hillowe, JD, PhD
In this 1 hour workshop, participants will learn the most important legal and ethical considerations for high-risk situations that clinicians can confront in their practice. Course objectives include:
- Learn current and basic ethical and legal backgrounds for treatment of at risk patient.
- Plan and prepare to implement record-keeping and documentation requirements for such patients
- Learn about mandatory and recommended reporting requirements for such patients.
- Apply risk management principles without compromising clinical integrity.
- Utilize tools taught to make clinical decisions in accordance with ethical, legal and risk-management guidelines.
Bruce V. Hillowe, J.D., Ph.D. is a mental healthcare attorney with a law practice in Garden City, New York. A graduate of Binghamton University, Duke University School of Law, and Adelphi University Derner Institute (Clinical Psychology and Postdoctoral Programs), he formerly practiced as a psychologist-psychoanalyst, including as a coordinator of clinical training and director of a forensic mental health service. He was a teaching attending psychologist in law and ethics at a major teaching hospital for 15 years. He currently teaches courses in ethics and law as adjunct faculty at the Derner Institute. He is legal counsel to numerous mental health facilities, institutes, and practitioners and sponsors legal plans for professional associations. He has written articles and book chapters including for law reviews and healthcare publications and is the author of a HIPAA compliance manual for New York mental health practices. He is a featured “SuperLawyer” in the New York Times Magazine.
Tuesday, June 22nd
1:00 – 2:00pm
Live Online Class
Fee: $35
Introduction to Couples Work – 3CE
Facilitated by Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R, CCATP
Couples work can be incredibly challenging, yet very rewarding and powerful. In this 3 hour workshop participants will:
- Explore what it means to be a “couple” and different aspects of intimate relationships
- Review different theoretical approaches to couples therapy
- Explore different interventions via case examples and experiential work
Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R, CCATP is Executive Director and Co-Founder of Bhava Therapy Group. Visit our “Meet the Team” page to learn more about Veronica.
Wednesday, July 14th
10:00am – 1:15pm
Live Online Class
Fee: $89
Helping our Clients Break Free from OCD: Treatment Strategies and Considerations – 3CE
Facilitated by Steve Weissman, PhD
In this class, participants will be introduced to the diagnosis of OCD and major treatment strategies, drawing from CBT, ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention), and ACT. Through didactics and collaborative case conferencing, participants will have the opportunity to workshop and apply these techniques and approaches to their own work.
Learning objectives:
- Participants will be able to recognize the signs and symptoms of OCD, particularly less well-known manifestations, as well as the behavioral mechanisms that maintain these symptoms.
- Participants will understand the basic tenets of effective treatment modalities for OCD and how to apply them
- Participants will learn about common obstacles to OCD treatment and methods of addressing them.
Steve Weissman, PhD
Co-Founder, NYCBT
Steve has spent more than 10 years in private practice working with people struggling to improve their lives by reclaiming the hours spent worrying, obsessing, repeating things over and over, or feeling stuck and demoralized by how hard everything seems to be. He is an expert in the treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), related conditions such as Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and Hoarding Disorder, social anxiety, phobias, panic attacks, and other forms of anxiety. He is also an experienced DBT therapist, integrating the mindfulness and emotion regulation aspects of DBT with effective approaches to OCD and anxiety.
Wednesday, August 4th
12:00pm – 3:15pm
Live Online Class
Fee: $89
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 for live in-person courses are offered up to 1 week in advance of the course start date. Refunds for live online courses are offered up to 24 hours prior to the start of the course. Refunds are issued in the original form of payment used. Any cancellations or requests for refunds after the 1 week or 24 hour window respectively are reviewed on a case by case basis. Requests for refunds or cancellation after the 1 week or 24 hour window, if granted, may qualify only as a credit for future courses not as a refund of the original payment used.
If you are unable to attend the class you registered for, please email Veronica Vaiti to request your credit.
Grievance Policy
The Bhava Therapy Group Continuing Education Program (BTGCEP) aims to provide an educational experience that meets and exceeds the highest standards for professional continuing education. The BTGCEP strives to address and meet each participants’ learning needs in an easy to use, transparent, supportive and openly communicative manner with substantive and quality content and instruction.
If at any time, a participant experiences a difficulty or grievance of any kind such as access to CE course, delivery of courses, attendance to courses, quality of or level of instruction of the courses, receipt of certificates of completion and the like, the BTGCEP team commits to respond promptly and in a timely manner with as much clarity, respect for the request or expressed grievance and work to resolve the grievance in a satisfactory and integrous manner.
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.