Fall 2021 CE Curriculum:
ALL CLASSES MEET LIVE ONLINE via ZOOM
Confidentiality and Privilege in Psychotherapy with Minors 1.5 CE
Led by Bruce Hillowe, JD, PhD
Tuesday October 19th, 12-1:30pm
$49
In this 1.5 hour class, participants will review important aspects of working therapeutically with minors including: informed consent, minors and the necessity of parental involvement; reporting child abuse and neglect, limits of the mandate, and crimes against children; the SAFE Act and reporting of dangerousness; access to minors’ records by parents and third parties; involvement in family legal matters and the role of the treating therapist/fact-witness.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will acquire knowledge of the legal issues involved in the confidentiality of treatment information of minor patients.
- Participants will learn risk management principles consistent with best practices involved in confidentiality of treatment information of minors.
Instructor Bio
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.
*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.
Legal and Ethical Considerations of High-Risk Clients 1.5 CE
Led by Bruce Hillowe, JD, PhD
Thursday, November 4th, 12-1:30pm
$49
In this 1.5 hour Live Zoom class, 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 patients
- 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.5. Utilize tools taught to make clinical decisions in accordance with ethical, legal and risk-management guidelines.
Instructor Bio
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.
*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.
Anti-Oppressive Practices in Mental Health Leadership and Therapy 1.5 CE
Led by Lyrica Fils-Aime, LCSW-R, RPT-S
Tuesday November 9, 7-8:30pm
$49
Traditionally our pedagogy does not include anti-oppressive language and Leaders and Psychotherapists do not learn how to rid our practices of power and privilege. This is a way of thinking that we have to actively apply to our modalities and methods. We will learn how to define anti-oppression for ourselves and delve into ways to integrate strategies into our programming for staff, coworkers, and clients.
OBJECTIVES
- Define Anti-oppressive practices.
- Identify ways social work and mental health practices are harmful to clients and communities.
- Illustrate and assess power and privilege in ourselves and organizations
- Determine when racial trauma, ableism, Islamophobia, transphobia, and more are showing up in practice or programming.
- Explain problematic systems in USA history that contribute to oppression in mental health.
Instructor Bio:
Lyrica Fils-Aimé, LCSW-R, RPT-S, (she/her), works as a Anti-Racist consultant, workshop facilitator, and private practice founder in Harlem. Lyrica serves as a Director of Equity Transformation and Culturally Responsive Environments for the NYC DoE. She integrates her MSW and a Master of Science in Non-Profit Leadership to decolonize leadership and psychotherapy practices. Lyrica writes a blog for Psychology Today titled The Gift of [Anti-Racist] Therapy and also works with children as a play therapist.
Lyrica specializes in ancestral trauma and resilience and guides clients to rematriation through ancestral lands, plants, spirituality and language.
Working with Trauma: A Somatic and Relational Approach 3 CE
Led by Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R, CCATP
Friday December 3rd, 10-1:15pm
$89
Trauma impacts every part of a person’s being: their thoughts, emotions, physiology, and basic sense of the world in which they live. This workshop will explore the most recent research, philosophies and experiential methods of working with trauma. You will learn hands-on therapeutic methods and techniques to help your clients heal in the safest and most sensitive way possible. The latest research from fields such as Neuroscience including Polyvagal Theory, Somatic and Relational Perspectives will be discussed and practiced.
Learning Objectives:
- Impart a basic understanding of holistic impact of and the neuroscientific basis of trauma
- Increase familiarity and practice with basic experiential interventions for traumatic activation
- Learn the application of somatic and relational based trauma interventions
Instructor Bio:
Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R, CCATP is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Bhava Therapy Group, has almost 2 decades of experience in working with trauma somatically and experientially. To learn more about Veronica, visit our “Meet the Team” page.
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. BHAVA Therapy Group is a dba for NYC Therapy Group.
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 Bhava 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.