Mind Therapy Clinic’s tele-psychiatry and tele-therapy during COVID situation

Hello Mind Therapy Community,

Mind Therapy Clinic is open during the current COVID situation. However, with the Bay Area-wide shelter in place orders, we have implemented virtual visits or “teletherapy” for individual and group therapy sessions for the near future. Only some medical appointments involving physical treatments will continue on-site.

Please be on the watch for emails coming from your Mind Therapy Clinic’s clinicians from which you will be able to join individual and group video sessions. Mind Therapy Clinic is using a HIPAA compliant system to ensure confidentiality. We are also asking everybody to complete a Telehealth Consent Form. This is available below and at https://www.mindtherapyclinic.com/client and can be scanned or sent back from a photo to info@mindtherapyclinic.com. In addition, we can also send you the form using an electronic signature program if you prefer.

We are very sorry for this turn of events, though our greatest concern is for the health and safety of our patients and our community. We hope that all of you are doing well in this difficult time. We look forward to returning to business as usual soon.

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Congratulations to Dr. Schiller for being elected to Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association!

Congratulations to Dr. Schiller for being elected to Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, effective January 1, 2020.  He joins an elite group of psychiatrists with this honorary distinction who continue to make significant contributions to the field of psychiatry.

Dr. Schiller will be honored and acknowledged at the 2020 Convocation of Distinguished Fellows, during APA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.  The ceremony will be held on Monday, April 27, 2020, from 5:30 – 6:45 pm, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Level 200 – Hall B.   

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Ethics and Boundaries for Mental Health Professionals – 12/6

Ethics & Boundaries for Mental Health Professionals

Friday, December 6
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Mind Therapy Clinic, Room 7,
240 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 94925
2 CEs – $25

The Training

This course provides ethics and boundary information relevant to mental health professionals. In addition to discussions on responding to common ethical and boundary dilemmas, topics include HIPAA, California-specific laws, mandated reporting laws, informed consent and confidentiality.

Attendees at this presentation will be able to:

  • Describe informed consent and limits of confidentiality

  • Discuss established ethical and legal requirements contained in the relevant statutes and ethical codes.

The training is free for all clinicians and the public. Two Continuing Education units are offered for $25.

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Dysfunctional families and distorted communication: Clinical approaches… (CE Training 11/19)

Join Mind Therapy Clinic for a Professional Training with Kenneth Perlmutter, PhD

When: Tuesday, November 19, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Where: Mind Therapy Clinic, 240 Tamal Vista Drive, Corte Madera CA 94925, Upstairs Classroom

Presenter: Kenneth Perlmutter, PhD, Founder, Family Recovery Institute

For Clinicians

Clients requiring intensive treatment for complex psychological issues, including addiction and mood, eating and trauma-based disorders, developed in family systems wounded by legacies of loss from which the members have never fully recovered. Communication patterns among members of such families are fraught with distortions, assumptions, accusations and misdirection. This two-hour workshop will uncover the nature of family system woundedness using the Stress-Induced Impaired Coping model developed by the presenter. Strategies to engage members in the clinical conversation and promote more effective communication among them when outside the office will be presented.

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe the common environmental characteristics of wounded family systems

  • Use experiential exercises to deepen family treatment

FREE. 2 CEs for $25.

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Seasonal Affective Disorder: Winter is Coming. Don’t be SAD – Prepare!

“Our hormones are sensitive to sunlight,” said Mark Schiller, MD, medical director and founder of Mind Therapy Clinic psychiatric outpatient services. “Hormones regulate our moods and sleep.” If you or a client is affected by SAD, then you can expect the disorder to reoccur every winter, he noted.

Because it is hormonally-based, SAD is probably not completely preventable, but there are many actions you or clients can take to lessen SAD’s effects.

Do you or your clients experience Seasonal Affective Disorder? Take the SAD Self-Inventory here.

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Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy (TLDP) Free Professional Training (10/22)

Join Mind Therapy Clinic for a Professional Training with Galia Schechter, PsyD

When: Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Where: Mind Therapy Clinic, 240 Tamal Vista Drive, Corte Madera CA 94925, Upstairs Classroom

For Clinicians

Time-limited dynamic psychotherapy (TLDP) is an interpersonal, time-sensitive approach for patients with chronic, pervasive, dysfunctional ways of relating. The goal is not symptom reduction but rather to change ingrained relational patterns. The training is an attachment-based, empirically supported, brief approach that offers experiential learning.

This training will offer a conceptual clinical framework that is attachment-based to support clinicians’ understanding of clients’ relational challenges that often affect depression, anxiety and other common presenting problems and guide their clinical interventions. Clinicians will be able to apply the framework to their work with clients and understand how to offer corrective emotional experiences that are experiential, existential and rapidly effective.

Objectives

  • Participants will be able to describe the TLDP model

  • Participants will learn how to apply the TLDP model in their clinical work

Free. 2 CE for $25

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Sign Up for our New San Francisco-based Group!

Psychotherapy Process-Oriented Group

This process group usually consists of a group of people who meet regularly for the common purpose of finding out more about who they are and what they would like to change in their personal lives and relationships with other. The members and the group as a whole are assisted with guided feedback and process comments from Caleb Birkoff, an experienced psythotherapists, and co-leaders.

The group members will have the opportunity to talk as openly as they possibly can about their interactions and experiences of each other as well as any aspects of the group experience that may come to mind. Many thoughts and feelings associated with the activity of the group may arise and are often reflective of the particular stage of the life cycle in which the group is encountering. By engaging with one another on different emotional levels, individuals can freely gain wider perspectives about the various ways they relate to their inner world, and how this becomes reflected in their relationships with others.

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