“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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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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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.

Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder in Outpatient Settings

Presenter: Katy Tarella, LCSW
When: Friday, Sep 20, 11:30am – 1:20pm
Where: Il Davide Ristorante, 601 A Street, San Rafael
Cost: $25, includes 1.5 units Continuing Education

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Freedom from Burnout for Helping Professionals with Presenter Ellis Edmunds, PsyD

Join Mind Therapy Clinic’s staff for a clinical training Friday, August 30, from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Ellis Edmunds presents on using tools to address professional burnout. Free training. CEs for clinicians $25.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

DBT was originally developed to help clients struggling with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Many of these clients also have PTSD, and vice versa. DBT helps clients analyze their emotional and psychological issues and teaches them to enact new behaviors. It encourages clients to identify their emotional experiences and manage them through the skills they learn and practice in therapy. DBT teaches mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance and emotional regulation skills with real-life scenarios. With DBT-PTSD, clients are guided to transfer these skills from therapy to real life and use them to cope with the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety and co-occurring mental and emotional issues.

We have added new groups on Wednesdays to accommodate the IOP/PHP programming, and in response to many of you requesting additional group options. Check out the program calendar to learn more about these new weekly Wednesday groups.

• Mindful Process – led by Neil Kobrin, PhD

• The Early Recovery Group – led by Amelia Howard-Smith, LMFT

• Radically-Open DBT (RO-DBT) is led by Katy Tarella, LCSW

• Expressive Arts Group is facilitated by our newest member, HAZAL SELÇUK , AMFT, RDT, REAT, RSME/T.

Multi-Family Group is a group designed to educate and support family members of individuals who are diagnosed with mental health and substance use disorders. Group members will learn about mental illness and addiction, how to support a loved one who is struggling with mental illness and/or addiction, and most importantly, how to take care of oneself in the face of supporting a loved one who is struggling with these issues.