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Friday, May 10, 2019
“Having the Conversation about Cultural & Historical Trauma”
Presented by: Anita Mandley, MS, LCPC
When: Friday, May 10, 2019 from 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., with lunch break (lunch not included)
Where: Turning Point Behavioral Health Care Center, 8324 Skokie Boulevard, Skokie, IL 60077
Fee: $150 for 6.0 CEU’s
Seminar Description:
If you work with African Americans, Native Americans, Holocaust Survivors and their descendants, inter-generational poverty, or refugees, you are sitting with the legacies of Cultural and Historical Trauma. If your clients differ from you in the areas of race, culture, religion, sexuality, class or gender, your own biases are there as well. This workshop brings these issues out of the shadows into consciousness, and opens a path towards healing the disenfranchised grief of cultural and historical wounds. In order to be attuned, mindful, effective healers, therapists also need to bring their own bias out of the shadows with the awareness that bias is already there. And since bias is already there, learn to regulate it instead of avoiding it. Learning and dialogue will be facilitated through lecture, dyadic discussion, experiential exercises and video presentation. By participating in this workshop, attendees will:
About Anita Mandley:
Anita Mandley, MS, LCPC, is an integrative psychotherapist practicing at The Center for Contextual Change, in Skokie, Illinois. Anita works with clients with Complex PTSD, Dissociative Disorders, Eating Disorders and a variety of self-injurious behaviors. Her treatment interventions include Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Imagery, and expressive therapies. She is currently excited about seeing the transformative impact on her clients of her recently developed Integrative Trauma Recovery Group, ITR, a group therapy process designed specifically for adults with Developmental and Complex PTSD.
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Friday, February 22, 2019
"Addressing Advanced Supervision Issues: Psychological Stress, Resistance, and Impairment"
Presented by Toni R. Tollerud, PhD, LCPC
When: Friday, February 22, 2019 from 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., with lunch break (lunch not included)
Where: Turning Point Behavioral Health Care Center, 8324 Skokie Boulevard, Skokie, IL 60077
Fee: $150 for 6.0 CEU’s
Seminar Description:
This workshop deals with advanced issues that arise in the supervisory relationship including:
Opportunities to apply concepts learned will be experienced by viewing video of counseling and supervision sessions.
About Toni Tollerud:
Toni R. Tollerud, PhD, LCPC, NCC, NCSC, ACS, is a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita from the Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education in the College of Education at Northern Illinois University. As an educator for over 45 years, Dr. Tollerud has had extensive experiences in professional ethics and supervision training. Dr. Tollerud is Past-President of the Illinois Counseling Association, North Central Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors, and the Illinois Counselor Educators and Supervisors. She has received numerous awards for her professional work including the Illinois Mental Health Counselors Association Outstanding Service Award in 2006, Illinois Counselor Educators’ Educator of the Year Award in 2003 and the ICA Distinguished Leadership Award in 2010. In 2014, the Illinois School Counselors Association named their Counselor Educator of the Year Award in her honor. In 2017, the Schultz Foundation named a school counselor grant in her honor. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on counseling issues including counseling children, developmental school counseling, supervision, and LGBT issues. Besides publications on LGBT issues, she has presented numerous workshops for professional clinicians across the state addressing LGBT language, the coming out process, and therapeutic strategies.
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Turning Point Behavioral Health Care Center is a licensed State of Illinois provider of Continuing Education for social workers (LSW/LCSW), clinical psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and professional counselors (LPC/LCPC). License #’s 159.000226, 168.000209, and 268.000028.
IAODAPCA CEU's are not available at this time.
For further information about the Turning Point Academy, please call (847)933-0051 x 310.
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Anita Mandley, MS, LCPC
Toni R. Tollerud, PhD, LCPC
