LMHCA's Annual Spring Conference

6363 Saint Charles Avenue,New Orleans LA 70118

06 May, 2023

Description

Come join us on May 6th from 9 am to 4 pm at LMHCA's Annual Spring Conference at Loyola University in New Orleans. This year's conference will be divided into morning and afternoon sessions so that we can offer various content. The morning will consist of a three-hour presentation, and the afternoon will consist of four one-and-a-half-hour sessions. Cultural Attunement: Cultivating Cultural Humility and Utilizing Emotionally Focused Therapy in Supervision (Supervision) DeAron Washington, MA, PLPC, (Doctoral Candidate) Learning Objectives 1. Participants will summarize the current research on cultural humility and supervision. 2. Participants will examine the effects of racial microaggressions on supervision. 3. Participants will review Emotionally Focused Therapy Interventions. 4. Participants will identify reparative and preventive strategies that can be utilized in supervision. 5. Participants will demonstrate selected skills through role-play. 1 pm - 2:30 pm CST Using Relational Cultural Therapeutic Informed (RCT) Creative Interventions to Address BIPOC Trauma Chantrelle D. Varnado-Johnson, Ph.D., LPC-S, BC-TMH, NCC, Registered Play Therapist Learning Objectives 1. Learn strategies for amplifying the role of relationships in the well-beings of BIPOC clients. 2. Identify and respond to the needs of BIPOC clients who have experienced Race-Based Traumatic Stress (RBTS). 3. Explore the incorporation of a Relational Cultural Theoretical (RCT) approach for BIPOC clients to access and express their BIPOC trauma. One Day at a Time: Strategies for Treating Traumatic Grief Lindsey Donald, MS, P-LPC, NCC (she, her, hers) and Tinmuk Li, MA Learning Objectives 1. Define traumatic grief and how to recognize signs of traumatic grief 2. Explore theories of grief 3. Discuss different types of grief 4. Provide interventions for traumatic grief 2:30 pm - 4 pm CST Trauma in Children: Mistaken Diagnoses and Symptoms (Diagnosis) Sarah Scanlon, MS, PLPC, NCC (she/her) Learning Objectives 1. Participants will be able to identify common trauma symptoms that children can present. 2. Participants will develop further knowledge on how common trauma symptoms can present as other common diagnoses found in children. 3. Participants are able to understand the value of using a trauma-informed lens when working with children. Therapeutic Approaches to Working with Perinatal Loss Clients: A Grounded Theory Study Heather Olivier, Ph.D., LPC, PMH-C, CCTP, NCC (she/hers) Learning Objectives 1. Participants will benefit from this presentation as they will be able to: (a) Conceptualize how the systemic factors contributing to the socialization of emotions, and subsequent cultural norming processes formed to maintain the monolithic infrastructure of the centralized group, impact the therapeutic process; (b) Expand their understanding and teaching of ambiguous loss and disenfranchised grief as products of cultural perceptions responsible for how mental health professionals identify maladaptive behaviors subsequent to perinatal loss; (c) Broaden their understanding of perinatal loss to be inclusive of all losses within the perinatal period, and the psychosocial impact of various forms of perinatal loss; (d) Identify trauma and grief symptoms presented in perinatal loss clients, and differentiate between the unique presentation of symptoms in this population and other client populations; and, (e) Employ a relational approach to interaction grounded in symbolic interactionism, which rejects individualism and emphasizes the co-construction of self as a reciprocal, continuous process throughout the lifespan that is inherently impacted by cultural norming processes and socialization.