This pre-recorded virtual webinar has been approved for 3 CEUS that meet the Ethical requirement for the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy.  Please email info@mamft.net upon completion to receive your evaluation and CEU certificate.  

Please note- there are a few opportunities for group discussion and was recorded with breakout rooms live, when this was a live stream recording.  For those watching as a recorded webinar, you are encouraged to write down the questions and reflect on what your answers might be and how the content might relate to your practice.

Ethical Dilemmas in Family Therapy: Multiple Relationships within the Family System with Kirsten Lind Seal, PhD, LMFT  

co-hosted with the New England Association For Family and Systemic Therapy (NEAFAST)

Description: This webinar discusses processes for handling multiple relationships with family members in family therapy, such as when and how to (or not to) provide solo and dydic sessions, adding in or subtracting family members into the system, and knowing when we are getting pulled into the family system ourselves.

During this interactive workshop, participants will be invited to explore and discuss various ethical dilemmas that arise while working with family systems.  Specific situations common to in-home family therapy, as well situations that arise during family work in clinics or in private practice will also be addressed. The use of Structural Family Therapy interventions and theoretical frameworks will be presented for discussion and a range of ethical issues will be considered.

Objectives:

1. Name three reasons multiple relationships within the family can be problematic.
2. Explain three common dilemmas found while doing in-home therapy.

3. Define and practice three Structural Family Therapy interventions which will help to mitigate the above ethical dilemmas.

Understanding and Using Parasocial Relationships, Fandoms, and Social Media in Therapy with Ashley Myhre, MA, LMFT, RYT-200

Live Stream: Friday March 24th 9-12:15

3.0 CEUS

*This webinar has 3 CEUS approved by the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy.

Presenter's Bio: Ashley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in serving her fellow nerds and geeks around trauma, sexuality, and relationships. She is an AMFT & MN Board Approved Supervisor, EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist and Approved Consultant, Board Certified Sex Therapist, Certified Transgender Care Therapist, and Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200). She owns POW! Psychotherapy in Minneapolis, MN, and regularly writes, teaches, and presents on mental health, fandom, clinical sexology, and other wellness topics. Find out more at powpsychotherapy.com.

Workshop Description: Do you include your client’s favorite character as part of their support system? Have you ever asked who they talk to on social media? How about what they learned about themselves by watching that one TV show or writing their latest fanfic? Did you celebrate with them when they finished an epic cosplay? What did you say when they talked to you about secondhand embarrassment keeping them from attending a convention? How did you help them navigate their hero becoming “problematic?” Did you know that YOU have parasocial relationships? Feeling lost? Did those questions sound like gibberish? Even if you’re a top-notch geek yourself, there are ways you can use a client’s parasocial relationships, fandoms, and social media activities to enhance the therapeutic relationship, engage in creative interventions, practice skills, and tap into deep and meaningful exploration and narratives to foster growth and change. This workshop will walk though parasocial relationships, fandoms, and social media to help you understand their clinical relevance, and offer concrete ways to bring their power into session today.

Workshop Objectives:

1. Define parasocial relationships, fandoms, and social media.

2. Summarize how parasocial relationships, fandoms, and social media may impact mental health.

3. Integrate questions about parasocial relationships, fandoms, and social media into the therapy process to identify client resources and enhance the therapeutic relationship.

4. Generate and utilize creative interventions to build on strengths and resources that come from parasocial relationships, fandoms, and social media.

The Business Side of Providing Supervision with Mark Wilde, LMFT, AAMFT Approved Supervisor and Tamara Statz, MA, LMFT, FT

Live Stream- Mon April 3rd, 2023 9-11  

2 Supervision CEUS

*This webinar has 2 Supervision CEUS approved by the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy. 

Presenters' Bios: 
Mark Wilde is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a MN board approved supervisor, and an AAMFT approved supervisor. He has provided both group and individual supervision to clinician working toward licensure since 2012.

Tamara Statz, MA, LMFT, FT specializes in adult mental health focusing on grief and loss, chronic and terminal illness, caregiving, and dementia in her private practice, Vibrant Living, LLC. In addition to her clinical work, Tamara is an adjunct instructor at Saint Mary's University in both the Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy programs. Tamara is a board-approved supervisor in Minnesota through BMFT and BBHT. She is passionate about equipping the next generation of therapists through education and supportive supervision. As a business owner, Tamara knows first-hand the experiences of creating and maintaining documentation, deciding on a fee structure and discussing money with clients and supervisees, as well as how to advertise services offered. She is passionate about equipping supervisors to make the most of the experience of providing supervision.

Description: One of the first questions many therapists ask after going thru the process of becoming a board-approved supervisor is "How do I find people to supervise?" Another common question is "How much should I charge?" This training will offer answers to these and other important questions that approved supervisors may have about adding supervision as a revenue stream to their side job or as part of their private practice.

Objectives:

1. The participant will learn the basics on how to connect with people who need supervision

2. The participant will learn about how to handle recordkeeping, accounting and other business aspects of supervision.

3. The participant will leave with a better understanding of how to do supervision as part of a small business.

Ambiguous Loss: Attending to the Provider's Experience with 

Kierst Finsand, PsyD, LP and  Heidi Bausch-Ryan, PsyD, LP

Live-Stream Friday April 21st, 2023 8:30-10:00am CST

1.5 CEUs

*This webinar has 1.5 CEUS approved by the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy.

Presenters' Bios: Kierst Finsand, Psy.D. LP, is a psychologist and Associate Director of Clinical services at CARE Counseling. Kierst has studied the experiences of grief and ambiguous loss for those experiencing infertility, and works frequently with clients experiencing a wide range of grief narratives. Kierst has provided professional trainings on grief, resilience, and various therapy modalities including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Dr. Kierst Finsand has worked in university counseling supporting students in their transitions to a new environment and has worked in providing higher level of care intensive programming in an eating disorder recovery setting. Kierst’s clinical interests include grief and loss, eating disorders, somatic exploration and trauma, and resilience.

For the past six years, Dr. Bausch-Ryan has done clinical work and research in the areas of grief, loss and bereavement. Heidi has studied the experiences of grief and losses associated with substance use and recovery, for the individual, family members, and significant others. She has received additional training in the areas of grief and substance use disorders, as well as delivered professional training presentations on grief, depression, anxiety, trauma, co-occurring concerns, and resiliency. Prior to graduating with a doctoral degree, Dr. Bausch-Ryan worked in residential substance use treatment and on an in-patient dual diagnosis unit, serving adolescents to young adults with mental health and substance use concerns. Her clinical interests include grief, substance use and recovery, life transitions, identity explorations, and building resilience.

Workshop Description: Amid the past few years, ambiguous could be seen as one of the more collective life experiences encountered, professionally and personally. The provider’s experience of loss inevitably enters the room (or Zoom) when working with an individual’s grief journey. During this webinar, Dr. Kierst Finsand will define the various forms of ambiguous losses and disenfranchised grief one is likely to encounter in their work. Dr. Heidi Bausch-Ryan will then share about a reflective process helpful in identifying and effectively navigating the provider’s experience during grief-oriented work. Lastly, the speakers will discuss ways providers can approach ambiguous loss and build resilience throughout grief related work to maintain a sustainable practice.

Workshop Objectives:

• Describe ambiguous loss and disenfranchised grief
• Recognize how the provider’s personal experience(s) of loss intersects with grief-oriented work
• Practice and post-presentation apply reflective process and interventions for ambiguous loss
• Identify ways to build provider resilience throughout grief related work.

Training Series - OCD and I-CBT: Traits and Essentials of Inference-Based CBT with Lucy Grantz, LMFT

Live Stream: Friday May 5th 9:00-11:00 a.m.

2 CEU's 

*This webinar has 2  CEUs approved by the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy.

Introduction to Medical Family Therapy: Theory & Concepts with 

Lisa Zak-Hunter, PhD, LMFT and Susan Pfau, LMFT

Live Stream: Thursday July 20th 1-2:30p CST

1.5 CEUs

*This webinar has 1.5 CEUs approved by the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy.

Presenters' Bios: M. Susan Pfau, LMFT, is a behavioral health predoctoral intern at St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program (2022-23). Her career goals are to provide behavioral health for patients across their lifespan in an integrated medical setting in the Twin Cities, supervise LMFTs pursuing licensure, and become a faculty member at a higher education institution. Susan specializes in diagnosis and management of mental health in ages 0-5. She is pursuing a PhD in Medical Family Therapy at Northcentral University.

Dr. Lisa Zak-Hunter is an LMFT and clinical fellow with AAMFT. She serves as the Director of Behavioral Health at St. John's Family Medicine Residency with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. In this role, she works in a primary care clinic as part of an integrated care team that includes resident and faculty physicians, medical students, behavioral health, pharmacy, social work, and nursing. Dr. Zak-Hunter is passionate about medical family therapy (MedFT), integrated behavioral healthcare, family-centered care, residency education, provider wellbeing, and culturally responsive trauma-informed care. She has published, presented, and taught in these areas for over a decade. She is a founder and chair of the Medical Family Therapy Consortium, a national group of MedFT practitioners, academics, and advisors working together to advance the field through self-promotion, training/education, and workforce development.

Workshop Description: This workshop is an introduction to the field of Medical Family Therapy (MedFT). The content will focus on theories, concepts, and constructs related to working with couples and families facing medical illness and disability. We will cover foundational theories and history beginning with the biopsychosocial and then biopsychosocial spiritual models and McDaniel, Hepworth, and Doherty's early work. Then we will explore Rolland's (1994, 2018) expansion on this work and concepts to better understand how illness impacts families at different life stages, how typology of illness impacts families, and the role that diverse family and cultural illness beliefs influence understanding and treatment.

Workshop Objectives:

1. Develop a basic understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of Medical Family Therapy (MedFT)

2. Be able to identify how illness phases & typology impact families.

3. Develop an understanding and appreciation for the diversity of cultural beliefs as they relate to health and illness

AntiRacism Facilitation Training for Therapists with Lucreshia Grant, MS

Live Stream: Friday, August 18th, 12:00-3:15 p.m.

3 Cultural Competency CEUs

*This webinar has 3 Cultural Competency CEUS approved by the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy.

Introduction to Medical Family Therapy: Theory & Concepts with Susan Pfau, LMFT, RPT

Live Stream: Thursday, September 14th, 9-11 a.m.

2 CEUs

*This webinar has 2 CEUS approved by the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy.

Cultural Humility: Responding to Self and Others
with Hannah Dufek, MA, LADC, LPCC

Live Stream: Friday, September 29th 9-10a.m. 

1.5 CEUs

*This webinar has 1 Cultural Competency CEU  approved by the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy.

 Application of Medical Family Therapy in a Primary Care Setting 

with Susan Pfau, LMFT, RPT and Lisa Zak Hunter, PhD, LMFT

Live Stream Thursday November 8th 1-2:30p CST

1.5 CEUs

*This webinar has 1.5 CEUs  approved by the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy.

*it is recommended that you either have some basic knowledge of Medical Family Therapy or have participated in the webinar "Introduction to Medical Family Therapy: Theory & Concepts" in the Training Series prior to taking this course

Presenters' Bios: M. Susan Pfau, LMFT, is a behavioral health predoctoral intern at St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program (2022-23). Her career goals are to provide behavioral health for patients across their lifespan in an integrated medical setting in the Twin Cities, supervise LMFTs pursuing licensure, and become a faculty member at a higher education institution. Susan specializes in diagnosis and management of mental health in ages 0-5. She is pursuing a PhD in Medical Family Therapy at Northcentral University.

Dr. Lisa Zak-Hunter is an LMFT and clinical fellow with AAMFT. She serves as the Director of Behavioral Health at St. John's Family Medicine Residency with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. In this role, she works in a primary care clinic as part of an integrated care team that includes resident and faculty physicians, medical students, behavioral health, pharmacy, social work, and nursing. Dr. Zak-Hunter is passionate about medical family therapy (MedFT), integrated behavioral healthcare, family-centered care, residency education, provider wellbeing, and culturally responsive trauma-informed care. She has published, presented, and taught in these areas for over a decade. She is a founder and chair of the Medical Family Therapy Consortium, a national group of MedFT practitioners, academics, and advisors working together to advance the field through self-promotion, training/education, and workforce development.

Description: This workshop will be on the application of Medical Family Therapy in a primary care setting. We will cover integrative care with medical professionals and family therapists with a primary focus on communication between disciplines, and the incorporation of diverse family and cultural illness beliefs in healthcare.

Objectives:

·  Gain an understanding of communication between medical professionals and medical family therapists.

·  Understanding the application of family systems lens in a primary care setting and therapy methods for integrated care settings.