PAM HARRIS, LPC
License No. 3981
910 W. Main St., Suite 305, Boise, Idaho, 83702 United States
www.pamharris.net
pamharris0061@gmail.com
208.602.2660
EDUCATION
Doctor of Psychology (Ph.D.), Transpersonal Psychology, Candidate (May 2024 est.). California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California
Master of Science (M.S.), Mental Health Counseling (2008). Capella University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Licensed Professional Counselor
Master in Business Administration (MBA), International Business (1987). Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California, International Business, Chinese
Bachelor of the Arts (B.A.), East Asian Studies and Political Science (1984), University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, Chinese Language (Mandarin) Studies
Beijing Normal University (1981-1982), People’s Republic of China, Chinese language studies (Mandarin), exchange program associated with the University of Massachusetts.
CERTIFICATIONS
Breathwork: Facilitator and Practitioner (c. June 2024).
SPECIAL TRAINING
Psychoanalytic Training Program, Clinical Associate, (2014-2015). Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco, California
Psychoanalytic Training Program, Clinical Associate (2012-2013). New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, California
PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE
Licensed Professional Counselor, License No. 3981 State of Idaho (2008)
PAPERS
Feminine Shame in China: A comparative analysis of the Oedipus Complex with social constructs of filial devotion. This topic contemplates the female sex with equal weight to the male. It revisits many concepts whose relevance for clinical practice is unquestionable. And it seeks to update psychoanalytic thinking in a global arena, in a way that elaborates the socially constructed elements of one's intrapsychic world. (2019)
The Impact of Therapeutic Autophotography on Adult Women’s Experiences of Shame and Sense of Agency in the United States and China. (Dissertation Topic, 2021 est. completion)
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
Private Practice, Psychotherapist, Boise, Idaho, May 2008 to current. Private practice working with men, women, adolescents, couples, and groups. General practice with specialty areas in PTSD, sexual trauma, sexual addictions, and eating disorders.
Highlands Specialty Clinic. Psychotherapist, Staff Member. Boise, Idaho, December 2019 to current. Provide treatment to men, women, adolescents, couples, and groups. Specialty areas in PTSD, sexual trauma, sexual addictions, and eating disorders.
Ivony Case Management. Psychotherapist, Staff Member and Supervisor. Boise, Idaho, Sept. 2015 to July 2016. Provide treatment to men, women, adolescents, children, and families who are homeless, physically challenged, in severe emotional anguish, and/or who are reliant on the state welfare system for economic support.
Ashwood Addiction Recovery Center. Psychotherapist, Boise, Idaho, May 2010 to September 2011. Facilitated psychotherapy process groups and provided individual psychotherapy.
SANE Solutions, Inc., Intern, Boise, Idaho, June 2007 to April 2008. Treated sexual offenders, victims of sexual abuse, victims of domestic violence, and general underserved population of men, women, children, adolescents, adults and groups. Led trauma recovery groups and process groups. Wrote treatment plans. Interfaced with Medicaid and Health and Welfare agencies.
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. Intern, Boise, Idaho, January 2007 to September 2007. Worked with Forensic mental health team, offering individual psychotherapy, group therapy, home visits, co-facilitated Mental Health Court rehabilitation groups. Interfaced with the mental health court system judges and officials, the onsite nurse, and department therapists to determine client intervention plans.
Women and Children's Alliance (WCA), Resident Manager, Boise, Idaho, Spring 2004 to Fall 2005. Managed homeless shelter for women and their children. Managed onsite living, conducted intakes, prepared progress notes, participated in client treatment meetings, supervised resident activities, and assisted in creating a safe and anonymous place for women and their children to live.
FACULTY EXPERIENCE
Faculty, Department of Social Services, Psychology, University of Phoenix, Boise, Idaho (2007 to 2018)
Delivery of Human Services, Introduction to Psychology, Essentials of Psychology, Theories of Personality, Biological Foundations of Psychology, Motivational Processing in Human Psychology, Cognitive Behavior, Cognitive Affective Psychology, History of Psychology, Human Motivation, Environmental Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Abnormal Psychology.
PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH AND PRESENTATION
Polyamory. (January 2018). Polyamorous calls into question our mono world. It allows us to move beyond the constructs we’ve grown up with.
Sex: Alienation, Desire and Expectation (March 2015). Presented to Boise Clinicians, Intermountain Hospital, Boise, Idaho. Are we really having the best sex ever. Understanding erotic imagination and daydreams to cure humiliation. Does technology connect us in all new intimate ways: Plug in, turn off, get off. Myths for twentieth-century pornography.
The Mandala. (January 2014). Presented Jungian origins and values of the Mandala, its powerful insights and applications to internal world of the patient. Presented to Idaho Friends of Jung.
Sexual Trauma: Treatment, Recovery and the Therapeutic Relationship. (February 2013). Presented psychoanalytic perspective on the power of the therapeutic relationship for the treatment of sexual trauma. Integrated use of dream work and water color for the recovery process. Presented to Idaho Friends of Jung.
Practitioner Heal Thyself (2012). Healing process for the practitioner. Presented to Intermountain Hospital, Boise, Idaho.
Anorexia-Nervosa in the Adolescent (2011). Presented psychoanalytic perspective of Anorexia Nervosa and teens. Presented to the Veteran’s Administration in Boise, Idaho.
The Power of the Unconscious Mind (2010). Presented to the Boise Rotary Club, Boise, Idaho.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Idaho Psychological Association, CE Committee Member. Co-developed and planned professional presentation on the Clinical and Developmental Concerns of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Sexually-Fluid Youth Workshop. Prepared marketing collateral and strategized with Boise LGBTQ community. Conference educated mental health professionals on sexuality questions regarding youth. Presenters spoke to unique skill sets required to effectively help youth. Presenters included Ritch C. Savin-Williams, Ph.D., and Kenneth M. Cohen, Ph.D.
Help a Home Within. Psychotherapist, Boise, Idaho, October 2011 to current. Provide psychotherapy to individuals who are in foster care. Provide services to men, women, adolescents, couples and families. (Pro Bono).
a.l.p.h.a., Psychotherapist, Boise, Idaho, October 2011 to current. Provide psychotherapy to individuals experiencing identity concerns, gender questions, and/or life transitions. Provide workshops about coping with loss. Provide psychoeducation to women, men, adolescents, couples, and families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
Community Education, Boise, Idaho, 2010. Women’s Wisdom Expressed through Art
Women and Children's Alliance (WCA), Boise, Idaho, Spring 2004 to Fall 2005. Interfaced with domestic violence crisis center and court advocacy clients. Assisted petitioners to navigate the legal process.
Agency for New Americans, Boise, Idaho, 2003 to 2004. Provided guidance, support, psychoeducation to refugee families relocating to Boise from countries all over the world. Taught families conversational English, social skills, and cultural nuances.
Touchstone, Boise, Idaho, 2002 to 2003. Group moderator for grieving families who experienced the loss of a family member. Worked with young children, ages 3 to 9. Integrated art therapy. Invited exploration of thoughts and feelings.
St. Luke’s, Hospital, Boise, Idaho, 1993 to 1994. Assisted oncology patients and family members with treatment care, planning, and overall family support. Attended staff meetings regarding patient care.
Stuart House, Los Angeles, California, 1989 to 1991. Provided play therapy and support to sexually abused children. Bilingual, Spanish. Attended staff meetings to inform and update professional therapists about playtime and relevance to custody issues.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA)
International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA)
Eating Disorder Professionals of Idaho (EDPI)
GoodTherapy.org
Psychologytoday.com
Help a Home Within
Boise Pride Foundation
Allies Linked for Prevention of HIV and Aids (a.l.p.h.a.)
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Chinese, fluent
Spanish, semi-fluent
French and German, familiar
EXTRA-CURRICULAR
Distance swimming
Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
Creative Writing
Professional Writing
Appendix A
Psychology Seminars
Trauma, Fear, and Panic in Times of Covid-19. Presented by panelists: Shmuel Erlich, M.D., Psychoanalyst; Zachary Green, Ph.D., Clinical and Community Psychology; Mario Perini, M.D., Psychoanalyst. Presented May 15, 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic set off a variety of far reaching, deeply disruptive processes, sometimes leading to and culminating in fears, panic, and traumatic responses. Its impingement on the psychoanalytic setting and clinical practice has been widely noted and discussed. The focus was on the dynamics of the group and social impact, the nature of trauma, communal trauma, the contagious and debilitating spread of fear, and the significance of the unfolding stages of social response patterns to Covid-19.
Ethics—Ethical Management of Risk: Walking the Clinical High Wire with Couples, Families, and Lawyers. Presented by Deborah M. Henson, MSW, LCSW, JD. May 6, 2020. Clinicians may encounter vital high-risk ethical obligations and challenges when working with couples and families. Focused on assisting clinicians develop ethical, self-protective strategies to avoid high-risk cases turning into worst-case scenarios. Presented a step-by-step approach for ethically responding to subpoenas for records, depositions, trial testifying, and how to prepare for litigation events. (2 CEs)
Telehealth and Staying Compliant. Presented by Tiffany Chhuuom, MPH, MSW. April 15, 2020. Telemental heath considerations for clinicians and what is required to be HIPPA compliant. Issues discussed included provider compliance, line of reasoning, ethical issues, equipment required, and HIPPA compliant factors. (2 CEs)
Ethics—Ethical Practices and Principles for Clinicians. Presented by Latasha Matthews, LPC. February 16, 2020. Clinicians may encounter ethical gray areas in their private practices on a daily basis. These gray areas could potentially place clinical work in jeopardy. Setting boundaries is a good practice to help avert negative impact on clients. Presenter described how clinicians can develop a solid plan to safeguard against liability and burnout and how clinicians can find supportive resources to cope with guilt, shame, and fear. Presentation identified how the American Counseling Association (ACA) code of ethics applies to boundary setting in private practice, how to assess the ethical dilemmas clinicians face, address financial burdens of the clinician and the impact on clients, and recognize importance of self-care. (2 CEs)
Ethics—Preparing for a Legal-Ethical and Clinically Effective Telemental Health Practice. Presented by Roy Higgins, LPC, and Rob Reinhardt, M.ED., LPCS. February 16, 2020. Telemental health (TMH) is coming into its own in the counseling industry, and more people than ever are aware of the possibilities telehealth presents for improving access to mental healthcare. Clinicians can use TMH to deliver most of their chosen modalities—if they are proficient in its proper use. Presenters reviewed basic legal-ethical, technical, and clinical skills to build TMH competence. Professional ethics codes and guidelines make a point of noting that competency in TMH is a prerequisite to performing it. Presentation identified relevant ethical and legal standards, TMH competence areas necessary for effective treatment, HIPAA compliant software and technological issues, and legal-ethical best practices. (2 CEs)
Integral and Transpersonal Psychology Intensive Retreat. Presented by Glenn Hartelius, Ph.D., Jenny Wade, Ph.D., Kendra Ford-Diaz, Ph.D. January 12-21, 2019. Feminist Perspectives in Transpersonal Psychology. Embodied feminist inquiry into transpersonal psychology and its relationship to women’s spirituality and women’s psycho-spiritual development. Exploration of principle concepts, assumptions, and developmental theories within transpersonal psychology and women’s spirituality, examining intersections and bridges between the two fields. Leaders in Transpersonal Psychology. Leadership as a field of study has existed for millennia, and so have assumptions that leadership and the right to lead others were based on the sacred. Only with the secularism and realpolitik of the renaissance in the West did leadership become separated from the divine, a trend that has been reversed in the last 50 years as the dominant models of leadership again are transpersonally oriented. With the recent moral crises in business, politics, and religious organizations, increasingly people are examining the ethical, existential, and spiritual basis for the responsibility and privilege of leading others. Examined the historical, cross-cultural, and contemporary streams of thought on the nature and functions of leadership as well as research on outstanding leadership, with an emphasis on transpersonal models of leadership. (65 face-to-face hours).
Ethics — Ethics in Therapy: Using Power with Heart and Skill. Presented by Cedar Barstow, MEd, CHT, DPI. February 15, 2019. Right use of power is at the very heart of ethics. Training focused on the most significant relational impacts of role power difference in the therapeutic setting. Identified distinctions between personal, role, and status power; significant impacts of the power differential on clients or students; values or gifts of the increased power that accompanies a therapeutic role; perils or traps of increased role power; personal challenge in the use of their own power and a plan to mediate it. (2 CEs)
Ethics — Ethical and Cultural Competence: Working with Arab and Muslim Clients. Presented by Jamila Oden, MEd, LPC, February 15, 2019. Training in how to address culturally-unique aspects of ethnic Arabs and Muslims. Explored best practices and ethical considerations for mental health and addiction professionals to utilize and consider when working with these populations. Incorporated cultural competence into treatment to improve therapeutic decision making. Applied cultural competence to clinical practice offers alternative ways to define and plan a treatment program that is firmly directed toward progress and recovery as defined by both the mental health provider and the client. (2 CEs)
Ethics – Developing Effective and Meaningful Treatment Plans. Presented by Melissa Hall, Ph.D. February 4, 2018. Training in effective treatment planning, the important focus, specific requirements and learning to develop collaborative treatment plans that are based in ethical guidelines and standards of care. (2 CEs)
Ethics – Cutting-Edge Ethics – Issues in Psychotherapy. Presented by Frederic Reamer, Ph.D., February 4, 2017. Explore difficult cases with practical strategies designed to protect individuals in therapy and clinicians. Dr. Reamer will share challenging ethics cases involving conflicting professional duties and discuss practical steps that professionals can take to manage ethical issues skillfully. (2 CEs)
Ethics – Ethics in Therapy: When therapists care too much. Presented by Kati Morton, LMFT, February 4, 2017. The important boundaries between therapist and client. (2 CEs)
Integral and Transpersonal Psychology Intensive Retreat. Presented by Glenn Hartelius, Ph.D., Jenny Wade, Ph.D., Jorge Ferrer, Ph.D., Denise Boston, Ph.D., Don Hanlon Johnson, Ph.D., January 17, 2017. Critical Thinking with Integral/Transpersonal Psychologies; Somatic Psychology; Qualitative Research Lecture & Experiential Play.
Critical Thinking with Integral/Transpersonal Psychologies. Presented by Jenny Wade, Ph.D., January 22, 2017. This course offers tools and processes of critical thinking within the context of an overview of integral and transpersonal psychology. Integral/transpersonal psychologies involve many areas of scholarly controversy within the field and vis-à-vis other areas of scientific exploration.
Qualitative Research Methods with Somatic Psychology. Presented by Michaela Simpson, Ph.D., & Jenny Wade, Ph.D., January 22, 2017. This course combines two disciplines, qualitative research methods, which examine human experience in ways quantitative methods cannot, and somatic psychology, the psychology of the body, which encompasses embodiment and the lived experience. (65 face-to-face hours).
Western/World Philosophies with History and Systems of Psychology. Presented by Glenn Hartelius, Ph.D. Transpersonal Psychology, September 15, 2016. The course will cover considerable ground in history and systems of philosophy and psychology, but the lens is an integral and transpersonal one, a lens that seeks out how Western psychology is significantly shaped by Western philosophy, which in turn has arisen through a particular historical process. (65 face-to-face hours).
Research Design and Critique with Exceptional Human Experiences. Presented by Randy Fauver, Ph.D. Transpersonal Psychology, September 15, 2016. This course helps to develop tools for literature review and research design while offering an overview of research literature on exceptional human experiences such as those associated with mysticism, spirituality, and psychic phenomena.
Integral and Transpersonal Psychology Intensive Retreat. Presented by Glenn Hartelius, Ph.D., Jenny Wade, Ph.D., Randy Fauver, Ph.D., Bruce Silverman, LMFT. August 28, 2016. Western/World Philosophies with History and Systems of Psychology; Research Design & Critique with Exceptional Human Experiences; Movement and the Present Moment; Writing and scholarship; Drumming and Dreaming into Community.
Ethics - Confidentiality and Duty to Warn: Ethical and Legal Implications for the Therapeutic Relationship. Presented by James Corbin, MSW, LSW, February 13, 2016. What are the ethical issues and legal implications associated with confidentiality and the psychotherapist’s duty to warn.
Ethics – You’re Breaking up with me!? The Ethics of Termination. Presented by Michael Kahn, LPC, JD. February 11, 2016. What are the ethical considerations professional therapists must consider as it relates to client termination.
Play in Psychoanalysis. Ken Corbett. Ph.D. Psychoanalyst. May 16-17, 2015. What are the effective elements of play with the adult analysand. (8 hours)
Psychic Organization I. Andrea Walt, Ph.D. Psychoanalyst. April 6, 2015 to June 5, 2016. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. San Francisco, California. (12 hours)
Sigmund Freud IV. Peter Carnochan, Ph.D. Psychoanalyst. April 6, 2015 to June 5, 2015. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. San Francisco, California. (12 hours)
Critical Psychoanalytic Junctures. Sam Gerson, Ph.D. Psychoanalyst. March 8, 2015. Critical moments in the psychoanalytic relationship. (6 hours)
Sigmund Freud III. Ricardo Winkel. Ph.D. Psychoanalyst. February 2, 2015 to March 27, 2015. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. San Francisco, California. (12 hours)
Ethics - Ethics: Do Ya Think I’m Sexy: Sexual Transference and Countertransference in the Counseling Environment. February 21, 2015. Presented by Frances Patterson, Ph.D. Transference and Countertransference between therapist and patient. The exploration of boundaries, underlying emotional issues, are the feelings okay, and what to do about it.
Ethics - Ethics and Spirituality and Therapy. Presented by DeAnza Spaulding, LMHCA. January 21, 2015. What are the divisions between psychotherapy and spirituality.
Sigmund Freud II. Tom Rosbrow, Ph.D. Psychoanalyst. November 10, 2014 to January 23, 2015. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. San Francisco, California. (12 hours)
Oedipus Complex. Maureen Franey, Ph.D. Psychoanalyst. November 10, 2014 to January 23, 2015. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. San Francisco, California. (12 hours)
Building a Psychoanalytic Practice. Zoe Grusky. Ph.D. Psychoanalyst. November 10, 2014 to January 23, 2015. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. San Francisco, California. (12 hours)
Sigmund Freud I. Robert Bartner, Ph.D. Psychoanalyst. September 8, 2014 to October 31, 2014. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. San Francisco, California. (12 hours)
Infancy. Tom Cohen, Ph.D. Psychoanalyst. September 8, 2014 to October 31, 2014. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. San Francisco, California. (12 hours)
Development of an Analytic Identification. Jane Burka, Ph.D. Psychoanalyst. September 8, 2014 to October 31, 2014. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. San Francisco, California. (12 hours)
The Trauma of Everyday Life: Perspectives from Buddhism and Psychoanalysis. November 2, 2013. Presented by Mark Epstein, M.D. under the auspices of The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley, CA. Paper and discussion regarding the traumas of everyday life, the developmental traumas of life, the self versus no self, and The Tiger in the Rom: Existential Dimensions of Trauma. Diane Buczek, Ph.D., Discussant.
Panel on Wilfred Bion. April 2013. Who was Bion and what were his contributions. Presented by panel from New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.
Ethics - Ethics and Legal Issues, February 10, 2013. Presented by Marlene Maheu, Ph.D. This conference presented the key legal and ethical mandates incumbent upon mental health professionals as they relate to Skype, Facebook, Blogging, Google, and Video Conferencing. Additionally, issues related to clinicians practicing over state lines, international borders, informed consent, HIPAA compliant, and risk management concerns.
Ethics - Psychoanalytic Ethical Practices, February 6, 2013, Presented by Fredelle Spiegel, Ph.D. This conference presented ethical principles which underlie the practice of psychoanalysis, the boundaries of this frame, and how they vary from patient to patient and analyst to analyst. The principle focus is on the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Principles of Ethics as they relate to appropriate ethical conduct. Open forum for discussion of ethical dilemmas.
Dream Interpretation, December 12, 2012 through January 30, 2013, Presented by Louis Weisberg, MD and Richard Weiss, Ph.D. This course examined Freud’s method of approach to the dream as a model of the psychoanalytic mode of inquiry. It introduces the clinical practice of dream interpretation through Freud’s examples and those drawn from clinic cases. The course speaks to Freud’s discoveries about the structure and function of dreams as an early statement of his clinical theory. The course examined the psychological theory of the mind which Freud proposed from his study of the dream, what is the nature of the human mind and art.
Psychoanalytic Concepts. September 19, 2012 through October 17, 2012, Presented by Samuel Wilson, Sr. Analyst. This course examined the evolution of Freudian theory. It describes both a theory of the mind and a specific treatment method. Exploration of Freud’s theoretical and clinical contributions, including key concepts about the unconscious, free association, resistance, psychic conflict, infantile sexuality, id, ego, and the superego.
Internet and Video Game Addiction. Presented by Idaho Psychological Association, November 11, 2011. This workshop focused both on understanding the problem of internet/video game addiction and the solutions and interventions available to mental health providers through individual and family work.
Northwest Psychoanalytic Annual Conference on Theory and Practice. Presented by Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study, April 9, 2011. This conference included presentations on Unconscious guilt, and the Silent Idealizing Transference; A Conversation on Psychotherapy and Buddhism; Transcending Narcissism through the Experience of Exteriority; Hoarding: A Psychoanalytic View; The Balint Model: Developing the Artist in the Therapist. (ACCME).
Engaging the Traumatized Client who Avoids Closeness and Vulnerability. Presented by Robert T. Muller, Ph.D, April 8, 2011. This workshop highlighted the interpersonal dynamics that occur for the traumatized individual and the challenges that occur with these types of early childhood experiences. (Sponsored by GoodTherapy.com, National Teleconference for CEUS).
Northwest Psychoanalytic Paper: The Mind of a Narcissist. Case Analysis and Historical Perspectives. January 15, 2011. Sponsored by Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study.
Collaborative Helping. Presented by William Madsen, Ph.D. April, 30, 2010. This workshop highlighted a five-step practice framework to help families envision desired lives, addressing long-standing problems, and developing proactive coping strategies in the context of their local communities. (Sponsored by GoodTherapy.com, National Teleconference for CEUS).
Dangers of Psychotherapy, Presented by Daniel Gottlieb, Ph.D., April 9, 2010. This workshop examines assumptions about psychotherapy, the process and what hope and healing really means. (Sponsored by GoodTherapy.com, National Teleconference for CEUS).
Ethics - Ethics With Soul and Boundaries in Psychotherapy, Presented by Ofer Zur, Ph.D., March 26,2010. This presentation reviewed the clinical and ethical complexities of therapeutic boundaries, such as self-disclosure, physical touch, gifts, bartering, telehealth (e-therapy), jointly engaging in activities outside the office (i.e., home visits, attending a wedding, hospital visits, or adventure therapy), length and place of sessions, and various forms of dual or multiple relationships. (Sponsored by GoodTherapy.com, National Teleconference for CEUS).
The Miracle of Connection, Presented by Hedy Schleifer, MA, LMHC, February, 19, 2010. This presentation offered three invisible connectors of a productive, effective and growing couple relationship as described through three generative metaphors: the Space, the Bridge, and the Encounter. (Sponsored by GoodTherapy.com, National Teleconference for CEUS).
Working With Trauma, Presented by Monique Lang, LCSW, January 22, 2010. This workshop provided clinicians with an awareness of a variety of therapeutic techniques such as meditation, body movement, art work, imagery and visualization to deepen and broaden clinical work. (Sponsored by GoodTherapy.com, National Teleconference for CEUS).
Circle of Meaning, Presented by Patricia A Burke, MSW, LCSW, January 8, 2010. This workshop explored the meaning of spirituality and resilience as intervening factors in the treatment of and recovery from trauma and addictions. It focused on the conceptual framework and experiential method for the Circle of Meaning, a narrative tool developed by the presenter to help clinicians focus their conversations with clients about their spiritual lives in a respectful and culturally sensitive way that helps people enhance spirituality as a resource in combating the negative influence of trauma and addictions in their lives and honors and celebrates the diversity and complexity of people’s own meanings, intentions, values and commitments in recovery. (Sponsored by GoodTherapy.com, National Teleconference for CEUS).
The Convergence of Neuroscience and Mindfulness, Presented by Terry Fralich, LCPC, December 11, 2009. This workshop explored the paradigm shift in neuroscience and its optimistic message about the brain's ability to change, the primary factors driving changes in the brain, mindfulness practices and techniques used to enhance clients' ability to nurture the healthy change they seek. (Sponsored by GoodTherapy.com, National Teleconference for CEUS).
ICA Annual Conference, January 2008, Boise, Idaho. Promoting growth and development.
Total Biology, January 2008, Boise, Idaho. Seminar that discusses the significance of emotional distress and traumatic experience and how it is expressed through human physiology.
Teen Dating Violence, March 2007, Boise, Idaho. Seminar on teen dating abuse in the U.S. and Canada. Skill building workshop, disclosure, confidentiality and reporting. Ethical issues and duty to report.
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment, May 2007, Boise, Idaho. Seminar on treatment approaches and pros and cons; screening, assessment, case analysis, and relapse prevention.
Eating Disorders, October, 2007, Boise, Idaho. Luncheon on eating disorders, the pervasiveness, and in-patient treatment.
Cancer and Death. September 1993, Boise, Idaho. This 2-week volunteer training program was offered by St. Luke’s Hospital, particularly for volunteers working with individuals with terminal cancer. The program talked about cancer, how it affects people challenged with a cancer diagnosis, how people endure the various types of treatments, how patients can seek support from family members and friends, and suggestions for volunteers about how to listen and be emotionally responsive.
Death and Grieving Seminar. September 2003, Boise, Idaho. This 2-day seminar focused on how to assist families to grieve. (Sponsored by the Touchstone Organization.)