Event Spotlight
Membership Meeting
Healing the Helping Professional
with
Melissa Shepherd-Williams, LMFT
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Melissa Shepherd-Williams, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. In her practice, she engages individuals in cultivating or reconnecting with their agency to thrive in personal and professional environments, especially following burnout. This work is supported by cultural and historical context, such that a fuller story helps in creating new tools to move beyond surviving. Training in trauma studies within the African American, Afro Latinx and Latinx communities adds to her offerings in listening with empathy.
As a native from Panama with roots in the Caribbean, she speaks Spanish fluently, which serves well in many therapy sessions. Her book titled Living Deliciously: Recipes to Welcome Joy into Our Lives is a compilation of her newsletters including exercises and reflections on how to “squeeze the juice” out of life. The latest book, From Burnout to Bliss, adds to her creation of learning tools for preventing and emerging from a sense of being stuck professionally and personally.
CHAPTER NEWS
The chapter closed out August with our annual — but very different this year - social networking event. We welcomed all to a fun evening for a concert in the park. We networked with new and familiar faces an hour prior and got a chance to enjoy each other's company, ate and danced, in a casual setting afterwards. As summer comes to an end and we head into fall this month, expect a regular membership meeting on September 10th, a presentation on Healing the Helping Professional with Melissa Shepherd-Williams, and 2 member speaker meetings in October and November. Attend our September meeting to find out . . . Read Gina’s full message
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In accordance with our Chapter ByLaws, a nominating committee was formed to confirm eligibility and select the nominations from the applications for our incoming 2024 Board of Directors. We are thrilled by the interest of our members to serve on the Board and look forward to installing another great Board this year! . . . Read our 2024 Board Slate
If you were raised in the 60s, or even if you were a parent raising a child in the 60s, you just had to know that Barbie was the ideal model to which girls of that time (as well as some of their mommies) aspired. This model, unfortunately, hammered emotional inadequacy into young girls who tried but never reached this goal: tall, long legs, blue eyes, long blond hair, and a perfect body. If you were raised in the 60s, or even if you were a parent raising a child in the 60s, you just had to know that Barbie was the ideal . . . Read Charlyne’s full review
Your website represents your therapy practice. The best client friendly websites make it as easy as possible to find out about you and your therapy services and to contact you to schedule the first session. Here are some things to remember and questions to consider to make sure your website does that! 1. Your website is one of the first places new clients look to decide whether or not you’re the therapist for them—even when they’re referred to you by a friend . . . Read Lynne’s full column
As we all know, the population is aging. At times it is negatively referred to as a “Gray Tsunami,” which the younger generation will be left to “deal with.” At other times, in a more neutral vein it is called the “Graying of America.” But however, you label this trend, the 65+ population is growing, and they are not the grannies and gramps of yesteryear who had much shorter life expectancies. They are not silently fading into the background and dying soon after they retire. In fact, in the 1950s the average life expectancy was 68 and now it is hovering close to 80. And the Baby Boomers who were born between 1946 and 1964 are 73 million strong, second only . . . Read Kim’s full column
Royce Goldman's Journey from Educator to Psychotherapist. Born into the optimism of the Baby Boomer generation, Royce Goldman was raised with the conviction that she had the power and responsibility to effect change in the world. That aspiration, she would find, would not only fuel her professional journey but would also continually reshape it. Today, as a respected psychotherapist, she reflects on the winding path that has brought her here, from her early days as an educator to her pursuit of specialized training that helped her understand and navigate the complexities of neurodivergent conditions. The earliest seeds . . . Read Royce’s full profile
The excitement of a new school year, fresh notebooks, and the promise of new friendships should fill the air with anticipation. But for Sarah, married to a narcissistic partner, the school bells ring in an era of discord and turmoil. Decisions that should be joyful, like picking a lunchbox or choosing after-school activities, become battles filled with tension. She’s stuck in a complex problem that’s sapping her energy and joy. Is there a lifeline for Lisa and others in her situation? Can they reclaim the joy of parenting despite their partner’s behavior? The answer might be . . . Read Steven’s full article
Clearview Woodland Hills specializes in treating a wide variety of mental health conditions and behaviors including depression, anxiety, personality disorders, autism spectrum disorder, trauma disorders, self-harm, and suicidal ideation for adults ages 18 and older. Clearview Woodland Hills offers two levels of care including Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP). PHP and IOP levels of care are designed . . . Read Clearview’s full profile
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