Experiential Process

Co-Chair
Judith Fraser
jfrasermft@att.net

Co-Chair
Doug Green
douglasgreenmft@gmail.com

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Expressive Arts

Chair
Gina Balit
gb1105@gmail.com

Art therapy, music, dance, play, drama, and other expressive therapies are part of the expressive arts as adjunct modalities and utilized as therapeutic interventions in various settings such as mental health clinics, educational settings, hospitals, recovery centers, retirement homes, and hospices. Tools such as painting, playing instruments, yoga, and writing poetry are used to aid in the healing process.

This Special Interest Group will likely meet monthly on Sundays (time and place to be discussed/determined). We will begin discuss the mission of the group and plans to offer expressive arts presentations, hands-on experiences, and clinical discussions about the expressive arts as a therapeutic modality. No need to be an artist or a registered therapist in these fields . . . just a an open mind and curiosity to learn about the healing power of these creative modalities in mental health.

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Hiking

Chair
David Eshleman
dave@davideshleman.com

Join us as we spend some relaxing time with colleagues, enjoy the great outdoors, and get in some exercise. Our hikes take about 1½ hours and go over moderate hills. We meet one Sunday every month except July, August, and September. Rain or holiday cancels event. Bring water and wear comfortable shoes. Please review the hiking group guidelines that must be followed by all hiking group participants. Check out our next event.

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Pre-Licensed (3000 Club)

Chair (Pre-licensed Rep)
Savannah Okada

sfvcamftprl@gmail.com

As pre-licensed therapists, we have so much to offer each other - support, information, horror stories, job recommendations, connections, and more. We continue to support each other throughout our careers and journey to Licensure!  Our next event will be on Google meets and is scheduled for June 24,2023.  Click here to register.                

Again this year, we will have a Summer Book Club meeting

This meeting is in addition to our every other monthly meeting and will be in conjunction with LA CAMFT.  

The Summer book club series will run from June through August.

We will start it off in June with the book:  

                                      Love's Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom

Why was Saul tormented by three unopened letters from Stockholm? What made Thelma spend her whole life raking over a long-past love affair? How did Carlos's macho fantasies help him deal with terminal cancer?
In this engrossing book, Irvin Yalom gives detailed and deeply affecting accounts of his work with these and seven other patients.

Deep down, all of them were suffering from the basic human anxieties—isolation, fear of death or freedom, a sense of the meaninglessness of life—that none of us can escape completely. And yet, as the case histories make touchingly clear, it is only by facing such anxieties head on that we can hope to come to terms with them and develop.  Throughout, Dr. Yalom remains refreshingly frank about his own errors and prejudices; his book provides a rare glimpse into the consulting room of a master therapist.

The event will be on Google meets and is scheduled for June 6,2023.  Click here to register.

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