Los Angeles Chapter of the California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists M a y / J u n e 2 0 1 5 L.A. THERAPIST UPDATE www.lacamft.org P.O. Box 480119 w Los Angeles w CA 90048 w 323.964.3200 President’s Message D by R A N D I G O T T L I E B , P R E S I D E N T ear Friends and Colleagues, A full third of the year has already come and gone. As I reflect on the status of our chapter, I was intrigued to see what would happen if I used different therapeutic orientations as a frame. Starting “bottom up” with a Somatic orientation, my “felt sense” (see Daniel Factor’s fabulous article on Focusing, Somatic Experiencing, and TRM), of our chapter’s status is one of high energy, vitality, and charge. There’s a high‐level of buzzing creative energy in our board, committee, and SIG meetings. I am aware of a tension between the bursting forth of new ideas for chapter improvements and growth with the practical reality of our more limited “band‐width” for putting these ideas into action. IN THIS ISSUE President’s Message 1 Editor’s Desk 1 New Logo and Design 2 TRM 3 The Sting 3 May 22 General Meeting 4 Events Sponshorship/Calendar 5 Relationship to Belief 6 Latino Support SIG 7 ExArts SIG 8 3000 Club 8 Taking a Gestalt approach, focusing on what emerges in the foreground, the first Newsletter Guidelines 16 thing that pops up is our new logo and chapter brand. This vibrant, colorful, and artistically sophisticated design is the ...the first thing that pops up culmination of a tremendous collaborative team effort led by Communications Chair Rena Jacobs and executed by our is our new logo and chapter brand. talented graphic‐designer‐webmaster Laurel Jones. And following the Gestalt frame, now that the need to create the This vibrant, colorful, and logo and brand has been met, the next needs naturally emerge; Rena and Laurel are redesigning our website, giving artistically sophisticated design is our chapter Facebook a facelift, and will then move on to the culmination of a tremendous complete the newsletter renovation. The process once set in motion is unfolding organically. collaborative team effort Continued on page 11 FROM S THE EDITOR’S DESK By Jonathan Flier, Interim Newsletter Editor With Gratitude and a Fond Farewell ince August 2013 Sietze Vanderheid has been the Editor of our community newsletter. The newsletter went through an amazing transformation under his leadership. He brought a new level of academic rigor to add to our chapter news, presentation flyers and brief notes on up coming events. He also brought enough discipline to get the stories over to our newsletter designer, Nurit Pereh, in time to get it online and to you, our readers the first week of the publication month. A few months ago Sietze gave notice that he was going to retire the position and that the March‐April issue would be his last. Prior to that he indicated a future interest in creating an occasional publication of an LA CAMFT Journal that would feature writers from our community with research, theoretical and editorial articles, reviews and commentaries. Our President Randi Gottlieb, Communications Chair Rena Jacobs our new Webmaster and Designer and I have been carrying on plans first put forth by Sietze of creating a new look and interface for our newsletter. That new design is being actively worked on and we hope to present it in the near future. So as the chapter reaches out into the future, we will remain guided by Sietze's intelligence and thoughtful concerns for this important communication medium while we search for new vision and new resources from our next newsletter Editor. If you think you might be interested in joining a newly forming team to help bring this vision to fruition, please contact Randi Gottlieb. n PAGE 2 LA THERAPIST UPDATE LA CAMFT'S NEW LOGO AND DESIGN By Rena Jacobs, Chair Communication Committee Y ou may have noticed that we’ve changed our look! Thanks to the efforts of many, including our new graphic designer/webmaster Laurel Jones, LA CAMFT is excited to announce the launch of our new brand. We hope the new brand conveys all that is LA CAMFT: dynamic, vibrant, diverse community of mental health professionals in our beloved Los Angeles. In the upcoming months, you can expect a brand new website, newsletter, and improved communication platforms. All of our efforts are designed at helping you to feel more joined to your community by increasing outreach, professional opportunities, and most importantly, connection to others. To better introduce our new look and acquaint you with our amazing webmaster, I interviewed Laurel Jones, our new tech extraordinaire! Rena: Hi Laurel. Please tell us a little about yourself! Laurel: Originally from the Midwest (born in Kansas City, went to college in Chicago), I moved out here to LA with my husband coming up on 8 years ago. I received my BFA in Visual Communications from the Illinois Institute of Art ‐ Chicago in 2007 and have been working in the design field since. I am very experienced in graphic and web design, user experience, and marketing, having worked in both in‐house marketing departments and digital advertising agencies alike. From a personal standpoint, I’ve been married to a super wonderful dude for 8 years and we just had our first baby in June of last year (he’s almost one!) Along with our two rescue dogs, we’ve settled in Pasadena after having lived in Koreatown, Culver City and Mar Vista over the years and we really love it here. I’m a big Chicago sports fan, so Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs (NORTHSIDE!!), and of course, Dah Bears. Little known fact: I am a huge weightlifting buff! I love working out doing Olympic lifts (squatting, deadlifts, cleans, etc.), and I happen to be pretty good at it! Rena: What is it you love about graphic design? Laurel: I’ve always been interested in art ‐ creating it, learning about it, critiquing it, innovating with it ‐ since before I can remember. I was highly encouraged by my parents growing up, and it felt natural that I went to art school. Having the logical brain I have, I knew it’d be very difficult to make money drawing and painting, so I pursued graphic and web design. The more I learned in school, the more I realized this field would hit upon all my creative and analytical needs. Graphic design is more than just “making things look pretty”. It allows for clearer access to information, taking into account the audience and what their needs are. I think that’s the part that thrills me the most: undertaking a project from scratch, understanding the audience, and then creating something beautifully designed that leaves an impact with them. Rena: What words come to mind when you think of the brand of LA CAMFT? w MAY/JUNE 2015 LA-CAMFT BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Randi Gottlieb, MA, LMFT......... [email protected] Vice President Vacant Past President Jonathan Flier, MA, LMFT ... [email protected] Chief financial Officer Billie Klayman, MA, LMFT..... [email protected] Board Secretary Estelle Fisher, MA, LMFT............. [email protected] Membership Chair Kane Phelps, MA, LMFT ............... [email protected] Networking Event Chair Darlene Basch, MA, LCSW ................... [email protected] Communications Chair Rena Jacobs, MS, MFT Intern ...... [email protected] Special Interest Group & Special Workshop Chair Daniel Factor, MA, LMFT ......... [email protected] Pre-licensed Representative Debra House, MA, MFT Intern..... [email protected] Members-At Large Lynne Azpeitia, MA, LMFT....... [email protected] Sietze Vanderheide, PsyD, JD....... [email protected] COMMITTEE AND SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP CHAIRS Newsletter Editor Vacant Registration Co-Chairs Tracy Bevington, MA ......... [email protected] Aimee Martinez, MA..................... [email protected] Table Host Co-Chairs Tony Davis, MA, LMFT..... [email protected] Randi Gottlieb, MA, LMFT......... [email protected] Expressive Arts Chair Lori Chaikin, PsyD, LMFT, AT............. [email protected] Hilary Kern, MA, MFT Intern, AT ........ [email protected] Networking Event Program Chair Roger Schwarz, LMFT, JD ................... [email protected] Ways and Means Chair Billie Klayman, MA, LMFT..... [email protected] Sexuality and Gender Awareness Co-Chairs Mary Ann Rege, MA ........... [email protected] Michael Comlish, MA...................... [email protected] Social Media Co-Chairs Rena Jacobs, MS ........................... [email protected] Alyson Stack, MS, LMFT............ [email protected] Somatic Therapy Co-Chairs Cathy Graf, MA, LMFT ................... [email protected] Jonathan Flier, MA, LMFT ... [email protected] Supervisors’ Special Interest Group Catherine Auman, LMFT......... [email protected] 3000 Club Co-Chairs Debra House, MA, MFT Intern....................... [email protected] Katelyn Piceu, MA, MFT Intern ....... [email protected] Natalie St. Cyr, MA, MFT Intern ..... [email protected] Elections Chair Vacant Administrator Christina Bielfelt [email protected] If you are interested in any of the committees or special interest groups, please contact any Board member. Laurel: Modern, bright, crisp, multi‐faceted, dynamic, upward. Rena: What's in store for the future of LA CAMFT with your involvement? Laurel: In the near‐term you can expect better‐designed email communications and a refreshed website with a better user experience. I hope to implement my marketing knowledge into the website as well ‐ aiming to increase new member‐ ship and making it more of a hub for members to get their questions answered. I also hope to work with the Board to come up with a more interactive, dynamic newsletter experience, possibly turning it into more of a blog to live on the web‐ site; more searchable by users and search engines alike. In general, improving the look and feel and user experience of member/potential member facing communications from LA CAMFT. Rena: Anything else we should know? Laurel: I’m honored to be apart of the transformation of this awesome organization, and really look forward to working with everyone to make it truly stand out against the ocean of other CAMFT chapters. Onwards and upwards! n LA THERAPIST UPDATE w MAY/JUNE 2015 PAGE 3 Focusing on the Trauma Resiliency Model By Daniel Factor, LMFT ”The infant organism knows (feels, is, implies) its next bit of life process, which means how it will be with a mother and father. It implies how its life process will be carried forward by them. Just as it “knows” how to inhale the air into its lungs, so it “knows” how it will be held, nursed, welcomed, and protected. The bodily implying is always still there. If it can generate the missing interactional events, it will.” Eugene Gendlin, (1996). Focusing‐oriented psychotherapy: A manual of the experiential method. New York: Guilford F irst, I’ve chosen to begin with this quote by Eugene Gendlin as both a springboard and a meaningful landing point to return to, because as I see it, Gendlin’s work (either implicitly or explicitly) is part of the foundational lineage for many Somatic Psychotherapies available today, which includes the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM). Second, just like an organism, language can both reveal and conceal. And so when Gendlin writes an "infant organism knows" he is guiding us to be aware of not a cerebral knowing, but a vital bodily pulsing, which from its start "knows how" to sense and receive, while needing both from others. Gendlin uses "implying" to focus our attention on a relational "life process" that A TRM THERAPIST conceals what is yet to come. Like the flower's full fragrance held first within the ENCOURAGES THE concealing bud, able to be revealed only when its unfolding blooms, and only if well MOVEMENT OF THE protected and well attended to. Trauma Resiliency Model was created by Elaine Miller‐Karas and partners. TRM was inspired by Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing® and Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing, along with other body‐brain sciences and theories. Gendlin is also referenced in Peter Levin's writing, and Gendlin himself references his collaboration with Carl Rogers, to round out the TRM linage. Today, TRM continues to grow as a research informed approach through the Trauma Resource Institute, which now offers advanced extended training for becoming a Certified TRM practitioner. TRM can be integrated with most psychotherapy modalities and is itself an integrated psychotherapy. However, integrating TRM may require some adjustments for some therapists less familiar with somatic approaches. TRM asks therapists who frequently utilize interpretations or behavioral directives or narratives, to increase their trusting in and learning from the client's own bodily "knowing" as Continued on page 9 CLIENTS "IMPLYING” LIFE PROCESS AND, AS NEEDED, SUPPORTS THE RELEASING OF STUCK NEUROBIOLOGICAL ENERGY FROM THE BODY FOR HEALING AND CHANGE THE STING by Roger Schwarz, LMFT LA CAMFT Program Chair am fascinated by our constant need to be occupied or busy; I like to think of it as an overall addiction to busy with technology playing a predominant role. Brene Brown calls it crazy‐busy. If we are always busy, we don’t have to feel the unpleasant feelings, or pleasant ones, that arise throughout the day ‐ we numb out. I Suppose you can push a button on your chest each time you get triggered that will cause your brain‐mind system to freeze momentarily giving you just enough time to avoid the automatic way you behave when put off by whatever the immediate irritant might be. And suppose this mechanism prevents you from resuming control of your system until you have completely cleansed yourself of the offensive intruder that has taken you out of your right mind. The prospect of such a tool has me first reeling with laughter then followed by apprehension. I laugh imagining how often I, and maybe most people, might be rendered powerless by such a mechanism and then forced to come to grips with the everyday moments that evoke reactions we intuitively know to be out of proportion to whatever prompted the reaction. The specter of a science fiction story in which everyone is frozen in place much of the time rattles my brain. But think of the potential benefit. If you monitor yourself closely for a day or two, you’ll notice that in most instances, the painful impulse – experienced as fear, irritability, anger, disappointment, helplessness, self righteousness, the list of emotions is endless – subsides naturally to where you might have to struggle to remember what the trigger was. So for a day or two begin pushing an imaginary button on your chest when you get triggered, even mildly triggered, and experiment with this self‐care (and care for others) tool. Conduct the experiment as a scientist would, with open curiosity and a commitment to rigorous adherence to the protocol in order to obtain results on which you can rely as a guide for future self‐regulation. n PAGE 4 LA THERAPIST UPDATE w MAY/JUNE 2015 LA THERAPIST UPDATE w MAY/JUNE 2015 PAGE 5 Event Sponsorships By Estelle Fisher, MFT I LA CAMFT Board Secretary and Sponsorship Chair f you’ve attended any of the Los Angeles Chapter of CAMFT’s net‐ working events, or special interest group events, or the annual picnic at Cheviot Hills Park, you will have experienced the inclusiveness and collaboration of our LA CAMFT community. I hope you felt engaged, connected, and welcomed in the company of your peers, no matter if you’ve been licensed for years or are still accruing your intern hours. It takes a wide network of volunteers to orchestrate these events, and we do it because we feel a great sense of satisfaction knowing that we have shared in creating an opportunity for anyone in our profession to find a bridge from the isolation of the consulting room to the support and belonging in an extended community. Our well‐intended efforts are not the whole story. Essential to the financial viability of every event is the support of a dedicated and generous sponsor. Our sponsors are an indispens‐ able part of our community; resources whose nets cast wider than the events they sponsor. They extend the sense of community beyond the doors of the Beverly Hills Country Club, and beyond the parking lot at Cheviot Hills Park. When your client’s needs go beyond what you can give them in the consulting room, our network of sponsors can offer support to supplement your work with the same care and competence you yourself strive to provide. The next time you find yourself at an LA CAMFT event (which I hope will be this coming May 22), check out the sponsor literature table, and get to know the members of your community. SAVE THE DATE NETWORKING MEETINGS CALENDAR FOR INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER: CONTACT www.lacamft.org May 22, 2015 Helping Your Clients Build Resilience to Trauma Elaine Miller‐Karas, MSW, LCSW June 26, 2015 Working Experientially with Couples in Recovery Beverly Berg, MFT, Ph.D. July 24, 2015 Creating Closeness at a Distance: Depth Emotion Processing and Telemedicine Susan Warshow, Psy.D. September 26, 2015 Using Spirituality in Your Practice Andrea Polard, Psy.D. October 24, 2015 Psychopharmachology Richard Sinacola, Ph.D. PAGE 6 LA THERAPIST UPDATE w MAY/JUNE 2015 THE RELATIONSHIP TO BELIEF I By Tony Davis, MFT n my experience as a therapist, clients have not displayed a lot of curiosity about my life. There was only one teen client who once shared his fantasy that I lived in a huge house and soaked in a Jacuzzi with lots of women while wearing gold watches! But even he did not actually ask much about my life. This is somewhat a relief, since it keeps me from having to disclose relationship status, sexuality, where I live, ethnicity, etc. But there is one area of disclosure that I hope to not be asked about, and that is the area of religious belief. I am an atheist. Like many atheists, I did not start out as one, but instead became one after a childhood immersed in a shaming religion, and a young adulthood centered around spirituality. While this is a relatable journey, there are still misunderstandings and suspicions around atheism, and I have concerns of how that might affect trust in I AM AN the therapy room. As we know, clients often seek out therapists who at least somewhat mirror themselves in regards to gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. As therapists, we know that this is not essential to doing effective work, but I can understand why it might comfort a client who is nervous about starting therapy. When it comes to religion, however, I find it less important for clients to find a match, and that is a good thing. Still, most assume their therapist believes in something, despite research showing that those who are "unaffiliated" currently rank as the third largest group behind Christians and Muslims. (Unaffiliated includes not only atheists, but also agnostics and those who call themselves "spiritual".) So I asked he if she ever talked to God the way she talked with me‐‐if she ever shared how angry and upset she was at the state of her life, or how scared she was about the possibility that things might not improve for her. She told me that she was not sure what I was proposing, so I modeled an example for her. I "pretended" to rage at God, spilling out fears of abandonment, wondering why my loyalty had been so poorly rewarded. I "told" God that I was nervous about talking to Him this way, and that I was concerned He would now be disappointed in me, but that I had to speak up because I felt so alone. I finished by telling Him of my need for more attention and care, and letting him know what I was willing to do to warrant that. In other words, I modeled having a conversation with God. ATHEIST. LIKE MANY ATHEISTS, I DID NOT START OUT AS ONE, BUT INSTEAD BECAME ONE AFTER A CHILDHOOD IMMERSED IN Apparently, this indicated to my client some expertise on the topic of prayer, but that was not the basis of my demonstration. Relationship was the basis. For me, there was no conflict between the client's beliefs and my lack of them, since I saw her dilemma as being relational. Her difficulty with prayer was approached as a communica‐ tion challenge‐‐how to stop talking at God and start talking with Him. At the end of the session, I answered my client's question by disclosing that I was religious as a youth (not untrue at all) AND A YOUNG ADULTHOOD and that I had experimented myself with how to pray. But the closer truth is that CENTERED AROUND I just saw her difficulty with God as a relationship problem rather than a faith SPIRITUALITY. issue. She was not questioning her faith, she was questioning God's responsiveness. My atheism never So what do I do when presented with issues of faith in once got in the way of assisting her with this issue, since as sessions? therapists, are we not all well schooled in relationship? n A SHAMING RELIGION, "Where did you learn how to pray so well?" The question came at the end of a session with a client I had been seeing for a couple of years during one of my internships. We had been working on some recent setbacks she had suffered in her life in the areas of health, family, and financial security. I knew from our work together that she was a deeply religious woman, and that she prayed daily. And yet she was coming in presenting as angry and bitter at the turn of events. While I didn't blame her for her mood, I struggled with how to assist, given her limited resources (she was elderly, ill, and without money). So one day I asked her how she prayed. Her eyes opened wide at the question, and she eagerly answered saying that she asks God for what she wants: health, better relationships with family, and money. She also shared that he "did not seem to be listening" lately. LA THERAPIST UPDATE w MAY/JUNE 2015 PAGE 7 PAGE 8 T LA THERAPIST UPDATE w MAY/JUNE 2015 News from LA CAMFT’s Expressive Arts Special Interest Group he Leadership team of LA CAMFT's ExArts Sig has been formed and they are hard at work planning programs and presentations for our community. From their picture above you can see the team embracing the ExArts cultural values of how having fun builds cohesion, increases productivity and intellectual and emotional resources. Below is their mission statement. The mission of the LA CAMFT Expressive Arts Therapy Special Interest Group is to have a community to network and support the expressive arts therapies through experiential workshops to enhance both our personal and professional lives so we can continue to learn and grow, transcending healing into our clinical work. ExArts SIG Leadership Team: From Left John Mews, Co‐Chair Lori Chaikin, Stella Dunn, Michelle Bee and Co‐Chair Hilary Kern One member of the committee wrote this brief note on her experience being on the team. Hello my name is Michelle Bee and I want to share with you my experience as a new member of the LA CAMFT Expressive Art Therapies Committee. A few months ago, a close colleague and friend told me about this committee. I could feel her excitement and enthusiasm that inspired me. I live in Lancaster that is 66 miles away and decided to give it a try. After attending one meeting I felt like I was home. I was surrounded by a group of therapists that innovate, celebrate, create and collaborate with tremendous joy. I had no idea there was such a rich and supportive place for me to share my professional purpose with a group of therapists who surrender to the artistic process. We come together and blend therapy and art as a way of life. We are all passionate and committed to learning and sharing expressive art therapies with our community. I am so thankful for this group and our dedication to expanding our vision. Designed to Soar, Michelle Bee, LMFT n The T he last LA CAMFT 3000 Club event, Third Thursday, was held at The Spot Cafe on April 16th. This group meets monthly to support each other through the various stages on the road to licensure. The 3000 Club is a wonderful way to build community and connect with other pre licensed members of LA CAMFT. 3000 CLUB LA THERAPIST UPDATE w MAY/JUNE 2015 Trauma Resiliency Model Continued from page 3 a driver of healing and change. As Gendlin wrote, "Much more therapeutic change can happen if the body participates.” Science offers guidance for this in the simplistic neurobiology description of 'top‐down' vs. 'bottom‐up' processing. 'Top‐ down' refers to the activity of cerebral processing (and literally the top layers of our brain), which includes the inhibiting of emotional charges swelling up from below; and 'bottom‐up' refers to the deeper and lower down structures of our brain and peripheral nervous system, where the motivating swell of emotion arises from to communicate its "knowing" to our cerebral layers. Language once again can conceal or reveal, so we must take a moment to slow things down to notice that 'top‐down' vs. 'bottom‐up' is not an either/or proposition, but a simplified way to point to a bi‐ directional flow of "knowing" in its differing forms. But, the inhibiting role of 'top‐down' activity, which serves us well for the development of self‐ regulation, can also deploy consciousness blocking strategies — or what is traditionally called psychological 'defenses’. Science has expanded our understanding of psychological blocking 'defenses' by identifying protective modes activated by differing levels of stress and threat, and rooted in 'bottom‐ up' autonomic neurobiological processes. This expanded understanding provides alternative ways to assess a broad continuum of somatic, behavioral, and psychological symptoms and even personality organizations. This expanded under‐ standing attunes us to the differences of ‘top’ and ‘bottom’ functioning, and how each contributes to symptom constella‐ tions, orienting us to use interventions in ever more informed and selective ways. Rather than cognitively treating neurotic avoidance reactions as born from hidden belief structures, or confronting a perverse refusal to face reality born from object‐relation conflicts needing insight, as examples, a TRM therapist encourages the movement of the clients "implying” life process and, as needed, supports the releasing of stuck neurobiological energy from the body for healing and change. When the time is right, this may begin as an invitation to the client to track a body sensation arriving just now, or to slowly repeat a spontaneous gesture just noticed. While the client's attention is focusing in on their own bodily "knowing", the TRM therapist closely follows, careful to not interfere. With intuitive attunement, the TRM therapist might ask the client if there is something there now needing or wanting, something there to be said or do (or not!), some‐ thing now unfolding into its ever more explicit form. This PAGE 9 continues as a delicate "interactional event”. The "implying" unfolds and forms in response to being sensed and received, as it "knows how" when seen and heard, even while still concealed in its pulsing implicit form. When trauma reprocessing is the focus, a client, when ready, is invited to allow forward what remains concealed and un‐ discharged from a time when life‐preserving biological systems took over for living. When all is ready, the body and mind becomes "filled in" with what is now reenergizing into its actionable form: a self‐organizing ready again defense‐ response once blocked from completing its protective charge. For single event traumas, this can happen all at once or it can take several or more passes to work its way all the way through. When Relational Trauma is the focus, the process unfolds in the time that it takes, with patient providing, allowing the “knowing” inside to sense and receive as it “knows how” to do. The Trauma Resiliency Model guides us to trust our organism as a “knowing” agent of change. TRM therapists provide relational supports to a person and their body as a whole, so that any concealed life process may "generate" what it will, unfolding as it "knows how" how to do. This "knowing" is "implied" from the start and remains “always still there" and still able to do, as Gendlin so eloquently revealed with his words. n TRM therapists provide relational supports to a person and their body as a whole, so that any concealed life process may "generate" what it will, unfolding as it "knows how" how to do. This "knowing" is "implied" from the start and remains “always still there" and still able to do... PAGE 10 LA THERAPIST UPDATE Advertisement Advertisement LA‐CAMFT’s mission statement The Los Angeles Chapter of CAMFT strives to be a multiculturally diverse community of mental health practitioners and related professionals, providing professional and personal development through education, networking, peer consultation, mentoring and social interaction Advertisement w MAY/JUNE 2015 LA THERAPIST UPDATE w MAY/JUNE 2015 President’s Message PAGE 11 Continued from page 1 From a Systems Theory framework, the family is reconfiguring now that dad got a new job (elected to CAMFT Board as Director at Large) and handed the reigns over to mom. Congratulations Jonathan! With you on the CAMFT board, we look forward to ever increasing transparency, healthy governance, and improved relationships between CAMFT and the local chapters. Taking a Narrative lens, we declared that this was the year to build chapter sustainability by developing an infrastructure to fully support a growing thriving chapter. We are most definite‐ ly “living into” our “story” by creating a full‐year calendar of speakers thanks to the leadership of Darlene Basch and Roger Schwarz. The full‐year narrative continues as Estelle Fisher leads the effort to create an annual calendar of Sponsorships. According to Group Theory terminology, the LA CAMFT leadership team is forming, storming and norming – though there really isn’t a whole lot of storming going on which is indicative, I believe, of good succession planning prior to the new members coming onto the board. From a Developmental perspective – we are definitely in a fast‐ paced growth mode. We started the year with one active Special Interest Group ‐ Somatic Therapies, co‐chaired by Cathy Graf and Jonathan. We now have a revitalized 3000 Club under the leadership of Deb House, Katie Piceu, and Natalie St. Cyr, which has begun to hold casual gatherings for pre‐licensed students and interns every Third Thursday. The Expressive Arts SIG, co‐chaired by Lori Chaikin and Hilary Kern, has been quietly building a core leadership team and is now planning its first workshop. We have added two new Special Interest Groups broadening the chapter’s thematic, geographic, and ethnic reach. Warm welcome to Sandra Espinoza and Gloria Santos, co‐chairs of the Latino Alliance and Support SIG, and to Victoria Goldfarb and Judith Weigle, co‐chairs of the Constructive Uncoupling/Therapy, Mediation, and Law SIG. Membership is growing thanks to phenomenal outreach from Membership Chair Kane Phelps. Our chapter revenue is increasing under careful management of CFO Billie Klayman. And finally, a welcome to Judith Weigle, most recently appointed board member, and to Becky White, our newly hired recording secretary. We are also experiencing developmental growth pains such as having an increased number of workshops and not yet having found our sweet spot balancing more events without losing attendance at our monthly Networking Meetings. We outgrew one of our primary workshop venues and haven’t yet found a replacement that meets all of our growing needs. We lost Sietze our longtime board member and current Newsletter Editor before we were quite ready to transition to our bulletin‐ style newsletter and do not yet have a Newsletter Editor to take his place. Thanks Jonathan for temporarily stepping back into that role. Finally, we still have two critical board positions needing to be filled. Anyone interested in joining our chapter’s dynamic leadership team, please contact me. 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AO A N A LY T I C A L ORGANIZER Nurit Pereh, the graphic designer for this LA-CAMFT newsletter, specializes in providing full office & billing support for therapists. Benefit verification, electronic claim submittal, denial resolution, insurance panels enrollment. We also design brochures, ads, business cards, stationery and more. (310) 392-2012 w [email protected] L.A. THERAPIST UPDATE Editor: Jonathan Flier, LMFT Graphic Designer: Nurit Pereh ANALYTICAL ORGANIZER
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