Clinical Evening Meetings
2009 - 2010
During the 2009-2010 Season, we are pleased to present a multi-disciplinary series entitled The Complexity of Trauma: Deepening Understanding and Treatment.
CEMs offer either one-and-a-half or two hours of CE credit.
October 14: Working with PTSD: Mindfulness Based Treatment and Research
UW School of Social Wor:k Room #305 4101 15th Ave. NE Seattle, WA
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Cristina Mullen LICSW currently practices as a member of the Harborview DBT/brief psychotherapy out-patient clinic and maintains a half-time private practice in Seattle
Maureen Sawyer, LICSW has worked in private practice in Seattle since 1983.
David J. Kearney, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington, Gastroenterology Division, and the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program Director at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
The presentation will address the treatment of trauma with Mindfulness Based Treatment from several differing perspectives: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR); DBT and Exposure and Response Prevention; and Couples Therapy.
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November 10: Traumatic Loss: The Clinicians Own Experience
UW School of Social Wor:k Room #305 4101 15th Ave. NE Seattle, WA
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Bev Osband, Ph.D. practices psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in the Madison Valley. She earned her doctorate in Clinical and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2000, and a Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis in 2007. Dr. Osband authored "When the Face Across the Room Reflects My Own: On Being a Psychotherapist and a Bereaved Parent" in R.S. Katz & T.A Johnson "When Professionals Weep -- Emotional and Counter-transference Responses in End-of-Life Care."
Donna James, Ph.D. has worked in community mental health and private practice settings in her 26 years as a therapist. Her dissertation explored therapists' understanding of their relationships with patients who completed suicides. Dr. James' current work includes individual adults who struggle with life-threatening illness or who have experienced the suicide of a loved one. She also sees couples working on personal transformation in the context of the couple and provides clinical consultation and supervision.
Carolyn Sharp, LICSW is a therapist in private practice seeing children, adolescents, adults and families. Carolyn specializes in psychodynamic and mindfulness based psychotherapy. Carolyn also presents trainings to local agencies on the area of self care, vicarious traumatization, reactive attachment disorder, communication, PTSD and working with families in crisis.