Pricing NYMHCA Members: $40 Non-Members: $60 NYMHCA Student Members: Free Continuing Education Credits NYS LMHCs: 2.0 CE hours NYS LMSWs & LCSWs: 2.0 CE hours NYS LMFTs: 2.0 CE hours NYS Licensed Psychologists: 2.0 CE contact hours NYS CASAC, CPP, CPS: 2.0 CE hours NBCC Certified Professionals: 2.0 CE Hours (This is a LIVE VIRTUAL event. Access to a recording will not be available.) Presented by
Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis, LMHC In this two-hour workshop, Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis, the world renowned counselor, psychologist, and author, will demonstrate the implementation of Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy - the cognitive approach that heralded in the cognitive revolution in psychotherapy - into clinical practice. This workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to speak to Dr. Ellis about REBT and get answers to their questions, as well as see a live demonstration of the implementation of REBT.
Learning Objectives: As a result of attending this course, learners will be able to: - Implement the basics of REBT into their clinical practice.
- Have a greater understanding of REBT and how it can benefit clients.
About Dr. Ellis
Dr. Ellis presented at the 2024 NYMHCA Institute Convention. Her spotlight presentation: The Power, Passion and Compassion of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Empowering Ourselves During Times of Challenge! and pre-convention workshop: The Basics of the Pioneering, No Nonsense and Compassionate Approach of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. New York City has been her home base for the past two decades. She is a licensed psychologist (Australia), licensed mental health counselor (New York), presenter, writer and adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York City where she teaches Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Comparative Psychotherapies. For years she worked with her husband, the brilliant and renowned pioneer of modern cognitive therapies: Dr. Albert Ellis, giving public presentations and professional trainings in his approach of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), as well as collaborating with him on writing and research projects until his death in 2007. Before his passing he stated and wrote that he entrusted her to continue his work. She is recognized as a world-renowned expert on REBT, and regularly presents, throughout the USA and in countries around the world, to students, academics, practitioners in the helping professions, and to members of the general public. She wrote the second edition of the book Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (published 2019) that she co-wrote with her husband in its first edition. She is also featured in a DVD produced by the American Psychological Association (APA) demonstrating and discussing the REBT approach. She has written chapters for various text books, articles, and has reviewed publications for APA’s PsycCritiques Journal. In 2014 she was named “Legend in Counseling” at the American Counseling Association annual conference, and has received various other awards and acknowledgments for her work. In 2023 she was nominated by former American Psychological Association President, Dr. Frank Farley, and renowned psychologist and author, Dr. Stanley Krippner, to receive the American Psychological Association's International Division's "Global Citizen Award". She joyfully and passionately continues her mission of informing as many people as possible - through her presentations, teaching, writing, and the ways she strives to ‘walk her talk’ - that each one of us has the power to create our emotional destinies despite and including challenging circumstances, and through teaching the ‘how-tos’ of doing so!
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