Pricing

Non-Members; $50
NYMHCA Members: $40
NYMHCA Student Members: Free

Continuing Education Credits

NYS LMHCs: 2.0 CE hours
NYS LMSWs and LCSWS: 2.0 CE hours
NYS LMFTs: 2.0 CE hours
NYS Licensed Psychologists: 2.0 Contact hours
NYS CASAC, CPP, CPS, CASAC-G, CPP-G, and CPGC renewal: 2.0 CE hours
NBCC Credit: 2.0 CE hours

(This is a LIVE VIRTUAL event. Access to a recording will not be available.)

Presenter
Amanda Dixon, LMHC, RPT

This presentation will focus on enhancing your ability to be flexible in your work with children and teens.  It will help increase confidence in your ability to effectively create and implement meaningful therapeutic intervention on the spot in sessions.  We will focus on skills necessary to effectively think flexibly, how to conceptualize your child and teen cases to tailor your interventions more specifically and also be grounded in theory, in the "why" of what you're doing.  We will address the stress and overwhelm that can arise in work with children and teens due to its nuanced nature.  We will address how to provide structure to your sessions and ascribe to a prescriptive play therapy approach, resulting in feeling more adept at this nuanced work, while also creating specific thoughtful, flexible intervention for a couple clients you might have at the time of the training.  

Learning Objectives:

As a result of attending this course, learners will be able to:

1. Recall what flexible thinking is and why it's important in relation to therapy work. 

2. Assess their own flexible thinking skillset. 

3. Employ new ways of using flexible intervention in their work with clients

About Amanda Dixon

Amanda Dixon graduated in 2009 from The State University of New York at New Paltz with her Masters of Science in Mental Health Counseling and went on to obtain her license in mental health counseling. After graduation, she worked at The Children’s Home of Poughkeepsie for six years with adolescent youth in residential foster care placement. Her work also included working with individuals who have suffered complex and often, transgenerational trauma. For the last nine years, her focus has been running her own group private practice. She maintains Amanda Dixon Mental Health Counseling Services in the Hudson Valley where she oversees a number of LMHC’s & limited permit holding mental health counselors. Her group practice information can be found at www.amandadixonlmhc.com. Amanda is passionate about providing supervision and education to emerging clinicians in the field and feels this is an integral part of her career identity and mission for her practice. The group practice works with a wide range of populations including children, adolescents, adults and parents. She is also a registered play therapist and is also trained in a variety of expressive arts modalities, including sand tray therapy. She does a variety of advocacy work and feels committed every day to working on trying to make changes in the mental health and health care systems in her local community, as well as the country.

The NYMHCA Institute, Inc is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors (#MHC-0034).

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The NYMHCA Institute, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0252).

The NYMHCA Institute is an authorized Education and Training Provider of the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS). Training provided by The NYMHCA Institute is acceptable toward renewal credentialing for CASAC, CPP, CPS, CASAC-G, CPP-G, and CPGC credentials. (Certification Number 1431)

 The NYMHCA Institute, Inc. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7407. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The NYMHCA Institute, Inc.is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.