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Association for Mental Health & Wellness2040 Ocean Avenue
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Ronkonkoma, NY 11779
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Alexis Rodgers, LMSWAssociation for Mental Health and Wellness
631-471-7242 x1315
arodgers@mhaw.org
The Neurobiology of Trauma
3 Continuing Education Hours
LMSW/LCSW/LMHC/LCAT/LMFT
“Trauma is a biological assault, where one’s body may not be able to reset itself." - Bessell van der Kolk, MD
Learn how the brain-body responds to trauma. Identify the physiological and psychological manifestations of trauma and how it changes the brain.
Understand that for clients who have been traumatized “talk therapy alone may be re-traumatizing.” Understand how optimal trauma recovery needs to incorporate the latest in the neuroscience of exercise and meditation, along with brain body centered counseling techniques.
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Participants will learn the neurobiology of trauma, develop and/or strengthen their clinical skills addressing the importance of understanding not what is wrong with someone, but rather what have they been through. Optimal trauma recovery needs to incorporate body-oriented therapies and techniques. Clinical food for thought: What was once identified as alternative/complimentary methods and out-of-the-box are now "in" the box. Solely relying on talk therapy is now out-of-the-box. |
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APPROVED FOR 3 CE HOURS (LMSW/LCSW/LMHC/LCAT/LMFT)
Association for Mental Health and Wellness is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. (Provider #0156)
Association for Mental Health and Wellness 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. (Provider #MHC-0014)
*New York State Office of the Professions (NYSED) regulations require that participants attend the entire approved educational activity in order to receive continuing education credits, from 9:00am-12:00pm.
*No Refunds will be issued for cancellations
Certiticate of completion will be provided at the end of the workshop.
Space is limited!! Register now!
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Bonnie E. Owens, LCSW-R, CASAC, ICADC, EMDR 2
With over 25 years in the field of mental health and addictions, Bonnie ran “Honor and Resiliency,” a trauma and recovery program dedicated to uniformed service members at Seafield Center. This groundbreaking treatment program focuses on inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation for uniformed service members suffering from a variety of trauma-related conditions.
Bonnie’s specialties include: trauma informed care, the psychobiology of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mood disorders, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR). Bonnie is a Police Organization Providing Peer Assistance (POPPA) clinician and, since the terrorist attacks on 9/11, she has been a consultant with the FDNY Counseling Services Unit. Immediately after 9/11, Bonnie partnered with peer counselors to educate members of the FDNY on acute and post-traumatic stress, providing firehouse outreach.
As a degreed Recreation Therapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Bonnie brings her unique blend of the Brain-Body connection to her treatment modalities. She is the creator of KAYAKTHERAPY™, a specialized brain-body psychotherapy technique based on the neuroscience of exercise, the bilateral stimulation of the brain inherent in the paddling motion, and complete sensory immersion, all happening simultaneously and creating an optimal platform for learning, creativity, clarity, and reprocessing,
Bonnie Owens is an established trainer, presenter at conferences, workshops, and at graduate and post graduate social work programs. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Freeport, NY and Shinnecock Hills, NY, where she primarily works with rescue and recovery workers, law enforcement personnel, and active and returning military personnel and their families.