Aging with Our Clients in Psychotherapy Arlene Bermann, LCSW; Saralie Pennington, MSW; Sandrah Henry, LMFT

MEETS THE AGING & LONG-TERM CARE REQUIREMENT FOR MFTs/LCSWs

Saturday, March 13, 2010
Aging with Our Clients in Psychotherapy
Arlene Bermann, LCSW; Saralie Pennington, MSW; Sandrah Henry, LMFT

As therapists and clients age together, we face myriad psychological, medical, social, and spiritual challenges, which can influence the therapy relationship and process in subtle or dramatic ways. There will be three related presentations: 1. Aging with My Clients in Long-Term Treatments; 2. Reflections on Aging, Psychotherapy, and Spiritual Practice; and 3. The Therapist’s Illness as Opportunity in the Clinical Hour.
  The presenters will consider the impact of aging on clinical relationships through discussion and sharing vignettes from their lives and psychotherapy practices. Particular attention will be paid to how clinicians can use countertransference to deepen the clinical relationship over time.
  Arlene Bermann, LCSW, has private practices in individual and couple psychotherapy in Marin County and San Francisco. She is also a member of the Psychiatry Department at Kaiser Permanente. Arlene practices with a contemporary psychoanalytic, relational perspective. She provides trainings on "The Vulnerability of the Therapist in the Clinical Hour" and consultation for clinicians. Arlene also has a long-standing practice of Buddhist meditation and study. Saralie Pennington, MSW, has had a private practice in San Francisco for 35 years, seeing early adolescents to older adults. She coordinated family, children, and queer youth services at New Leaf, where she developed couple and family therapies for gay/straight family issues. She is a certified elder care manager and teaches at the SF State Social Work School. She is a Board member at Sanville Institute and Openhouse. Sandrah Henry, LMFT, provides individual, couple, family, and group psychotherapy at The Laurel Center in San Francisco, a training and therapy clinic that she co-founded in 2003. She is a Certified CAMFT supervisor and leads supervision and consultation groups using an intersubjective perspective. She was formerly the disability coordinator and Co-Director of the Women's Mental Health Services at Operation Concern/New Leaf Services in San Francisco. She provides trainings and presentations on the therapist's use of self, often using clinical examples from her work.

Saturday, March 13, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Location: The Psychotherapy Institute
CE: 3 Units (MFT, LCSW approved; submitted to MCEPAA for approval)

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