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CLASSES, TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

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Psychologist Session

2022

4-day Intensive Workshop: Exposure and Response Therapy for OCD 27 Contact Hours with Alissa Jerud, PhD

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Self-Care Series: An Essential and Ethical Practice 

Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology and Action Methods  7.5 Contact Hours with Sylvia Stenitzer, LPCC

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2020-2021

ClearlyClinical

Hey White Therapist, Here's Where we Start - Frank Baird, LMFT, LPCC

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Evolution of Psychotherapy

  • Microagressions and Implicit Bias -

Derald W Sue, PhD Professor

Teachers College, Columbia University

New York, New York, United State (in progress)

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2018-2019

2019 International Critical Psychology Praxis Congress - September

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CRITICAL THEORY PANEL  Subversions of Subjectification: ChuangTzu, Rosi Braidotti and the Question of Constituent Revolutionary Force • Ronnie Whaley / The Production of Subjectivity and Desiring-Production in the 21st Century • Clint Burnham, PhD / Can We Decolonize Lacan? • Yasuhiro Igarashi, PhD  Psychology of Fukushima Nuke Disaster: Perspectives from Critical Psychology, Discourse Analysis and Theoretical Psychology

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FEMINISM PANEL ~ 
• Kathleen Skott-Myhre, PhD (UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA) / Beyond
Development and Morality: Entanglements of Care as Political Praxis
• Ann Filemyr, PhD (SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE) / Healing the
Patriarchal Wound

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VIRTUAL PANEL 
• Thomas Teo, PhD (YORK UNIVERSITY) / Subjectivity and the Sociohistorical
Imagination: A Critical Psychology of Homo Neoliberalus
• Lois Holzman, PhD (EAST SIDE INSTITUTE) / The End of Knowing as
Critical Praxis (Practical-Critical Activity)
• Derek Hook, PhD / A Critical Psychology of
the South (of Africa)
• Michael Miller, PhD  & Derek Hook,
PhD  / Lacanian Psychoanalysis for Critical
Psychology: Arguments For and Against
• Serdar Değirmencioğlu, PhD  /
Challenging the Colonial and the “Import-Export” Model

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KEYNOTE 1, Tommy Curry, PhD (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH) / Ad
Limen Hominis: White Endogamy and the Schema of Racial Disposability,

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CLINICAL PRACTICE PANEL~ 
• Meghan Klein-Toups, LPC 
Destigmatizing Postpartum Anxiety and Depression: A Mind-Body-
Other Approach
• Madison Silverstein, PhD 
/ Improving Referral and Diagnostic Decisions through Critical
Psychological
• Jessica Joseph, PhD & Jessica Chavez, PhD
 / Using Critical Psychology and Decolonizing
Healing Models of Care to Examine College Mental Health Interventions

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ETHICS / POLITICS / AESTHETICS PANEL ~ 
• Dan Friedman, PhD , Miguel Cortez, MA
 & Fernanda Liberali, PhD  / Performance as Praxis: Case
Studies in the Transformative Power of the Dialectic of Being/Becoming
• Silvana S. Hernández Ortiz  /
Critical Analysis of the Press Release Comments on the New Law
Relating to Repeating School in Chile

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POLITICIZED HEALING WORKSHOP
• Diana Mena, LICSW (ESPERANZA COUNSELING & CONSULTING) &
Paloma Andazola-Reza, LSWAIC (CRISÁLIDA HEALING & TRANSFORMATION
& NORTHWEST CREATIVE EXPRESSIVE ARTS INSTITUTION) /
Clinical Activism in the Private Clinical Setting

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PEDAGOGY PANEL ~
• Christine Rosales, Bob Majzler, PhD ,
Danielle Kohfeldt, PhD  / Decolonizing Pedagogy:
Exploring Liberatory Methods and Assignments In and Outside the
Classroom

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KEYNOTE 2 Patricia Trujillo, PhD (NORTHERN NEW MEXICO COLLEGE) /
Mapping the Way Home

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2017

Weekend Hypnotherapy Training

PESI Albuquerque - May

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Completed 200 Hour Meditation Leader Certification Program and became fully qualified to teach foundational meditation: Sage Institute, Taos - June

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5 Day Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference, Anaheim, California - December

  • David Whyte -  SOLACE: The Art of Asking the Beautiful Question

  • Robert Sapolsky - Stress and Health: Lessons from a Wild Primate

  • The Gottmans - Gottman Couples Therapy for Treating PTSD

  • Stephen Zeig - Deconstructing Minuchin: A Tribute

  • Donald Meichenbaum - Treatment of Patients with PTSD and CoOccuring Psychiatric Disorders: A Constructive Narrative Perspective

  • Donald Meichenbaum and Bessel van der Kolk- The Neurobiology and Psychosocial Correlates of Trauma and Resilience        

  •  Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt and Otto Kernberg - Couples Conflicts

  • Christine Padesky - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Buddhism/Mindfulness: Similarities and Differences

  • Sue Johnson and Dan Siegel - The Significance of Attachment Science for Psychotherapy

  • Esther Perel - Sexuality and Intimacy for Couples

  • Harriet Lerner - The Challenge of Apologizing and the Complexity of Forgiveness

  • Martin Seligman - Positive Psycholgy, Positive Interventions and Positive Education

  • Esther Perel - The State of Affairs: A Clinical Approach to Infidelity

  • Irvin Yalom - Was that Life? Well then, Once Again!

  • William Miller - An Invitation to Motivational Interviewing

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