Join us Saturday, April 17 for this dynamic & interactive workshop and earn 6 CEUs to fulfill your law and ethics requirement.
Participants will:
identify four uses of touch in their private practice;
describe three types of touch in therapeutic practice;
identify three types of boundary considerations pertaining to touch and;
identify three countertransference issues that arise with the use of touch.
THE ETHICS OF TOUCH “If a therapist decides to touch a given patient, s/he must do so in a thoughtful manner and must be willing to accept responsibility for the patient’s interpretation of the touch. Likewise, if the therapist decides not to touch, there must be a similar willingness to accept responsibility for the meanings that the patient will assign to the absence of a natural form of human contact.” (The Therapist, March/April 2011, Guest & Parker).
Intended for licensed & pre-licensed mental health professions & master & doctoral-level clinicians, physicians & psychiatric nurses.
Diana Guest, LMFT former President of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (IIBA), and both a local SCIBA and International faculty member. Recently retired from private practice she maintains her status as a certified Bioenergetic Analyst, IMAGO Relationship Therapist, and Level 2 EMDR trained.
Janet Pinneau, LMFT is the Executive Director of the Southern California Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (SCIBA), and a local SCIBA faculty member. As a psychotherapist in Northern Los Angeles she works with survivors of sexual assault of all ages using Bioenergetic therapy and EMDR. She has presented workshops and run therapy groups in the US and China.
