Let’s Talk About Sex Baby! Addressing Sex and Sexuality With Comfort
What: Virtual learning opportunity with BCPA, presented over Zoom
When: Friday 11/15/2024 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM CDT
Number of CE Credits: 3 CE Hours
CE Credits Available to: Licensed Psychologists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
Register here: https://forms.gle/BKJ2Y5QgvnFnagPH7
Let’s Talk About Sex Baby! Addressing Sex and Sexuality With Comfort
Presented by Tori Stevens, PhD
About This Virtual Workshop:
Talking about and exploring sex and sexuality can be uncomfortable for both clinicians and clients. In this training, clinicians will learn how to assess and address their own discomfort related to sex and sexuality and how clinician discomfort can impact clients, the therapeutic relationship and therapeutic process. Additionally, clients come to therapy at differing levels of comfort with this topic. We will explore how to assess clients’ comfort, ways to increase it, and how to shift your approach based on your client’s comfort level. This presentation will also provide foundational knowledge about the human sexual response cycle and common desire and intimacy issues that people struggle with. Participants will learn how to assess the sexual health and functioning of their clients.
Learning Objectives:
Based on the content of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Participants will increase their knowledge and understanding of their own levels of comfort when addressing sex and sexuality.
Participants will increase their knowledge of basic foundational building blocks for understanding sexual health, function and dysfunction.
Participants will learn various ways to assess clients’ sexual health, function and dysfunction.
About Speaker
Dr. Tori Stevens is a licensed psychologist, licensed professional counselor supervisor and an AASECT certified sex therapist. She is the co-owner and co-founder of the Oklahoma Sex & Relationship Institute. Dr. Stevens has a passion for helping people develop relationships that work for them and for advocating for marginalized communities. When she is not helping the world to have better sex and better relationships, she can be found drinking coffee, buying more plants and planning her next tattoo.
Cost for this workshop (early registration discount!):
· Student Members $20
· Members $50
· Non-Members $70
Early registration discount will end on September 27, 2024 and after that $10 will be added to each price.
Register here: https://forms.gle/BKJ2Y5QgvnFnagPH7
With questions, please email bexarpsych@gmail.com
BCPA fall town hall
What: BCPA Town Hall
When: Friday, October 11, 2024 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: Clarity Child Guidance Center, JLSA Education Center (Building 4 on the map below)
Join us for an evening of discussion on upcoming legislative changes in the field of psychology, exercise mindfulness with us, join a BCPA subcommittee, and more!
BCPA Trainee Social
What: BCPA Trainee Social
When: Friday 09/27/2024 starting at 6 pm CDT
Where: Chicken and Pickle, 5215 UTSA Boulevard, San Antonio, TX 78249
RSVP Link: Trainee Social 2024
Please RSVP for the event by 9/20/2024.
This social event hour is especially for psychology trainees, students, and early career psychologists. This means you! You are invited. If you're not a trainee, student, or ECP, you are welcome to come and support them.
Appetizers and welcome drink provided. We hope to see you there!
Looking Ahead with Climate Psychology
What: Virtual learning opportunity with BCPA, presented over Zoom
When: Friday 09/20/2024 at 12pm-1pm CDT
Number of CE Credits: 1 CE Hours
CE Credits Available to: Licensed Psychologists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
Register here: September Lunch and Learn Registration
Looking Ahead with Climate Psychology
Presented by Amy N. Gorniak, Psy.D.
Attendees will receive a brief introduction to the literature on how climate change is both directly -- through changing climate patterns -- and indirectly -- through changes in social and economic patterns -- impacting mental health, with a particular focus on the outsized impact on disenfranchised and minoritized groups. Attendees will review some common language in climate psychology/climate-change related mental health and will explore some of the key aspects across models for intervention in climate change related distress. The importance of strategies to support their own well-being in the context of climate change related impacts on their own mental health will also be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this continuing education activity, participants will be able to:
Identify impacts of climate change on mental health.
Recognize the intersectional aspects of climate-change and mental health for marginalized and disenfranchised groups.
Understand key aspects of effective models to assist in addressing climate change related distress in their clients.
About Speaker
Amy N. Gorniak, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist in San Antonio, TX. She is actively engaged in research, therapy, activism, and community and individual resilience building associated with climate change and its impacts on mental health and well-being. In her private practice at Hearthlight Mental Health, PLLC, Dr. Gorniak additionally specializes in working with tweens, teens, and adults in coping with trauma, loss, and life transitions that have left them struggling to find meaning in the face of challenges; she also provides psychological assessment for a variety of neurodevelopmental and psychological concerns, consultation, and supervision services.
Cost for this Lunch and Learn:
Free for Members of BCPA
To join BCPA, please go to: https://www.bexarpsyc.org/join
Register here: September Lunch and Learn Registration
With questions, please email bexarpsych@gmail.com
Lunch & Learn: Clinical Consideration for Implementation of CPT among LGBTQIA+ Populations
What: BCPA Lunch & Learn Series Presents
When: Friday 06/14/2024 at 12pm-1pm CDT
Number of CE Credits: 1 CE Hours
CE Credits Available to: Licensed Psychologists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
Register here: BCPA June Lunch & Learn
Clinical Consideration for Implementation of CPT among LGBTQIA+ Populations
Presented by John Moring, PhD
The purpose of this course is to review the intersection of trauma and sexual orientation and gender identity. Individuals who identify as LGBTQIA+ experience significantly more physical and sexual assault compared to their heterosexual, cisgender counterparts. Clinicians who work with this population may benefit from learning more about how to address trauma and stress related to sexual and gender identity in the context of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD. Relevant cultural factors related to the LGBTQIA+ community will be explored, as well as possible differences in PTSD symptomatology. Attendees will learn how to incorporate these cultural factors in their case conceptualization process, as well as how to challenge assimilated and over-accommodated stuck points related to sexual orientation and gender identity-based traumas. Modifications of CPT based on these factors will be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Identify and assess trauma based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Recognize the intersection of trauma and sexual orientation identity.
Identify strategies to Socratically challenge assimilated and over-accommodated stuck points in a culturally sensitive manner.
About Speaker
Dr. John Moring is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UT Health San Antonio, a licensed psychologist, and board certified in the Behavioral and Cognitive specialty by the American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Moring completed his doctoral degree at the University of Wyoming and his clinical internship at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and San Diego VA. He completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship with STRONG STAR, and provided evidence-based psychotherapies for combat-related trauma and other military-related health conditions. He is Cognitive Behavioral Track Coordinator for the APA-Accredited Internship in Clinical Psychology at UT Health San Antonio and specializes in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD, Written Exposure Therapy (WET) for PTSD, and Crisis Response Plan (CRP) for suicidality. Currently, his research focuses on the neurobiological properties related to tinnitus and PTSD.
Register here: BCPA June Lunch & Learn
With questions, please email bexarpsych@gmail.com
Virtual Workshop: An Introduction to Threat Assessment
Virtual Workshop: An Introduction to Threat Assessment by John Delatorre
Texas RxP: Access, Quality and Safety
Texas RxP: Access, Quality and Safety, presented by Dr. Lynette Pujol & Dr. Caroline Williams
Upcoming events.
BCPA hosts a variety of continuing education and other events throughout the year. There are large workshops held in the Spring and Fall of each year for one full day and a variety of smaller CE events throughout the rest of the year. See below for current events.