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Bay Area Psychotherapy Group presents (BAPTI) an online CE event: Can You See Me? Providing Mental Health Services to Immigrants. A Live Interactive Webinar. A dialogue for therapists working with clients who differ from them. All proceeds from this event will benefit BAPTI's Associates training program! All proceeds from this event will benefit BAPTI's Associates training program! For more information on how our program provides sliding scale services for the community while training prelicensed therapists, please visit https://bapti.org. When: Friday, October 22nd, 2021, 9:00am - 12:15pm (3 CEs for qualifying participants*) Course Description Join us for a day of deep reflection and discussion in a safe atmosphere to explore the parts of us that have previously been too risky to explore. This workshop uses story-telling, experiential exercises, videos, small group exploration and large group discussion to explore themes of racism, prejudice, privilege and fear as they pertain to the therapy setting. Objectives
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Please watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/DiNQEMKd0To (Thanks to all the wonderful trainers, supervisors, therapists, clients and friends who shared a very beautiful but unseen part of themselves with us in my interviews with them.) About the Presenter |
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Jila Behnad is an Iranian American licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, graduated from JFK University. She has been seeing clients in her private practice since 2008. Jila is also adjunct Faculty at Palo Alto University where she teaches Emotionally Focus Therapy to master level students. She is a Certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor, and holds weekly group and individual EFT supervision for EFT therapists in Iran and Bay Area. As the director of the Iranian EFT Community. She has taught EFT Externships, Advanced Externships, and core skills in Iran. She translated the ‘Hold Me Tight’ and ‘Hold Met Tight Let Me Go’ books and DVD into Farsi, as well as the AIRM package. Jila is the creator of the Can You See Me course for mental health providers, focusing on diversity, inclusion and the immigration experience. In 2020 Jila received the John Douglas award from Dr. Sue Johnson for her efforts in helping grow EFT. Jila Behnad is the CEO and Founder of Raha Foundation, a non-profit mental health organization in Northern California. She is also trained in EMDR, CBT, ACT and DBT. Jila loves her job and believes the secret of happiness is in helping others. She hopes people can embrace their most basic universal human attachment needs without fear of persecution or marginalization as a result of religion, race, ethnic or national origin, sexual/affectional orientation and preferences, gender expression, family structure, age, class, mental health, physical character or disability. She loves Brene Brown, dancing and watching stand up! Jila Behnad, MFT, Certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor Refunds for cancellation with 72-hour notice. Warm regards, |
