Upcoming AFTNC Events
“Youth Suicide Risk Management: Risk Assessment, Safety Planning, and Family Engagement” with Guy Diamond, PhD
*This is a co-sponsored event in conjunction with The Institute for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, Bay Area Community Counseling, and Newport Academy.
This workshop directly relates to the clinical work of all mental health professionals. It provides an introduction to state of the art, empirically supported clinical strategies to help mental health professionals and others who come in contact with suicidal youth manage crises related to suicidal thoughts and behaviors as well as engage families in treatment.
The workshop will cover understanding suicide risk, safety planning, and how to successfully engage parents and youth.
Guy Diamond, PhD is the developer of Attachment Based Family Therapy. His model, Attachment Based Family Therapy (ABFT) is the only evidence based family therapy model for suicidal youth available. Since teens and young adults are most at risk for suicide of any other age group, it is central that psychologists learn how to work with family members to prevent possible death. Individual approaches to suicidal youth do not provide that training.
- Date: February 29, 2020
- Time: 10 am to 5 pm
- Location: Google Community Space, 188 The Embarcadero, SF 94105
- Price: $150 licensed professionals ($75 student/prelicensed)
- CE: $25 (free for AFTNC members)
- 10% Discount for groups of 4 or more – email info@sfiap.com
- RSVP: Click HERE to RSVP to this event!
“Play Therapy for Families with Adolescents” with Timothy Baima, PhD, LMFT
- Date: March 14th
- Time: TBA
- Location: Palo Alto – TBA
“Family Therapy with Latina/nos: Promoting Wellness in the Midst of Oppression and Vilification” with Yvette Flores-Ortiz, PhD & Hector Rivera-Lopez, PhD
- Date: March 28th
- Time: TBA
- Location: East Bay – TBA
“Annual Membership Meeting”
Our 2020 Membership Meeting offers an opportunity to visit, network and get to know each other. We encourage you to invite colleagues working with couples and families who would be interested in joining AFTNC.
- Date: April – TBA
- Time: TBA
- Location: East Bay – TBA
“Helping Parents Navigate a Child’s Gender Transition Across the Lifespan” with Shawn V. Giammattei, Ph.D.
- Date: May – TBA
- Time: TBA
- Location: San Francisco – TBA
“Using the Family as a Resource in Tackling Anxiety in Children and Teens” with W. Keith Sutton, Psy.D.
- Date: June – TBA
- Time: TBA
- Location: Marin – TBA
“Using ACE to Inform Your Work with Individuals, Couples, and Families” with Debra Milinsky, MSW, LCSW
The ACE study gives us significant information on how adverse childhood events effect our psychological well being, and especially our relationships with family members. Using the ACE information, we can guide our individual, couple, and family work to treat trauma and relationship difficulties. This discussion will focus on practical interventions guided by the ACE of your clients.
Debra Milinsky, MSW, LCSW works with couples, children, and families in Berkeley and Vallejo. She was at Kaiser for 22 years and worked with CPS for 11 years.
- Date: September 2020 – TBA
- Time: TBA
- Location: East Bay – TBA
“AFTNC Annual Conference 2020”
- Date: October 2020 – TBA
- Time: TBA
- Location: East Bay – TBA
“AFTNC Annual Post-Conference Discussion”
- Date: November 2020 – TBA
- Time: TBA
- Location: TBA
Recent AFTNC Events
Careers in Family Therapy
A Panel of Family Therapists in Various Employment Settings.
- Date: Saturday, September 28th
- Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
- Location: The Wright Institute, 2728 Durant Ave, ROOM 109, Berkeley, CA 94704
- RSVP to drkeith@drkeithsutton.com
Annual Membership Meeting
We write to invite you to our Annual Membership Meeting to be held on Friday, September 20th at 7 pm in Berkeley. This is an open meeting to introduce our newly elected AFTNC Council (**BE SURE TO VOTE**), and offers an opportunity to visit, network and get to know each other. We encourage you to invite colleagues working with couples and families who would be interested in joining AFTNC.
- Date: Friday, September 20th, 2019
- Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm
- Location: Easton Hall Conference Center at the Church of the Divinity School of the Pacific, 2451 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709 (Visit their website here.)
- RSVP HERE!
“Annual Teacher’s Meeting”
This annual meeting is an opportunity for Family Therapy and Couples Therapy teachers to gather and share syllabi, discuss approaches to teaching family therapy, and discuss videos and other teaching aids used in teaching couples and family therapy.
- Date: Sunday, August 18th, 2019
- Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
- Location: 3107 Fillmore St., Suite 301, San Francisco, CA
Having a “Conversation with Yourself” in Couples Therapy with Gloria Fraser, LCSW
A “conversation with yourself” is a psychodramatic technique which makes internal parental voices external so they can be examined and challenged. It is sad to see our patients perpetuating dysfunctional messages from childhood with their own internal voices. In her couples therapy, Gloria Fraser, LCSW uses this technique to help bring the internal conversation into the couples conversation, helping to increase individual awareness, as well as partner’s empathy and understanding. The “conversation with yourself” provides a powerful tool for developing healthier and more positive internal messages for patients which promotes their growth.
Gloria Fraser, LCSW has her masters degree from Smith School for Social Work. Most influential in her current work was her experience at Bronx Municipal Hospital, Jacobi, where she was on the faculty of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. In addition to psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, she participated in groundbreaking work in brief therapy in the outpatient “walk-in“ clinic. She also developed her knowledge of family systems thinking at the “family studies section” during the developing field in the late 60s. Relocating to San Francisco, Gloria was the head of family therapy for the inpatient unit at Mount Zion hospital. As clinical consultant at Buckelew House, a residential treatment center for young adults, she ran multiple family groups using family sculpting inspired by Peggy Papp. She has been in private practice in San Francisco since 1974. She served as program chair and president of AFTNC- an antidote to the isolation of family systems thinkers. She enjoyed the extended contact with the pioneering family therapists at the fall conferences.
- Date: Sunday, April 14th, 2019
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Location: Fairfax; Please RSVP to drkeith@drkeithsutton.com for address
- Continuing Education Provided by Bay Area Family Therapy Training Associates (BAFTTA)
“#MeToo: Masculinity in the Age of Trump” with Roger Lake, MFT
The recent political events have encouraged discourse on male dominance and male vulnerability in ways that have not been seen in some time. For clinicians working with men in couple and family therapy contexts, this talk will provide a framework for understanding unconscious features of male privilege and male vulnerability, and suggestions on how to create movement in therapy utilizing this moment in time as an opportunity.
Roger Lake, MFT specializes in men and masculinity in his couple and family therapy practice in San Francisco. He has run men’s groups in San Francisco for 20 years, and is the past President of the AFTNC and member of AFTA.
- Date: Sunday, February 10th
- Time: 6:30 pm
- Location: RSVP to drkeith@drkeithsutton.com
- CE Info: 2 CEs, Cost: $30
“Annual Teacher’s Meeting”
AFTNC is reviving this annual meeting to provide an opportunity for Family Therapy and Couples Therapy teachers to gather and share syllabi, discuss approaches to teaching family therapy, and discuss videos and other teaching aids used in teaching couples and family therapy.
- Date: Saturday, January 5th, 2019
- Time: 11:00 am
- Location: 3107 Fillmore St., Suite 301, San Francisco, CA
“The Evolution of Family Therapy”
- Date: Sunday July 29th, 2018
- Time: 2:00 – 4:30pm
- Location: Sports Basement, Community Room, 2727 Milvia, Berkeley, CA
- Continuing Education Provided by Bay Area Family Therapy Training Associates (BAFTTA)
“The Business of Your Private Practice”
- Date: Sunday June 3, 2018
- Time: 2:00-4:30pm
- Location: Sports Basement, 2727 Milvia St., Berkeley CA
- Continuing Education Provided by Bay Area Family Therapy Training Associates (BAFTTA)
“Remembering Minuchin’s Structural Family Therapy”
- Date: Saturday May 5, 2018
- Time: 2:00 – 4:30pm
- Location: East Bay Community Space, 507 55th St. (at Telegraph), Oakland, CA
- Continuing Education Provided by Bay Area Family Therapy Training Associates (BAFTTA)
2018 Winter Membership Event
- Date: March 10, 2018
- Time: 3:30 – 5:30pm
- Location: Berkeley Public Library, West Branch, 1125 University Ave. (at San Pablo), Berkeley, CA 94702
AFTNC is reviving our tradition of regular trainings and consultation events in 2018. Events will usually be FREE for members, with free or low-cost CEUs available.
- What kind of events would you like to see us do?
- Is there a local family therapist whom you’d like to see present, or a family therapy topic you’d like covered?
- Would you like to host a “round table” consultation meeting in your home or at your office?
- Would you like to get involved with the Events Committee?
Email us at events@aftnc.com with your ideas.