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AFTNC clinical members are MFTs, psychologists, social workers, and counselors with special interest in working with families and couples. Members may work with indivdual adults, children, adolescents, and groups as well as doing conjoint therapy

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March, 2024

Saturday
30
Family Recovery Institute (in-person) & via Zoom (online)
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Clients requiring intensive treatment for substance abuse, mood, eating and trauma-based
disorders typically grew up in family systems wounded by legacies of loss from which the
members have never fully recovered. This presentation will describe the nature of family system woundedness including the behavioral, relational, spiritual and epigenetic effects of life in such environments, approaches to engage members in a clinical conversation that will benefit all family members, and offer some strategies for harnessing the power of the intense counter-transference reactions clinicians will customarily encounter.

April, 2024

Saturday
20
Alliant International University in Emeryville & Zoom
12:00 PM
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On April 20th, please join us for a chance to network and socialize at the 2024 Annual AFTNC Membership Meeting. There will be food, drinks, and a great chance to catch up with old colleagues and meet new ones! We will discuss the plans for the next year, and non-members can come to learn more about an AFTNC membership. We will also be celebrating long time AFTNC member, Davida Cohen, MFT, for her decades of service to children and families! This year we will be meeting in person at Alliant International University in the East Bay and will also host the event via Zoom for those who can‘t make it in person. RSVP to join us!

May, 2024

Friday
3
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Disability is the third part of a couple relationship, belonging to the two of them. This workshop focuses on the key issues facing couples with disabilities (straight or queer), the major points of stress, and the decisions that couples might face together. The therapeutic tasks are outlined from a disability-affirmative perspective. Two case examples illustrate the role of context and culture in couples with disabilities.

September, 2024

Saturday
28
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Come join Deb Dana, LCSW, for a weekend workshop!

The autonomic nervous system is at the heart of daily living, powerfully shaping experiences of safety and influencing the capacity for connection. How we move through the world—turning toward, backing away, sometimes attaching and other times isolating—is guided by this system. We now understand how in response to traumatic experiences, autonomic pathways of connection are replaced with patterns of protection and the drive to survive operates in opposition to the need for connection. With the development of Polyvagal Theory, therapists have a guide to the neurophysiological processes of mobilization, collapse, and social engagement and can reliably help clients reshape their autonomic responses and rewrite the stories that are carried in their autonomic pathways. With an updated map of the autonomic circuits that underlie behaviors and beliefs, we can lead our clients out of adaptive survival responses into the autonomically regulated state of safety that sets the stage for connection and is necessary for successful treatment.

A Polyvagal Theory guided approach to therapy begins with helping clients map their autonomic profiles and track their moment-to-moment movement along the autonomic hierarchy. With this foundation, the essential clinical questions address how to help clients interrupt habitual response patterns and find safety in a state of engagement. Working from a foundation of Polyvagal Theory, therapists have a guide to becoming a regulated and co-regulating resource, practical ways to effectively help clients identify and interrupt their familiar response patterns, and strategies to shape their autonomic nervous systems toward safety and connection.
Sunday
29
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Come join Deb Dana, LCSW, for a weekend workshop!

The autonomic nervous system is at the heart of daily living, powerfully shaping experiences of safety and influencing the capacity for connection. How we move through the world—turning toward, backing away, sometimes attaching and other times isolating—is guided by this system. We now understand how in response to traumatic experiences, autonomic pathways of connection are replaced with patterns of protection and the drive to survive operates in opposition to the need for connection. With the development of Polyvagal Theory, therapists have a guide to the neurophysiological processes of mobilization, collapse, and social engagement and can reliably help clients reshape their autonomic responses and rewrite the stories that are carried in their autonomic pathways. With an updated map of the autonomic circuits that underlie behaviors and beliefs, we can lead our clients out of adaptive survival responses into the autonomically regulated state of safety that sets the stage for connection and is necessary for successful treatment.

A Polyvagal Theory guided approach to therapy begins with helping clients map their autonomic profiles and track their moment-to-moment movement along the autonomic hierarchy. With this foundation, the essential clinical questions address how to help clients interrupt habitual response patterns and find safety in a state of engagement. Working from a foundation of Polyvagal Theory, therapists have a guide to becoming a regulated and co-regulating resource, practical ways to effectively help clients identify and interrupt their familiar response patterns, and strategies to shape their autonomic nervous systems toward safety and connection.