The San Francisco Bay Area EAPA chapter meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month (there is no meeting in August). Each training provides a minimum 1.5 continuing education units (CEU's) from the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) and/or 1.5 professional development hours (PDH's). The cost to attend an in-person meeting is $30.00 for EAPA members, $40.00 for non-members. Please, cash or check only. For Zoom meetings, there is no cost.
Title: Identifying, Treating and Understanding Highly Sensitive People: The 20% with a Finely Tuned Nervous System
Date and Time: November 10th, 2020; noon-1:30 pm PST via Zoom
Speaker: Alane Freund, MS, MA, LMFT, ICHS
Description:
In this workshop, I will outline the core characteristics, research, and case examples of the trait of High Sensitivity in order to distinguish it from possible differential diagnoses. Participants will compile effective strategies for Highly Sensitive clients managing over-arousal or overstimulation and assess for unique symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Do you have a keen imagination, rich inner life, and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential as air? Do others call you too shy or overly sensitive?
If you answered yes to any of these questions (or you recognize them in your clients,) you might be a highly sensitive person, or HSP—twenty percent of us are. It is a valuable trait. Many great artists and thinkers are HSPs, and HSPs are generally highly conscientious and intuitive. There are also drawbacks. An HSP is easily overstimulated and more affected by a troubled past and present stressors.
Highly sensitive people are that 20% of the population with a finely tuned nervous system. Strongly impacted by their environment and the people in it, HSPs are more susceptible to and impacted by both challenges and positive interventions. Half of therapy clients may be highly sensitive due to their highly reactive brains and their ability to make great improvement through the therapeutic process. Brain reactivity means HSPs process deeply, have strong emotional responses, and become easily overwhelmed by living in the 80% world that is not designed for their sensitive brains and hearts.
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Speaker Bio:
Alane Freund, MS, MA, LMFT has helped adults, youth, and families focus on solutions through psychotherapy and consultation over three decades in the mental health field. An International Consultant on High Sensitivity (ICHS) working closely with Dr. Elaine Aron, Ms. Freund has developed and implemented programs for highly sensitive people, children, families, and clinicians who serve them. She also holds Masters’ degrees in clinical psychology and school counseling. Ms. Freund specializes in family therapy and education with and about highly sensitive people and LGBTQ+ families. A skilled facilitator and therapist, an HSP herself, and the parent of a highly sensitive young man, she teaches workshops, offers consultation, and leads groups and retreats, including the HSPs & Horses retreats at Heart and Mind Equine in northern California with Elaine Aron, PhD. Ms. Freund is an instructor at Kripalu in Massachusetts and 1440 Multiversity in California as well as teaching at California Institute for Psychotherapy and theCalifornia Institute of Integral Studies in California. She can be reached by for consultation through her website: alanefreund.com
Please click here to register! This class is offered free of charge, but you do need to register.
The San Francisco Chapter of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs and/or LEPs. The San Francisco Chapter of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. The Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
The San Francisco Chapter of EAPA can be reached via our website sfeapa.org or by writing us at PO Box 5370 Walnut Creek, CA 94596. Contact us for any needed accommodations or to address any grievances. Our CAMFT Continuing Education Provider Approval Number is 57003.
This does not apply for our virtual meetings! Our virtual meetings will be held from noon - 1:30 pm PST.
Our meeting location is Skates on the Bay in Berkeley, CA. Networking is 11:20 am - 11:50; the presentation is 11:50 am - 1:30 pm. Come and enjoy a nice lunch with beautiful San Francisco Bay views!