Expanding Therapeutic Skills for Organizational Healing

Organizations delivering human services contain countless narratives. Mental health professionals often become informal consultants when colleagues seek their perspective beyond clinical work. This workshop explores connections between therapeutic practice and organizational consulting, examining how the persona of the mental health practitioner may act as a container for institutional dynamics and trauma. Participants will discover emerging trends and reimagine boundary-spanning professional journeys.

This 2 CE online event is offered by the LCAT Advocacy Coalition as a fundraiser for ongoing legislative advocacy in New York State to increase access to the creative arts therapists and to protect the rights of current clients who depend on insurance to access these therapies.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify at least 3 key characteristics of process consultation, and describe how these characteristics align with creative arts therapy practices
• Reflect on the iceberg metaphor for understanding organizational culture, with particular attention to power dynamics in human service systems

Presenter: Elizabeth Speck, Ph.D., LCAT, RDT-BCT

Elizabeth is the founder and principal of MindOpen Learning Strategies, a training and consulting firm advancing social justice. A Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Board Certified Trainer in Drama Therapy, Dr. Speck brings 30 years of psychotherapy and organizational development experience to help organizations build trauma-informed, anti-racist cultures.
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CEs are available for NYS LCSW, LMSW, LMFT, LCAT, LMHC, and Licensed Psychologists. New York Creative Arts Therapists, PLLC, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board as a provider for licensed social workers #0275, licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0026, licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0065. LMFT and Licensed Psychologists.