Marin County CAMFT upcoming events

Trauma Resource Team Book Group - September 2 (Wed, September 02, 2026)

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:30:00 GMT

TRAUMA RESOURCE TEAM BOOK GROUP

The TRT are continuing our book group: We’d love you to join us! ALL MEMBERS ARE WELCOME.

The Trauma Resource Team (TRT) is hosting our next Book Group and all members of Marin CAMFT are invited to join.

Each book group is led by Marin CAMFT members - many thanks to Sandra Hirschfield & Amy Horn for hosting our September group. Members can sign up to join in for just one time or each time, whatever works for your schedule. We want to come together in community, share our knowledge and learn something new.

Register for our next book group on Wednesday, September 2nd at 6.30pm on Zoom when we will be discussing What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D Perry MD, PhD and Oprah Winfrey.

Friday CE Series: Career Counseling with Immigrant Bicultural Youth of Color (Fri, September 11, 2026)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Engage with Liberation Psychology as a supportive framework for clients of color

Empowering Futures: Career Counseling with Immigrant Bicultural Youth of Color Through a Liberation Psychology Framework

Presented by

2 CEs available

Free for Marin CAMFT members and RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members!

This training will not be recorded. Please plan to attend the "live" session on Zoom if you are interested in this learning activity.

PLEASE NOTE: After you sign up here, you'll be sent instructions on how to complete a separate registration step with Zoom, which is how you will get your Zoom link. You can do that in advance, or right before the meeting begins. This registration step lets us more accurately track attendance in the Zoom meeting for our compliance purposes as a CE provider.

Workshop Description

This introductory level training introduces Liberation Psychology as a culturally responsive and socially grounded framework for working with immigrant and bicultural youth of color in career counseling and related clinical contexts. Many clinicians work with clients who are navigating complex intersections of culture, identity, family expectations, and systemic barriers that shape educational and vocational decision making. This training offers a structured lens for understanding these experiences while moving beyond purely individual level explanations of distress.

Participants will be introduced to key concepts of Liberation Psychology including critical consciousness, problematization, de ideologization, recovery of historical memory, and praxis. These concepts will be translated into clinically relevant language and applied to career related concerns such as academic pressure, family obligation, identity conflict, internalized oppression, and limited access to opportunity. The training will emphasize how sociopolitical forces, immigration related stressors, and dominant cultural narratives can influence clients’ self perceptions, career choices, and sense of agency.

Using a case example, the presenter will demonstrate how Liberation Psychology can be integrated into assessment, conceptualization, and intervention within therapeutic and career focused work. Practical strategies will be discussed for helping clients develop critical awareness, reconnect with cultural strengths, and make career decisions that are both contextually informed and personally meaningful.

While the primary focus is on immigrant and bicultural youth, the framework is applicable to clinicians working with adults who continue to carry unresolved cultural and vocational tensions.

This training is designed for licensed therapists seeking an introductory exposure to Liberation Psychology and its application in clinical and career related practice. No prior knowledge of Liberation Psychology is required. Attendees who work with adolescents, emerging adults, immigrants, or clients from marginalized communities may find this training particularly relevant. The presentation will be experiential, reflective, and clinically oriented, with attention to ethical and culturally responsive practice.

Educational Goals

This training provides an introduction to working with transgender youth who are experiencing self-harm and suicidal ideation.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:

Identify at least three core concepts of Liberation Psychology and describe their relevance to clinical and career related work with immigrant and bicultural youth of color.
Explain how sociopolitical context, cultural identity, and systemic barriers can influence vocational distress, identity conflict, and career decision making in therapeutic settings.
Apply Liberation Psychology informed principles to a case example by identifying culturally responsive assessment considerations and intervention strategies.
Demonstrate at least one clinically applicable strategy that supports client agency, critical awareness, and integration of cultural strengths in career related counseling.

Presenter Cecile Bhang, PhD

Cecile Hyewon Bhang, Ph.D., Psy.D. (she/her) is a licensed psychologist, researcher, and educator with extensive clinical and academic experience. She serves as an Assistant Professor in the Counseling Department at Sonoma State University and has worked across university counseling centers, community mental health agencies, and private practice settings focusing on working immigrant and bicultural and multicultural individuals and families. Dr. Bhang’s clinical work is grounded in culturally responsive, integrative approaches that center relational and contextual understanding, including Relational Cultural Theory along with skills-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

Dr. Bhang’s scholarship focuses on culturally contextualized frameworks for understanding identity development, resilience, and career related concerns among marginalized youth and young adults. Her work bridges theories of culture, power, and psychological well being to enhance clinical practice and training. She provides consultation and professional trainings on multicultural competence, social justice oriented practice, and the application of Liberation Psychology in counseling.

In addition to her academic and clinical roles, Dr. Bhang maintains a private practice and provides bilingual services in Korean and English. She is committed to advancing equitable, strengths based mental health care and mentoring future clinicians. For more information about her work and clinical services, please visit www.drcbhang.com.

Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version.

You will be sent instructions on how to register with Zoom to get your personal Zoom link to use for attendance. Please read the email confirmation you receive after signing up on the Marin CAMFT website for these instructions.

Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).

Date: Friday, September 11
Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific

Cost: Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal members, $30 for non-members. Please see refund policy below.
Location: Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.

Register for Empowering Futures: Career Counseling with Immigrant Bicultural Youth of Color Through a Liberation Psychology Framework

Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs

For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.

Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Course evaluations must be completed within 90 days of the training date. A $20 administrative fee will be charged for requests received more than 90 days after the course asking for course evaluation instructions, replacement CE certificates, or for research into missing or lost CE certificates. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please allow up to a week from requesting the refund to it being processed. Participants who register for free may choose to cancel by emailing info@marincamft.org if they will not be attending, though this is not necessary. Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.

Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.

Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.

(Non-CE Event) The Missing Curriculum: Personal Finance for Mental Health Professionals (Fri, September 25, 2026)

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Registration on this event will open soon. Please check back later.

Please note: No CE credits are available for this talk. It is intended as informational only.

The Missing Curriculum: Personal Finance for Mental Health Professionals

Presented by Louise Love, MFT Trainee

No CEs available

Free! All therapists invited to attend.

Registration for this "live" training does not include access to a recording. Please read the full event description for all registration terms including refund policy.

Workshop Description

Therapists are skilled at helping clients with all sorts of challenges, but most of us received zero training on managing our own money. This lack of personal finance education can shape how we set our rates, what we tell ourselves we're worth, and how we show up in our most important relationships.

In this 1-hour workshop designed to help therapists with their own relationship to money, Louise Love explores the psychology behind our most charged financial patterns and why helping professionals are disproportionately affected by financial stress. Attendees will walk away with a clearer understanding of their own money story and how that might impact their business, and a concrete first step toward changing it.

Presenter Louise Love

Louise Love is an IFS-informed financial coach for therapists and helping professionals. She is a Certified YNAB Coach, a Trauma of Money Certified Practitioner, and an MFT trainee with six years of hospice volunteering and a specialization in bereavement support. Louise has conducted a graduate-level literature review in financial therapy at Dominican University of California and brings both clinical insight and practical financial tools to her work. Learn more at louiselove.com.

PLEASE NOTE: By registering for this event you are consenting to a recording if one is made which may include your voice and/or image. By registering for this event, you are agreeing for your likeliness to possibly be used by Marin CAMFT.

Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording. If you cannot attend "live" on the training date listed here, please do not register for this Zoom training. If you register for this "live" training and are unable to attend, please cancel your registration per the terms below which govern our refund policies for this event.

Date: Friday, September 25
Time: 12:00 to 1:00 pm Pacific

Cost: Free
Location: Online via Zoom

Register for The Missing Curriculum: Personal Finance for Mental Health Professionals

Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs

For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.

Continuing Education: This workshop does not offer continuing education credit. It is informational only.
Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.

Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.

Marin CAMFT 2026 Membership Meeting & Fall Member Celebration (Sun, October 04, 2026)

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Marin CAMFT is hosting an in-person Membership Meeting and Fall Celebration!

Sunday, October 4 from 12pm to 3pm

Special guest: State CAMFT Executive Director Joy Alafia, MBA, CAE

The Board of Directors of Marin CAMFT invites Marin CAMFT members and other therapists in our community to:

Marin CAMFT 2026 MEMBERSHIP MEETING &
Fall Celebration

We are excited to welcome CAMFT Executive Directory Joy Alafia, MBA, CAE, who will be joining us as special guest.

The Membership Meeting will be a chance to participate in the running of our chapter. Learn about positions that are coming up for election, committees that you can join, and experience how this volunteer-led organization functions. The Meeting Agenda will be sent out to registered members in advance. If any member would like to put an item on the agenda, please email info@marincamft.org by September 20.

While the Membership Meeting is important, the main purpose of this in-person gathering is to increase connection within our community of therapists. Please join us for mingling, conversation, and camaraderie.

Sunday, October 4, 2026

12pm to 3pm

Membership Meeting from 1pm to 2pm

McInnis Park Golf Center

350 Smith Ranch Road in San Rafael

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Come have hors d'oeuvres and a drink with us and connect with each other. The event space will have both indoor (with open windows and doors) and outdoor patio areas. Beer, wine and soft drinks will be available. Casual attire.

PLEASE RSVP BY SEPTEMBER 30

If after RSVPing, your plans change and you won't be joining us, please let us know no later than September 30 so that we can inform the facility about the reduced attendance number.

Questions? Contact the Event Planning Committee at marketing@marincamft.org

Friday CE Series: Tailoring Therapy to Attachment Patterns Using Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP®) (Fri, October 09, 2026)

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Registration on this event will open soon. Please check back later.

Apply attachment theory in new ways using AEDP

Tailoring Therapy to Attachment Patterns Using Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP®)

Presented by

2 CEs available

Free for Marin CAMFT members and RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members!

This training will not be recorded. Please plan to attend the "live" session on Zoom if you are interested in this learning activity.

Workshop Description

Early attachment experiences shape our relationships with ourselves and with others. When they go well, they nourish felt security and our capacity for connection. When they go awry, they give rise to attachment trauma and insecure patterns that challenge our capacity to feel safe and trusting in the relationships we crave the most. AEDP® is a healing-oriented, transformation-based psychotherapy model which is ideally suited to treat attachment trauma. AEDP’s therapeutic stance is radically relational. From the beginning of treatment we seek to create a secure attachment with our patients as a basis for healing relational wounding. We aim to set conditions for establishing safety and undoing aloneness, explicitly and experientially, with loads of sensitivity and responsiveness. To encourage safety, we meet our patients where they are. To foster growth and transformation, we help our patients explore what happens between us and inside themselves in the present moment.

Yet to enter this terrain can be daunting for patients with insecure attachment patterns and can stir overwhelming emotions, defenses, and anxiety, which interfere with the flow of treatment. Additionally, therapists may encounter common reactivities to their patients’ presentation, which directly link to their attachment patterns and restrict therapeutic effectiveness. To help therapists organize their treatment approach, this course offers a comprehensive picture of both secure and insecure attachment. This framework comes to life with the first two of three grids developed by Pando-Mars (2025): i) the configuration of the secure attachment pattern and ii) the configurations of insecure attachment patterns: avoidant, ambivalent/resistant, and disorganized. The third grid, iii) clinical markers and interventions to treat avoidant, ambivalent/resistant, and disorganized patterns, will guide therapists in how to translate attachment theory into clinical practice to mobilize transformational outcomes.

Using clinical video footage, we will examine how avoidant, ambivalent/resistant, and disorganized attachment patterns present in therapy—and how each pattern calls for a specific, tailored approach. Video illustrations of particular interventions will show how therapists can meet patients where they are and help them to deepen trust and expand their capacity for regulation, connection, and relatedness. Grounded in AEDP® theory and interventions, with foundations in attachment research and neuroscience, and sprinkled with clinical wisdom, this presentation invites therapists to fine-tune their effectiveness and engage more precisely and confidently to help clients heal relational/attachment trauma.

Educational Goals

This training will cover identity markers of each insecure attachment pattern, and metaskills therapists can draw upon to counter the characteristic behavioral hallmarks of caregivers and common therapist reactivities to each pattern. The presentation will explain how therapists can intervene with specificity to avoidant, ambivalent/resistant and disorganized attachment patterns.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:

List three markers of the avoidant attachment pattern
Name three interventions to address avoidant patterning
Identify two therpaist metaksills to help someone with avoidant patterning
Identify three markers of the ambivalent/resistant attachment pattern
Name three interventions to address ambivalent/resistant patterning
Describe two therapist metaskills to help someone with ambivalent/resistant patterning
Identify three markers of the disorganized attachment pattern
Name three interventions to address disorganized attachment patterns
Describe two therapist metaskills to help someone with patterns of disorganized attachment
Identify two cultural and identity-related factors that may influence the presentation of attachment patterns.

Presenter Karen Pando-Mars, LMFT

Karen Pando-Mars, MFT has a clinical and consultation practice in San Anselmo, CA, is senior faculty at the AEDP® Institute and teaches AEDP worldwide. She was a founder of The Sandtray Network and a contributing editor of its journal. As adjunct faculty at Dominican University, in San Rafael, California, she taught AEDP as the overarching theoretical model in the Alternative and Innovative Psychotherapies course. Her background in somatic and experiential therapies includes Focusing, Biofeedback, Process-Oriented Psychotherapy, Sandtray-Worldplay, EMDR, and Authentic Movement. She is known for her presence, warmth, and the clarity of her presentations. Videotapes of her clinical work are moving and inspiring examples of how AEDP's explicit relational and precise experiential practices can help patients heal relational trauma. Her passionate interest in what cultivates deep connection between Self and Other has been furthered by her research into attachment theory and related neuroscience. Her publications include Tailoring AEDP Interventions to Attachment Style (2016), a chapter in Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 (2021) APA Press. She and Diana Fosha co-authored Tailoring Treatment to Attachment Patterns: Healing Trauma in Relationship (2025) Norton, NY.

Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version.

Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).

Date: Friday, October 9
Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific

Cost: Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal members, $40 for non-members. Please see refund policy below. Any on-demand training published subsequently will also be free for Marin CAMFT members (reciprocal benefits not available for Marin CAMFT On-Demand).
Location: Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.

Register for: Tailoring Therapy to Attachment Patterns Using Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs

For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.

Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Course evaluations must be completed within 90 days of the training date. A $20 administrative fee will be charged for requests received more than 90 days after the course asking for course evaluation instructions, replacement CE certificates, or for research into missing or lost CE certificates. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please allow up to a week from requesting the refund to it being processed. Participants who register for free may choose to cancel by emailing info@marincamft.org if they will not be attending, though this is not necessary. Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.

Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.

Friday CE Series: Introduction to Perinatal Mental Health for Therapists (Fri, November 13, 2026)

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Registration on this event will open soon. Please check back later.

Understand specific mental health challenges associated with pregnancy

Introduction to Perinatal Mental Health for Therapists

Presented by LeeAnn Bartolini, Ph.D. and Jill Zechowy, M.D., M.S.

2 CEs available

Free for Marin CAMFT members and RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members!

This training will not be recorded. Please plan to attend the "live" session on Zoom if you are interested in this learning activity.

Workshop Description

Introduction to Perinatal Mental Health shines a light on an area of mental health that is rarely covered in graduate mental health education. The training intends to introduce participants to a number of topics that clinicians need to consider when working with pregnant and postpartum individuals and couples.

Educational Goals

This training will cover the diagnosis and screening of perinatal mental health disorders, with an overview of psychotherapy treatment of these disorders.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:

Differentiate between the self-limiting "baby blues" and clinical perinatal depression or anxiety based on symptom onset, duration, and the level of functional impairment.
Identify the distinct clinical presentations of various perinatal mental health conditions—including perinatal depression, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), PTSD, and postpartum psychosis.
Analyze perinatal-specific risk factors to differentiate between varying degrees of maternal suicide risk.
Describe how perinatal mental health disorders may present differently in
light of an individual’s gender, diverse background or sexual identities.
Apply evidence-based prevention efforts in perinatal mental health.
Help families better prepare for postpartum, with the goal of reduction of risk for postpartum depression.
Discuss the risks vs. benefits of psychopharmacologic approaches to enhance their clients’ abilities for informed decision making.

Presenters

LeeAnn Bartolini, Ph.D. has 40 years of experience as a Professor of Psychology at Dominican University, teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate psychology programs. She has also maintained a private practice since 1985, focusing on women’s issues, including pregnancy and post-partum mental health. As a certified death doula, she also assists others with end of life planning. She taught the Psychology of Women for decades and completed The Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C) Program with PSI-International.

Jill Zechowy, M.D., M.S. began her career as a family physician and taught clinical medicine as an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF’s Family Medicine Residency Program. After becoming a mother, Dr. Zechowy focused her professional interests on perinatal mental health. She received her master’s in counseling psychology from Dominican University in 2010 and then opened her private practice, Women’s Mental Health, MD, in Sonoma County. In 2024 Dr. Zechowy published Motherhood Survival Manual: Your Prenatal Guide to Prevent Postpartum Depression & Anxiety. She is a volunteer with Postpartum
Support International and speaker for primary care physicians on the diagnosis and treatment of perinatal mental health disorders.

Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version.

Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).

Date: Friday, November 13
Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific

Register for Introduction to Perinatal Mental Health for Therapists

Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs

For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.

Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Course evaluations must be completed within 90 days of the training date. A $20 administrative fee will be charged for requests received more than 90 days after the course asking for course evaluation instructions, replacement CE certificates, or for research into missing or lost CE certificates. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please allow up to a week from requesting the refund to it being processed. Participants who register for free may choose to cancel by emailing info@marincamft.org if they will not be attending, though this is not necessary. Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.

Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.

Friday CE Series: Mapping Relational Cycles, Meaning-Making, and Cultural Context in Couples Therapy (Fri, December 11, 2026)

Fri, 11 Dec 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Gain more tools for working with couples

Mapping Relational Cycles, Meaning-Making, and Cultural Context Considerations in Couples Therapy

Presented by Kenya Rocha, LMHC

2 CEs available

Free for Marin CAMFT members and RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members!

Registration for this "live" training does not include access to a recording. Please read the full event description for all registration terms including refund policy.

Workshop Description

This intermediate to advanced training introduces a structured, meaning-centered approach to couples therapy that integrates attachment, systemic thinking, and the impact of past experiences on present relational functioning. These are the concepts from Adaptive Information Processing which focus on how the past shows up in our present. Participants will learn how emotionally charged interactions between partners are shaped by previously encoded experiences that become activated in moments of conflict, influencing perception, behavior, and connection.

In this presentation, clinicians will be guided in identifying and mapping the couple’s interactional cycle, with particular attention to how partners assign meaning to each other’s behaviors and how these meanings reinforce patterns of disconnection or closeness. The training covers the idea from Adaptive Information Processing that relational distress is maintained not only by communication patterns, but by the deeper emotional and experiential associations each partner brings into the relationship.

Participants in the training will learn a structured framework for establishing relational safety, emotional regulation, and co-regulation, using relationship-based resource development strategies that support stability and engagement. A set of core relational conditions that support trust, emotional engagement, and accountability will be introduced as an organizing framework for intervention with considerations for culture and identity.

Special attention will be given to cross-cultural couples, including Latino/Caucasian dynamics, and how cultural constructs such as machismo and marianismo influence emotional expression, power, and meaning-making within relationships. Clinicians will learn how to facilitate culturally responsive conversations that promote empathy, reduce misinterpretation, and strengthen connection.

This training is designed for clinicians with prior experience in couples therapy seeking a more structured framework for conceptualization and intervention. No prior knowledge of Adaptive Information Processing is required, however you may be interested in taking the Marin CAMFT On-Demand course on this topic if you would like to become more familiar with AIP in advance of taking this training.

Educational Goals

Clinicians will learn a practical framework for identifying how connection is built and disrupted through six key relational conditions. This model helps clinicians recognize where breakdowns occur in the couple’s cycle and provides a roadmap for intervention, showing how strengthening these conditions leads to de-escalation and creates space for deeper, connection-focused work to take hold.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:

Describe at least three ways past experiences influence present relational interactions.
Map a couple’s interactional cycle, identifying at least two triggers, associated meanings, and resulting behavioral responses that contribute to relational distress.
Explain at least three core relational conditions that support safety, emotional engagement, and accountability in intimate relationships.
Demonstrate at least three relationship-based strategies for increasing co-regulation and emotional stabilization between partners.
Differentiate between adaptive and maladaptive meaning-making patterns by identifying at least two ways partners may misinterpret each other’s behaviors during conflict.
Apply at least two culturally responsive interventions when working with cross-cultural couples.

Presenter Kenya Rocha, LMHC

Kenya Rocha, MS, LMHC, NCC is a prominent EMDR therapist known for her specialized use of EMDR in couple and family therapy contexts. Her deep engagement with the EMDR community is evidenced by her role as an international Basic Trainer for Roy Kiessling’s EMDR Consulting, where she leverages her extensive understanding of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model and EMDR’s 8 phases. As the owner of EMDR & Beyond and Mosaic Family Counseling, Inc., her contributions span innovative clinical concepts and leadership, enhancing EMDR’s ethical application through education, training, consultation and clinical supervision.

With comprehensive expertise in systemic interactions and relationship dynamics within couples and families, Kenya’s clinical practice is enriched by her ongoing practice in Attachment & Developmental psychology theories, Ego State Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy & Transpersonal psychotherapy integrations. Fluent in both Spanish and English, she effectively addresses the needs of culturally diverse populations, fostering significant therapeutic advancements in EMDR and trauma treatment across individual, couple, and family settings. Her unique blend of rigorous clinical practice and dedication to education establishes her as a respected figure in the therapeutic community.

PLEASE NOTE: By registering for this event you are consenting to a recording being made which may include your voice and/or image. By registering for this event, you are agreeing for your likeliness to possibly be used by Marin CAMFT.

Also, while we plan to produce this training as an on-demand program, registration for the different formats of a program is offered separately and each is sold through a different platform. Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version. If you cannot attend "live" on the training date listed here, please do not register for this Zoom training, and instead, check Marin CAMFT On-Demand for the recorded program at a later date. If you register for this "live" training and are unable to attend, please cancel your registration per the terms below which govern our refund policies for this event.

Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).

Date: Friday, December 11
Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific

Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs

For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs Arianna Sifuentes.

Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Course evaluations must be completed within 90 days of the training date. A $20 administrative fee will be charged for requests received more than 90 days after the course asking for course evaluation instructions, replacement CE certificates, or for research into missing or lost CE certificates. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.

Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.

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