The OAMFT welcomes you to our hybrid AGM & Farewell Conference!

Recording Available

Conference held on: Saturday, October 5th, 2024

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Where: Hybrid on Zoom and in person at Tyndale University 3377 Bayview Ave. Toronto, ON, Canada M2M 3S4

*NOTE: Only Live Participants are eligible to receive their 3.0 Hours Continuing Education Credits.*

"The End of an Era: Navigating Organizational and Personal Goodbyes" - Andrea Warnick, RN, MA, RP

Time: 10:00AM to 12:00PM(EST)

Session description:

Andrea is a Registered Psychotherapist and Registered Nurse whose passion lies in helping individuals, families and communities support people of all ages who are grieving a significant loss in their lives. With years of nursing and counselling experience both in Canada and abroad and a Masters degree in Thanatology Andrea brings to her work a rare mixture of medical and psychosocial expertise as well as personal experience navigating organizational goodbyes. Throughout this presentation Andrea will weave together grief literacy concepts with practical strategies that can be used to support participants as well as their clients through organizational grief and other significant life transitions. Space will be created to reflect on the impact that OAMFT has had on the lives and careers of its members, to process the goodbye, and to get curious about what the future holds.

About Our Speaker Andrea Warnick, RN, MA, RP:

Andrea is a Registered Psychotherapist and Registered Nurse whose passion lies in

helping individuals, families and communities support people of all ages who are

grieving an illness or death in their lives. With years of nursing and counselling

experience both in Canada and abroad and a Masters degree in Thanatology (the study

of dying and death) Andrea brings to her work a rare mixture of medical and

psychosocial expertise. Andrea developed and teaches the 5 Day Certificate Program in Children’s Grief and Bereavement at SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health. She was also the lead content developer for KidsGrief.ca and KidsGrief for Educators. Once a month Andrea hosts a free monthly forum through Canadian Virtual Hospice, KidsGrief Q&A, where she responds to questions from families and professionals from across the country about supporting grieving children and youth. Andrea lives in Guelph, Ontario, from where she and Colleen Mousseau lead AWC Grief Support, a group practice of over 30 therapists who provide grief therapy across Ontario and grief consultation and education across Canada.

"Vagus Nerve Regulation: Working Grief and Trauma out of the Body" - Pete Sandoval, LPC, MA, RP(Qualifying)

Time: 1:00PM to 2:00PM(EST)

Session description:

This presentation is an interactive exploration of how we experience emotional regulation in our body through stillness, movement, and the five senses. Interactive exercises will be done to explore these different areas, followed by a brief review of Polyvagal theory and a discussion of the embodied experience of emotional regulation. 

From that foundation, we will explore how to utilize somatic awareness with the Polyvagal theory to support regulation thus offering a potential pathway for working through individual grief. These understandings will then be extended into the clinical practice, building capacity for both self and client care. A few regulatory exercises to support clinicians and clients will be offered for consideration.

About Our Speaker Pete Sandoval, LPC, MA, RP (Qualifying):

Pete Sandoval is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and currently holds a license in the US as a Licensed Professional Counselor (Missouri). He earned his Master’s Degree in Community Counseling from the University of Missouri, St. Louis. He is also recognized as a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC) by the National Board of Certified Counselors (US) and is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP).

Pete specializes in working with adults with trauma issues. His clinical trauma experience includes developmental/attachment trauma, physical and/or sexual abuse, medical trauma, chronic pain/illness, and single incident trauma. He is trained in EMDR, a Master Certified Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) clinician, and is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). A member of the CCPA and registered with the CRPO, Pete is originally from the US, and has 11 years of clinical psychotherapy experience from both non-profit agency and private practice. Pete is now located in Kitchener-Waterloo, and practices throughout Ontario at the practice Grand River Healing.

Date: Friday, September 27th, 2024
Time: 12 - 1:30PM (EST)
Where: Zoom

Presented by: Leanne Campbell, PhD.

*Live participants are eligible to earn 1.5 CEU*

Purpose:

The purpose of this webinar is to introduce participants to EFIT, Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy as it applies to those struggling with the echoes of trauma, with a focus on intergenerational trauma.  

Session Description:

In this webinar, participants will be introduced to the transformative power and potency of emotion in impacting the ripple effects of intergenerational trauma.  Attachment science and an Experiential Humanistic approach offer a map that simplifies how we view and frame personal and relational trauma, and how we intervene across the three-stage therapy process.  The ‘experiential process-based assessment’ offers the therapist a window into the context in which clients live and have lived, including the intergenerational context, and helps chart the therapy course toward a felt sense of security with self and others - the pathway to symptom resolution and the antidote to trauma.  

Speaker Bio

Leanne Campbell, PhD, is an international speaker, writer, trainer, and codeveloper of EFT-related educational programs and materials. She’s coauthor, with Susan Johnson, of the first basic EFIT text, A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Growth and Fitness in Every Client and is co-author of Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook.    

Recorded on: Friday, June 7th, 2024
Time: 12 - 1:30PM (EST)
Where: Zoom

Presented by: Julie Marquis, MSc., RP.

*Live participants are eligible to earn 1.5 CEU*

Session Description:

This session will explore how trauma shows up in attachment patterns in families. We will start with a brief overview of attachment, how these attachment styles develop and how they present as patterns in individuals and relationships. We will then explore what trauma is, the symptoms of trauma, and how these symptoms present in individuals. We will explore how these trauma symptoms impact the dynamics in their relationships within the family unit. We will then dive into what intergenerational trauma is, how to start to recognize intergenerational trauma, and how these patterns can show up in attachment patterns within the family. We will finish with the idea of changing the cycle. How to begin to shift the cycle of trauma and heal the attachment wounds and patterns within the family unit. 

Speaker Bio

Julie is a Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario, she has been practicing in the mental health field for 18 years in various capacities. She graduated from the University of Toronto with her Bachelors and the University of Liverpool with her Masters in Applied Psychology. She currently runs her own group practice in the Greater Toronto Area that focuses on trauma work with children through to adults working with people individually and within their family unit. She also has a consulting company that focuses on coaching therapists in growing their own businesses, providing training, workshops and consultation to various organizations on mental health, leadership, communication and managing teams. Lastly, Julie has worked internationally with various NGOs on providing training on trauma informed care for vulnerable populations.