Our networking group for Bay Area Psychotherapists has a new mission statement:

We are a group of San Francisco Bay Area psychotherapists and psychotherapy students who affirm that sexual and gender diversity are natural expressions of the human experience.

We provide a safe haven for mental health clinicians to gather, network, support, and
consult.

Our psychotherapy practices welcome and serve:

● Clients who engage in consensual sexual behaviors, including but not limited to kink and polyamory.
● Clients who are gender variant.

Our group welcomes:

● Students seeking mentorship in working affirmatively and responsibly with said clients.
● Professionals seeking networking, support, and consultation in working affirmatively and responsibly with said clients.

We are committed to expanding affirmative psychological understandings of sexual and gender diversity, and to counteracting the historical and present day harm done by pathologizing diagnoses, stigma, and invisibility.

We are committed to identifying standards of affirmative and culturally competent care, and to sharing this information with each other and our colleagues so that we may better serve our clients and their communities.

We have all agreed to abide by the ethical guidelines of our respective disciplines.

If you are interested in joining our group, please email Keely Kolmes, Psy.D. PSY21284

In your email, please provide your name, license, practice and/or school information, and a brief bio about your interest in the group. This information will be shared only with other members of our group.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Clinical, Ethical, and Technical Issues Related to Social Networking and Psychotherapy with LGBT Communities

I am offering a 3 hour CEU training in partnership with Gaylesta. This training is free for current Gaylesta members. It’s $10 per CEU for non Gaylesta members.

Please note: CEU’s are available only to MFT’s and LCSW’s at this time, but I am working on providing CEU’s to psychologists for future trainings.
Light lunch is included.

When:

Sunday, February 7th

Time:

12:00 noon – 3:30pm

Location:

Hotel Whitcomb, Suite 810, 1231 Market Street, at 8th Street, San Francisco, CA (Civic Center BART/MUNI)

RSVP:

Please email Dino at dinomft [at] pacbell.net or call Dino at (415) 431-3466

Description:

This 3 hour training focuses on Web 2.0 social networking and its relevance to providers serving the LGBT community. Clinicians will get an overview of how clients may use the Internet and how various sites and services may intersect with treatment. We will cover clinicians’ personal and professional online presence and how this may crossover into one’s clinical role. We will discuss clinical, legal, and ethical issues related to the Internet and private practice. A step-by-step guide to managing privacy settings will be provided as well as a sample of a Social Media Policy for private practice. There will be time for discussion of clinical vignettes.

This Friday, October 23rd, I will be presenting a 5 hour Continuing Education training that I organized for the annual Northern California Training Directors Conference. This conference will be attended by Training Directors and clinical trainees of fifteen Bay Area college counseling centers.

I will be joined by James Lyda, Ph.D., Staff Psychologist at the Tang Center at UC Berkeley, who will present a morning segment on research on Facebook and on college students’ usage of social networking sites. I’m very excited about this training and about hearing about the clinical issues that Training Directors and interns are encountering.

The outline and schedule are below:

Northern California Training Directors Conference

Clinical and Ethical Issues Related to Social Networking and College Mental Health

October 23, 2009

9:00am – 3:00pm

This training focuses on Web 2.0 social networking and its relevance to college mental health. Clinicians will learn how students are using the Internet and what related issues they may be bringing into treatment. We will also cover clinicians’ personal and professional online presence and how this may intersect with their clinical role. We will also discuss related clinical, legal, and ethical issues as they come up in social networking and  college mental health.

II. The Google Factor

II. Research on College Students’ Usage of Social Networking Sites

III. Facebook, Friending, and Privacy Settings

BREAK

IV.  Overview of Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, FriendFeed, Foursquare, LinkedIn and other sites

V. Blogging, RSS feeds, and personal ads

VI.  Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues as they relate to the Internet and social networking

VII. Discussion

LUNCH

VIII. Small Group Breakouts with Clinical Vignettes

IX. Larger discussion of Vignettes

X. Completion of Paperwork and Surveys

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