Location:  ONLINE via Zoom

(registrants will be sent a Zoom link via the email address they register with.  The Zoom link will be sent out 1-3 days prior to the training and will come from "COAP Workshops.")

This workshop will be capped at 95 participants

Workshop Overview:  To support eco- and climate conscious therapy, we re-vision competencies associated with all therapy approaches including rapport, assessment, and multicultural awareness. An important new tool is familiarity with the process of environmental identity, one’s self-concept and sense of relationship with nature. Environmental identity intersects with a person’s other identities in unique ways  and provides a base on which to build eco- and climate therapy interventions. In this experiential online workshop, participants will explore their own environmental identity and beliefs (including sources of wellbeing and resilience, as well as trauma or injustice), discover ways to adapt their existing therapeutic orientation and skill set to address environmental and climate concerns, and identify opportunities to apply these interventions in practice with diverse individuals and groups.

Learning Objectives:  By the end of this training participants will be able to:

• Describe their personal motivations, guiding ethical principles, and skills and competencies re. providing ecotherapy or climate-focused mental health therapy.  
• Predict emotional responses about environmental issues they are likely to encounter, and skills to better dialog with individuals from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds.
• Differentiate between (1) normal feelings of anxiety and despair regarding environmental issues and (2) clinical anxiety, depressive and adjustment disorders
• Demonstrate how to adapt common therapy approaches to address the environmental concerns of their clients and patients (e.g., using CBT, mindfulness, psychodynamic, existential, and multicultural approaches

  
About the Presenter:  Dr. Thomas J. Doherty is a psychologist from Portland, Oregon who specializes in applying an environmental perspective to mental health and well-being. Thomas provides individual and couples services through his business Sustainable Self, and also consults about climate change, health and wellbeing to groups and organization.

Costs: COAP uses an online registration process that accepts credit and debit cards. The lowest registration rates are associated with early registration, we encourage you to sign up early to make sure you have a spot.  This workshop is limited to the first 95 participants who register.
 

Registered by 11/5/2024

COAP Member:  $ 100

Non COAP Member:  $ 115

Registered after 11/5/24

COAP Member: $110

Non COAP Member:  $125

Student Rate $50

*Membership in COAP is limited to Central Oregon based active and retired psychologists, residents, and psychologist associates. You must be current with COAP dues to register at the membership rate. Yearly COAP dues are $25 and are collected in September via Cheddar Up website (a small fee will be charged by cheddar up). Please use this link to pay dues:  https://my.cheddarup.com/c/coap-membership-2024-25/items?cart 

We welcome all allied mental health practitioners to our workshops (at non-member registration rates); receiving Continuing Education credits from various Licensing Boards has not been problematic, assuming the topic meets your Board’s criteria. This workshop is endorsed by the Oregon Psychological Association (OPA). OPA is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education.

**A $35 cancellation fee will be assessed for all cancellations. Registration fee will not be refunded for dissatisfaction with the training or for no-shows.  

Students are invited to attend for $50.  Please be prepared to submit a copy of your student identification card as proof of your student status.

Questions can be directed to [email protected]

Check out the COAP website for additional information  https://www.coapworkshops.org

This workshop is endorsed by the Oregon Psychological Association (OPA). OPA is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education.

Registration Details:  Integrating an Ecotherapy and a Climate-conscious Approach into Your Mental Health Work by Dr. Thomas Doherty

Registration will be handled online by the Central Oregon Association of Psychologists through Eventbrite.  Please visit the following website to sign up: 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-ecotherapy-and-climate-conscious-approach-to-your-mental-health-work-tickets-1044413387557?aff=oddtdtcreator