Trauma often is a formidable roadblock in the care and treatment of our clients. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms are automatic, compulsive and unresponsive to cognitive or verbal interventions. This means that many popular modalities such as CBT, Solution Focused or Narrative therapies either do......
Dr. Robert Marino, co founder and long time director of the Bay Area Psychotherapy Institute (BAPTI) in Lafayette will be honored on November 3rd for his many years working in the field of addiction and mental health. Each year Constellation Behavioral Health hosts the Miracles......
Help support Bay Area Psychotherapy Institute in providing low-fee counseling services to the community, as well as high-quality training for psychotherapists! The Ides of March, Patxi’s in Lafayette! Much more than just another pizza joint, Patxi’s welcoming atmosphere, personable service, vast selection of local beer......
Continuing Education Workshop on Mindfulness for Psychotherapists Joree Rosenblatt will be teaching this class on how cultivating a mindfulness practice can have significant benefits for both clinicians and clients. This experiential workshop will provide therapists with a working definition of mindfulness, its background and contextual......
For East Bay therapists needing a new headshot for your website: You can get a discounted headshot from an amazing local photographer for 40% off! Plus benefit BAPTI’s intern program. Stop procrastinating — limited spaces left. Sign up for a time slot at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c094ca5af29a7f85-headshot and then......
A couple of questions to consider: First, what percentage of the population would you guess are mothers? Second, what proportion of the population is deeply impacted by a relationship with a mother figure? I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to state that pretty much......
I took my first mindfulness class about 6 years ago. Truth be told, I knew nothing about mindfulness when I signed up. Though serendipity led me to attend a 6-week introduction class, I was unaware that I was being cosmically led down a path......
BAPTI is excited to announce that Susan Overhauser, Ph.D. and Haley Hewitt, LMFT will be leading an upcoming group on Sunday mornings at the BAPTI office. The Sexual Trauma Survivors Group is a closed group for those who identify as female who have experienced any form of sexual......
BAPTI and East Bay CAMFT co-hosted this three-hour Continuing Education event on Friday March 10th at the Lafayette Library. Psychiatrists Anisha Patel-Dunn and Ardis Martin of Pacific Coast Psychiatric Associates in Walnut Creek led the class, which had 35 attendees. They covered psychopharmacological approaches to treating......
Register at: https://www.ticketbase.com/events/strategic Overview: This presentation is the Module One of a four Module sequence Dr. Soo-Hoo have presented in a Webinar recently that broadcasted to four different countries: “Introduction to Theory of Strength Based Multicultural Strategic Therapy. Other modules include: Module 2: Interventions, Module 3: Working with......