For many mental health professionals, assessments are the first interaction with a patient. It is a space for mutual understanding, and it sets the tone for a patient’s engagement with the mental health system. In this right, assessments become a complex process of gathering information, assessing an individual’s psychological needs and putting forth a comprehensive...
The Therapeutic Community(TC) experience is designed with the aim to offer mental health care providers with a space to explore, understand, and experience some of the crucial concepts that are at play in almost every therapeutic setting, such as attachment, containment, agency, boundaries, and communication. However, this webinar series does not qualify or certify you...
Every year, Kairos organizes an annual event aimed at addressing concerns regarding our mental health. This year, Kairos wants to talk about the things that go unsaid, the thoughts that don’t come into the light, and the emotions that get swept under the rug. What happens when we delve deep into the collective unconscious? How...
Placing emotions and relationships at the center of human experience, this lecture throws up some questions on the nature of experience in a therapy group. Keeping in mind that the therapy group exists in a social context, members and facilitators seem to pitch their tents on the fringes and what emerges is a dilemma of...
Fear...an emotion known to us all and yet spoken about in secrecy. "First I learned to be afraid and then I learned to hide the fear. Fear is essential for my survival. But is it only with fear that I can live my life...or rather be alive? 'Be careful...don't do that...it's only because we love...
The dilemma of claiming authority among early-career therapists Where does authority lie and what are the means by which one is able to claim it? Even if one claims authority, one is not sure whether or not they are telling the 'truth' - Who decides? What are the consequences of not claiming one's authority? These...
The Online Certificate Course on Understanding Personality Disorders will focus on developing a shared understanding of the experience of those who struggle with personality difficulties/disorders as well as their caregivers. As a mental health professional, you can expect to learn about and understand the different eco-bio-psycho-social factors that contribute to the development of personality difficulties/disorders...
Trust and the feeling of being safe in Therapy is the base for therapy. But why is that ? Join in to have a conversation on looking at Trust in groups, where we look at it from various lenses such as Eric Ericson's Stages of development, Maslow's Hierarchy and Chakra System. Further through these lens,...
Everything a therapist does or does not say is a disclosure, but not necessarily an inappropriate one. - Thomas G. Gutheil Self-disclosure is often a minefield in an age where most of us have online lives. Social media seems difficult to navigate for both therapist and patient – sometimes valiantly pretending the other exists...
This webinar will serve as an introduction to developing a trauma-informed lens for mental health care and psychotherapy. You will learn about the impact of trauma and the complex mental health needs of individuals, families, and communities in a culturally competent and evidence-based manner. We will also talk about vicarious trauma in mental health professionals....
