Attachment (Fall 2024 - 8 Weeks)
- Description
- explore other models and ways of thinking about attachment;
- examine robust clinical case material that uses the integration of behavioral adaptation and nervous system state to understand symptoms that are distressing to the client;
- approach intervention with families and individuals from a place of compassion, curiosity, and appreciation
- explore all of the micro and macro information processing that has led our clients to where they are when reaching out to us for support.
This program has been approved for 12 CEUs for Licensed Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, and Marriage and Family Therapists by the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work.
About Tiered Pricing: We offer tiered pricing to center equitable access to our services. We use this model to intentionally support the redistribution of resources across the financial spectrum in our community. While acknowledging that everyone has a unique and complex relationship to money and wealth, we invite you to consider what rate aligns with your experience. You can explore the self-assessment questions shared by AORTA to support in your consideration around what level to pay. We also offer pay-what-you-can rates based on need. Please let us know if you cannot afford our listed rates.Our rates are specifically modeled on the tiers from AORTA program rates and based on the economic justice framework for sliding scales by Alexis J. Cunningfolk.
- Redistribution – Pay to distribute resources equitably. Support in redistributing income for social and economic equity in our communities. This allows us to support access to mental health services across the financial spectrum.
- Full Cost – Pay full rate. Support paying our therapists a proper wage and cover the administration and preparation costs for our sessions. Full cost supports scholarships for families who cannot afford to pay the full fee for services.
- Sustain – Pay basic costs. Support paying our therapists a proper wage and the sustainability of offering this model
- Solidarity – Pay to participate. We welcome everyone in our community and offer this solidarity rate based on financial need. Money should not be a barrier to participation.
- Pay-What-You-Can - We also offer pay-what-you-can rates based on need. Reach out to us if you are interested in this option.
Date/Time:
8 weeks; Tuesdays 10/1 – 11/19, 12:00 - 1:30 PM (90 minutes)
Number of participants: limit to 40
Rates:
- Redistribution - $750 ($93.75/session)
- Full Cost - $500 ($62.50/session)
- Sustain - $375 ($46.88/session)
- Solidarity - $250 ($31.25/session)
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Emily Anderson has worked with infants, very young children, and families in various capacities since 2002. While completing her Master's degree in Psychology, her focus was on early intervention with families considered to be at-risk, including adolescent parents and their babies. Her next professional home was as a clinician for the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s Early Childhood School, providing ongoing relationship-based clinical support to children age 0-5 and their families, and implementing professional development for faculty and staff.She joined Cooper House early childhood clinic in 2013, where she had the opportunity to deepen her direct therapy practice with young children and families, as well as further her training in reflective consultation. She has certification as a Facilitating Attuned Interactions (FAN) Trainer, which allows her to coach home visitors, nurses, early intervention specialists, and other providers in a mindful, relationship-based framework for working with families — a framework which, in turn, allows them to support the capacity and strength of the families they serve, rather than being in the role of “expert.” Emily sees this as an essential way to promote collaborative, anti-racist practice in the expanding early childhood workforce, thus reaching far more families than she might reach as a single clinician.At Mente Counseling & Consultation, she has been able to follow her professional passions of working with fathers in particular, as well as children on the autism spectrum, and couples who are struggling in their relationship. She has enriched her practice with extensive studies in the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation, a powerful framework that emphasizes our common human needs to avoid danger, increase protection, and seek comfort in our relationships, and the ways these needs can become distorted by trauma, oppression, and interpersonal conflict. She brings the lens of adaptation and resiliency into every therapeutic interaction she has.
Rebecca Berg, MS, OTR/L, IMH-E® (she/her). Rebecca's expertise is in making sense of the intricate interplay of factors that come together to allow for development, relationships, and participation in family and community life. The thread that binds her professional life is her devotion to the processes that make us human. At heart, Rebecca is a lover of complex dynamic systems, a weaver of theory into practice. Rebecca's eclectic origins include an undergraduate degree in stage direction from NYU and ten subsequent years teaching theatre students to analyze and apply perceptual processes to creative performance projects. She spent six years an early childhood educator and founding teacher, developing curriculum for kindergartners at a model school created by parents for their autistic children to focus on social emotional development. Determined to make sense of it all, Rebecca returned to New York University to complete her Master of Science in Occupational Therapy in 2008... and to dabble as a research assistant in the Infant Language Lab. In the time since, she has participated in countless hours of training, mentoring, and master classes in the DIR/Floortime model through Profectum, earning Trainer’s Level Certification in 2022. She continues to serve the growth and development of the model through presentations, mentoring, and participation in several work groups, including the collaboration between Profectum’s DIR and Erikson’s Facilitating Attuned Interactions (FAN) model. She was appointed to Assistant Faculty in 2023. Rebecca completed an Infant Mental Health externship in 2018 and the Napa Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship in spring 2024. She is endorsed by the Washington Association of Infant Mental Health. An insatiable learner, Rebecca is ever in pursuit of new ideas and professional development. Her particular interests include the impact of trauma, adversity, and nervous system state on attachment and developmental processes. In addition to her clinical work, Rebecca has lectured locally and nationally, providing training, reflective consultation, and mentoring for parents, educators, and other infant mental health professionals. She strives to be an ally, co-conspirator, and advocate for relational health, social justice, neurodiversity-affirming and trauma responsive practices, in her professional writing and participation in planning committees and work groups.