Continuing Education
MaMHCA offers several ways to earn CE credits: Upcoming Workshops, Home Study Programs, Read the Newsletter and take the Crossword Quiz.
View all Continuing Education Workshops. Register for a workshop.
If there is a workshop that you would like to see MaMHCA offer, or if you are a presenter and wish to offer a workshop for MaMHCA, please contact Jessica Foley.
Upcoming Workshops
Building a Successful Private Practice
6 Category II CEs
With Linda Lawless, LMHC
Whether it be a traditional, "concierge," VIP, Integral, virtual practice, or a practice with multiple streams of income, there are many underlying structures that must be built for financial success and to avoid lawsuits, license loss, burnout, and survive an IRS audit. This workshop provides insights into the different forms of emerging practice as well as the nuts and bolts of a successful business. This workshop will NOT cover how to get more insurance referrals.
Instead we'll focus on how to build a successful professional practice/business that may include managed care, but is NOT dependent on it.
Date: June 2, 2013
Time: 9:00AM-4:00PM
Location: Boston Marriott Newton
Fee: Members $135; Non Members $180
Registration Deadline: 1 week prior to workshop date
Linda Lawless, LMHC, LMFT, is a dynamic, nationally recognized teacher and speaker and author of How to Build and Market your Mental Health Practice. She has been in the human service field for over 35 years, the last 18 in private practice and the last 4 as a personal and executive coach. Linda has woven a professional life that includes writing, teaching, counseling, coaching and consulting. Over the span of her work her driving mission has been to mainstream mental/emotional wellness. She sees private practice as an integral piece in achieving this goal.
Supervision Year 2: Crisis Intervention:
What Supervisors Need to Know & Do
3 Category I CEs
With Jennifer Grossman, LMHC, ET & Jennifer Granquist, LMHC, ET
What is a crisis? Using a developmental model of supervision, we will begin by defining "crisis" and will subsequently explore ways of managing the inevitable anxiety that arises when new and developing clinicians encounter crisis in their work. We will also review fundamental crisis intervention and risk-assessment strategies to employ with supervisees using case vignettes, experiential exercises, and group activities.
Date: October 5, 2013
Time: 8:45AM-12:00PM
Location: MaMHCA Offices & Conference Space
Fee: Members $70; Non Members $95
Registration Deadline: 1 week prior to workshop date
Jennifer Grossman, LMHC, ET, has been the Director of The Boston Center Partial Hospitalization Program for Children and Adolescents since 2006 and been in Private Practice since 2008. Jennifer started working with clients in crisis in 1999 while working on adolescent and adult inpatient units, this continued in her work as a Crisis Clinician and Supervisor at Advocates Psychiatric Emergency Services. She has worked in the field of mental health for fourteen years with children, adolescents, adults and families. Jennifer’s area of expertise is working with Self Injurious Behavior in adolescents and adults and their families. Jennifer has been supervising both graduate level interns and MA level clinicians since 2004.
Jennifer Granquist, LMHC, ET, is the current 2012 President of MaMHCA. She has been a Senior Crisis Clinician at Advocates Psychiatric Emergency Team for the past seven years evaluating clients across the lifespan. This past year she worked with college students at Mt. Ida in Newton in the areas of individual, short-term counseling, crisis intervention and substance use assessments. Prior to working at Advocates, Jennifer has had a wide variety of counseling work experience within the US and for three years in Belize. She has experience working for an arts program for homeless youth living in shelters, ran a school peer counseling program, facilitated loss and grief groups for adolescents and expressive arts groups both at a children's partial program and on an inpatient unit. Jennifer has been in a supervising capacity as an outside supervisor for many new clinicians seeking licensure.
Private Practice Panel
1.5 Cat II CEs
Featuring Several LMHCs In Private Practice: To Be Announced
Following our 'Annual Meeting 2013' Board Meeting on 5/18/2013, we will have a panel of LMHCs to discuss their experience with private practice and answer your questions! Please send your questions for the panel. If you register for the panel, you are automatically registered for the Annual Meeting 2013. NOTE: During this panel, we are unable by law to discuss reimbursement rates from insurance payers.
Date: 10/19/2013
Time: 12:00PM-1:30PM, following our Board Meeting
Location: MaMHCA Offices & Conference Space
Fee: Members Only $20 (all proceeds benefit the Haberman-Williams Scholarship Fund)
Registration Deadline: 1 week prior to workshop date
Supervision Year 2, Addictions:
What Supervisors Need to Know & Do
with Paula Morrissette, PsyD, LMHC, LADC-1
3 CEs
This training is an overview of professional responsibilities required for clinical supervision in the addictions. In addition, this program will discuss supervision as a three fold process where the supervisor serves as teacher, consultant and counselor. To that end, we will cover topics such as assessment tools, the stages of change paradigm, modalities of treatment, and special issues confronting the substance abuse supervisor and clinician. The program will include lecture and case discussion.
Date: 10/26/2013
Time: 8:45AM-12:00PM
Location: MaMHCA Offices & Conference Space
Fee: Members $70; Non-Members $95
Registration Deadline: 1 week prior to workshop dates
Paula Morrissette, PsyD, LMHC, LADC-1, completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2006. She has worked in the field of addiction treatment since 1984, and has held numerous clinical positions at AdCare Hospital. Presently a psychologist at AdCare’s inpatient treatment facility, Dr. Morrissette has also served as clinical supervisor at AdCare’s largest outpatient services site in Worcester, MA. Her specialty areas are addictions and dual diagnosis. A Licensed Drug and Alcohol Clinician and Mental Health Counselor, Dr. Morrissette teaches in Addiction Counselor Education Program at AdCare as well as Becker College in Worcester. She has presented on a variety of addictions and recovery-related topics throughout the state.