Divorce Resources – Understanding Divorce

Parenting Together After Divorce

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Trauma, Body, and Chronic Illness Connection: Helping Clients Through the Understanding and Healing Process

9:00-2:30pm on Saturday, May 20, 2017
Hosted by Sage Recovery & Wellness Center
$50 per Guest | Lunch On Your Own

Divorce Resources – Understanding Divorce Presented by Dan Johnson 

This presentation will cover a variety of resources available to those experiencing divorce. These resources address challenges such as emotional trauma of divorce, financial and legal matters, and the divorce support group network. This presentation will cover skills for clinicians to help guide clients through this traumatic life event. 
 
Learning Outcomes

• Education and provide professional resources to the mental health community on issues related to divorce
• Enhance the clinicians’ understanding and professional ability to assist clients who are contemplating, going through, or have gone through the traumatic life experience of divorce
• Provide clinicians with knowledge and professional resources for their practice and with helping clients

Meet our presenter,
Dan Johnson, CDFA, CEP

Dan Johnson is the President and founder of DMJ & Associates, an independent wealth planning firm located in Austin, Texas. Dan works closely with clients, therapists, and attorneys on the financial aspects of divorce. As a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst™, he helps his clients make the best informed financial decisions during and after, a divorce. Since 2001, he has worked on nearly 600 divorce cases within Central Texas. Dan works closely with many of the top family law attorneys in Austin and has extensive experience with property settlement cases, negotiations, settlement proposals, mediations and even serves as an expert witness in court. Both professionals and clients rely on Dan for his experience and guidance through this difficult life event of divorce. Please visit his website for more information. 

Parenting Together After Divorce Presented by Nichole Hart

Parenting together after divorce or separation presents challenges, even in the best of circumstances.  These challenges can be heightened through a court system that leans toward highlighting differences and promoting adversarial approaches.  In this presentation, we will become familiar with how our language as clinicians can make a positive difference in co-parenting situations, and how we can avoid becoming a negative advocate. 

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the importance of using strengths-based language with co-parents in our sessions
• Become familiar with resources available to co-parents in navigating the court system, especially as related to high-conflict divorce
• Highlight helpful literature resources dealing with co-parenting

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Meet our presenter,
Nichole Hart, MA, LPC

Nichole is in private practice in Pflugerville.  She specializes in group therapy, couple’s therapy, and co-parenting.  Having worked with young children early in her counseling career, she saw the damage ongoing conflict between separated/divorced parents created for kids.  As a result she decided to pursue focused training in co-parenting work.  And, from the co-parenting work, moved into more couple’s therapy work, utilizing Imago Relationship Therapy. Please visit her website for more information. 

The Trauma, Body, and Chronic Illness Connection: Helping Clients Through the Understanding and Healing Process Presented by Nicole Williams and Dr. Noah Moos

During this presentation, you will gain a better understanding of the body’s energy system, how it stores current and past trauma, and how it can show up in a body’s immune system as chronic illness. You will learn tools and strategies to  incorporate in your practice that help clients understand this connection, and begin to move through the healing process with self-compassion and a new lens of grief and loss.

Learning Outcomes

• Participants will learn or gain a deeper understanding of how the brain, body, experience correlation shows up not only in behavior but in our immune systems.
• Participants will explore an extended grief and loss model directly related to chronic illness
• Participants will take away tools and strategies to assist clients in understanding the trauma, chronic illness connection, ways to support the body as it heals both physically and emotionally, and how the clinician can support the process and hold the space.

As seen on a Sussex Directories Inc site

Meet our presenters,
Nicole Williams, MA, LPC
Nicole is a licensed professional counselor with over 5 years experience in counseling and 22 years working with children, teens and families as an educator. The time she spent teaching showed her the power of connection, empathy, and the value of a strong self-worth. Through this understanding a passion for the journey of healing took root. She obtained her Masters in Counseling degree from St. Edward’s University and continued her training in TBRI (Trust Based Relational Intervention) EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and Social Emotional Intelligence Coaching. Please visit her website for more information. 

Dr. Noah Moos, D.C.

Dr. Moos is a cum laude graduate of Logan Chiropractic College in Chesterfield, MO.  He is a Fellow of the Acupuncture Society of America (FASA) and traveled to China as part of a select group to participate in the 2nd Beijing International Symposium on Integrated Medicine.  He also holds certifications in Applied Kinesiology & Quantum Neurology Rehabilitation®.  He graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Health & Human Performance from Fort Hays State University with an emphasis in Exercise Physiology.  He is very passionate about health, wellness and helping each person reach their optimum health potential. Please visit his website for more information. 

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