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Yoga and Bodywork: Healing Interventions for the Mind and Body

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And yet, the mind-body connection can easily be overlooked in the assessment and intervention process. Gray will describe how she introduces alternative interventions to her clients and discusses what she actually does with them to promote mind-body healing. Katiuscia Gray, LCSW is a certified yoga teacher (500hr) and psychotherapist.

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Making Time to Talk About Alcohol Use

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By Diana Ling, MA and Leslie Sirrianni, LCSW. Four in five adults who reported being asked about their alcohol use at a checkup in the past two years and reported current binge drinking were not counseled to reduce their drinking, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report.

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Liberation Health Model – Dawn Belkin Martinez, PhD, LICSW

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Martinez explains the Liberation Health Model, which she co-created, as an approach that utilizes a sociopolitical framework for assessment of what is causing problems for people, and intervention techniques to help them live better. She shares examples and stories from her own experience applying the model.

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Members in the News – August 11, 2023

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Robin Bilazarian is a member of NASW-NJ: It Turns Out, Washing Your Face Can Benefit Your Brain Mind Body Green As licensed clinical social worker and master EFT trainer Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCEP , previously told mbg , “When we are agitated or stressed out, everything about us is robbing blood to go to major muscles.”

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News Items – July 29, 2022

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Clinicians of Color was founded by Lisa Savage, LCSW (licensed clinical social worker) , and Kim L. It’s obvious when our desks are messy,” said Dr. Beth Plachetka, LCSW, EdD and owner of Safe Harbor Counseling. s Violence Intervention Workforce. Knight five years ago. How do we know when our lives have gotten messy?

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News Items – July 8, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Chante Meadows – owner and clinical director of Meadows Counseling Group – talks about the link between various traumas in someone’s life and a potential mental illness or substance use. She will succeed Mildred “Mit” Joyner, DPS, MSW, LCSW. MyFox28Columbus. June is PTSD Awareness Month. VUMC Reporter.

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Members in the News – June 29, 2023

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A senior crisis intervention specialist who has worked at the Chandler Fire Department for 16 years, Henry (’05 BSW, ’07 MSW) said a crisis can happen lightning fast, anytime and anywhere. LCSW , tells TheBody, “There can be a lot of shame about risk behaviors in which someone might have engaged.