Ashley Comegys is a licensed clinical social worker with a multi-state online therapy practice that helps women with anxiety navigate life transitions, such as motherhood, grief, trauma, and loss. She holds an MSW from Tulane University as well as a certificate in disaster mental health. Additionally, she is a certified perinatal mental health provider, who specializes in working with women experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Throughout her career Ashley has worked extensively with client’s who have experienced trauma across their lifespan, including experiences such as community violence, traumatic grief, hurricane and weather related trauma, and medical trauma.
Through this CEU training we will investigate the history and research behind telemental health, examine the legal and ethical issues that exist with online therapy, and explore the clinical concerns and applications for providing online therapy.
2 Diagnosis & 1 Ethics Hours, LCA
2.25 Clinical & .75 Ethics Hours, LABSWE
*THIS IS A ZOOM CEU*
“This beautifully written book is a powerful and moving story of a family’s struggle with mental illness.”
– Walter Isaacson, bestselling biographer of Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Elon Musk.
Join JFS Executive Director, Roselle M. Ungar, CFRE and memoirist Tripp Friedler for a conversation and author signing event Saturday, September 28th! A portion of proceeds will benefit our Teen Life Counts program
The Tunnel opens in New Orleans on a March evening when author Tripp Friedler takes a call from his 21-year-old son, Henry, who is midspan on the Mississippi River Bridge and too scared to jump.
What follows is an elaborate game of chase across the United States as Tripp and his wife, Heidi, spare no expense to get Henry the treatment he requires but resists. The Tunnel advances from one unforgettable scene to the next as Henry’s depression deepens to bipolar disorder. You’ll hold your breath every paragraph, waiting for what happens next.
Throughoutthe wild journey, author Tripp Friedler exposes the flaws in the social fabric when it comes to dealing with mental illness. He wonders what people without means do when faced with this wall of indifference.
The Tunnel is a book about what holds a family together and what tears a family apart. It’s a journey you’ll never forget.
About the Author
Tripp Friedler is Heidi’s husband, a father, a business owner, an author, and a philanthropist. He’s donating 100% of his royalties from The Tunnel to mental health charities. Tripp is the author of FreeGulliver: Six Swift Lessons in Life Planning. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Amherst College and his law degree from Tulane. Tripp is a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU), a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC), an Accredited Estate Planner (AEP), and has finished all class requirements for a masters in counseling at Loyola University.
Bess Hart, MA was a licensed clinical social worker for 15 years and has specialized training in community mental health, grief & loss, reproductive health, trauma, perinatal mood & anxiety disorders, and as a doula. She has supervised and trained interns, and taught Grief & Loss and Suicide Assessment at Tulane University School of Social Work. She believes her feminist-relational approach to the therapy relationship can enhance meaningful interventions and decrease their relational and systemic trauma. She lives and works in New Orleans, raising her 3 children.
In this workshop we will look at statistics about suicide and evidence about prevention tactics that are demonstrated to reduce attempts and completion of suicide. We will differentiate factors of chronic suicidal ideation, acute ideation, and self harm. We will look at diagnoses with higher incidence of suicide and other contributing factors. Through a relational lens, We will carefully consider the therapeutic role, responsibility and limitations in preventing suicide. With self-reflection, we can understand the ways our own anxiety can impede on meaningful intervention. Participants will walk away with evidence based-tools and a meaningful crisis intervention strategy.
3 Diagnosis Hours, LCA
3 Clinical Hours, LABSWE
*THIS IS AN IN PERSON CEU*
*SOLD OUT*
Dr. Maestri is a native of New Orleans and a Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA) College of Pharmacy Alumnus. He is one of only four board certified psychiatric clinical pharmacy specialists (BCPP) in Louisiana. He currently serves as a Clinical Associate Professor at the Xavier University of LA College of Pharmacy and gratis Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry the LSU Health Sciences Center Department of Psychiatry. In his role, he offers didactic, research, and experiential learning opportunities to Xavier College of Pharmacy students, pharmacy residents, LSU and Tulane Psychiatry residents, and XULA physician’s assistant program students. His educational focus is on pharmacologic treatment of psychiatric and substance use disorders as well as pharmacy ethics. His current practice site is in the outpatient setting of psychiatry at Ochsner Medical Center.
This presentation will review the mechanism of action and adverse effects of common medications used in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
3 Diagnosis Hours, LCA
3 Clinical Hours, LABSWE
*THIS IS AN IN PERSON CEU*
This workshop will provide a fresh look at grief and it various types. It will provide both an understanding and some practical techniques for working with clients who are grieving. It will address normal, traumatic, and complicated grief. It will include some gentle interaction.3 Diagnosis Hours, LCA
3 Clinical Hours, LABSWE