Events of Interest

Preparing Clients for the Fourth Trimester: Identification of PMADS and Prevention Planning
Description: This course equips therapists with the essential skills to effectively support expectant parents in preparing for the fourth trimester, fostering resilience, and promoting mental health during the postpartum period. Participants will develop advanced competencies in assessing for risk factors associated with postpartum mood disorders, implementing evidence-based prevention strategies, and guiding parents in recognizing potential challenges.
Therapists will learn practical techniques for helping clients identify and address their anticipated needs, build a strong support network or "village," and create comprehensive postpartum plans tailored to their unique circumstances. The course emphasizes strategies for empowering parents to confidently navigate postpartum transitions while maintaining their emotional well-being.
By the end of the training, therapists will leave with a clear framework for preparing parents to thrive, including tools for risk assessment, prevention planning, and enhancing family systems. This course ensures that therapists can confidently support clients in reducing postpartum risks and fostering long-term well-being for both parents and their families.
This training has been approved by Postpartum Support International for use in renewal of the Perinatal Mental Health- Clinician (PMH-C). This training is approved for 1.5 clinical CEs through ASWB.
Virtue Counseling, [2180], is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: April 3, 2025-April 3, 2027. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 clinical continuing education credits.
“Preparing Clients for the Forth Trimester: Identification of PMADS and Prevention Planning has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Virtue Counseling is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. SP-5279.”
Date: July 17, 2026 1pm-2:30pm EST
Cost: $55

Working With Infertility Patients Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

Title: Working With Infertility Patients Through a Psychoanalytic Lens
Description: While addressing behavioral needs and surface-level fears and anxieties is essential in helping patients who struggle with infertility, it is also important that we help patients process their deeper unconscious (and often conflicting) feelings around treatment, failure, loss, inadequacy, and successful pregnancy. This presentation will address (i) the role of unconscious conflicts in the mental health issues of infertility patients; (ii) the effects of infertility, assisted reproductive technology (ART), and loss on the psyche; and (iii) transference and countertransference experiences in the treatment of infertility patients. Theory will be illustrated with case material.
Presenters: Golzar Selbe Naghshineh, and Nancy Kaufman
Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
Time: 7:00–9:00 PM
Location: CMPS, 16 W 10th St., New York City
Free Admission: Doors open at 6:30 PM

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Fertility Parts: An Integration of IFS into the realm of infertility mental health based on the Mom

Fertility Parts: An Integration of IFS into the realm of infertility mental health based on the Mom Parts Method

An IFS-Informed Method for Fertility-Challenged Clients
 
Description: Join Jessica Tomich Sorci and Michelle Faye Brown, for a six-hour continuing education workshop adapting the five-step Mom Parts Method for fertility-challenged clients. You'll explore why fertility journeys require distinct modifications to the traditional protocol—particularly around respecting protectors that must remain active during ongoing treatment. Learn the Fertility Parts protocol, recognize how parts commonly polarize in this population, and understand how to address grief and shame when clients fear that grieving means giving up. Prerequisites: none. (We will send a video to all registrants with a primer on IFS and fertility concepts and terminology.)
Learning Objectives
Apply the Fertility Parts protocol to help clients identify, unblend from, and befriend their internal "parts."
Identify the primary polarization of parts that emerges when hope and loss coexist, and learn IFS strategies for working with competing protective systems.
Describe the two internal resources fertility clients have available to them, and how to support clients in experiencing greater empowerment, regulation and relief.
 
Dates: August 20th 12pm - 1pm PST Fertility Parts Salon 
August 21st 9am - 3pm PST Continued Fertility Parts Training with one hour lunch break
 
Educational Investment: $225
 
Registration link:https://www.jessicatomichsorci.com/healing/fertilitypartstraining
9th Annual Jefferson Infertility Counseling Course