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Psychotherapy ~ Wellness ~ Professional Development
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January 18, 2014
Greetings Fellow Healer!
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I pray you are already finding yourself in the midst of a good 2014! Mine has already taken off quickly and I am acutely aware that it is taking some time for me to return to my professional sense of self since my very full Holiday break. To be honest, I am not sure I have fully returned as yet!
My holidays were full of wonderful time spent with extended family as we happily welcomed home our son from college and then traveled across the country to be with my husband's family. I later enjoyed a gentle but deeply fulfilling visit with my own mother of 78 years who visited Southern California for a week after Christmas.
As rich and delicious as my holidays were this year, they were also exhausting and highly other-focused. I noted as I went through them that I was very present and happy throughout, yet, even so, I was left with a deep fatigue from which I am still recovering.
Most individuals I have encountered in the first couple of weeks of January, whether friends, colleagues, or patients, have communicated experiencing a similar slow transition or return to the "normal" routine of their lives.
Yet, herein is a caution to each of us. This is not a return. Entering 2014 in January is stepping into a new month of a new year of a new season in our lives. There is an invitation to become present to ourselves and each other in this new day and hour, month and year.
Being Present in Mind, Body, Spirit and Relationships
How do we become present? We must honor that we are mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and relational beings. We have the opportunity to listen to our mind, body, and spirit in each situation we move in and through. And we have the opportunity to be present to those with whom we are engaging relationally.
This week, as I listened to my body, I had to acknowledge that I was experiencing some fatigue and pain that was reminiscent of my past chronic fatigue that was at one time quite debilitating. I responded to this awareness by pausing between each transition of my day to apply some of the tools of yoga that helped me find balance and renewed health in my past. I practiced the Ujjayi breath and Lion's Breath. I did Sun Salutations before I dressed and entered my professional day. I did Sun-Salutations between sessions (when I remembered!). I experienced a tremendous and profound shift in energy with each breath and yogic pose that allowed me to successfully move through my day.
At times, I am needing a renewal of mind, body, and spirit on the hour.
I am betting that you may need this too.
It is okay. I invite you...be present to yourself today. Discover what is happening for you in your mind, body, and spirit. Listen to what you need and desire in this moment. Explore what this moment has for you today, this week, and in January, 2014. Breath. Move. Ask your Higher Power for an assist today. You have never been here at this time and day in your life before!
Mind-Body-Spirit
Explore "Check It Out!" and "Another Note" on sleep below. Explore the rest of the newsletter and sidebar for ways we are offering for you to take care of you, Oh Healer!
Peace and Health to you in your Mind-Body-Spirit and Relationships!
Elisabeth and the Moonstone Center Team
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Another Note: One key way to attend to Mind-Body-Spirit and Relationships is to get enough SLEEP!. Watch this quick but powerful little SciShow video on circadium rhythm and your brain, body health!
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Moonstone Center Offerings!
Collaborate with Dr. Crim as a Speaker for your Organization!
Create an In-House Training for Your Organization's Clinical, Medical, or Educational staff!
We can custom tailor a CE, CEU, or CME level training to meet your organization's needs. See Topics Below!
Who can we provide training for?
Clinicians, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Educators, Nurses, Physicians, Spiritual Directors/Ministers, Yoga Teachers/Therapists, Acupuncturists, Chiropractors, Alcohol and Drug Treatment Counselors! Mental Health Agencies, Universities, Schools, Hospitals, Clinics...
Go to the home page marquee of www.MoonstoneCenter.com for more info and upcoming Events & Speaking dates and places!
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Therapist-Centered Clinical Consultation
Experiencing challenges in building or maintaining your practice?
Feeling isolated from other therapists?
Struggling with certain patients who may have attachment or personality disorders?
Interested in integrating the Physical and Spiritual within your Psychotherapy Practice?
Aware of your own Counter-Transference with certain patients and needing a place for expert help in attending to it,
Desiring to utilizing your patient's transference and your own counter-transference for positive treatment outcomes?
If you answered Yes! to any of these, you may want to consider the Power of Consultation for support, clinical case exploration, transference/counter-transference issues, mind-body-spirit-relational psychotherapy and your own process and planning in your professional life journey!
I approach each professional with whom I consult from an inter-subjective approach, honoring both of our sets of knowledge, experience, and passion. I offer consultation within a context of safety and compassion toward self with a healthy dose of humor where possible! We are merely human beings who happen to be healers of other human beings on this journey called Life! I offer a space to safely explore what being a therapist, or other type of healing professional means to you and how to better assure you are going forward safely (emotionally, mentally, relationally, and yes spiritually and physically) for yourself and for those you are treating. I do this from a clinical perspective that is grounded in an inter-subjective and holistic psychodynamic approach to individuals and relationships. Give me a call...Let's have some fun together while we help you grow and heal and provide effective healing to others in your professional life journey!
I offer consultation via:
- Individual Consultation.
- Group Consultation.
- Form your Own Group with your own Trusted Colleagues
Contact me or call: 310.371.2800 if you want to schedule an individual session or if you want to form a group of your trusted colleagues for me to join as consultant. I am putting out a call to form a Therapist-Centered Consultation Group at this time.
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Restoring the Healer
Yoga Therapy and Psychotherapy
Consultation Group Workshop
With Elisabeth Crim, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, Certified Relax and Renew Yoga Trainer
and Simone Marke't, Certified Yoga Therapist
Four 1.5 Hour Sessions - 6 CEUs(Psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs)
Small Group - Limited Space
Incorporating Restorative Yoga, Group Discussion, Clinical Case Consultation
FORMING NOW to start in March, 2014.
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to Speak  or Write 
CE, CEU, CME or Non-CE Events:
1-2 Hour
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Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, and Somatic Transference:
Identification, Prevention, Intervention - Restoring the Healer
- Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious and Secondary Trauma, Burnout
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- Neuro-Psycho-Physiology of Attachment, Somatic Transference and Compassion Fatigue
- Neuro-Psycho-Physiology of Intervention, Prevention, Restoration of Health Care Providers
- Yoga as Intervention
 Dancing the Transference: Transference, Counter-Transference, Somatic Transference, Spiritual Transference - Honoring the Relationship Between Health Care Provider/Educator and Patient/Student
Can be adapted for Your Professional Organization and Staff!
Psychologist, LMFT, LCSW, LPC, LMHP, Psychiatrist, Teacher, Educator, Spiritual Director, Sponsor, Yoga Therapist, Chiropractor, Licensed Acupuncturist, Nurse, Medical Doctor, Clergy...
- Transference: Personality/Attachment Disorders
- Transference: Couples
- Transference: Parents
- Transference: Fellow Treatment Team Members
- Somatic Transference: The Body's Process in Psychotherapy
- Spiritual Transference: The Spiritual Process in Relationship
Inter-Professional Treatment Teams: The Power of Collaborative Treatment Teaming
- Integrative Care
- Therapeutic Education
- Holistic Care
- Collaborative Treatment
- Multi-Disciplinary Teams
- Inter-Professional Teams
- Settings: Outpatient, Inpatient, Day Treatment, Partial Hospital, Intensive Outpatient, Residential
- Settings: School-Based
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 Holistic, Integrated Mind-Body-Spirit-Relational Healing: Collaborative Treatment Teaming Between Conventional & Complementary-Alternative Therapies
- Integrative and Holistic Mental Health Treatment
- Yoga Therapy, Acupuncture, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
- Other Modalities
Therapist-Centered Consultation:
The Power of Attending to Professional Identity and Clinical or Educational Case Consciousness
- Individual
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- Collaborative
- Attachment and Transference-Based
- Practice Building/Maintenance
- Finance/Business Improvement
- Self-Care
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For More INFO, including Scheduling, Topics, Fees:
Dr. Crim's Speaking/Events Manager
310.938.3203
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HAPPENING NOW!
THE POWER of
Therapist-Centered
CONSULTATION!
INDIVIDUAL
Therapist-Centered Clinical & Practice Consultation
GROUP:
Restoring The Healer: Restorative Yoga + Clinical Consultation GROUP
8 CEUs
Four 2-Hour Sessions
1 x Month
Elisabeth Crim and Simone Marke't, Certified Yoga Therapist
Therapist-Centered Clinical
CONSULTATION
Join one that is forming
OR
Form YOUR OWN GROUP of Colleagues and Invite Dr. Crim to consult for your group!
Practice Development
COACHING
Inquire Today!
Or Call:
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SPIRITUALITY
Attend your Local Spiritual Community
Church, Temple, or Meditation or Yoga Studio
(Ask a friend, colleague or Google if you don't know where)
Mind-Body-Spirit:
Yoga International
Erich Schiffmann
Your Local Farmer's Market
Joel Osteen
For Women:
Monica Lee
Sue Patton Thoele
Yoga for Men, Women, Children:
Los Angeles South Bay Yoga:
Simone Marke't,
Yoga Therapist, Yoga Teacher, Yoga Teacher Trainer
Harmony Yoga
Redondo Bch/Hermosa Bch, CA
Lyfe Yoga Center
Hermosa Beach, CA
Internationally located
Exhale Yoga and Spa
USA Major Cities and Abroad
"Yoga Studio"
in Your Local Community
Yoga Class Tips:
- If you are new to Yoga: Attend a Beginner to Level 1 class only and tell the instructor you are new to yoga.
- ALWAYS with a new instructor or a new class: Tell the Instructor your level of experience.
- If you experience PAIN: STOP! ALWAYS tell the instructor if you experience any pain.
- Try a Gentle or Restorative Class.
- Try a Flow Class.
- Experiment with types and schools of yoga: Hatha, Iyengar, Viniyoga, etc.
- Read about all 8 limbs of Yoga.
   
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