Dr. Elisabeth Crim www.MoonstoneCenter.com Integrative Health:

Yoga and Psychotherapy

The Healer's Life!

Newsletter of Dr. Elisabeth Crim and Moonstone Center

Psychotherapy ~ Wellness ~ Professional Development

June 20, 2014

Greetings Fellow Healer!

The Healer's Life! Yoga & Psychotherapy Dr.Elisabeth Crim & Moonstone Center

Integrative Health, Integrative Mental Health, Integrative Medicine.

These are the emerging terms and phrases in our health care and mental health culture. Exciting times. The zeitgeist is integration. Integration of Mind and Body and Spirit. Integration of Eastern and Western approaches to health. And as I like to say when teaching, consulting, and as we practice at Moonstone Center, mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially, and relationally.

The last few months have been filled with a focus on integrative experiences personally and professionally on many fronts and in many settings. Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, the Contemporary Institute of Integrative Studies (CIIS): Yoga and Psyche Conference, my Restoring the Healer Consultation Group co-led by Simone Marke't, Certified Yoga Therapist with me, a Licensed Psychologist. And, most recently, presenting at the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) annual conference: Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research (SYTAR)! I presented on creating virtual integrative treatment centers attending to mind-body-spirit treatment through a committed, collaborative treatment team of independent treatment professionals from both Complementary Alternative Therapies (Eastern) and Conventional (Western)Therapies. This is Moonstone Center's model of integrative holistic treatment.

Research is supporting the role of yoga therapy and its 8 limbs of practice (including breathe, chanting, postures, meditation, mindfulness) as well as its sister science of Ayurvedic Medicine. I met many amazing professional yoga therapists and other conventional health care providers who are applying yogic principles and practices to the various issues that are attended to in health and mental health treatment. Please checkout my video to meet some of them. And to hear from Moonstone Center's very own Certified Yoga Therapist, Simone Marke't!

As I have been busy meeting, networking, and treatment teaming through conferences, networking meetings and outpatient, residential, partial, and inpatient psychiatric treatment facilities that integrate yoga and/or acupuncture into their treatment protocol, I have meet some amazing folks.

And I am receiving increasing numbers of referrals for psychotherapy or professional consultation focused on mind and body and spirituality.

I will focus on acupuncture with psychotherapy in a future issue of the newsletter and further explore and address exciting collaborative integrative team approach that Moonstone Center offers.

My invitation to you this month is to attend a yoga class, meet with a yoga therapist or yoga teacher and explore how yoga can complement your traditional health care and mental health care treatment. See how you can apply a yoga practice to your own mind-body-spirit self care. Check out IAYT's International Journal Of Yoga Therapy and Member Magazine, Yoga Therapy Today.

Yoga as therapy can deepen your work with your patients and your experience of your own sense of self.

Thank you for journeying with me through the The Healer's Life!,

various Professional ListServs and out in the community when I speak, write, or network.

Until next month,

Peace, Gratitude, and Namaste! (The Light in me honors the Light in you!)

Elisabeth and the Moonstone Center Team

Moonstone Center Offerings

Invite 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...

To schedule me as a speaker/trainer for your organization please contact Julie Brown, Moonstone Center Events Manager or Call: 310.938.3203

Check our website Events Page to see where Elisabeth is Speaking!

Go to the home page marquee of www.MoonstoneCenter.com for more info and upcoming Events & Speaking dates and places!

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.

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 September, 2014.

Click here to email to sign up or get more information.

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and Moonstone Center thru Social Media!

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on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook!

Invite Dr. Elisabeth Crim

to Speak or Write DrElisabethCrim www.moonstonecenter.com

CE, CEU, CME or Non-CE Events:

1-2 Hour

Full Day

Workshops

Retreats

Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, and Somatic Transference:

Identification, Prevention, Intervention - Restoring the Healer

Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious and Secondary Trauma, Burnout
Recognition, Prevention, Intervention, Restoration
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
Settings: Community MH Based, Substance Abuse/MH Multi-Diagnosis Treatment Based

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

Dr Elisabeth Crim www.moonstonecenter.com

Therapist-Centered Consultation:

The Power of Attending to Professional Identity and Clinical or Educational Case Consciousness

Individual
Group
Collaborative
Attachment and Transference-Based
Practice Building/Maintenance
Finance/Business Improvement
Self-Care

For More INFO, including Scheduling, Topics, Fees:

Please Contact Julie Brown,

Dr. Crim's Speaking/Events Manager

Events@MoonstoneCenter.com

310.938.3203

HAPPENING NOW!

RESTORING THE HEALER

Consultation Group

Four 2-Hour Sessions

8 CEUs

More Info

To Sign Up

Ongoing:

THE POWER of

Therapist-Centered

CONSULTATION!

INDIVIDUAL

Therapist-Centered Clinical & Practice Consultation

GROUP

Therapist-Centered Clinical

CONSULTATION

Individual and Group

Join an Existing Group

Form your own group!

Inquire Today!

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Or Call:

310-371-2800, ext 1#

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The Healer's Life

Youtube Videos

Channel: Elisabeth Crim

Smart Creative Women

Web TV Show

"Dr Elisabeth Crim on Listening to Yourself and Finding the Right

Flow for Your Life!"

Interview with Monica Lee,

Artist and WebTVHost

Smart Creative Women

Web TV Show

WEB RADIO Interview with Dr. Crim

by Dr. Carol Francis

TOPIC: Treatment for Mind-Body-Emotions

Book Review:

Clinical Intuition: The Neurobiology

of Embodied Response by Terry Marks-Tarlow

Self Care Resources

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:

The NeuroPsychotherapist

Marianne Williamson

Wayne Dyer

Thich Nhat Hanh

Losang Samten

Himalayan Institute

Yoga International

Erich Schiffmann

Your Local Farmer's Market

Joel Osteen

For Women:

Monica Lee

www.SmartCreativeWomen.com

Sue Patton Thoele

The Woman's Book of Soul: Meditations for Courage,

Confidence, and Spirit

For Men:

Tom McGee,

Healing the Boy,

Strengthening the Man

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

Google Search

"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.