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Treating the Trauma of Sexual Assault IECA Presentation

TREATING THE TRAUMA OF SEXUAL ASSAULT

Understanding the trauma of sexual assault is essential in finding the proper treatment intervention for healing. Dr. Kristen Zaleski’s presentation at IECA 2022 in San Diego will discuss current research on single incident vs chronic sexual violence as well as sub-types of violence such as rapes that are drug-facilitated and technology-facilitated. Dr. Zaleski will overlay […]

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Clinical Team Meeting

CLINICAL TEAM MEETING

INTERVIEW WITH LAUREN HOPKINS, APCC | CLINICAL CARE COORDINATOR https://youtu.be/x3n-PJx9bq0 Clinical Care Coordinator, Lauren Hopkins, APCC, discusses the structure of clinical team meetings at The Mental Health Collective in Newport Beach, CA.  Click into the video to hear Lauren share about the importance of communication amongst all clinical team members. INTERVIEW: WHAT DOES A CLINICAL

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BEYOND THE BALANCE SHEET

A podcast with Diana Clark & Arden O’Connor of O’Connor Professional Group The Collective’s Clinical Director and Psychotherapist, Dr. Kristen Zaleski, recently connected with Beyond THE BALANCE SHEET podcast to speak about surviving trauma and the impact trauma has on its victims. She breaks down the different levels of trauma and explains that trauma consists

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Somatic Interventions

How Somatic Interventions Support Narrative Exposure Treatment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avk1FJdiZFo How somatic interventions support narrative exposure treatment AN INTERVIEW WITH: DR. KRISTEN ZALESKI, PhD, LCSW | CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER Interview   WHAT ARE SOMATIC INTERVENTIONS? Somatic psychotherapies are something that have always been in the psychotherapy world, but they hadn’t had the practice-based evidence. People hadn’t started really embracing them, learning them and understanding

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Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Therapeutic Interventions

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Iris G-Thrash, is one of Orange County’s leading therapists. Iris aligns her individualized therapeutic approach for each client with a Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Therapeutic Intervention philosophy. The Mental Health Collective is grateful to have Iris’ skillset supporting care for clients struggling with mental health issues in Newport Beach, CA. Iris G-Thrash,

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Pandemic Era Increases Diagnosable Mental Illness Rates | Dr. Anna McCarthy

At The Mental Health Collective, we seem to be seeing an upswing in complex clinical presentations, with somatic issues accompanying them. The million dollar question is, WHY? It is near impossible to say with 100% certainty what the causal factors are. Having said that, many sources of reliable research data are showing that not only

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