Celebrate summer with an afternoon designed to energize, connect, and inspire. Our Summer Social & Special Guest event begins with a social hour from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, followed by a dynamic CEU workshop from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM led by world-renowned psychologist and educator Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis.
Workshop Title: The Empowering and Compassionate Approach of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Presenter: Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis
Presentation Description: Join Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis, distinguished psychologist, educator, and wife of REBT founder Dr. Albert Ellis, for a dynamic workshop on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), the groundbreaking and pioneering approach that helped ignite the cognitive revolution in psychotherapy. Dr. Joffe Ellis will share the fundamentals of REBT, its highly effective tools and techniques, pivotal aspects of an REBT therapy session, and the distinctive elements that continue to make this approach so powerful and relevant today. The workshop will also include a live demonstration and an interactive Q&A.
Learning Objectives:
- Attendees will be able to identify the differences between rational and irrational thinking.
- Attendees will be able to identify the differences between healthy and unhealthy negative emotions.
- Attendees will be able to describe a range of cognitive, emotive, and behavioral techniques used in REBT.
2.0 General CEU Hours
Presenter Bio: Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, and has called New York City home for the past two decades. She is a licensed psychologist in Australia, a licensed mental health counselor in New York, a presenter, writer, and adjunct professor at Columbia University, where she teaches Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and Comparative Psychotherapies. For many years, she worked closely with her husband, Dr. Albert Ellis, the brilliant founder of REBT and one of the great pioneers of modern cognitive therapies, delivering public presentations and professional trainings in his approach and collaborating with him on writing and research projects until his death in 2007. Before his passing, Dr. Ellis stated in writing that he entrusted her to carry forward his work. Today, Dr. Joffe Ellis is recognized internationally as one of the foremost experts on REBT and presents widely across the United States and around the world to students, academics, practitioners in the helping professions, and the general public.
Sponsored by:
Acadia Healthcare
FHE Health
Full Life Comprehensive Care
Helping Moon Counseling
John Davis Counseling
Wisely Wellness
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