Clinical Applications of Childless Affirmative Therapy
Insights for your work with childless clients through all stages of therapy
Course Summary
This course builds upon a foundational understanding of childlessness and offer concrete strategies and considerations for affirming childless lived experiences throughout every stage of therapy, from first contact to assessment, intervention, and termination. Participants will walk away with information that is grounded in research, clinical wisdom, and lived experience. The training is also designed to be an answer to the some of the difficulties about therapy that the childless community have expressed through various mediums including published literature. It is appropriate for new, intermediate, and seasoned clinicians.
1.5 CE offered. Katie Maynard PLLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7374. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Katie Maynard PLLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
COURSE PARTICIPANTS WILL:
- Learn about the phases of adjustment to childlessness and the concept of non-event loss
- Build awareness of how to integrate insights about childlessness through all stages of therapy
- Expand assessment procedures and questions to be inclusive of considerations for childless clients
- Learn and practice three interventions to use in sessions with childless clients
- Revisit and adapt the interventions into termination/closure activities
- Leave with a workbook, references cited, and discussion guide
Student Reviews
- “This was an excellent level up from the introductory training you did. I love how everything you do is so embedded in research and you are so inclusive of how people might come to this topic. I gained very valuable learning from this, thanks very much for your high quality work in this area.”
- “I loved having practical tools I could start using with clients right away.”
Course curriculum
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1Chapter One: Background, Terminology, and Research
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2Chapter Two: Stages of Therapy
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3Chapter Three: Terminations and Endings
Katie Maynard, MSW, LICSW
Katie Maynard is a licensed Clinical Social Worker with over two decades of involvement within psychotherapy, clinical research, and macro-level community based social work. She holds master's degrees in both Social Work and Library and Information Sciences from the University of Washington.
Her lived experience informs and inspires her enthusiastic advocacy for better mental health care for people without children. Alongside a private practice she also provides supervision, consultation, and training to clinicians seeking to enlarge their competency with therapy that is affirmative of childless and childfree people.
She offers one of the very first clinical trainings on this topic and projects on her horizon include a broadened course catalog, professional publication, and ongoing inquiry into the experiences of mental health providers without children. Learn more at www.katiemaynard.com
Katie Maynard PLLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7374. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Katie Maynard PLLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
