FREE! Maintaining Resilience in These Difficult Times: Support for Families and Children
Attendance: Zoom Only / April 6, from 11am-1pm PDT.
No CE Credits Available.
The zoom link will be emailed to participants a couple days before the program.
The Hilde Kirsch Children’s Center (HKCC) at the CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles is offering a meeting for parents and caregivers. Please join HKCC Director, Elizabeth Schofield-Bickford, MFT, Dr. Gita Morena and Dr. Lori Sortino as we gather to learn and discuss about how to be with yourselves and your children in these very troubling times.
In this session we will discuss:
- How children experience trauma differently than adults.
- What behaviors are normal expressions of trauma and what are not.
- How to engage a child in a “conversation” about what’s going on for them.
- How a parent/caregiver can support their child or a child they care for.
- How a parent/caregiver can support their own inner traumatized child.
- When to get help.
Elizabeth Schofield-Bickford, MFT, is a Child and Adult Jungian Analyst member of the CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Director of the Hilde Kirsch Children’s Center and a certified Sandplay Therapist and teacher (STA/ISST). She has a private practice in Santa Monica where she works with children and adults.
Gita Morena, PhD, is a Jungian Analyst, licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist, and university professor who has worked with children, families, and individuals for over 50 years. She specializes in sandplay therapy, and integrates Jungian and Buddhist perspectives to address issues of psychological and emotional healing. In her book, The Wisdom of Oz, Dr. Morena sheds light on The Wizard of Oz as a tale of individuation and spiritual awakening.
Lori Sortino, PhD, started her career in education, first as a special education teacher in the inner city of Los Angeles, and then as a school psychologist where she worked with a diverse population of students with a variety of learning, behavioral and emotional needs. Lori has worked closely with parents providing parenting classes, individual consultation and specific interventions and strategies to support the family. Lori furthered her education receiving her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and completed training to become a certified Jungian analyst. She continues to see children, adolescents and families as part of her practice.
