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ACE Foundation Programs
A huge cohort of therapists, primarily women, are approaching retirement age. Retiring as a psychotherapist is complex, involving considerations that other professions don’t face. The impact of dealing with multiple losses – from the deep attachment of client relationships, to one’s professional identity, and letting go of the ties to peer collegiality – must be addressed in order for a therapist to retire well.
If you are among the 60,000 + therapists moving toward retirement age, you may find yourself wondering: When is the right time to leave my practice? How will I feel about letting it go? What do I leave behind as a legacy of the years I have spent in this work? It is the uniqueness of our career that makes it challenging, compelling, fulfilling and exhausting—and ultimately much harder to let go.
This workshop takes therapists through a process of discussion, thinking and planning before illness or another circumstance intervenes to force an unwanted retirement.In this session you will:
• Clarify the significant personal emotional and psychological feelings, worries and obstacles that make it challenging to step away from an intensely value-driven profession
• Prepare for the losses of client relationships, professional therapist identity, peer collegiality, and intellectual stimulation that the profession currently provides
• Recognize your legacy and impact before retiring. Honor the uniqueness of being a therapist by claiming the skills, talents and gifts that have defined your career
• Identify the gains and benefits from a retirement tailored for your situation, to make the most of the next stage of life and move forward.
*NYSSCSW Discount applies to NYSSCSW current members only.
**Student Discount only applies to full time students currently enrolled in social work and MHP master level programs.
If this is your first time taking an ACE Foundation program not not shared with the NYSSCSW, you will be prompted to make your complimentary account on the ACE Foundation Learning Center platform, where you will be able to access all current and future programs and course materials from your dashboard. You will be asked to set a password for your new ACE Foundation Learning Center account.
Please register by Thursday, January 30 at 5pm.
Live Online via Zoom
The Advanced Clinical Education (ACE) Foundation of the NYS Society for Clinical Social Work, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0028; licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0045; licensed psychoanalysts #P-0017; licensed psychologists #PSY-0121; and licensed social workers #SW-0056.
Out-of-state providers are welcome to request a certificate upon completion of the presentation evaluation but must check with their own state licensing boards to inquire about whether or not the certificate is recognized as transferrable for CEs in their state’s jurisdiction.
By the end of this continuing education activity, participants will be able to:
1. Specify the significant and unique challenges that retirement poses for you as a therapist.
2. Determine how your professional identity affects your retirement including how it may affect choices for when and how to leave.
3. Prepare a ‘retirement identity’ to help ease your transition.
4. Utilize a guided timeline to assess growth and success to result in a ‘career legacy report’ that recognizes the impact and value of their professional experience.
5. Assess the steps for closing a practice or resigning from a career position.
Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed psychoanalysts, nurse practitioners and family and marriage/couple therapists and mental health counselors.
This seminar is appropriate for clinicians with all levels of experience.
Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC, is one of the leading international business coaches for therapists, coaches, healers, and other helping professionals. As a licensed psychotherapist in private practice since 1988, she combined a prior business career to translate business strategies into concepts that are essential for the success of those in private practice. She is a pioneer and thought-leader in the field of practice-building and ethical commerce. Author of six books, her best-selling Building Your Ideal Private Practice: 2nd Edition (W.W. Norton, 2015) has been considered the “bible” of private practice for two decades. She continues to break new ground with her most recent book, Therapy with a Coaching Edge. It offers a paradigm-changing model for today’s therapists, showing them how a master coach combines the leverage of a coaching approach to the wisdom and goals of psychotherapy. She can be reached at her website: privatepracticesuccess.com.
Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD contributes articles to the award-winning Psychotherapy Networker magazine and she blogs on depression for Psychology Today. Audio and DVD versions of her trainings are available for obtaining CEU’s. She has written 7 books on topics of anxiety and depression published by W.W. Norton, and a workbook, Stress Solutions, published by PESI. The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques and its accompanying workbook, consistent best-sellers, were released in revised editions in 2018. Visit Margaret on Facebook @DrMargaretW or through her website http://www.margaretwehrenberg.com.
Contact Hours will be awarded once the entire course is completed, as evidenced by signing in and out and completing a course evaluation. Certificates will be emailed approximately ten business days after the completion of the course.
ACE welcomes participants with diverse abilities. Please contact Kristin or Debbie at info.acefoundation@gmail.com, at time of registration, to request accessibility accommodations. Accommodation requests are considered in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities ACT (ADA), Section 505 of the Rehabilitation ACT.
Cancellations made at least five days before the event will be refunded less a 10% cancellation fee. For cancellation please call 1-800-288-4279, or email us at info.acefoundation@gmail.com.
Should Inclement weather occur, we will be notifying all registrants via the email by which the registrant signed up. Please be sure to check your email before you leave for the course.
