Free Community Lectures

Our Community Lectures are offered FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, or $20 for 2 CECs approved for counselors, art therapists and social workers. Lectures are listed in the quarterly class schedules and posted on this site.

To guarantee a seat for any lecture, please RSVP to lecture@swc.edu

The Complexity of Domestic Violence
Andrea Verswijver, M.A., M.S., LMHC
Wednesday, Oct. 3, 6-8pm

This presentation will discuss the Complexity of Domestic Violence by examining the psychological components that make up violent relationships, the elements of power and control, traumatic bonding and the severe levels of manipulation. Participants will learn the basics of assessing for lethality and safety planning. This is a trauma informed presentation which will be sensitive and careful about traumatic material being discussed.

Andrea Verswijver, M.A., M.S., LMHC is a Domestic Violence Specialist for Solace Crisis Treatment Center at Christus St. Vincent Hospital. Andrea’s role is to meet and assist victims/survivors of Domestic violence at the hospital as a crisis counselor and to assist in safety planning. Andrea also provides trainings to the hospital staff and associates on “Trauma Informed Care”, “Vicarious Trauma” and “The Dynamics of Domestic Violence”. Andrea’s past experience which led her to become a trauma treatment therapist was a combination of victim advocacy in the Santa Fe District Attorney’s office and as a Mediator/Dialogue Facilitator for survivors and offenders of violent crime. Andrea’s path on this journey began as an International Monitor to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa in 1998.

To guarantee a seat, please RSVP to lecture@swc.edu

PAST COMMUNITY LECTURES

–More Than a Cursory Glance: Particularizing Pornography and Finding Meaning presented by Ginna Clark, PsyD., ATR-BC, LPCC

–Serving American Indian Communities presented by Janet L. Smith, M.S., ATR-Ret.

–Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine with Lama Tsultrim Allione

–Wilderness Therapy Panel presented by Dr. Ann Filemyr and Dr. Scott Thomas

—Suicide Awareness and Prevention Presented by Erin Doenwald, LMSW and Susan Hayre, LMHC

—Integrating Brain, Body and Heart Intelligence: The Neurobiological Foundations of Therapeutic Practice presented by Tim Burns, M.A.

–Energy Healing: The Latest Scientific Research and the Role of Water in the Process presented by Melinda Connor, Ph.D.

–A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy: The Basics of Working with Difficult Couples
presented by Lon Rankin, M.A., LPCC

–Authority vs. Power: Creative Leadership from the Inside Out presented by Heather Leigh, M.A., ATR-BC, LCPC

–Objects of Desire and Desiring Subjects: On Sexuality in Psychotherapy presented by Ginna Clark, M.A., ATR-BC, LPCC

–Understanding and Working with Borderline Personality Disorder by Laura Lansrud-Lopez, M.A., ATR-BC, LPAT, LPCC

–Adolescent Substance and Process Abuse by Juan Blea, M.A., LADAC

–Organic Sexuality: From Shame into Mystery by Jason Holley, M.A., LPCC

–Adult ADD/HD: A Problem Unrecognized by Doug Puryear, M.D.

–Dr. Edith Wallace: Her Life, Work and Legacy presented by Karen Stefano, M.A., LPC

–Clinical Intuition, Vito Hemphill, DOC

–The Turning of the Ages: Our Time and Place in Cosmic Cycles of Evolution, Jason Holley, M.A., LPCC

–The Right Time and Place to Heal Trauma, Lee Cartwright, M.A.

–Mindfulness-Based Auricular Acupuncture (MBAA), Dana Moore

–Eyes Made of Soul, Robert Waterman, Ed.D., Lecture and Book Signing

–The “F-Word” Project, Maureen Burdock

–Under a Remarkable Sky:The Birthchart of Southwestern College, Jason Holley, M.A., LMHC:

–Intersubjectivity and the Practice of Therapy, Bill Smythe

–The Biological Drama of Trauma, Lee Cartwright, M.A.

–Cultivating Bridges: Attunement, Interpersonal Neurobiology & Group Process, Kate Cook, M.A., LPCC, TEP

–Vision as a Metaphor for Consciousness, Sam Berne, MD

–Envisioning a New, Healthy Sexuality, Jason Holley, M.A. and Kate Latimer, M.A.

–Transformation Through the Quantum Field, Robert Waterman, Ed.D.