Clinical Conference

Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, LMFT - Keynote Speaker

Dr. Badenoch is an in-the-trenches therapist, supervisor, teacher, and author who has spent the last seven years integrating the discoveries of neuroscience into the art of therapy.  She co-founded the nonprofit agency, Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind (Portland, OR) in 2008, and was founder and former executive director of Center for Hope and Healing (Irvine, CA) for 17 years.  Her work as a therapist has focused on helping trauma survivors and those with significant attachment wounds reshape their neural landscape to support a life of meaning and resilience.  As a mentor/supervisor of marriage and family therapist interns for two decades, she supports their developing mental health side by side with helping them internalize the principles of interpersonal neurobiology as a guide to evidence-based practice.

Dr. Badenoch currently teaches at Portland State University in the Interpersonal Neurobiology certificate program, and speaks internationally about applying IPNB principles both personally and professionally. Her years of studying with Daniel J. Siegel and Allan Schore, coupled with her conviction that brain wisdom can transform human relationships led to the publication of Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology in the Norton Interpersonal Neurobiology Series in 2008 and The Brain-Savvy Therapist’s Workbook in 2011. Therapists are saying that these books fill the gap between science and practice with clarity, compassion, and heart.

 

Supervisor Refresher Workshop

Joyce Baptist, PhD, LCMFT

Dr. Joyce Baptist, Assistant Professor in MFT at K-State, is a Licensed Clinical MFT, an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and a certified practitioner in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. She teaches and provides clinical supervision to graduate students and mentors supervisors-in-training. She also provides MFT and supervision training and consultation in Southeast Asia. Dr. Baptist has been supervising MFTs since 2000.

Dr. Baptist’s research and service focuses on vulnerable groups including children of military families, children vulnerable to HIV/AIDS in Africa, military couples, and ethnic minority groups in the Southeast Asia region. She is particularly interested in learning about relationship resilience and maintenance in families and couples including the intergenerational transmission of resilience factors. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, is a special topics editor for Family Relations and the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, and serve as advisor to two student organizations.

 

Teri Nelsen, PhD, LCMFT

Dr. Teri Nelsen is a clinically licensed MFT and AAMFT Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor, who currently works full time in the Behavioral Health Department at Irwin Army Community Hospital, Fort Riley, KS. She is certified in EMDR (Eye Movement  Desensitization and Reprocessing), and has received intensive training in CPT (Cognitive Processing Therapy), CBCT (Cognitive Behavioral Conjoint Therapy), and PE (Prolonged Exposure). Previously, Dr. Nelsen has worked in private practice, and a variety of medical settings to include a general practice medical office, a hospital emergency room (on-call), and two veterinary training programs. While at Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, she provided support services to clients and taught a senior seminar in helping relationships to provide veterinary students with training in communicating effectively with and providing support to clients.

In her present position, Dr. Nelsen provides therapy services to soldiers and their family members to address and help them resolve combat stress/ trauma-related issues, depression, and other anxiety issues, and to minimize the impact of these issues upon military marriages and parenting relationships. She also provides ongoing clinical supervision to other non-clinically licensed MFTs who work in the Behavioral Health program.

Dr. Nelsen earned her Master’s and Doctoral degrees in MFT from Kansas State University. She also earned a Master’s degree in Family Life and Parent Education from the University of Minnesota and is a Certified Family Life Educator.

  

Ethics Preconference Workshop

C.R. Macchi, PhD, LCMFT

Dr. C.R. Macchi is a Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, a Certified Family Life Educator with the National Council on Family Relations, a member of the American Psychological Association – Division of Family Psychology (Division 43), and a member of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association.

Dr. Macchi’s clinical practice is focused on work with individuals, couples, and families who are experiencing depression, anxiety, and conflict associated with periods of adjustment and transition. Dr. Macchi specializes in therapeutic work with those who are trying to manage a chronic health condition and the impact that management has on their important relationships.

Dr. Macchi is a Research Assistant Professor at Kansas State University (KSU). He leads a research team of undergraduate and graduate students who work under a contract with the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services (SRS) to provide training and support of home-based family therapists in Kansas. The team is currently studying the effects of therapist self-care and clinical supervision on therapists’ professional quality of life. He is also actively pursuing a research program studying the individual and couple change processes that are associated with a member’s engagement in weight management. Currently, Dr. Macchi is working with a team of researchers studying biopsychosocial factors of weight management associated with patients who undergo bariatric surgery. Dr. Macchi also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the School of Family Studies and Human Services.

 

Michelle Robertson, PhD                                                                                               

Dr. Michelle Robertson is an Associate Professor in Marriage and Family Therapy at Friends                         University in Wichita, KS and serves as the Clinical Director to the program. Dr. Robertson is a clinical member of AAMFT, and AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of Kansas. She has presented both regionally and nationally on issues of Internet relationships, intimacy and sexuality, child custody evaluations, change processes in couple’s therapy, and ambivalence in marital relationships.                                                                                                                        

Awards and Networking Luncheon

Tom Hawk, PhD

Dr. Hawk is the new Executive Director of the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board (BSRB).  He finished his third term in the Kansas House of Representatives (District 67), where he served on several committees, including appointments to the Governor’s Military Council. 

Dr. Hawk has a Bachelor of Science in Math Education, a Master of Science in Counseling, and Doctoral Degree in Educational Adminstration from Kansas State University.  He began his career as a mathematic teacher and counselor, and succeeded into positions of curruculum director and superintendent in the Manhattan–Ogden public schools, from which he retired after 33 years. 

Dr. Hawk is a succesful businessman with a photography company and has been a Licensed Professional Counselor since 1989.  He  is actively involved in the Rotary Club, the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the KSU Alumni Association, United Way Board of Directors, and Riley County AARP.

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