Training Details
*Know why avoiding inpatient admissions can reduce perpetuation of chronic symptoms.
*Be able to identify disorders in which depression and suicide ideation are chronic underlying symptoms and how to use your relationship as a treatment intervention.
*Will reframe chronic suicide ideation as an adaptive function that is best served by non-shaming approaches.
*Will learn skills that will improve the clinician’s confidence when providing therapy to clients deemed “treatment resistant.”
*Will learn of a new evidence-based approach in the treatment of complex trauma (and potentially dissociative disorders) that can reduce shame while offering coping skills to clients.
Depression & Suicidal Ideation: Theories and Treatments
Location: Live via Zoom
Thursday, October 3, 2024
9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Presenter:
Aimee McCann
Cost $45.00 / 3 CEUs
for Counselors and Social Workers
Aimee McCann is the owner and psychotherapist of a group private practice, Golden Oak Counseling, LLC in Powell, Ohio. Golden Oak is focused on the treatment of CPTSD, attachment/developmental trauma and dissociative disorders through a neurobiological lens. While serving patients/clients in need of higher levels of care, Aimee founded and serves as CEO of Banyan Mental Health, a nonprofit treatment, training and advocacy center hoping to bring skilled and empathic providers to those with all forms of abuse, including co-occurring symptoms of chronic suicide ideation, non-suicidal self-injury and eating disorders. Improving attachment from birth, Banyan intends to provide preventative education and support to new parents with perinatal trauma outpatient services in Powell, Ohio.
As a social worker, Aimee brings a macro and micro lens after years of work in pediatric and adult hospitals, nonprofit organizations in prevention services, family preservation and trauma therapy, child protective services and mental health consumer group development. However, Aimee’s focus in serving those with trauma related symptoms and disorders to improve overall healthcare outcomes has become her passion. Aimee now serves as a supervisor and consultant to therapists to improve the treatment community’s ability to provide accurate diagnosis, appropriate treatment and reduce re-traumatizing events in all levels of healthcare.
Aimee earned her BSW from Capital University followed by a Master of Science in Social Work from The Ohio State University in 1991. She values continuous learning and is trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level I, Complex Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), DBT, TF-CBT, Attachment Theory, Gestalt, (and seeking certification in) EMDR, IFS-Informed, TIST and believes Finding Solid Ground and the Embodied Recovery Approaches will become the foundation of Banyan Mental Health’s IOP/PHP programming. Aimee is trained to provide the only evidenced-based diagnostic tool for Dissociative Disorders, the SCID-D (Structured Clinical Interview for Dissociative Disorders-DSM). Wanting to contribute to evidenced-based methods, Aimee is a researcher on the Finding Solid Ground groups study through Purdue University.
Aimee currently serves as Secretary of the Acute Care Special Interest Group of the ISST-D.
