NPI Reflects Fall 2021

NPI REFLECTS FALL 2021

Volume 11: Issue 3

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Movimiento Guerrilla de Diversidad NOMINATIONS DUE BY November 30th!

The NPI Social Justice Committee is seeking nominees for the Movimiento Guerrilla de Diversidad Award. This award recognizes an NPI member who makes considerable effort to serve diverse and marginalized populations in our community and to promote social justice. We have been pleased to honor the following individuals in the past: Roy Hutton, Linda Manning, Julia McAninch, David McMillan, Kenneth Robinson, Barbara Sanders, and Kacy Silverstein.

We will present this year's award during the December NPI Holiday Celebration.

If you'd like to nominate a member of NPI for this award, please email Linda Manning, co-chair of the NPI Social Justice Committee, at doclgm70@gmail.com . Please include some information about the individual, and what you know of the person's efforts to advance social justice.

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Inside this issue: A note from the Chair-elect Linda Mannng

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Continuing Education January & February Luncheons

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SAVE the DATE 2022 Connection Retreat

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At a snail’s pace Barbara Sanders

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Helping patients come to terms with difficult partners...

Phil Chanin

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Mental Health Active Response Team 8 Cathryn Yarbrough

NPI strives to cultivate respect within our community for people of all

Living as a therapist in liminal times Kristin Finch

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abilities, ages, countries of origin, ethnicities, genders, gender expres-

Social Justice Committee

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Board Member Spotlight Cathryn Yarbrough

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Winter Social & Holiday Raffle

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sions, races, religions, and sexual orientations.

Go to Page 9 to learn more about NPI’s Social Justice Committee!

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From the Chair-elect...

It is hard to believe that we are coming to the end of 2021. As the new year approaches, I am preparing to become the Chair of the NPI Board beginning in January. As I look forward to 2022, I want to say a special thank you to our 2021 Chair, John Nichols. John, you have had quite the year. Thank you for leading NPI and the Board through a year of Pandemic disruptions! We are grateful for your service and I look forward to having access to your wisdom during the year ahead.

I would also like to thank the Board Members who will be rotating off of the Board. We are regretfully saying good-bye to Cynthia Lucas, Hannah Reynolds, Glenn Sheriff, and Cathy Yarbrough. Thank you all for your many contributions during this tumultuous year!

Linda Manning, PhD

And I am delighted to welcome our new Board members who will join us in January: Krista Conrick, Tonya Mills, Tom Neilson, and Doug Taylor. I look forward to working with you!

Your Board has wonderful plans for the coming year. We are delighted to note that we will finally be returning to in-person meetings. Our Holiday Social and Raffle will be the first such event. It will be held at Second Presbyterian Church Courtyard on Friday, December 10, from 4 to 5:30 pm. Many thanks to Laura Fritzsche for making this celebration happen. Please sign up now!

The 2022 Connection Retreat is scheduled for February 5 & 6, 2022 at St. Mary’s Sewanee. Those of you who joined us in 2020 will remember the beauty and peace of this location. Maybe we will have snow again! This members-only retreat will focus on Reconnecting with Self, Reconnecting with Nature. Many thanks to Cynthia Lucas for organizing this event. Program and registration information is included in this newsletter. I hope to see many of you there!

Our monthly CE luncheons will also return to in-person. I know that we are all suffering from “Zoom” fatigue and are eager to be in each other’s presence once again. Our January 14 meeting will be held rom 11:30 am to 1 pm. Plan to come early so that we can connect with one another before the program begins at noon.

Special thanks to Kirk Barton for his tireless work on our speakers and topics for the year. Highlights include: Blair Adams

Racial & Ethnic Disparities in the Mental Health Field

Tom Neilson

The Mystery of Consciousness: What is it, Where Does It Come From, Why Does It Matter?

Kristina Storck

Women’s Sexuality and Health

Eboni Webb

Creating Felt Safety: The Integration of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy & DBT

William Hinds

Moral Injury & PTSD: Where Does the Healing Happen

NPI Reflects Newsletter: I would like to strongly encourage you to contribute an article for the NPI Reflects Newsletter. There is much wisdom represented in our membership. Submissions are welcomed from any NPI member. The newsletter is sent three times a year to over 1,000 individuals in Nashville and surrounding counties. This is a great opportunity to share your insight, passion, and experience with others. Thanks to Emily Ector-Volman for her wonderful work on the Newsletter.

As incoming Chair, I have the privilege of choosing a theme for the year. I have been thinking so much lately about the division and strife that is so prevalent in our country right now. We read daily that our country is experiencing a mental health crisis. I have also been reading about the need for all of us to remember and focus on compassion and the “Common Good.”

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Paul Gilbert from the Centre for Compassion Research and Training, states “For thousands of years, various spiritual traditions and social activists have appealed to humans to adopt compassionate ways of living to address the suffering of life.

Yet, along with our potential for compassion and self-sacrifice, the last few thousand years of wars, slavery, tortures, and holocausts have shown humans can be extraordinarily selfish, callous, vicious, and cruel.”

As psychotherapists, as we sit with our patients, we witness courageous, compassionate ways of living, as well as the harmful impact of selfish, callous, vicious, and cruel behavior every day. In the past eighteen months, we have certainly seen both sides of this coin in the varying responses to the suffering caused by the COVID 19 pandemic. We have witnessed beautiful examples of what Gilbert calls “caring and sharing” strategies as well as other examples of callous and even cruel behavior.

Gilbert argues that, “There is now considerable evidence that from the day we are born to the day we die the caring and sharing relationships we have with others around us effect our epigenetics, cardiovascular, immune and autonomic nervous systems, and multiple neural circuits underpinning health, prosocial behavior and happiness.“ (For reviews of this research, go to https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.582090/full ).

Gilbert ties the development of these strategies to evolution, family upbringing, and to the impact of our cultural contexts.

“To put this another way, some contexts will make us more oriented to caring and sharing and others more orientated to some forms of callousness, and this will show up in physiological as well as psychological processes. The evidence for this is growing.”

How can NPI provide a context that supports all of us in becoming more compassionate? How can we work toward the “Common Good.” How can we, as psychotherapists, take care of ourselves as we deal with this mental health crisis? I would like to work with all of you to create a context within NPI that supports this goal, a context that supports compassion toward ourselves, our clients, and each other. A context that helps us to be more aware of the cultural impacts around us. A context that supports students, new, and seasoned therapists alike.

I look forward to serving as your 2022 Board Chair, and I welcome and encourage your thoughts, suggestions, and feedback.

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MAKE PLANS TO JOIN US IN 2022 - WE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU!!!

Friday, January 14, 2022 “Racial & Ethnic Disparities in the Mental Health Field,” presented by R. Blair Adams, MS ***********************************************

Friday, February 11, 2022 “Psychedelic Psychotherapy: Into the room,” presented by Daniel Barton, MD

Each lunch presentation is eligible for one CE credit hour Program & Registration Information at www.NashvillePsychotherapyInstitute.org

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At a Snail's Pace

by Barbara Sanders, LCSW

Crawling on my belly Feeling free on the earth below me The sky above and All the blessed and dark Energies around me My antennae sense and Send messages throughout My tiny body, informing and Sometimes deforming my ideas About the world around me A leaf, no struggle A waterfall, more challenging I accept being fully alive Moving along comfortable climes And more beastly hot, dangerous ones Inside me, no struggle Knowing who I am What I do in this world I slide, secreting my healing, sticky oil Onto any and every surface Wherever we go, we all leave Little pieces of us everywhere Always seeming to have enough Always being provided enough Juice to keep on living And giving I revel in the sunshine I slide upon the plants And rocks who hold me safely As I pour myself into The next space and the next Slowly, kindly, the journey Is vibrant and slippery at Times - at other times No risk or sense of fear At all

Now the day is done and As I close my eyes My antennae gradually dull My body disappears My shell, however, remains solid As I sleep or die, held safely Background art Snail by Liubov Kuptsova 5

HOW DO HELP MY PATIENTS COME TO TERMS WITH THEIR PARTNERS’ (DIFFICULT FOR THEM) PERSONALITIES?

By Philip Chanin, Ed.D, ABPP, CGP Board Certified Clinical Psychologist Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center www.drphilchanin.com ~ philchanin@gmail.com Many couples come for marital therapy partly because each partner is struggling to adjust to his and her partner’s basic personality. Usually each has gone to great lengths to try to get his and her partner to be different. Lee Blackwell, Ph.D., has outlined typical destructive strategies in his paper “Understanding Personality Dynamics in Relationships (2002).” These include: “1) Blaming and/or criticizing the partner (or one’s self, excessively). Attacking invites the next round of problems; 2) Becoming defensive, trying to defeat the partner’s criticisms; 3) Withdrawing, giving up, withholding; 4) Showing contempt for the partner, either directly or indirectly, by disparaging their ideas, values, and skills; 5) One partner expecting the other to know what they want without saying anything. While this is a popular romantic ideal, it turns out to be very destructive to relationships; 6) Taking everything the partner says and does personally; and 7) Telling the partner what they think and feel, also known as ‘mind raping.’”

If all these very common marital strategies for dealing with my partner’s (difficult for me) personality are ineffective and destructive, what am I to do? We begin with elaborating on Dr. Blackwell’s idea of not “taking everything the partner says and does personally.” Don Miguel Ruiz, in his book The Four Agreements, states the following proposition: “Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you.” (pp. 48-49) How to put Ruiz’s proposition into practice is indeed a tall order, but also critically important in many relationships, because so much marital conflict results from the overwhelming tendency to take what my partner says or does personally, and then to react defensively or go on the attack. Terrence Real, in his book How Can I Get Through to You, defines this latter strategy as “offending from the victim position.” By this he means that when I feel victimized by what my partner has said or done, I then feel entitled to “go on the offensive.”

In this book, Real discusses an extremely effective strategy for not taking what my partner says or does personally. This strategy involves developing an “internal boundary,” which he describes as a kind of “internal technology.” The internal boundary is an invisible shield that I psychically construct that protects me from anything my partner says or does that may invoke my defensive reactions. With an internal boundary in place, Real proposes, “the nastiest comment, the most raw feeling—an emotional atom bomb could go off and you would remain unfazed. Inside your circle you can afford to be open, spacious, curious, relaxed.”

Real elaborates: “The important thing to remember about practicing an internal boundary is precisely that it is a practice, similar to getting physically fit…Although it takes months, even years, of slow, steady effort before an internal boundary becomes consistent, most people experience an exhilarating glimpse of its effects within a few weeks…The lack of an internal boundary inevitably leads to control or withdrawal. If there is no membrane between you and whatever external stimulus gets thrown at you, then you attempt to regulate your own level of comfort or discomfort by managing the stimulus. (“I could be happy, if only you were less angry.”). When control fails, the only other option is withdrawal.” (pp. 237-241) Part of what makes my partner’s personality so difficult for me is often that I experience him/her as so different from myself.

Harriet Lerner, in The Dance of Intimacy, has written of our human struggle to deal with differences: “Our own reactivity to differences is what leads us to exaggerated and stuck positions in relationships.” Yet, Lerner adds, “It may be hard to keep in mind that differences are the only way we learn.” The well-known group therapist Yvonne Agazarian speaks and writes of the importance of integrating, rather than running away from, or attacking, our differences with a partner. She writes, “All living human systems transform from simple to complex by the process of integrating differences.” We must work, she adds, “to interrupt our spontaneous fight or flight response to differences.” Dr. Blackwell, who was quoted in the first paragraph above, states, “Accepting, even celebrating differences creates a feeling of safety.”

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In individual and marital therapy, we learn that the best strategy for coming to terms with my partner’s (difficult for me) personality is to work on myself. Nashville psychologist Richard Taran, Ph.D., in his paper “The Best Relationships of All Kinds,” has written, “Relationships are God’s clever 12-step program for self-improvement; Accept your partner as is, especially their bad habits; Your relationship is in trouble if you try to fix your partner.”

Dr. Blackwell says this even more boldly: “We can only work on ourselves. When we try to work on others, they resist being controlled, even if it is for their own good. There seems to be something in human nature that says, ‘I have to feel free to choose.’…Thus it is a waste of time and totally counterproductive for partners to try to change each other. A better approach is for each to hear criticism as something that the other is experiencing, not as something that they are objective about. When we feel free to decide what to work on in ourselves, we will be much more diligent and sincere in our efforts.”

Dr. Blackwell emphasizes the importance of not trying to change my partner’s beliefs: “It is important to allow each to have very different beliefs, especially about self and other. That is, you have a set of beliefs about yourself and the other, and so does the other person, and all four sets of beliefs must be supported. We resist any attempt by others to change our beliefs against our will, so don’t try to change the other’s beliefs—only your own.” Terrence Real, in his book The New Rules of Marriage, argues that “the need to be right” is the foremost “losing strategy” in marriage. He states succinctly, “You can be right, or you can be married.”

Alain de Botton wrote a provocative article in The New York Times (5/29/2016) entitled, “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person.”

He writes: “We need to swap the Romantic view for a tragic (and at points comedic) awareness that every human will frustrate, anger, annoy, madden, and disappoint us—and we will (without any malice) do the same to them…But none of this is unusual or grounds for divorce. Choosing whom to commit ourselves to is merely a case of identifying which particular variety of suffering we would most like to sacrifice ourselves for.”

De Botton continues, “This philosophy of pessimism offers a solution to a lot of distress and agitation around marriage. It might sound odd, but pessimism relieves the excessive imaginative pressure that our romantic culture places upon marriage. The failure of one particular partner to save us from our grief and melancholy is not an argument against that person and no sign that a union deserves to fail or be upgraded. The person who is best suited to us is not the person who shares our every taste (he or she doesn’t exist), but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently—the person who is good at disagreement.

Rather than some notional idea of perfect complementarity, it is the capacity to tolerate differences with generosity that is the true marker of the “not overly wrong” person. Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition.”

De Botton concludes his article saying, “Romanticism has been unhelpful to us; it is a harsh philosophy. It has made a lot of what we go through in marriage seem exceptional and appalling. We end up lonely and convinced that our union, with its imperfections, is not “normal.” We should learn to accommodate ourselves to “wrongness,” striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous, and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners.”

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Formed in Response to Crisis, MHART Continues to Evolve and Empower When tornadoes struck Tennessee on March 2 and 3, 2020, and shortly thereafter COVID-19 arrived, Nashville therapists reached out to NPI leadership to see how they might help. At the same time, Amanda Stone, a psychologist working at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, sent out a request to multiple therapist groups seeking those wanting to provide mental health support to Vanderbilt medical staff during a possible pandemic surge. Gina DelGardo, President of the TN Psychological Association, reached out to the governor’s office to seek an avenue for psychologists to help with the mental health challenges of the pandemic. Cathryn Yarbrough and Cynthia Lucas, representing NPI, were also seeking ways for their organization to respond proactively to the crisis. Lizzie Harrigan, began to seriously pursue an idea she had been cultivating for some time. She dreamed of coordinating the volunteer spirit of Tennessee mental health professionals to serve the community.

On April 3, 2020, this group of passionate mental health professionals met via Zoom for the first time and began the arduous and exhilarating process of creating a way to fulfil their goals. They wanted to create a permanent way for TN therapists to give back during this pandemic and during any future crisis. A huge amount of work allowed the project to move forward in record time. On April 25, 2020, the Mental Health Active Response Team incorporated as a nonprofit organization. The five mental health professionals who created MHART composed its initial Board of Directors.

On May 12, 2020, the group launched their website, https://www.mharttn.org/, designed pro bono by Nehmedia. With the help of a Tennessee SAMHSA grant administered by the TN Association of Alcohol, Drug & other Addiction Services (TAADAS), the generosity of the NASW-TN Chapter, and over $100,000 in private donations, MHART prepared to offer services to Tennessee healthcare workers.

This began a frantic effort to recruit and train volunteers, which was done with the help of the NASW-TN Chapter, TN Psychological Association, NPI, TN Counselors Association, TN Association of Pastoral Therapists, TN Licensed Professional Counselors Association, TN Association of Marriage & Family Therapists, TN Psychiatric Association, TN Dept. of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, and many other local organizations and Facebook groups.

On May 26, 2020, the TN Emotional Support Line for Pandemic Stress (1-888-MHARTTN) went live. As the pandemic dragged on, it was clear that staffing the support line with volunteers alone would not work long term. MHART was able to contract with Family and Children’s Service to take over answering the line. In late summer, 2020, MHART volunteers began to offer pro bono therapy sessions to victims of disaster. The four free online sessions offer people a chance to process their struggles and identify a way forward. Volunteers have offered help to healthcare workers, essential workers, teachers, and victims of the Nashville bombing. In addition to the emotional support line and pro bono psychotherapy program, MHART is partnering with Alive to facilitate pandemic loss grief groups and is now a referral source for the Red Cross in the aftermath of local disasters.

In the spring of 2021, Cathy Yarbrough, in her role as MHART Partner Liaison, began hosting a series of meetings with the leadership of all of the professional associations that have been supporting MHART. Her dream is that this group will be for Tennessee what NPI has been for Nashville, a chance for professionals from different disciplines to learn from and support each other. As a service to the group, MHART is hosting on its website, a page listing behavioral health continuing education opportunities throughout the state, https://www.mharttn.org/calendar/.

In 2022, MHART will also host a page listing the behavioral health related pending Tennessee legislation. The group wants to help empower therapists to advocate for their professions and for Tennessee.

Since summer, 2021, the Emotional Support Line has been opened to all Tennesseans struggling with the pandemic, and the use of the service continues to increase. The Pro Bono Program continues to operate, but MHART has chosen to stop advertising it. It has been difficult to find enough volunteers willing to give four pro bono sessions. MHART is in the midst of brainstorming how it can best respond so that it can continue to serve Tennesseans in times of disaster. Anyone wanting to volunteer, can sign up at https://www.mharttn.org/volunteer-registration/.

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Living as a Therapist in Liminal Times

by Kristin Finch, MA, NCC, LPC-MHSP (temp) I was recently reading author Suzanne Stabile’s latest release, The Journey Toward Wholeness, where she identified the term liminality as the state in which the world currently finds itself. She defines liminality as “an existential state of being betwixt and between.” Merriam-Webster defines liminal as “of, or relating to, or situated at a sensory threshold: barely perceptible or capable of eliciting a response” and “of, or relating to, or being an intermediate state, phase, or condition.” Yes. If I hadn’t been consciously familiar with the term before the pandemic, I was close friends with it now. We have a felt sense of liminal times, one foot in what we thought we knew and the other in what we are sure we do not know. The deep vulnerability of our humanity was exposed through Covid and on display for potential threats to attack. However, Stabile offers a hope filled truth, stating “While liminal space is challenging, it may paradoxically be the best, if not the only, teachable space. We can no longer locate a single cause of anxiety and discomfort, and we can’t fall back on our usual explanations or habits or assumptions.

Nor can we discern the meaning of unrest, anxiety anger, shame, and dis-ease we feel. So we have to seek new ways of seeing and making meaning, of letting the uncertainty teach us.”

As I read her words, I found myself reflecting on the deep impact that the role I play as a therapist offers in liminal times. Of course, this isn’t new to me. The opportunity to sit in the “betwixt and between” space with our clients/ patients is certainty teachable space at any junction of the state of the world. And yet, this is especially impactful because our relationship as therapists with our own felt sense of liminality is at play in the room with our clients.

We have been and are having parallel experiences that allow us to share in the space of the unknown. I was recently reflecting with a colleague who shared the idea that we are constantly in flux of disequilibrium as a precursor to equilibrium, and then, of course, disequilibrium again, and on and on it goes. This is apparent with the developmental growth of children, naturally, where we see physical disequilibrium as babies are learning to sit up or walk. But what does this look like for us, as therapists, to be a part of the shared space of disequilibrium in the liminality with our clients? I have found this to be the great crux of this stage of our work and the greatest connector. We can learn together in a new understanding of ourselves and the world that we have no choice but to experience. AND, most importantly, in order to tolerate the disruption of liminality, we must have an intentional space to create meaning and reflection. This is what we, as therapists, provide. It is of upmost importance, as the innumerable mental health headlines are telling the world what we already knew. The value of our work is on display, and we must also take care of ourselves in this liminality. We must honor our limits and also acknowledge the reality of being in process ourselves.

NPI Social Justice Committee (continued from page 1) NPI was founded to provide a forum for continuing education for licensed mental health clinicians and an opportunity to experience community with one another and encourage one another in all aspects relevant to our common scope of practice. The Social Justice Committee supports these goals of NPI. We do this with events we create and host, as well as by providing resources and information about events sponsored by other organizations in Middle Tennessee.

As a part of our commitment to promoting Social Justice, the Committee has updated the Social Justice page (https://nashvillepsychotherapyinstitute.org/social-justice/) and added a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion page (https:// nashvillepsychotherapyinstitute.org/social-justice/) to the NPI website. These pages can be found under the Member Resources tab.

The Social Justice page describes our mission and invites participation and suggestions by any interested NPI member. The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion page acknowledges the national moment of reckoning related to race and its intersectionality with gender, class, and other social locations and identities, and how we as therapists can be involved in this movement. It includes statements from our professional organizations, professional practice guidelines, and resources for education and action.

In the near future, we hope to add links to assist members in tracking legislative proposals that impact our work as therapists and the people that we serve. Please let us know of any needs or suggestions that you have for the work of this Committee by contacting Linda Manning at doclgm70@gmail.com.

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Board Member Spotlight Cathryn Yarbrough, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice in Nashville, TN, seeing adults and couples. She has been a member of NPI almost from its inception. She remembers how terrified she felt attending the luncheons at the University Club as a freshly graduated psychologist. NPI quickly became a key vehicle for community and education for her. 1998 to 2000 was her first stint on the NPI Board of Directors. She served as Treasurer, as chair of the 1999

Spring Workshop, and as chair of the 2000 Fall Symposium. Bringing Nancy

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McWilliams back to Nashville was one of the most rewarding endeavors she experienced in those years. That was the last of her involvement with the Board for many years, because in 2001, she adopted her daughter. Being a mother has been the most fulfilling role ever.

Eventually children grow up, and in 2018, Cathy recommitted to NPI. In 2019, she joined the Board again, serving as Chair in 2020. That was a very challenging year for Cathy, for NPI, and for the world. In her time as chair, she was happy to help with NPI’s response to COVID and especially excited to help relaunch the university visitation program which encourages students and new graduates to join NPI. When the pandemic first threatened Nashville, NPI members reached out to ask how they could help. Responding to that need, she joined with others to incorporate the Mental Health Active Response Team, a TN non-profit. She is grateful for all of the NPI members who have volunteered with MHART. To begin at the beginning, Cathy is not native to TN, having only arrived 50 years ago. She was born in San Diego when her father was in the US Navy. He was from TN, so the family often traveled back there. After years of traipsing all over the country, they eventually settled in Nashville.

Cathy started her graduate training at Vanderbilt University, then wanting a more clinical focus, transferred to

the doctoral program at Peabody College, just in time for the merger. She did her internship at the VA Medical Center in San Francisco, her favorite city in the world. Early on, Cathy worked for various counseling centers and hospitals in the Nashville area. She entered private practice in 1988. Cathy believes strongly in community.

Throughout her career, she has served as a volunteer or board member with multiple non-profit organizations.

Somewhere in there, she married, divorced, traveled extensively, and came to love gardening, hiking, SCUBA diving, and, of course, parenting.

Cathy feels deeply grateful that she has been part of NPI throughout her career and especially honored to have been able to serve as Chair in 2020. To all NPI members she says: “Get Involved! Join committees, volunteer for the Board, brainstorm new programs. It will be so worth it!”

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NPI WINTER SOCIAL & HOLIDAY RAFFLE Friday, December 10, 2021 4:00 – 5:30 PM

Bring an outdoor chair and join your NPI colleagues around the fire pit for seasonal treats, festive drinks, and great company!

There is no presenter at this event.

This event is for NPI members ONLY

Where: Second Presbyterian Church Courtyard 3507 Belmont Blvd – Nashville, TN 37215 Cost: $20 (fee includes one Raffle Ticket) Sustaining Members – this event is included with your membership, but please RSVP! There will be a Holiday Raffle to benefit the NPI Scholarship Fund Purchase additional tickets when you register: $10 per additional ticket

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2021 NPI BOARD OF DIRECTORS John Nichols, MS, LPC/MHSP; Board Chair

Linda Manning, PhD; Chair-elect/Social Justice Cathryn Yarbrough, PhD; Immediate Past Chair Cynthia Lucas, PhD; Hutton Historian Glenn Sheriff, MA; Treasurer Jennifer Adams, M.Ed., LPC-MHSP D. Kirk Barton, MD; Speaker Research Tiffany Davis, LCSW Avi Dressler, MMFT Emily Ector-Volman, LPC, NCC; Communications Chair Kristin Finch, LPC-MHSP (temp), NCC Laura Fritsche, LPC-MHSP; Membership Chair

Editor: Emily Ector-Volman, LPC, NCC Layout & Design: Melissa Vickroy, MS Printing: ISSUU online publishing ***Editor’s Note: The content and opinions expressed within this newsletter do not necessarily reflect the views of nor are they endorsed by the Nashville Psychotherapy Institute, the Board of Directors of the Nashville Psychotherapy Institute, or the Editor of the newsletter.

Richard Gorman; Student Member Hannah Reynolds, LPC/MHSP; Social Justice

Nashville Psychotherapy Institute

P. O. Box 158626 Nashville, TN 37215 npinashville@gmail.com www.NashvillePsychotherapyInstitute.org

Juliana Vokes, LPC-MHSP (Temp) Melissa Vickroy, MS; Executive Coordinator 12