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The
Seminars Presenters
October
25 2008 Delray Beach, Florida
 Dr.
Lisa C. Palmer, LMFT, CHT, PhD,
is
a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist;
Certified Hypnotherapist; Trained in
Mediation; and has completed ground-breaking
research focusing on the drive to
self-starvation amongst anorexic immigrant
women to the U.S. Additionally, she is a
AAMFT Clinical member and a AAMFT
Supervisory Candidate. She has extensive
experience working with eating disorders and
in a variety of mental health settings
including at several inpatient, residential
and outpatient facilities. Dr. Palmer's
expertise is eating disorder recovery, but
she works with individuals suffering a
variety of complex mental health conditions,
family and relational issues, and has
completed residency working with those
suffering from schizophrenia, DID, and
addictions and trauma. In the realm of
eating disorders, Palmer is known for
establishing the first ethnicity, culture
and identity group in the U.S. at a renowned
treatment facility which got her national
recognition, and her work in the eating
disorder field and beyond has been
attractive to numerous magazine, television,
and radio publications. She recently
completed articles for publication which
appeared in the professional Journal of
Feminist Family Therapy and Family Therapy
Magazine. Additionally, Palmer founded the
popular www.MyEDHelp.com
which includes resources and referrals for
eating disorder recovery and a network. Dr.
Palmer
specializes in working with teenagers and
adults, and is currently the Clinical
Director of the The Eating Disorder Program
at Hollywood Pavilion, an intensive
outpatient eating disorders treatment
program at Hollywood Pavilion in Hollywood,
Florida.
Palmer
attended University of Vermont, then New
York University. She earned a Master's
degree in marriage and family therapy and
then pursued a doctorate following a
breakthrough of her own. After achieving
national recognition as the youngest state
delegate at Miss USA, she then pursued an
interesting career as a general assignment
TV news reporter working at a variety of
media outlets throughout the country. She
then did something bold. Palmer changed her
life story to include a new direction that
seemed more purposeful and fulfilling, at
which point she stepped down from the path
she created to reinvent a life of vitality,
harmony, and to make a difference for
others. While Palmer now prefers to spend
her time behind the scenes doing research,
writing articles, and helping clients to
reinvent themselves and overcome obstacles,
her passion has not faltered. She brings a
breadth of knowledge, experience, and
compassion to her work. Read "News
and Events" section of this website for
updates on Palmer's recent articles,
publications, and appearances.
Workshop
I: Balance Your Life: Intro to the
"The Balance Scale" and how to
Utilize it to Change Your Life
Learn
the art of leading a balanced life through
understanding and utilizing a simple
balance scale developed by Palmer, which
helps individuals overcome black and white
thinking; unskillful thinking patterns and
behaviors; and stops patterns which
perpetuate addictive behaviors in order to
gain clarity about what it is that one
truly wants, and how to use
solution-oriented strategies to build on
both known and unrecognized personal
strengths to lead a more fulfilling and
balanced life.
Workshop II: Moving Past the Past:
Getting What You Really Want, Aligning
Thought with Action
What is the nature of addictive
behaviors in your life? What is it that
you really want? Learn how
to identify what it is you really want
from deep within, and learn how to move
past obstacles that get in the way of what
you want through methods of giving weight
to your true desires and realigning your
actions to create balance and harmony in
your life.
 Gina
Marchando, LMFT, CHT, DMFT Cand., Gina
is a Licensed Marriage & Family
Therapist; Board Certified Hypnotherapist;
Certified Incorporation Therapist; and is
currently conducting research with
partners of individuals who have a history
of trauma/abuse, entitled “The
P.I.N.W.H.E.A.L. Project” (Partners in
Wholeness & Healing). Gina earned a
Bachelor of Art degree from Washington
& Jefferson College (PA) in art and
psychology and continued on in her pursuit
of higher education earning her Masters of
Science degree in Marriage & Family
Therapy from Nova Southeastern University
where she is also a doctoral candidate.
She has extensive experience working with
the full spectrum of dissociative
disorders, including dissociative identity
disorder. While Gina has worked with
individuals, couples, and families in
treatment on a variety of issues, she has
specialized experience in the treatment of
PTSD, and survivors of trauma/abuse. She
has experience working in one of the
country’s premiere trauma programs
before opening up her own private
practice, The Center for Cre8tive
Consciousness, located in Dania Beach,
Florida.
Workshop: “Return to thy Self:
Reclaiming who we were always meant to
be.”
When trauma occurs it
is an invasion of all aspects of our self,
leaving our core vulnerable and exposed. In
an attempt to preserve the essence of our
being, we have no choice but to lock away
our core self. Disconnected from our
emotional, cognitive and spiritual selves,
we may feel as if we are merely a
“shell” of who we used to be. This one
hour seminar will introduce participants to
the impact and legacy of trauma on the self
and the use of our own inner wisdom for
healing and creativity.
Jeffrey
Cotton, MS, IMT, IMH, Ph D Candidate
is
a dynamic leader and inspirational speaker
who has motivated countless teens, couples,
families, and individuals to first recognize
the process of what is working one’s life
and then how to expand on and maximize
one’s abilities to achieve desired goals.
Enhancing one’s abilities can create more
opportunities in life and usually begins
with the process of making one small change;
however, small change is not easy and
requires hard work. Cotton is an expert in
Solution-Focused (SF) practices (coaching,
consultation, education, & therapy) and
has presented internationally on several
occasions. These international presentations
include topics regarding how to enhance
relationships through SF thinking, behaving,
and communicating. He is currently
conducting innovative microanalysis research
on solution-focused communication patterns
and has developed a strong interest in how
communication works in motivating people to
manage or solve difficult problems (both
acute and chronic).
Cotton
received his Master’s Degree in 1998 from
Troy State University Montgomery in
Counseling & Human Development. He then
accepted a position as the Assistant
Director of the Autauga County Teen Court
and Peers Are Staying Straight program in
Prattville, Alabama. He subsequently
re-located to Fort Lauderdale to pursue a
PhD in Family therapy at Nova Southeastern
University. While
pursuing his post-graduate degree at NSU,
Cotton concurrently maximized his leadership
position as the Director of Treatment at
Florida Ocean Sciences Institute (F.O.S.I.)
and provided group, individual, and family
therapy services for delinquent youth in a
level 2 program. During his four-year tenure
at F.O.S.I., he developed a successful
internship program, in partnership with NSU,
and trained graduate students in
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy practices.
Additionally, he implemented the Working on
What Works Program in juvenile settings and
has presented on this approach in Amsterdam,
Holland.
More
recently, Cotton is a primary therapist of a
a popular behavioral health group at the
intensive-outpatient program (IOP) at
Hollywood Pavilion. He is a frequently
sought after presenter, and most recently
presented a workshop in Aruba at the first
Solution-Focused World Conference on how to
utilize SF practices in group settings with
long-term patients.
During
the evenings, Mr. Cotton works under
licensed supervision and provides therapy
for youth, couples, and families, as well as
individuals, in a successful private
practice setting located at the Center for
Counseling & Development in Plantation,
Florida. Mr. Cotton is currently dual
registered both as an intern in Marriage and
Family Therapy (IMT) and Mental Health
Counseling (IMH) and is licensure eligible.
For more information please visit Jeffrey
Cotton’s website: www.cotton5150.com
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