2011 Annual LAMFT Conference:
“Hypnosis, Personal Growth, and Spirituality in Family Therapy”
March 10-12, 2011
Featured Presenter: Betty Alice Erickson, M.S., L.P.C., L.M.F.T.
Featured Presenter: Lewis Moore, Ph.D.
Keynote Speaker: Tom Moore, MA, M.MFT, LPC, LMFT
Hilton Capitol Center, Baton Rouge
CONTINUING EDUCATION: NBCC Approved Provider #4100 and AEP Provider #E092. This program was also approved for 20.5 hours of continuing education by the NASW-LA as authorized by the Louisiana State Board of Social Work Examiners, and by the LAMFT. LAMFT is a division of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
Detailed abstracts and objectives for the multiple session choices available during the conference will be posted here soon.
Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center
201 Lafayette Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States 70801
Phone: 1-225-344-5866
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FEATURED PRESENTER:
Betty Alice Erickson, M.S., L.P.C., L.M.F.T.
About Betty Alice Erickson
Betty Alice Erickson has been keynote speaker, as well as faculty, at numerous International Conferences on Ericksonian Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. Awarded the first Franco Granone Prize for her teaching in Europe, she has contributed to many books and authored professional articles which have been translated into several languages. She and Bradford Keeney, Ph.D. co-edited “Milton H. Erickson, An American Healer.” She has maintained a private practice in Dallas, Texas for over twenty years.
Betty Alice is fond of using stories and examples from her own life to exemplify how therapists can work more resourcefully with their clients. For example, to illustrate the openness that should be used with clients, she shares this story about her father: “A fellow came in with his toes painted bright red. Dad talked to him and talked to him. The man seemed perfectly normal — except in the 1940s, perfectly normal young men did not wear red polish on their toenails. Finally, Daddy broke down and asked him directly, ‘Why are your toenails painted red?’ The guy blushed and replied, “I was napping on the couch yesterday with bare feet and my little sister thought it would be funny. She was so tickled with how she had gotten one over on me. I just left them.’ This reinforced to my father that he should always have an open mind, ready to change in an instant should new information be received. He kept that very valuable trait his whole life.”
FEATURED PRESENTER:
Lewis Moore, Ph.D.
About Lewis Moore
Lewis L. Moore, Ph.D., was born in Corning, Arkansas, July 1943 to a large extended farm family. After completing high school he pursued college to study math and science. This career path was unfulfilling for him and he soon entered the military and completed four years of service. Upon discharge he returned to the classroom and earned both an undergraduate and graduate degree in psychology and sociology. He began additional graduate studies in anthropology at Memphis State University which led to a teaching position at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas where he has worked for the past forty years.
In the 1970’s Moore became increasingly dissatisfied with analytical counseling and this began a search for alternatives to problemology. In 1976 an opportunity developed to pursue doctoral studies in Marriage and Family Counseling/Social Psychology at the University of Nebraska. His PhD was completed in 1980 with an extensive national study of Coping with Divorce and a resourceful perspective that launched Dr. Moore into the world of resource and solution oriented therapy/supervision. These capstone experiences and career changing shifts continued with his exposure to the life and works of Dr. Milton H. Erickson. The resulting and continuing effects of this pioneering master moved Moore to his current focus on Creative Choice Therapy. His use of non-traditional approaches, creativity, and unique resourcefulness in the training of therapists has earned him praise and respect from pioneers in the family therapy movement. Along with professional articles and presentations both nationally and internationally, Dr. Moore has counseled thousands of individuals and families and has provided training to hundreds of therapists who continue to write their life books on maximizing human potential for change.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Tom Moore, MA, M.MFT, LPC, LMFT
About Tom Moore
Tom has been married to his wife Karen for thirty-two years and has three daughters, Holly, Hillary, and Kelsey. He is a forty-year resident of Louisiana, now residing in Bossier Parish near Benton, Louisiana.
Tom graduated from Louisiana Tech University in 1978 with a degree in education. He taught high school science and English before returning to Ruston in 1980 to complete a master’s degree in counseling from his alma mater. In the years to follow, Tom entered school administration while continuing to teach. In 1984, Tom moved his family to Abilene, Texas to work on a Master of Marriage and Family Therapy at Abilene Christian University. He received this degree in 1986, returning immediately to the Shreveport area where he administered a private foster care agency for several years.
In 1988, Tom received the LPC license and went into private practice as a family therapist in Shreveport. Tom served on the executive board of LAMFT in 2000 during the passage of the licensing law for MFTs. He stepped down from this position in 2001 to accept an appointment by the governor to the first Marriage and Family Therapy Advisory Committee to the Louisiana LPC Board of Examiners on which he continues to serve. He was the third person in Louisiana to receive the LMFT license. Tom also serves as an Approved Supervisor for Counselor and MFT Interns.
While working in his private practice for the past twenty-two years, Tom has consulted with several agencies in the Shreveport-Bossier area, including the Center for Families, where he served as Clinical Supervisor for twenty years. He has served as an adjunct instructor in family therapy as LSU in Shreveport and has directed the LSUS Family Therapy Institute through the LSUS College of Continuing Education. Tom has offered marriage workshops around the country and has been very active in promoting missionary care, providing training and support to churches and missionary families in the US, Mexico, Scotland, Ghana, and Togo, West Africa.
Tom has been married to his wife Karen for thirty-two years and has three daughters, Holly, Hillary, and Kelsey. He is a forty-year resident of Louisiana, now residing in Bossier Parish near Benton, Louisiana.
Tom graduated from Louisiana Tech University in 1978 with a degree in education. He taught high school science and English before returning to Ruston in 1980 to complete a master’s degree in counseling from his alma mater. In the years to follow, Tom entered school administration while continuing to teach. In 1984, Tom moved his family to Abilene, Texas to work on a Master of Marriage and Family Therapy at Abilene Christian University. He received this degree in 1986, returning immediately to the Shreveport area where he administered a private foster care agency for several years.
In 1988, Tom received the LPC license and went into private practice as a family therapist in Shreveport. Tom served on the executive board of LAMFT in 2000 during the passage of the licensing law for MFTs. He stepped down from this position in 2001 to accept an appointment by the governor to the first Marriage and Family Therapy Advisory Committee to the Louisiana LPC Board of Examiners on which he continues to serve. He was the third person in Louisiana to receive the LMFT license. Tom also serves as an Approved Supervisor for Counselor and MFT Interns.
While working in his private practice for the past twenty-two years, Tom has consulted with several agencies in the Shreveport-Bossier area, including the Center for Families, where he served as Clinical Supervisor for twenty years. He has served as an adjunct instructor in family therapy as LSU in Shreveport and has directed the LSUS Family Therapy Institute through the LSUS College of Continuing Education. Tom has offered marriage workshops around the country and has been very active in promoting missionary care, providing training and support to churches and missionary families in the US, Mexico, Scotland, Ghana, and Togo, West Africa.
