Please join us for
Superhero Therapy:
Combining Evidence Based Therapy with Pop Culture Narratives to Help Clients Heal from PTSD
Friday, March 18, 2022
at 10:00 AM
on ZOOM
presented by
Dr. Janina Scarlet
is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist,
author, TEDx speaker, and a full-time geek
1 CEU
Course Description:
This talk will focus on how we can help people learn to understand and process their trauma narrative through the lens of self-empowerment, using fiction and narrative writing exercises as vehicles for fostering posttraumatic growth.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this course, participants should be able to:
1. Explain the relationship between loneliness and PTSD
2. Explain the concept of Superhero Therapy
3. Explain how Superhero Therapy can be utilized to foster posttraumatic growth.
About our presenter:
Dr. Scarlet is the Lead Trauma Specialist at the Center for Stress and Anxiety Management and with the Pop Culture Hero Coalition.
As a Ukrainian-born refugee, Janina survived Chernobyl radiation and persecution. She immigrated to the United States at the age of 12 with her family.
Later, inspired by the X-Men Film Series, she developed Superhero Therapy to help patients with anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
Dr. Scarlet is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award by the United Nations Association for her work on Superhero Therapy. Her work has been featured on Yahoo, BBC, NPR, Sunday Times, CNN, CW, ABC, The New York Times, Forbes, and many other outlets. She regularly consults on books and television shows, including HBO’s The Young Justice.
She was portrayed as a comic book character in Gail Simone’s Seven Days graphic novel. She has authored ten books and has written chapters for fourteen others. Her books include Superhero Therapy, Harry Potter Therapy, Therapy Quest, Dark Agents, SuperWomen, and It Shouldn’t Be This Way.
Social Media links: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Linked In and website.
(Members, you may use a quarterly coupon code as your FREE meeting for this period. Code for this quarter is printed each month in the Newsletter.)
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