Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Learning Differences as Trauma: The Power to Heal
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2 CE HOURS

NY Practitioners - LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs

This clinical seminar offers an overview of neurodevelopmental disorders and learning differences that interfere with academic, social, emotional and behavioral development. Participants will learn how to incorporate a neurodevelopmental perspective in their ongoing diagnostic curiosity. A key component of the seminar will be addressing the psychodynamic challenges people with neurodevelopmental issues and learning differences face, how these constant challenges are understood as microtraumas that affect the nervous system and affect dysregulation and how that in turn may negatively influence learning and behavior.

Sheri Perlman, OT, LCSW is an adult, teen and child psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. Sheri’s particular areas of interest include trauma, parent-child relationships, parenting, learning differences and recovery from narcissistic abuse. She incorporates a myriad of tools in an eclectic, integrated approach to her work while maintaining an analytic, neuropsychoanalytic and trauma frame. Sheri graduated from Washington University with a Bachelors of Science in Occupational Therapy and New York University with a Masters in Social Work. Additionally, Perlman received certificates from both the Institute for Child, Adolescent and Family Studies (ICAFS) and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) for adult treatment. She is a member of CFS and an affiliate of WCSPP. Sheri has also trained in trauma work including EMDR, trauma stabilization, and in alternative treatment modalities such as Craniosacral work Journeying and Meditation. She sees patients in her full time private practice in person and online from her offices in New York and Israel.