Manassas Group Members regularly give talks sponsored by community groups and organizations.  The topics and speakers to the right are currently available and can be scheduled.  Please contact us if you need a presentation on any other specific topic. 

To arrange any presentation through our Speaker's Bureau, you may call  Chris at (540) 774-4686.

Currently available topics (in blue):

Topic:  Emotional Coping Skills
  • Title One:  "Don't Let Your Anger Kill You or Anyone You Love!"

    • -Description:  Positive steps for handling anger constructively.
    -Speaker:  Louis Perrott, Ph.D.  

     

  • Title Two:  "Are Your Emotions Making You Sick?"

    • -Description:  Understand how the mind can affect the body and what to do about it.
    -Speaker:  Gudrun Freeman, Ph.D.
 Topic:  Anxiety and Stress Management
  • Title One: "Is Worry Making You Sick?"
    -Description:  Learn why worry and physical illnesses are close bedfellows.

    • -Speaker:  Gudrun Freeman, Ph.D.
  • Title Two:  "Conquering Your Job Stress"

    • -Description:  How to handle the stress of working at your job.
    -Speaker:  Louis Perrott, Ph.D.
Topic:  Depression
  • Title:  "Is it the Blues, the Blahs, or are You Really Depressed?"

    • -Description:  Learn how to tell the difference and what to do.
    -Speaker:  Louis Perrott, Ph.D. 

Topic:  Marital/Family/Relationships

  • Title: "But What About My Grandchildren?"

    • -Description: How to avoid taking sides, if your children divorce.
    -Speaker:  Gudrun Freeman, Ph.D.
Topic:  Grief and Loss
  • Title One:  "Faking It on Autopilot: I Am Not Myself"
    -Description:  Learn to identify and resolve losses.
    -Speaker: Dan DeVilbiss, Ed.D.          

 

  • Title Two:  "I Don't Want To: Avoiding Places, People and Things"
    -Description:  How to replace avoidance by grief and trauma
    resolution and coping skills training.
    -Speaker: Dan DeVilbiss, Ed.D.

 

Presentations on the Topics of: 

  • Family Stress

  • Post-Partum Depression

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

  • Self-Care of the Clinician

  • The Loss of Identity Through Motherhood

-Speaker:  Ellen Arledge, L.C.S.W.

 

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