An In Person Open House at the Institute

WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 29th

8:00-9:30PM

Children, Depression & Family Dynamics: The Impact of Loss, Language & Love

A Clinical Presentation by Michelle Silva Nuxoll, LCSW-R

Supervisor Tomas Casado-Frankel, LMFT

This presentation will follow the nine month treatment of a six-year-old girl over Zoom. Much of the work took place during her transition from Kindergarten to first grade. Feelings of loss, separation anxiety and family dynamics will be discussed.

Refreshments will be served after the presentation. CAPTP faculty, graduates and current students will be present to answer questions about the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER AND SUPERVISOR

Michelle Silva Nuxoll, LCSW-R, is a bilingual psychotherapist in private practice in Bayside, NY. Prior to her work in private practice she worked as a psychotherapist, supervisor, and clinical director at an outpatient community mental health clinic in Queens. Michelle is a 3rd year student in the CAPTP program the Institute.

Tomas Casado-Frankel, LMFT, is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute’s CAPT Program as well as the Psychoanalytic Training Certificate Program. He is also a graduate of the Couples & Family Therapy Program at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain. He co-authored Managing the Psychological Aspects of Deportation and Child Custody (with Maria Nardone, PhD),  a chapter in Appleseed’s online manual, Protecting Assets and Child Custody in the Face of Deportation (2017), and Las Lágrimas del Cambio: Trastorno del vínculo, acompañamiento terapéutico y re-vinculación (with Maria Eugenia Herrero Sotillo, MD; Triacastela, 2013), a book on attachment disorder and early relational trauma. He is a member of the William Alanson White Institute Center for Public Mental Health.