Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
New and long-time IMHPA members are invited to gather for discussion
Topics will include introduction to IMHPA’s on-line PRIVATE Forum, other topics will post in late March.
ZOOM link will be sent to IMHPA members Monday eve April 6
Attend, meet colleagues. Learn about IMHPA benefits in process for members.
Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
IMHPA’s Spring Meeting will be held in the Community Meeting Room of Lakewood Center in Lake Oswego, OR
Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
Enrollment limited to 30
This one-day Psychodrama Introduction: Fostering A Relational World View scheduled by the presenters, IMHPA members Anna Schaum and Joyce Follingstad on Friday, September 25.
Therapeutic tools for bridging differences, cultivating reciprocity, and depolarizing inner and outer relationships through psychodrama and sociometry
“We say that the human being is an improvising actor on the stage of life. Unlike the theater, you don’t have a script, I don’t have a script. We have to interact on the spur of the moment, here and now, with whatever is between us.” Zerka Moreno, co-founder of Psychodrama
Therapists currently observe an epidemic of polarized relationships and viewpoints in their clients’ lives, while challenges of polarization dominate social, economic and political life.
Approximately 100 years ago, Jacob Levy Moreno (1889-1974), a contemporary of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, began to develop Sociometry, a quantitative method used to measure social relationships. After service as medical director of a WWI European refugee camp Moreno immigrated to the US in 1925.
Jacob was a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and educator who developed psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy. Jacob’s wife, Zerka Toeman Moreno (1917–2016) was a Dutch-born American psychotherapist who co-developed psychodrama with her husband. Jacob and Zerka Moreno founded the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP) in1942 to promote psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy.
Bridging past into present, this experiential and didactic workshop will provide, and train those who attend to use adaptable, active therapeutic tools from the time-tested modalities of psychodrama and sociometry. The workshop will help therapists’ clients build internal resources and leverage conflicting intra- and interpersonal dynamics toward balanced and harmonious interactions. Relational worldview skills will be taught which are applicable to individual, relationship, and group therapy work as well as therapists’ lives.
The workshop will include:
· Brief history of Sociometry and Psychodrama during the last century
· Demonstration and experiential practice of two Psychodrama interventions (doubling and role reversal) which can be introduced in your client sessions
· Introduction to TuneUP!TM a new, containing, sociometric action instrument. This instrument provides clinicians guidance to help clients find balance between the conflicting needs and values within themselves and in their relationships.
· There will be ample time for practice, group reflection and questions.
Access to a robust international network of professional psychodrama & Sociometry practitioners.
Access to information on further in-depth training opportunities in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy
The Presenters
Joyce Follingstad, PhD, CP is a Clinical Psychologist and a Certified Practitioner in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. She has had decades of additional training in Gestalt, Psychodrama and Hypnosis. In her therapy practice of more than 40 years, Joyce has counseled individuals and couples as well as facilitating Psychodrama groups and retreats. She has a background in Psychiatric and Rehabilitation Nursing as a Registered Nurse. Joyce was a charter member of AMHA (now IMHPA) and serves on the IMHPA Board. She has served as President and Treasurer of AMHA-USA and AMHA-OR Boards.
Anna Schaum LPC, PC TEP holds the Trainer Educator Practitioner certification, the highest qualification offered by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.
As a therapist, Anna works with high performing women in business, medicine, the arts, and professional sports. Anna also consults and does mediation work for organizations seeking systems change through her organization Dramatic Changes: The Center for Sound Relationships. She draws on her diverse background as a professional symphonic musician and as a member of senior leadership (AVP Culture & Equity) within an international creative agency.
Registration Fee: $100 for IMHPA members, pre-licensed mental health professionals and licensed professionals who register before 9/1/2026; $125 for licensed professionals who register after 9/1/2025 Registration at Eventbrite will open online June 1st, 2026
IMHPA’s 30th Annual Meeting!!! will be held in the Community Meeting Room at Lakewood Center in Lake Oswego, OR
Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
New and long-time IMHPA members are invited to gather for discussion
Topics will include potential impacts of Oregon Universal Health Plan legislation (to be presented for vote in 2027 for effect in 2028) and changes in IMHPA members’ benefits.
ZOOM link will be sent to IMHPA members Monday eve March 2.
Attend, meet colleagues. Learn about IMHPA benefits in process for members.
Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
New and long-time IMHPA members are invited to meet one another.
Please attend if you’re available, meet colleagues, learn more about IMHPA benefits and things in process for IMHPA members. IMHPA’s Audit Protection Benefit will be discussed at this gathering.
A ZOOM link will be sent to IMHPA members’ listserv Monday evening December 1.
Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
New and long-time IMHPA members are invited to meet and learn about one another.
Please attend if you’re available, meet colleagues, learn more about IMHPA benefits and developments in process for IMHPA members and prospective members: LightQ use and updates, MRI 30 HR Supervisors’ Course beginning Jan 23, 2 new online courses. Grid Charting revision.)
A ZOOM link will be sent to IMHPA members’ listserv Monday evening November 3.
Most IMHPA Board Meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
New and long-time IMHPA members are invited to get acquainted with one another.
New information available in members’ OTO dashboards at Membership agreements and information: Telehealth policy statement draft & required Client agreement & update telehealth requirements for therapists by PacificSource, BCBS, Moda other carriers.
Note change planned by PacificSource - Medicare coverage to end 12-31-25.
Note requirement for in person visit within 6 months prior to telehealth, for new telehealth services..
Please attend if you’re available, meet colleagues, learn about IMHPA benefits and new developments for IMHPA members.
ZOOM link will be sent to IMHPA members’ listserv Monday eve October 6
IMHPA sponsored in person psychodrama continuing education.
See the page on this IMHPA site with 10-3-25 Event Registration link and more details.
Therapeutic tools for bridging differences, cultivating reciprocity, and depolarizing inner and outer relationships through psychodrama and sociometry
“We say that the human being is an improvising actor on the stage of life. Unlike the theater, you don’t have a script, I don’t have a script. We have to interact on the spur of the moment, here and now, with whatever is between us.” Zerka Moreno, co-founder of Psychodrama
Therapists currently observe an epidemic of polarized relationships and viewpoints in their clients’ lives, while challenges of polarization dominate social, economic and political life.
Approximately 100 years ago, Jacob Levy Moreno (1889-1974), a contemporary of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, began to develop Sociometry, a quantitative method used to measure social relationships. After service as medical director of a WWI European refugee camp, Moreno immigrated to the US in 1925.
Jacob was a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and educator who developed psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy. Jacob’s wife, Zerka Toeman Moreno (1917–2016) was a Dutch-born American psychotherapist who co-developed psychodrama with her husband.
Jacob and Zerka Moreno founded the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP) in1942 to promote psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy.
Bridging past into present, this experiential and didactic workshop will provide, and train those who attend to use adaptable, active therapeutic tools from the time-tested modalities of psychodrama and sociometry. The workshop will help therapists’ clients build internal resources and leverage conflicting intra- and interpersonal dynamics toward balanced and harmonious interactions. Relational worldview skills will be taught which are applicable to individual, relationship, and group therapy work as well as therapists’ lives.
The workshop will include:
· Brief history of Sociometry and Psychodrama during the last century
· Demonstration and experiential practice of two Psychodrama interventions (doubling and role reversal) which can be introduced in your client sessions
· Introduction to TuneUP! a new, containing, sociometric action instrument. This instrument provides clinicians guidance to help clients find balance between the conflicting needs and values within themselves and in their relationships.
· There will be ample time for practice, group reflection and questions.
Most IMHPA Board Meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
Oregon mental health professionals of all disciplines are invited to participate in the Independent Mental Health Practices Alliance (IMHPA) Annual Meeting in the Community Meeting Room, lower level, at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State St. Lake Oswego, OR 97034.
There will be coffee, tea, breakfast bread and fruit when you arrive.
9 am to 1pm September 12, 2025, downstairs Community Room Lakewood Center, 368 State St. Lake Oswego, OR.
There will be coffee, tea, breakfast bread and fruit when you arrive.
Please call 503-222-0332 or email: admin@IMHPA.org to confirm you will attend.
Agenda for the meeting will include:
Discussion by each person present about their practice and their practice goals.
Board President Todd Ransford's experience of IMHPA's Audit Protection Benefit! "After more than a decade of not being audited..."
The experience of therapists who feel "siloed in their bedroom/home office"
Discussion of AI and AI "Therapy" Where will this take therapy?
The development of a therapist-involved Dating App. What might it mean for the future of supportive human partnerships?
Please call 503-222-0332 or email: admin@IMHPA.org to advise you will attend.
Most IMHPA Board meetings are held on ZOOM
Board meetings are open to IMHPA members. To receive a Board meeting link, advise Michaele Dunlap execdirector@IMHPA.org two or more days before the scheduled Board meeting.
IMHPA members, new and old gather to become acquainted, discuss their practices, their plans, the future of mental health services, things they’ve learned, things they want to learn about IMHPA communication and practice benefits. IMHPA will build on-line, in person learning events to meet your interests.
Julie Shafer, PhD will host and provide a discussion handout for this brown bag lunch gathering of mental health professionals in the Group Room, at 818 NW 17th, Portland, OR .
Those who attend will have the opportunity to meet and spend time with colleagues, and to explore clinical issues of family estrangement.
If you plan to attend, please advise by email to: execdirector@IMHPA.org
IMHPA members and other interested mental health professionals are invited to a ZOOM gathering at 6:30 pm Tuesday, evening, July 22. Those who attend will introduce themselves and their practices and will be introduced to IMHPA’s LightQ Screening, follow-up and analytics software. If you want to attend, please send your email address to execdirector@IMHPA.org on or before 7/21/25
IMHPA Members and colleagues considering membership are invited to meet on ZOOM to introduce themselves to one another and discuss their practices, their questions about LightQ, IMHPA’s Client and Practitioner protective Questionnaire and Charting Technology.
Michaele Dunlap will offer instruction about ways to incorporate LightQ into your clinical work.
If you plan to attend, please advise by email to: execdirector@IMHPA.org
IMHPA Members and colleagues considering membership are invited to meet on ZOOM to introduce themselves to one another and discuss their practices, their questions and ideas about IMHPA’s unique LightQ technology which includes textable Screening Questionnaires, Follow up Questionnaires, and a client and therapist-protective charting system as well as personal analytics for each user.
Michaele Dunlap will offer brief instruction about use of LightQ and answer questions.
If you plan to attend please email: execdirector@IMHPA.org that you can attend Tues. 7/1 at 5:30pm
IMHPA Members and colleagues considering membership are invited to meet on ZOOM to introduce themselves to one another and discuss their practices, their questions and ideas about marketing goals for IMHPA.
Michaele Dunlap will offer instruction about ways to maximize features of OregonTherapyOptions.com marketing pages.
If you plan to attend, please advise by email to: execdirector@IMHPA.org
Oregon mental health professionals of all disciplines are invited to participate in the Independent Mental Health Practices Alliance (IMHPA) Spring Meeting in the Community Meeting Room, lower level, at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State St. Lake Oswego, OR 97034.
IMHPA encourages mental health colleagues of all disciplines to build community.
Meet with colleagues, introduce and discuss your practice, your interest in creating or expanding consultation opportunities. Continuing education for all disciplines and IMHPA members’ education events will be announced.
Areas of discussion will include vital concerns of clinicians in solo and collaborative group practices, changes needed in Oregon law to support mental and behavioral health services, and IMHPA’s membership expansion project.
Coffee, teas, fruit and morning pastries will be offered.
Call 503-222-0332 to advise that you will attend.
Brown Bag Lunch, 4838 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland, OR 97213. Group Room Host, Todd Ransford, PhD. Meet colleagues, discuss your practice, and your interest in consultation opportunities.
Discussion Topic: Defining Interpersonal Boundaries.
Please call 503-222-0332 to advise that you will attend.
Where: 818 NW 17th Ave. Portland, OR 97209, Group Room, first floor. Host: Michaele Dunlap, PsyD. Meet colleagues, discuss your practice, your interest in creating or expanding consultation opportunities.
Discussion Topic: Defining and maintaining long-term therapy groups. Needs and structures. Please call 503-222-0332 to advise you will attend.
Mental health therapists of all disciplines are invited to gather from 10AM until Noon in the Community Meeting Room, lower level Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State St. Lake Oswego, OR 97034. Hosts; Michaele Dunlap, PsyD, Julie Shafer, PhD.Meet colleagues, discuss your practice, your interest in consultation opportunities.
Discussion Topics: Therapy and support for caregivers. Legislative issues.
Please call 503-222-0332 to advise you will attend.
Coffee, teas and a breakfast tray will be offered.
Held on ZOOM 11am to 2:30pm Saturday February 22, 2025. All members will receive a ZOOM link. Board Meets 11am to 1pm, break 1-1:30, all members are invited. All members are encouraged to participate in the conversations from 1:30 to 2:30.
IMHPA Board Meeting Open to all IMHPA Members. Members who want to attend, please advise execdirector@IMHPA.org at least two days prior to the scheduled meeting. Attending Members will receive a ZOOM link the evening before the meeting.
IMHPA Meetings, Gatherings, Statewide & Regional