About this EventBuilding resilience and positivity in these challenging times
Please join us at the first informal members’ lunch of 2021. Megan Patterson-Brown, psychologist, and Frédérique Lambrakis-Haddad, a mental health therapist, will guide a conversation in which we can talk about what has been difficult and how we have stayed resilient and positive during the pandemic.
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Frederique Lambrakis-Haddad is the lead practitioner of www.traumainform.com. Frederique is a mental health therapist who has worked both in the US and UK for over 20 years with adults and young people. She brings expertise in mental health, extensive experience working with trauma and its effects, but also a deep knowledge and experience of living and working internationally. In addition to Frederique’s personal family and background which are international, she also holds a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, from Tufts University in Boston. In the US and the UK, she worked in mental health clinics and a residential centres specialising in working with young people and adults who had experienced significant sexual, emotional and physical abuse and neglect. Frederique is a passionate and tenacious advocate for placing women and young peoples’ emotional and mental health needs at the centre of interventions and thinking.
Megan Paterson-Brown, MA, CMHC – MFT Psychotherapist; Adjunct faculty at Webster University, Psychology & Counseling Department.
With a specialized interest in the study of Eastern Traditions and Psychotherapy, Megan’s background in community therapy started in Berkeley, CA in 1994 and continued in Community Mental Health in Altamonte Springs, FL and Seattle, WA, where she also worked as an evaluator in the WA court system and on staff at Hall Health Mental Health Clinic at the University of Washington. Active in diverse private practices over the years, Megan has been teaching at Webster University in Geneva since 2001 in the graduate and undergraduate psychology & counseling programs. She is also engaged in facilitating informal creative arts therapies and Integrative Community Therapy support groups with local immigrant and refugee populations in Geneva via the Bateau de Genève. Megan lives in Vesenaz with her Scottish husband Willy, their son Finlay and warrior cat Xena. Silver linings of lockdown include new hobbies of ‘wild swimming’ in the lake, & zoom dance parties.