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DIANNE M. ARNETT, M.A., LMFT, LPC

Education

Master of Arts in Counseling: St. Edward’s University

Bachelor of Social Work: University of Texas at Austin

Author

2013  Sudden Wealth Blessing Or Burden?

Related Experience

2016-2018    St. Edward’s University Professor

2011-Present  Counselor: Talking Points Psychotherapy

Present  Practicum Substitute: St. Edward’s University

Present  Wedding Minister

2013-2015  Human Resources Chair: Settlement Home of Austin Treatment

2009-2011  Counselor: Austin Family Institute

2009-2014  Counselor and Instructor: Juvenile Justice System

2008  Counselor: Settlement Home of Austin Residential Treatment

2004-2006  Spiritual Director: St. John Neumann Catholic Church

1997-1998  Samaritan Center for Counseling and Pastoral Care

1993-1998  Counselor: Parent’s Warm Line

1997-1978  Emergency Assistance: Travis County Emergency Social Services

Early Employment

1987-2003  St. Austin’s School Substitute Teacher

1980-1992  Director: Children’s Discovery Center

1979-1980  Preschool Instructor and Interim Director: Lanier Baptist Preschool

1978-1979  Legal Secretary: Gray B. Jolink, Attorney at Law

1976-1977  State of Texas Comptroller’s Office: Hinson-Hazzlewood Student Loan Officer

1974-1976  Receptionist and Bindery Clerk: Mix Printing Corporation

1975  Preschool Instructor: Open Door Preschool

Public Speaking Engagement and Professional Workshops

Present  Compassionate Care and Compassion Fatigue

Present  Sudden Wealth: Blessing Or Burden?

Present  Body Language/Body Image

Present  Dating With Dignity

Present  Anger Management

Present  Parenting Classes

Present  Teen Wolf: The Transitional Years

Membership on Board of Directors

Present  Settlement Home Of Austin Residential Treatment

Present  St. Edward’s University 

1994-2002  St. Stephen’s Episcopal School

1992-1998  Westlake United Methodist Preschool

1993-1994  Forest Trail Elementary

1988-1989  St. Austin’s Catholic School

1983-1988  Parent’s Warm Line: Founding Member

Civic Service

2022 Settlement Home Cashier Co-Chair

2005-Present  Settlement Home Department Chair

1997-Present  Settlement Home of Austin Residential Treatment Center

2008-2013  Hats For The Homeless

2008  St. Stephen’s Episcopal School Annual Fund Drive Chair

2004-2008  St. Stephen’s Episcopal School Parent Representative

1987-2003  St. Austin’s Catholic Church: Eucharistic Minister

1992-2003  Lost Creek Garden Club: Hospitality Chair, Sunshine Committee Chair and Communications Chair

1986-2003  St. Austin’s Catholic School Home Room Parent

2001-2008  Settlement Home of Austin: Adoptive Parent Representative

2001-2014  Settlement Home of Austin: Cottage Committee, Hostess and Communication Committee

2001-2003  St. Austin’s Catholic School Enrichment Committee

2001-2003  St. Stephen’s Episcopal School Academic Enrichment Chair

2001-2002  St. Austin’s Catholic School Fundraising Committee

2000-2003  St. Austin’s Catholic School Storyteller

1996-1998  Westlake United Methodist Preschool Class Assistant

1996  St. Stephen’s Episcopal School Staff Retirement Chair

1995-1996  St. Stephen’s Episcopal School Entertainment Committee

1994-1995  St. Stephen’s Episcopal School Endowment Chair

1993-1994  Forest Trail Elementary: Home Room Parent

1993-1994  St. Austin’s Catholic Church Courtyard Renovation Committee

1993-1994  Forest Trail Booster Club Committee Chair

1992-1994  St. Austin’s Catholic Church Acolyte Committee Chair

1988-1992  Lutheran Social Services Foster Parent (18 Children)

1988-1989  Eanes Elementary Language Arts Assistant

1997-1988  St. Austin’s Language Arts Assistant

1985  Austin Association for the Education of Young Children 

City-Wide Parade Chair

1983  Muscular Dystrophy Event Coordinator

1978-1981  Big Brothers/Big Sister: Big Sister

1977  Brykerwoods Elementary Title XX Reading Program

1973  American Association for Hemophiliacs Fundraising

Training

2022: 

Testifying is Terrifying

Virtual Ethics in Space

Managing Your HIPAA Compliance an Risk

NFTs in Family Law

The Case for Forgiveness fro Family Law Attorneys

Implementing HIPAA and Technology Assisted Services

Working with High Conflict Couples with Dr. Ellyn Bader

Treating Trauma

Jurisprudence Exam

Therapist Disclosure, Transference and Self-Care in the Work Environment

Resolving Ethical Issues During a Pandemic

Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council Updates

Assessment, Neurophysiological Understanding and Psychotherapeutic Treatment

Calming Upset Clients and Others

Acceptance Commitment Therapy Made Easy 


2021: 

Making Your Case: Proving Alienation in High-Conflict Custody Matters

Soar To Health and Wellness

A Complete Guide to Legal and Technology Challenges

Self-Harm Awareness

Moving Beyond Conflict: Enhancing Child Centered Decision-Making Post 

Pandemic  

2020:

Jurisprudence Exam

True Intimacy 

Understanding  About Domestic Violence 

Safe, Effective and Workable Parenting Plans

Stacking the Deck in Favor of the Children

Trial Skills for Mental Health Professionals

Stacking the Deck in Favor of the Children

Teens in the Digital World

Alienation Meaning in the Field of Family Law

Safe, Appropriate and Workable Parenting Plans. Defining and Understanding Domestic Violence  Acceptance Commitment Therapy

TAMFT Ethics Rule Updates

Dialectical Behavior Therapy    

Reflective Processes With Difficult Clients 

Haunted by the Past: A Batter’s Nodal Events

Between Worlds: Working with Immigrant Families

Men’s Decision-Making Process in Infidelity

Board Changes for Marriage and Family Therapists

 Practice Makes Perfect: Creativity in Therapy

Creating a Clear Path: Lighting the Way to Recovery

The Power of Meaning  

Bowen Family Systems Theory in Therapy Practice

2019  

Borderline, Narcissistic, Antisocial and Histrionic, Personality Disorders: Effective Treatment for Challenging Clients

How to Recognize, Understand and Talk About Domestic Violence

Ketamine Treatment in Mental Health  

The Brain and Recovery: Neuroscience

The Enneagram and Relationships

The Expert, Expert Witness

The Pain of Trauma, The Trauma of Pain

The Three Basic Instincts

 Ethics for Health Professionals, Essential Ethics/ Legal Issues

2018    

Nurturing Program Facilitator

 The Future of Resilient Families

 Texas State Counselor’s Jurisprudence Exam

Recovery Forward: New Initiatives for Better Outcomes

Code of Conduct

Pornified: The Rise of Porn Addiction and the Impact on 

 Individuals, Relationships and Families

2017  

Working with Muslim Couples

Attachment and Trauma: The Neurobiology of Healing

Law and Ethics: Mental Health Clinicians and the Legal System

The Trauma, Body and Chronic Illness Connection

Understanding Aging and Longevity: The Bio-Social Process

Ethics  

Trauma: Expressive Therapy Exercises for Mind, Body and Spirit

 Legislative Impact on Behavioral Health

 Navigation of the Court Process

 Near Death Experience International Symposium

 Internal Family Systems

 Healthy Body Image  

 Ethics in Psychotherapy  

 Neuro-Feedback Fundamentals

 Finding Self In Relationship

2016  

Your License and Your Future

Treating OCD in Complex Young People

New Ways For Families of High Conflict Divorce

 Introduction to the Enneagram

2015 

 Contemporary Ethics on Couple’s Therapy

 Antidepressants: How Well Do They Really Work?

 Trauma, PTSD, Traumatic Grief: Effective Assessments 

 And Immediate Interventions

 Practicing Spirituality in Recovery

LGBTQ+ 101

The Power of Apology and Forgiveness

 Grief and Loss: An Integrated Approach

 Beyond Body Image

 Understanding CPS for Mental Health Providers

 Teens and Eating Disorders

 New Ways For Families

 Public Speaking For Therapists

 Adapting Addiction Recovery Strategies to Treat Binge Eating 

 ADHD Strategies For Treatment: Part I and Part II

 Family Dynamics in Recovery

 Nutrition Therapy in Recovery

2014 

 Mediation: UT Law School 

 Psychotropic Medications

 Ethical Principles in Practice

 HIV Treatment, Resources and Stigma Reduction

 Understanding Counselor Liability 

 Male Eating Disorders, Symptoms, And Ethical Consideration

2014  Boyhood: Diagnosis and Discussion

 Professional Counselors Jurisprudence Exam

 Skills In Communication With Patients

 Date Rape Culture: Fact and Fiction

2013 

 New Ways For Families

 Working With Avoidantly Attached Men

 Autism Is A Family Matter

 Can Men Be Co-Dependent

 Licensure Requirements

 Professional Business Entities

 Transference And Counter Transference

 Electric Socket Sex

 Better Sleep, Better Memory

2012 

 Ethics

 Community Art Therapy

 Crime After Crime

 Traumatic Brain Injury

2011 

 Psychological and Spiritual Perspectives Of Suffering And Renewal In Families

 Intuitive Mind In Relationships

 Female Sexual Awareness

 Internal Family Systems

 The Explosive Child

 Intervention and Co-Morbidities

 Gottman Level I And Level II

 Love In The Time Of Twitter

2010  

How The Body Releases Trauma And Restores Goodness

 Ethics Of Diagnosis

 Journey Into Wholeness And Humility

 Science Of Happiness

 Imago Relationship Therapy

 Neurobiological Information Processing

 Trauma and The Body In Relationships

 Integration of Hypnosis in Clinical Practice

2009  Neurobiology: 9 Month Studies Of The Brain And Behavior  

Smart Marketing For Therapists

 Surviving Their Infidelity

 Healing Pathways After Trauma

 Long Term Intimacy

 Grief Recovery

 Introverts: Are They Normal?

 Social Isolation

 Marketing On A Shoestring

 Texas Jurisprudence Exam

2008  Collaborative Therapy

 Relationship Energetics

 State of the State for Marriage and Family Therapy

 Texas Families, Drugs and Alcohol

 Collaborative Problem Solving

 Anger Management For Teens

 Managing Medical Care

 Oppositional Defiant Disorder

 Self-Care

 Charter School Protocol

 GLBT Awareness

 Getting The Most Out Of Study Time

 Therapeutic Recreation

 Self-Injuring Behavior In Youth

 Working With APD and Mental Health Officers

 Utilizing Peer Mentors

 Group Counseling Skills

 Communication, Culture and Values

1980-1993 

 First Aide and CPR

1989

  Expectations, Fragmentation and Validation

 How Babies Learn

 Family Affair

 Dilemmas Of Helping

1988 

 Who’s Minding The Children?

 Step-Families: A Cooperative Responsibility: 

 Yours, Mine and Ours

 Stress Management

1987

  Legal Ramifications

 Neuro Linguistics

 Child Development

 Child Rearing and Development

 Shaping Children With Language

 Learning Disabilities In The Classroom

1986 

 General Principles Of Education

 Management

1981  

Your Child’s Self-Esteem

 Personnel Management and Supervision

 

Personal Interests

 Oil Painting, Reading, Gardening, Stitching and Travel

Professional Organizations

 Texas Association For Marriage and Family Therapist 

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