News & Events
Recent News & Upcoming Events
Join us at our Spring Open House!
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2026 | Time: 6:00pm - 8:00 pm
Come join us in person for the Spring Open House at City Center Psychotherapy! This is a great opportunity to meet other local practitioners. Spend time with local practitioners and enjoy light refreshments.
We're looking forward to welcoming you to our office.
RSVPs are required for this event.
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Juli Teitler, LCAT, ATR-BC presents ‘Beyond Words: Visual Thinking Tools in Clinical Practice’ for Rutgers University
Date: Friday, May 29, 2026 | Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm
Many clinicians encounter moments when verbal processing alone does not move therapy forward. Clients may feel emotionally flooded, stuck in rumination, or able to articulate insight without meaningful change. This workshop introduces art-informed visual tools that support core CBT and ACT processes such as externalization, cognitive defusion, and values clarification.
Participants will learn when to introduce visual externalization, how to use art as a thinking aid similar to thought records or diagrams, and how to maintain ethical scope using the ExpressiveTherapies Continuum framework. Through structured examples and experiential practice, clinicians will develop skills in observation-based inquiry and applying art interventions within cognitive and behavioral treatment. This approach is important because it offers another pathway into the work when language alone is insufficient, while keeping the CBT framework central and
clinically grounded.
This webinar provides 3 CEs for social workers.
Dr. Hemphill presents ‘Actualizing ACT: Translating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy’s Concepts and Metaphors to Practice’ for NYU Silver School of Social Work
Date: Friday, April 17, 2026 | Time: 10:00am - 12:00 pm
This workshop engages the practitioner who has foundational knowledge and training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) by overcoming common obstacles to implementation of this modality related to translating principles, concepts and metaphors to real life scenarios and challenges. After a brief review of the ACT hexaflex, it will focus on dimensions within it - self as observer, thought diffusion, acceptance and committed action - often cited as the most difficult to concretize. ACT has important and powerful potential to improve an individual's psychological flexibility. This presentation will employ the thinking processes familiar in case conceptualization, case examples, role plays and activities to help the practitioner to collaborate with individual clients more effectively so that this potential is better realized.
This webinar provides 2 CEs for social workers.
Past News & Events
Juli Teitler, LCAT, ATR-BC presents ‘Art, Language, and CBT-Informed Thinking in Art Therapy Practice’ for Nazareth University
Date: Friday, March 27, 2026 | Time: 9:00am - 11:00 am
This 2-hour virtual webinar introduces art therapy students and early-career clinicians to foundational concepts from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) through an art therapy centered lens, with no prior CBT training required.
Participants will receive an accessible overview of CBT, followed by an introduction to top-down and bottom-up processing and how these frameworks relate to art-based clinical work. While art therapy often emphasizes what images can communicate beyond words, this training highlights the important role of language, therapist dialogue, and narrative in helping clients reflect on, organize, and integrate the meanings that emerge through art-making.
Rather than teaching CBT as a standalone modality, the webinar focuses on how CBT informed concepts can support clinical thinking, observation, and guided reflection within art therapy practice. A brief experiential art intervention will b included to demonstrate how art-making, reflection, and language work together in session. The webinar concludes with a summary of key concepts and considerations for ethical, scope appropriate integration.
Dr. Schmidt presents on Advanced Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD for Rutgers University School of Social Work
This Advanced ERP for OCD seminar goes beyond the basis of ERP. Participants will learn treatment approaches for many of the common subtypes of OCD seen in clinical practice. We will review ERP approaches for Harm-OCD, Sexual/Gender-OCD, Religiosity/Scrupulosity-OCD, Relationship-OCD, Somatic-OCD and “neutral obsessions”. We will also briefly review “Pure-O” and OCD-Related Issues including perfectionism, OCPD, and Hoarding.
This event will be interactive, and attendees are encouraged to ask questions and participate in discussion throughout the seminar. We will use PowerPoint slides and videos to demonstrate treatment methods and to stimulate discussion. Join us for this Advanced ERP for OCD seminar to hone your ERP skills.
Note: This is an advanced webinar. It is recommend/requested that attendees first attend the webinar Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD, Friday, August 8, 2025, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, or have a history of treating at least 2 or 3 people with OCD using ERP.
Dr. Schmidt presents on Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD for Rutgers University School of Social Work
This two-hour webinar will provide an overview of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Exposure and Ritual Prevention (ERP) therapy as a treatment method. This presentation will give attendees a firm understanding of what OCD is, what OCD is not, and how to assess OCD. Next, we will review treatment principles, how and why ERP works, and how to deliver ERP in a therapeutic setting. The presentation will also cover why client education about OCD and the involvement of a client’s family and/or social circle are so important.
Dr. Meredith Hemphill named Partner
City Center is pleased to announce that after nearly six years of commitment and dedication, Meredith Hemphill, DSW, LCSW-R has been promoted to “Partner” at City Center Psychotherapy.
Meredith has brought incredible dedication and commitment to her patients and supervisees in her roles as Clinical Director and Director of Community Outreach over the years. Compassionate, patient, and always willing to contribute to the overall well being of CCP and our team, Meredith will only thrive in her new role as “Partner and Clinical Director." Please join us in congratulating her on this exciting new role.
Dr. Schmidt presents on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Rutgers University School of Social Work
Taking ACTion: An Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)" will provide an overview of ACT and highlight the ways in which ACT methods enhance and support traditional Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). Dr. Schmidt will cover the foundations of ACT, including the six core components; Acceptance, Defusion, Present Moment, Self As Context, Values and Committed Action. This interactive webinar will demonstrate the core components while emphasizing the role of psychological flexibility, openness and willingness. Similarities and differences between ACT and traditional CBT will also be covered and participants will learn how to integrate these methods. This interactive presentation includes exercises and case examples to model ACT techniques and their application in work with clients. Participants will gain a solid understanding of the foundations of ACT and learn how to apply ACT methods in their practice.
Dr. Schmidt presents on Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD for Rutgers University School of Social Work
This two-hour webinar presented by Dr. Andrew Schmidt will provide an overview of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Exposure and Ritual Prevention (ERP) therapy as a treatment method. It will provide a firm understanding of what OCD is, what OCD is not, and how to assess OCD. Dr. Schmidt will review treatment principles, how and why ERP works, and how to deliver ERP in a therapeutic setting. The presentation will also cover why client education about OCD and the involvement of a client’s family and/or social circle are so important.
Dr. Schmidt presents on Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD for Rutgers University School of Social Work
This three-hour presentation will provide an overview of ACT and highlight the ways in which ACT methods enhance and support traditional Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). Dr. Schmidt will cover the foundations of ACT, including the six core components; Acceptance, Defusion, Present Moment, Self As Context, Values and Committed Action.
This interactive webinar will demonstrate the core components while emphasizing the role of psychological flexibility, openness and willingness. Similarities and differences between ACT and traditional CBT will also be covered and participants will learn how to integrate these methods. This interactive presentation includes exercises and case examples to model ACT techniques and their application in work with clients. Participants will gain a solid understanding of the foundations of ACT and learn how to apply ACT methods in their practice.
Dr. Schmidt presents on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Rutgers University School of Social Work - Extended (3 hour) presentation
On July 25th at 2pm, Dr. Schmidt will present a second time for Rutgers University School of Social Work on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). This presentation will be an extended version of the one presented back in March, running 3 hours instead of 2 and will provide an overview of ACT and highlight the ways in which ACT methods enhance and support traditional Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT).
Dr. Schmidt presents on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Rutgers University School of Social Work
Taking ACTion: An Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)" will provide an overview of ACT and highlight the ways in which ACT methods enhance and support traditional Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). Dr. Schmidt will cover the foundations of ACT, including the six core components; Acceptance, Defusion, Present Moment, Self As Context, Values and Committed Action. This interactive webinar will
demonstrate the core components while emphasizing the role of psychological flexibility, openness and willingness. Similarities and differences between ACT and traditional CBT will also be covered and participants will learn how to integrate these methods. This interactive presentation includes exercises and case examples to model ACT techniques and their application in work with clients. Participants will gain a solid understanding of the foundations of ACT and learn how to apply ACT methods in their practice.
City Center's own Dr. Meredith Hemphill co-edited and wrote in a new book on social work in healthcare with Dr. Abigail Nathanson. Congratulations to them on this huge accomplishment.
The Practice of Clinical Social Work in Healthcare (2023) was written by 28 social workers, each with extensive experience in frontline healthcare practice, from over 20 institutions across the country. Taking a psychosocial lens of illness with social work at the center of psychosocial care, the text focusing primarily on clinical aspects rather than systems-level work. This book looks at trauma, social justice, bereavement and countertransference in each illness cluster and also includes chapters on communicating with children about an adult's illness, trauma-informed approaches to serious illness, and impacts of social policy on the provision of clinical work in healthcare.
Robert Herel presents on Healthy Boundaries for NASW NYS
This one-hour webinar will explore boundary setting in these unusual times including understanding what healthy boundaries look like, triggering situations that can cause disruptions in healthy boundaries, and ways to cope with issues and reinstate boundaries when they are overstepped.
Join Robert Herel, LCSW-R Thursday, July 22 at 9:00am for Family Boundaries in a Boundary-less Time. Registration available via NASW NYS.
Winifred Wu presents on Mindfulness for NASW NYS
City Center is excited to announce that Winifred Wu, LCSW, will present on Mindfulness in social work practice for NASW New York State.
Join Winnie Wednesday, June 16th from 12:00pm-1:00pm for Incorporating Mindfulness into Clinical Settings. Registration available via NASW NYS.