Professional Will Writing Workshop
with Natasha Morisawa, LMFT; Patrick Reeves, LMFT; Kathleen Reeves, MDiv
In-Person CE Event for Therapists
WHEN
Saturday, November 15, 2025 | 9:00am - 2:00pm
See specific timeframe breakdown below.
WHERE
Monrovia Library Community Room
(321 S Myrtle Ave. Monrovia, CA 91016)
COST
Licensed Members: $90
Licensed Non-members: $100
Associate Members: $75
Associate Non-members: $80
CE CREDITS
4
PROGRAMS CHAIR/EVENT ORGANIZER
Kathryn Bikle, LMFT
About This Event
Working on a professional will is challenging in isolation. We may put it off or not update it regularly. SGV-CAMFT is providing an opportunity to do a deeper dive by looking at the reasons why we struggle with this and any end-of-life planning. Then we’ll support each other in taking the next steps to have our own professional will or update the one we already have.
Catered lunch will be provided by Seasoning Alley, Monrovia (GF DF Vegetarian available).
This workshop is offered in partnership with The Place Within-Southern California.
Registration is limited to 50 people, with a waitlist opportunity, so be sure to register early. We look forward to seeing you there! Registration closes November 6, 2025.
Education Goals/Learning Objectives
By the end of this presentation participants will:
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Name 3 barriers to end of life planning.
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Identify 3 complimentary practices therapists can work with around death and dying.
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Understand parts of a professional will through a provided template.
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Construct a plan to complete and update a professional will.
Presenter(s)
Natasha Morisawa, MA, LMFT has interest in helping people prepare for and respond to disasters formed over 20+ years in paid and volunteer roles with the American Red Cross. As a Marriage and Family Therapist and Supervisor in private practice, her specialties include working with families and individuals exploring the impact of individual and generational trauma through systems-based, somatic, mindfulness, eco-psychotherapy, and attachment-based lenses. In addition to private practice, she’s the current Executive Director of The Place Within- Southern California, a non-profit community mental health center in Monrovia, CA. She is also a Veriditas Trained Labyrinth Facilitator and co-hosts a passion project podcast called Ponder While We Wander. It is likely that if you cross paths with her in the wild, you may be in a local garden or bookstore, generally walking about, or around a campfire. Feel free to connect with Natasha on Instagram @natashamft_ or visit her virtually at www.MindfulMFT.com or https://ponderwhilewewander.com/podcast-info/.
Patrick Reeves, MA, LMFT, PhD is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Southern California. His clinical work focuses on spiritual transitions and religious trauma, neurodivergence, and men’s issues. He holds an MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, a PhD in the History of Religious Thought from the University of Iowa, and an MA in History from California State University, Fullerton. Before becoming a therapist, Patrick worked for over two decades in higher education as a professor, academic dean, and provost. He currently teaches part-time at local colleges. His background in both psychotherapy and the humanities informs a practice attentive to the symbolic, archetypal, and practical dimensions of transitions, grief, and meaning-making. He lives in Upland, California with his wife, Kathleen Reeves, and is the father of four adult children. Find him at https://patrickreeves.net.
Kathleen Reeves, ThD, MDiv, BCC is a Board-Certified Chaplain, Clinical Pastoral Educator, and eco-chaplain who has spent many years accompanying people at the threshold of death and walking with families through the terrain of grief. She serves as Spiritual Care Coordinator at Pilgrim Place, a progressive retirement community in Claremont, and as Bereavement Coordinator with RIVA Hospice of California. Kathleen holds a ThD in Clinical Pastoral Psychotherapy and an M.Div. with an emphasis in process philosophy and thanatology. Her work draws on a wide tapestry of traditions—Whiteheadian thought, Celtic spirituality, myth, and contemplative practice—always returning to the lived experience of presence with others. She teaches chaplains, therapists, and community members to face mortality with honesty and reverence, to listen deeply, and to find meaning in the stories that shape us. She is also a poet, writer, and artist, with work published in Poetry Quarterly, River Poets Journal, Altadena Poetry Review Anthology, Open Horizons, Becomings Collective, Lullwater Review, and Psychological Perspectives (C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles). Her mythopoetic writings, which often engage Jungian and process-relational themes, explore death, transformation, and the beauty of becoming, weaving story and philosophy into living practices of care. Kathleen believes that death is not only an end but also a teacher, a mirror, and a call into deeper humanity. She is married and lives with her husband Patrick Reeves in Upland California. Her writing can be found on her blog, https://whole-beings.com/.
Event Schedule
9:00am: Doors open for coffee and networking (Check in)
9:30am: Program begins (Objective 1 & 2)
11:45am: break for lunch (30 min)
12:15pm: Program continues (Objective 3)
12:45pm: Exercise to prepare for writing
1:00pm: Go through template (Q&A integrated)
1:30pm: Accountability and follow through groups (Discussion, Q&A integrated), Objective 4
2:00pm: Conclusions, evaluation, CE Certificate
Questions?
Please email Kathryn Bikle, LMFT at kathryn.bikle@gmail.com with further inquiries about this event.
Other Details
View event policies here.
This is an introductory, intermediate, and advanced level course. This program will benefit LMFT, LPCC, LEP and LCSW licensees and pre-licensees.
This course meets the qualifications for 4 hours of continuing education law and ethics credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
CE credit will be awarded after completion of this course and a course evaluation, sent via email.
The San Gabriel Valley Chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (SGV-CAMFT), provider #60957, is approved by CAMFT to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. SGV-CAMFT maintains the responsibility for the program and all its content.
