Live CE Webinars for Mental Health Professionals

Overview: In this essential webinar, Deborah Levinson, LCSW will equip you to better empower your clients to navigate the complexities and uncertainties of the modern healthcare landscape. We will focus on strategies you can teach clients to find and rely on trustworthy health information, learn practical methods to help clients strengthen their patient-provider relationships and effectively advocate for quality care within today's fragmented, time-restricted managed care system, and discuss resource gaps in coverage for mental health and geriatric care, as well as disparities and barriers facing vulnerable populations, in effort to better help all clients secure the best care possible.

Overview: Therapy meets technology! Andrea Brognano, LMHC guides participants through the multidimensional aspects of cyberspace as a therapeutic setting. Gain enhanced insight surrounding the origin and background of online therapy and applied technology platforms, contexts and circumstances to be examined in determining appropriateness of online therapy for different client populations, as well as challenges and safeguards for maintaining client privacy and the ethical responsibilities of clinicians providing services online.

Overview: In this webinar, Dr. Tim Victorella equips participants with a comprehensive framework for suicide prevention by bridging systemic data with individual care. Attendees will learn to analyze the intersection of public health trends and clinical warning signs to facilitate earlier and more effective intervention. The session provides practical strategies to execute trauma-informed risk assessments and professional protocols for managing immediate crisis workflows. Attendees will also learn to evaluate individual protective factors which help co-create collaborative and strengths-based long-term safety plans that foster lasting resilience.

Overview: This essential course equips social workers and mental health professionals with the tools to create truly inclusive and affirming services. With therapist Katie Bingner, MS, LCPC as our guide, we'll delve into recognizing diverse cultural values, beliefs, and practices within the LGBTQ+ community and beyond. Learn culturally sensitive communication and intervention strategies to ensure effective service delivery for all your clients. But inclusion goes deeper. We'll explore how to identify and dismantle systemic barriers that create inequities for clients. You'll gain the skills to advocate for policies and practices that promote social justice and dismantle discriminatory structures within systems and the broader community. We'll also critically analyze the concepts of power, privilege, and oppression. Understanding how these factors impact your clients and how your own practice empowers you to be a more effective advocate and champion for positive change. Join us and build a practice that is truly inclusive and helps all clients to thrive!

Overview: Do you ever feel like some clients are presenting a puzzle with missing pieces? Traditional approaches might not be enough for those struggling with intense emotions, flashbacks, or avoidance behaviors. This could be a sign of underlying trauma. Led by professional counselor and clinical supervisor Jodi Geis-Crowder , this webinar is designed for busy mental health professionals seeking to elevate their practice skills and become leaders in trauma-informed care. We'll review recognition of trauma as well as delve deeper to enhance assessment techniques which help to identify the often-subtle presentations of trauma in clients. We'll discover how cultural beliefs profoundly influence responses to trauma, and discuss effective treatment modalities. Macro practice will also be addressed, exploring ways to become change agents within our systems, identifying and advocating against retraumatizing policies, fostering collaboration with colleagues to build a robust support network for clients and communities. We will also focus on solutions and envisioning a life absent of trauma responses.

Overview: This webinar, led by Lisa DeLuca, LCSW, explores the transformative power of bottom-up interventions like Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Rather than relying solely on cognitive processing, participants will learn to access the "body's scorecard" - the unconscious procedural patterns that store traumatic memory. Case studies will depict how shifting the client's focus to mindful awareness of physical sensations not only keeps clients in their window of tolerance but can also help clients move forward. See how to help clients reframe their troubling symptoms as adaptive wisdom and use the body as a primary resource for healing.

Overview: Explore and reflect on your own views of race and racial bias with Dr. Monique Swift, PsyD, LMHC, LPC! Participants will also learn how our brains have a natural proclivity toward bias, as well as gain strategies for developing anti-bias clinical practice from a place of cultural humility.

Overview: This essential course equips social workers and mental health professionals with the tools to create truly inclusive and affirming services. With therapist Katie Bingner, MS, LCPC as our guide, we'll delve into recognizing diverse cultural values, beliefs, and practices within the LGBTQ+ community and beyond. Learn culturally sensitive communication and intervention strategies to ensure effective service delivery for all your clients. But inclusion goes deeper. We'll explore how to identify and dismantle systemic barriers that create inequities for clients. You'll gain the skills to advocate for policies and practices that promote social justice and dismantle discriminatory structures within systems and the broader community. We'll also critically analyze the concepts of power, privilege, and oppression. Understanding how these factors impact your clients and how your own practice empowers you to be a more effective advocate and champion for positive change. Join us and build a practice that is truly inclusive and helps all clients to thrive!

Overview: Explore the unique and fascinating elements of character with Anne Redelfs, M.D.! Participants will gain new insight surrounding often overlooked sources of deep-seated trauma that explain common dysfunctional character traits as well as extremes of asocial and antisocial behavior. We'll examine the extensive consequences of unresolved childhood trauma and how these can be remedied through relating to this "inner rebel" and uncovering its "cause". Tools and strategies for enlivening clients and loved ones by identifying their hidden traumas as well as the recovery steps that might progress their developmental journeys will also be discussed.

Overview: Shoshana Averbach LMSW, MA, MSW, CCM, CDP, MT-BC, LCAT brings us into the world of empaths and sensitive souls. As we explore the impact these traits may have on clients, participants will take part in this meaningful discussion as we define empaths and sensitive souls as the concepts relate to practice with individuals navigating overwhelm and information overload, conceptualize theory surrounding empaths and sensitivity in the context of relationships, work, and life challenges, as well as consider coping strategies that may offer clients ways to create customized balance and boundaries essential to navigating a variety of life settings and situations as empathic individuals.