Live CE Webinars for Mental Health Professionals

Overview: This intensive training, led by Karen Landmann, LCSW, will empower participants with the knowledge and practical skills to effectively apply Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to the unique needs of refugee trauma survivors. Through a blend of didactic instruction, experiential exercises, and case-based discussions, participants will gain a deep familiarity with DBT principles and their application to refugee populations. The training will focus on core DBT skills, including mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, and explore how to adapt these skills to address the specific challenges faced by refugees. Participants will leave the training with a robust toolkit of practical strategies to enhance their clinical practice and improve outcomes for this vulnerable population.

Overview: Your work with your individual or couple client(s) and their family members (even if their family is not in the room) is indeed its own “system”. Lisa DeLuca, LCSW-R will help us understand linear vs. systems thinking. You will learn to apply Family Systems to structure session work, to prevent common ethical hazards like triangulation and alliances that only serve to disempower clients and derail the work. Understand how to de-triangulate, and teach your client to do the same. Learn how to use the genogram to help your client better understand their own triggering in a self-compassionate way, while complying with professional ethics by privately using your own genogram to anticipate, prevent and resolve your counter-transference. In this training Lisa will teach us step-by-step when and how to invite your individual clients’ family members into a powerful one-time session to help your client get unstuck and begin building better communication between self and family.

Overview: Join co-hosts Alexa Donnelly, LCSW and Nicole DelPrete,LMSW, bringing important elements to light for providing effective and supportive supervision for current supervisors and those interested in pursuing supervisory roles. Attendees will gain enhanced insight surrounding components of effective vs ineffective supervision techniques, explore important ways supervisors promote inclusive organizational culture, and discuss strategies for helping organizational staff achieve strong commitment to mission-driven practices

Overview: Structural racism has been endemic in North America since before the formation of the United States of America. Even though structural racism, most particularly anti-Black structural racism, is historically rooted and systematically sustained, we continually seek to combat it with the “one bad apple” approach. This presentation will expand our view from a micro, or individual level, to a macro, or group level, understanding of racism. Participants will examine structural racism as a form of inequity and systemic disadvantage that yields disparate access to resources, opportunities, and life outcomes. Participants will be guided in defining and framing structural racism in association with the ways in which policies, practices, and institutions produce and sustain racial disparities. Particular attention will be given to the concept of community trauma, highlighting how structural inequities adversely impacts predominately Black communities. Structural competency will be introduced as a practical framework for combating structural racism, mitigating its impact, and promoting equity.

Overview: Join CE You moderator, therapist, and founder of "Therapy Connection", Andrea Brognano, LMHC as we explore the ethics of professional boundaries. Participants will examine practitioners' ethical obligation to maintain appropriate professional boundaries and why these boundaries are important, defining and recognizing the potential dangers of dual relationships, as well as identifying circumstances that could impair objectivity and professional judgment. This webinar can also be used for fulfilling the New York State "Professional Boundaries" continuing education requirement for Social Workers.

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