15 Mind-Body, Somatic Techniques to Quiet the Neurological Landscape
ID: 5431WEBThis is an all day webinar from 9:30am to 3:30pm. All emotions are felt in the body, yet the physicality of stress is often ignored as a point of therapeutic intervention. We intuitively hold a crying baby, hug a teammate and place a hand on the shoulder of a grieving person. This highly experiential workshop will demonstrate 15 mind-body, somatic tools for inclusion in your clinical practice and for clients to use at home. Some of these techniques are comprehensive like the Emotional Freedom Techniques Tapping, or the Brief Energy Correction. Some are purely for psychological aid; some rebalance our energy and most reduce stress levels. Many calm our bodies’ finely tuned, protective alarm systems, and ease anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and pain. Attendees must attend the full day to receive a certificate for continuing education hours.
Fee: $110.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 5.5 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCEP, Int'l Cert Master EFT
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 6, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 3:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Advanced Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD
ID: 5499WEBThis Advanced ERP for OCD seminar goes beyond the basics 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.Fee: $40.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 1.5 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Andrew Schmidt, PhD, LCSW-R
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| Date: | Friday, August 15, 2025 |
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| Time: | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of Children
ID: 5654WEBThis four-part webinar seeks to enhance the clinician's ability to diagnose child mental disorders accurately and comprehensively. We will address two major topic areas: 1) the key factors in accurate assessment, including developmental perspectives, the use of multiple data sources and standardized assessment tools; and 2) major diagnostic categories, including disruptive behavior, reactive attachment disorder and early character dysfunction in children. The workshop will include didactic presentation and case-centered group exercises. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring sample vignettes that illustrate diagnostic difficulties and puzzles. It is suggested that participants bring a copy of the DSM-5, if possible. *This is a four-part webinar, attendees must attend all four sessions to receive a certificate of completion. [Required for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $240.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 12.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Susan Esquilin, PhD, ABPP-Clinical
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| Date: | July 24, 2025 / July 25, 2025 / July 31, 2025 / August 1, 2025 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Attachment Theory: A Helpful Framework for Understanding and Intervening with Placed At-Risk Children and Families
ID: 5653WEBFormerly titled: Understanding and Intervening with At-Risk Children & Families. Secure attachment has been found to be associated with better social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes of children. Maternal sensitivity is thought to be a major contributor to the development of a secure attachment. This webinar will provide participants with an introduction to attachment theory and its relevance to clinical practice with at risk children and their families. Important contributors to attachment theory, as well as their research will be reviewed, including John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, and Harry Harlow. More recent research on attachment and neurobiology, particularly by Alan Schore will be discussed. Participants will learn about the importance of sensitivity in fostering a healthy parent-child relationship, thereby laying the foundation for future mental health. Participants will learn to evaluate parent-child interactions within the context of sensitivity, and will learn strategies to improve parental sensitivity. Cultural issues and their impact on parenting and sensitivity, as well as implications for the therapist-client relationship will also be discussed. [Required for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Tawanda Hubbard, PhD, DSW, LCSW
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| Date: | Friday, July 18, 2025 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Attachment Theory: What's Love Got to Do With It?
ID: 5619WEBAttachment research shows that when people fail to address childhood wounds, they end up repeating those attachment patterns into adulthood. Preoccupied, insecure, dismissive, and fearful attachment styles are correlated with mental health problems, addiction and chronic relational problems. Helping clients understand these historic patterns and creating a secure attachment in the therapeutic relationship are the keys to healing and creating healthy connections with others. Participants will be able to Explain how patterns of childhood attachment continues to impact people throughout their lives. Describe how the therapeutic relationship can help promote secure attachment in other relationships. Identify how love and attachment are related State what blocks attachment and learn strategies to unblock it and explain the essential connection between the presence of love in a therapeutic relationship and the client’s ability to heal.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Connie Palmer, LCSW
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 29, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Becoming a Sex-Positive Therapist: Everything Your Grad Program Didn't Teach You About Supporting Clients' Sex Lives
ID: 5332WEBTraditional graduate training in psychotherapy often leaves clinicians underprepared to navigate conversations about their clients' sex lives with confidence, competence, and cultural humility. Many therapists find themselves avoiding discussions about sexuality, defaulting to pathologizing perspectives, or struggling to offer meaningful interventions when faced with complex sexual concerns. This workshop will equip mental health professionals with essential knowledge and skills to support clients in addressing common sexual concerns, navigating differences in sexual meaning-making, and fostering healthier, more fulfilling intimate relationships. Topics covered include intimacy discrepancies, sexual diversity and stigma, fantasy vs. behavior distinctions, initiation challenges, sexual trauma, and existential approaches to sex therapy. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of sexual issues, strategies to foster open communication, and tools to create a truly sex-positive therapeutic environment.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Kaylee Rose Friedman, MA, LPC, CST
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| Date: | Friday, July 11, 2025 |
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| Time: | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Bullies to Buddies
ID: 4185WEBSince the tragedy of Columbine, schools have desperately attempted to eliminate the problem of bullying through strategies of punishing bullies, reinforcing the standard that bullying is wrong and by identifying role models who stand up against bullying. Even with all these efforts the problem of bullying is increasing. Schools are reporting an even higher number of bullying cases in the aftermath of the pandemic. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. In this webinar you will learn social skills that professionals can teach students to use in response to aggression from others. You will also learn the psychological principles that make this method so effective. The Bullies to Buddies method, developed by psychologist Izzy Kalman, teaches a way to respond to a bully that immediately decreases the incidence of bullying and strengthens the victim's resilience because they have been empowered to solve the problem. You will also learn how ways to help the bully decrease aggression and increase productive social behavior. This method doesn't just change the lives of individual students; it has the potential to change the entire culture of a school and its community. [Elective for Child/Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Connie Palmer, LCSW
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 5, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Creative Approaches to Couples Counseling
ID: 5558WEBThis webinar will focus on systems theory as applied to couples and present information on creative approaches to couples sessions such as feedback loops, redundancy principles, family sculpting, and paradoxical interventions. Participants will walk away with techniques to be applied to the couples counseling setting as well as their theoretical approach to couples.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Sara Martino, PhD, NCC, LPC
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 19, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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Creative Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety
ID: 5745WEBThis highly experiential webinar draws from the fields of cognitive behavioral therapy, yoga, mindfulness, and expressive arts. We will explore creative strategies and activities for psychoeducation and intervention with children and teenagers ages 6-17 who experience anxiety. We will review important information about children and adolescents with anxiety, including ways to incorporate parent support. Participants will learn child & adolescent friendly ways to provide therapeutic support to their clients, including: developing appropriate psychoeducation, strategies to foster a calmer nervous system, externalizing the problem, and building a repertoire of effective coping skills. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Crystal Zelman, LCSW, CCLS, RPT-S
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 5, 2025 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Dealing with Challenges When Working with Parents and Families
ID: 5607WEBWhether you're an educator, CST member, administrator or mental health professional you share one thing in common-dealing with difficult parents and families. All of us have experienced problematic, unproductive, and/or uncomfortable interactions with parents/families. Whether it be issues of defensiveness, "my child does no wrong," noncompliance, or just plain hostile parents, it can place an incredible hurdle and stress on your job duties. So what can you do? In this workshop learn effective, practical tools, geared to help productively tailor your interventions around the most common types of challenging parents/families. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Brett Novick, MS, EdD, LMFT, CSSW
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| Date: | Monday, July 14, 2025 |
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| Time: | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Decoding the Language of Food and Eating: A Toolbox for Clinicians
ID: 5424WEBThis topic is offered as a 2-day webinar. This webinar is designed to introduce and enhance the repertoire of skills and techniques in the treatment of food and eating related issues. Behaviors and symptoms will be examined along the continuum from normal eating through disordered eating and on to eating disorders. Through participatory activities attendees will examine the many different, often hidden, meanings of food and explore the underlying dynamics of eating behaviors. Skills such as decoding, mindful eating, detailed inquiry and expanding the view of the behavior and identifying triggers, will be introduced and practiced. Participants will learn how to decode and reframe the food language into the authentic, relevant, underlying issues. Attendees must attend both days to receive a certificate of completion. [Required for Eating Disorders Clinical Certificate Program]
Fee: $100.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 5.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Leigh Garfield, LCSW
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 19, 2025 and Wednesday, August 20, 2025 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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East Meets West in Trauma Therapy - Cultivating Healing With the Body’s Wisdom
ID: 5376WEBExplore the impact of traumatic stress through an East-Meets-West lens. Find an integrated relationship between the 5 elements of Chinese Medicine, the neurophysiology of the self protective response, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Polyvagal Theory. Bottom-up approaches can help restore embodied experiences of balance and regulation in trauma survivors. Come explore ways to integrate these cutting edge approaches in your practice. [Elective for Trauma Response & Crisis Intervention Certificate Program]
Fee: $110.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 5.5 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Tracey Post, LCSW
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| Date: | Monday, July 21, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 3:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Embracing Differences and Diversity in the Clinical Treatment of Children and Adolescents
ID: 5658WEBFormer titled: Dealing with Differences and Diversity in the Clinical Treatment of Children and Adolescents. This webinar addresses ethnic and cultural differences relevant to the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents. The webinar will use examples from Latino, African American, and African Caribbean families, but will stress the dimensions of cultural difference that clinicians should explore when working across any cultural or ethnic difference. Topics will include the evaluation and treatment implications of cultural and ethnic differences: 1) family composition and family structure; 2) child-rearing and schooling practices; 3) gender and generational role expectations; 4) definitions of mental health and illness; 5) definitions of help and help-seeking; 6) the common clashes between client expectations and the professional helpers; and 7) ways for clinicians to bridge the gaps in culture reducing the effectiveness of services. The webinar will combine didactic presentations and group exercises. [Required for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 1.0 Clinical, 2.0 Social & Cultural Competence
| | Instructor: | Tawanda Hubbard, PhD, DSW, LCSW
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| Date: | Friday, August 1, 2025 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT): A Mind-Body Approach to the Anxiety Spectrum Disorders and Pain
ID: 5053WEBThis How-to Do-IT, neurologically informed webinar focuses on learning self-applied, meridian techniques to treat the anxiety spectrum disorders that includes GAD, Social Anxiety, Phobias, unwanted compulsions and habits, Acute Stress Disorders and Trauma. These disorders overwhelmingly report a somatic component often not addressed in traditional therapies. EFT is a comprehensive cognitive somatic approach that desensitizes 3 areas: unwanted thoughts, emotions and physical reactions. EFT/tapping quickly restores the emotional and physical dysregulation caused by negative experiences. A bonus is these methods also treat pain. Four ways to release pain is included in this workshop. These methods are emerging into both mental health and coaching arena for fast, lasting results. Add these methods to your practice to go beyond talk therapies, to reach those resistant, hard to treat problems. This workshop is fast moving and highly interactive, didactic and experiential.
Fee: $110.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 5.5 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCEP, Int'l Cert Master EFT
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 23, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 3:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD
ID: 5494WEBThis 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.
Note: A follow-up to this webinar is Advanced ERP for OCD, Friday, August 15, 2025, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm. Fee: $40.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 2.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Andrew Schmidt, PhD, LCSW-R
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| Date: | Friday, August 8, 2025 |
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| Time: | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Grieving Children and Teens: Creative Art Interventions for Individual, Group Work and Families
ID: 5732WEBCommon issues for grieving children will be explored, including factors affecting the grief response, how grief is expressed and understood at various developmental stages, needs of grieving children, and how the grief experience can vary across different religious and cultural backgrounds. A variety of creative & expressive art techniques appropriate for children ages 6-17 will be presented for social workers to utilize throughout the stages of bereavement. The techniques presented in this workshop can be utilized and adapted in clinical work with individual children/teenagers, groups, and families. Interventions include ideas and activities for psychoeducation, honoring & remembering loved ones, expressing feelings, coping, and building confidence. Participants will have the opportunity to explore many of the activities experientially. [Elective for Child/Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Crystal Zelman, LCSW, CCLS, RPT-S
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 29, 2025 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Introduction to Polyvagal Theory
ID: 5378WEBExploring Dr. Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, participants will gain a better understanding of the “The Science of Feeling Safe”. The autonomic nervous system is the foundation of all our lived experiences. Polyvagal Theory helps us better understand our clients’ survival patterns of mobilization and disconnection and why safety, co-regulation and connection are at the core of a resilient and flexible human experience.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Dawn Wilcox, LCSW
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 22, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Motivational Interviewing: Inviting and Acknowledging Change Talk
ID: 5209WEBThis webinar is for clinicians seeking an advanced level of Motivational Interviewing (MI) training. The learner will consider MI's application to a broad use of behavior changes ranging from health behaviors to substance use. The workshop offers a hands-on experiential learning approach with ample opportunity for role-plays, discussion, and case conceptualization. Participants will learn tangible skills for eliciting change talk with their clients, helping them to enhance motivation towards meaningful behavioral changes. Learners will leave with advanced knowledge of clinical interventions to utilize with clients to collaboratively address problem behaviors. *This is a 5.5 hour training. Attendees must attend the full day to receive a certificate of completion.
Fee: $110.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 5.5 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Bernard Showers, DSW, LCSW
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| Date: | Monday, August 11, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 3:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Not Just Benzodiazepines: Alternative Treatments of Anxiety and Depression
ID: 4199WEBThe primary goal of this webinar is to explore non-pharmaceutical treatment of depression and anxiety. The number of people looking for non-pharmaceutical interventions is increasing in both the psychiatric and addiction fields. One need look no further than the desire to decrease benzodiazepine (BZD) use. Treatments to be discussed include herbal and amino acid substances as well as vagal nerve stimulation.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 1.0 General, 2.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Craig Strickland, PhD
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 5, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Parent Hope Project: Clinical Certificate Training Program
ID: 8900The Parent Hope Project is a parent-focused intervention designed to support children who are struggling. Grounded in Bowen family systems theory and research, this clinical program equips professionals working with children, parents, and families with practical tools to foster lasting change.
The Parent Hope Project (PHP) is a powerful parent-focused intervention designed to reduce parental anxiety and to empower parents to make meaningful changes in themselves. Grounded in Bowen family systems theory and developed by Dr. Jenny Brown, PHP offers a clear, research-informed approach to reduce anxious over-focusing on children.
This training introduces the theoretical and research foundations of a differentiation-based parenting model, then outlines core clinical principles, the parent change process, and key systems concepts to share with families. Clinicians gain a strong framework for applying Bowen theory to real-world practice, with insights transferable to a range of client presentations.
Fee: $1300.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 41.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Jenny Brown, PhD
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| Date: | September 8, 2025 / September 29, 2025 / October 20, 2025 / November 3, 2025 / November 24, 2025 / December 15, 2025 / January 12, 2026 / January 26, 2026 / February 9, 2026 / February 23, 2026 / March 9, 2026 / March 30, 2026 / April 20, 2026 / May 4, 2026 / May 18, 2026 |
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| Time: | 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Parents as Healers: Recovering from the Trauma of Domestic Violence
ID: 1029WEBThis webinar will introduce an overall approach, Parents as Healers, which among other things gives the caregiver the knowledge and encouragement they need to be a dynamic partner with the therapist in the healing of their child’s trauma. Participants will learn how to create opportunities for parents and children to process traumatic experiences together using a variety of techniques including directive play therapy, verbal expression, creative arts, and more. Through experiential processing parents become more sensitized and responsive to their child. Participants will also be introduced to the importance of parent empowerment through effective discipline. Often after domestic violence, children can be irritable and oppositional. Some “step into” the role of the absent abuser and other times, the caregiver who had been victimized may not have developed the assertiveness skills needed to effectively manage his/her children. Guidelines for providing effective parent training for domestic violence survivors will be provided. [Elective for Child/Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Anne Marie Ramos, LCSW, RPT-S
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 13, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Diagnosis, Current Research, and Providing Effective Treatment
ID: 5421WEBPerinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMAD) occur in 1 in 5 pregnant mothers, and 1 in 7 new mothers. Experts agree that this statistic may be drastically underestimated, as more than 80% of new moms don’t seek help. Despite the pervasiveness of this diagnosis, most medical and mental health professionals receive very little education about maternal mental health. In this webinar, clinicians will gain an understanding of the range of PMAD diagnosis, risk factors for developing a PMAD, and the treatment available to new mothers. PMAD survivors will share their stories of recovery, and participants will apply treatment techniques in small groups. Attendees will leave with education and tools to support mothers’ mental health during the perinatal and postpartum period.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Jamie Hanley, MS, LPC, ERYT-500
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| Date: | Thursday, July 24, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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Reversing Parental Burnout
ID: 5140WEBCurrent research shows that 66% of working parents are experiencing burnout leading to increased child maltreatment, parental conflict, suicidal ideation and substance abuse. Participants will learn how to assess, diagnose, and treat parental burnout using evidence-based tools that are applicable across diverse settings
(private practice, outpatient clinics & hospitals) and modalities (individual & groups). Additionally, participants will explore a continuum-based resiliency model aimed at cultivating client strengths and improving emotional intelligence competencies that directly enhance their client’s ability to reduce stressors and enhance resources that specifically target parental burnout symptoms. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Talia Starr Filippelli, LCSW, CHHC, CPT
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 13, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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Screening and Assessment of Trauma in Children and Adolescents
ID: 5803WEBThis webinar will explore Screening for Trauma and Assessment of Trauma in children and adolescents. We will review the use of both formal and informal tools as well as other clinical methodologies. There will be an opportunity to go into break out rooms and practice two standardized tools. We will also review a scenario in order to use the information gathered in screening and assessment to develop a clinical formulation and discuss indications for treatment. [Elective for Trauma Response & Crisis Intervention or Child/Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Karen McGrellis, MPA, LPC, DAAETS, DRCC, ACS
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| Date: | Friday, July 11, 2025 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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Social Emotional Skills for Social Workers
ID: 5618WEBThis three-hour webinar offers social workers at any stage in their careers to claim their role as lifelong learners in their own social, emotional learning. This webinar will explore the social, emotional skills needed for work with clients, supervisees, supervisors and coworkers which will be needed more than ever as we navigate our post-covid social work practice. By the end of the webinar participants will be able to identify how the CASEL model of social, emotional learning applies to social workers; define and apply the following twelve tools in your social, emotional skills toolbox in your social work practice: learning from difficult people, power and vulnerability, living in the “and”, companioning, empathy blockers, shame resilience, use of humor and play, apologizing, meaning making, trauma stewardship, listening to behavior and love and utilize social, emotional learning skills to decrease burnout and vicarious trauma.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Connie Palmer, LCSW
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 22, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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Social Media's Influence on Self-Harm Behaviors and Self-Regulation
ID: 5249WEBThis webinar will begin with an introduction to how social media influences both self-esteem and self-regulating behaviors. We will then move into examining various social media outlets. Newer social media outlets will be explored including the level of involvement different age groups and genders have with them. Finally, the webinar will move into social medias influence on self-regulating behaviors. The webinar will provide strategies for lessening clients exposure to social media. [Elective for Eating Disorders Clinical Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Sara Martino, PhD, NCC, LPC
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| Date: | Thursday, July 10, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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Suicide Assessment from a Lifespan Perspective
ID: 5369WEBThis webinar will use a lifespan approach to suicide assessment. Participants will get an overview of current suicide assessment techniques for use with different populations, from children to the elderly. In addition, the topic of working with self-harm and suicide assessment will be addressed.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Sara Martino, PhD, NCC, LPC
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| Date: | Thursday, July 17, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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Taking ACTion: An Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ID: 5129WEBTaking 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.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Andrew Schmidt, PhD, LCSW-R
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 15, 2025 |
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| Time: | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET |
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The Effects of Trauma Across the Developmental Spectrum
ID: 5857WEBA traumatic event has dramatic short and long term effects across all stages of human development. In this webinar we will examine these effects on infants, children, adolescents and adults, as well as explore the effects of trauma on the emotional, cognitive, neurological, physical, and spiritual human systems. The neurophysiological and neurochemical changes which result from traumatic events will be addressed as well. Practical skills and therapeutic interventions needed in helping both children and adults cope in the aftermath of trauma will be discussed. Both traditional and creative arts treatment approaches will be explored. [Required for Trauma Response & Crisis Intervention Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Brett Novick, MS, EdD, LMFT, CSSW
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| Date: | Monday, July 14, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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The Neurobiology of Trauma/PTSD
ID: 5235WEBThe overall goal of this webinar is for practitioners to understand that the development of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is not merely a psychosocial phenomenon and to be better able to provide treatment interventions based on changes in the nervous system. PTSD has been found to be prevalent, but it is important to study PTSD to understand why some individuals develop the disorder and others, also exposed to specific traumatic events, do not. Studying the symptomology of PTSD, as it relates to possible neural mechanisms, may provide some insight toward answering these questions. By the end of this webinar, you will be able to: list the three general categories of symptoms exhibited by individuals with PTSD; describe the role of the limbic system in the production of memory dysfunction in traumatized individuals; understand how the hypothalamus and pituitary gland are involved in the fight or flight response; and the benefits and side-effects of the most common pharmacological agents used to treat PTSD/Trauma. [Elective for Trauma Response & Crisis Intervention Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Craig Strickland, PhD
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| Date: | Thursday, August 7, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Trauma Informed Person-Centered Care: Turning Compassion into Empowerment
ID: 4515WEBFormerly titled: Trauma Informed Person Centered Care. As various systems, including mental health and criminal justice services, strive to support those we work with to achieve their goals, we are regularly faced with challenging behaviors from our clients that often appear to be self-defeating. Difficulty identifying life goals, knowing the steps to achieve those goals, and managing anxiety and self-doubt as they move forward, is a particular challenge for trauma survivors who have often adjusted to lifestyles and coping skills that are, at times dangerous, and only enable them to survive and not thrive. Important concepts such as “learned helplessness” and “fight or flight” can assist helping professionals understand the origins of how our clients move through their lives, often unaware of how to break free from dysfunctional coping strategies. Using a person centered approach, along with motivational interviewing strategies, this webinar aims to help workers understand trauma informed care in action, and turn that understanding into strategies of empowerment. [Elective for Case Management Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Elaine Edelman, PhD, LCSW, CASAC-Advanced (NYS)
Larry Hochwald, CPRP
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 30, 2025 |
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| Time: | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Treatment of Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
ID: 1501WEBGeared toward professionals providing clinical services, this dynamic webinar presents clinical information on working with and treating adult survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA). As a result of this webinar, participants will gain an understanding of the various types of sexual abuse, common diagnoses, and therapeutic approaches and techniques for working with survivors of CSA in a clinical setting. 3 NJ DVS credits: Sexual Abuse. [Required for Violence Against Women Clinical Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Elaine Edelman, PhD, LCSW, CASAC-Advanced (NYS)
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 6, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Triggered in Sessions? Tools to Handle Delicate Situations
ID: 5264WEBAll clinicians occasionally experience reactions or countertransference when working with a particular client. This webinar offers guidance and a toolkit to be used in the management of delicate moments when we, the clinicians, get triggered. Using lecture, discussion, and optional experiential activities, we will learn some of the typical indications that you may be triggered and/or in a dissociative state. This webinar explores why it matters if and when you are triggered, and participants will process when and how to calm the body and mind, as well as how to use the wealth of information our reactions provide about the therapeutic process taking place. This webinar will provide attendees with enhanced skills and techniques to further build their practice repertoire.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Anat Samid, MSW, LCSW
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| Date: | Thursday, August 21, 2025 |
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| Time: | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Understanding and Using the DSM-5-TR and Associated Diagnostic Processes
ID: 5834WEBRevisions made to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, version 5 (DSM5) include more emphasis on culture, race and language as these terms relate to diagnostic processes. This workshop will review the basic structure and organization of the DSM5 and its’ predecessors as well as more recent changes included in the DSM5-TR (text revised). Using case vignettes, participants will engage in assessing and diagnosing several disorders.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Craig Strickland, PhD
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| Date: | Thursday, August 14, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Understanding the Immigration Process and Supporting Immigrant Families through Traumatic Experiences for Staff and Community Partners
ID: 5262WEBFormerly titled: Understanding the Immigration Process and Supporting Immigrant Families through their Traumatic Experiences. This is a 2 day webinar and registrants must attend both days. Immigrants experience trauma on their journey arriving and settling in the United States. They experience stress related to acculturation, discrimination, employment, legal status and potential deportation, language acquisition, and separation from family and community of origin. Immigrants also experience loss of family, friends, professional status, language, culture, and sense of belonging. This workshop reviews the immigration process, traumatic experiences associated with immigration, and common issues such as family separation and reattachment. It will provide a trauma-focused lens for working with this population. Techniques to engage and work with immigrants are discussed throughout the workshop. [Elective for Trauma Response & Crisis Intervention Certificate Program]
Fee: $120.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 2.0 Clinical, 4.0 Social & Cultural Competence
| | Instructor: | Natalie Contreras, MA, LPC
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 8, 2025 and Wednesday, July 9, 2025 |
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| Time: | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Unpacking and Healing from Christian Religious Trauma
ID: 5379WEBClients from conservative or fundamentalist Christian backgrounds may enter mental health treatment presenting with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and/or complex trauma originating from exposure to harmful ideas about sexuality, gender, race, and disability. Clinicians must be able to recognize these clinical presentations and their context in order to intervene effectively. This webinar will include common examples of Christian religious trauma, their impact, and considerations for treatment - including how to create a safe therapeutic environment, how to assist clients in constructing coherent narratives of the past and of self, and practices for supporting patients in moving forward.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical
| | Instructor: | Teresa Thompson, LCSW
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 9, 2025 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Live Interactive Online Webinar
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