15 Mind-Body, Somatic Techniques to Quiet the Neurological Landscape

This 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

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Instructor: Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCEP, Int'l Cert Master EFT Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 3:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

5 Non-Medication, Non-Addictive Ways to Release Pain: The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Tapping

At least one third of the adult population deals with pain in their life. Pain medications may be as much as 70% of the gateway to the Opioid Abuse Crisis. In this highly experiential webinar, you will learn 5 pain management tools that can be used preventatively or to assist in preventing addiction and relapse. Pain management historically has been within the realm of clinical practices by using many anxiety type methods. The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) also known as Tapping sends a calming signal to the brain to relieve the aroused pain and emotion sensing amygdala. These same approaches have shown to have tremendous benefit for non-medication pain release. In this webinar, you will learn EFT tapping and several evidence-based, neurologically informed, mind-body methods to quiet the neurological landscape.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCEP, Int'l Cert Master EFT Date: Thursday, May 1, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Attachment Theory: A Helpful Framework for Understanding and Intervening with Placed At-Risk Children and Families

Formerly 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

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Instructor: Tawanda Hubbard, DSW, LCSW Date: Friday, July 18, 2025 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Beyond Checking and Washing: Understanding and Treating the Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum

Once thought to be a rare psychiatric illness, obsessive-compulsive disorder is now recognized to be quite common as 2-3 million Americans are believed to have it. Although they are not as well known as OCD, several other disorders share significant characteristics with it, and are now considered as part of the obsessive-compulsive spectrum. These include body dysmorphic disorder, illness anxiety disorder, hoarding disorder, trichotillomania, and excoriation disorder. The primary purpose of this webinar is to familiarize attendees with the various diagnoses on the spectrum, to review cognitive and behavioral manifestations of each, and to thoroughly explore forms of treatment.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Scott Granet, LCSW Date: Monday, May 12, 2025 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

CBT with Anxiety Disorders

An estimated 40 million adults in the U.S. reportedly suffer from one of the anxiety disorders in a given year. The causes may be quite variable, ranging from reactions to life events to personality factors to neurobiology. Although normal anxiety is an adaptive emotional reaction, excessive anxiety if left untreated can create havoc with daily life. The anxiety disorders that bring clients to our offices often contribute to considerable life dysfunction, yet they are highly treatable. The primary focus of this webinar is to identify clinical manifestations of each disorder, and to thoroughly review the most effective treatment strategies for each.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Scott Granet, LCSW Date: Friday, April 25, 2025 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Clinical, Ethical, and Risk Management Consideration for Online Supervision

Supervising online presents a number of challenges for the Supervisor, many of which we are just beginning to understand. This webinar will focus on Preparation for On-Line supervision, the possible effects of technology on the supervisory relationship, the development of Supervisory Protocols, and the need to incorporate a supervisory meeting structure that considers boundaries, cultural dynamics, and the socio-economic impacts that technology has on the supervisory communication and the supervisory relationship. *This webinar does not qualify for NBCC clock hours in ethics for Licensed Professional Counselors.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 1.0 Clinical, 2.0 Ethics

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Instructor: Robert Hazlett, MSW, PhD Date: Friday, May 9, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Creative Approaches to Coping with Self-Mutilation

The webinar is designed for clinicians who are seeking alternative interventions for their clients coping with self-harm behaviors. The intervention is the basis for a book published in 2010. Background information on risk factors and types of self-mutilation are discussed. The intervention, a creative approach to understanding self-mutilation, is based on narrative therapy, and will explore how clients can "express" their current life story through alternative means as well as re-appraise their situations and find new coping mechanisms for emotions or pathology. The webinar includes case examples of clients who have gone through group intervention to treat their self-mutilating behaviors, as well as additional resources. [Elective for Eating Disorders Clinical Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Sara Martino, PhD, NCC, LPC Date: Thursday, June 5, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Dealing with Angry Students and Tantrums Effectively

It seems each year we are faced with more and more students who are getting angrier and angrier. Why are our students angry? How do we deal with students when they are annoyed, frustrated or otherwise irritated? What works and what does not? In this informative webinar, we will attempt to briefly look at the context that seems to foster these reactions in students. Then, and most importantly, we will look at practical and simple tools that can be used immediately to decrease the incidents of tantrums and angry behaviors within school, mental health, and home settings. The goal of this webinar will be to supplement your existing skills with new tools you can quickly implement when working with these students during their most challenging states [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Brett Novick, MS, EdD, LMFT, CSSW Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Dealing with Challenges When Working with Parents and Families

Whether 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

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Instructor: Brett Novick, MS, EdD, LMFT, CSSW Date: Monday, July 14, 2025 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Disordered Eating Across the Lifespan

This webinar is designed to highlight the field of eating disorder diagnoses and treatment. Participants will learn a historical perspectives on eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, as well as discuss newer disorders such as ARFID and binge eating disorder. In addition, participants will learn about helping clients with disordered eating using a developmental framework and be able to discuss specific case studies. [Required for Eating Disorders Clinical Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Sara Martino, PhD, NCC, LPC Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

DSM-5-TR: What to Know and How to Apply It

This is a full day webinar. Competence in assessment and diagnosis is an ongoing area of development in clinical practice. For most practitioners, this requires having a solid understanding of the DSM. This interactive and highly applied workshop addresses the history of the DSM as well as the substantial changes made to the most recent version of the DSM-5. Through lecture, discussion, and case study, participants will leave with a greater understanding of the main changes made to the manual and how to effectively utilize the diagnostic system’s coding, reporting procedures, and integrated assessment tools. This webinar will cover some major diagnostic categories in detail, in order to enhance participant’s application of the DSM-5 in their practice. *Attendees must attend the full day to receive a certificate of completion.

Fee: $100.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 5.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Robert Hazlett, MSW, PhD Date: Friday, May 23, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 3:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating: Examining Clinical Language & Deconstructing Pathology-Based Lenses in the Therapy Room

This webinar examines the clinical lens of eating disorders and treatment, including the language and conceptualizations of the current categories of eating disorders as seen in the DSM. Participants will critically examine the language used to categorize disordered eating, taking into account missing variables that contribute to one’s individual relationship with food, including sociocultural oppressive forces within the food industry, food policy, and food marketing. Special attention will be paid to developing a non-pathology-based therapeutic lens when working with individuals struggling with their relationship with food. [Required for Eating Disorders Clinical Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Kat Glick, M.Ed, LPC, ACS, MAC, CSE, CIMHP Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Embracing Differences and Diversity in the Clinical Treatment of Children and Adolescents

Former 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

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Instructor: Tawanda Hubbard, DSW, LCSW Date: Friday, August 1, 2025 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT): A Mind-Body Approach to the Anxiety Spectrum Disorders and Pain

This How-to Do-IT, neurologically informed workshop 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

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Instructor: Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCEP, Int'l Cert Master EFT Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 3:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Gender Diversity Level I: An Introduction

How can I keep track of the many types of gender identity terms and experiences out there? What are the best ways to talk to clients about gender identity? How do I know what I don't know about gender diversity? This webinar is intended to give an in-depth overview of the basics of gender diversity for clinicians. It covers the many different aspects that make up a person's experience of gender, including identity, gender expression/presentation, gender role, and biological sex, and provides a model that can be utilized with clients to explore their own identities. The webinar covers a variety of gender identities and the best language to use when talking about them, as well as explaining the differences between gender identity and sexual orientation. We will discuss what we do and don't know about how transgender identities occur as a basis for a gender-affirming model of care. A model that understands the experience of gender as internal and separate from one's biology. Finally, we will discuss important considerations for culturally affirming care of transgender and other gender diverse clients and how clinicians can prepare for this work and consider both the challenges and rewards of working with the transgender population.

This webinar is the first of a 3-part series presented by Del Sasso, PyD.
Level I: Friday, May 9, 2025, Gender Diversity Level I: An Introduction, 1pm-4pm
Level II: Friday, May 30, 2025, Gender Diversity Level II - Overview of a Model for Assessment and Treatment, 1pm to 4pm.
Level III: Friday, June 13, 2025, Gender Diversity Level III - Treatment of Gender 1pm to 4pm.
Learners are recommended to take Level I and Level II or has a strong subject knowledge in this area, before attending Level III

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 1.0 Clinical, 2.0 Social & Cultural Competence

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Instructor: Del Sasso, PsyD Date: Friday, May 9, 2025 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Gender Diversity Level II: Overview of a Model for Assessment and Treatment

This program is the second in a series, and is recommended (but not required) after taking the Introduction to Gender Diversity webinar (#5371WEB) for those who do not have a strong basis or prior in-depth understanding of gender identity.

It will bring participants beyond considerations of gender identity to begin developing a deep sense of gender dysphoria; the primary distress impacting the mental health and wellbeing of those who choose to undergo social and/or medical gender transition, and the primary reason gender diverse individuals seek gender-related mental healthcare. It will explore the experience of dysphoria in depth, as well as the opposing experience of gender euphoria. It will then cover how these concepts can be explored with clients to not only assess dysphoria clinically, but develop a targeted treatment plan based on different types of dysphoric experiences. It highlights a number of areas in which the treatment of gender dysphoria differs from traditional psychotherapy practice, requiring systemic interventions on a number of levels, and coordination of care between a variety of providers. This program is perfect for those who want to take their work with gender diverse individuals to the next level, becoming a nuanced, skilled evaluator, prepared to develop individualized treatment plans for these individuals, and for those who want to develop strong assessment skills before embarking on working with this population.

This webinar is the second of a 3-part series presented by Stephanie Sasso, PyD.
Level I: Friday, May 9, 2025, Gender Diversity Level I: An Introduction, 1pm-4pm
Level II: Friday, May 30, 2025, Gender Diversity Level II - Overview of a Model for Assessment and Treatment, 1pm to 4pm.
Level III: Friday, June 13, 2025, Gender Diversity Level III - Treatment of Gender 1pm to 4pm.
Learners are recommended to take Level I and Level II or has a strong subject knowledge in this area, before attending Level III

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 2.0 Clinical, 1.0 Social & Cultural Competence

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Instructor: Del Sasso, PsyD Date: Friday, May 30, 2025 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Gender Diversity Level III - Treatment of Gender Dysphoria

It is highly recommended to take this training only after taking Gender Diversity Level II - Overview of a Model for Assessment and Treatment.

This training utilizes specific learning about sub-types of gender dysphoria and other relevant experiences common to transgender clients presented in the Level II webinar to inform Dr. Sasso's treatment model. The model is based on Dr. Sasso's work with the transgender population across the lifespan, using an in-depth assessment of gender dysphoria, expanded developmental history, and assessment of internal gender distress as well as environmental stressors to inform treatment decisions. This webinar provides in-depth case examples of clients of varying ages with diverse gender-related treatment needs. It covers differential diagnosis between primary mental health conditions, impacts of minority stress, and gender dysphoria and discusses the need and process for frequent re-assessment. It provides examples of working with clients with more than one source of minority stress (intersectional identities), working with a medical care team, as well as with families of transgender youth and young adults.

This webinar is the second of a 3-part series presented by Stephanie Sasso, PyD.
Level I: Friday, May 9, 2025, Gender Diversity Level I: An Introduction, 1pm-4pm
Level II: Friday, May 30, 2025, Gender Diversity Level II - Overview of a Model for Assessment and Treatment, 1pm to 4pm.
Level III: Friday, June 13, 2025, Gender Diversity Level III - Treatment of Gender 1pm to 4pm.
Learners are recommended to take Level I and Level II or has a strong subject knowledge in this area, before attending Level III

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 2.0 Clinical, 1.0 Social & Cultural Competence

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Instructor: Del Sasso, PsyD Date: Friday, June 13, 2025 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

High Conflict Divorce: Working with Children and Families

This webinar will discuss working with children and families experiencing high conflict divorce. Participants will learn how to adopt a highly effective therapeutic role and how to implement it when faced with the conflicting agendas parents often present with.

We will discuss strategies that can be used either with the child alone or in combination with their parent and/or siblings, including playful psychoeducation, using games & art to process feelings, and creative ways to teach coping skills. Creative and multisensory strategies on how to help children and parents adjust to their new situation will be also covered.

Effective parent education to reduce the chance of a child developing a loyalty bind will also be outlined with resources provided. Finally, an overview of current laws as well as services to reduce the chance of high conflict divorce will be reviewed. [Elective for Child/Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Anne Marie Ramos, LCSW, RPT-S Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Hypnotically Informed Psychotherapy

Whether you have a background in hypnosis or are simply curious, this course will provide a brief overview of hypnosis and then offer examples of how the principles that underly the processes of hypnosis can be woven into one’s clinical practice regardless of one’s theoretical orientation. Hypnosis has a rich academic and clinical history. The clinician who understands the underpinnings of hypnosis, e.g., how to fixate attention, depotentiate conscious sets, and cultivate unconscious searches, is better able to identify, elicit, and utilize these naturally occurring “states” to make their clinical work more impactful. Much of what skilled clinicians do can be viewed through a hypnotic lens. This program will highlight how what you are likely doing already can be done with greater strategic and mindful intent.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Rob Staffin , PsyD, ABPH Date: Friday, March 28, 2025 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Introduction to Brainspotting

In this introduction to Brainspotting webinar, participants will explore this innovative therapeutic approach designed to help individuals process trauma and emotional distress, as well as enhance performance and creativity. The session will provide an overview of the Brainspotting process, its origins, and its applications. Attendees will learn how Brainspotting accesses deep brain processing using an eye position to promote healing and resilience, in addition to a review of preliminary research that supports its efficacy. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to observe a live demonstration of a Brainspotting session.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Linnea Swanson, PsyD, MA, LMFT Date: Monday, May 12, 2025 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Let's Talk about Opposition in Adolescence

Opposition in adolescence has become synonymous with oppositional defiant disorder. This view of opposition as a disorder is limiting and puts adults in conflict with youth. This webinar will focus on discussing the need to see opposition on a continuum. Participants will identify and discuss their personal constructs about oppositionality in adolescence. They will explore my construct of opposition as advocacy and power expression in adolescence which facilitates the youth's development of a healthy sense of self and purpose that will equip them to transition into a healthy, productive, and satisfying adulthood. Participants will discuss the importance of focusing on the caregiver-adolescent relationship and using relational interventions. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Tawanda Hubbard, DSW, LCSW Date: Friday, June 13, 2025 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Normality versus Pathology: An Exploration of Child Developmental Health

Former title: Normality or Pathology: An Exploration of Child Development and Mental Health. Where does normality end and pathology begin? This question is especially pertinent for clinicians working with children whose developmental stage has a tremendous impact on their current level of functioning. This webinar will explore the interrelationship between children's developmental stages and interpersonal functioning with peers and within family relationships. Participants will move along developmental lines, from separation anxiety to separation and individuation, and explore what separates "normal" child developmental struggles from extremes in behavior indicative of a range of mental health issues. Participants will also explore age-appropriate treatment approaches. [Required for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Tawanda Hubbard, DSW, LCSW Date: Friday, May 23, 2025 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Not Just Benzodiazepines: Alternative Treatments of Anxiety and Depression

The 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

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Instructor: Craig Strickland, PhD Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Diagnosis, Current Research, and Providing Effective Treatment

Perinatal 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

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Instructor: Jamie Hanley, MS, LPC, ERYT-500 Date: Thursday, July 24, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Practical Social Skills Workshop for Children and Students with Developmental Disabilities

This webinar will focus on the practical skills needed to help children and adolescents with developmental disabilities such as autism spectrum disorders. The goal in this webinar is to teach about practical socialization skills in individual and group settings to do such things as: build friendships, transfer acquaintances to friendship relationships, avoiding behaviors that may serve to distance possible relationships as well as appropriate skills necessary for the real world. In additions, we will discuss what works in applications from instruction with social skills and what may not create difficulty from instruction to "real world" application. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Brett Novick, MS, EdD, LMFT, CSSW Date: Friday, April 11, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Preparing Children for Placements and Transitions

Formerly titled: Preparing Children for Adoption. Whatever our role, all professionals interacting with foster and adoptive children have an opportunity to contribute to a child’s understanding of why they must transition to a new placement. While society may minimize the trauma, loss and grief being separated from attachment figures brings, it is our responsibility to acknowledge the complexity and ambiguous loss that comes with transitions for children who have already experienced so much loss and change. In this interactive webinar, clinicians will learn ways to help children and families prepare for and process endings and beginnings. Clinicians will learn techniques for talking with children about their difficult and traumatic histories in a developmentally appropriate way to help them process the multiple losses they have experienced. Clinicians will also learn techniques to prepare children and families for transitions and necessary good byes; this may include leaving a foster home or group home, a final visit with a birth family, placement with a kinship caregiver, reunification with a birth parent, an adoption disruption or moving to an adoptive home. Experiential activities will be integrated into the workshop to expand the clinician’s toolkit in working with families as they prepare children for necessary transitions and goodbyes. [Elective for Adoption Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Rebecca Gallese, LCSW Date: Friday, May 16, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Psychopharmacology for People with Co-Occurring Diagnoses

Former title: Basic Psychopharmacology for People with Co-Occurring Diagnoses. This webinar takes a look at best practice as it applies to prescribing (or not prescribing) psychotropic medications for a person in recovery with both a mental illness and substance abuse (MISA) diagnosis. Each medication class will be discussed in terms of benefits and side effects and, whenever possible, recommendations of one medication type over another for the dually-diagnosed consumer. Introductory material relating to the neuroanatomy and physiology of the central nervous system will also be presented and linked to why some medications should be prescribed and why others should be avoided for this problem.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Craig Strickland, PhD Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Social Media's Influence on Self-Harm Behaviors and Self-Regulation

This 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

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Instructor: Sara Martino, PhD, NCC, LPC Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Suicide Assessment from a Lifespan Perspective

This 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

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Instructor: Sara Martino, PhD, NCC, LPC Date: Thursday, July 17, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

The Effects of Trauma Across the Developmental Spectrum

A 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

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Instructor: Brett Novick, MS, EdD, LMFT, CSSW Date: Monday, July 14, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

The Neurobiology of Trauma/PTSD

The 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

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Instructor: Craig Strickland, PhD Date: Thursday, August 7, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

The Secret Life of Hoarding

According to the International OCD Foundation (IOCD): "Hoarding has been a hidden disorder for many years and before the early 1990?s, there was little research on topic." Increased awareness with hoarding, throughout the lifespan, has occurred due to clinical issues such as unhealthy living conditions that impact individuals, families, and communities. This webinar will concentrate on the older adult who meets the criteria of Hoarding Disorder as per the DSM 5. Participants will practice skills in working with the older adult who meets this criteria as well as identifying strategies for family members who are involved with an older adult who is diagnosed with this disorder. [Elective for Gerontology Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Robin Wiley, DSW, LCSW Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

The Therapeutic Dance: Keeping One Eye on the Client and One Eye on Ourselves

In these unprecedented times, it is more important than ever to become aware of how our own experiences and traumas affect our relationships with clients. This webinar will provide a review of attachment theory and the prevalence of traumatic transference when working with trauma survivors. Participants will have the opportunity to examine how their own attachment style affects their approach with clients. The concepts of transference and countertransference, collisions and collusions are presented including red flags that participants can look out for to avoid inappropriate boundary crossings and other behaviors that are detrimental to the therapeutic relationship. When we do not care for ourselves or keep an eye on the therapeutic dance with clients, the likelihood of burnout, vicarious traumatization and empathic strain are real dangers for the health and well -being of the helper and the therapeutic relationship. [Elective for Trauma Response & Crisis Intervention Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 1.5 Clinical, 1.5 Ethics

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Instructor: Lori Schlosser, PhD, MSW Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Through Our Eyes: Children, Violence and Trauma

In this webinar, we will look at the incidence, patterns, and occurrences of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Additionally, the webinar will review how PTSD negatively affects children in various developmental stages and the potential lifelong impact. Further, a discussion of grief versus trauma, complex PTSD and its relation to self-concept and later anxiety issues, neurological issues, and the resilience that children employ will all be reviewed. CBT, EDMR, and other treatment modalities will be addressed - including their effectiveness. Finally, we will tackle how to avoid the pitfalls of burnout in the mental health and related fields. [Elective for Trauma Response & Crisis Intervention Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Brett Novick, MS, EdD, LMFT, CSSW Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Trauma Informed Person-Centered Care: Turning Compassion into Empowerment

Formerly 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

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Instructor: Elaine Edelman, PhD, LCSW, CASAC-Advanced (NYS) Larry Hochwald, CPRP Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Treatment of Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Geared 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

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Instructor: Elaine Edelman, PhD, LCSW, CASAC-Advanced (NYS) Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Triggers and Boundary Crossings

When we work with other human beings, it is inevitable that we will be triggered at one time or another. A trigger has been likened to “emotional shrapnel,” and can serve as a guidepost to what still needs healing within us. They are our personal “check engine light.” Being triggered also leaves us more vulnerable to crossing professional boundaries. It is important for helping professionals to recognize when they are being triggered in order to be effective in the therapeutic relationship with clients and to become clear when self-care is required. This webinar will review how triggers are activated and why, will provide a list of somatic clues that will help to identify when we are being triggered and a set of resources to use when we have identified we are triggered to ensure that we stay attuned to our clients. Participants will be given the opportunity to practice some of these techniques. A discussion of common boundary crossings and techniques to stay in boundaries will also be included.

*This webinar does not qualify for NBCC clock hours in ethics for Licensed Professional Counselors.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 2.0 Clinical, 1.0 Ethics

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Instructor: Lori Schlosser, PhD, MSW Date: Monday, May 19, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Attendees of this webinar will gain a thorough understanding of the DSM 5 diagnostic criteria for BDD, as well as the rationale for its inclusion in the new category of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders in the DSM 5. Symptoms most often identified, such as mirror checking/mirror avoidance, comparing and camouflaging will be reviewed, as will potential causal factors such as abuse, bullying and family dysfunction. This webinar will highlight treatment strategies, with an emphasis on cognitive-behavioral therapy, especially the use of exposure and response prevention therapy. Cognitive distortions and the importance of understanding core beliefs will also be addressed. However, BDD is not simply OCD about physical appearance and treatment needs to reflect that. In particular, the role of trauma is important to explore as many people suffering from BDD appear to have that in their background. In addition, the impact of COVID-19 on those with BDD will be discussed, especially in terms of social isolation and the use of video platforms, such as Zoom.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Scott Granet, LCSW Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2025 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Understanding and Using the DSM-5-TR and Associated Diagnostic Processes

Revisions 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

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Instructor: Craig Strickland, PhD Date: Thursday, August 14, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Understanding the Immigration Process and Supporting Immigrant Families through Traumatic Experiences for Staff and Community Partners

Formerly 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

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Instructor: Natalie Contreras, MA, LPC Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025 and Wednesday, July 9, 2025 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Unpacking and Healing from Christian Religious Trauma

Clients 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

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Instructor: Teresa Thompson, LCSW Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Working with Trauma: Understanding Vicarious Trauma, Vicarious Resilience, and the Importance of Self-Care

Formerly title: Self Care in Trauma Work. Trauma affects everyone it touches. Working with trauma survivors and ongoing exposure to traumatic material puts professionals and their supervisors at risk for secondary traumatic stress (vicarious trauma), burnout and compassion fatigue. These are serious occupational hazards that can increase liability and compromise effectiveness with clients as well as the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of the professional. This webinar provides professionals with easy to use, valid and reliable tools for assessing and identifying the signs of vicarious trauma and burnout in their staff and in themselves. The importance of self-care and its relationship with best practice and professional ethics are examined. A variety of physical, emotional, spiritual and recreational self-care techniques that prevent and/or reverse compassion fatigue and burnout are presented and practiced. Participants will leave the webinar with a toolkit of quick, easy and free tools for self-care. [Required for Trauma Response & Crisis Intervention Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Lori Schlosser, PhD, MSW Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Yoga for Emotional Regulation and Resilience

In this three hour webinar, participants will learn yoga and mindfulness based interventions that aid in bolstering resilience and help tolerate distress. Participants will gain an understanding of the impact of yoga on the nervous system, discuss current research on the efficacy of yoga based practices, and experience practical applications of these somatic interventions. Participants should dress comfortably and be prepared to practice accessible yoga, meditation, deep breathing, and relaxation. A yoga mat, two pillows, two blankets, a towel and washcloth are recommended for the experiential portion of the workshop.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Jamie Hanley, MS, LPC, ERYT-500 Date: Saturday, May 17, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details