🆕 BRAND-NEW! AuDHD in Love 🆕
2026-04-24 09:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
🆕BRAND-NEW!🆕
Autism Awareness Month Series
Health Equity, Cultural Competence, or Professional Roles and Boundaries CEs!
AuDHD in Love
Presented by: B Lourenco, MA, LMHC, Stacy Skowronski, PhD, LCSW, CST, and Hannah Tyer, MOTR/L
When: Friday, April 24th, 2026| 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 Health Equity, Cultural Competence, or Professional Roles and Boundaries CEs | $199.00
Course Description:
As people learn more about Autism and ADHD through lived experience and the Neurodiversity-Affirming movement, we see the layered influence on sexual and romantic relationships. Masking has a profound impact on the development of the “self” and the understanding of relationships, often leading to misunderstandings and confusion in all relational settings. Add in the nuances of differing sensory needs and ways of attending to stimuli, plus experiences of rejection sensitivity and demand avoidance, and the challenges pile up quickly. And we haven’t even talked about relational trauma yet!
Whether people share the same neurotype or not, the impact of neurodivergence is complex and layered. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this workshop is taught by three clinicians with a variety of expertise and experience and will explore how Autism and ADHD affect intra and interpersonal relationships, from platonic to romantic/sexual and everything in-between.
Key objectives
After this course, attendees will be able to:

Define at least three ways the medical model of Autism and ADHD differ from the neurodiversity-affirming model
Describe at least two ways that both ADHD and Autism can impact romantic/sexual relationships
Explain the relational effects of the Double Empathy Problem and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
Identify/understand common polarities in neurodivergent couples that impact connection
Describe how differing sensory profiles can impact all types of relationships where people share space
Identify at least two ways to help support healthy, neurodivergent-affirming relationships

Other topics covered:

Attention and Focus
Monotropism
Differing Sensory Profiles
Communication Challenges
Differences in Emotional Expression
Masking in relationships
Masking in sexual encounters

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The Creative Counselor: Practical Applications of Arts and Crafts in Session
2026-04-24 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs!
The Creative Counselor: Practical Applications of Arts and Crafts in Session
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Friday, April 24th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs – Meets Criteria for 2 Law & Ethics, 2 Health Equity, and/or 2 Cultural Competence CEs | $199.00
Creativity is our birthright, and yet that is something so many of our clients struggle with, often having been shamed by parents or teachers.
Yet what might our sessions be like if we provided a safe space for clients to connect with the life force of their creativity?
How might integrating creativity into your clinical work reinvigorate you, as the clinician?
How are the visual arts perfect gateways for clients to explore their deepest intuitive wisdom?
And how can your facilitation of arts and crafts with clients enable you to learn about aspects of their lives that otherwise would be unspoken?
In this interactive, experiential workshop, we will explore the therapeutic uses of various types of visual arts and crafts with different populations. So as to better understand the healing power of creativity first-hand, you’ll have the opportunity to engage in a variety of arts and crafts-making yourself. This will include mandala drawing, ritual creation, exploration of affirmation and oracle card imagery, as well as choosing from a menu of one hundred therapeutic things you can do with blank index cards and markers.
Workshop Objectives:

Understand the history of the use of arts and crafts in counseling
Discuss the therapeutic benefits of arts and crafts
Identify specific clinical applications of arts and crafts, based on a client’s treatment plan
Become familiar with various ways of introducing and utilizing arts and crafts into session
Practice several ways of engaging in creative activities that have a therapeutic purpose
Explore the connections between creativity, artwork, crafting and healing

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🆕 SPECIAL SALE! Healing Strategies for Anxious-Avoidant Relationships 🆕
2026-04-29 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Last-Minute Deal! $30 Off!
Brand-New!
Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs!
Healing Strategies for Anxious-Avoidant Relationships
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Wednesday, April 29th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 3 CEs – Meets Criteria for Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00 NOW ONLY $69.00!
Anxious-avoidant relationship patterns can feel like a push-and-pull magnet, leaving clients frustrated, disconnected, and stuck in cycles of longing and withdrawal.
This training equips psychotherapists with a trauma-informed understanding of anxious- avoidant dynamics and offers practical strategies for helping clients navigate these challenging relational patterns.
Participants will explore how early attachment experiences shape adult relationship styles and contribute to cycles of pursuit and distance.
Through case examples, discussion, and reflective exercises, attendees will learn tools to help clients recognize these patterns, build awareness of their own relational tendencies, and practice interventions that foster secure connection and emotional regulation. Therapists will leave with actionable strategies to guide clients toward healthier, more balanced relationships while supporting self-compassion and resilience.
Workshop Objectives:

Develop an understanding of anxious-avoidant relationship dynamics and their attachment-related origins.
Learn strategies to help clients recognize, interrupt, and shift push-pull cycles in relationships.
Identify interventions to promote secure attachment, emotional regulation, and relational resilience in clients.

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🆕 SPECIAL SALE! Sacred Moments in Therapy: Designing Rituals for Growth and Healing 🆕
2026-04-30 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Last-Minute Deal! $30 Off!
Brand-New!
Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs!
Sacred Moments in Therapy: Designing Rituals for Growth and Healing
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Thursday, April 30th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 3 CEs – Meets Criteria for Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00 NOW ONLY $69.00!
Rituals can be a powerful bridge between intention and transformation, providing clients with structured, meaningful ways to mark transitions, process grief, celebrate growth, or cultivate self-compassion.
This training introduces psychotherapists to the thoughtful design and ethical integration of rituals into therapy, emphasizing practices that honor clients’ values, cultural backgrounds, and spiritual perspectives. Participants will explore how rituals can enhance engagement, reflection, and healing, while maintaining professional boundaries and clinical integrity.
Through case examples, discussion, and guided exercises, attendees will learn how to co-create therapeutic rituals that support client empowerment, personal insight, and emotional processing. Therapists will leave with practical tools to integrate rituals into sessions, helping clients deepen connection to themselves, their intentions, and their paths toward growth.
Objectives

Develop an understanding of the role of ritual in therapeutic growth and healing.
Learn strategies for designing and integrating ethically-informed, culturally sensitive rituals into therapy.
Identify ways to use ritual to support client insight, self-compassion, and transformative change

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From Immigration to Homecoming: Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Immigrant Clients
2026-05-01 09:00 - 12:15 | Zoom
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, and/or
Cultural Competence CEs
From Immigration to Homecoming: Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Immigrant Clients
Part One of a Two-Part Series
(though you don’t need to be registered for both to attend either)
Part Two, Cultural Humility in Working with Immigrant Clients, is on Friday, June 12th. Learn more and register here >>>
Presented by: Dr. Gitika Talwar
When: Friday, May 1st, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 3 Law & Ethics, Health Equity, and/or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00
Workshop Description
This workshop focuses on the impact of immigration on the mental health of immigrants. It presents an opportunity for licensed therapists to learn about trauma-informed, culturally-attuned therapeutic care to immigrant clients from all over the world. A quick web search about training programs about the mental health needs of immigrants reveals that there is limited knowledge and discussion in the mental health and psychology fields about the immigration process and the unique needs of immigrant communities based on their immigration pathways.
Immigration status is a major factor that intersects with a range of other identity variables (Tahirih Justice Center, 2023) and provides nuance to the inner world of immigrant clients, especially those who may be new to therapy.
Migration to the U.S. has grown steadily over the last few decades. Migration happens for reasons as varied as education and labor opportunities, family reunification, and escape from war, persecution, and other traumatic experiences. Whether by choice (“pull factors” that attract immigrants to the U.S.) or by necessity (“push factors” that necessitate migration out of their home countries), immigrants face a host of psychological and socioeconomic challenges and stressors during and after migrating. These profoundly affect their mental health and quality of life (Shea & Wong, 2022).
Licensed Clinical-Community Psychologist Dr. Gitika Talwar created and will present this workshop, drawing on her personal experience as a first-generation immigrant and immigration activist and her professional experience working with international students, first-generation immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in the United States. Dr. Talwar’s dissertation focused on the immigration experiences of people who migrated from Afghanistan to the U.S. between 1965 and 2012.
Objectives:

Attendees will reflect on their understanding and personal experience with immigration
Attendees will gain knowledge about multiple pathways of immigration and access to resources
Attendees will learn about neurobiological and psychosocial impact of migration
Attendees will recognize ways to expand their therapeutic prompts and practices to include the needs of the immigrant community

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🆕 SPECIAL SALE! Lunch & Learn: Post-Traumatic Growth: Finding Meaning and Strength After Trauma 🆕
2026-05-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom
Last-Minute Deal! $10 Off!
Brand-New!
Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs!
Post-Traumatic Growth: Finding Meaning and Strength After Trauma
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, May 4th, 2026 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 1.5 CEs Meets Criteria for Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $25.00 Now only $15.00!
Trauma can profoundly disrupt a person’s life, but it can also be a catalyst for growth, resilience, and transformation. This training introduces psychotherapists to the concept of posttraumatic growth, exploring how individuals can discover new meaning, strengths, and possibilities after experiencing trauma.
Participants will learn to recognize the signs of growth alongside distress and understand the factors that support clients in moving toward personal development and empowerment.
Through case examples, discussion, and practical exercises, attendees will explore therapeutic strategies to foster resilience, facilitate meaning-making, and help clients re-author their narratives in ways that honor their experiences while cultivating hope.
Therapists will leave with tools to guide clients toward integrating trauma into their life story, promoting healing, insight, and renewed purpose.
Workshop Objectives:

Develop an understanding of the concept of post-traumatic growth and its distinction from recovery or resilience.
Learn strategies to help clients identify personal strengths, meaning, and opportunities for growth following trauma.
Identify interventions to facilitate narrative re-authoring, meaning-making, and resilience-building in trauma-affected clients.

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Body Justice: Addressing Sizeism and Fear of Fat
2026-05-13 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs!
Body Justice: Addressing Sizeism and Fear of Fat
Presented by: Amber Rice, LMFT, MA
When: Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs – counts toward Health Equity requirements and Cultural Competence requirements| $199.00
Therapists are becoming increasingly aware of the harm that has been/is being done to clients when healthcare settings (including counseling practices) focus on weight and weight loss as a primary goal. Most therapists, however, have not been trained in how to have conversations with their clients about body shame, weight stigma, healthism, diet culture, and sizeism. How, then, do therapists help clients heal body shame in a weight-obsessed world when our culture is obsessed with weight being an indicator of health? This course introduces therapists to practical resources, knowledge, empowering interventions, and the language needed to help challenge weight stigma, connect weight stigma and negative health outcomes, and support clients toward weight-neutral and compassionate self-care.
Many providers have increased their awareness of the need to adjust their practice lens and use a more weight-inclusive, fat-positive approach to addressing food and body issues. Mental health clinicians have become increasingly aware of the expanding body of research that says intentional weight loss and dieting just don’t work, and find themselves no longer ethically comfortable participating in diet culture. Therapists understand that supporting clients in weight loss or lifestyle changes (even for health reasons) is frequently emotionally and metabolically damaging, is not trauma-informed, often results in eating disorders and poor health outcomes, and is rooted in weight bias and the body hierarchy. Ethical, culturally competent mental health practitioners want to know how to help their clients have a more peaceful relationship with food and their bodies. However, even the best-intentioned clinician finds that the cultural climate of weight stigma is so prevalent in both medical and mental health fields that they don’t even know where to begin.
This course will help therapists have conversations about bodies, weight, and health without contributing to the body shaming and size bias that is commonplace in healthcare settings. Amber will introduce participants to knowledge that will help them ethically and compassionately address the impacts of weight stigma with their clients. Workshop attendees will learn ways to help their clients reduce body shame, improve their relationship with food, and invite more satisfaction and joy in their lives in a culturally competent way so they can be more resilient and confident in their own skin.
Objectives:

Discuss the use of “fat” as a reclaimed term, ask for the avoidance of the “O” words (obese, overweight), the use of “numbers” to describe weight, and other guidelines to avoid microaggressions that may take place during the workshop.
Present research studies and lived experiences that provide evidence for the need to practice with a weight-inclusive approach.
Teach the core values and principles of Health at Every Size and Body Trust approaches.
Provide an overview of the HAES and Body Trust approaches, along with practical clinical interventions for clients seeking a more peaceful relationship with food and their bodies.
Discuss with participants the ethical considerations and dilemmas present in the current medical and mental health models that support weight loss for health purposes.
Offer a pathway toward becoming more culturally competent, with an adjusted lens that actively seeks to eliminate implicit and explicit bias in assessment, treatment, and orientation.
List action steps that participants can employ to create a more weight-neutral practice.
Ask attendees to acknowledge possible body (thin) privilege.
Evaluate therapeutic spaces and environments to ensure they are fat-friendly and free of pathologizing magazines and stigmatizing language/media/magazines.
Advocate for self-examination for fatphobia and anti-fat bias.
Increase the visibility of fat people and scour websites and waiting rooms for diet culture.

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SPECIAL SALE! Trauma-Informed Approaches to Addiction and Loss
2026-05-18 09:00 - 12:15 | Zoom
Last-Minute Deal! $30 Off!
Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs!
Trauma-Informed Approaches to Addiction and Loss
Presented by: Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW
When: Monday, May 18th, 2026| 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 3 CEs – counts as Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00 Now Only $69.00!
Addiction treatment requires clinicians to be knowledgeable about trauma-informed approaches and the impact of loss on addiction. This workshop will present an overview of trauma-informed approaches, including the three E’s of trauma. The relationship between loss and addiction will be explored.
Clinicians will have information on how to ask about trauma and the ways to assess trauma, loss, and spirituality in a clinical setting. Trauma-informed interventions presented include dealing with trauma reminders, somatic experiencing, and appropriate trauma-informed questioning. Learners will discover new perspectives on addiction and loss and obtain valuable resources and clinical recommendations.
Workshop Objectives:

Explain the clinical and relational dynamics of trauma and loss in addiction.
Discover methods of assessing trauma and loss in addiction.
Identify at least three therapeutic interventions to support clients in addiction recovery.

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SPECIAL SALE! Becoming a Neurodivergent-Affirming Clinician: Understanding ADHD and Autism through a Strengths-Based, Neurodivergent-Affirming Lens
2026-05-20 10:00 - 2026-06-24 13:15 | Zoom
Last-Minute Deal! $100 Off!
Law & Ethics, Health Equity,
and Cultural Competence CEs!
Becoming a Neurodivergent-Affirming Clinician: Understanding ADHD and Autism through a Strengths-Based, Neurodivergent-Affirming Lens
Presented by: B Lourenco, MA, LMHC
When: This course will be held for six consecutive Wednesdays: May 20th through June 24th, 2026, from 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern

Wednesday, May 20th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, May 27th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, June 10th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, June 24th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern

Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the event.
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 18 CEs (12 CEs can be used for Cultural Competence or Health Equity CEs, and 6 can be used for Law & Ethics CEs) | $599.00 *** (see below for payment options) Now Only $499.00!
As technology advances and mental health education becomes increasingly available, the population has become more self-aware. The world is changing quickly, and with it, more and more people are realizing that their brains work differently from others’. Due to the influence of social media and the shift to focusing on lived experience as a legitimate means of diagnosis, we are seeing a sudden increase in clients who identify as Autistic and/or an ADHDer. We find that clients are speaking up and finding validation for what they have always known: their brains operate differently from those of their peers, colleagues, friends, and families. As a result, we are seeing a sudden increase in the young adult and middle-aged population who identify as being Neurodivergent in a Neurotypical world.
This workshop series is designed to help clinicians build greater awareness and familiarity with ADHD and Autistic experiences. Participants will come away from this course with a deeper understanding of ADHD and Autism from the Neurodiversity-Affirming Paradigm that focuses on strengths and differences, not diagnoses, disorders, and deficits.
Especially following the COVID pandemic and its sometimes long-term impact on the brain and the immune system’s inflammatory processes, many clients report having different and often challenging sensory processing experiences. We are seeing more adults presenting in our offices with reports that they now have issues not only with taste and smell but with a range of visual, hearing, tactile, balance, and internal bodily sensations they never have before experienced, as well as difficulties with attention and memory. This begs the question: have these brain differences always been there but now have been sensitized or magnified by exposure to COVID and months-long isolation?
Many adults are now recognizing they are not alone and are demanding they not be dismissed or invalidated any longer, often having experienced the continued frustration of providers questioning their own lived experiences and, as a result, having been either undiagnosed or underdiagnosed due to outdated and debunked diagnostic criteria still used by mainstream psychiatrists and physicians. These individuals are finding validation for what they have suspected all along: their brains work differently from those of their peers, families, and friends.
With new research available and an increasingly empowered clientele, we see more than ever the need to remain current in our understanding of–and support for–those who have brain differences. Committed to blending cutting-edge scientific evidence with the lived experiences of our clients, Cascadia Training is delighted to offer a new workshop series designed to help clinicians build greater awareness and familiarity with ADHD and Autistic experiences.
Upon completion of this series, participants will have a deeper understanding of ADHD and Autism from the Neurodiversity Affirming Paradigm that focuses on strengths and differences, not disorders, diagnoses, and deficits!
Woven throughout the series are the law and ethics of working with neurodivergent clients, including the danger of misdiagnoses, and the harm of using biased, outdated, debunked diagnostic criteria leading to the under-diagnosis of ADHD and Autism spectrum experiences. In addition, participants will learn about and identify pathologizing, stigmatizing, and harmful treatment protocols and clinical interventions still utilized by providers in educational, physical, and mental health professions.
This series uses a system developed explicitly by B Lourenco, an expert on ADHD and Autism. The course focuses to a large degree on the internal, lived experience of neurodiversity. Each of the six weekly sessions will include a didactic portion, an experiential section, and direct case consultation time. All modules will include lecture, video, and experiential segments.
Certificate Program Weekly Modules:
Week One: Sensory Systems – Getting in touch with the sensory system is the most critical step in supporting neurodivergent clients. Sensory information can regulate emotional and physical experiences. In addition, we will focus on using sensory profiles, menus, and diets to support day-to-day quality of life.
Week Two: Communication and Relationships – Understanding how those with Autism and ADHD communicate creates room for therapeutic connection. With this understanding, we will dive into tools for managing meltdowns and shutdowns in an affirming way.
Week Three: Attending and Executive Function – This module will explain why those with Autism and ADHD face challenges attending to their environment by addressing social expectations on perceptions of “functioning.” You will also learn how to use the client’s natural rhythms to support positive functionality.
Week Four: Social Systems and Disability – Understanding how society directly impacts the lives of people with disabilities. We will focus on how clinicians can incorporate advocacy into their practice and tools to unlearn neurotypical values by connecting clients to personal values.
Week Five: Differentials and Comorbidities – This module will teach participants how to rule out or “dial in” on other mental health concerns or diagnoses. We will present comorbidities that exist with your neurodivergent clients and how to effectively support them in a non-stigmatizing way. The role of trauma and grief in the lived experience of clients who identify as neurodivergent will be discussed, as well as the impact of these events on the developing brain. We will process how to best support the grief and disenfranchised losses felt by our autistic and ADHD clients and their families.
Week Six: The Use of Joy As a Tool Against Oppression. Creating celebrations of being neurodivergent and finding joy in everyday life as we partner with our neurodivergent clients. The Neurodivergent-affirming certificate program series will conclude with various celebrations we can share with our clients and the shift to viewing “joy itself as a tool against oppression.” As clinicians, it is important for us to first comprehend–and then share– the ways that society benefits from neurodiversity in general and ADHD and Autism, in particular. We will conclude by learning ways to help our clients celebrate their neurodiversity and see themselves through an affirming, strengths-based lens.
Other topics that will be covered in this practice- and life-altering certificate program series include, but are not limited to:

Alexithymia and Dysthymia
ARFID
Misophonia
Gender and sexuality in the ADHD and Autistic communities
The role of menstruation on ADHD and Autistic brains
Interdependence vs codependence and/or independence
Myths and stigmas about neurodivergent people
Experiences of abuse in neurodivergent people
Pervasive Desire for Autonomy (PDA)

***Payment Options:
Cascadia Training values quality continuing education that is accessible, inclusive, and barrier-free for all. We never want the cost of our workshops to be a barrier to attending, particularly our multi-session workshops.
We offer several options to make our workshops cost-inclusive: payment plans, limited full- and partial-scholarship opportunities, student discounts, early professional, military/veteran, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and more discounts. Please email us at hello@cascadiatraining.org for more information.
For payment plans, you can select paying 50% today and 50% due on June 30, 2026.
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💲SPECIAL SALE!💲🆕 More than a Personality Test: How to Work Mindfully with Enneagram 🆕
2026-06-11 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
💲Last-Minute Deal! $50 Off!💲
BRAND-NEW!
Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs
More than a Personality Test: How to Work Mindfully with Enneagram
Presented by: Dr. Jennifer Manlowe
When: Thursday, June 11th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live via Zoom (you’ll receive the link the week of the workshop)
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs – 2 Meet Health Equity or Cultural Competence Requirements | Cost: $199.00 NOW ONLY $149.00!
This continuing education workshop weaves mindfulness practice and Enneagram wisdom to help clinicians recognize how personality patterns emerge as adaptive responses to suffering. Through meditation, inquiry, and embodied awareness, participants learn how to work skillfully with shame, fixation, and reactivity—supporting clients with complex PTSD in moving from defensive patterning toward grounded presence and self-compassion.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to see:

A framing of Enneagram as a map of psycho-social conditioning— not as a typology to label clients, but as a lens on how trauma crystallizes around core fears and strategies.
Tools to use mindfulness and meditation practices as nervous-system support— practices that cultivate tolerance for experience rather than bypass it.
Working with manifestations of shame as central to therapy— how each type organizes around avoiding a specific wound, and how mindfulness softens that structure.
Embodiment and gentleness— aligning with somatic psychotherapy by staying close to lived, felt experience rather than abstract insight.
Learning how to help our clients move from fixation to freedom— reframing personality not as pathology, but as a doorway to awakening.

The tone of this workshop is non-pathologizing and invitational—less about technique and more about cultivating our own therapeutic presence as the primary healing field. Attendees will experience a workshop that is:

Experiential rather than overly theoretical
Focused on befriending rather than fixing
Emphasizing compassion, specificity, and curiosity
Framing the Enneagram as a map of ego survival strategies that can be met with mindfulness awareness

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🆕BRAND-NEW! Cultural Humility in Working with Immigrant Clients 🆕
2026-06-12 09:00 - 12:15 | Zoom
BRAND-NEW!
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, and/or
Cultural Competence CEs
Cultural Humility in Working with Immigrant Clients
Presented by: Dr. Gitika Talwar
When: Friday, June 12th, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 3 Law & Ethics, Health Equity, and/or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00
This continuing education workshop will discuss how therapy is a site of acculturation for the therapeutic dyad (therapist and client/therapist and couple/therapist and family). Recognizing values alignment and values misalignment can be an opportunity for a deep and sincere therapeutic encounter. Cultural humility can be a practice to navigate this therapeutic encounter in helpful ways.
Cultural humility can help the therapist effectively steward the therapeutic space by fostering continuous self-reflection, discovery, and honest, trustworthy relationships with clients (Yeager & Bauer-Wu, 2013). It represents a shift from cultural competence, which emphasizes “knowing” about various cultural groups, to an ongoing process of “understanding” and “being” with the client (Tervalon & Murray-García, 1998; Lekas et al., 2020).
Key aspects and principles of cultural humility include:

Acknowledging power dynamics and biases: Therapists are invited to recognize their own biases and the inherent power imbalances within the therapeutic relationship (Summers & Nelson, 2022).
Not being the expert: Therapists understand that they are not the experts when clients have lived experiences different from their own (Summers & Nelson, 2022).
Advocacy: It includes advocating to dismantle systemic barriers that impact clients (Summers & Nelson, 2022).

Mosher et al. (2017) report that the impact of cultural humility in therapy includes:

Deeper therapeutic alliances
Opportunities to communicate respect for the client’s cultural identity
Better therapy outcomes
Opportunities for meaningful engagement and repair of cultural mistakes

Given how religious and spiritual beliefs can be entwined with cultural beliefs, cultural humility can be expanded to include humility towards spiritual and religious beliefs in order to serve our racially, ethnically, and spiritually diverse clients.
Workshop Objectives:

Learn about cultural humility by recognizing how immigration shapes cultural experience, and reflect on the role of spirituality in our culturally diverse clients.
Identify ethical considerations that challenge the therapist’s capacity to be open, curious, flexible, and empathic in responding to clients’ needs. Develop practices to remain culturally attuned.
Identify common clinical conceptualizations that can create cultural tensions within this therapeutic space, especially when cultural or spiritual values challenge the therapist’s own value system
Recognize the importance of advocacy in dismantling systemic barriers that impact clients. Develop practices that foster greater allyship.

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🆕 BRAND-NEW! Sacred Rage and Therapeutic Fire: Working with Anger in Women 🆕
2026-06-18 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Brand-New!
Sacred Rage and Therapeutic Fire: Working with Anger in Women
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Thursday, June 18th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 3 CEs Meets Criteria for Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00
Anger in women is often misunderstood, dismissed, or pathologized, yet it can be a powerful signal of boundaries, injustice, and unmet needs. This training helps psychotherapists understand the complexities of women’s anger, including its social, cultural, and relational influences, and how it can be harnessed as a transformative force in therapy.
Participants will explore ways to normalize, validate, and work ethically with anger while supporting clients in expressing it constructively and safely.
Through discussion, case examples, and experiential exercises, attendees will learn therapeutic strategies to help clients recognize their anger, understand its origins, and channel it into empowerment and growth. Therapists will leave with tools to navigate challenging emotions, foster self-advocacy, and guide clients in integrating their anger in ways that support healing, assertiveness, and personal agency.
Workshop Objectives:

Develop an understanding of the social, cultural, and psychological dimensions of anger in women.
Learn strategies to help clients recognize, validate, and express anger safely and constructively.
Identify therapeutic interventions that transform anger into empowerment, assertiveness, and personal growth.

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Menopause and Mental Health: Navigating the Challenges from Perimenopause to Post-Menopause
2026-06-19 09:00 - 16:30 | Shoreline Center, 18560 1st Ave NE, Shoreline, WA, 98155, United States
Meets Health Equity or Cultural Competence Continuing Education Requirements!
Menopause and Mental Health: Navigating the Challenges from Perimenopause to Post-Menopause
Presented by Rebecca Bloom, LMHC (she/her)
When: Friday, June 19th, 2026, 2025 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live in-person at the Shoreline Center
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs (meets criteria for Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs) | Cost: $199.00
The experience of pre-menopause/perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause is rarely talked about, but thousands of people are diagnosed daily with menopause-related challenges.
It shows up in clinical settings in many ways: if someone has been medically induced and is having many symptoms at once; if the whole family system is under stress because “now Mom is mad all the time;” if a client cannot get a medical doctor to address that all her symptoms are connected; or a client feels sex is just “too painful now” and plans never to have sex again.
As clinicians who may be in perimenopause, menopause, or post-menopause ourselves, do not understand our own bodies anymore and may find our work life more difficult than ever.
You may have a 48-year-old female client referred by a medical doctor. This new client has no history of depression, but suddenly, she cannot get out of bed, she cannot track her thoughts, and her blood pressure is through the roof. In this workshop, you will learn that these are all symptoms of perimenopause or menopause.
In this workshop, you will gain an in-depth knowledge of the 37 most common symptoms of perimenopause and menopause that affect us physically, mentally, emotionally, cognitively, and spiritually.
In addition, you will learn how to talk with your clients about these symptoms and how to help them advocate outside the walls of your office for themselves and the medical care they need. We will also look at how biases and inequalities surrounding race and gender (collectively, we’ll say women, but we mean that in a very inclusive way to include those who identify as a woman, those who are assigned female at birth (AFAB) but are transgender or non-binary but still have female reproductive organs and hormones), LGBTQIA+, socio-economic status, and more impact whether someone receives accessible, affordable, adequate, and effective health care.
We will also explore how the lack of adequate medical care for girls, women, and those AFAB continues throughout their lifespan and greatly impacts all aspects of their lives. This lack of adequate, affirming medical attention leads to this natural hormonal experience negatively impacting “everything” in our lives.
The destabilization and loss process in menopause will be explored from various angles. What does it mean to no longer be of “child-bearing age”? Is that transition cause for celebration? Is it a tremendous loss? What does it currently mean to be a “crone”? We will explore how this role has changed over time and in various cultures.
The latest neuroscience research suggests that the loss of estrogen in the brain has major impacts on many bodily systems. What does it mean to go on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)? Some current research suggests that HRT is safe for up to ten years. We will examine why this protocol changed and what it means for our clients and ourselves.
We will also explore natural options for care and support during the various phases of menopause. “Have your fans at the ready!” Let’s spend the day talking about menopause and learning about what impacts our receiving affirming, effective medical care, including the fact that the average medical doctor receives only one hour– in TOTAL—of formal training on menopause. You will leave this workshop knowing much more than when you arrived, knowledge that will help your clients and you on your journey.
Objectives:

Learn the three stages of menopause.
Learn the 37 most common symptoms of menopause.
Address how to help clients feel more stable in this process.
Learn how culture impacts on menopause.
Address the experience of gender and gender bias across the lifespan.
Destigmatize menopause and encourage authentic, effective discussions.

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Mindfulness and ADHD: Strategies for Cultivating Focus and Self-Regulation
2026-06-24 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Mindfulness and ADHD: Strategies for Cultivating Focus and Self-Regulation
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Wednesday, June 24th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 3 CEs Meets Criteria for Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00
ADHD can make attention, emotional regulation, and impulse control challenging for many clients, yet mindfulness offers practical tools to enhance focus, self-awareness, and emotional balance. This training introduces psychotherapists to evidence-informed mindfulness strategies tailored for clients with ADHD.
Participants will explore how mindful awareness, grounding techniques, and present-moment focus can support attention regulation, reduce stress, and improve daily functioning. Through experiential exercises and discussion, attendees will learn how to integrate mindfulness practices into therapy sessions in ways that are engaging, accessible, and developmentally appropriate.
Therapists will leave with practical tools to help clients cultivate focus, strengthen self-regulation, and harness mindfulness as a resource for managing ADHD-related challenges.
Workshop Objectives:

Develop an understanding of how ADHD impacts attention, emotional regulation, and executive functioning, and how mindfulness can support these areas.
Learn practical mindfulness-based strategies tailored to clients with ADHD for improving focus and self-regulation.
Identify ways to integrate mindfulness practices into therapy sessions to enhance client engagement, attention, and emotional balance.

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💲SPECIAL SALE!💲 Practical Skills Training for Clinicians 🆕
2026-06-25 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
Last-Minute Deal! $50 Off!
BRAND-NEW!
Meets Requirements for Law & Ethics, Health Equity, and/or Cultural Competence Continuing Education Credits (CEs)
Practical Skills Training for Clinicians
While geared toward clinicians earlier in their career, this continuing education workshop is also appropriate for therapists who want a skills refresher or need reminders of tools they may have forgotten along the way.
Presented by: B Lourenco, MA, LMHC (she/her)
When: Thursday, June 25th, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved CEs): 6 Law & Ethics, Health Equity, and/or Cultural Competence CEs | $199.00 Now only $149.00!
Continuing Education Workshop Description
As a clinical supervisor, B started to notice a pattern with her new supervisees. Many of them had done well in graduate school, but they also felt they lacked practical skills and tools to support their clients in clinical practice. Or they could explain a principle in a clinical way, but didn’t know how to use that information to offer psychoeducation to their clients.
This continuing education workshop is meant to serve as a bridge between higher education “book smarts” and practical clinical application, offering concepts and tools in easy-to-digest, easy-to-apply ways.
While geared toward newer clinicians, this continuing education workshop is also appropriate for therapists who want a skills refresher or need reminders of tools they may have forgotten along the way.
B offers several instruments and concepts based on her clinical expertise, so everyone is bound to leave with new knowledge, practical techniques, and skills!
Some topics covered include: relational skills, attachment, family and social systems, relational dependence, nervous system education, reinforcement, learning and epistemology, transference issues, clinical expertise, and humility.
Continuing Education Workshop Objectives
Attendees will:

Learn simple ways to explain and explore at least two (2) concepts related to attachment theory and/or relationship models
Describe ways that systems impact individuals and vice versa
Describe nervous system responses, including an adapted Polyvagal model
Describe at least two (2) clinical life skills that their clients can benefit from
Define at least two (2) ways to determine their personal clinical expertise and how to use them in sessions with clients
Learn how clinical transference and countertransference can be one of a therapist’s best tools

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🆕 BRAND-NEW! Yoga Nidra for Nervous System Regulation, Self-Awareness, and Emotional Clarity 🆕
2026-06-26 10:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
BRAND-NEW!
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs
Yoga Nidra for Nervous System Regulation, Self-Awareness, and Emotional Clarity
This continuing education workshop is accessible to all clinicians, regardless of their yoga experience (or lack thereof). No previous yoga experience, training, or certification required.
Presented by: Kylani St. Clair, LMHC, CCTP, RYT
When: Friday, June 26th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live via Zoom (you’ll receive the link the week of the workshop)
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 3 CEs (meets Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence requirements) | Cost: $99.00
CONTINUING EDUCATION WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Not all clients can “talk their way” into emotional regulation and awareness—so what do you do when words aren’t enough? When a client feels overwhelmed, scattered, and/or disconnected, often the most effective intervention isn’t more verbal processing—it’s helping the nervous system slow down, settle, reset, and recover. Yoga nidra best serves people who are highly anxious and experience chronic stress.
This engaging and experiential continuing education workshop, developed and presented by Kylani St. Clair, introduces a powerful, accessible clinical tool for nervous system regulation, healing, and self-discovery: yoga nidra!
Yoga nidra is a form of guided deep meditation, practiced lying down or seated, that invites clients into a state of profound relaxation—without requiring movement or prior meditation experience. Often described as a state between wakefulness and sleep, this practice creates space for both deep rest and meaningful insight to emerge simultaneously.
Through her decades of yoga practice as a student and eventually a seasoned yoga teacher, Kylani discovered that several types of yoga – such as yoga nidra – complement her mental health practice and therapeutic techniques in powerful ways. She regularly weaves various forms of ygoa into counseling sessions with clients to support nervous system and emotional regulation, movement medicine, spiritual exploration, and overall mind-body-spirit wellness, thereby drastically improving client outcomes. Now she has developed this workshop to help you do the same!
Rooted in an ancient tradition, this workshop will also acknowledge the cultural origins of yoga nidra and explore ways to integrate the practice into clinical work with cultural humility and respect. Through yoga nidra, clients can gently access physical, emotional, cognitive, and even spiritual awareness, gaining clarity around their present experience, values, needs, and boundaries while the nervous system actively settles and recovers. What often feels out of reach in a fully alert state can become more accessible through guided rest.
Participants in this workshop will not only learn about yoga nidra—they will practice it and experience its powerful effects firsthand! This training includes a guided practice incorporating progressive muscle relaxation, breathwork, imagery, and intention-setting. Emphasis will be placed on the clinician’s role in facilitation, including the intentional use of tone, pacing, and therapeutic presence to support co-regulation, safety, and engagement. Ethical considerations will be integrated throughout, including informed consent, scope of practice, and supporting client autonomy and choice within the practice.
Beyond the experience gained, participants will develop practical, immediately applicable skills for integrating yoga nidra into everyday clinical sessions. This includes learning how to assess when yoga nidra may be appropriate, adapt the practice for different client needs, and facilitate post-practice processing to deepen insight and therapeutic impact.
Participants will also learn how to create their own yoga nidra scripts tailored to their clients’ unique needs, with attention to accessibility, inclusivity, and client-centered care.
By the end of this powerful and practical workshop, clinicians will leave with a deeper understanding of how to use deep rest as a therapeutic intervention—and the confidence to begin using these tools with clients right away.
CONTINUING EDUCATION WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:
Workshop attendees will:

Learn the principles of yoga nidra and its role in nervous system regulation
Participate first-hand in a yoga nidra practice, relaxing your system during training
Practice guiding clients in yoga nidra with tone, pacing, and more
Develop your own unique scripts for your clients’ needs
Learn to facilitate post-practice processing with clients
Identify the ethics of introducing yoga nidra into the therapeutic session, including the scope of practice, competence with a new technique, ensuring there is informed consent, and understanding possible contraindications to including yoga in therapy sessions.
Consider the cultural and spiritual implications for each client.
Learn how to understand and build in the client’s unique belief systems into the therapeutic session.

This continuing education workshop is accessible to all clinicians, regardless of their yoga experience (or lack thereof). No previous yoga experience, training, or certification required.
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🆕 BRAND-NEW! Exploring the Role of Religion and Spirituality in Counseling 🆕
2026-07-06 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Brand-New!
Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs!
Exploring the Role of Religion and Spirituality in Counseling
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, July 6th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 3 CEs Meets Criteria for Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00
Religion and spirituality can be central sources of meaning, coping, and identity for many clients, yet they are often overlooked or sidelined in therapy. This introductory continuing education workshop helps psychotherapists understand how to ethically and effectively engage with clients’ spiritual and religious experiences in a client-centered way. Participants will explore the ways spirituality can influence mental health, resilience, and relational dynamics, as well as how to navigate personal biases and maintain professional boundaries.
Attendees will learn strategies to integrate clients’ spiritual and religious perspectives into therapy, enhancing therapeutic alliance and promoting holistic well-being. Therapists will leave with practical tools to respectfully explore spirituality in assessment, treatment planning, and interventions, supporting clients in aligning their values, meaning, and growth.
Workshop Objectives:

Develop an understanding of the influence of religion and spirituality on clients’ mental health, coping, and identity.
Learn strategies to ethically and effectively explore clients’ spiritual and religious experiences in therapy.
Identify ways to integrate spiritual and religious perspectives into assessment, treatment planning, and interventions to support holistic well-being.

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Implicit Bias: Implications for Gender Diversity
2026-07-09 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs!
Implicit Bias: Implications for Gender Diversity
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Thursday, July 9th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 3 CEs – Meets Criteria for Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $95.00
In this experiential and interactive continuing education workshop, we will discuss the nature of implicit bias against people who are gender non-conforming. We will explore why it is important to recognize negative attitudes we might hold toward this group and how to best address hurtful and limiting beliefs that we might initially be unaware of.
We will also examine the inequities and disparities experienced by those who are gender non-conforming. This knowledge will help participants understand how to better support and respect their gender-diverse clients.
Workshop Objectives:
Participants in this workshop will be able to:

Understand the definition of implicit bias
Discuss how to become aware of our own implicit biases towards people who are gender non-conforming
Identify ways in which the gender-diverse community is discriminated against
Practice ways to combat our implicit biases towards people who are gender non-conforming
Explore ways to provide a more welcoming clinical environment to the gender diverse community

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🆕 BRAND-NEW! Therapists Who Astrologize: An Introduction to Astrology-Assisted Therapy (AAT) 🆕
2026-07-10 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
BRAND-NEW!
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, and/or Cultural Competence CEs
Therapists Who Astrologize: An Introduction to Astrology-Assisted Therapy (AAT)
Presented by: Jenae D. Thompson, PhD, LCPC
When: Friday, July 10th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live via Zoom (you’ll receive the link the week of the workshop)
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 6 CEs – counts as 2 Law & Ethics CEs, 2 Health Equity or Cultural Competency CEs, and 2 General CEs | Cost: $199.00
This workshop is also offered on Friday, November 20th. For more information and to register, click here.
This beginner-level continuing education workshop introduces mental health professionals to the foundations of Astrology-Assisted Therapy (AAT), an integrative clinical framework that incorporates astrological symbolism into therapeutic practice with structure, discernment, and ethical clarity.
Designed for therapists with no prior astrology experience, this workshop offers a grounded and clinically responsible introduction to core astrological concepts and their application in psychotherapy.
Participants will learn the foundational components of a natal chart – including planets, signs, houses, and aspects – through a psychological and symbolic lens. Rather than prediction, the focus is on meaning-making, narrative identity, relational patterns, and insight development. Astrology is presented as a structured symbolic language that can support depth-oriented exploration when used collaboratively and with client consent.
Drawing from qualitative research conducted with licensed clinicians who integrate astrology into therapy, this training explores clinical indications, contraindications, informed consent processes, scope of practice, and cultural humility. Participants will examine how astrology can function as a reflective tool that enhances therapeutic alliance, supports client agency, and facilitates nuanced conversations about identity and life transitions.
This workshop emphasizes ethical integration, client autonomy, and practitioner self-awareness. Astrology-Assisted Therapy is presented as a coherent symbolic modality that can be integrated within existing therapeutic orientations to expand conceptualization and deepen relational work.
Workshop Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Identify foundational astrological structures
Conceptualize astrology as a structured symbolic framework
Apply ethical guidelines for integrating astrology into clinical practice
Discern appropriate clinical contexts for AAT use

This continuing education workshop is ideal for clinicians seeking to expand their use of spiritually integrative, culturally responsive, and symbolically informed approaches within professional practice.
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🆕 Brand-New! The Major Arcana and the Hero’s Journey: Discovering Your Story Through Tarot 🆕
2026-07-17 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
Brand-New!
Meets Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence Continuing Education Requirements!
The Major Arcana and the Hero’s Journey: Discovering Your Story Through Tarot
Presented by Rebecca Bloom, LMHC (she/her)
When: Friday, July 17th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs (meets criteria for 2 Law & Ethics and 2 Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs) | Cost: $199.00
Every person is on a journey — one of becoming, healing, and finding meaning. The Major Arcana of the Tarot offers a beautiful reflection of this path. These 22 cards tell the story of the Hero’s Journey: the universal process of growth and transformation that mirrors each of our lives. Jung’s model of the hero’s journey is a path that clients can easily relate to in their own lives. In this workshop, you’ll explore how the Tarot can help clients connect with their path through difficult times.
The Major Arcana begins with The Fool, who takes a leap of faith into the unknown, and ends with The World, symbolizing a completed journey. Between these two cards lies the full range of human experience — discovery, love, loss, challenge, renewal, and awakening. Each card helps clients reflect on how they learn, heal, and grow.
Working with these archetypes can help clients who recognize that the transformation is possible and that setbacks are part of the journey. Perhaps you are navigating a “Tower” moment of upheaval, meeting your “Shadow” in The Devil, or beginning a new chapter as The Fool once more. Through the imagery of the Tarot, you will help clients to see their story not as fragmented or confusing, but as meaningful — a necessary part of an unfolding journey toward wholeness.
During this experiential workshop, you’ll be guided through meditations, creative exercises, and creating Tarot cards.
Tarot, when used in this way, is not about prediction; it’s about reflection. It’s a way of accessing unconscious wisdom — the part of you that already knows what healing and integration look like. Jung described this process as individuation: the journey of becoming your fullest, most authentic self.
Through the language of the Major Arcana, you can learn to trust this inner process, honor the changes you’re experiencing, and view your challenges as meaningful steps along your path. Whether you are seeking clarity, self-compassion, or a deeper sense of purpose, the Tarot offers a gentle, creative way to reconnect with your own story — the myth you are living and the hero you are becoming.
Workshop Objectives:

Recognize how the Hero’s Journey helps clients on their healing journey
Understand the lessons of the major arcana through a therapeutic lens
Gain confidence in using tarot in clinical settings.
Helping clients reconnect with intuition, purpose, and inner guidance
Explore art making for self-care

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🆕 BRAND-NEW! Lunch & Learn: ADHD's Hidden Risk: Toxic Relationships and Clinical Interventions 🆕
2026-07-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom
BRAND-NEW!
Health Equity or Cultural Competence Continuing Education Credits (CEs)
Lunch & Learn: ADHD’s Hidden Risk: Toxic Relationships and Clinical Interventions
Presented by: Kate Mageau, MA, LMHC
When: Monday, July 27th, 2026 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved CEs): 1.5 Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $25.00
Continuing Education Workshop Description
Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects nearly one in three people worldwide, and it is frequently overlooked in neurodivergent populations. Adults with ADHD are 2.5 times more likely to experience IPV, yet the specific neurological and psychological mechanisms behind this elevated risk are rarely addressed in clinical training. Equipping clinicians to recognize the signs of IPV in this population is a matter of client safety.
This continuing education workshop provides a comprehensive, evidence-based framework for understanding why ADHD brains are neurologically and psychologically vulnerable to toxic relationship dynamics. Clinicians will explore the specific ADHD traits that create relational vulnerability, the neuroscience of why clients stay, and evidence-based treatment approaches particularly well-suited to the ADHD-IPV intersection, including ACT, narrative therapy, and feminist-informed psychoeducation. Attendees will leave equipped to recognize relationship vulnerability patterns, understand the neurological barriers to leaving, and support ADHD clients who are at risk of being in a toxic or abusive relationship.
Presenter’s emphasis on culture and intersectionality: This continuing education workshop centers intersectionality as a core clinical framework. Prevalence data on BIPOC populations are woven throughout, including racial disparities in ADHD diagnosis.
White individuals are 26% more likely to receive an ADHD diagnosis than Black individuals, meaning BIPOC ADHDers are disproportionately undiagnosed and unsupported. Black, American Indian and Alaska Native, and Hispanic and Latina women all experience disproportionately high rates of IPV, compounded by medical mistrust, systemic barriers, and discrimination when seeking help.
LGBTQ+ populations are addressed explicitly, including elevated ADHD prevalence in transgender adults, IPV rates of 61% in bisexual women and 54% in transgender and non-binary people, the 44% of LGBTQ+ survivors denied shelter services, and how abusers may weaponize homophobia and transphobia, including threats of outing as tools of control.
This workshop uses gender-neutral language throughout, including gender-neutral pronouns, reflecting the reality that ADHD and intimate partner violence affect people of all genders and that clinicians serve clients across the full spectrum of gender identity. Clinical examples and research cited throughout reflect diverse gender identities, sexual orientations, and racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Continuing Education Workshop Objectives:

Discuss the neurobiological and psychological mechanisms by which ADHD increases vulnerability to intimate partner violence.
Apply this framework to recognize relationship vulnerability patterns in ADHD clients.

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Chronic Pain: Psychological and Somatic Strategies that Offer Relief and Hope
2026-08-14 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs!
Chronic Pain: Psychological and Somatic Strategies that Offer Relief and Hope
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Friday, August 14th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA approved): 6 Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $190.00
Chronic pain is more than a physical symptom – it is a complex interplay of body, mind, and emotion that can impact every dimension of a client’s life. Stress, trauma, and persistent tension often amplify pain signals, reinforcing cycles of discomfort, hypervigilance, and emotional dysregulation.
This in-depth continuing education workshop is designed for psychotherapists who want to bring a mind-body lens to chronic pain treatment. Participants will explore evidence-informed psychological and somatic strategies (including mindfulness, grounding, breathwork, guided imagery, hypnosis, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and body awareness interventions) that help reduce pain perception, support regulation, and foster resilience.
Attendees will learn how to help clients shift their relationship with pain, identify and release tension patterns, and build self-regulation skills. Therapists will leave with practical tools and strategies for combining psychological insight and somatic techniques, expanding their ability to guide clients toward relief, restoration, and improved quality of life.
Workshop Objectives:

Develop an understanding of how psychological processes and somatic patterns interact in the experience of chronic pain.
Learn evidence-informed somatic techniques (e.g., grounding, breathwork, body-awareness practices) that can reduce pain-related stress and support client regulation.
Explore ways to integrate psychological interventions (e.g., cognitive reframing, mindfulness, compassion practices) with somatic strategies for holistic pain care.
Build skills to recognize and respond to somatic signals of pain and emotional distress, guiding clients in developing self-soothing and regulation techniques.
Identify culturally sensitive approaches for tailoring mind-body interventions to clients with diverse experiences of pain.
Learn methods for assessing the effectiveness of combined psychological and somatic strategies in reducing pain and enhancing resilience
Identify the emotional, mental, and spiritual impacts of living with chronic pain.
Understand at least ten non-pharmaceutical ways to manage chronic pain.
Become familiar with the emotional issues surrounding chronic pain.
Discuss the role of grief and anger in living with chronic pain.
Explore newer pain management tools such as somatic tracking.
Identify how to introduce pain management techniques appropriately to clients.

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Un-Masking Neurodivergence: Non-Pathologizing Tools for Engaging Neurodivergent Populations
2026-08-20 09:00 - 12:15 | Zoom
Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs
Un-Masking Neurodivergence: Non-Pathologizing Tools for Engaging Neurodivergent Populations
Presented by: Hannah Smith, MA, LMHC, CGP
When: Thursday, August 20th, 2026 | 9:00 AM to 12:15 PM

Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 3 CEs (Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00
Continuing Education Workshop Description:
If you are in the mental health field and have not had a neurodivergent (ND) client, you will.
This can be daunting to clinicians working within the medical model for several reasons. One may not know if a client is neurodivergent (ND). As ND people often do not see themselves as needing to be “fixed,” they may not feel certain treatment approaches and/or vocabulary apply to them – and yet they are in our offices seeking help. Many self-diagnose, and there are as many presentations of neurodivergence as there are neurodivergent people. How do we conceptualize working with this population?
One approach is to de-center the neurotypical classification of behavior as the primary issue and focus treatment instead on the identification and remediation of associated trauma. Sadly, trauma and Neurodivergence often go together, and one of the primary results of this is masking.
Masking is the compensatory strategy many ND people develop to manage social expectations. This skill initially allows them to “fit in” better. Over the long term, though, the masking takes a huge toll and most often results in extreme mental and emotional fatigue, chronic and extreme emotional dysregulation, exacerbated learning difficulties, and frightening and isolating trauma responses.
This session will introduce a non-pathologizing tool that streamlines the conceptualization of neurodivergence and masking by examining ten common areas in which neurodivergent people demonstrate significant differences compared to their neurotypical counterparts. A qualitative and quantitative view of masking will emerge by mapping each unique individual’s experience and comparing it to their social experience. Clients will experience a reduction in shame, an ability to communicate their experience better, and a method by which providers can better help them discern their needs in any situation.
Workshop Objectives:

List the ten areas of Neurodivergence in non-pathologizing terms
Create a conceptualization of an individual’s neurodivergence with the Wheel of Neurodivergence
Identify areas and degrees of masking and create treatment plans to address them, determining approaches of accommodation versus adaptation
Apply new learning to case studies and real-time practice

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Now $100 Off! Becoming a Neurodivergent-Affirming Clinician: Understanding ADHD and Autism through a Strengths-Based, Neurodivergent-Affirming Lens
2026-08-26 10:00 - 2026-09-30 13:15 | Zoom
Now $100 Off!
Law & Ethics, Health Equity,
and Cultural Competence CEs!
Becoming a Neurodivergent-Affirming Clinician: Understanding ADHD and Autism through a Strengths-Based, Neurodivergent-Affirming Lens
Presented by: B Lourenco, MA, LMHC
When: This course will be held for six consecutive Wednesdays: August 26th through September 30th, 2026, from 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern

Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, September 8th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, September 16th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, September 30th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern

Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the event.
18 CEs (12 CEs can be used for Cultural Competence or Health Equity CEs, and 6 can be used for Law & Ethics CEs) | $499.00 *** (see below for payment options)
As technology progresses and education on mental health becomes increasingly more available, the population has become more self-aware. The world is changing quickly, and with it, more and more people realize that their brain works differently than others. Due to the influence of social media and the shift to focusing on lived experience as a legitimate means of diagnosis, we are seeing a sudden increase in clients that identify as Autistic and/or an ADHDer. We find that clients are speaking up and finding validation of what they have always known: their brains operate differently than the brains of their peers, colleagues, friends, and families. As a result, we are seeing a sudden increase in the young adult and middle-aged population who identify as being Neurodivergent in a Neurotypical world.
This workshop series is designed to help clinicians build greater awareness and familiarity with ADHD and Autistic experiences. Participants will come away from this course with a deeper understanding of ADHD and Autism from the Neurodiversity-Affirming Paradigm that focuses on strengths and differences, not diagnoses, disorders, and deficits.
Especially following the Covid pandemic and its sometimes long-term impact on the brain and the immune system’s inflammatory processes, many clients report having different and often challenging sensory processing experiences. We are seeing more adults presenting in our offices with reports that they now have issues not only with taste and smell but with a range of visual, hearing, tactile, balance, and internal bodily sensations they never have before experienced, as well as difficulties with attention and memory. This begs the question: have these brain differences always been there but now have been sensitized or magnified by exposure to Covid and months-long isolation?
Many adults are now recognizing they are not alone and are demanding they not be dismissed or invalidated any longer, often having experienced the continued frustration of providers questioning their own lived experiences and, as a result, having been either undiagnosed or underdiagnosed due to outdated and debunked diagnostic criteria still used by mainstream psychiatrists and physicians. These individuals are finding validation for what they have suspected all along: their brains work differently than those of their peers, families, and friends.
With new research available and an increasingly empowered clientele, we see more than ever the need to remain current in our understanding of–and support for–those who have brain differences. Committed to blending cutting-edge scientific evidence with the lived experiences of our clients, Cascadia Training, is delighted to offer a new workshop series designed to help clinicians build greater awareness and familiarity with ADHD and Autistic experiences.
Upon completion of this series, participants will have a deeper understanding of ADHD and Autism from the Neurodiversity Affirming Paradigm that focuses on strengths and differences, not disorders, diagnoses, and deficits!
Woven throughout the series are the law and ethics of working with neurodivergent clients, including the danger of misdiagnoses, and the harm of using biased, outdated, debunked diagnostic criteria leading to the under-diagnosis of ADHD and Autism spectrum experiences. In addition, participants will learn about and identify pathologizing, stigmatizing, and harmful treatment protocols and clinical interventions still utilized by providers in educational, physical, and mental health professions.
This series uses a system developed explicitly by B Lourenco, an expert on ADHD and Autism. The course focuses to a large degree on the internal, lived experience of neurodiversity. Each of the six weekly sessions will include a didactic portion, an experiential section, and direct case consultation time. All modules will include lecture, video, and experiential segments.
Certificate Program Weekly Modules:
Week One: Sensory Systems – Getting in touch with the sensory system is the most critical step in supporting neurodivergent clients. Sensory information can regulate emotional and physical experiences. In addition, we will focus on using sensory profiles, menus, and diets to support day-to-day quality of life.
Week Two: Communication and Relationships – Understanding how those with Autism and ADHD communicate creates room for therapeutic connection. With this understanding, we will dive into tools for managing meltdowns and shutdowns in an affirming way.
Week Three: Attending and Executive Function – This module will explain why those with Autism and ADHD face challenges attending to their environment by addressing social expectations on perceptions of “functioning.” You will also learn how to use the client’s natural rhythms to support positive functionality.
Week Four: Social Systems and Disability – Understanding how society directly impacts the lives of people with disabilities. We will focus on how clinicians can incorporate advocacy into their practice and tools to unlearn neurotypical values by connecting clients to personal values.
Week Five: Differentials and Comorbidities – This module will teach participants how to rule out or “dial in” on other mental health concerns or diagnoses. We will present comorbidities that exist with your neurodivergent clients and how to effectively support them in a non-stigmatizing way. The role of trauma and grief in the lived experience of clients who identify as neurodivergent will be discussed, as well as the impact of these events on the developing brain. We will process how to best support the grief and disenfranchised losses felt by our autistic and ADHD clients and their families.
Week Six: The Use of Joy As a Tool Against Oppression. Creating celebrations of being neurodivergent and finding joy in everyday life as we partner with our neurodivergent clients. The Neurodivergent-affirming certificate program series will conclude with various celebrations we can share with our clients and the shift to viewing “joy itself as a tool against oppression.” As clinicians, it is important for us to first comprehend–and then share– the ways that society benefits from neurodiversity in general and ADHD and Autism, in particular. We will conclude by learning ways to help our clients celebrate their neurodiversity and see themselves through an affirming, strengths-based lens.
Other topics that will be covered in this practice- and life-altering certificate program series include, but are not limited to:

Alexithymia and Dysthymia
ARFID
Misophonia
Gender and sexuality in the ADHD and Autistic communities
The role of menstruation on ADHD and Autistic brains
Interdependence vs codependence and/or independence
Myths and stigmas about neurodivergent people
Experiences of abuse in neurodivergent people
Pervasive Desire for Autonomy (PDA)

***Payment Options:
Cascadia Training values quality continuing education that is accessible, inclusive, and without barriers to all. We never want the cost of our workshops to be a barrier to attending one of our workshops, particularly our multi-session workshops.
We offer several options to make our workshops cost-inclusive: payment plans, a limited number of full and partial scholarships, discounts for students, and discounts for early professionals. Please email us at hello@cascadiatraining.org for more information.
For payment plans, you can select paying 50% today and 50% due on September 30, 2026.
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Let’s Talk About Sex
2026-09-10 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs
Let’s Talk About Sex
Presented by B Lourenco, MA, LMHC (she/her)
When: Thursday, September 10, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live via Zoom (you’ll receive the link the week of the workshop)
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competency CEs | Cost: $199.00
Research shows that if sex isn’t brought up in the first three therapy sessions, it is unlikely to ever come up in the therapy space.
A large majority of clinicians don’t know how to talk to their clients about sexuality and, subsequently, aren’t able to help their clients with issues about their sex lives. Many clinicians also believe that conversations about sex are out of their scope of practice, and while this is true in rare cases, it’s usually not true.
Every single person has a relationship with sexuality, whether they are asexual or very sexually experienced. Everyone we work with as therapists has a relationship with their sexuality.
Discussing sexual health is well within our scope as clinicians! It is ethically mandated for clinicians to continue learning and growing so we can offer the best and most tailored support to our clients.
That need has prompted the creation of this workshop, NOT Your Mom’s Sex Ed Class!
Socialization teaches us that everyone is cis-gender, hetero, and monogamous. Everyone is taught that certain sexual behaviors are “normal” and others are “not.” These norms are echoed in the education systems that clinicians are trained in. Because of the shame-filled way our society treats sexuality, most folks have a complicated relationship with it.
We can serve the entire person when we choose to include conversations about sex and sexual health with our clients.
This course will go over the basics of human sexuality and anatomy, including sexual and gender identities, as well as the roles of desire, arousal, and libido. This course will explore types of sexual dysfunction commonly experienced by clients and how to know if a referral is needed. In addition, this course will identify ways that all clinicians can become more informed and sex-positive with everyday clients.
Objectives:

Learn the process of expected sexual development over the lifetime
Identify sex organs and their functions
Review gender and gender identities
Review sexual identities
Differentiate between types of arousal, desire, and variations in libido
Explore concepts about sex/porn addiction vs. out-of-control sexual behaviors
Identify the role of society in determining sexual norms and expectations
Define the impact of expectation of sexual normativity
Explore common non-normative identities and behaviors
Learn common types of sexual dysfunction experienced by everyday clients
Distinguish the role of attachment wounds and trauma on sexual experiences
Identify when a referral to a sex therapy specialist is needed
Understand the basics of sex-positive therapy and how to explore sexual topics with clients
Learn common types of sexual dysfunction experienced by everyday clients
Distinguish the role of attachment wounds and trauma on sexual experiences
Identify when a referral to a sex therapy specialist is needed
Understand the basics of sex-positive therapy and how to explore sexual topics with clients
Discuss ethical best practices around client sexuality and identify possible misdiagnoses due to clinician misinformation
Explore how cultural norms impact sexual attitudes and perpetuate stigmatizing myths
Identify the ethics that mandate we provide culturally sensitive and inclusive clinical practices

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Death Planning and Acceptance: Breaking Down Stigma and Fear with Clients
2026-09-11 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, and Cultural Competence CEs!
Death Planning and Acceptance: Breaking Down Stigma and Fear with Clients
Presented by: Kylani St. Clair, LMHC, CCTP, RYT
When: Friday, September 11, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 6 CEs -2 count as Law & Ethics and 2 count as Health Equity or Cultural Competence | $190.00
Continuing Education Workshop Description:
When a client says “The thought of my family dying keeps me up at night,” or “I’m terrified of death,” a clinician tends to have their own moment of fear or hesitation. Sometimes we don’t know how to respond, what we’re “allowed” to say, what we can offer without activating our own countertransference, or we’re afraid to broach the cultural/religious beliefs. As a society, we used to be more comfortable with death, literally and figuratively. Not long ago, we were planning for the inevitable much earlier in life. We even displayed the deceased in our living rooms for mourners to visit- sometimes for a week or more! The U.S. has especially stigmatized death and it’s palpable in our sessions. That existential dread and anxiety that sometimes leads to panic attacks and depressive episodes often has death at the core.
Further, grief and loss are often compounded when we don’t know what the deceased person wanted, how to pay for after-death services, and contacting the people who need to be informed. For example, do you know if your partner wants to be cremated or buried? Is it important to you to be buried in another state? If so, do you know what the protocols are for being transported across state lines? Do you have enough money to pay for what the service the deceased wanted? If we don’t have these conversations in our personal lives, how can we hold space for them with our clients?
In this continuing education workshop, we will break down some of the barriers to discussing death. We will learn about the process of dying, identify laws and regulations to navigate options, and de-stigmatize death. We’ll navigate the how, what, when, and why of these conversation in session and how to continue the conversations at home. Throughout this process, you will ease your own countertransference about death, making death planning and acceptance with clients more meaningful.
Continuing Education Workshop Objectives:

Reduce existential dread and anxiety regarding death.
Reduce levels of depression seated in despair about death.
Navigate clinical history at a multicultural level, providing both clients and clinicians with options for how to handle their own death, burial, funeral, etc.
Share artifacts and resources for various death professionals.
Apply cultural, religious, and familial traditions.
Identify differences between tradition types. Explore learner’s experiences. Identify any countertransference and how to hold space for it during session. Practice self-disclosure.
Revisit Kubler-Ross’ stages of grief and introduce David Kessler’s Needs of the Dying affirmations.
Discuss pre-grieving, second-grieving, disenfranchised grief, and normalize the process of grief.
Improve client advocacy via communication and understanding rights.
Practice communication around goals, desires, needs for end-of-life care, including, but not limited to, funeral and burial details.
Model the practice self-advocacy via the “Caregiver’s Bill of Rights,” including gaining a thorough understanding of laws and regulations around death and dying.
Navigate grief and loss

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🆕BRAND-NEW! Culturally Competent Work with Queer, Non-Binary, and Trans Clients 🆕
2026-09-14 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Brand-New!
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs!
Culturally Competent Work with Queer, Non-Binary, and Trans Clients
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, September 14, 2026 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 3 CEs Meets Criteria for Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00
This continuing education workshop is designed to deepen your clinical competence, cultural humility, and ethical responsiveness when working with LGBTQIA+ populations. Together, we will explore gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, minority stress, systemic oppression, and intersectionality, while challenging ourselves to examine implicit bias and cisnormative assumptions within clinical practice.
You will gain practical tools for creating affirming therapeutic environments, navigating clinical documentation and assessment in gender-inclusive ways, addressing trauma and resilience within queer and trans communities, and practicing ethically grounded, evidence-informed care that honors client self-determination and lived experience.
Workshop Objectives:

Identify and describe key concepts related to sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, minority stress, and intersectionality, and explain their clinical relevance in psychotherapy practice.
Analyze how systemic oppression, cisnormativity, and heteronormativity impact mental health outcomes for queer, non-binary, and trans clients, and apply culturally responsive interventions to mitigate harm.
Demonstrate practical strategies for creating affirming clinical environments, including inclusive language, documentation practices, assessment considerations, and trauma-informed approaches that support client autonomy and resilience.

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Being Neurodivergent in a Neurotypical World
2026-09-17 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
Law & Ethics, Cultural Competence, or Health Equity CEs!
Being Neurodivergent in a Neurotypical World
Presented by: B Lourenco, MA, LMHC (she/her)
When: Thursday, September 17th, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs | Cost: $199.00
Have you noticed that more and more of your clients have begun to suspect that they are neurodivergent? During the past year-and-a-half of the Covid pandemic, many folks have had time to reflect and learn about themselves and others. That time of learning and increased self-reflection has led to what seems like an explosion of self-diagnosed Autistic and ADHD clients. It seems hard to believe that there are suddenly so many more people who are identifying as being neurodivergent. You may have asked yourself, “What is going on?”
The difference is the shift to using the ethical approach of “centering lived experience” in identifying neurodiversity. Using this term and approach as applied to neurodiversity, this presenter explains the rise in neurodivergent diagnoses, especially among those who have initially those self-identified. The presenter suggests that we have only recently begun to LISTEN to voices of those have had “lived experiences” after being diagnosed in the current mental health field, including countless reports of feeling increased emotional distress and of experiences of marginalization due to being labeled– and subsequently stigmatized– as neurodivergent.
B Lourenco will provide attendees with a “centering lived experience” model of assessing and supporting clients who suspect that they have been living as a neurodivergent person in a neurotypical world. This presenter will support your learning how to incorporate a “centering lived experience” model in your own mental health practices. With this new paradigm, mental health practitioners and educators can shift their focus away from a deficits-based approach to identifying the strengths and adaptive characteristics of those who are neurodivergent, especially those identified as autistic or ADHD.
This workshop will demonstrate how the current model for identifying neurodivergence—particularly those with Autism and ADHD–is considered both outdated and ableist by experts who choose to use the “centering lived experience” approach to assessing clients. This course will outline the ways that the current model harms neurodivergent people, in addition to offering workshop attendees a more client-empowering, more affirming way to identify and interact with this unique population of people.
Utilizing the Neurodiversity paradigm, you’ll leave this workshop with a much better, more strengths-based understanding of Autism and ADHD, as well as gaining effective tools for interacting with and supporting these clients (of which you have, even if you or the client doesn’t know it yet)!
Objectives:

understand the umbrella of neurodivergence, including innate and acquired neurodivergence
have a clearer understanding of Autism and ADHD—as viewed through an ethical, neurodiversity-affirming lens
identify limits of the medical model of neurodivergence
understand ways in which the current medical model is unethical and harmful to neurodivergent people–by its focus on perceived deficits through a neurotypical lens
apply a strengths and differences approach in identifying autism and ADHD
understand and consider using the “centered life experience” model of identifying and supporting neurodivergent clients and populations
gain new skills to better assist Autistic and ADHD clients
possess a clearer understanding of the ethical need to approach clients with an anti-oppression lens in mental health care agencies and private practices
feel empowered to challenge current systems of harm by supporting clients in their preferred methods of processing sensory input and communicating with others in a neurotypical world

After attending this workshop, attendees will be able to:

Discuss the ethical violations that come from employing Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) as an intervention with neurodivergent clients/students.
Become familiar with the metaphor of Applied Behavioral Analysis as being the why the “conversion therapy” of the neurodivergent community and the ethical ramifications of continuing to use it in schools and clinics.
Understand that the practice of ABA is based upon a “foundation of compliance, coercion, and behaviorism.”
Identify that current “evidence-based practices” may not be effective with the neurodivergent client.
Comprehend the ethical mandate under cultural competence standards to respect and validate the culture and norms of the neurodivergent population.
Respect the neurodivergent client as a person worthy of respect and individual civil rights legally protected from discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Understand the ethical mandate to assess clients with a culturally competent assessment tool and grasp the ethical violation of using current inadequate or inappropriate assessment tools with neurodivergent clients.
Discuss the widespread misdiagnoses of neurodivergent clients/patients when practitioners use a neurotypical standard of behaviors and development to diagnose a neurodivergent client.

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🆕 BRAND-NEW! The GLP-1 Frontier: Balancing Metabolic Health, Muscle Mass, and Mental Wellness 🆕
2026-09-18 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Brand-New!
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs!
The GLP-1 Frontier: Balancing Metabolic Health, Muscle Mass, and Mental Wellness
Presented by: Dr. Kristen Allott
When: Friday, September 18, 2026 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 3 CEs – 2 are Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00
Continuing Education Workshop Description:
GLP-1 agonists are transforming the landscape of weight management, but their impact on mental health and addictions and long-term physiological resilience is complex. While these “wonder drugs” offer significant benefits for some, they can be neutral or even detrimental to others. This seminar provides mental health professionals with a deep dive into the clinical literature, contrasting pharmaceutical data with real-world outcome studies.
We will specifically examine the critical role of muscle mass in sustaining both metabolic and mental health, and how to identify when these medications may be supporting or compromising a client’s well-being. Participants will leave with a framework for navigating client conversations, setting realistic expectations, and “tipping the scales” toward safety and efficacy.

Hour 1: The Physiology of Weight Loss: Understanding the intersection of mental health and muscle mass.
Hour 2: Data vs. Reality: Analyzing pharmaceutical research against real-world outcome studies in mental health and addiction.
Hour 3: Clinical Application: Strategies for client goal-setting, expectation management, and monitoring outcomes.

Continuing Education Workshop Objectives:
Attendees of the continuing education workshop will:

Apply ethical standards and include informed consent when introducing holistic concepts and discussing somatic tools with clients.
Provide client care within ethical scope of practice for mental health practitioners.
Maintain awareness of possible implicit bias on the part of the clinician when discussing effectiveness and possible outcomes of GLP-1 medications, especially when prescribed for weight management alone.
Comprehend implicit and explicit biases experienced by clients in larger bodies, both in our society as a whole and our healthcare system in particular.
Understand the psychological and medical reasons for the use of GLP-1 medications for weight management.
Understand the current landscape of GLP-1 medications and mental health and addiction, including company claims and FDA research.
Understand the whole-life strategies (nutrition, movement, self-care) necessary for successful GLP-1 utilization.
Develop skills to support clients in setting realistic, sustainable goals while navigating the use of GLP-1s.

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Menopause and Mental Health: Navigating the Challenges from Perimenopause to Post-Menopause
2026-09-18 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
Meets Health Equity or Cultural Competence Continuing Education Requirements!
Menopause and Mental Health: Navigating the Challenges from Perimenopause to Post-Menopause
Presented by Rebecca Bloom, LMHC (she/her)
When: Friday, September 18th, 2026, 2025 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live via Zoom. You’ll receive the Zoom link the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs (meets criteria for Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs) | Cost: $199.00
The experience of pre-menopause/perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause is rarely talked about, but thousands of people are diagnosed daily with menopause-related challenges.
It shows up in clinical settings in many ways: if someone has been medically induced and is having many symptoms at once; if the whole family system is under stress because “now Mom is mad all the time;” if a client cannot get a medical doctor to address that all her symptoms are connected; or a client feels sex is just “too painful now” and plans never to have sex again.
As clinicians who may be in perimenopause, menopause, or post-menopause ourselves, do not understand our own bodies anymore and may find our work life more difficult than ever.
You may have a 48-year-old female client referred by a medical doctor. This new client has no history of depression, but suddenly, she cannot get out of bed, she cannot track her thoughts, and her blood pressure is through the roof. In this workshop, you will learn that these are all symptoms of perimenopause or menopause.
In this workshop, you will gain an in-depth knowledge of the 37 most common symptoms of perimenopause and menopause that affect us physically, mentally, emotionally, cognitively, and spiritually.
In addition, you will learn how to talk with your clients about these symptoms and how to help them advocate outside the walls of your office for themselves and the medical care they need. We will also look at how biases and inequalities surrounding race and gender (collectively, we’ll say women, but we mean that in a very inclusive way to include those who identify as a woman, those who are assigned female at birth (AFAB) but are transgender or non-binary but still have female reproductive organs and hormones), LGBTQIA+, socio-economic status, and more impact whether someone receives accessible, affordable, adequate, and effective health care.
We will also explore how the lack of adequate medical care for girls, women, and those AFAB continues throughout their lifespan and greatly impacts all aspects of their lives. This lack of adequate, affirming medical attention leads to this natural hormonal experience negatively impacting “everything” in our lives.
The destabilization and loss process in menopause will be explored from various angles. What does it mean to no longer be of “child-bearing age”? Is that transition cause for celebration? Is it a tremendous loss? What does it currently mean to be a “crone”? We will explore how this role has changed over time and in various cultures.
The latest neuroscience research suggests that the loss of estrogen in the brain has major impacts on many bodily systems. What does it mean to go on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)? Some current research suggests that HRT is safe for up to ten years. We will examine why this protocol changed and what it means for our clients and ourselves.
We will also explore natural options for care and support during the various phases of menopause. “Have your fans at the ready!” Let’s spend the day talking about menopause and learning about what impacts our receiving affirming, effective medical care, including the fact that the average medical doctor receives only one hour– in TOTAL—of formal training on menopause. You will leave this workshop knowing much more than when you arrived, knowledge that will help your clients and you on your journey.
Objectives:

Learn the three stages of menopause.
Learn the 37 most common symptoms of menopause.
Address how to help clients feel more stable in this process.
Learn how culture impacts on menopause.
Address the experience of gender and gender bias across the lifespan.
Destigmatize menopause and encourage authentic, effective discussions.

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