Cascadia Training for Professional Development

SPECIAL SALE! Lunch & Learn: Trauma-Informed Care: Ethics and Best Practices🆕
2025-11-17 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
LAST-MINUTE DEAL! $10 OFF!
🆕Brand-New Lunch & Learn Series!🆕
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs!
Trauma-Informed Care: Ethics and Best Practices
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, November 17th, 2025 | 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: 1.5 CEs (can be used for law & ethics, health equity, or cultural competence CEs)| $35.00 Now only $25.00!
Trauma is not just an event—it’s a process that affects how individuals view themselves, others, and the world around them. In this introductory training, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of trauma-informed care (TIC), focusing on ethical considerations and best practices for supporting clients who have experienced trauma. We will explore the key principles of TIC, including safety, trust, empowerment, and collaboration, while learning how to create a therapeutic environment that fosters healing and resilience. We will also examine the importance of cultural competence as a part of trauma-informed best practices with clients. Through case discussions, practical exercises, and real-world examples, you will leave with effective tools for integrating trauma-informed approaches into your clinical work, promoting a safe and supportive space for clients to process and heal.
OBJECTIVES:

Develop a foundational understanding of trauma-informed care principles and their application in clinical practice.
Learn ethical considerations for working with trauma survivors, including boundaries, cultural sensitivity, and safety, as well as cultural competence.
Identify signs of trauma and its impact on mental health, relationships, and coping strategies in clients.
Practice applying trauma-informed interventions to create a safe, supportive environment that promotes healing and resilience in clients.

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SPECIAL SALE! After Hours with Cascadia: Gratitude as a Healing Tool: How to Ethically Incorporate Gratitude Practices into Therapy 🆕
2025-11-18 18:00 - 20:00
LAST-MINUTE DEAL! $40 OFF!
🆕 Brand-New “After Hours with Cascadia” Series!🆕
Law & Ethics CEs!
Gratitude as a Healing Tool: How to Ethically Incorporate Gratitude Practices into Therapy
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 2 Law & Ethics CEs | $75.00 Now only $35.00!
Workshop Description
What if a simple shift in perspective could transform your clients’ healing journey? Gratitude is more than just a feel-good practice—it’s a powerful, evidence-based tool that rewires the brain, builds emotional resilience, and fosters posttraumatic growth.
This training explores the profound impact of gratitude in therapy, equipping you with practical strategies to help your clients reframe negative experiences, cultivate positive emotions, and break free from cycles of anxiety, depression, and burnout.
We will examine the psychological and neuroscientific foundations of gratitude, engage in experiential exercises, and learn how to seamlessly integrate gratitude-based interventions into clinical work, empowering clients to embrace a more meaningful and fulfilling life.
Workshop Objectives

Develop an understanding of the psychological and neurological benefits of gratitude in the context of mental health and healing.
Learn evidence-based gratitude interventions that can be integrated into different therapeutic approaches.
Practice facilitating gratitude-based exercises to enhance emotional regulation, cognitive flexibility, and overall well-being in clients.

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Treating Long Covid, Chronic Pain, Tinnitus, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity with EMDR and Vagal Calming
2025-11-19 09:00 - 12:00
Treating Long Covid, Chronic Pain, Tinnitus, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity with EMDR and Vagal Calming
Presented by: Robin Shapiro, LICSW
When: Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the event.
CE Credit Hours: 3 EMDRIA approved (EC Program Approval Number: #00002-50)| $99.00
EMDR is a widely known and effective method of treating and eradicating the neurological manifestations of chronic pain and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). In addition, our presenter, Robin Shapiro–a highly-respected EMDR practitioner and in-demand global presenter in EMDR and its clinical applications–has discovered that EMDR can also provide relief from many of the symptoms of Long Covid, including tinnitus.
Participants will learn how to use EMDR, vagal exercises, and imaging to ease, and often completely clear the experiences of chronic pain, tinnitus, Long Covid, and MCS.
The workshop includes lecture, a video, a demonstration, and practice exercises.
Objectives:

Participants can distinguish between physiological and neurological symptoms.
Participants can complete EMDR Standard Protocol treatment on the appropriate targets for onset of the problem.
Participants can utilize Silencing the Alarm, Negative Breathing, and Grounding techniques for vagal calming.
Participants can assist clients to discover and utilize visual tools for vagal calming.
Participants can utilize EMDR future templates to coach clients to use vagal calming techniques when symptoms reappear.
Participants can support both short-term and longer-term clients with neurological symptoms.

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SPECIAL SALE! Motivational Interviewing: Improving Client Outcomes by Increasing Intrinsic Motivation for Change
2025-11-21 09:00 - 16:30
SPECIAL SALE! $50 OFF!
Motivational Interviewing: Improving Client Outcomes by Increasing Intrinsic Motivation for Change
Presented by: Randi Jensen, MA, LMHC, CCDC
When: Friday, November 21st, 2025 | 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 | $190.00 Now ONLY $140.00
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an established evidence-based practice renowned for resolving ambivalence. MI, which has its origins in the field of substance abuse treatment, has been shown to enhance client motivation for change and improve treatment outcomes. The spirit of MI is complementary with Self-Determination Theory (SDI), which asserts that people have an intrinsic desire to make life changes congruent with their core values. SDI states that people are more likely to be internally motivated when their actions, beliefs, and core values are aligned. Motivational Interviewing provides the technique to make that happen.
The principles of Motivational Interviewing include providing accurate empathy, building discrepancy, rolling with resistance, and increasing self-efficacy. These supply the basis for building intrinsic motivation for change and can facilitate the resolution of life-threatening ambivalence in suicidality.
Researchers Britton, Williams, and Connor (2008) show how the therapist’s proficiency in Motivational Interviewing can resolve a client’s ambivalence and resistance to change.
Learning opportunities in this workshop include lectures, interactive discussions, video role-plays, and skill-building through group exercises. These methods combine to provide techniques and interventions that can be applied immediately.
Objectives:

Describe the principles that underpin Motivational Interviewing and how they promote client autonomy
Articulate the distinguishing techniques of open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summarizations
Explain the Stages of Change as described by Prochaska and DiClemente (1983)
Discuss the significance of Self-Determination Theory in coordination with MI
Distinguish different methods of using MI with specific populations and varied disorders
Express and practice Motivational Interviewing techniques used in counseling suicidal individuals
Describe ethical considerations and documentation
Enumerate necessary therapist qualities that support efficient use of MI

Randi Jensen has taught Motivational Interviewing during her eight years as adjunct faculty at Bastyr University and during her three years as Case Management Program Director for Antioch University and Seattle Jobs Initiative. Randi employs Motivational Interviewing skills in her Shoreline private practice, where she specializes in the treatment of Suicidality.
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