Becoming a Neurodivergent-Affirming Clinician: Understanding ADHD and Autism through a Strengths-Based, Neurodivergent-Affirming Lens
2025-08-20 10:00 - 2025-09-24 13:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
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 over six consecutive Wednesdays: August 20 – September 24, 2025

Wednesday, August 20th, 2025 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 1:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday August 27th, 2025 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 1:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday September 3rd, 2025 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 1:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday September 10th, 2025 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 1:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday September 17th, 2025 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 1:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday September 24th, 2025 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 1:15 pm Eastern

Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
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)
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 by September 30, 2025.
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🆕BRAND-NEW! Foundations of Couples Counseling 🆕
2025-09-11 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
🆕BRAND-NEW!🆕
Foundations of Couples Counseling
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Thursday, September 11th, 2025 | 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 | $95.00
Are you interested in offering couples therapy but unsure where to start?
Certainly, it can feel overwhelming trying to figure out which theoretical orientation to study. Should you go with the Gottman Method? Imago Therapy? Imago Relationship Therapy? Terry Real’s Relational Life Therapy? And what’s the difference between Emotionally Focused Therapy and Emotion-Focused Therapy?
Whether you are new to couples counseling or simply seeking a more structured framework surrounding this specialized area, this training workshop will provide you with the clarity and confidence to move forward in your practice. You will gain a comprehensive introduction to the core principles and foundational techniques of couples counseling.
Designed as a broad overview, we will explore the similarities and differences between the major theoretical schools that focus on couples counseling. You’ll also learn a wide variety of skills and strategies that will allow you to best serve your clients who come to you for couples counseling.
Finally, we will examine some of the more common ethical issues that arise when working with couples so that you can feel confident in offering this service.
Objectives:

Explain the main schools of psychotherapy that focus on couples counseling
Identify core skills that a therapist needs to provide effective couples counseling
Understand the main ethical dilemmas that are commonly associated with couples counseling

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Dream Work for Deepening Clinical Outcomes
2025-09-11 09:30 - 17:00 | Zoom
Dream Work for Deepening Clinical Outcomes
Presented by: Becky Robbins, MA, LMHC, CEAT, CYT, NBT
When: Thursday, September 11th, 2025 | 9:30 am – 5:00 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!
This fundamentals workshop provides a strong, basic understanding of the necessary aspects of working with dreams in a clinical setting. The instructor utilizes integrated theoretical models of working with dreams, including cognitive-experiential, expressive arts, and nature-based dream work models, to explore the benefits of doing dream work with clients.
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce the context, foundations, benefits, and ethics of engaging in dream work in therapy sessions with clients, as well as to provide experiential exercises for “hands-on” learning that can be implemented immediately. Support material from Clara Hill’s work, “cognitive-experiential dream model” highlight the value of dream work in deepening outcomes with clients. This workshop will also introduce participants to working with clients’ significant dreams, grief/loss-related dreams, and trauma-related dreams with tenderness and through the clinical lens.
This session provides a good foundation for understanding the theories involved in working with the unconscious—aka dreams—as it provides a multi-modal, cooperative learning experience to reinforce the ideas presented. The instructor will make clear the benefits of doing therapeutic dream work using an integrated model. Participants will explore the ways in which the various approaches complement each other and are appropriate for a wide range of clients, including those clients who are remembering, working through, and healing grief, loss, and traumatic experiences. This session also considers ethical, legal, and documentation topics related to dream work in the clinical setting.
Objectives:

Explain the difference between “dream interpretation” and “dream work” and why the latter is what we do in therapy
“Light” foundations of dream work
Name individuals in our field who influence today’s workshop content, models, approaches
Understand how to introduce and use dream work in the clinical/ therapeutic setting, shifts from “Freudian” ways to multi-theoretical
Explain how our unconscious speaks through our dreams so that important information stored in our bodies and memories can come forth and become conscious, possible demo
Identify how dream work enhances one’s practice
Identify parts of dreams with examples of when they might come up in therapy
Understand how to utilize several dream work approaches from a range of exploratory, expressive, and nature-based theorists
Provide examples of appropriate application of each approach including that the client has the last word
View a live demonstration of dream work demo (recorded/link or live/volunteer)
Explore and practice techniques for doing dream work that can be used immediately, through demonstrations and “hands-on” experientials in this workshop
Learn how to become a better container for working with your clients’ dreams through self-empowerment, self-care, self-regulation, and protective practice when working with dreams, especially with dream content related to grief, loss, phobias, and trauma
Consider legal, ethical, and documentation implications for doing dream work, especially with survivors of trauma (such as a dream that recalls repressed childhood abuse) and those experiencing grief and loss, as well as social and environmental impacts (such as dynamics of power and privilege) of dream content in client’s waking life

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Being Neurodivergent in a Neurotypical World
2025-09-12 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
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Being Neurodivergent in a Neurotypical World
Presented by: B Lourenco, MA, LMHC (she/her)
When: Friday, September 12th, 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 Law & Ethics CEs; also meets the Cultural Competency CE requirement for WA & OR | 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! Death Planning and Acceptance: Breaking Down Stigma and Fear with Clients🆕
2025-09-12 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
🆕BRAND-NEW PRESENTER & WORKSHOP!🆕
Counts as Health Equity, Law & Ethics, or 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 12th, 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, 2 of which meet criteria for Cultural Competence and/or Health Equity CEs and 2 meet Law & Ethics criteria| $199.00
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 training, 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.
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! Lunch & Learn: Brain Breaks! Easy and Effective Tools for Emotional and Sensory Self-Regulation 🆕
2025-09-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom
🆕Brand-New Lunch & Learn Series!🆕
Brain Breaks! Easy and Effective Tools for Emotional and Sensory Self-Regulation
Presented by: Sally Carman, OTR/L
When: Monday, September 15th, 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 | $35.00
Mental health providers often encounter clients who live with challenges that involve focus, sensory overload, and energy/emotional regulation. This engaging presentation introduces us to the notion of brain breaks – short, intentional, and customized activities designed to reset both the mind and the body. Such tools are effective and evidence-based, leading toward an increased sense of safety and improved self-regulation.
Participants will learn what regulation actually is, will recognize signs of dysregulation, and will learn how to integrate movement, sensory, and mindful strategies into their practices immediately. You’ll leave this highly engaging, informative, AND fun training with a more comprehensive understanding of how we process sensory information and how we can modify our responses to it with fast, easy, and effective brain breaks!
Our presenter for this brand-new Lunch and Learn workshop brings with her a rare blend of expertise. As an Occupational Therapist with a specialty in mental health, Sally Carman will provide you with a clearer understanding of how our sensory processing system works and how that impacts our ability to self-regulate. Attendees will leave this Lunch and Learn training with greater confidence in the how and why of sensory challenges that can often lead to dysregulation. Attendees will take away easy, fast, and effective tools, including a variety of techniques in how to self-regulate. You will leave this lunchtime training with a new sensory-informed lens and with a toolkit of interventions you can use immediately with your clients—and, very likely, with yourself!
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
By the end of this Lunch and Learn training, attendees will:

Define and explain the purpose of brain breaks as tools leading toward greater safety and self-regulation.
Identify how regulated behavior appears and discern factors that may trigger dysregulation, especially with neurodivergent clients.
Learn a variety of brain break strategies, including those using movement, sensory, and mindful techniques – and recognize when, where, and how to use them.
Develop practical skills for facilitating the implementation of brain breaks during and after treatment sessions to better support our clients’ agency in improving their own self-regulation.

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SOLD OUT - Register for Upcoming Sessions | Navigating Washington’s New Confidentiality Standards for LMHCs, LMFTs, and Social Workers: A 2025 Update
2025-09-18 10:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
This workshop is now sold out.
Please register for future sessions:
Friday, October 24th, 2025: Live in-person on Bainbridge Island: MORE INFO & REGISTER>>>
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🆕BRAND-NEW!🆕
A Must-Take Law & Ethics CE Workshop!
Navigating Washington’s New Confidentiality Standards for LMHCs, LMFTs, and Social Workers: A 2025 Update
Presented by: Eric Ström, PhD, Attorney at Law, LMHC
When: Thursday, September 18th, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 3 Law & Ethics CEs | $99.00
Workshop Description
As of July 27, 2025, the legal framework for confidentiality in behavioral health practice in Washington State will undergo a significant shift. Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHCs), Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs), and Social Workers will now be subject to the standards of RCW 70.02—Washington’s Uniform Health Care Information Act—through its incorporation into RCW 18.225.105.
This three-hour section of the day’s workshop will prepare clinicians for this critical change. Participants will examine how the newly aligned laws alter confidentiality obligations, reshape definitions of protected information, and introduce updated rules around disclosures, client rights, and documentation practices.
Through step-by-step analysis, practical examples, and discussion, this training will equip attendees to confidently navigate the new legal landscape while upholding core ethical principles. This course is intended to meet Washington’s ethics CEU requirement.
Workshop Learning Objectives
After taking part in this training, participants will be able to:

Identify the sources of legal standards relating to confidentiality;
Understand the relationship between Washington State statutes and federal regulations with respect to client confidentiality;
Describe when disclosure of client information is required;
Describe when disclosure of client information is allowed.

The Ethics of Simple Self-Care in Nature
2025-09-19 09:00 - 16:30 | ONE-Olympia, 7400 Gallagher Cove Road NW, Olympia, WA, 98502, United States
Law & Ethics CEs!
The Ethics of Simple Self-Care in Nature
Presented by: Dr. Brenda Butterfield, EdD, MSW, LMHC
When: Friday, September 19, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live in person at the ONE Center (7400 Gallagher Cove Road NW, Olympia, WA 98502)
Lodging Options: If you are coming to the area from out of town, several lodging options at reduced rates for Cascadia attendees are available, including staying at the ONE Center. For all lodging accommodation options, please visit the ONE Center website here and email the ONE Center at ournewexperiences@gmail.com.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 Law and Ethics CEs | $199.00
All 2025 Dates for The Ethics of Simple Self-Care in Nature at the ONE Center:

Friday, May 2, 2025: Click here for more info >>>
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This is a nature based workshop in the gardens, forest and by the water, walking slowly (less than 1 mile total) on uneven ground at times, rain or shine.
It is finally here, the opportunity to take time to practice what we preach so often to clients, “Take good care of yourself.” Let us do it together at the beautiful ONE Center on the South Salish Sea just outside Olympia, WA, ONE is an incredibly special place designed just for healthcare providers like you! This day of learning supports OUR health and well-being. Finally, we have full permission to tend to our own health and well-being WHILE earning ethics credits.
This workshop is retreat-style, nature-based, and experiential. We’ll be walking slowly, short distances, and pausing all along the way because we’ve created this workshop for you to experience simple self-care practices to use anywhere and anytime. Some colleagues have come multiple times because this learning feels good, body, mind, and soul, AND because when we’re grounded, we can teach our clients to feel more connected to themselves, each other, nature, and the beyond human world too.
Providing mental health care in the past several years has required more from us than ever before. In addition to significant work-related changes, the added stress from so many daily challenges in our personal lives has been exhausting. Now providing telehealth, it’s common for colleagues to feel isolated and disconnected from others. If you have been running on empty for a while, pushing on to keep meeting the needs of others even though you know you need to pause and rest, you are not alone. Come to ONE for a soft, gentle landing and warm welcome. The ONE Center is a refuge, a sanctuary created specifically for those of us providing care to others. We’re building this community of care by reimagining mental health care, starting with caring for professional care providers. We got your back…we’re here for you.
Quite recently, the National Association of Social Workers updated the NASW Code of Ethics reflecting an ethical imperative to practice self-care. Now, all codes of ethics formally recognize clinician self-care as essential to providing quality care to others. The codes provide mandates to tend to one’s well-being and permit us to do just that through professional development. The Codes of Ethics are in alignment with current research findings indicating the therapist’s psychological health and well-being directly relate to treatment outcomes for clients. Yes, how we show up in the room with clients does indeed matter. Therefore, finding ways to practice caring for oneself is not only a personal responsibility and a gift to oneself, but also an ethical obligation for mental health clinicians. We explore this and so much more during our time together at ONE.
We start the day experiencing Nature Therapy through practices like Sit Spotting, What’s in Motion, and Pleasures of Presence. These practices are influenced by shinrin yoku in Japan and supported by research to decrease anxiety and depression, boost the immune system, and lower blood pressure. Together we experience mindfulness through practices taught in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) including breathing techniques, mindful movement, mindful meditation (sitting and walking), and self-reflective inquiry. From the practice of Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) we explore the Self-Compassion Break, Soothing Touch, and Soles of the Feet. All are simple, easy-to-use, effective, evidence-based ways to practice caring for oneself that nourishes body, mind, and soul. The importance of developing a daily self-care practice will be explored along with ways to assess your well-being both in the moment and over time.
We know that practicing self-care improves our health and well-being. As it turns out, self-care benefits not only us but all those around us – including clients, coworkers, and family and friends too. Indeed, it is an essential prerequisite to providing care for others, care that helps them heal.
We hope you come this season of care to pause, drop in, and begin tending to what you need as a human being first and the mental health professional second. Come, like so many others have done, to find solace in the company of colleagues gathering in small groups outside in nature. Come and experience the healing power of the place we call ONE, a nature-based health and wellness center on the shore of the beautiful South Salish Sea. Come, be a part of this community of care.
Objectives
• Explore experientially a variety of ways to practice simple self-care
• Learn about the ethical implications of practicing self-care
• Understand research correlating clinician health and well-being to treatment outcomes for clients
• Assess your current overall health and well-being
• Assess your professional quality of life
• Identify lifestyle choices that are supportive or undermine health and wellbeing
• Develop a realistic action plan for improved health and wellbeing
What attendees of this workshop are saying:
“The beautiful time in nature and SLOWING DOWN! Thank you for curating a safe and nourishing environment to just BE.”
“Where to start! I enjoyed the land! The atmosphere of acceptance and compassion. The experiential approach. The connection to ethics. The opportunities to connect with ourselves and peers. The worksheets for reflection and self-assessment. I loved everything!”
“The beautiful and nurturing environment allowed everyone to feel safe and be vulnerable. I admire the bravery and ability of the other attendees to open up and share their experiences, struggles, and challenges. It helps us all feel less alone.”
“This workshop – and the ONE Center – is truly a gift that every mental health professional should give themselves! Hands down, this is the best continuing education workshop I’ve ever attended.”
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Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Tapping for Clinicians, Part I
2025-09-19 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
Now meets requirements for Law & Ethics CEs!
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Tapping for Clinicians, Part I
Presented by: Shelley White, MA, LMHC
When: Friday, September 19th, 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 (law & ethics CEs)| $190.00
Emotion Freedom Techniques (EFT) – also known as EFT Tapping – is quickly becoming a widely-accepted and effective evidence-based strategy to reduce emotional distress. Many prominent therapists and psychologists, including trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk, use a form of tapping with their clients, and now you can too. This workshop provides you with the introductory skills you need to start using basic tapping techniques. Through observation, lecture, and practice, you will learn the history of tapping and the psychology and science behind its success. You will also learn and practice the basic technique so you will be able to use EFT with your clients immediately.
When treating anxiety, first calm the body. Experts in anxiety treatment agree: First calm the physiological symptoms of anxiety, then work with the mind. EFT Tapping can quickly reduce anxiety sensations in the body. And it’s very easy to teach clients! I often hear from my clients how empowered they feel to self-regulate even after their first session. Come earn 6 CEs and learn this effective self-regulatory tool!
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Introduction to Nature Therapy: More than a Walk in the Park
2025-09-20 09:30 - 17:00 | Shoreline Center, 18560 1st Ave NE, Shoreline, WA, 98155, United States
2 Law & Ethics CEs!
Introduction to Nature Therapy: More than a Walk in the Park
Presented by: Becky Robbins, MA, LMHC, CEAT, CYT, NBT
When: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 | 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live, In-Person event at Shoreline Center & At noon, we will break for an hour lunch and will then reconvene at Hamlin Park, located at 16006 15th Ave NE, Shoreline, WA, at 1:00 for the remainder of the workshop, which will be outdoors.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs – 2 count as Law & Ethics CEs | $190.00
This Introduction to Nature Therapy: More than a Walk in the Park workshop offers participants the opportunity to become familiar with nature-based therapy, and specifically, what is involved in a “walk-and-talk” therapy session outdoors in a natural setting. Participants will become aware of the legal and ethical considerations necessary to provide this option for client sessions. Participants will learn the key concepts and significant benefits to providing therapy sessions outdoors, in a natural setting, complemented by using expressive arts modalities. The presenter will also teach how these approaches connect through a polyvagal lens.
Participants will learn what it takes to provide ethical, impactful, confident, and competent therapy for clients in an outdoor natural setting. The presenter will teach participants how to include expressive arts modalities and somatic awareness techniques into nature therapy, as these techniques will be interwoven throughout this daylong experience. Experientials will be facilitated to aid participants in their own embodied experience of a session in nature. Participants will leave this course ethically and legally prepared to facilitate an outdoor, nature-based therapy session, understanding the client appropriateness (what clients are a good fit for this type of therapy), location considerations (parks, trails, beaches, weather conditions, parking, etcetera), and critical skills needed for facilitating a helpful walk-and-talk session outdoors (multidimensional awareness, various approaches to facilitation, and safety considerations). Participants will leave this experiential workshop feeling confident and inspired to offer a more integrated clinical approach than they thought possible!
Objectives:

Consider legal, ethical, and documentation implications for doing nature-based therapy outdoors.
Identify important considerations for specific populations.
Understand the legal and ethical considerations of practicing nature-based therapy in a walk-and-talk session.
Describe differences among ecotherapy, nature-based, adventure-based, and wilderness therapies.
Identify key concepts of ecotherapy and nature-based therapy
Assess who to work with and when, where to go and why, what to expect and consider in various regions and environments when using nature-based therapy.
Understand the therapist’s identity in nature-based versus ecotherapy practices.
Introduce common types of nature-based approaches into walk-and-talk therapy sessions.
Understand how to incorporate several approaches from a range of ecotherapy, expressive arts, and nature-based modalities.
Learn appropriate applications of each of these approaches.
Gain an experiential understanding and demonstration of three nature-based and expressive arts concepts with specific populations and/or symptomologies.
Explore and practice techniques for doing walk-and-talk therapy sessions that can be used immediately with appropriate clients through demonstrations in this workshop.
Identify the benefits of nature and the use of expressive arts modalities as a way to complement your existing clinical practice.
Learn how to become a better container for working with your clients through self-care, self-regulation, and personal practice.

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🆕BRAND-NEW! Lunch & Learn: The Art of Building Rapport: Ethical Considerations in Constructing and Maintaining the Therapeutic Alliance🆕
2025-09-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom
🆕Brand-New Lunch & Learn Series!🆕
Law & Ethics CEs!
The Art of Building Rapport: Ethical Considerations in Constructing and Maintaining the Therapeutic Alliance
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, September 22nd, 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 Meets Criteria for Law & Ethics CEs | $35.00
A strong therapeutic alliance is one of the most powerful predictors of positive client outcomes—but what does it take to build and sustain genuine rapport? This training explores the art and ethics of establishing trust, attunement, and collaboration in psychotherapy. We will examine the key components of a strong therapeutic alliance, including active listening, cultural humility, and the balance between authenticity and professional boundaries. Through experiential exercises, real-world case discussions, and practical strategies, you will refine your ability to create a safe, supportive, and ethical space where clients feel seen, heard, and empowered in their healing journey.
OBJECTIVES:

Develop an understanding of the core elements of therapeutic rapport and their impact on client outcomes.
Learn ethical considerations in building and maintaining the therapeutic alliance, including boundaries, dual relationships, and cultural competence.
Identify common challenges that can weaken the therapeutic relationship and explore strategies for repairing ruptures.

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🆕 BRAND-NEW! After Hours with Cascadia: Eco-Anxiety and Climate Grief: Supporting Clients in Coping with Climate Distress 🆕
2025-09-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
🆕 Brand-New “After Hours with Cascadia” Series!🆕
Law & Ethics CEs!
Eco-Anxiety and Climate Grief: Supporting Clients in Coping with Climate Distress
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Tuesday, September 23rd, 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
As the realities of climate change grow more urgent, many clients are experiencing eco-anxiety, climate grief, and existential distress that can deeply impact their mental health. This training will provide you with a comprehensive framework for understanding and addressing the emotional, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of climate-related distress. Together, we will explore how to differentiate eco-anxiety from clinical anxiety, recognize common manifestations of climate grief, and learn therapeutic approaches that validate, contextualize, and help clients transform their distress into meaningful engagement.
This training combines theory, practical tools, and experiential exercises to build confidence in supporting clients facing climate-related emotions. Through case examples and reflective practices, you will develop strategies for helping clients move from overwhelm to agency, integrate eco-emotions into a broader healing process, and cultivate resilience, community connection, and hope even in the face of environmental uncertainty.
This training is ideal for clinicians, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and other helping professionals seeking to better understand and treat clients struggling with climate-related emotional distress. No prior experience with climate-focused therapy required.
OBJECTIVES:

Identify the emotional and psychological manifestations of eco-anxiety and climate grief and their impact on client well-being.
Describe therapeutic frameworks and interventions to help clients process and manage climate-related distress.
Implement strategies that foster resilience, empowerment, and emotional regulation in clients coping with environmental concerns.

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🆕BRAND-NEW! Meets Health Equity Requirements | Enhancing Therapeutic Competence in Religious and Spiritual Sensitivity: An Implicit Bias Training 🆕
2025-09-24 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
🆕BRAND-NEW!🆕
Meets New Health Equity or Cultural Competence CE Requirements!
Enhancing Therapeutic Competence in Religious and Spiritual Sensitivity: An Implicit Bias Training
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 | 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 Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00
In psychotherapy, a client’s religious and spiritual beliefs can profoundly shape their worldview, coping mechanisms, and sense of identity. However, therapists—regardless of their own faith background or secular perspective—may hold implicit biases that unconsciously influence clinical interactions. This interactive training will help psychotherapists recognize and address implicit biases related to religion and spirituality, fostering greater cultural humility and therapeutic competence. Through guided self-reflection and experiential exercises, participants will explore how implicit assumptions about faith and spirituality can affect assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
This workshop will provide practical strategies for creating an open, affirming therapeutic space that respects diverse religious and spiritual expressions. Participants will learn techniques to uncover their own biases, navigate religious differences ethically, and engage with clients’ beliefs in ways that enhance—not hinder—therapeutic outcomes. Whether working with devout clients, spiritual seekers, or those who have experienced religious trauma, therapists will leave with an expanded capacity to offer culturally responsive care that aligns with their clients’ values and healing processes.
OBJECTIVES:

Define implicit bias
Identify the impact of implicit bias on matters related to religion and spirituality
Recognize how implicit bias surrounding religion and spirituality can impact clinical work
Use strategies to become aware of their own implicit biases in order to avoid them becoming detrimental in the therapeutic relationship

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🆕BRAND-NEW! | The Creative Counselor: Practical Applications of Arts and Crafts in Session 🆕
2025-09-26 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
🆕BRAND-NEW!🆕
The Creative Counselor: Practical Applications of Arts and Crafts in Session
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Friday, September 26th, 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
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.
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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🆕BRAND-NEW! Lunch & Learn: Journaling Therapy 101: Using Writing as a Therapeutic Tool for Clients🆕
2025-09-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom
🆕Brand-New Lunch & Learn Series!🆕
Journaling Therapy 101: Using Writing as a Therapeutic Tool for Clients
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, September 29th, 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 | $35.00
Writing has the power to heal, offering clients a safe space to process emotions, reframe experiences, and gain deeper self-awareness. But how can therapists harness journaling as an effective therapeutic tool? This experiential training will introduce you to the art and science of journaling therapy, exploring evidence-based writing techniques that support emotional regulation, trauma processing, and cognitive restructuring. You will learn how to tailor journaling exercises to different client needs, navigate potential ethical considerations, and integrate writing practices into various therapeutic modalities. Through hands-on exercises, discussion, and lecture, you will leave equipped with practical journaling interventions to enhance client insight, resilience, and personal growth.
OBJECTIVES:

Develop an understanding of the psychological and neuroscientific benefits of journaling as a therapeutic tool.
Learn different journaling techniques, including expressive writing, gratitude journaling, and cognitive restructuring exercises.
Identify client concerns and presentations where journaling can be particularly beneficial, as well as potential ethical considerations.

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