Retirement for Therapists
2026-06-11 09:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
Law & Ethics CEs
Retirement for Therapists
Presented by: Sandy Voit, MS, EdS, LMHC, CDFA
When: Thursday, June 11th, 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 – 3 are Law & Ethics CEs | $165.00
We are blessed to be in a profession that doesn’t enforce mandatory retirement upon us when we reach a certain age. (The majority of people who are no longer working didn’t stop voluntarily…) Clients see our grey hair as a sign of wisdom. We can work as much, or as little, as we choose. There will come a time when you are ready to stop working, and retirement has several issues you must address before you can retire… And there might come a time when circumstances beyond your control – death, disability, illness, incapacity, and/or caregiving – will prohibit you from continuing.
You will do yourself and your family a service by planning for this in advance. We will discuss therapeutic issues, notification, records, liability, creating a professional will, and identifying a professional executor. We will also discuss whether or not you are financially prepared for retirement. Substantial handouts and resources are provided so you can focus on the discussions without spending all your time taking notes.
Workshop Objectives:
• Understanding therapeutic aspects of preparing for retirement.
• Preparing a Professional Will and identifying a Professional Executor.
• Understanding your obligations for notification and access to your records.
• Preparing for the Unexpected – what happens if you were to die or become incapacitated?
• Your personal finances in preparation for retirement.
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🆕BRAND-NEW! Cultural Humility in Working with Immigrant Clients 🆕
2026-06-12 09:00 - 12:15
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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Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT): Tapping for Clinicians
2026-06-12 09:00 - 12:15
Law & Ethics CEs!
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT): Tapping for Clinicians
Presented by: Shelley White, MA, LMHC
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 (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 3 Law & Ethics CEs | Cost: $99.00
Emotion Freedom Techniques (EFT) – also known as EFT Tapping –has become a widely accepted, effective, evidence-based strategy to reduce emotional distress and increase physical well-being. 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.
EFT Tapping is a technique based on the same science as acupuncture. Since its inception in the late 1980s, more than 200 research studies supporting its effectiveness have been published. Studies show that Tapping can reduce activity in the amygdala, up-regulate immune genes, down-regulate inflammation genes, increase endorphin release, and decrease cortisol levels in a very short period of time. Tapping has demonstrated its effectiveness in a variety of ways. It has been shown to increase test scores, manage phobias, and reduce pain. Tapping helps with trauma symptoms by safely releasing emotional numbing, calming fears of vulnerability and connection, reducing the need to be perfect, and quieting shame. This workshop provides you with the introductory skills you need to start using basic tapping techniques immediately.
In addition to learning how to help clients with this evidence-based intervention, attendees will also learn how to include Tapping as a technique in their own self-care toolkit. Listening to our clients’ fears, stress, anxiety, and pain can affect our ability to stay calm, centered, and peaceful in our own lives. Our self-care is crucial to our ability to offer quality care to our clients, which is why it is an ethical mandate in the mental health professions. Tapping can help you stay focused and present for your clients and help you to release any intense energy you may be holding after a therapeutic session.
Through observation, lecture, and practice, workshop attendees will learn the history of tapping and understand the psychology and science behind its success. Attendees will learn and practice the basic Tapping protocol, so you will be able to use EFT with your clients—and in your own self-care– immediately. Come earn 3 law & ethics CEs by learning this effective self-regulatory tool—for you AND your clients!
Workshop Objectives:
After attending this workshop, attendees will:

Understand the history and origins of EFT Tapping and know that it works by using the same acupressure points and meridians that are used in acupuncture. Understand EFT/Tapping offers an effective, evidence-based intervention and can easily be introduced into a clinician’s ongoing self-care practice. (NASW, 2021; ACA, 2014; APA, 2019)
Comprehend that self-care adds to their clinical competency and adheres to the ethical mandate to include self-care in their daily lives to avoid impairment in functioning (NASW, 2021; ACA, 2014; APA, 2019).
Learn how to introduce Tapping into the therapeutic setting, communicating with clients about the purpose and use of EFT/Tapping in ways that are both developmentally and culturally appropriate, aligning with the ethical imperative of informed consent. (NASW, 2021, 1.03, 1/05; ACA, 1.03, 2014.)
Understand that EFT Tapping is an evidence-based intervention and be able to discuss positive outcomes from using tapping to increase calm and reduce anxiety, to improve concentration, and decrease high blood pressure. EFT Tapping can be used for both sensory/physical and emotional self-regulation.
Obtain continuing education in EFT/Tapping and gain experience in using EFT/Tapping by practicing in triads and following the various protocols for using EFT/Tapping. (APA, 2019; AMHCA, 2020; ACA, 2014; NASW, 1.03, 2021).
Learn that EFT/Tapping ensures the ethical principles of client autonomy and client self-determination by offering an easy-to-use, effective, ethical, and evidence-based technique clients can learn and use on their own to manage physical and/or emotional symptoms (AAMFT, 1.1.8, 2015; NASW, 1.02, 1.03, 2021; ACA, 2014, 1.; APA, 2019).
Demonstrate their ethical compliance with the ethical and legal standards that mental health practitioners work toward competency when introducing a new treatment or clinical skill. (ACA, 2014; NASW, 2019; AAMFT, 1.1.2, 2015).
Understand how to explain EFT/Tapping in clear and understandable language to their clients, demonstrating their adherence to ethical standards when introducing a new clinical tool or technique. (ACA, 2014, A. 2.d).

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