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SUMMARY:🆕BRAND-NEW! Mindfulness with Ethics in Mental Health Care 🆕
DESCRIPTION:🆕BRAND-NEW!🆕\nLaw & Ethics CEs!\nMindfulness with Ethics in Mental Health Care\n  \nPresented by: Dr. Brenda Butterfield\, EdD\, MSW\, LMHC \nWhen: Friday\, January 16th\, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM\, Pacific Time\nWhere: Live via Zoom. You’ll receive the link via email the week of the workshop.\nContinuing Education Credit Hours: 4 Law & Ethics CEs | $125.00\nIncreasingly\, the “mindfulness movement” is influencing Western culture in education\, business\, and mental health care. Different clinical interventions called Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) are increasingly used to effectively treat clients suffering from chronic pain and stress\, depression\, anxiety\, substance use\, suicidality\, and more. These evidence-based interventions honor the mind/body connection and align well with integrated health care using the bio-psycho-social treatment model. \nWhile psychological interventions are typically knowledge-based and directed toward client change irrespective of the clinician’s health and well-being\, MBIs are quite different. A mindfulness-based therapist is ethically obligated to teach from one’s own lived experience. Practicing improves their health and well-being\, which research shows correlates with clients’ treatment outcomes. Therefore\, developing a mindfulness practice benefits both the clinician and the client. There are many ways to cultivate mindfulness in daily life\, with and without meditating. \nIn this experiential workshop\, you will learn a variety of simple self-care practices to use anytime\, anyplace\, from the grocery store to the forest!  Yes! Mindfulness in nature is an evidence-based practice that is even more accessible to many people.  Whether indoors or outside\, MBIs improve our health and well-being.  Learn more about the mind-body connection through practicing somatic and emotional awareness better to understand your behaviors and your clients’ behaviors\, too. \nIn addition to learning practices for oneself and clients\, we’ll explore questions like what mindfulness is. What does it mean to BE mindful and to practice mindfulness? What’s the difference between mindfulness and meditation? What’s the therapeutic value of mindfulness in therapy? And perhaps most important of all\, what are ethical imperatives for calling oneself a “mindfulness-based therapist?” \nWorkshop Objectives:\n\nUnderstand the benefits of integrating mindfulness in mental health care and the ethical implications for doing so.\nLearn the difference between meditation and mindfulness by learning simple self-care practices to activate the parasympathetic nervous system for emotional regulation anytime.\nExplore the language\, concepts\, and phenomena of mindfulness\, and practice ways of introducing mindfulness to clients (e.g.\, automatic pilot\, present-moment awareness\, inner experience\, noticing\, cultivating\, practice\, and ways of being).\nLearn about the mind/body relationship between chronic stress (CBT thinking errors) & health (depression/anxiety/panic attacks)\, enabling you to explain the functioning of the autonomic\, sympathetic\, and parasympathetic nervous systems in easy ways.\n\nREGISTER HERE\n  \n 
URL:https://cascadia-training.com/course/mindfulness-ethics-mental-health-january-2026/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ethics
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Brenda Butterfield%2C EdD%2C MSW%2C LMHC":MAILTO:ournewexperiences@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:🆕BRAND-NEW! An Introduction to the Ethical Use of Assessment Measures 🆕
DESCRIPTION:🆕BRAND-NEW!🆕\nLaw & Ethics CEs!\nAn Introduction to the Ethical Use of Assessment Measures\n  \nPresented by: Dr. Brenda Butterfield\, EdD\, MSW\, LMHC \nWhen: Friday\, February 20th\, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 1:15 PM\, Pacific Time\nWhere: Live via Zoom. You’ll receive the link via email the week of the workshop.\nContinuing Education Credit Hours: 4 Law & Ethics CEs | $125.00\nCommunicating care to clients is essential for developing a therapeutic alliance. But with the increased focus on client treatment outcomes\, communicating care can be overshadowed — and even lost — when assessing\, evaluating\, writing treatment plans\, and monitoring progress.  Thank goodness purposefully using assessment measures can do both! Using them can help create a therapeutic alliance by supporting clinicians and clients when used ethically and in client-centered ways. \nAssessment measures can identify a wide array of clinical concerns used to diagnose disorders and validate a client’s lived experience. When used ethically\, they can be used to develop a client-centered treatment plan and monitor client progress throughout treatment. Working together\, clinicians and clients can use them to connect\, learn\, and grow. \nBut it appears many clinicians don’t use them. Learning how to access\, score\, and use them efficiently throughout treatment can be overwhelming. But with an easy\, purposeful process\, that can all change! \nLearn a purposeful process for using free\, evidence-based assessment measures that are valid\, reliable measures to assess clients’ overall health and assess depression\, generalized anxiety\, panic disorder\, social anxiety\, trauma\, and substance use. Ethical implications will be highlighted for using measures efficiently and effectively from intake to discharge\, while focusing on client-centered care and the therapeutic alliance throughout. \nWorkshop Objectives:\n\nLearn how to use assessment measures ethically and in client-centered ways to support the development and growth of a therapeutic alliance from start to finish.\nLearn how to skillfully engage clients with assessment measures to support and inform assessment\, diagnosis\, treatment\, and evaluation of care provided.\nPractice administering and scoring assessment measures during the workshop for proficiency in diagnosing and treating common disorders\, including depression\, panic disorder\, generalized anxiety disorder\, social anxiety disorder\, trauma\, and substance disorders.\nIncrease knowledge of copyright rules and identify free assessment measures that are valid\, reliable and easily accessed in the public domain.\n\nREGISTER HERE\n  \n 
URL:https://cascadia-training.com/course/ethical-assessment-measures-february-2026/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ethics
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Brenda Butterfield%2C EdD%2C MSW%2C LMHC":MAILTO:ournewexperiences@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:SPECIAL SALE! Introduction to Nature Therapy: More than a Walk in the Park
DESCRIPTION:LAST-MINUTE DEAL! $59 OFF!\nLaw & Ethics CEs!\nIntroduction to Nature Therapy: More than a Walk in the Park\nPresented by: Becky Robbins\, MA\, LMHC\, CEAT\, CYT\, NBT \nWhen: Friday\, March 13\, 2026 | 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM\, Pacific Time\nWhere: Live\, In-Person event at Shoreline Center – at 12pm\, 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.\nContinuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs – 2 Law & Ethics CEs| $199.00 Now Only $140.00\nThis Introduction to Nature Therapy: More than a Walk in the Park workshop allows participants to become familiar with nature-based therapy\, 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 of 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. \nParticipants 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! \nOBJECTIVES:\n\n Consider legal\, ethical\, and documentation implications for doing nature-based therapy outdoors.\n Identify important considerations for specific populations.\n Understand the legal and ethical considerations of practicing nature-based therapy in a walk-and-talk session.\n Describe differences among ecotherapy\, nature-based\, adventure-based\, and wilderness therapies.\n Identify key concepts of ecotherapy and nature-based therapy\n Assess who to work with and when\, where to go and why\, and what to expect and consider in various regions and environments when using nature-based therapy.\n Understand the therapist’s identity in nature-based versus ecotherapy practices.\n Introduce common types of nature-based approaches into walk-and-talk therapy sessions.\n\nREGISTER HERE\n  \n 
URL:https://cascadia-training.com/course/introduction-to-nature-therapy-march-2026/
LOCATION:Shoreline Center\, 18560 1st Ave NE\, Shoreline\, WA\, 98155\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ethics,Last-Minute Deals
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