Cascadia Training for Professional Development

SPECIAL SALE! Lunch & Learn: Beyond Pathology: Practical Applications of Positive Psychology🆕
2025-12-08 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
LAST-MINUTE DEAL! $10 OFF!
🆕Brand-New Lunch & Learn Series!🆕
Beyond Pathology: Practical Applications of Positive Psychology
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, December 8th, 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 Now only $25.00!
What if the key to mental well-being isn’t just about fixing what’s broken, but building on what’s already working? Positive psychology offers a transformative approach by focusing on strengths, resilience, and the potential for growth. This introductory training will introduce you to the principles and practical applications of positive psychology, providing tools to help your clients cultivate greater life satisfaction, happiness, and meaning. We will explore evidence-based interventions such as gratitude practices, strengths identification, and fostering flow experiences, while learning how to integrate these techniques into traditional therapeutic frameworks. Through experiential exercises and case discussions, you will leave with actionable strategies for promoting well-being and helping clients thrive.
OBJECTIVES:

Develop an understanding of the core concepts and research foundations of positive psychology.
Learn evidence-based interventions that focus on strengths, resilience, and well-being, including gratitude practices, strengths-based approaches, and mindfulness techniques.
Identify client issues that can be reframed from a positive psychology perspective to foster growth, empowerment, and life satisfaction.
Practice applying positive psychology interventions to enhance client well-being, motivation, and overall quality of life.

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SPECIAL SALE! After Hours with Cascadia: Crafting Therapeutic Rituals: Personalized Interventions for Change 🆕
2025-12-09 18:00 - 20:00
LAST-MINUTE DEAL! $40 OFF!
🆕 Brand-New “After Hours with Cascadia” Series!🆕
Law & Ethics or Cultural Competence CEs!
Crafting Therapeutic Rituals: Personalized Interventions for Change
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Tuesday, December 9th, 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 or Cultural Competence CEs | $75.00 Now only $35.00!
Workshop Description
Rituals have long been used across cultures to mark transitions, process grief, celebrate growth, and catalyze healing. In therapy, the thoughtful creation of personalized rituals can offer clients a powerful, embodied way to integrate change and deepen emotional shifts.
This training invites you to explore the art and science of crafting therapeutic rituals tailored to individual clients’ needs, beliefs, and goals. You will learn key elements that make rituals psychologically potent, common pitfalls to avoid, and practical strategies for co-creating rituals with clients across a wide range of presenting issues.
This training balances theory with hands-on practice. Through real-world examples, experiential exercises, and group discussion, you will learn how to design rituals that are meaningful, ethical, and culturally sensitive. You will leave with greater confidence in using ritual as an intentional clinical tool — whether to support grief work, life transitions, trauma healing, identity shifts, or the solidification of therapeutic gains.
Workshop Objectives

Describe the psychological functions and therapeutic benefits of ritual in clinical practice.
Identify key elements that make a therapeutic ritual effective, meaningful, and safe for clients.
Design a personalized therapeutic ritual tailored to a specific client goal or clinical theme.

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MEETS HEALTH EQUITY REQUIREMENTS! Implicit Bias and Healthcare Equity: The Impact of Self-Awareness
2025-12-10 09:00 - 12:00
Meets New Health Equity CE Requirements!
Implicit Bias and Healthcare Equity: The Impact of Self-Awareness
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Wednesday, December 10th, 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 CEs | $99.00
Age, race, ethnicity, weight, gender, social class, religion, sexual identity, gender identity, profession…this list, of course, is incomplete. The point is that there are multitudes of differences between people. Unfortunately, an interaction with another person can trigger unconsciously held negative or stigmatizing attitudes. Even more worrying, the research shows that unconscious (i.e., implicit) biases of mental health professionals influence how they assess and treat their clients.
To address this problem, this workshop aims to assist clinicians in increasing their awareness of internally held biases towards particular groups of people. But awareness isn’t enough. We will also explore managing biases, changing behavior, and tracking progress. This work will help you reassess your paperwork, evaluate how you run your clinical practice, and explore how you might best serve clients, regardless of their background.
We might have little control over our biases, but what we do have is the power to ensure that those attitudes do not prevent us from treating clients equitably and with dignity.
Objectives
Participants in this workshop will be able to:

Describe the features of implicit biases.
Locate and recognize internal biases.
Consider how to utilize this awareness to create a standard of best practices for their clinical work.
Create strategies for managing their implicit biases.
Develop strategies that can lead to behavior change in terms of addressing and shifting their biases.

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Clinical Supervision Training: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know
2025-12-10 09:30 - 2025-12-12 14:30
Meets requirements to become an approved clinical supervisor!
Clinical Supervision Training: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know
Presented by: Eric Ström, PhD, Attorney at Law, LMHC
When: Wednesday, December 10th – Friday, December 12th, 2025 | 9:30 AM – 2:30 Pacific Time each day
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 15 CEs (10 Law & Ethics CEs) | $395.00 (see below for payment options)
This workshop meets the training requirement for becoming an Approved Clinical Supervisor.
Providing supervision can be a rewarding addition to a clinical practice. However, many clinicians are reluctant to become supervisors due to legal and ethical liability concerns. These concerns are often increased by a lack of accurate information about the true risks of liability faced by supervisors.
Through direct instructions, presentation of real-life scenarios, and group discussions, participants will understand the fundamentals of supervision best practices to improve their effectiveness and skill as clinical supervisors.
This three-day, 15-hour supervision workshop is designed to meet the training requirements for Washington State Approved Supervisors.
Objectives:
• Identify and assess sources of significant liability in supervision;
• Construct effective strategies for creating a sound supervision agreement;
• Describe key conceptual frameworks for supervision;
• Compare various theoretical approaches to supervision;
• Contrast various types of supervisory relationships;
• Examine the benefits between group and individual supervision settings;
• Summarize the legal and ethical regulation of supervision;
• Maximize supervisor, supervisee, and client success through supervision structure;
• Integrate regulation and practice to provide quality supervision documentation.
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 and a limited number of discounts for students and early professionals.
For payment plans, you can select paying 50% today and 50% due by December 31st, 2025.
Please email us at hello@cascadiatraining.org to inquire about possible discounts.
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Ethics Through a Hollywood Lens
2025-12-11 09:00 - 16:30
Ethics Through a Hollywood Lens
Presented by: Kristie Baber, MSW, LICSW, CCTP
When: Thursday, December 11th, 2025 | 9am – 4:30pm Pacific Time
Where: Live via Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link via email the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 Law & Ethics CEs | Cost: $199.00
If we’re being honest, sometimes it’s hard to feel motivated to take yet another ethics class. But whether we’ve been practicing for years or just starting to integrate the full meaning of our values into the clinical work, it is essential to reconsider how our field’s ethical principles and standards apply to the actual daily practice with clients. This class will explore some of the most common ethical pitfalls ensnaring even the most experienced therapists.
This class is intended to be an entertaining guide to the ethical practice and professional responsibility we strive to attain. From a storytelling perspective, we’ll look at some slippery slopes, regrettable missteps, and colossal blunders. Our focus will primarily be on ethical considerations within the therapeutic relationship – boundary crossings & violations, professional competency & misconduct, and the risks of compassion fatigue.
This full-day class is designed for practicing therapists with clients of all ages. The workshop will be conducted in a Zoom format. Teaching modalities will include clinical discussion, lectures with many case examples, video illustrations, and small group and individual exercises.
Objectives:

Define professional competence and identify our scope of practice.
Differentiate between boundary crossings and violations.
Identify potential impacts of transference and countertransference on ethical practice.
Utilize Ling & Hauck’s ETHICS model as an option for decision-making.
Explore the ethical risks of compassion fatigue and strategies to mitigate them.
Determine resources and supports for ethical decision-making.

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