🆕BRAND-NEW! Lunch & Learn: The Ethical Integration of Compassion-Based Practices into Your Psychotherapy Practice 🆕
2025-08-18 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
🆕Brand-New Lunch & Learn Series!🆕
Law & Ethics CEs!
The Ethical Integration of Compassion-Based Practices into Your Psychotherapy Practice
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, August 18th, 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
Compassion is at the heart of healing, but how can we integrate compassion-based practices in a way that is ethical, effective, and sustainable? This training explores the profound impact of compassion in psychotherapy, offering practical techniques drawn from mindfulness, self-compassion research, and therapeutic models such as Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT). We will examine the ethical considerations of using compassion-based interventions, including scope of practice, cultural sensitivity, and the importance of therapist self-care. Through experiential exercises, case discussions, and guided practice, you will gain the confidence to ethically incorporate compassion-based techniques to enhance client resilience, reduce shame, and foster deeper healing.
OBJECTIVES:

Develop an understanding of the theoretical foundations and therapeutic benefits of compassion-based practices.
Learn ethical considerations, including cultural humility, boundaries, and scope of practice, when integrating compassion-based interventions.
Identify client presentations and psychological concerns where compassion-based approaches can be particularly effective.
Practice facilitating compassion-based exercises to support clients in reducing self-criticism, fostering emotional resilience, and deepening self-acceptance.

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Clinical Supervision Training: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know
2025-08-20 09:00 - 2025-08-22 14:00 | Zoom
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, August 20th – Friday, August 22nd, 2025 | Times vary each day – all Pacific Time
• Wednesday, August 20: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
• Thursday, August 21: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
• Friday, August 22: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
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 August 31st, 2025.
Please email us at hello@cascadiatraining.org to inquire about possible discounts.
REGISTER HERE

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 | 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.
REGISTER HERE

Becoming a Neurodivergent-Affirming Clinician: Understanding ADHD and Autism through a Strengths-Based, Neurodivergent-Affirming Lens
2025-08-21 09:00 - 2025-08-23 16:30 | Zoom
3-Day Intensive Zoom Session
Cultural Competence, Law & Ethics, and Health Equity CEs
SELLS OUT VERY QUICKLY – REGISTER NOW!
Becoming a Neurodivergent-Affirming Clinician: Understanding ADHD and Autism through a Strengths-Based, Neurodivergent-Affirming Lens
Presented by: B Lourenco, MA, LMHC
When: Thursday, August 21st to Saturday, August 23rd, 2025 | 9:00 am to 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live via Zoom. You’ll receive the Zoom link the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 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 have now 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 completing this workshop 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 workshop 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 workshop 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. The workshop includes didactic portions, experiential sections, and direct case consultation time. Each day will include lecture, video, and experiential segments.
Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will understand and describe:

Sensory systems and sensory exploration and attunement to realize how getting in touch with the sensory systems is the most important thing we can do
Differences in communication for ADHDers and Autistics
Relationship differences, including gender and sexuality differences
Attending and executive function in ND and ADHD clients
The neurotypical societal norms that lead to high levels of burnout
The Dependency Model
How social systems impact our Neurodivergent client’s experiences of disability, specifically how unethical and discriminatory practices violate both federal laws and the ethical mandates and standards for best practice for mental health clinicians, physicians, and other physical health providers, educators, and employers
The ethical mandate to identify and discontinue unethical treatment interventions that violate our neurodivergent clients’ autonomy and consent, both ethical mandates
The behaviors often targeted by unethical therapies are usually harmless and serve the self-regulating and self-soothing needs of our neurodivergent clients
How to conduct an ethics assessment of their current practices to identify and discontinue the use of any outdated, long-ago debunked assessment tools, unreliable and non-evidence-based diagnostic criteria, and clinical interventions that may be unethical in terms of their identified purpose, their disrespect for our client’s autonomy, and lack of informed consent as it applies to neurodivergent behaviors and processing preferences
Identify myths about ADHD and Autism and understand the impact of these myths on underdiagnosis, misdiagnosis, and diagnostic overshadowing caused by outdated standards and practices
The goal of unethical treatment interventions and their targeted behavioral goals being to hide one’s true self and one’s autistic or ADHD behaviors
Comprehend the toll that unethical interventions take on neurodivergent students, employees, and clients. Masking and camouflaging of autistic behaviors result in increased rates of substance use and abuse, levels of depression, and high rates of suicide in Neurodivergent clients
The need for educational, mental health professionals, and physical medicine practitioners to identify the targeted goals of any treatment interventions and ensure that treatment is and places a high value of on client consent and respect for all clients’ autonomy
Understand the differentials and comorbidities that exist for our neurodivergent clients, including the role of trauma on ND lives, the need to rule out any other mental health concerns, the high rates of misdiagnoses and completely overlooked diagnoses that NDs experience in our educational, medical, and mental health systems
The imperative to assess for and process grief and loss in ND clients
The critical role of validation when serving as a neurodivergent-affirming and informed clinician
The ethical mandate to apply cultural sensitivity and familiarity with all clients, including those who live with differences in sensory experiences, communication, and cognitive/relational/social processing
The value of networking with ND specialists and medical providers
How to help our ND clients identify and celebrate the strengths and benefits of being ND
Reclaiming JOY and ND as strengths to use as weapons against systemic oppression

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.
For payment plans, you can select paying 50% today and 50% due August 31st, 2025.
Please email us at hello@cascadiatraining.org to inquire about discounts and scholarships.
REGISTER HERE

Ethics of Simple Self-Care in Nature
2025-08-22 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, August 22nd, 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
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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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