🆕BRAND-NEW! Lunch & Learn: An Introduction to Parts Work in Therapy 🆕
2025-10-06 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
🆕Brand-New Lunch & Learn Series!🆕
An Introduction to Parts Work in Therapy
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, October 6th, 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
What if the key to healing wasn’t eliminating distressing thoughts and emotions, but learning to listen to the different parts of ourselves with curiosity and compassion? Parts work, rooted in approaches like Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Ego State Therapy, helps clients understand their inner conflicts, heal wounded parts, and cultivate greater self-integration. This introductory training will provide you with a foundational understanding of parts work, exploring its theoretical roots, ethical considerations, and practical applications in therapy. Through experiential exercises, case discussions, and guided practice, you will gain hands-on skills to help clients access and work with their internal parts in a safe and empowering way.
OBJECTIVES:

Develop an understanding of the foundational concepts behind parts work, including Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Ego State Therapy.
Learn ethical considerations and best practices for safely introducing parts work into therapy.
Identify common client presentations where parts work can be particularly beneficial, such as trauma, self-criticism, and internal conflicts.
Practice guiding clients through parts-based interventions to foster self-awareness, internal harmony, and emotional healing.

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🆕 BRAND-NEW! After Hours with Cascadia: Chronic Pain: Psychological and Somatic Strategies for Relief 🆕
2025-10-07 18:00 - 20:00
🆕 Brand-New “After Hours with Cascadia” Series!🆕
Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs!
Chronic Pain: Psychological and Somatic Strategies for Relief
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Tuesday, October 7th, 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 Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $75.00
Workshop Description
Chronic pain is not only physically debilitating – it also causes mental, emotional, and spiritual suffering. It is easy to become hopeless. To feel betrayed by one’s own body. To feel overwhelming grief and anger. Moreover, when the root of chronic pain is a mystery, that sense of confusion and helplessness can be overwhelming.
Thankfully, there is hope. In this interactive and experiential training, we will explore non-pharmaceutical ways to address chronic pain. You will learn practical, evidence-based tools and strategies that you can share with clients.
We’ll examine how Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) approach pain management. Dreya will introduce you to Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT, also known as tapping). This research-based somatic modality is extremely effective in mitigating the emotional distress associated with chronic pain.
We will also discuss how clients can use mindfulness techniques to change their relationship with their physical distress. In addition, we will explore the pain management benefits of yoga, hypnosis, guided imagery, somatic tracking, and more.
Clients with chronic pain can feel powerless about their situation. What you learn in this training will empower your clients, as they discover that chronic pain doesn’t have to be a life sentence.
Workshop Objectives

Identify the emotional, mental, and spiritual impacts of living with chronic pain
Understand at least five non-pharmaceutical ways to manage chronic pain
Practice somatic modalities such as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Mindfulness tools

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Let's Talk About Sex
2025-10-08 09:00 - 16:30
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs
Let’s Talk About Sex
Presented by B Lourenco, MA, LMHC (she/her)
Where: Live via Zoom (you’ll receive the link the week of the workshop)
When: Wednesday, October 8th, 2025 (was Friday, September 19th – now Wednesday, October 8th) | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competency CEs | Cost: $199.00
Research shows that if sex isn’t brought up in the first three therapy sessions, it is unlikely to ever come up in the therapy space.
A large majority of clinicians don’t know how to talk to their clients about sexuality and, subsequently, aren’t able to help their clients with issues about their sex lives. Many clinicians also believe that conversations about sex are out of their scope of practice, and while this is true in rare cases, it’s usually not true.
Every single person has a relationship with sexuality, whether they are asexual or very sexually experienced. Everyone we work with as therapists has a relationship with their sexuality.
Discussing sexual health is well within our scope as clinicians! It is ethically mandated for clinicians to continue learning and growing so we can offer the best and most tailored support to our clients.
That need has prompted the creation of this workshop, NOT Your Mom’s Sex Ed Class!
Socialization teaches us that everyone is cis-gender, hetero, and monogamous. Everyone is taught that certain sexual behaviors are “normal” and others are “not.” These norms are echoed in the education systems that clinicians are trained in. Because of the shame-filled way our society treats sexuality, most folks have a complicated relationship with it.
We can serve the entire person when we choose to include conversations about sex and sexual health with our clients.
This course will go over the basics of human sexuality and anatomy, including sexual and gender identities, as well as the roles of desire, arousal, and libido. This course will explore types of sexual dysfunction commonly experienced by clients and how to know if a referral is needed. In addition, this course will identify ways that all clinicians can become more informed and sex-positive with everyday clients.
Objectives:

Learn the process of expected sexual development over the lifetime
Identify sex organs and their functions
Review gender and gender identities
Review sexual identities
Differentiate between types of arousal, desire, and variations in libido
Explore concepts about sex/porn addiction vs. out-of-control sexual behaviors
Identify the role of society in determining sexual norms and expectations
Define the impact of expectation of sexual normativity
Explore common non-normative identities and behaviors
Learn common types of sexual dysfunction experienced by everyday clients
Distinguish the role of attachment wounds and trauma on sexual experiences
Identify when a referral to a sex therapy specialist is needed
Understand the basics of sex-positive therapy and how to explore sexual topics with clients
Learn common types of sexual dysfunction experienced by everyday clients
Distinguish the role of attachment wounds and trauma on sexual experiences
Identify when a referral to a sex therapy specialist is needed
Understand the basics of sex-positive therapy and how to explore sexual topics with clients
Discuss ethical best practices around client sexuality and identify possible misdiagnoses due to clinician misinformation
Explore how cultural norms impact sexual attitudes and perpetuate stigmatizing myths
Identify the ethics that mandate we provide culturally sensitive and inclusive clinical practices

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Mindfulness and ADHD: Strategies for Cultivating Focus and Self-Regulation
2025-10-09 09:00 - 12:00
HEALTH EQUITY CEs!
Mindfulness and ADHD: Strategies for Cultivating Focus and Self-Regulation
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Thursday, October 9th, 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
Our clients with ADHD often believe that mindfulness-based activities are NOT for them. “If I have trouble focusing on anything for more than a minute, how can you expect me to sit still and count my breaths?”
Luckily, there is much more to mindfulness than sitting still. This means that our clients with ADHD can access the incredible benefits that mindfulness practices offer. In this training workshop, you will learn mindfulness-based interventions tailored for clients with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Individuals with ADHD often struggle with impulsivity, emotional dysregulation, and difficulty sustaining attention, challenges that can significantly impact their personal and professional lives.
Mindfulness offers a powerful, evidence-based approach to enhancing awareness, focus, and self-regulation. We will explore how integrating mindfulness practices into therapy can help clients increase present-moment awareness, improve attention control, and manage emotional reactivity.
The workshop combines theoretical foundations with practical, hands-on learning, including guided mindfulness exercises. You will learn how to teach simple mindfulness techniques adapted for ADHD, such as body scanning and self-compassion practices while addressing common barriers to engagement. I will also share strategies for fostering motivation and building consistent mindfulness habits in clients. By the end of the session, you will be equipped with a flexible toolkit to support your clients in cultivating calm and clarity, empowering them to navigate their ADHD-related challenges with greater ease and resilience.
OBJECTIVES:

Explain which mindfulness practices are suitable for clients with ADHD
Identify the benefits of mindfulness practice in addressing symptoms of ADHD
Understand how to address barriers to engaging in mindfulness practice

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SPECIAL SALE! | Attachment and the Neurobiology of Relationships
2025-10-09 09:00 - 16:30
LAST-MINUTE DEAL! $50 OFF!
Attachment and the Neurobiology of Relationships
Presented by: Kristie Baber, MSW, LICSW, CCTP
When: Thursday, October 9th, 2025 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the event.
Continuing Education Credits: 6 CEs | $190.00 NOW ONLY $140.00!
This workshop focuses on one of the most critical components in mental health, social development, and therapeutic intervention across our lifespan – attachment.
This class will demonstrate that attachment is a journey, rather than the predetermined lifelong limitation a jaded clinical view might indicate. It typifies the astounding adaptability and hope inherent in humans – the reasons we believe in our work as therapists.
This workshop will give therapists and other helping professionals working with all age populations an understanding of attachment theory, patterns and clinical presentations, as well as practical tools to create sustainable and effective therapeutic change. We will explore how attachment develops and evolves across a lifespan, influencing all of our relationships. Teaching modalities will include a mix of clinical discussion, lecture with clinical examples, video illustrations, and individual/group case exercises.
Objectives:

Identify key factors that impact and influence our baseline neurobiology such as brain development, memory systems, and trauma.
Understand attachment theory, as well as attachment patterns and clinical presentations.
Learn the various ways attachment styles impact our lives and all types of relationships.
Recognize attachment as one of core components in the therapeutic relationship.
Discuss attachment-based therapies for children, adolescents, adults, and couples.

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Easy Ego State Interventions with EMDR Expert Robin Shapiro
2025-10-10 09:00 - 2025-10-11 16:30
Easy Ego State Interventions with EMDR Expert Robin Shapiro
Presented by: Robin Shapiro, LICSW
When:
• Friday, October 10th, 2025 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
• Saturday, October 11th, 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: 12 CE Credit Hours (Counts as EMDRIA CEs – EC Program Approval: #00002-48) | $499.00 * see below for payment options
An Introduction to Ego States: Functional Roles and Developmental States, Trauma/Broken-Attachment Based States, Dissociative States, and the States that Live in Clients and in You. Using Ego State Therapy with Attachment Issues, Relationships, Sexual Issues, Performance Enhancement, Trauma Recovery, and Working with Dissociative States. Including interventions for calming immune systems, transforming shame, increasing resourcing, and healing personality disorders. Includes practice, case examples, and case consultation. Many participants have personal transformation during the practice. Most are using the material as soon as they get back to work.

In her accessible and practical style, Robin Shapiro will teach you how to use ego state therapy to work with a variety of clients and their issues. During the workshop you will learn to distinguish healthy, flexible states from dissociative ones, and to map your own states, from physically-based vagal states to age and role-related states. You’ll learn methods to use embodied ego-state interventions to clear trauma, work with couples, attachment issues, sexual issues with sex-abuse survivors, over-active immune systems and chronic pain, shame, personality disorders, suicidal clients, and dissociative identity disorder. You will learn to track your own states, and you’ll practice many of the interventions. If you do EMDR, you’ll learn when it’s more useful to use EMDR, when to use ego state work, and when and how to use them both. The 3-day format includes ample time for practice, for questions, and for clinical demonstrations. And despite the seriousness of the subject, expect to enjoy the process.

Feedback from one person: “It was full to the brim, well-structured and lots of practices and demonstrations. Everyone loved it. I learned tons and would recommend her wholeheartedly. And I now know myself very differently!”

12 EMDRIA Credits are available for those who have completed an EMDRIA-approved Basic EMDR training. EC Program Approval Number: #00002-34

(If you don’t know EMDR, you can still do Ego State Therapy with your clients. If you do EMDR, I’ll be telling when to throw in the whole protocol, how to use the safe parts, and when, and with whom, to skip EMDR processing, completely.)
The workshop includes training and experiences:

Distinguish Healthy/Flexible and Dissociative Ego States (and map your own)
Overview of Ego State Interventions
Identify Vagal States
Use Embodied Ego State Interventions (includes practice)
Clear Trauma (includes practice)
Review the Theory of Structural Dissociation
If you do EMDR, you’ll learn when it’s more useful to use EMDR, when to use ego state work, and when and how to use them both.
Tools to work with sexual abuse, and then bring back healthy current sexuality
Work with Attachment Issues, including April Steele’s Building a Secure Self (practice)
Couples Therapy
Calming Over-Active Immune Systems, Multiple-Chemical Sensitivity (possible demo, if someone has one)
Pain Protocol
Shame (practice)
Resourcing (including installing your own “team”)
Healing Personality Disorders
Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

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 scholarships, and discounts for students and early professionals.

For payment plans, you can select paying 50% today and 50% due by October 31st, 2025

Please email us at hello@cascadiatraining.org to inquire about possible discounts.

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SPECIAL SALE! | Trauma-Informed Therapy 🆕
2025-10-10 09:30 - 12:30
🆕 BRAND-NEW! 🆕
LAST-MINUTE DEAL! $40 OFF!
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Friday, October 10th, 2025 | 9:30 AM – 12:30 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 NOW ONLY $55.00
This training workshop will introduce you to the foundational principles of trauma-informed therapy, emphasizing the importance of safety, trust, and empowerment in the healing process. Trauma leaves profound imprints on the brain, body, and emotions, affecting how clients perceive the world and engage in relationships. You will understand how trauma impacts neurobiology and learn essential strategies for creating a therapeutic environment that fosters regulation, resilience, and recovery. Key concepts will include the role of attunement, grounding techniques, and establishing a collaborative, non-pathologizing approach to trauma work.
This workshop blends theoretical insights with practical applications, equipping you with tools to identify trauma responses, work with triggers, and enhance clients’ sense of agency. We will explore trauma-sensitive interventions that can be integrated into various therapeutic modalities. By the end of the session, you will have a solid foundation in trauma-informed care, enabling you to respond to trauma-related presentations with sensitivity and skill while avoiding re-traumatization.
Objectives:

Understand the importance of providing psychotherapy using a trauma-informed lens
Explain the core principles of trauma-informed therapy
Identify how to create safety for clients in session
Understand the impact of trauma on mental health symptoms

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