Therapeutic Neuroscience Certificate Series: A Brain Science-Based Approach to Cognitive & Somatic Treatment of Common Mental Health Disorders🆕
2026-05-04 09:00 - 2026-06-01 12:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
Popular Certificate Program!
Therapeutic Neuroscience Certificate Series: A Brain Science-Based Approach to Cognitive & Somatic Treatment of Common Mental Health Disorders
Presented by: Hannah Smith, MA, LMHC, CGP
When: Monday, May 4th – Monday, June 1st, 2026 | 4-Week Series | Meets Four Consecutive Mondays except Monday, May 25th | 9:00 am – 12:15 pm Pacific Time (same time each Monday)
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 12 CEs | $499.00
***see below for payment options
Are you ready for something really different?
As a provider of mental health treatment, it is important to stay informed about the latest advances in treatment. Beyond being a requirement of most licensure boards, research shows that improving practitioner competence decreases burnout and increases job satisfaction!
One of the hottest topics is the integration of neuroscience into mental health treatment. You heard this, and you want to learn more – but it feels daunting and overwhelming in the face of all you have to deal with every day. The prospect just does not sound pleasant.
So, why not make it easier?
Introducing Cascadia’s brain science certificate series!
In keeping with not only teaching to the brain in presentation style, but also in the ability to take in and retain, Cascadia now offers this in a series of three-hour sessions over a few weeks! The benefits are many!
First, the course is separated into four discrete and highly useful sessions:
Week One: Pertinent Therapeutic Neuroscience
Week Two: Applications in Therapeutic Neuroscience
Week Three: Neuroscience-informed Cognitive Approaches
Week Four: Neuroscience-informed Somatic Approaches.
Besides three-hour time blocks being easier to manage than an entire day, you will also have lots of time to think about, try things, and ask questions in between sessions, as skill support inquiries are encouraged!
None of us wants to spend our time learning only to come away tired and feeling that we could not retain what we learned. In this format, you will have the chance to really sink your teeth into the material and build a sense of competence!
All this will take place in the comfort of your own home!
If you have wanted to take your practice to the next level by incorporating cutting-edge neuroscience, then this is the course for you! Whether you aren’t quite sure what the amygdala really is or you are a PhD in Neuropsychology – this practical, application-based course will appropriately challenge and inspire you!
Workshop Objectives:

Learn Pertinent Brain Systems & Structures and Describe Their Practical Application to Clinical Work
Identify & Examine the Neurological Processes Underlying Common Mental Health Disorders, Such as Anxiety, Depression, Personality Disorders & Trauma.
Relate Specific Dysfunctional Behavioral Presentations to Associated Brain Functions to Improve Diagnosis & Pinpoint Effective Treatment Modalities
Apply the Neuroscience-informed Lens to Current Cognitive-based (ACT, CBT, IFS), Mindfulness-based (DBT, MBT), & Somatic-based (EFT, Expressive Therapies) Theories You Already Know Increasing Insights to Improve Treatment Trajectory & Outcomes
Evaluate the differences between amygdala-based and cortex-based symptoms
Apply proven strategies for calming and training the amygdala.
Use Practical Neuroscience-informed Techniques, such as Threat Analysis, to Improve Client Understanding, Compliance, and Outcomes
Convey Difficult Science Terms & Concepts in an Understandable, Client-friendly Manner

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 the remaining 50% will automatically be processed from your credit card on the last day of June.
Please email us at hello@cascadiatraining.org to inquire about discounts and scholarships.

Body Justice: Addressing Sizeism and Fear of Fat
2026-05-13 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs!
Body Justice: Addressing Sizeism and Fear of Fat
Presented by: Amber Rice, LMFT, MA
When: Wednesday, May 13, 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: 6 CEs – counts toward Health Equity requirements and Cultural Competence requirements| $199.00
Therapists are becoming increasingly aware of the harm that has been/is being done to clients when healthcare settings (including counseling practices) focus on weight and weight loss as a primary goal. Most therapists, however, have not been trained in how to have conversations with their clients about body shame, weight stigma, healthism, diet culture, and sizeism. How, then, do therapists help clients heal body shame in a weight-obsessed world when our culture is obsessed with weight being an indicator of health? This course introduces therapists to practical resources, knowledge, empowering interventions, and the language needed to help challenge weight stigma, connect weight stigma and negative health outcomes, and support clients toward weight-neutral and compassionate self-care.
Many providers have increased their awareness of the need to adjust their practice lens and use a more weight-inclusive, fat-positive approach to addressing food and body issues. Mental health clinicians have become increasingly aware of the expanding body of research that says intentional weight loss and dieting just don’t work, and find themselves no longer ethically comfortable participating in diet culture. Therapists understand that supporting clients in weight loss or lifestyle changes (even for health reasons) is frequently emotionally and metabolically damaging, is not trauma-informed, often results in eating disorders and poor health outcomes, and is rooted in weight bias and the body hierarchy. Ethical, culturally competent mental health practitioners want to know how to help their clients have a more peaceful relationship with food and their bodies. However, even the best-intentioned clinician finds that the cultural climate of weight stigma is so prevalent in both medical and mental health fields that they don’t even know where to begin.
This course will help therapists have conversations about bodies, weight, and health without contributing to the body shaming and size bias that is commonplace in healthcare settings. Amber will introduce participants to knowledge that will help them ethically and compassionately address the impacts of weight stigma with their clients. Workshop attendees will learn ways to help their clients reduce body shame, improve their relationship with food, and invite more satisfaction and joy in their lives in a culturally competent way so they can be more resilient and confident in their own skin.
Objectives:

Discuss the use of “fat” as a reclaimed term, ask for the avoidance of the “O” words (obese, overweight), the use of “numbers” to describe weight, and other guidelines to avoid microaggressions that may take place during the workshop.
Present research studies and lived experiences that provide evidence for the need to practice with a weight-inclusive approach.
Teach the core values and principles of Health at Every Size and Body Trust approaches.
Provide an overview of the HAES and Body Trust approaches, along with practical clinical interventions for clients seeking a more peaceful relationship with food and their bodies.
Discuss with participants the ethical considerations and dilemmas present in the current medical and mental health models that support weight loss for health purposes.
Offer a pathway toward becoming more culturally competent, with an adjusted lens that actively seeks to eliminate implicit and explicit bias in assessment, treatment, and orientation.
List action steps that participants can employ to create a more weight-neutral practice.
Ask attendees to acknowledge possible body (thin) privilege.
Evaluate therapeutic spaces and environments to ensure they are fat-friendly and free of pathologizing magazines and stigmatizing language/media/magazines.
Advocate for self-examination for fatphobia and anti-fat bias.
Increase the visibility of fat people and scour websites and waiting rooms for diet culture.

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SPECIAL SALE! Attachment and the Neurobiology of Relationships
2026-05-14 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
Last-Minute Deal! $50 Off!
Attachment and the Neurobiology of Relationships
Presented by: Kristie Baber, MSW, LICSW, CCTP
When: Thursday, May 14th, 2026 | 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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Tarot and Therapy: Intuition and Metaphor
2026-05-15 09:00 - 16:30 | Shoreline Center, 18560 1st Ave NE, Shoreline, WA, 98155, United States
Law & Ethics CEs!
Tarot and Therapy: Intuition and Metaphor
Presented by: Rebecca Bloom, LMHC (she/her)
When: Friday, May 15th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live in-person at the Shoreline Center
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs – 3 Law & Ethics CEs | $199.00, which includes $174.00 tuition plus $25.00 for Ephemera Art Supply Packs Created by Rebecca Bloom especially for Cascadia Training Registrants.
Why is Tarot so popular right now? Are your clients coming in talking about the card they pulled before the session and you have no idea what that means? Have you used tarot for years for your own well being and would love to use it with mental health clients but not sure how?
Most clients come into therapy saying that they do not have access to their intuition and are not sure how to trust what the right choices are to make in their lives. Using a single card pulled from a tarot deck, and exploring the client’s meaning of the card, clients can begin to feel connected to their own sense of self, clients can find new ways to safely explore difficult experiences and find ways to test out feeling grounded again.
Starting with the Jungian concepts of Archetypes we will look at how the collective sense of self represents over these twelve types of being. Then we will explore the history and uses of tarot. These seventy-eight cards have been used for hundreds of years. Using the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, from 1909, as a starting place we will look at many of the decks available today and why people turn to them every day or when times get difficult.
We will explore intuition and how to trust our own sense of knowing. In this hands-on workshop, you will make five of your own cards. Exploring the major arcana, and the suits of cups, pentacles, swords and wands we will learn the journeys of each of these sets.
Objectives:

Learn archetypes of Jung and Tarot.
Learn why the creative process soothes the body and the mind.
Find materials you will be comfortable using with your clients.
Use art making for your own self-care.

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Mindfulness on Land and Water with Sea Kayaking
2026-05-15 11:00 - 19:30 | ONE-Olympia, 7400 Gallagher Cove Road NW, Olympia, WA, 98502, United States
Mindfulness on Land and Water with Sea Kayaking
Presented by: Dr. Brenda Butterfield, EdD, MSW, LMHC
When: Friday, May 15th, 2026 | 11:00 AM – 7:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live in person at the ONE Center (7400 Gallagher Cove Road NW, Olympia, WA 98502)
Lodging Information: If you’d like to come the night before or stay over on Friday night after the workshop, you can explore the lodging options provided by the ONE Center here. For questions about lodging, please email the ONE Center at ournewexperiences@gmail.com
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs | $229.00
This workshop is also offered on Friday, June 26th. MORE INFO & TO REGISTER >>>
This workshop is for colleagues ready to experience new ways of learning and growing in real time by bringing the practice of mindfulness outdoors, on land, and on water. You’re invited to come to ONE, a nature-based retreat center for health care professionals on the beautiful South Salish Sea outside Olympia, WA.
During this professional development workshop, we will learn about mindfulness through experiential exercises. The first part of the day is in a lovely flower-filled Courtyard Garden and focused on learning what mindfulness is, how it’s different from meditation, and reviewing research supporting this practice. We’ll discuss how stress plays a key role in illness and disease (physical and mental) and how to prevent and reduce illness for yourself and clients, too.
We’ll share simple, evidence-based practices to increase awareness and empower you to recognize and reduce stress in daily life. You’ll learn breathwork to effectively pull the rip cord on your parasympathetic nervous system parachute to bring yourself back to center whenever and wherever stress shows up. We’ll help you develop the language of mindfulness and explore ways of integrating these practices into your work with clients.
After lunch, participants will head to beautiful Gallagher Cove for sea kayaking 101 skills training. You’ll learn about mindful kayaking, an invitation to practice non-striving on the water. “There is no place to go, and no place be. This is it, right here, right now.” On the water, we’ll field-test our mindful skills for stress/anxiety management and practice responding in ways that regulate our mind, emotions, body, and behavior. By paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, we’ll learn how to navigate the stress and anxiety of “unpleasant” emotions, body sensations, and distorted thinking by choosing new ways of being through the practice of mindfulness. This will be guided in a spirit of play to cultivate mindfulness by noticing the awe and wonder of beauty all around us in nature, in community with colleagues. Ultimately, noticing the pleasant is a mindful practice that serves us very well.
Whether you’re an avid paddler or have no experience but feel called by the South Salish Sea, join us in this learning and beauty. Gallagher Cove at The ONE Center is a shallow, protected, remarkably beautiful place for brand new paddlers. We’ll provide thorough safety instruction and all the equipment needed (sea kayak, paddle, and PDF). You’re invited to arrive Thursday evening and/or stay over Friday night to camp on the land or stay in one of our cozy cabins to really drop in and enjoy mindfulness on land and water.If you’d like to come the night before or stay over on Friday night after the workshop, you can explore the lodging options provided by the ONE Center here. For questions about lodging, please email the ONE Center at ournewexperiences@gmail.com.
Workshop Objectives:
In this workshop, you will:

Understand the research-based benefits of integrating Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI) in clinical practice.
Learn what mindfulness is and how to practice it for yourself so you can teach your clients.
Explore the language, concepts, and phenomena of mindfulness.
Learn about the mind/body relationship between chronic stress (CBT Thinking Errors) and health (depression/anxiety/panic attacks), enabling you to explain the Autonomic, Sympathetic, and Parasympathetic Nervous System to clients.
Learn simple, accessible practices to recognize stress responses and activate the parasympathetic nervous system.
Learn emotional regulation skills through mindfulness practice.

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