Cascadia Training for Professional Development

SPECIAL SALE! Sand Tray & Other Creative Interventions With Stuck Clients of All Ages
2025-11-20 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
LAST-MINUTE DEAL! $50.00 OFF!
Sand Tray & Other Creative Interventions With Stuck Clients of All Ages
Presented by: Kristie Baber, MSW, LICSW, CCTP
When: Thursday, November 20th, 2025 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live via Zoom (you’ll receive the Zoom link via email the week of the workshop)
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 3 CEs | Cost: $95.00 Now only $45.00!
Designed for stressed-out, overworked therapists at the end of their clinical rope and struggling with a lack of movement in their cases, the creative interventions you’ll learn in this short workshop really work!
We’ve all been there – frustrated by our difficulty understanding the client struggling to communicate, feeling the shared strain with clients who attend sessions diligently yet don’t seem to be moving through their material, or perplexed by the family we’re struggling to get a read on. Whether we’re the client or the clinician, there isn’t much that feels worse week after week than stuck.
This realistic and brief class is designed for practicing therapists with clients of all ages to explore new options to break the logjam in session. The workshop will be conducted in a Zoom format. Teaching modalities will include clinical discussion, lectures with case examples, video illustrations, and individual exercises.
Objectives:

Practice calming strategies to hold our center and maintain equilibrium in our practices.
Apply interventions using symbolic tokens to release deep-seated thoughts and hopes.
Utilize sand trays to help clients who struggle to conceptualize or communicate verbally (no need to revamp your office – this can be done in a pared-down “travel” format).
Explore projective drawings, including H-T-P, Person in the Rain, and Kinetic Family Drawings, to reveal client perspectives and express feeling states and for ongoing reassessment purposes.

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SPECIAL SALE! Motivational Interviewing: Improving Client Outcomes by Increasing Intrinsic Motivation for Change
2025-11-21 09:00 - 16:30
SPECIAL SALE! $50 OFF!
Motivational Interviewing: Improving Client Outcomes by Increasing Intrinsic Motivation for Change
Presented by: Randi Jensen, MA, LMHC, CCDC
When: Friday, November 21st, 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: 6 CEs | $190.00 Now ONLY $140.00
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an established evidence-based practice renowned for resolving ambivalence. MI, which has its origins in the field of substance abuse treatment, has been shown to enhance client motivation for change and improve treatment outcomes. The spirit of MI is complementary with Self-Determination Theory (SDI), which asserts that people have an intrinsic desire to make life changes congruent with their core values. SDI states that people are more likely to be internally motivated when their actions, beliefs, and core values are aligned. Motivational Interviewing provides the technique to make that happen.
The principles of Motivational Interviewing include providing accurate empathy, building discrepancy, rolling with resistance, and increasing self-efficacy. These supply the basis for building intrinsic motivation for change and can facilitate the resolution of life-threatening ambivalence in suicidality.
Researchers Britton, Williams, and Connor (2008) show how the therapist’s proficiency in Motivational Interviewing can resolve a client’s ambivalence and resistance to change.
Learning opportunities in this workshop include lectures, interactive discussions, video role-plays, and skill-building through group exercises. These methods combine to provide techniques and interventions that can be applied immediately.
Objectives:

Describe the principles that underpin Motivational Interviewing and how they promote client autonomy
Articulate the distinguishing techniques of open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summarizations
Explain the Stages of Change as described by Prochaska and DiClemente (1983)
Discuss the significance of Self-Determination Theory in coordination with MI
Distinguish different methods of using MI with specific populations and varied disorders
Express and practice Motivational Interviewing techniques used in counseling suicidal individuals
Describe ethical considerations and documentation
Enumerate necessary therapist qualities that support efficient use of MI

Randi Jensen has taught Motivational Interviewing during her eight years as adjunct faculty at Bastyr University and during her three years as Case Management Program Director for Antioch University and Seattle Jobs Initiative. Randi employs Motivational Interviewing skills in her Shoreline private practice, where she specializes in the treatment of Suicidality.
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