Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Tapping for Clinicians, Part I
2025-12-05 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
Now meets requirements for Law & Ethics CEs!
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Tapping for Clinicians, Part I
Presented by: Shelley White, MA, LMHC
When: Friday, December 5th, 2025 | 9:00 am – 12:-00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the event.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 3 Law & Ethics CEs | $99.00
Emotion Freedom Techniques (EFT) – also known as EFT Tapping – is quickly becoming a widely-accepted and effective evidence-based strategy to reduce emotional distress. Many prominent therapists and psychologists, including trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk, use a form of tapping with their clients, and now you can too. This workshop provides you with the introductory skills you need to start using basic tapping techniques. You will learn and practice the basic technique so you will be able to use EFT with your clients immediately.
When treating anxiety, first calm the body. Experts in anxiety treatment agree: First calm the physiological symptoms of anxiety, then work with the mind. EFT Tapping can quickly reduce anxiety sensations in the body. And it’s very easy to teach clients! I often hear from my clients how empowered they feel to self-regulate even after their first session. Come earn 3 Ethics CEs and learn this effective self-regulatory tool!
REGISTER HERE

Being Neurodivergent in a Neurotypical World
2025-12-05 09:00 - 16:30
Best Seller, Register Today!
Being Neurodivergent in a Neurotypical World
Presented by: B Lourenco, MA, LMHC (she/her)
When: Friday, December 5th, 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 Law & Ethics CEs; also meets the Cultural Competency CE requirement for WA & OR | Cost: $199.00
Have you noticed that more and more of your clients have begun to suspect that they are neurodivergent? During the past year-and-a-half of the Covid pandemic, many folks have had time to reflect and learn about themselves and others. That time of learning and increased self-reflection has led to what seems like an explosion of self-diagnosed Autistic and ADHD clients. It seems hard to believe that there are suddenly so many more people who are identifying as being neurodivergent. You may have asked yourself, “What is going on?”
The difference is the shift to using the ethical approach of “centering lived experience” in identifying neurodiversity. Using this term and approach as applied to neurodiversity, this presenter explains the rise in neurodivergent diagnoses, especially among those who have initially those self-identified. The presenter suggests that we have only recently begun to LISTEN to voices of those have had “lived experiences” after being diagnosed in the current mental health field, including countless reports of feeling increased emotional distress and of experiences of marginalization due to being labeled– and subsequently stigmatized– as neurodivergent.
B Lourenco will provide attendees with a “centering lived experience” model of assessing and supporting clients who suspect that they have been living as a neurodivergent person in a neurotypical world. This presenter will support your learning how to incorporate a “centering lived experience” model in your own mental health practices. With this new paradigm, mental health practitioners and educators can shift their focus away from a deficits-based approach to identifying the strengths and adaptive characteristics of those who are neurodivergent, especially those identified as autistic or ADHD.
This workshop will demonstrate how the current model for identifying neurodivergence—particularly those with Autism and ADHD–is considered both outdated and ableist by experts who choose to use the “centering lived experience” approach to assessing clients. This course will outline the ways that the current model harms neurodivergent people, in addition to offering workshop attendees a more client-empowering, more affirming way to identify and interact with this unique population of people.
Utilizing the Neurodiversity paradigm, you’ll leave this workshop with a much better, more strengths-based understanding of Autism and ADHD, as well as gaining effective tools for interacting with and supporting these clients (of which you have, even if you or the client doesn’t know it yet)!
Objectives:

understand the umbrella of neurodivergence, including innate and acquired neurodivergence
have a clearer understanding of Autism and ADHD—as viewed through an ethical, neurodiversity-affirming lens
identify limits of the medical model of neurodivergence
understand ways in which the current medical model is unethical and harmful to neurodivergent people–by its focus on perceived deficits through a neurotypical lens
apply a strengths and differences approach in identifying autism and ADHD
understand and consider using the “centered life experience” model of identifying and supporting neurodivergent clients and populations
gain new skills to better assist Autistic and ADHD clients
possess a clearer understanding of the ethical need to approach clients with an anti-oppression lens in mental health care agencies and private practices
feel empowered to challenge current systems of harm by supporting clients in their preferred methods of processing sensory input and communicating with others in a neurotypical world

After attending this workshop, attendees will be able to:

Discuss the ethical violations that come from employing Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) as an intervention with neurodivergent clients/students.
Become familiar with the metaphor of Applied Behavioral Analysis as being the why the “conversion therapy” of the neurodivergent community and the ethical ramifications of continuing to use it in schools and clinics.
Understand that the practice of ABA is based upon a “foundation of compliance, coercion, and behaviorism.”
Identify that current “evidence-based practices” may not be effective with the neurodivergent client.
Comprehend the ethical mandate under cultural competence standards to respect and validate the culture and norms of the neurodivergent population.
Respect the neurodivergent client as a person worthy of respect and individual civil rights legally protected from discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Understand the ethical mandate to assess clients with a culturally competent assessment tool and grasp the ethical violation of using current inadequate or inappropriate assessment tools with neurodivergent clients.
Discuss the widespread misdiagnoses of neurodivergent clients/patients when practitioners use a neurotypical standard of behaviors and development to diagnose a neurodivergent client.

REGISTER HERE

SPECIAL SALE! Lunch & Learn: Beyond Pathology: Practical Applications of Positive Psychology🆕
2025-12-08 12:00 - 13:30
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.

REGISTER HERE

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.

REGISTER HERE

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.

REGISTER HERE

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.
REGISTER HERE

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.

REGISTER HERE

SPECIAL SALE! Lunch & Learn: Balancing Care and Ethics: The Art of Setting Boundaries in Clinical Practice 🆕
2025-12-15 12:00 - 13:30
LAST-MINUTE DEAL! $10 OFF!
🆕Brand-New Lunch & Learn Series!🆕
Law & Ethics or Professional Roles & Boundaries CEs!
Balancing Care and Ethics: The Art of Setting Boundaries in Clinical Practice
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, December 15th, 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 or Professional Roles & Boundaries CEs | $35.00 Now only $25.00!
Setting and maintaining healthy boundaries is one of the most crucial—and challenging—aspects of clinical practice. Too often, therapists struggle to find the balance between being compassionate and maintaining professional boundaries that protect both the therapist and the client. This introductory training explores the ethical and practical aspects of boundary-setting in therapy, offering tools and strategies to create clear, respectful, and effective boundaries. We will examine common boundary challenges, such as dual relationships, self-disclosure, and emotional entanglement, and learn how to navigate them with confidence and care. Through case discussions and real-world examples, you will gain the skills to protect the integrity of the therapeutic relationship while promoting trust, safety, and respect.
OBJECTIVES:

Develop an understanding of the ethical, legal, and practical aspects of boundary-setting in clinical practice.
Learn strategies for maintaining professional boundaries while fostering a compassionate and supportive therapeutic relationship.
Identify common boundary violations and challenges, and explore effective ways to address them with clients.
Practice setting and maintaining boundaries through self-reflection and case-based discussions to ensure a safe, respectful therapeutic environment.

REGISTER HERE

SPECIAL SALE! Ethical Assessment in Early Childhood Mental Health and Development
2025-12-17 09:00 - 16:30
LAST-MINUTE DEAL! $99 OFF!
Law and Ethics CE Credit Hours!
Ethical Assessment in Early Childhood Mental Health and Development
Presented by: Kristie Baber, MSW, LICSW, CCTP
When: Wednesday, December 17th, 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 Credits: 6 Law and Ethics CEs | $199.00 NOW ONLY $100.00
This clinical workshop teaches assessment skills, tools, and diagnostics to providers engaging with young children. What does depression look like in an infant? Can you attribute a developmental delay to environment? How is recognizing an attachment pattern valuable to an overall assessment? When is it a typical developmental stage and when is it pathology? We’ll discuss these topics and more – as well as diagnostic and standardized tools to help in our work. We will particularly focus on at-risk populations and the impacts of abuse, neglect, and transgenerational issues. Teaching modalities will include a mix of clinical discussion, lecture, videos, case examples, and group exercises.
In response to new legislation in Washington state, HB 1325, this class will equip clinicians to utilize the DC:0-5 for diagnosing children and address the new requirement that “Requires clinicians to use the developmentally appropriate standard of practice for diagnosing children 0-5, the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood (DC:0-5), rather than the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.” ** (effective as of 7/25/21)
Objectives:

Explore components of an ethical assessment process for young children in therapy (supported by WA HB 1325 requiring the Health Care Authority to provide reimbursement for up to five sessions of mental health intake and assessment of children from birth through age 5 in home and community settings).
Discuss developmental domains and understand the interplay between early childhood mental health and overall development.
Consider risk factors (including substance exposure) and examine traumatic impacts on early brain development.
Review attachment and other developmental tasks in the first five years of life, as well as standardized tools for evaluation.
Utilize the DC:0-5 (the DSM-5 for little kids) as the appropriate, ethical standard of practice and to meet the legal requirement for diagnosing for young children.
Share community resources for concurrent early childhood intervention (focus will be on King County).

** HB 1325: Implementing policies related to children and youth behavioral health | Partners for Our Children
**Washington State Legislature
REGISTER HERE

SPECIAL SALE! Healing Trauma through BDSM
2025-12-19 09:00 - 12:15
LAST-MINUTE DEAL! $40 OFF!
Back by Popular Demand!
Meets Health Equity or Cultural Competence requirements
Healing Trauma through BDSM
Presented by: Jayden Aubryn, LICSW, CCSW, CDBT, CIMHP, NCS-CPT
When: Friday, December 19th, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 12:15 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 (Meets Health Equity or Cultural Competence requirements) | $99.00 NOW ONLY $59.00!
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
BDSM (Bondage, Dominance/Submission, SadoMasochism) has been shown to be a boundary and power exchange; BDSM offers many pathways for relational and trauma healing. It can be an accessible, culturally appropriate, and fun supplement to traditional therapeutic work. In this workshop, you will learn about the neurobiological and relational effects of trauma, dissociation, and the attachment system.
You will develop an understanding of the core principles of BDSM, how to engage with BDSM culture, and how to connect BDSM strategies. Lastly, you will learn specific strategies and exercises to help your clients accomplish their clinical goals. The tools learned here are intended to be accessible across culture and economic status. We’ll discuss using these tools with individuals, couples, friend groups, and other social structures.
By the end of this training, clinicians will leave with a diverse toolbox for BDSM healing, along with the knowledge and cognitive frameworks to adapt these principles to their specific clinical populations.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:

Learn about the core principles of BDSM.
Develop a basic understanding of the trauma and attachment systems.
Identify how BDSM strategies can assist with specific clinical presentations.

REGISTER HERE

Law and Ethics of Imminent Harm: Understanding Mandatory Reporting and Client Lethality Obligations
2026-01-09 09:30 - 12:30
Law & Ethics CEs!
Law and Ethics of Imminent Harm: Understanding Mandatory Reporting and Client Lethality Obligations
Presented by: Eric Ström, PhD, Attorney at Law, LMHC
When: Friday, January 9th, 2026 | 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
CEs: 3 Law & Ethics CEs | Cost: $99.00

For many clinicians, client lethality and mandatory reporting are among the most challenging topics to navigate.

In this workshop, we will examine the applicable Washington State and Federal laws regarding mandatory reporting obligations, with a specific focus on how these rules apply to behavioral health and substance use disorder clinicians.

We will also discuss the boundaries and standards of clinician liability for client harm to self or others as defined in Washington State case law.

Participants will gain increased ability to implement strategies to minimize risk and to limit liability to best support their clients. This course is intended to meet ethics CEU requirements
Objectives:
• Describe Washington state legal standards regarding duty to warn/duty to protect
• Locate and compare legal and ethical standards regarding mandatory reporting obligations
• Create and evaluate strategies to meet legal reporting requirements while maximizing client support

REGISTER HERE

Youth and Adult Suicide: Recognition, Assessment, and Treatment of Suicidality
2026-01-15 09:00 - 16:30
This workshop meets the suicide assessment requirements for re-licensure.
Youth and Adult Suicide: Recognition, Assessment, and Treatment of Suicidality
Presented by: Randi Jensen, MA, LMHC, CCDC
When: Thursday, January 15th, 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 | $199.00
This workshop meets the Washington State suicide assessment requirements for re-licensure. The Washington State Department of Health has approved this 6-hour workshop for its 2022 Model List. This workshop also satisfies the continuing education requirements set by the Department of Health related to suicide assessment, management, and treatment.
Historically, mental health treatment for suicidal individuals has involved extensive psychopharmacology, repeated cognitive behavioral therapy, positive psychology methods, stress reduction exercises, and/or deep therapy into family-of-origin issues, all proven individually insufficient for the long-term prevention of suicide and suicidality.
The World Health Organization (2019) reported decreasing trends in suicide mortality in most countries across the world. Unfortunately, the mortality of suicide showed an increasing trend in the United States. Between 2000 and 2018, the suicide rate skyrocketed, increasing by a whopping 35% (CDC, 2020). Interestingly, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, between 2020 and 2021, there was a decrease in suicide rates. This was short-lived, unfortunately, as suicide rates began to increase again by 2% in 2022 (CDC, 2022).
What can we do? As clinicians, we need to understand there are many roads to suicidality — each usually requiring individual intervention.
This workshop presents original concepts in the development of suicidality as an ingenious coping mechanism that develops over time. The brain’s neuroplasticity forms neural pathways that underpin the reinforcing suicidal thought pattern. Brain retraining provides the formation of new healthy neural pathways. The healing process is directed, encouraged, and supported through a specifically designed peer protocol based on existing evidence-based social support.
Research shows that the first suicide attempt is often the first time anyone intervenes. However, it is generally not the first time the danger has been known. Loved ones just don’t know what to do. They take the suicidal individual to a hospital or professional where the treatment protocol has not changed for decades. When the suicidal individual comes home after the attempt, family and friends don’t know how to help prevent the next one. The Jensen Suicide Peer Protocol (JSP3), based on evidence-based principles, is a prescribed method for the family members and concerned others to take an active part in the recovery of their loved one. Randi has used this method for decades and has saved lives.
OBJECTIVES:
• Describe the extent of suicide in the general and special populations, including children, adolescents, and military personnel.
• Distinguish what suicidality is and the difference between self-harm and suicidality
• Explain the psychobiology of suicidality and its progression
• Articulate warning signs and symptoms using simple and effective suicide assessment tools
• Express and practice Motivational Interviewing techniques used in counseling suicidal individuals
• Explain a life-saving peer support protocol and how to implement it
• Describe ethical considerations, documentation, and confidentiality issues.
The Washington State Department of Health has approved this 6-hour workshop for its 2022 Model List. This workshop also satisfies the continuing education requirements set by the Department of Health related to suicide assessment, management, and treatment.
Randi consistently receives excellent evaluations from attendees of her workshops. Here are just a few quotes from past attendees:
* “I took a different class about suicide a few months back. It was so heavy with content and so focused on how to cross every “T” and dot every “I” that I actually left more anxious about treating suicidal clients than before. In contrast, Randi’s workshop gave me a broader general understanding and a way to connect the clinical skills I already have to the treatment of these clients. I feel much more confident and competent working with suicidal clients now.”
* “Ms. Jensen is an extremely competent clinician and presenter. Over my 30+ career in mental health work, this is one of the very best workshops I have attended. Thank you, Cascadia and Randi!”
* “This is the most impactful continuing education class I’ve ever taken!”
REGISTER HERE

🆕BRAND-NEW! Mindfulness with Ethics in Mental Health Care 🆕
2026-01-16 09:00 - 13:00
🆕BRAND-NEW!🆕
Law & Ethics CEs!
Mindfulness with Ethics in Mental Health Care

Presented by: Dr. Brenda Butterfield, EdD, MSW, LMHC
When: Friday, January 16th, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live via Zoom. You’ll receive the link via email the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 4 Law & Ethics CEs | $125.00
Increasingly, the “mindfulness movement” is influencing Western culture in education, business, and mental health care. Different clinical interventions called Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) are increasingly used to effectively treat clients suffering from chronic pain and stress, depression, anxiety, substance use, suicidality, and more. These evidence-based interventions honor the mind/body connection and align well with integrated health care using the bio-psycho-social treatment model.
While psychological interventions are typically knowledge-based and directed toward client change irrespective of the clinician’s health and well-being, MBIs are quite different. A mindfulness-based therapist is ethically obligated to teach from one’s own lived experience. Practicing improves their health and well-being, which research shows correlates with clients’ treatment outcomes. Therefore, developing a mindfulness practice benefits both the clinician and the client. There are many ways to cultivate mindfulness in daily life, with and without meditating.
In this experiential workshop, you will learn a variety of simple self-care practices to use anytime, anyplace, from the grocery store to the forest! Yes! Mindfulness in nature is an evidence-based practice that is even more accessible to many people. Whether indoors or outside, MBIs improve our health and well-being. Learn more about the mind-body connection through practicing somatic and emotional awareness better to understand your behaviors and your clients’ behaviors, too.
In addition to learning practices for oneself and clients, we’ll explore questions like what mindfulness is. What does it mean to BE mindful and to practice mindfulness? What’s the difference between mindfulness and meditation? What’s the therapeutic value of mindfulness in therapy? And perhaps most important of all, what are ethical imperatives for calling oneself a “mindfulness-based therapist?”
Workshop Objectives:

Understand the benefits of integrating mindfulness in mental health care and the ethical implications for doing so.
Learn the difference between meditation and mindfulness by learning simple self-care practices to activate the parasympathetic nervous system for emotional regulation anytime.
Explore the language, concepts, and phenomena of mindfulness, and practice ways of introducing mindfulness to clients (e.g., automatic pilot, present-moment awareness, inner experience, noticing, cultivating, practice, and ways of being).
Learn about the mind/body relationship between chronic stress (CBT thinking errors) & health (depression/anxiety/panic attacks), enabling you to explain the functioning of the autonomic, sympathetic, and parasympathetic nervous systems in easy ways.

REGISTER HERE

Let’s Talk About Sex
2026-01-16 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)
When: Friday, January 16th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live via Zoom (you’ll receive the link the week of the workshop)
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

REGISTER HERE

SOLD OUT! Register for upcoming sessions | Tarot Certificate Program: The Clinical Use of Tarot Card Imagery in Psychotherapy 🆕
2026-01-23 09:00 - 2026-01-25 16:30
This certificate program is now sold out.
Please register for one of the following upcoming sessions of the certificate program:

Friday, September 25th – Sunday, September 27th, 2026 – 3-Day Series | Live via Zoom: MORE INFO & TO REGISTER>>>

🆕Brand-New Certificate Program!🆕
Register before November 30th for Early Bird Pricing of only $499.00. Price increases to $599.00 after that!
Limited Spots Available!
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, Cultural Competence, and Professional Roles & Boundaries CEs!
Tarot Certificate Program: The Clinical Use of Tarot Card Imagery in Psychotherapy
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Friday, January 23rd to Sunday, January 25th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time each of the three days
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 18 CEs, 6 of which are Law and Ethics CEs, 2 of which are Health Equity CEs, 2 of which are Cultural Competence CEs, and 2 of which are Professional Relationships CEs | $499.00 (price includes PDF copies of Dreya’s three-volume book The Clinical Use of Tarot Card Imagery in Psychotherapy (a $40.00 value) – price increases to $599.00 after November 30th.
***see below for payment options
All 2026 Sessions Scheduled (so far…more to come!)

Friday, January 23rd – Sunday, January 25th, 2026 – 3-Day Series | Live via Zoom: MORE INFO & TO REGISTER>>>
Friday, March 6th – Friday, April 17th, 2026 – 6-Week Series | Live via Zoom: MORE INFO & TO REGISTER>>>
Friday, September 25th – Sunday, September 27th, 2026 – 3-Day Series | Live via Zoom: MORE INFO & TO REGISTER>>>

This innovative 18-hour continuing education program invites psychotherapists into a rich and rigorous exploration of tarot as a clinical tool—one that bridges history, psychology, metaphor, and meaning-making. You will discover how tarot card imagery functions as a dynamic visual and symbolic language, uniquely suited to therapeutic conversations. From its historical roots and cultural controversies to its contemporary relevance in the therapy room, this course provides a comprehensive introduction to the clinical applications of tarot.
Tarot is a particularly powerful tool in psychotherapy because it engages both intuition and structured exploration. Its archetypal and narrative richness make tarot an ideal companion for therapists working at the intersection of the unconscious and creative expression. Tarot cards can externalize internal experiences, evoke epiphany, and stimulate insight, allowing clients to access feelings and ideas that may be difficult to articulate in more traditional ways. Whether used for parts work or accessing suppressed emotions, tarot meets clients where they are, supporting both depth and flexibility in the therapeutic process.
In becoming a “tarot-friendly therapist,” you will discover that incorporating tarot into your practice opens up a creative and intuitive space for clients that is rich with possibility. Tarot allows clients to externalize internal experiences, access inner wisdom, and engage in symbolic storytelling that can be both playful and profound. Whether used as a metaphor, visual prompt, or reflective tool, tarot can make therapy feel more accessible, empowering, and emotionally resonant, especially for those who struggle to articulate feelings through words alone. Clients who already have a relationship with tarot (or are simply curious about the cards) will be thrilled to learn that this powerful tool can be integrated into their treatment.
Throughout the course, we will explore the projective potential of tarot through the lenses of Jungian psychology, narrative therapy, psychodrama, and Gestalt practices such as chairwork. We will also examine tarot’s compatibility with modalities such as EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Poetry Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, broadening your understanding of how to integrate tarot into diverse treatment approaches.
With an emphasis on ethical, inclusive practice, you will learn how to introduce tarot imagery to clients in ways that honor spiritual and religious diversity while respecting professional boundaries. The course includes guidance on spiritual competency, clinical documentation, and ethical considerations. This highly experiential training offers ample opportunities to practice, reflect on, and personalize the material. Whether you are an experienced clinician seeking new depth or a newer therapist curious about symbolic tools, this program offers both theoretical grounding and hands-on application: The goal is for you to leave feeling comfortable and confident integrating tarot into your therapy practice. By the end, you will have an expanded toolkit and a new lens through which to view healing, insight, and transformation.
Note: No prior experience with tarot is required.
This course is based on Dreya Blume’s book, The Clinical Use of Tarot Card Imagery in Psychotherapy (2025) (Amazon link)
Exciting News! The tuition for this 18-hour first-of-its-kind certificate program includes your own PDF copy of Dreya Blume’s three-volume book.
Workshop Objectives

Identify various ways in which visual imagery can be used to address mental health issues
Utilize tarot card imagery for creative expression
Analyze the archetypal uses of tarot card imagery
Apply tarot card imagery to inner critic work
Assess which tarot card activities to use depending on client population and issue
Create therapeutic applications of tarot card imagery
Identify how to use tarot card imagery for intuitive work with the subconscious
Utilize tarot card imagery for emotional externalization purposes
Describe how to use tarot card imagery for facilitating emotional expression
Apply tarot card imagery to narrative therapy techniques
Describe how tarot card imagery relates to dialogue work as found in Gestalt Therapy
Demonstrate how tarot card imagery relates to parts work
Develop tarot activities that can be used in core values generation
Explain how tarot card imagery can be ethically introduced to clients
Prepare tarot-based activities for clients that are ethically grounded
Explain the ethics behind processing tarot-based activities with clients
Demonstrate how to create and maintain healthy boundaries between client and counselor in terms of integrating tarot card imagery into session
Identify ways to ensure well-defined roles in the professional relationship
Demonstrate cultural competence in terms of identifying the cultural background of tarot
Demonstrate cultural competence in terms of exploring and then integrating clients’ personal relationship with tarot into counseling

Workshop Breakdown by Day
Day One

The History of Tarot
The Clinical Benefits of Using Tarot Cards
The “Evidence-Based” Bugaboo
Spiritual/Religious Competency in Therapy
Tarot, Creativity and Therapy
Tarot Is/As Metaphor
Beyond Metaphor: Pataphor
Projective Tools in Psychotherapy
Carl Jung: Therapeutic Tarot’s Forefather
Shadow Work
The Hero’s Journey

Day Two

Tarot And/As Visual Imagery in Art Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Psychodrama
EMDR, Visual Imagery and Metaphoric Cards
Inner Critic Work
Introjections
Parts Work
Chairwork
Solution-Focused Therapy

Day Three

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Poetry Therapy
Asemic Writing for Healing
Introducing Tarot Cards to a Client
Clinical Documentation
Tarot and Professional Ethics
Marketing oneself as a “tarot-friendly therapist”

***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 on January 31st, 2026.

Clinical Documentation Considerations of Changing Federal and State Laws
2026-01-23 09:30 - 12:30
A Must-Take Law & Ethics CE Workshop!
Clinical Documentation Considerations of Changing Federal and State Laws
Presented by: Eric Ström, PhD, Attorney at Law, LMHC
When: Friday, January 23rd, 2026 | 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 Law & Ethics CEs | $99.00
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Recent changes to US federal law and policy have given states more leeway to regulate in vastly different ways. These changing laws may impact clients in a variety of ways – particularly when telehealth is delivered across state lines. Through a discussion of a range of various state laws, we will identify the impacts this current regulatory situation has on clinical documentation, on our exposure to liability, and to protection of marginalized populations when delivering clinical services. This 3-hour workshop meets law & ethics continuing education requirements.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
After this workshop, participants will be able to:

Describe the regulatory impact of providing clinical services across state lines.
Identify some other states’ laws that may impact us as Washington-based clinicians and clients.
Understand Washington’s new Protected Health Care Statutes.
Create strategies to appropriately conduct and document clinical services while protecting clients and ourselves.

REGISTER HERE

Ethics of Essential-Self Care for Clinicians
2026-01-30 09:00 - 16:30
Law & Ethics CEs!
Ethics of Essential-Self Care for Clinicians

Presented by: Dr. Brenda Butterfield, EdD, MSW, LMHC
When: Friday, January 30th, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live via Zoom. You’ll receive the link via email the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 Law & Ethics CEs | $199.00
Providing mental health care as a therapist, case manager, administrator, or in another role is rewarding work but also quite challenging. Whether working in a system or in private practice, change is inevitable, requiring one to adapt, learn new knowledge and skills quickly, effectively, and often with little support. In addition, the landscape of our profession has changed in many ways since 2020.
While working from home provides flexibility, it can also result in feeling isolated, disconnected from others, and even lonely. Change requires time and energy, and when both seem limited, change can be very stressful. If you have been feeling depleted for a while, but pushing on to keep meeting the needs of others even though you know you need to pause and rest, you are not alone. Many colleagues are tired, depleted, feeling numb, and even emotionally callused. Thank goodness we can now take time to pause and begin tending to what WE need.
Formally recognizing clinician self-care as essential to providing quality care to others gives us permission to pause, rest, and take time for oneself. It is also aligned with current research findings indicating that 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 self-care is not only a personal responsibility and a gift to oneself, but also an ethical obligation for mental health professionals. This workshop is an invitation to do just that! AND earn 6 law & ethics CEs while tending to YOUR own health and well-being! Quite recently, the National Association of Social Workers updated the NASW Code of Ethics, reflecting an ethical imperative to practice self-care.
In this experiential workshop, we will spend the day tending to our own health and well-being WHILE earning ethics credits! We will practice turning attention inward by learning ways to slow down, pause, rest, and check in with oneself, to notice what is needed, and then care for oneself. Throughout the day, we will explore key practices taught in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), including breathing techniques, mindful movement, and mindful meditation (sitting and walking). Other practices we’ll explore include self-reflective inquiry, dyad, and large group sharing, too. All are simple, easy-to-use, effective, evidence-based ways to practice Essential-Self care that nourishes body, mind, and soul.
We know that practicing self-care improves our health and well-being. When we tend to the longings of our heart, we feel better and show up as our True, Essential Self more often. Being our authentic self feels good, as it turns out, self-care benefits not only us but all those around us – including clients and coworkers too. Indeed, it is an essential prerequisite to providing care for others, care that helps them heal.
Join us for a day of personal and professional learning to explore Essential-Self care practices that are nurturing and effective. It is finally here-the opportunity to take time to practice what we preach so often to clients, “Take good care of yourself.”
Workshop Objectives:

Develop knowledge of the Essential-Self Care Practice, including key intervention concepts and practices (Essential-Self, self-care, discipline, self-reflective journaling, meditation, mindfulness, mindful practices, affirmative and contemplative Spirit talk/prayer, phenomenological interventions, cross-cultural spirituality, etc.)
Experience a variety of ways to practice simple self-care in daily life to cultivate awareness of the Essential-Self
Understand ethical implications for practicing/not practicing self-care.
Understand research correlating clinician health and well-being to treatment outcomes for clients.
Identify personal signs of burnout and lifestyle choices that are supportive or undermine health and well-being.
Develop a realistic action plan for improved health and well-being.

REGISTER HERE

Early Childhood Mental Health: Therapy with Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers & Littles
2026-01-30 09:00 - 16:30
Early Childhood Mental Health: Therapy with Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers & Littles
Presented by: Kristie Baber, MSW, LICSW, CCTP
When: Friday, January 30th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live via Zoom (you’ll receive the Zoom link via email the week of the workshop)
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs | Cost: $190.00
Some clients aren’t found on Freud’s chaise – they are more suited to cribs, highchairs, and childcares. They have the same difficulty managing their emotions, establishing healthy relationships, and behaving appropriately as the rest of us – but how do we go about helping a baby or kindergartener? This class will provide therapists and other professionals working with young children with an understanding of Early Childhood Mental Health and interventions for clients aged 0-5.
This full-day workshop will be conducted in a Zoom format, and teaching modalities will include a mix of clinical discussion, lecture with tons of case examples & video illustrations, as well as small & large group case exercises.
Workshop Objectives:

Understand the role of EHMC (a.k.a Infant Mental Health) in the overall context of early childhood development.
Consider attachment patterns and their clinical presentations in early childhood.
Review the DC:0-5R, diagnostic thinking, and assessment for this population. (The Ethical Assessment in Early Childhood Mental Health & Development class is highly recommended in collaboration with this intervention class.)
Explore developmentally focused models of dyadic ECMH interventions.
Utilize Parent-Infant Psychotherapy and Child-Parent Psychotherapy as clinical interventions with young children in practice.
Address common self-regulation concerns that present in early childhood.
Introduce reflective supervision as a key characteristic of success with ECMH work.

REGISTER HERE

🆕 BRAND-NEW! | Queering Supervision 🆕
2026-02-04 09:00 - 2026-02-06 15:00
🆕BRAND-NEW PRESENTER & WORKSHOP!🆕
Meets requirements to become an approved clinical supervisor!
Also meets requirements for ethics, health equity, cultural competence, and professional roles and boundaries CEs (2 each)
Queering Supervision
Presented by: Leah Post, LICSW, MSW, MPH
When: Wednesday, February 4th – Friday, February 6th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 3:00 pm 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 – meets criteria for clinical supervision training requirements. Also meets requirements for Ethics (2 CEs), Cultural Competence (2 CEs), Health Equity (2 CEs), and Professional Boundaries (2 CEs) CEs | $395.00*** see below for payment options
This 15-hour live virtual training fulfills the Washington State requirement for becoming an approved clinical supervisor. Participants will engage in a transformative learning experience rooted in queer, decolonial, and intersectional frameworks.
The course examines power, privilege, and systemic inequities that shape both supervision and clinical practice. Designed for mental health professionals who want to offer affirming, anti-oppressive supervision, this course provides the practical tools and critical insights necessary for effective, ethical, and equity-informed supervisory relationships.
The training includes information about required documentation and professional ethics, ensuring participants meet the legal and regulatory standards while engaging in liberatory, reflective supervision practices.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
– Apply WA State legal and ethical requirements to clinical supervision.
– Identify and address power dynamics and systemic oppression within supervision relationships.
– Evaluate ethical dilemmas, including dual relationships, through nontraditional and liberation-based frameworks.
– Demonstrate supervision techniques such as reframing, self-disclosure, and externalization.
– Develop a personal supervision framework aligned with anti-oppressive practice.
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 on February 28, 2026.
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
2026-02-04 10:00 - 2026-03-11 13:15
Law & Ethics, Health Equity,
and Cultural Competence CEs!
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 for six consecutive Wednesdays: February 4th through March 11th, 2026, from 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern

Wednesday, February 4th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern
Wednesday, March 11th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern

Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the event.
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 on March 31, 2026.
REGISTER HERE

Meets New Professional Roles CE Requirements | Law & Ethics of Relationships, Professional Roles, and Boundaries in the Clinical Setting
2026-02-05 10:00 - 13:00
🆕BRAND-NEW!🆕
Meets New Professional Roles & Boundaries CE Requirement!
Law & Ethics of Relationships, Professional Roles, and Boundaries in the Clinical Setting
Presented by: Eric Ström, PhD, Attorney at Law, LMHC
When: Thursday, February 5th, 2026 | 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Pacific Time (the third hour will be Q&A and case discussions)
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 2 Professional Relationships and Boundaries CEs and 1 Law & Ethics CE | $109.00
Workshop Description:
Boundary violations are among the most common reasons for professional discipline of behavioral health clinicians. Dual relationships—both intentional and unintentional—can arise in many forms and often present ethical, clinical, and legal challenges.
In recognition of this significant cause of misconduct, as of October 2025, the Washington Department of Health has implemented a new requirement for two hours of continuing education in “Professional Roles and Boundaries” every two years (the new Washington State continuing education requirements according to WAC 246-809-630 can be found here).
In this two-hour workshop, we will examine Washington State laws and professional ethical standards regarding personal and dual relationships with clients. Drawing from recent Washington Department of Health disciplinary decisions, participants will engage with real-world case studies that illustrate common risk areas. The workshop will also offer practical strategies for establishing and maintaining appropriate clinical boundaries in everyday practice.
This course is designed to meet the Washington State Department of Health’s requirement for continuing education in Professional Roles and Boundaries according to WAC 246-809-630.
The third “bonus” hour will be a question-and-answer session with Eric and will include discussion of complex ethical cases involving professional roles and boundaries.
Workshop Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Implement strategies to maximize clinical effectiveness while minimizing liability risk;
Apply Washington legal guidelines regarding dual relationships;
Apply ethical standards concerning personal relationships with clients;
Identify and describe various types of inconsistent dual relationships;
Recognize risk factors that may contribute to boundary crossings or violations; and
Create and evaluate strategies to maintain appropriate and ethical clinical relationships.

REGISTER HERE

Kinky Sex Ed and Poly 101: A One-Day, Two-Session Workshop
2026-02-13 09:00 - 16:00
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs!
Kinky Sex Ed and Poly 101: A One-Day, Two-Session Workshop
Presented by: B Lourenco, MA, LMHC (she/her)
When: Friday, February 13th, 2026| 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs | Cost: $199.00
Morning Session: Kinky Sex Ed for Clinicians (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Pacific)
In graduate school, many programs offered a very limited education on human sexual development. The topics covered were largely typical, normative experiences. This type of education leaves out so many other ways of being and leaves large gaps in our education about alternative ways of engaging with sex and relationships. Both sessions of this one-day workshop–Kinky Sex Ed and Poly 101–are intended to help fill the gaps in clinical education and understanding. The goal is that the clinicians who attend will be more fully informed, more inclusive in their approach, and better able to support clients with “non-normative” sexual identities and experiences. Kink refers to any sexual interest or behavior that is outside what is considered normative. Research indicates that many people have explored kinks at some point in their lives, with many people having a kink as a core component of their sexual experiences. This course will identify common kink terms, concepts, and identities so that the clinicians who attend can better support kinky-identified clients.
Objectives:

Learn how kink is defined and connected to social constructs of normativity
Have a basic understanding of common kink identities
Learn basic kink terms and cultural norms
Know the differences between and among kinks, fetishes, and BDSM
Explore how kinks develop and change over time and sexual development
Define healthy and ethical kink
Identify ethical concerns in kink culture

Afternoon Session: Poly 101 for Clinicians (1:00 PM – 4:00 PM)
In graduate school, many programs offered a very limited education on human sexual development, and the topics covered were largely typical, normative experiences. This type of education leaves out so many other ways of being and leaves large gaps in our education about alternate ways of engaging with sex and relationships. Kinky Sex Ed and Poly 101 are both intended to help fill the gaps in clinical education and understanding so that clinicians can be more informed and able to support clients with “non-normative” sexual identities and experiences. The socialization that prioritizes monogamy starts very early in Western culture, with messages about faithfulness, loyalty, jealousy, and love all being inexplicably intertwined. The reality is that–for many people–monogamy simply doesn’t work well for them. This course will explore key terms and concepts of Ethical Non-Monogamy (ENM) and how to offer support to our clients in the clinical setting.
Objectives:

Learn monogamous and non-monogamous relationship types
Explore basic terms and concepts of ethical non-monogamy (ENM)
Identify the role of monogamy culture on all relationship types
Define the differences between envy, jealousy, and trauma responses when navigating ENM
Understand common ethical concerns in ENM
Identify the benefits associated with non-monogamous relationship dynamics

REGISTER HERE

🆕BRAND-NEW! An Introduction to the Ethical Use of Assessment Measures 🆕
2026-02-20 09:00 - 13:15
🆕BRAND-NEW!🆕
Law & Ethics CEs!
An Introduction to the Ethical Use of Assessment Measures

Presented by: Dr. Brenda Butterfield, EdD, MSW, LMHC
When: Friday, February 20th, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 1:15 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live via Zoom. You’ll receive the link via email the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 4 Law & Ethics CEs | $125.00
Communicating care to clients is essential for developing a therapeutic alliance. But with the increased focus on client treatment outcomes, communicating care can be overshadowed — and even lost — when assessing, evaluating, writing treatment plans, and monitoring progress. Thank goodness purposefully using assessment measures can do both! Using them can help create a therapeutic alliance by supporting clinicians and clients when used ethically and in client-centered ways.
Assessment measures can identify a wide array of clinical concerns used to diagnose disorders and validate a client’s lived experience. When used ethically, they can be used to develop a client-centered treatment plan and monitor client progress throughout treatment. Working together, clinicians and clients can use them to connect, learn, and grow.
But it appears many clinicians don’t use them. Learning how to access, score, and use them efficiently throughout treatment can be overwhelming. But with an easy, purposeful process, that can all change!
Learn a purposeful process for using free, evidence-based assessment measures that are valid, reliable measures to assess clients’ overall health and assess depression, generalized anxiety, panic disorder, social anxiety, trauma, and substance use. Ethical implications will be highlighted for using measures efficiently and effectively from intake to discharge, while focusing on client-centered care and the therapeutic alliance throughout.
Workshop Objectives:

Learn how to use assessment measures ethically and in client-centered ways to support the development and growth of a therapeutic alliance from start to finish.
Learn how to skillfully engage clients with assessment measures to support and inform assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care provided.
Practice administering and scoring assessment measures during the workshop for proficiency in diagnosing and treating common disorders, including depression, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, trauma, and substance disorders.
Increase knowledge of copyright rules and identify free assessment measures that are valid, reliable and easily accessed in the public domain.

REGISTER HERE

Menopause and Mental Health: Navigating the Challenges from Perimenopause to Post-Menopause
2026-02-20 09:00 - 16:30
Meets Health Equity or Cultural Competence Continuing Education Requirements!
Menopause and Mental Health: Navigating the Challenges from Perimenopause to Post-Menopause
Presented by Rebecca Bloom, LMHC (she/her)
When: Friday, February 20, 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 (meets criteria for Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs) | Cost: $199.00
The experience of pre-menopause/perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause is rarely talked about, but thousands of people are diagnosed daily with menopause-related challenges.
It shows up in clinical settings in many ways: if someone has been medically induced and is having many symptoms at once; if the whole family system is under stress because “now Mom is mad all the time;” if a client cannot get a medical doctor to address that all her symptoms are connected; or a client feels sex is just “too painful now” and plans never to have sex again.
As clinicians who may be in perimenopause, menopause, or post-menopause ourselves, do not understand our own bodies anymore and may find our work life more difficult than ever.
You may have a 48-year-old female client referred by a medical doctor. This new client has no history of depression, but suddenly, she cannot get out of bed, she cannot track her thoughts, and her blood pressure is through the roof. In this workshop, you will learn that these are all symptoms of perimenopause or menopause.
In this workshop, you will gain an in-depth knowledge of the 37 most common symptoms of perimenopause and menopause that affect us physically, mentally, emotionally, cognitively, and spiritually.
In addition, you will learn how to talk with your clients about these symptoms and how to help them advocate outside the walls of your office for themselves and the medical care they need. We will also look at how biases and inequalities surrounding race and gender (collectively, we’ll say women, but we mean that in a very inclusive way to include those who identify as a woman, those who are assigned female at birth (AFAB) but are transgender or non-binary but still have female reproductive organs and hormones), LGBTQIA+, socio-economic status, and more impact whether someone receives accessible, affordable, adequate, and effective health care.
We will also explore how the lack of adequate medical care for girls, women, and those AFAB continues throughout their lifespan and greatly impacts all aspects of their lives. This lack of adequate, affirming medical attention leads to this natural hormonal experience negatively impacting “everything” in our lives.
The destabilization and loss process in menopause will be explored from various angles. What does it mean to no longer be of “child-bearing age”? Is that transition cause for celebration? Is it a tremendous loss? What does it currently mean to be a “crone”? We will explore how this role has changed over time and in various cultures.
The latest neuroscience research suggests that the loss of estrogen in the brain has major impacts on many bodily systems. What does it mean to go on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)? Some current research suggests that HRT is safe for up to ten years. We will examine why this protocol changed and what it means for our clients and ourselves.
We will also explore natural options for care and support during the various phases of menopause. “Have your fans at the ready!” Let’s spend the day talking about menopause and learning about what impacts our receiving affirming, effective medical care, including the fact that the average medical doctor receives only one hour– in TOTAL—of formal training on menopause. You will leave this workshop knowing much more than when you arrived, knowledge that will help your clients and you on your journey.
Objectives:

Learn the three stages of menopause.
Learn the 37 most common symptoms of menopause.
Address how to help clients feel more stable in this process.
Learn how culture impacts on menopause.
Address the experience of gender and gender bias across the lifespan.
Destigmatize menopause and encourage authentic, effective discussions.

REGISTER HERE

Navigating Washington’s New Confidentiality Standards for LMHCs, LMFTs, and Social Workers
2026-02-27 09:30 - 12:30
A Must-Take Law & Ethics CE Workshop!
Navigating Washington’s New Confidentiality Standards for LMHCs, LMFTs, and Social Workers
Presented by: Eric Ström, PhD, Attorney at Law, LMHC
When: Friday, February 27th, 2026 | 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 Law & Ethics CEs | $99.00
Workshop Description
As of July 27, 2025, the legal framework for confidentiality in behavioral health practice in Washington State will undergo a significant shift. Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHCs), Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs), and Social Workers will now be subject to the standards of RCW 70.02—Washington’s Uniform Health Care Information Act—through its incorporation into RCW 18.225.105.
This three-hour section of the day’s workshop will prepare clinicians for this critical change. Participants will examine how the newly aligned laws alter confidentiality obligations, reshape definitions of protected information, and introduce updated rules around disclosures, client rights, and documentation practices.
Through step-by-step analysis, practical examples, and discussion, this training will equip attendees to confidently navigate the new legal landscape while upholding core ethical principles. This course is intended to meet Washington’s ethics CEU requirement.
Workshop Learning Objectives
After taking part in this training, participants will be able to:

Identify the sources of legal standards relating to confidentiality;
Understand the relationship between Washington State statutes and federal regulations with respect to client confidentiality;
Describe when disclosure of client information is required;
Describe when disclosure of client information is allowed.

REGISTER HERE

Vicarious Trauma
2026-03-06 09:00 - 16:30
Meets Law & Ethics, Professional Roles and Boundaries, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence Continuing Education Requirements!
Vicarious Trauma
Presented by Rebecca Bloom, LMHC (she/her)
When: Friday, May 6th, 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 (meets criteria for Law & Ethics, Professional Roles and Boundaries, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs) | Cost: $199.00
Vicarious Traumatization, Secondary Trauma, Burnout. Diminished feelings of satisfaction, blaming others, hopelessness, and low motivation-working in the counseling profession has its own stressors. Over time, therapists may notice that it becomes harder to listen to clients’ stories or even that they become “numb” to the details of their clients’ difficulties. Many symptoms are known as the cost of working in the caring professions. Once thought of as being a sign of incomplete clinical training, Vicarious Traumatization is now recognized as one of the possible experiences of hearing about “the worst of the worst” for a living.
This training will offer many theoretical viewpoints on the topic. Every theory has its own view on why we take our work home with us. We will discuss how Psychoanalytic, Jungian, Narrative, and Mindfulness-based theories all have something to offer. We will look at them in depth, as we take a day-long look at what parts of our work eat away at us.
We will do three interactive activities during the training that will help put our learning into practice, and you will find simple ways to release the stress of your work. The techniques discussed can also be used in supervision and with clients.
OBJECTIVES:

Learn the signs of Vicarious Traumatization
Understand how different theoretical viewpoints view Vicarious Traumatization
Explore how their clinical experiences impact them
Learn how to use narrative-based questions
Problem-solve challenging clinical examples

REGISTER HERE

SOLD OUT! Register for Upcoming Sessions Tarot Certificate Program: The Clinical Use of Tarot Card Imagery in Psychotherapy 🆕
2026-03-06 13:00 - 2026-04-17 16:15
This certificate program is now sold out.
Please register for one of the following upcoming sessions of the certificate program:

Friday, September 25th – Sunday, September 27th, 2026 – 3-Day Series | Live via Zoom: MORE INFO & TO REGISTER>>>

🆕Brand-New Certificate Program!🆕
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, Cultural Competence, and Professional Roles & Boundaries CEs!
Tarot Certificate Program: The Clinical Use of Tarot Card Imagery in Psychotherapy
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Friday, March 6th – Friday, April 17th, 2026 | 6-Week Series | Meets Six Consecutive Fridays except Friday, April 3rd | 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Pacific Time (same time each Friday)
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 18 CEs, 6 of which are Law and Ethics CEs, 2 of which are Health Equity CEs, 2 of which are Cultural Competence CEs, and 2 of which are Professional Relationships CEs | $499.00 (price includes PDF copies of Dreya’s three-volume book The Clinical Use of Tarot Card Imagery in Psychotherapy (a $40.00 value) – price increases to $599.00 after November 30th, 2025.
***see below for payment options
All 2026 Sessions Scheduled (so far…more to come!)

Friday, January 23rd – Sunday, January 25th, 2026 – 3-Day Series | Live via Zoom: MORE INFO & TO REGISTER>>>
Friday, March 6th – Friday, April 17th, 2026 – 6-Week Series | Live via Zoom: MORE INFO & TO REGISTER>>>
Friday, September 25th – Sunday, September 27th, 2026 – 3-Day Series | Live via Zoom: MORE INFO & TO REGISTER>>>

This innovative 18-hour continuing education program invites psychotherapists into a rich and rigorous exploration of tarot as a clinical tool—one that bridges history, psychology, metaphor, and meaning-making. You will discover how tarot card imagery functions as a dynamic visual and symbolic language, uniquely suited to therapeutic conversations. From its historical roots and cultural controversies to its contemporary relevance in the therapy room, this course provides a comprehensive introduction to the clinical applications of tarot.
Tarot is a particularly powerful tool in psychotherapy because it engages both intuition and structured exploration. Its archetypal and narrative richness make tarot an ideal companion for therapists working at the intersection of the unconscious and creative expression. Tarot cards can externalize internal experiences, evoke epiphany, and stimulate insight, allowing clients to access feelings and ideas that may be difficult to articulate in more traditional ways. Whether used for parts work or accessing suppressed emotions, tarot meets clients where they are, supporting both depth and flexibility in the therapeutic process.
In becoming a “tarot-friendly therapist,” you will discover that incorporating tarot into your practice opens up a creative and intuitive space for clients that is rich with possibility. Tarot allows clients to externalize internal experiences, access inner wisdom, and engage in symbolic storytelling that can be both playful and profound. Whether used as a metaphor, visual prompt, or reflective tool, tarot can make therapy feel more accessible, empowering, and emotionally resonant, especially for those who struggle to articulate feelings through words alone. Clients who already have a relationship with tarot (or are simply curious about the cards) will be thrilled to learn that this powerful tool can be integrated into their treatment.
Throughout the course, we will explore the projective potential of tarot through the lenses of Jungian psychology, narrative therapy, psychodrama, and Gestalt practices such as chairwork. We will also examine tarot’s compatibility with modalities such as EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Poetry Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, broadening your understanding of how to integrate tarot into diverse treatment approaches.
With an emphasis on ethical, inclusive practice, you will learn how to introduce tarot imagery to clients in ways that honor spiritual and religious diversity while respecting professional boundaries. The course includes guidance on spiritual competency, clinical documentation, and ethical considerations. This highly experiential training offers ample opportunities to practice, reflect on, and personalize the material. Whether you are an experienced clinician seeking new depth or a newer therapist curious about symbolic tools, this program offers both theoretical grounding and hands-on application: The goal is for you to leave feeling comfortable and confident integrating tarot into your therapy practice. By the end, you will have an expanded toolkit and a new lens through which to view healing, insight, and transformation.
Note: No prior experience with tarot is required.
This course is based on Dreya Blume’s book, The Clinical Use of Tarot Card Imagery in Psychotherapy (2025) (Amazon link)
Exciting News! The tuition for this 18-hour first-of-its-kind certificate program includes your own PDF copy of Dreya Blume’s three-volume book.
Workshop Objectives

Identify various ways in which visual imagery can be used to address mental health issues
Utilize tarot card imagery for creative expression
Analyze the archetypal uses of tarot card imagery
Apply tarot card imagery to inner critic work
Assess which tarot card activities to use depending on the client population and issue
Create therapeutic applications of tarot card imagery
Identify how to use tarot card imagery for intuitive work with the subconscious
Utilize tarot card imagery for emotional externalization purposes
Describe how to use tarot card imagery for facilitating emotional expression
Apply tarot card imagery to narrative therapy techniques
Describe how tarot card imagery relates to dialogue work as found in Gestalt Therapy
Demonstrate how tarot card imagery relates to parts work
Develop tarot activities that can be used in core values generation
Explain how tarot card imagery can be ethically introduced to clients
Prepare tarot-based activities for clients that are ethically grounded
Explain the ethics behind processing tarot-based activities with clients
Demonstrate how to create and maintain healthy boundaries between the client and the counselor in terms of integrating tarot card imagery into the session
Identify ways to ensure well-defined roles in the professional relationship
Demonstrate cultural competence in terms of identifying the cultural background of tarot
Demonstrate cultural competence in terms of exploring and then integrating clients’ personal relationships with tarot into counseling

Topics covered during the six-week training:

The History of Tarot
The Clinical Benefits of Using Tarot Cards
The “Evidence-Based” Bugaboo
Spiritual/Religious Competency in Therapy
Tarot, Creativity, and Therapy
Tarot Is/As Metaphor
Beyond Metaphor: Pataphor
Projective Tools in Psychotherapy
Carl Jung: Therapeutic Tarot’s Forefather
Shadow Work
The Hero’s Journey
Tarot And/As Visual Imagery in Art Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Psychodrama
EMDR, Visual Imagery, and Metaphoric Cards
Inner Critic Work
Introjections
Parts Work
Chairwork
Solution-Focused Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Poetry Therapy
Introducing Tarot Cards to a Client
Clinical Documentation
Tarot and Professional Ethics
Marketing oneself as a “tarot-friendly therapist”

Six Training Modules: 6-Week Breakdown by Week
Week 1

The History of Tarot
The Clinical Benefits of Using Tarot Cards
The “Evidence-Based” Bugaboo
Spiritual/Religious Competency in Therapy
Tarot, Creativity, and Therapy

Week 2

Tarot Is/As Metaphor
Beyond Metaphor: Pataphor
Projective Tools in Psychotherapy
Carl Jung: Therapeutic Tarot’s Forefather
Shadow Work
The Hero’s Journey

Week 3

Tarot And/As Visual Imagery in Art Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Psychodrama
EMDR, Visual Imagery, and Metaphoric Cards
Inner Critic Work

Week 4

Introjections
Parts Work
Chairwork
Solution-Focused Therapy

Week 5

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Poetry Therapy
Asemic Writing for Healing

Week 6

Introducing Tarot Cards to a Client
Clinical Documentation
Tarot and Professional Ethics
Marketing oneself as a “tarot-friendly therapist”

***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 on April 30th, 2026.

If It’s Not in the Record, It Didn’t Happen – Or Did It? Law and Ethics of Effective Documentation and Record Keeping for Mental Health Professionals
2026-03-13 09:30 - 17:00
Law & Ethics CEs!
If It’s Not in the Record, It Didn’t Happen – Or Did It? Law and Ethics of Effective Documentation and Record Keeping for Mental Health Professionals
Presented by: Eric Ström, PhD, Attorney at Law, LMHC
When: Friday, March 13th, 2026 | 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 Law and Ethics | Cost: $199.00
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Effective record-keeping is vital to effective clinical work and is a key part of sound professional practice. In this workshop, we will examine Washington State and Federal legal standards regarding clinical documentation. We will also discuss documentation best-practices to support effective clinical work while minimizing the risk of liability. Participants will gain an increased understanding of the current standards regarding clinical documentation. This course is intended to meet ethics continuing education requirements
This continuing education workshop will be focused on understanding the sources of law and ethics standards and applying those standards to a range of real-world and hypothetical scenarios.
Through this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to discover the guidance provided by state law, federal law, and a range of applicable ethical codes. In addition to the provided case studies and scenarios, participants are encouraged to share their own experiences, questions, and thoughts.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:

Locate and describe ethical standards relating to clinical documentation
Locate and describe Federal and Washington State legal standards relating to clinical documentation
Create and evaluate strategies to use clinical documentation to best support effective work with clients
Evaluate sufficiency and effectiveness of current documentation strategies.
Apply best practice standards to clinical documentation of work with a range of diverse client populations.

REGISTER HERE

Professional Wills: Why You Need One and How to Create It
2026-03-19 10:00 - 12:00
Law & Ethics CEs!
Professional Wills: Why You Need One and How to Create It
Presented by: Sandy Voit MS, EdS, LMHC, CDFA
When: Thursday, March 19, 2026, 2025 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credits: CEs: 2 Law & Ethics CEs | $65.00
ARE YOU IN BREACH OF YOUR PROFESSIONAL ETHICS?
You have spent your entire professional career securing and storing medical records and ensuring your clients’ confidentiality. What happens to these records when you retire, become disabled, or die?
Did you know that even if you die, your estate could be held responsible for malpractice complaints and legal actions brought about by your failure to anticipate your demise?
For psychologists, your Code of Ethics dictates that you are expected to “make reasonable efforts to plan for facilitating services in the event that psychological services are interrupted by factors such as the psychologist’s illness, death, unavailability, relocation, or retirement…” The same ethical mandate applies to Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Social Workers.
This workshop provides information and examples of how to prepare for such a situation – creating a Professional Will and identifying a Professional Executor to handle the legal and ethical details necessary to protect yourself and your practice. If something happens to you, you need a similarly licensed professional (not your spouse or child) to deal with your clients/patients, confidential records, office leases, obtain releases, make referrals, etc. In addition, your clients/patients will likely need help in their grieving and necessary transition to another therapist.
REGISTER HERE

Clinical Supervision Training: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know
2026-03-25 09:30 - 2026-03-27 14:30
Meets requirements to become an approved clinical supervisor!
Law & Ethics CEs!
Clinical Supervision Training: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know
Presented by: Eric Ström, PhD, Attorney at Law, LMHC
When: Wednesday, March 25th – Friday, March 27th, 2026 | 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM 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 March 31st, 2026.
Please email us at hello@cascadiatraining.org to inquire about possible discounts.
REGISTER HERE
