Cascadia Training for Professional Development

🆕BRAND-NEW! Lunch & Learn: Pandemic Wounds: Understanding and Treating COVID-19 Trauma 🆕
2026-04-20 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
Brand-New!
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs!
Lunch & Learn: Pandemic Wounds: Understanding and Treating COVID-19 Trauma
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, April 20th, 2026 | 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, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs | $25.00
The COVID-19 pandemic has left a profound mark on mental health, producing grief, loss, chronic stress, and collective trauma that continues to affect clients worldwide.
This training introduces psychotherapists to the unique psychological and relational impacts of pandemic-related trauma, exploring both individual and systemic dimensions.
Participants will learn how COVID-19 has shaped coping patterns, resilience, and interpersonal dynamics, while considering ethical and culturally sensitive approaches to treatment.
Through case examples, discussion, and reflective exercises, attendees will explore practical strategies to help clients process pandemic-related experiences, manage lingering stress and anxiety, and rebuild connection and meaning. Therapists will leave with tools for recognizing pandemic trauma, fostering resilience, and integrating these insights into everyday clinical practice.
Workshop Objectives:

Develop an understanding of the psychological, relational, and systemic impacts of COVID-19 trauma.
Learn practical strategies to support clients in processing pandemic-related grief, stress, and anxiety.
Identify ways to integrate awareness of pandemic trauma into assessment, treatment planning, and resilience-building interventions.

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SPECIAL SALE! The Science of Gender & Resistance: Empowering Ourselves and Our Clients with Practical Neuroscience
2026-04-22 09:00 - 12:15
Last-Minute Deal! $30 Off!
Healthy Equity or Cultural Competence CEs!
The Science of Gender & Resistance: Empowering Ourselves and Our Clients with Practical Neuroscience
Presented by: Hannah Smith, MA, LMHC, CGP
When: Wednesday, April 22, 2026| 9:00 am – 12:15 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive workshop details the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 3 Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $95.00 NOW ONLY $65.00!
Gender is a hot-button topic these days, for sure! There is so much dis- and misinformation out there. There is presently no societal consensus on the meaning of gender identity and the plethora of science behind this. Some people will even go so far as to say there is no science and that it’s “All (simply) about chromosomes.”
Many of us know on a gut level this is not true, but we cannot put what we know into words. In fact, even doctors, parents, and transgender and non-binary people themselves can struggle to do so.
Then, even if we could explain it, we face friends, loved-ones, and strangers who belittle, dehumanize, ignore, or shut us down whenever we try to explain. Those who know little to nothing about gender will put their own world views over those of a multitude of experts – even to the point of attempting to erase and entire people group.
At a time when educating society on this important topic is at an all-time high, the resistance we face is not only maddening, it is downright traumatizing. In this training, you will learn the actual (and abundant) science behind gender development.
You will learn to differentiate clearly between sex, gender, and orientation and how to articulate it all in a concise and coherent way.
AND…
You will also learn the biology that underlies the resistance LGBTQIA+ people face when attempting to explain themselves. You will gain a new understanding of what is happening inside “the other side” so you or your clients can manage your own nervous system activation during these difficult discussions. Practical techniques will be added to this new understanding to help with emotion regulation and staying empowered.
Objectives:

1. List and describe the science of gender development and how it differs from sex,
orientation, and other aspects of identity
2. Identify the neurobiological regions in the brain and body responsible for distortions,
implicit bias, and other psychological resistances
3. Explain the neurobiological mechanisms of resistance with the aim of helping clients to
manage their own activation during difficult discussions
4. Apply practical, evidence-based techniques to manage activation and empower more
accurate storytelling during difficult conversations

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The Creative Counselor: Practical Applications of Arts and Crafts in Session
2026-04-24 09:00 - 16:30
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs!
The Creative Counselor: Practical Applications of Arts and Crafts in Session
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Friday, April 24th, 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 2 Law & Ethics, 2 Health Equity, and/or 2 Cultural Competence CEs | $199.00
Creativity is our birthright, and yet that is something so many of our clients struggle with, often having been shamed by parents or teachers.
Yet what might our sessions be like if we provided a safe space for clients to connect with the life force of their creativity?
How might integrating creativity into your clinical work reinvigorate you, as the clinician?
How are the visual arts perfect gateways for clients to explore their deepest intuitive wisdom?
And how can your facilitation of arts and crafts with clients enable you to learn about aspects of their lives that otherwise would be unspoken?
In this interactive, experiential workshop, we will explore the therapeutic uses of various types of visual arts and crafts with different populations. So as to better understand the healing power of creativity first-hand, you’ll have the opportunity to engage in a variety of arts and crafts-making yourself. This will include mandala drawing, ritual creation, exploration of affirmation and oracle card imagery, as well as choosing from a menu of one hundred therapeutic things you can do with blank index cards and markers.
Workshop Objectives:

Understand the history of the use of arts and crafts in counseling
Discuss the therapeutic benefits of arts and crafts
Identify specific clinical applications of arts and crafts, based on a client’s treatment plan
Become familiar with various ways of introducing and utilizing arts and crafts into session
Practice several ways of engaging in creative activities that have a therapeutic purpose
Explore the connections between creativity, artwork, crafting and healing

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