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SUMMARY:Therapeutic Boundaries: The Ethics of Creating Clarity\, Safety\, and Trust in Clinical Work
DESCRIPTION:Meets Professional Roles & Boundaries\nCE requirements!\nTherapeutic Boundaries: The Ethics of Creating Clarity\, Safety\, and Trust in Clinical Work\nPresented by: Dreya Blume\, LCSW\nWhen: Wednesday\, August 19th\, 2026 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time\nWhere: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.\nContinuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 3 CEs Meets Criteria for Professional Roles and Boundaries CEs or Law & Ethics CEs | $99.00\nClear\, ethical boundaries are essential for fostering safety\, trust\, and effective therapeutic relationships. This continuing education workshop introduces psychotherapists to the principles of establishing and maintaining professional boundaries while navigating complex clinical scenarios. \nParticipants will explore how boundary clarity supports client well-being\, enhances trust\, and prevents ethical dilemmas\, while examining the subtle ways boundaries can be challenged or blurred in practice. \nThrough case examples\, discussion\, and reflective exercises\, attendees will learn practical strategies for communicating\, negotiating\, and maintaining boundaries with clients. Therapists will leave with tools to create a safe and ethical therapeutic environment\, strengthen professional integrity\, and foster collaborative\, trust-based client relationships. \nWorkshop Objectives:\n\nDevelop an understanding of the ethical principles and importance of maintaining clear therapeutic boundaries.\nLearn strategies for establishing\, communicating\, and maintaining boundaries in clinical practice.\nIdentify ways to navigate boundary challenges to ensure safety\, trust\, and ethical integrity in therapy.\n\nREGISTER HERE\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://cascadia-training.com/course/therapeutic-boundaries-august-2026/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ethics,Professional Roles & Boundaries
ORGANIZER;CN="Dreya Blume%2C LCSW (she/her)":MAILTO:dreyablume@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260826T090000
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SUMMARY:💲SPECIAL SALE!💲Narrative Therapy as Transformational Practice: Re-Authoring the Soul 🆕
DESCRIPTION:💲Last-Minute Deal! $50 Off!💲\nBRAND-NEW!\nNarrative Therapy as Transformational Practice: Re-Authoring the Soul\nPresented by: Dreya Blume\, LCSW\nWhen: Wednesday\, August 26th\, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM\, Pacific Time\nWhere: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.\nContinuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs | $190.00 Now Only $140.00!\nNarrative therapy invites us to view problems as separate from people and identity as something shaped through story\, culture\, and relationship. This day-long continuing education training offers clinicians a deep dive into the philosophical foundations and clinical applications of narrative therapy\, including externalization\, mapping the influence of the problem\, re-authoring conversations\, and definitional ceremonies. Participants will explore how dominant cultural narratives around pathology\, productivity\, trauma\, and identity influence both clients and clinicians — and how narrative practices can gently disrupt those scripts. \nThis training is highly experiential. Clinicians will leave with immediately usable interventions\, sample language for sessions\, and a deeper awareness of how their own professional identities are shaped by story. The emphasis throughout the day is on practical skill-building\, relational witnessing\, and reclaiming therapeutic conversations as spaces of possibility\, agency\, and meaning-making. \nWorkshop Objectives:\nBy the end of this training\, participants will be able to: \n\nDescribe the philosophical foundations of narrative therapy\, including social constructionism\, externalization\, and the role of power in shaping identity narratives.\nDemonstrate the use of externalizing language to separate clients from problem-saturated stories in clinical conversations.\nApply re-authoring techniques to help clients identify unique outcomes and develop preferred identity narratives.\nFacilitate at least one structured experiential narrative intervention (e.g.\, definitional ceremony\, therapeutic letter writing\, or story-mapping exercise).\nAnalyze how cultural\, systemic\, and contextual factors influence dominant narratives impacting clients’ lives.\nIntegrate narrative practices into their existing clinical orientation while maintaining ethical and culturally responsive care.\n\nREGISTER HERE\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://cascadia-training.com/course/narrative-therapy-august-2026/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Last-Minute Deals
ORGANIZER;CN="Dreya Blume%2C LCSW (she/her)":MAILTO:dreyablume@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Now $100 Off! Becoming a Neurodivergent-Affirming Clinician: Understanding ADHD and Autism through a Strengths-Based\, Neurodivergent-Affirming Lens
DESCRIPTION:Now $100 Off!\nLaw & Ethics\, Health Equity\,\nand Cultural Competence CEs!\nBecoming a Neurodivergent-Affirming Clinician: Understanding ADHD and Autism through a Strengths-Based\, Neurodivergent-Affirming Lens\nPresented by: B Lourenco\, MA\, LMHC\nWhen:  This course will be held for six consecutive Wednesdays: August 26th through September 30th\, 2026\, from 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern\n\nWednesday\, August 26th\, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern\nWednesday\, September 2nd\, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern\nWednesday\, September 9th\, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern\nWednesday\, September 16th\, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern\nWednesday\, September 23rd\, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern\nWednesday\, September 30th\, 2026 | 10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm Eastern\n\nWhere: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the event.\n18 CEs (12 CEs can be used for Cultural Competence or Health Equity CEs\, and 6 can be used for Law & Ethics CEs) | $599.00 Now Only $499.00 *** (see below for payment options)\nAs 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. \nThis 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. \nEspecially 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? \nMany 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. \nWith 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. \nUpon 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! \nWoven 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. \nThis 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. \nCertificate Program Weekly Modules: \nWeek 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. \nWeek 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. \nWeek 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. \nWeek 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. \nWeek 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. \nWeek 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. \nOther topics that will be covered in this practice- and life-altering certificate program series include\, but are not limited to: \n\nAlexithymia and Dysthymia\nARFID\nMisophonia\nGender and sexuality in the ADHD and Autistic communities\nThe role of menstruation on ADHD and Autistic brains\nInterdependence vs codependence and/or independence\nMyths and stigmas about neurodivergent people\nExperiences of abuse in neurodivergent people\nPervasive Desire for Autonomy (PDA)\n\n***Payment Options:\nCascadia 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. \nWe 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. \nFor payment plans\, you can select paying 50% today and 50% due on September 30\, 2026. \nREGISTER HERE\n  \n 
URL:https://cascadia-training.com/course/becoming-a-neurodivergent-affirming-clinician-august-2026/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cultural Competence,Ethics,Health Equity,Last-Minute Deals,Neurodiversity
ORGANIZER;CN="B Lourenco%2C MA%2C LMHC (she/her)":MAILTO:blourencotherapy@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261005T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261005T130000
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SUMMARY:Ethics Awareness and Application to Clinical Practice
DESCRIPTION:Law & Ethics CEs!\nEthics Awareness and Application to Clinical Practice\nPresented by: Bruce J. Spencer\, PhD\, MA\, LMHC\, LMSW\, NCC\nWhen: Monday\, October 5th\, 2026| 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM\, Pacific Time\nWhere: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.\nContinuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved CEs): 4 Law & Ethics CEs | $109.00\nContinuing Education Workshop Description:\nThis continuing education workshop is designed to examine ethical codes and their application in practice. Participant interaction is strongly encouraged\, as ethical codes often prompt deeper questions of “what if?” and gray-area interpretations. As mental health professionals\, we are acutely aware of the necessity to maintain ethical standards. Many clinicians have not read the standards recently and risk making subtle clinical judgment errors.  Open discussion\, critical analysis\, and interaction are encouraged in this seminar. \nContinuing Education Workshop Objectives:\n\nParticipants will be able to discern rationalizations that impede ethical practice\nParticipants will understand the difference between ethical and legal practice issues\nParticipants will understand the concept of boundary crossings vs. ethical violations\nParticipants will be able to apply ethical decision-making steps.\n\nREGISTER HERE\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://cascadia-training.com/course/ethics-awareness-and-application-to-clinical-practice-october-2026/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ethics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261014T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261014T120000
DTSTAMP:20260310T184832Z
CREATED:20260310T184621Z
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SUMMARY:Therapeutic Boundaries: The Ethics of Creating Clarity\, Safety\, and Trust in Clinical Work
DESCRIPTION:Meets Professional Roles & Boundaries\nCE requirements!\nTherapeutic Boundaries: The Ethics of Creating Clarity\, Safety\, and Trust in Clinical Work\nPresented by: Dreya Blume\, LCSW\nWhen: Wednesday\, October 14th\, 2026 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time\nWhere: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.\nContinuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 3 CEs Meets Criteria for Professional Roles and Boundaries CEs or Law & Ethics CEs | $99.00\nClear\, ethical boundaries are essential for fostering safety\, trust\, and effective therapeutic relationships. This continuing education workshop introduces psychotherapists to the principles of establishing and maintaining professional boundaries while navigating complex clinical scenarios. \nParticipants will explore how boundary clarity supports client well-being\, enhances trust\, and prevents ethical dilemmas\, while examining the subtle ways boundaries can be challenged or blurred in practice. \nThrough case examples\, discussion\, and reflective exercises\, attendees will learn practical strategies for communicating\, negotiating\, and maintaining boundaries with clients. Therapists will leave with tools to create a safe and ethical therapeutic environment\, strengthen professional integrity\, and foster collaborative\, trust-based client relationships. \nWorkshop Objectives:\n\nDevelop an understanding of the ethical principles and importance of maintaining clear therapeutic boundaries.\nLearn strategies for establishing\, communicating\, and maintaining boundaries in clinical practice.\nIdentify ways to navigate boundary challenges to ensure safety\, trust\, and ethical integrity in therapy.\n\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://cascadia-training.com/course/therapeutic-boundaries-october-2026/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ethics,Professional Roles & Boundaries
ORGANIZER;CN="Dreya Blume%2C LCSW (she/her)":MAILTO:dreyablume@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261022T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261022T133000
DTSTAMP:20260619T190218Z
CREATED:20260619T190036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260619T190218Z
UID:44464-1792661400-1792675800@cascadia-training.com
SUMMARY:🆕 BRAND-NEW! The Relational Dance of Emotional Dependence 🆕
DESCRIPTION:Brand-New!\nMeets Professional Roles & Boundaries CE Requirements!\nThe Relational Dance of Emotional Dependence\nPresented by: Kristie Baber\, MSW\, LICSW\, CCTP\nWhen: Thursday\, October 22nd\, 2026 | 9:30 am – 1:30 pm Pacific Time\nWhere: Live via Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link via email the week of the workshop.\nContinuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 4 CEs\, including 2 Professional Roles & Boundaries CEs | Cost: $109.00\nContinuing Education Workshop Description:\nWe’ve all learned that codependence is a bad word – but what if that is an oversimplification of an otherwise healthy continuum of emotional dependence? \nIn this continuing education workshop\, we will define and understand dependence\, codependence\, and interdependence without fatalism or gaslighting. This training will provide an overview of human attachment and how both our drive for connection and our tolerance for it are established in our early years. \nWith compassion\, we’ll explore the dynamics of overreliance and discuss what codependence actually is (and\, equally important\, what it is not). We’ll also acknowledge the gold standard of interdependence and how to assist clients in developing and repairing relationships to that end. Most relevantly\, we will address treatment planning and provide practical tools to leverage therapeutic change for our clients struggling in relationships – with themselves and others. \nThis continuing education workshop is designed for practicing therapists with clients of all ages. The workshop will be conducted in a Zoom format\, and teaching modalities will include a mix of clinical discussion\, lecture with case examples and video illustrations\, as well as individual exercises. \nContinuing Education Workshop Objectives:\n\nUnderstand attachment patterns and clinical presentations of emotional dependency in friendships\, intimate relationships\, parenting\, and family systems.\nAppreciate interpersonal dependency as a healthy relational system.\nRecognize common client histories and red flags that typify codependency.\nConfront the dynamics of overreliance – vulnerability\, validation\, and interpersonal control.\nConsider establishing healthy boundaries as a key strategy for maintaining identity and addressing unhealthy boundary profiles\, including nonexistent\, weak or poorly expressed\, and rigid boundaries.\nUnderline professional boundaries in our role as therapists with a clinical population that may be struggling in this area.\nProvide strategies for clients to navigate and repair inevitable relational ruptures as well as develop other skills that promote healthy interpersonal dependency.\n\nREGISTER HERE\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://cascadia-training.com/course/the-relational-dance-of-emotional-dependence-october-2026/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Professional Roles & Boundaries
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261112T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261114T163000
DTSTAMP:20260520T203223Z
CREATED:20260318T143331Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260520T203223Z
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SUMMARY:Now $100 Off! Becoming a Neurodivergent-Affirming Clinician: Understanding ADHD and Autism through a Strengths-Based\, Neurodivergent-Affirming Lens
DESCRIPTION:Now $100 Off!\nLaw & Ethics\, Health Equity\,\nand Cultural Competence CEs!\nBecoming a Neurodivergent-Affirming Clinician: Understanding ADHD and Autism through a Strengths-Based\, Neurodivergent-Affirming Lens\nPresented by: B Lourenco\, MA\, LMHC\nWhen:  This continuing education workshop series will be held for three consecutive days: Thursday\, November 12th\, through Saturday\, November 14th\, from 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific / 12:00 pm – 7:30 pm Eastern\nWhere: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the event.\nContinuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 18 CEs (12 CEs can be used for Cultural Competence or Health Equity CEs\, and 6 can be used for Law & Ethics CEs) | $499.00 *** (see below for payment options)\nAs technology advances and mental health education becomes increasingly available\, the population has become more self-aware. The world is changing quickly\, and with it\, more and more people realize that their brains work differently from others. \nDue 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 who 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 from 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. \nThis continuing education 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. \nEspecially 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 reporting that they now have issues not only with taste and smell but also with a range of visual\, hearing\, tactile\, balance\, and internal bodily sensations they never experienced before\, as well as difficulties with attention and memory. This begs the question: have these brain differences always been there\, or have they now been sensitized or magnified by exposure to COVID and months-long isolation? \nMany adults are now recognizing they are not alone and are demanding that 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 long suspected: their brains work differently from those of their peers\, families\, and friends. \nWith 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. \nUpon completion of this series\, participants will have a deeper understanding of ADHD and Autism through the Neurodiversity Affirming Paradigm\, which focuses on strengths and differences\, not disorders\, diagnoses\, or deficits! \nWoven 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 underdiagnosis 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. \nThis 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. \nCertificate Program Daily Modules \nDay One:   \n\nSensory 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.\nCommunication 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.\n\nDay Two:   \n\nAttending 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.\nSocial 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.\n\nDay Three:  \n\nDifferentials 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.\nThe 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.\n\nOther topics that will be covered in this practice- and life-altering certificate program series include\, but are not limited to: \n\nAlexithymia and Dysthymia\nARFID\nMisophonia\nGender and sexuality in the ADHD and Autistic communities\nThe role of menstruation on ADHD and Autistic brains\nInterdependence vs codependence and/or independence\nMyths and stigmas about neurodivergent people\nExperiences of abuse in neurodivergent people\nPervasive Desire for Autonomy (PDA)\n\n***Payment Options:\nCascadia 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. \nWe 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. \nFor payment plans\, you can select paying 50% today and 50% due on November 30\, 2026. \nREGISTER HERE\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://cascadia-training.com/course/becoming-neurodivergent-affirming-clinician-november-2026/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cultural Competence,Ethics,Health Equity,Neurodiversity
ORGANIZER;CN="B Lourenco%2C MA%2C LMHC (she/her)":MAILTO:blourencotherapy@gmail.com
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