Cascadia Training for Professional Development

SPECIAL SALE! Lunch & Learn: Trauma-Informed Care: Ethics and Best Practices🆕
2025-11-17 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
LAST-MINUTE DEAL! $10 OFF!
🆕Brand-New Lunch & Learn Series!🆕
Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs!
Trauma-Informed Care: Ethics and Best Practices
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, November 17th, 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 (can be used for law & ethics, health equity, or cultural competence CEs)| $35.00 Now only $25.00!
Trauma is not just an event—it’s a process that affects how individuals view themselves, others, and the world around them. In this introductory training, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of trauma-informed care (TIC), focusing on ethical considerations and best practices for supporting clients who have experienced trauma. We will explore the key principles of TIC, including safety, trust, empowerment, and collaboration, while learning how to create a therapeutic environment that fosters healing and resilience. We will also examine the importance of cultural competence as a part of trauma-informed best practices with clients. Through case discussions, practical exercises, and real-world examples, you will leave with effective tools for integrating trauma-informed approaches into your clinical work, promoting a safe and supportive space for clients to process and heal.
OBJECTIVES:

Develop a foundational understanding of trauma-informed care principles and their application in clinical practice.
Learn ethical considerations for working with trauma survivors, including boundaries, cultural sensitivity, and safety, as well as cultural competence.
Identify signs of trauma and its impact on mental health, relationships, and coping strategies in clients.
Practice applying trauma-informed interventions to create a safe, supportive environment that promotes healing and resilience in clients.

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SPECIAL SALE! After Hours with Cascadia: Gratitude as a Healing Tool: How to Ethically Incorporate Gratitude Practices into Therapy 🆕
2025-11-18 18:00 - 20:00
LAST-MINUTE DEAL! $40 OFF!
🆕 Brand-New “After Hours with Cascadia” Series!🆕
Law & Ethics CEs!
Gratitude as a Healing Tool: How to Ethically Incorporate Gratitude Practices into Therapy
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Tuesday, November 18th, 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 CEs | $75.00 Now only $35.00!
Workshop Description
What if a simple shift in perspective could transform your clients’ healing journey? Gratitude is more than just a feel-good practice—it’s a powerful, evidence-based tool that rewires the brain, builds emotional resilience, and fosters posttraumatic growth.
This training explores the profound impact of gratitude in therapy, equipping you with practical strategies to help your clients reframe negative experiences, cultivate positive emotions, and break free from cycles of anxiety, depression, and burnout.
We will examine the psychological and neuroscientific foundations of gratitude, engage in experiential exercises, and learn how to seamlessly integrate gratitude-based interventions into clinical work, empowering clients to embrace a more meaningful and fulfilling life.
Workshop Objectives

Develop an understanding of the psychological and neurological benefits of gratitude in the context of mental health and healing.
Learn evidence-based gratitude interventions that can be integrated into different therapeutic approaches.
Practice facilitating gratitude-based exercises to enhance emotional regulation, cognitive flexibility, and overall well-being in clients.

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Treating Long Covid, Chronic Pain, Tinnitus, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity with EMDR and Vagal Calming
2025-11-19 09:00 - 12:00
Treating Long Covid, Chronic Pain, Tinnitus, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity with EMDR and Vagal Calming
Presented by: Robin Shapiro, LICSW
When: Wednesday, November 19th, 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.
CE Credit Hours: 3 EMDRIA approved (EC Program Approval Number: #00002-50)| $99.00
EMDR is a widely known and effective method of treating and eradicating the neurological manifestations of chronic pain and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). In addition, our presenter, Robin Shapiro–a highly-respected EMDR practitioner and in-demand global presenter in EMDR and its clinical applications–has discovered that EMDR can also provide relief from many of the symptoms of Long Covid, including tinnitus.
Participants will learn how to use EMDR, vagal exercises, and imaging to ease, and often completely clear the experiences of chronic pain, tinnitus, Long Covid, and MCS.
The workshop includes lecture, a video, a demonstration, and practice exercises.
Objectives:

Participants can distinguish between physiological and neurological symptoms.
Participants can complete EMDR Standard Protocol treatment on the appropriate targets for onset of the problem.
Participants can utilize Silencing the Alarm, Negative Breathing, and Grounding techniques for vagal calming.
Participants can assist clients to discover and utilize visual tools for vagal calming.
Participants can utilize EMDR future templates to coach clients to use vagal calming techniques when symptoms reappear.
Participants can support both short-term and longer-term clients with neurological symptoms.

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

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

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🆕BRAND-NEW! Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Deep Dive into Values and Beliefs🆕
2025-11-20 09:00 - 16:30
🆕BRAND-NEW! 🆕
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Deep Dive into Values and Beliefs
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Thursday, November 20th, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs | $190.00
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) combines mindfulness strategies with the elicitation of core values. The goal of ACT is to help clients create a workable relationship with their thoughts and feelings, while living a life filled with meaning and purpose.
In this interactive and experiential training, you’ll learn the philosophy behind ACT. The focus, however, will be on the “values” aspect of this therapeutic modality. We will take an in-depth look into the connection between personal values and creating a life worth living. We will also explore how our belief system can influence what we value. This is an important component of the training, because if our clients understand their limiting beliefs, they will avoid sabotaging themselves in their quest for a meaningful life.
During the training, you’ll learn exactly how to assist clients in discovering what they value in the world, and how they can begin aligning their lives with what is truly important to them. To that end, you’ll be practicing a wide variety of practical skills that you can immediately begin using with clients.
Since this will be a hands-on experience, please be sure to bring a notebook with you. In addition, we will be using the presenter’s workbook, “A Life of Meaning and Purpose: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guided Journal for Exploring Beliefs and Connecting with Values,” which will be provided to each participant.
Objectives:

Understand the role of value identification in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Understand how limiting beliefs influence the elicitation and execution of value-directed behavior
Identify the components of core values, in terms of their definition and use in ACT
Discuss how to best assist clients in accessing core values
Learn a variety of ways to teach clients how to elicit core values
Practice ways to explore core values
Explore the relationship between core values and ACT’s strategy of “committed action”

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SOLD OUT! Register for Upcoming Sessions | Menopause and Mental Health: Navigating the Challenges from Perimenopause to Post-Menopause
2025-11-21 09:00 - 16:30
This workshop is now sold out.
Please register for one of the upcoming 2026 sessions of this workshop:

February 20, 2026 | Live via Zoom: https://cascadia-training.com/course/menopause-and-mental-health-february-2026/
June 19, 2026 | Live in-person in Shoreline, WA: https://cascadia-training.com/course/menopause-and-mental-health-june-2026/
September 18, 2026 | Live in-person in Shoreline, WA: https://cascadia-training.com/course/menopause-and-mental-health-september-2026/
November 6, 2026 | Live via Zoom: https://cascadia-training.com/course/menopause-and-mental-health-november-2026/

To be placed on the wait list for this workshop, please email us your email and phone number (email: hello@cascadiatraining.org).
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, November 21st, 2025 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs (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.

SPECIAL SALE! Motivational Interviewing: Improving Client Outcomes by Increasing Intrinsic Motivation for Change
2025-11-21 09:00 - 16:30
SPECIAL SALE! $50 OFF!
Motivational Interviewing: Improving Client Outcomes by Increasing Intrinsic Motivation for Change
Presented by: Randi Jensen, MA, LMHC, CCDC
When: Friday, November 21st, 2025 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs | $190.00 Now ONLY $140.00
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an established evidence-based practice renowned for resolving ambivalence. MI, which has its origins in the field of substance abuse treatment, has been shown to enhance client motivation for change and improve treatment outcomes. The spirit of MI is complementary with Self-Determination Theory (SDI), which asserts that people have an intrinsic desire to make life changes congruent with their core values. SDI states that people are more likely to be internally motivated when their actions, beliefs, and core values are aligned. Motivational Interviewing provides the technique to make that happen.
The principles of Motivational Interviewing include providing accurate empathy, building discrepancy, rolling with resistance, and increasing self-efficacy. These supply the basis for building intrinsic motivation for change and can facilitate the resolution of life-threatening ambivalence in suicidality.
Researchers Britton, Williams, and Connor (2008) show how the therapist’s proficiency in Motivational Interviewing can resolve a client’s ambivalence and resistance to change.
Learning opportunities in this workshop include lectures, interactive discussions, video role-plays, and skill-building through group exercises. These methods combine to provide techniques and interventions that can be applied immediately.
Objectives:

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

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