Cascadia Training for Professional Development

SPECIAL SALE! | A Lifetime of Loss: Integrating Heartache and Grief in Adult & Pediatric Clients
2025-10-15 09:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
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A Lifetime of Loss: Integrating Heartache and Grief in Adult & Pediatric Clients
Presented by: Kristie Baber, MSW, LICSW, CCTP
When: Wednesday, October 15th, 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!
From floating goldfish to the truncated relationships of divorce and foster care, losses start early for us. This class will explore the universal experience of grief – the process that attempts to recover meaning following a loss (Brown, 2021) – and the myriad ways in which it can go awry. The wounds of childhood compound as we age and inevitably experience further losses, each echoing the initial pain. In a realistic and lighthearted way, we will address the reality of impermanence and our lifelong effort to adjust. From treating acute grief in childhood to the manifestation of unresolved loss in our adult clients, this class will explore the ways therapists can help integrate the hurts of a lifetime.
This class 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 clinical examples & video illustrations, as well as individual/group case exercises.
Objectives:

Honoring the complexity of human relationships and experiences, recognize that death is only one manifestation of the loss people endure.
Understand the neuropsychological basis for traumatic loss experiences in childhood, how they persist throughout the lifespan, and their impact on clients long after the event occurred.
Identify prolonged grief disorder (also known as complicated grief or traumatic grief) as well as symbolic loss, disenfranchised grief, and ambiguous loss.
Recognize how children’s, tweens’, and teens’ understanding of death and reactions to loss differ from those of adults, and interpret behavioral patterns at different developmental stages.
Implement therapeutic interventions for adults, including Worden’s TEAR model and Shear’s HEALING milestones.
Establish a treatment plan for children experiencing grief and loss, and explore developmentally appropriate therapeutic tools and activities.
Access provided references and resources for further study.

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🆕 SPECIAL SALE! Queering Supervision: Interrogating Power, Privilege, and Practice in Clinical Supervision 🆕
2025-10-16 09:00 - 12:00
LAST-MINUTE DEAL! $45 OFF!
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Counts as Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs and Counts Toward Supervision Training Hours
Queering Supervision: Interrogating Power, Privilege, and Practice in Clinical Supervision
Presented by: Leah Post, LICSW, MSW, MPH
When: Thursday, October 16, 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 CEs – meets criteria for Cultural Competence and/or Health Equity CEs | $99.00 NOW ONLY $55.00!
This 3-hour continuing education training introduces mental health professionals to a queer and intersectional framework for clinical supervision. Far beyond self-disclosure or identity alignment, this approach invites supervisors to critically examine how power, privilege, and systemic oppression shape both the supervisory relationship and broader therapeutic practice. Grounded in queer theory, feminist ethics, and intersectional praxis, this training offers a liberatory reimagining of supervision rooted in relational authenticity and cultural humility.
Participants will explore the ethical tensions, historical erasures, and structural dynamics that often go unnamed in traditional models of supervision. Topics include queer ethical frameworks, the complexity of multiple relationships within small or marginalized communities, and the impact of homonormativity and systemic bias on both clients and clinicians. Through case examples and reflective prompts, participants will assess their own positionality and examine how their identities influence supervisory dynamics.
This course is appropriate for clinical supervisors, therapists, social workers, and other helping professionals who wish to deepen their capacity for ethical, identity-affirming supervision. Participants will leave with concrete tools for integrating queer-informed practices into their supervisory relationships, as well as resources for ongoing growth and consultation.
Participants will also reflect on the limitations of rigid professional boundaries in queer and intersectional contexts, and learn how to navigate ethical dilemmas with nuance, transparency, and collaboration. This course centers the idea that supervision, like therapy, can be a transformative, justice-oriented space when approached with courage, clarity, and care.
OBJECTIVES:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Differentiate between conventional and queer approaches to clinical supervision, particularly in relation to ethics, power dynamics, and authenticity.
Critically assess how supervisors’ and supervisees’ intersecting identities impact the supervision process, and articulate strategies for navigating these dynamics.
Apply queer-informed, intersectional frameworks to common supervisory challenges such as multiple relationships, cultural mismatch, and ethical decision-making.

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