🆕BRAND-NEW! Mindfulness with Ethics in Mental Health Care 🆕
2026-01-16 09:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
🆕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.

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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

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