Therapeutic Neuroscience Certificate Series: A Brain Science-Based Approach to Cognitive & Somatic Treatment of Common Mental Health Disorders🆕
2026-05-04 09:00 - 2026-06-01 12:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
Popular Certificate Program!
Therapeutic Neuroscience Certificate Series: A Brain Science-Based Approach to Cognitive & Somatic Treatment of Common Mental Health Disorders
Presented by: Hannah Smith, MA, LMHC, CGP
When: Monday, May 4th – Monday, June 1st, 2026 | 4-Week Series | Meets Four Consecutive Mondays except Monday, May 25th | 9:00 pm – 12:15 pm Pacific Time (same time each Monday)
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 12 CEs | $499.00
***see below for payment options
Are you ready for something really different?
As a provider of mental health treatment, it is important to stay informed about the latest advances in treatment. Beyond being a requirement of most licensure boards, research shows that improving practitioner competence decreases burnout and increases job satisfaction!
One of the hottest topics is the integration of neuroscience into mental health treatment. You heard this, and you want to learn more – but it feels daunting and overwhelming in the face of all you have to deal with every day. The prospect just does not sound pleasant.
So, why not make it easier?
Introducing Cascadia’s brain science certificate series!
In keeping with not only teaching to the brain in presentation style, but also in the ability to take in and retain, Cascadia now offers this in a series of three-hour sessions over a few weeks! The benefits are many!
First, the course is separated into four discrete and highly useful sessions:
Week One: Pertinent Therapeutic Neuroscience
Week Two: Applications in Therapeutic Neuroscience
Week Three: Neuroscience-informed Cognitive Approaches
Week Four: Neuroscience-informed Somatic Approaches.
Besides three-hour time blocks being easier to manage than an entire day, you will also have lots of time to think about, try things, and ask questions in between sessions, as skill support inquiries are encouraged!
None of us wants to spend our time learning only to come away tired and feeling that we could not retain what we learned. In this format, you will have the chance to really sink your teeth into the material and build a sense of competence!
All this will take place in the comfort of your own home!
If you have wanted to take your practice to the next level by incorporating cutting-edge neuroscience, then this is the course for you! Whether you aren’t quite sure what the amygdala really is or you are a PhD in Neuropsychology – this practical, application-based course will appropriately challenge and inspire you!
Workshop Objectives:

Learn Pertinent Brain Systems & Structures and Describe Their Practical Application to Clinical Work
Identify & Examine the Neurological Processes Underlying Common Mental Health Disorders, Such as Anxiety, Depression, Personality Disorders & Trauma.
Relate Specific Dysfunctional Behavioral Presentations to Associated Brain Functions to Improve Diagnosis & Pinpoint Effective Treatment Modalities
Apply the Neuroscience-informed Lens to Current Cognitive-based (ACT, CBT, IFS), Mindfulness-based (DBT, MBT), & Somatic-based (EFT, Expressive Therapies) Theories You Already Know Increasing Insights to Improve Treatment Trajectory & Outcomes
Evaluate the differences between amygdala-based and cortex-based symptoms
Apply proven strategies for calming and training the amygdala.
Use Practical Neuroscience-informed Techniques, such as Threat Analysis, to Improve Client Understanding, Compliance, and Outcomes
Convey Difficult Science Terms & Concepts in an Understandable, Client-friendly Manner

PAYMENT OPTIONS
Cascadia 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.
We 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.
For payment plans, you can select paying 50% today and the remaining 50% will automatically be processed from your credit card on the last day of June.
Please email us at hello@cascadiatraining.org to inquire about discounts and scholarships.
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Clinical Supervision Training: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know
2026-05-06 09:30 - 2026-05-08 14:30
Meets requirements to become an approved clinical supervisor!
Law & Ethics CEs!
Clinical Supervision Training: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know
Presented by: Eric Ström, PhD, Attorney at Law, LMHC
When: Wednesday, May 6th – Friday, May 8th, 2026 | 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM Pacific Time each day
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 15 CEs (10 Law & Ethics CEs) | $395.00 (see below for payment options)
This workshop meets the training requirement for becoming an Approved Clinical Supervisor.
Providing supervision can be a rewarding addition to a clinical practice. However, many clinicians are reluctant to become supervisors due to legal and ethical liability concerns. These concerns are often increased by a lack of accurate information about the true risks of liability faced by supervisors.
Through direct instructions, presentation of real-life scenarios, and group discussions, participants will understand the fundamentals of supervision best practices to improve their effectiveness and skill as clinical supervisors.
This three-day, 15-hour supervision workshop is designed to meet the training requirements for Washington State Approved Supervisors.
Objectives:
• Identify and assess sources of significant liability in supervision;
• Construct effective strategies for creating a sound supervision agreement;
• Describe key conceptual frameworks for supervision;
• Compare various theoretical approaches to supervision;
• Contrast various types of supervisory relationships;
• Examine the benefits between group and individual supervision settings;
• Summarize the legal and ethical regulation of supervision;
• Maximize supervisor, supervisee, and client success through supervision structure;
• Integrate regulation and practice to provide quality supervision documentation.
Payment Options
Cascadia 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.
We offer several options to make our workshops cost-inclusive: payment plans and a limited number of discounts for students and early professionals.
For payment plans, you can select paying 50% today and 50% due by May 31st, 2026.
Please email us at hello@cascadiatraining.org to inquire about possible discounts.
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🆕BRAND-NEW! Enduring Relationships: Connection-Driven Tools to Mitigate Separations & Transitions in Foster Care🆕
2026-05-07 09:00 - 12:00
BRAND-NEW!
Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs!
Enduring Relationships: Connection-Driven Tools to Mitigate Separations & Transitions in Foster Care
Presented by: Kristie Baber, MSW, LICSW, CCTP
When: Thursday, May 7th, 2026 | 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 Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $90.00
Despite Julia Robert’s assertion to Richard Gere in Pretty Woman, home is NOT just geography. Most importantly, it’s about relationships – the ones we build, the ones we lose, and the ones we nurture despite the challenges of distance or system involvement.
Dealing with the inherent issues of separation and transition in the foster care system, this workshop will address ways to protect connections, prioritize relationships, and buffer the experience of loss. With a focus on our kids’ experience of the world, we’ll explore the following:

Visits, separations, and transitions with relationships as the focus
Unique exposure to grief & loss
Healthy transitions with tools & resources
Impacts of placement moves at different stages
Effective communication with children
Reconsideration of permanence, family relationships & “open” adoption

The audience for this workshop includes mental health therapists, social workers, caregivers, and any pediatric providers caring for system-involved children. There will be videos and case vignettes to illustrate, as well as tons of tools and resources provided (because your jobs are hard enough!).
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Love What Hurts
2026-05-08 09:00 - 16:30
Back by Popular Demand!
Love What Hurts
Presented by: Lisha Song, LMHC
When: Friday, May 8th, 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 |$190.00
In this workshop, attendees will learn how to notice where emotions are felt in the body from an observer’s point of view, recognize negative beliefs that are attached to these emotions (i.e., “I’m not good enough”), and identify the past events/experiences that are related to these emotions. Attendees will also learn how to neutralize these emotions and negative cognitions through an ego-state practice called the “Clearing Exercise.”
Clinicians who attend will learn techniques to enhance positive feelings, sensations, or beliefs through bilateral stimulation (tapping).
By the end of this one-day training, you will be able to teach your clients these skills, so they can experience self-compassion and clarity of thought, and learn to follow their own inner guidance to make better decisions.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:

Understanding how the body stores past emotional wounding and traumatic experiences, noticing where those emotions are felt specifically in the body by becoming an “observer” of the experience, and learning how to neutralize those feelings and sensations.
Exercising the power of imagination or a “felt sense” and befriending those wounded parts of Self, and learn how to nurture those parts.
Understanding our ever-sophisticated nervous system through the lens of the Polyvagal Theory and utilizing its tools to further our management of it.
Recognizing how negative beliefs about the self manifest over time and become part of our identity.
Learning to awaken the unconscious through the “sixth sense” of intuition and spiritual connection, and adopt more trust in your own inner knowing. When nervous systems are hijacked by emotional triggers, we tend not to trust our intuition.
Feeling more empowered and compassionate when triggers from past experiences hijack the nervous system by practicing Lisha’s Clearing Exercise and teaching it to clients.

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Attachment and the Neurobiology of Relationships
2026-05-14 09:00 - 16:30
Attachment and the Neurobiology of Relationships
Presented by: Kristie Baber, MSW, LICSW, CCTP
When: Thursday, May 15th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the event.
Continuing Education Credits: 6 CEs | $190.00
This workshop focuses on one of the most critical components in mental health, social development, and therapeutic intervention across our lifespan – attachment.
This class will demonstrate that attachment is a journey, rather than the predetermined lifelong limitation a jaded clinical view might indicate. It typifies the astounding adaptability and hope inherent in humans – the reasons we believe in our work as therapists.
This workshop will give therapists and other helping professionals working with all age populations an understanding of attachment theory, patterns and clinical presentations, as well as practical tools to create sustainable and effective therapeutic change. We will explore how attachment develops and evolves across a lifespan, influencing all of our relationships. Teaching modalities will include a mix of clinical discussion, lecture with clinical examples, video illustrations, and individual/group case exercises.
Objectives:

Identify key factors that impact and influence our baseline neurobiology such as brain development, memory systems, and trauma.
Understand attachment theory, as well as attachment patterns and clinical presentations.
Learn the various ways attachment styles impact our lives and all types of relationships.
Recognize attachment as one of core components in the therapeutic relationship.
Discuss attachment-based therapies for children, adolescents, adults, and couples.

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Trauma-Informed Approaches to Addiction and Loss
2026-05-18 09:00 - 12:15
Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs!
Trauma-Informed Approaches to Addiction and Loss
Presented by: Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW
When: Monday, May 18th, 2026| 9:00 AM – 12:15 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 – counts as Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00
Addiction treatment requires clinicians to be knowledgeable about trauma-informed approaches and the impact of loss on addiction. This workshop will present an overview of trauma-informed approaches, including the three E’s of trauma. The relationship between loss and addiction will be explored.
Clinicians will have information on how to ask about trauma and the ways to assess trauma, loss, and spirituality in a clinical setting. Trauma-informed interventions presented include dealing with trauma reminders, somatic experiencing, and appropriate trauma-informed questioning. Learners will discover new perspectives on addiction and loss and obtain valuable resources and clinical recommendations.
Workshop Objectives:

Explain the clinical and relational dynamics of trauma and loss in addiction.
Discover methods of assessing trauma and loss in addiction.
Identify at least three therapeutic interventions to support clients in addiction recovery.

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Motivational Interviewing: Improving Client Outcomes by Increasing Intrinsic Motivation for Change
2026-05-21 09:00 - 16:30
Motivational Interviewing: Improving Client Outcomes by Increasing Intrinsic Motivation for Change
Presented by: Randi Jensen, MA, LMHC, CCDC
When: Thursday, May 21st, 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 | $190.00
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an established evidence-based practice renowned for resolving ambivalence. MI, which originates in substance use disorder treatment, has been shown to enhance client motivation for change and improve treatment outcomes. The spirit of MI complements 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 if their actions, beliefs, and core values align. 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.
This very practical workshop includes learning through lectures, interactive discussions, demonstrations, 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 the efficient use of MI
Randi is an expert in both using and teaching Motivational Interviewing. In addition to her many years of presenting Cascadia Training workshops, she taught Motivational Interviewing courses as an adjunct faculty member at Bastyr University and as Case Management Program Director for Antioch University and Seattle’s Job Initiative. She also uses her expert-level skills in Motivational Interviewing in her private practice, specializing in treating clients with suicidality, suicide ideation, substance use disorders, and more.
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🆕 BRAND-NEW! CBT Strategies for Suicidal Clients 🆕
2026-05-28 09:00 - 12:15
Brand-New!
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Strategies for Suicidal Clients
Presented by: Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW
When: Thursday, May 28th, 2026| 9:00 AM – 12:15 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 | $95.00
NOTE: This workshop does NOT meet the Department of Health suicide assessment CE requirements.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approaches offer effective support and intervention for suicidal clients. Participants will learn the core tenets of the CBT model as it applies specifically to suicidal thinking and behavior, including how cognitive distortions, emotional dysregulation, and behavioral avoidance contribute to acute risk.
Through lecture, case examples, and guided practice, the course demonstrates how clinicians can use CBT’s structured, collaborative, and transparent framework to better understand the drivers of suicidality and create targeted, individualized treatment plans.
The course also explores the concept of the “suicide mode,” helping therapists recognize the cognitive, affective, physiological, and behavioral patterns that become activated during moments of heightened risk. Participants will be introduced to at least five CBT-oriented intervention methods—including cognitive restructuring, behavioral activation, problem-solving training, safety planning, and distress-management skills—that directly support clients in reducing suicidal urges and increasing coping capacity.
Workshop Objectives:

Identify at least four core tenets of the CBT model and the conceptualization of suicide.
Describe key cognitive and behavioral factors that emerge during activation of the suicide mode.
Explain at least five CBT-oriented methods of providing suicide intervention to clients.

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