🆕 BRAND-NEW! Lunch & Learn: Brain Breaks! Easy and Effective Tools for Emotional and Sensory Self-Regulation 🆕
2025-09-15 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
🆕Brand-New Lunch & Learn Series!🆕
Brain Breaks! Easy and Effective Tools for Emotional and Sensory Self-Regulation
Presented by: Sally Carman, OTR/L
When: Monday, September 15th, 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 | $35.00
Mental health providers often encounter clients who live with challenges that involve focus, sensory overload, and energy/emotional regulation. This engaging presentation introduces us to the notion of brain breaks – short, intentional, and customized activities designed to reset both the mind and the body. Such tools are effective and evidence-based, leading toward an increased sense of safety and improved self-regulation.
Participants will learn what regulation actually is, will recognize signs of dysregulation, and will learn how to integrate movement, sensory, and mindful strategies into their practices immediately. You’ll leave this highly engaging, informative, AND fun training with a more comprehensive understanding of how we process sensory information and how we can modify our responses to it with fast, easy, and effective brain breaks!
Our presenter for this brand-new Lunch and Learn workshop brings with her a rare blend of expertise. As an Occupational Therapist with a specialty in mental health, Sally Carman will provide you with a clearer understanding of how our sensory processing system works and how that impacts our ability to self-regulate. Attendees will leave this Lunch and Learn training with greater confidence in the how and why of sensory challenges that can often lead to dysregulation. Attendees will take away easy, fast, and effective tools, including a variety of techniques in how to self-regulate. You will leave this lunchtime training with a new sensory-informed lens and with a toolkit of interventions you can use immediately with your clients—and, very likely, with yourself!
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
By the end of this Lunch and Learn training, attendees will:

Define and explain the purpose of brain breaks as tools leading toward greater safety and self-regulation.
Identify how regulated behavior appears and discern factors that may trigger dysregulation, especially with neurodivergent clients.
Learn a variety of brain break strategies, including those using movement, sensory, and mindful techniques – and recognize when, where, and how to use them.
Develop practical skills for facilitating the implementation of brain breaks during and after treatment sessions to better support our clients’ agency in improving their own self-regulation.

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SOLD OUT - Register for Upcoming Sessions | Navigating Washington’s New Confidentiality Standards for LMHCs, LMFTs, and Social Workers: A 2025 Update
2025-09-18 10:00 - 13:00
This workshop is now sold out.
Please register for future sessions:
Friday, October 24th, 2025: Live in-person on Bainbridge Island: MORE INFO & REGISTER>>>
Friday, February 27th, 2026: Live via Zoom: MORE INFO & REGISTER>>>
🆕BRAND-NEW!🆕
A Must-Take Law & Ethics CE Workshop!
Navigating Washington’s New Confidentiality Standards for LMHCs, LMFTs, and Social Workers: A 2025 Update
Presented by: Eric Ström, PhD, Attorney at Law, LMHC
When: Thursday, September 18th, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 3 Law & Ethics CEs | $99.00
Workshop Description
As of July 27, 2025, the legal framework for confidentiality in behavioral health practice in Washington State will undergo a significant shift. Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHCs), Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs), and Social Workers will now be subject to the standards of RCW 70.02—Washington’s Uniform Health Care Information Act—through its incorporation into RCW 18.225.105.
This three-hour section of the day’s workshop will prepare clinicians for this critical change. Participants will examine how the newly aligned laws alter confidentiality obligations, reshape definitions of protected information, and introduce updated rules around disclosures, client rights, and documentation practices.
Through step-by-step analysis, practical examples, and discussion, this training will equip attendees to confidently navigate the new legal landscape while upholding core ethical principles. This course is intended to meet Washington’s ethics CEU requirement.
Workshop Learning Objectives
After taking part in this training, participants will be able to:

Identify the sources of legal standards relating to confidentiality;
Understand the relationship between Washington State statutes and federal regulations with respect to client confidentiality;
Describe when disclosure of client information is required;
Describe when disclosure of client information is allowed.

🆕BRAND-NEW! Lunch & Learn: The Art of Building Rapport: Ethical Considerations in Constructing and Maintaining the Therapeutic Alliance🆕
2025-09-22 12:00 - 13:30
🆕Brand-New Lunch & Learn Series!🆕
Law & Ethics CEs!
The Art of Building Rapport: Ethical Considerations in Constructing and Maintaining the Therapeutic Alliance
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, September 22nd, 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 Meets Criteria for Law & Ethics CEs | $35.00
A strong therapeutic alliance is one of the most powerful predictors of positive client outcomes—but what does it take to build and sustain genuine rapport? This training explores the art and ethics of establishing trust, attunement, and collaboration in psychotherapy. We will examine the key components of a strong therapeutic alliance, including active listening, cultural humility, and the balance between authenticity and professional boundaries. Through experiential exercises, real-world case discussions, and practical strategies, you will refine your ability to create a safe, supportive, and ethical space where clients feel seen, heard, and empowered in their healing journey.
OBJECTIVES:

Develop an understanding of the core elements of therapeutic rapport and their impact on client outcomes.
Learn ethical considerations in building and maintaining the therapeutic alliance, including boundaries, dual relationships, and cultural competence.
Identify common challenges that can weaken the therapeutic relationship and explore strategies for repairing ruptures.

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🆕 BRAND-NEW! After Hours with Cascadia: Eco-Anxiety and Climate Grief: Supporting Clients in Coping with Climate Distress 🆕
2025-09-23 18:00 - 20:00
🆕 Brand-New “After Hours with Cascadia” Series!🆕
Law & Ethics CEs!
Eco-Anxiety and Climate Grief: Supporting Clients in Coping with Climate Distress
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Tuesday, September 23rd, 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
As the realities of climate change grow more urgent, many clients are experiencing eco-anxiety, climate grief, and existential distress that can deeply impact their mental health. This training will provide you with a comprehensive framework for understanding and addressing the emotional, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of climate-related distress. Together, we will explore how to differentiate eco-anxiety from clinical anxiety, recognize common manifestations of climate grief, and learn therapeutic approaches that validate, contextualize, and help clients transform their distress into meaningful engagement.
This training combines theory, practical tools, and experiential exercises to build confidence in supporting clients facing climate-related emotions. Through case examples and reflective practices, you will develop strategies for helping clients move from overwhelm to agency, integrate eco-emotions into a broader healing process, and cultivate resilience, community connection, and hope even in the face of environmental uncertainty.
This training is ideal for clinicians, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and other helping professionals seeking to better understand and treat clients struggling with climate-related emotional distress. No prior experience with climate-focused therapy required.
OBJECTIVES:

Identify the emotional and psychological manifestations of eco-anxiety and climate grief and their impact on client well-being.
Describe therapeutic frameworks and interventions to help clients process and manage climate-related distress.
Implement strategies that foster resilience, empowerment, and emotional regulation in clients coping with environmental concerns.

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🆕BRAND-NEW! Meets Health Equity Requirements | Enhancing Therapeutic Competence in Religious and Spiritual Sensitivity: An Implicit Bias Training 🆕
2025-09-24 09:00 - 12:00
🆕BRAND-NEW!🆕
Meets New Health Equity or Cultural Competence CE Requirements!
Enhancing Therapeutic Competence in Religious and Spiritual Sensitivity: An Implicit Bias Training
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Wednesday, September 24, 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 Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00
In psychotherapy, a client’s religious and spiritual beliefs can profoundly shape their worldview, coping mechanisms, and sense of identity. However, therapists—regardless of their own faith background or secular perspective—may hold implicit biases that unconsciously influence clinical interactions. This interactive training will help psychotherapists recognize and address implicit biases related to religion and spirituality, fostering greater cultural humility and therapeutic competence. Through guided self-reflection and experiential exercises, participants will explore how implicit assumptions about faith and spirituality can affect assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
This workshop will provide practical strategies for creating an open, affirming therapeutic space that respects diverse religious and spiritual expressions. Participants will learn techniques to uncover their own biases, navigate religious differences ethically, and engage with clients’ beliefs in ways that enhance—not hinder—therapeutic outcomes. Whether working with devout clients, spiritual seekers, or those who have experienced religious trauma, therapists will leave with an expanded capacity to offer culturally responsive care that aligns with their clients’ values and healing processes.
OBJECTIVES:

Define implicit bias
Identify the impact of implicit bias on matters related to religion and spirituality
Recognize how implicit bias surrounding religion and spirituality can impact clinical work
Use strategies to become aware of their own implicit biases in order to avoid them becoming detrimental in the therapeutic relationship

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🆕BRAND-NEW! Lunch & Learn: Journaling Therapy 101: Using Writing as a Therapeutic Tool for Clients🆕
2025-09-29 12:00 - 13:30
🆕Brand-New Lunch & Learn Series!🆕
Journaling Therapy 101: Using Writing as a Therapeutic Tool for Clients
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, September 29th, 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 | $35.00
Writing has the power to heal, offering clients a safe space to process emotions, reframe experiences, and gain deeper self-awareness. But how can therapists harness journaling as an effective therapeutic tool? This experiential training will introduce you to the art and science of journaling therapy, exploring evidence-based writing techniques that support emotional regulation, trauma processing, and cognitive restructuring. You will learn how to tailor journaling exercises to different client needs, navigate potential ethical considerations, and integrate writing practices into various therapeutic modalities. Through hands-on exercises, discussion, and lecture, you will leave equipped with practical journaling interventions to enhance client insight, resilience, and personal growth.
OBJECTIVES:

Develop an understanding of the psychological and neuroscientific benefits of journaling as a therapeutic tool.
Learn different journaling techniques, including expressive writing, gratitude journaling, and cognitive restructuring exercises.
Identify client concerns and presentations where journaling can be particularly beneficial, as well as potential ethical considerations.

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