Continuing Education

Instructor: Kenyuatia L. Gash, DSW, LCSW, BCD, MAC

**Fullfills Ethics Licensure Requirement**  This workshop will review issues regarding mindful application of ethics, which could be further described as the therapist's self-reflection on his or her ability to treat traumatized individuals while maintaining awareness of the challenges and risks involved. 

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Instructor: Tory Butterworth, PhD, LPC

This course will teach tools for identifying peak experiences and using them in therapy with survivors of traumatic events. It will explore how to create peak experiences through practicing the process of flow. Participants will learn ways to transform clients’ traumatic experiences into meaningful events which can help define their life purpose.

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Instructor: Ashley D. Gilmore, LCMHC, NBCC

The goal of this presentation is to recognize how in particular, systemic racism impact African Americans, how clinicians can work to change the counseling profession to be more inclusive and to understand how white clinicians can become aware of their own biases.

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Instructor: Paula Soto LCSW, ERYT,YACEP

**Fullfills Ethics Licensure Requirement** In this workshop, we will share a self care practice that helps to manage and relieve stress and trauma: Dancing Mindfulness ™ was developed by Dr. Jamie Marich, an internationally renowned expert on the treatment of trauma and dissociation. Dancing Mindfulness ™ uses the art form of dance as the primary medium of discovering mindful awareness. Dancing with a respect to the attitudes of mindfulness, participants tap into their body’s own healing resources.

Instructor: Kayti Protos, LCSW

This discussion will highlight how to sift through the literature to determine if the source is credible or designed to delegitimize the TNBI community. Additionally, clinical content surrounding trauma-informed care, healing-centered care, gender minority stressors, and the impact of transphobia on mental health care will be grounded within current best practice and evidence-based care. To note, not all evidence-based methods will be applicable as we are only including those studies that included TNBI people within their research process.

Instructor: Dawn Lehman, BASW, MA

This workshop will introduce and engage the core knowledge and skills required for managing conflicts effectively. Participants will be invited to reflect on their own experiences with conflict and offer examples around which we can collectively sharpen our skills.

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Instructor: Ken Montrose, LPC, CAC 

Instructor: Paula Soto, LCSW, ERYT, YACEP & Andrea Kirkham, ERYT500, AHE, YACEP

This in person training will give you the opportunity to learn  common reasons why trauma often goes undiagnosed and misdiagnosed, and why talk therapy and medication often fail to address the most debilitating symptoms of trauma. Come and learn about how and why yoga, combined with psychotherapy, can be effective in managing and reducing the impact of trauma.

Instructor: KaRon Spriggs-Bethea, LCSW

This course is designed to discuss the barriers and benefits of mental health care in marginalized communities, specifically LGBTQ+ and African American Communities. We will look at the two populations separately and then how the two intersect. This course will include some interactivity utilizing videos and group response questions. 

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Instructor: Arthur Zipris, PhD

This presentation will describe how families tend to organize themselves to balance its togetherness of itself as an organic unit with that of the autonomy of its members (“self”). How a family balances these instincts will tend to support or compromise the capacity of its members to function independently. 

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