Continuing Education

Instructor: Tanika Johnson, Ed.D., M.A., LPC-MHSP, LMHC, NCC, BC-TMH, CCTP,

Instructor: Tanika Johnson, Ed.D., M.A., LPC-MHSP, LMHC, NCC, BC-TMH, CCTP,

**Can be registered as a bundle with Assessing Challenging Behaviors **Course Description:
Assessing Challenging Behaviors with Functional Behavioral Assessments is Part I of the Promoting Positive Behaviors: Cultivating a School-Wide Climate of Change for Student Success IV Part Series. Throughout this course, participants will develop an in-depth understanding of assessing for challenging behaviors in children using the Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) process.

Treatment for women at mid-life is not the same as for younger clients. This course will discuss mid-life eating disorders, age-appropriate treatment strategies and provide a blueprint for working with clients with these diagnose

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For full Continuing Education Schedule please visit the CE webpage.

This three-hour training will help you understand the common problems we see that queer youth in schools face on a regular basis. There will be psychoeducation around different LGBTQIA+ identities and how they can manifest in children and adolescents. 

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For full Continuing Education Schedule please visit the CE webpage.

Trauma is the response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope. It causes feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, diminishes a person’s sense of self and their ability to feel the full range of experiences and emotions. It can be caused by a variety of events, including but not limited to; the untimely death of a loved one, neighborhood violence, domestic violence, chronic pain, natural disasters, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, and military combat.

This training will focus on exploring the therapeutic process with couples. The training will discuss couple’s work from a systemic lens and how to engage with couple’s in an effective manner. Clinicians will explore the ways that systemic couple’s work differs from the individual and family setting. 

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Through our own embodiment, presence and intention, we can attune to this field and generate impactful interventions for our clients. Rather than the practitioner being the holding environment, we become aware that the holding environment is the field itself. This interactive workshop invites you delve into your own bodily experience and how you approach your therapeutic/healing work.

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During this six-hour training, participants will gain a broader understanding LGBTQIA+ identities, highlighting the nuances of gender and sexual identities. We will discuss risk factors for mental illness, psychopathology, and disparities to finding affirming care. Participants will also be challenged to think about how they can change the landscape for accessing affirming care.

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Prochaska & DiClemente’s Stages of Change Theory is a highly researched model that is helpful when working with clients with mental health and/or substance use disorders with various cultural backgrounds. This training will review the various processes of change, as well as techniques to help clients move forward in their overall recovery.

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Through twitter hashtags created by Black Twitter, we have learned to survive the quarantined life we are living in this moment. Yet, while social media has the implications to mentally drain us, it is in these moments that social media grounds us, connects us and encourages us. Utilizing a narrative approach, this conversation will allow us to work through the daily trauma of reliving these deaths but adds joy and creates hope for tomorrow.

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