CE Courses for Counseling

This webinar explores attachment theory and its lifelong impact. Participants learn to describe childhood attachment formation and apply this understanding to analyze rejection sensitivity in adult romantic relationships. By examining how attachment styles and rejection sensitivity influence relationship outcomes, participants gain valuable insights to improve personal and professional interactions through a deeper understanding of attachment dynamics.

In this course, central paradigms of Western societies will be explored in relation to their impact on social, emotional, and mental health. The influence of Western culture on medical models is discussed, including its impact on shaping how mental illness is viewed and addressed in society.

The impact of early developmental trauma can have devastating effects on children throughout childhood and well into adulthood. This webinar seeks to examine how trauma organizes into the developing brain and addresses strategies for trauma-informed intervention.

The separation of children from their families and placement in foster care is a traumatic experience for both children and parents. When children are separated from their parents and placed in care, they are not only separated from their parents but often separated from siblings, communities, schools, etc. This webinar explores the impact that separation has on children with a specific emphasis on the ways that children often adapt to family separation and foster care placement.

Sand Tray therapy with young children frequently looks different than it does with older clients. In this course, participants will learn how to utilize sand tray and child-centered play therapy as well as directive techniques to support children in building emotional regulation and coping skills through the use of play.

While many often think of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as mainly impacting children and adolescents, millions of adults are affected by ADHD in adulthood. Living with ADHD can have adverse outcomes in many domains, such as employment, family life, and other relationships. This training will provide a framework to understand the complexities and multi-faceted nature of ADHD in adults while giving practical and evidence-based strategies to support adult clients with ADHD and their loved ones.

This course is the second course of a two-part series that focuses on the powerful topic of shame, offering mental health practitioners insights and tools to support clients in overcoming shame-related challenges. Participants explore the underlying causes of and expressions of shame, cultural and societal influences on shame, the role shame plays in sustaining oppression, the relationship between shame and addiction, and a range of modalities available for effective practice.

This course will identify best intervention practices to assist clinicians with how to properly navigate mothers who have experienced PPD and parental loss. In addition, it will identify implications for practice and recommendations when working with postnatal patients.

Behavioral health clinicians often provide services and support to children and adolescents with disabilities and their families. This course focuses on understanding Special Education areas of eligibility, emphasizing understanding and helping families navigate school-based services and supports. In addition, considerations and implications for practice are explored.

Sand tray therapy is a form of expressive therapy that supports clients of all ages in expressing their feelings and experiences without requiring verbal language. In this course, participants will learn about the benefits of this form of therapy for clients of all ages and how the use of metaphor can support deeper, limbic-level processing of emotions and experiences. Participants will also learn the basic components and logistics of utilizing sand tray therapy in clinical practice.