Marriage & Family Therapy 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.

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.

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.

This course will delve into the role of the self in marriage and family therapy, with a focus on self-verification theory and its implications for working with married couples and families in a clinical setting. Participants will explore evidence-based strategies for understanding the self within the context of family dynamics. The course will also address how self-verification processes influence relationship dynamics and familial interactions, shedding light on effective therapeutic interventions.

Clients who are parents often express concerns about how to help their child be prepared to enter Kindergarten. This is often done by focusing on teaching children how to read or count. This course explores why and how allowing children to engage in play, especially child-centered play, is a critical component of fostering educational readiness in children. This course will also teach participants how to teach basic filial play therapy skills to parents/caregivers to promote therapeutic play between parents and children.

This intermediate course provides therapists with foundational knowledge and skills for opening up conversations about sex with children and adolescents. The course outlines sexual development in children and adolescents, discusses fundamentals of effective sex education with youth, and describes methods for ensuring that sex education is both trauma-informed and LGBT-inclusive. Ethical considerations and guidelines for clinical practice are discussed.

This course offers an overview of LGBTQ dating violence, focusing on recognition, identification, and some response strategies. This course explores the unique dynamics and challenges faced by LGBTQ individuals in dating relationships, including barriers to seeking help and accessing support services. In addition, this course will provide strategies for providing culturally competent and inclusive support to LGBTQ survivors, as well as resources available for prevention and intervention.