Live CE Webinars for Mental Health Professionals

Overview: Join Dr. Tim Victorella, as we take a closer look at crisis. Participants will gain deeper insight surrounding deconstructing the "crisis brain", effective formulas for de-escalation, helping practitioners approach crisis situations with confidence, and explore the role of nonverbal cues in overcoming crisis events.

Overview: In this course, Karen Landmann, LCSW, will explore the multifaceted issue of video game addiction, examining its impact on individuals, families, and society. Participants will delve into the psychobiology of gaming and addiction, understanding how these factors influence client behavior. The course will also analyze the socio-economic implications of video game addiction and its impact on various segments of society. Furthermore, participants will gain insights into the countertransference phenomenon in treating gaming addiction, learning to recognize and manage their own emotional responses. Finally, the course will equip participants with a practical framework for developing effective treatment plans to assist clients struggling with video game addiction.

Overview: CE You! welcomes back therapist, author and lecturer Rev. Dr. Karen Herrick as we study the spiritual side of Jungian psychology. Participants will be able to better comprehend differences between Freudian Psychology and Jungian Analytical Psychology, the relevance of Jungian Analytical approaches in understanding the life problems social workers address, Jung’s views on religion and the spiritual experience.

Overview: Join Dr. Michell A. Greenidge as we explore the features and corresponding behaviors associated with Implicit Bias. In this eye-opening discussion, participants will identify the social and systemic ramifications of Implicit Bias, including its impact on healthcare and related systems, study the historical and biological context and origin of biases and their impact on daily personal and professional interactions, as well as gain tools to help bring implicit biases into conscious awareness.

Overview: Take a deep breath and dive into a calm oasis with Shoshana Averbach, LMSW; MA! This webinar is your passport to equipping clients with powerful tools to combat stress and cultivate inner peace, even when the world feels like it’s spinning out of control. Participants will conceptualize the benefits and harmful effects of stress on the brain and body, differentiate between the characteristics of eustress (helpful) vs harmful stress, and study resilience and creativity as protective factors against the harmful effect of stress.

Overview: Structural racism has been endemic in North America since before the formation of the United States of America. Even though structural racism, most particularly anti-Black structural racism, is historically rooted and systematically sustained, we continually seek to combat it with the “one bad apple” approach. This presentation will expand our view from a micro, or individual level, to a macro, or group level, understanding of racism. Participants will examine structural racism as a form of inequity and systemic disadvantage that yields disparate access to resources, opportunities, and life outcomes. Participants will be guided in defining and framing structural racism in association with the ways in which policies, practices, and institutions produce and sustain racial disparities. Particular attention will be given to the concept of community trauma, highlighting how structural inequities adversely impacts predominately Black communities. Structural competency will be introduced as a practical framework for combating structural racism, mitigating its impact, and promoting equity.

Overview: Design and align the building blocks of client session plans with Katie Bingner, LCPC! In this live-interactive webinar, Katie shares her experience and methods for navigating chaos, and creating a vital framework for effective client sessions. This course will help practitioners from a variety of backgrounds conceptualize the direct impact of flexible structure on clinical outcomes, identify and express clinical terminology for specific client behaviors that can derail a session, and draw upon key therapeutic interventions to assist with focus and redirection. Participants will also enjoy an opportunity to come away with a customized session structure template of your own!

Overview: Without perspective and analysis, it can be easy to lose direction and find ourselves governed by feelings and emotions instead of the greater values and goals that drive us. Join clinical social worker Lisa DeLuca, LCSW, as we gain tools and interventions to assist clients to better understand the function of feelings, especially when they become difficult to navigate. This course will show participants how to provide psycho-education to clients about feelings and how to help clients leverage their feelings to create the life they want. We’ll look at the process of feelings management and learn brief, micro intervention techniques rooted in DBT, CBT, mindfulness and more, as well as strategies for empowering clients by better ensuring their understanding of these processes and working past moments of stickiness. Looking at feelings through a trauma-informed lens will be discussed as well as key myths and misperceptions about feelings.

Overview: Broaden your crisis response repertoire with Dr. Tim Victorella, DHPE, MSW, QMHP! This three-hour interactive course will offer participants insight and perspectives around the heightened state of crisis as it relates to as well as brain-body connection, verbal vs non-verbal communication, rapport building & motivational interviewing, as well as techniques surrounding trauma informed practices, and additional ways to engage with children and adolescents in crisis situations. The importance of multidisciplinary collaboration will also be discussed, in addition to helpful modalities for incident de-briefing.

Overview: Study the ethical imperatives that inform and guide the delicate balance of managerial, supervisory, and clinical obligations within organizational policy and decision-making. Nicole DelPrete, LMSW, delves into the why and how of effective supervision and working relationships, and the values that create a compassionate culture and supportive climate. Participants will explore practical, inclusive, and mission-centered approaches to leadership and supervision that strengthen teams, promote accountability, and sustain ethical practice across an organization.

Overview: Structural racism has been endemic in North America since before the formation of the United States of America. Even though structural racism, most particularly anti-Black structural racism, is historically rooted and systematically sustained, we continually seek to combat it with the “one bad apple” approach. This presentation will expand our view from a micro, or individual level, to a macro, or group level, understanding of racism. Participants will examine structural racism as a form of inequity and systemic disadvantage that yields disparate access to resources, opportunities, and life outcomes. Participants will be guided in defining and framing structural racism in association with the ways in which policies, practices, and institutions produce and sustain racial disparities. Particular attention will be given to the concept of community trauma, highlighting how structural inequities adversely impacts predominately Black communities. Structural competency will be introduced as a practical framework for combating structural racism, mitigating its impact, and promoting equity.

Overview: Join CE You moderator, therapist, and founder of "Therapy Connection", Andrea Brognano, LMHC as we explore the ethics of professional boundaries. Participants will examine practitioners' ethical obligation to maintain appropriate professional boundaries and why these boundaries are important, defining and recognizing the potential dangers of dual relationships, as well as identifying circumstances that could impair objectivity and professional judgment. This webinar can also be used for fulfilling the New York State "Professional Boundaries" continuing education requirement for Social Workers.

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