Therapist counselor training workshops calendar for counseling continuing education CEUs, CECs, CEHs, PDHs

Counselor Continuing Education Units: 
Counseling Workshops & Conferences,
Counselor - Therapist Training and (CEU's)

Washington State Health Department licensure regulations require that the Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), Chemical Dependency Professional (CDP) and other professions complete professional  counselor continuing education (CEs) units  (CEUs) continuing education credits (CECs) continuing education hours (CEHs), psychological continuing education credit (PCEC)  or professional development hours (PDHs) to maintain their clinical proficiency.

Unless otherwise specified, these Seattle - King County, Tacoma - Pierce County, Island County, Jefferson County, Kitsap County, Mason County, San Juan County, Skagit County, Snohomish County, Thurston County, Whatcom County, WA. Puget Sound, Washington State area presentations, classes, workshops, conferences and seminars are open to the public. Call the designated persons in each workshop below for additional information --Floyd Else, Webmaster.

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Thursday and Friday, May 8-9th, 2008 9:00 AM
at Holiday Inn Express in SeaTac, Washington

Breakthrough Strategies to Teach & Counselor
Troubled Youth

Got Problem Students?  Here's your Problem Student Problem solver conference.  You name the problems and this workshop delivers hundreds of immediate, problem-stopping answers.  You will leave with innovative more effective strategies for school failure, truancy, dropping out, work refusal, violence, delinquency, bad attitudes, depression and more.  Ten clock hours (CEUs) and SPU graduate credit available.

For child and adolescent mental health counselors, marriage and family counselors, school counselors and educators.

Cost $169.  Website.  Email.

Contact Ruth Wells, MS: (503) 982-4220
Youth Change, 275 N. 3rd, Woodburn, Oregon 97071

[Tell Ruth that Floyd at CounselingSeattle.com sent you.]

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Friday, May 16th, 2008

Preparation Course for the
NCMHCE (Clinical) Licensure Exam

9 AM – 5 PM (Registration/check-in 8:30 AM – 9AM)

City University - Classroom 11, 11900 NE 1st. Street, Bellevue, WA 98005 (you will find driving directions at www.wmhca.org)

Taught by Lisa Mayfield, MA, LMHC, Sponsored by Washington Mental Health Counselors Association (WMHCA) and Co-hosted by City University.

This licensure course covers crucial content and test-taking strategies for the NCMHCE exam.  On average, attendees rate the course excellent—the highest rating. Past attendees have commented…

~Gave me hope and focus of study ~Very helpful introduction to the exam and how to study.

~Very comprehensive, very helpful review of DSM ~Well worth the money ~Great information, very organized, good handouts, helpful test taking tips ~Assure future prep course people that they will benefit greatly from the course and collective wisdom of past takers ~Thanks again for your support and help on this. I love putting LMHC after my name.

~Thanks for your valuable information! I passed! I couldn't imagine anyone trying to pass the test without your course.

Lisa Mayfield, MA LMHC has nearly a decade of experience working with individuals and families. Lisa developed the prep course and has been teaching it quarterly since January of 2004.  She also teaches at Antioch and Argosy Universities. She is active with the WMHCA board.

Six months of free membership with WMHCA for participants who pass the exam.  Participants who do not pass the exam will be able to take the course again for free.

Visit the Washington Mental Health Counselors Association to register online and for more information.

050308-051808

Friday, June 06, 2008 (No charge)

ISSUE: MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
and COLLABORATIVE DIVORCE

WMHCA Workshops:
Washington Mental Health Counseling Association Invites Your Voice
in Beginning a Community Conversation.

LOCATION: Seattle Pacific University, Library Seminar room, 2nd Floor

COST: Free

CHECK IN at 8:30 a.m.; presentation starts at 9:00 AM and stops at noon.

The relatively new and rapidly spreading model of Collaborative Divorce involves two attorneys working with a Team that includes mental health professionals as facilitative coaches and child specialists – in addition to the divorcing couple.

Please join us in exploring this visionary and challenging model from the point of view of our profession.

Annie Doczi, MA, LMHC, and Anne Lucas, MA, LMHC, are seasoned and committed therapists. They are active in the local collaborative community and members of the International Association of Collaborative Practitioners. Their presentation will invite your insights and questions about:

The evolution of Collaborative Divorce – from the point of view of a couples’ therapist and a child/family therapist;

The gifts and risks of making Collaborative work a part of your practice;

Heads Up! Benefits and cautions for the referring therapist.

CONTACT: Allesandria Herrick at 360-941-2009 or aherrick@lacrimedics.com
 

June 19, 2008 9:00am-12:00

Firewall for Recovery:
An Active Voice for Talking Back to Addiction

Michael Galloway, M.Ed, MA
Shoreline Center,

This workshop introduces a practical method of self-observation that offers improved integration of mental functioning for anyone working a personal program of recovery. Current neurological research by Siegel, Damasio, Schore, and others, demonstrates that behavioral change comes through sustained forms of self-regulation. Firewall for Recovery examines the neurobiological structure of self-regulation when applied to addiction recovery. Without taking its eye off the disease, Firewall deploys an active voice for talking back to addiction that is congruent with cognitive-behavioral and mindful-existential models of recovery. The principles and practices of this method correlate with brain research that shows the orbitofrontal system of the right hemisphere to be functionally involved in affect regulation, motivation, and appraisal of meaning.  3 CEUs -- $55

Course Objectives

1. Identify and compare concepts of 12-step, cognitive-behavioral, mindful existential, and narrative models of change as applied to a personal program of recovery.
2. Examine current neurological research which shows how the orbital prefrontal systems of the right hemisphere are functionally involved in affect regulation, motivation, and appraisal of meaning.
3. Apply the seven principles of Talking Back to Addiction to a personal program of recovery.
4. Construct Firewall for Recovery as a personal recovery tool for managing thoughts, feelings, attitudes and behaviors.
5. Apply the three stages of Tracking the Triad as an empowerment model of self-care, strengthening boundaries and relapse prevention.
6. Integrate the above mentioned principles and practices into both treatment planning and non-clinical applications.

Presenter:  Michael Galloway has over twenty-five years experience working with teenagers, families and groups in a variety of educational, chemical dependency treatment, and private practice settings. He is a clinical member and Approved Supervisor in the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and is a nationally certified Master Addictions Counselor. He is licensed in both marriage and family therapy and mental health counseling and is a state certified chemical dependency professional. Michael is a well know instructor with the NW Indian Certification Board, a former adjunct faculty at Antioch University, and was formerly the coordinator of the Alcohol Drug Studies program for four years at Bellevue Community College. His private practice in counseling specializes in teen adjustment issues, couples and family therapy, addiction recovery, and treatment of co-occurring issues of depression, anxiety and PTSD. Michael’s workshops are built on a solid foundation of educational and clinical experience and are always well seasoned with humor, metaphor, case examples and a dash of the unexpected!

Offered by Northwest Resource Associates – Cascadia Training
For more information or to register, please call (206) 441-5892 or visit us online www.cascadia-training.org

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Monday, July 21, 2008, 7 – 9PM

Are you a psychotherapist interested in helping those directly impacted by the war in Iraq and Afghanistan?

The Soldiers Project NW*
offers confidential counseling at no cost to active duty personnel, veterans and their loved ones.

Please join us for an informational session to learn more about this important work and how you can participate.

Skagit Valley Hospital
Cascade Conference Room
1415 E. Kincaid Street, Mount Vernon

• Learn how the project works and what it requires of you
• Hear guest speaker Steve Ackers, a psychotherapist with 30 years of experience counseling members of the military, talk about working with PTSD and other issues associated with deployment

Beverages and snacks provided!

R.S.V.P. Please let us know if you are able to join us by either email (soldiersprojectnw@yahoo.com) or telephone (206–290–1035).

*We are a group of psychotherapists from a variety of disciplines who volunteer part of our time (a minimum of 1 hour a week) to offer confidential counseling at no cost to active duty personnel, veterans and their loved ones, to support them in dealing with the effects of war.

Directions to Skagit Valley Hospital
Take I-5 to Exit #226, Kincaid Street.
Go east, up the hill and continue for 4 blocks.
Use the Kincaid Street entrance into the old hospital building to reach the Cascade Conference Room. Look for signs for The Soldiers Project.
To park, turn left on South 15th Street and left again into Lot P5. If this lot is full, continue on South 15th Street and turn left on Hospital Parkway and then right on South 14th Street to Lot P3.

For more information regarding the Skagit Valley Hospital Campus:
(360) 424-4111  www.skagitvalleyhospital.org

September 20, 2008, 10:00 to 11:30 AM,
and the third (3rd) Saturday of each month thereafter

Monthly Interplay Group for Therapists

What is arts-based consultation about?  We will be playing with improvisational forms to explore our work with clients or other practice issues.  This group is fun, creative, and enlightening.

$70.00 and 1.5 CEUs per group.  Presentations by Mary Alice Long, PhD, LCSW, and Steven Gary, MA, LMHC.

Contact Mary Alice Long: (206) 200-4542 or Steven Gary: (206)501-7179.

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Purpose

The programs and trainings listed in the Workshop Calendar are organized by national state or local training organizations or by fellow therapists to help you meet your professional training requirements and are presented in the greater Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Washington, King County, Snohomish County, Kitsap County, Pierce County, WA, Puget Sound area in Washington State.

The CounselingSeattle.com Workshop Calendar is intended to publicize programs that provide the mental health counselor, therapist, social worker, psychotherapist or chemical dependency professional with training activities to meet Washington State requirements for licensed and registered counselors and professionals in psychology, social work and related fields.

Whether you are looking for CEU's, CECs, (work shops in professional continuing education units, or continuing education credits) satisfying continuing licensure or certification requirements or just want to add to your social work or counseling skills, the wide selection of program offerings help to satisfy a great variety of special interests and needs.  Return to this page each month as offerings change month.

Licensure and certification in professional counseling require the therapist to participate continuing education to strengthen counselor psychotherapy skills and abilities.

Note on us: on CounselingSeattle.com Workshop Calendar page. Adding an apostrophe "s" to a set of initials is a possessive form which we consider incorrect usage. Therefore, we use upper case initials with a lower case "s" to show the plural form. Specifically, we use "CEUs" for Continuing education units [rather than CEU's], "CECs" for Continuing Education Credits [rather than CEC's], CEHs for Continuing Education Hours [rather than CEH's] and PDHs for Professional Development Hours [rather than PDH's].

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