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WMHCA: Decolonizing Somatic Therapy with Movement, Food and Art
This presentation will discuss how oppression and colonization have influenced the way we view healing, and offer alternative and accessible ways to heal.
Supervision: Ethical Considerations of the Impact of Burnout on the Play Therapy Process: WMHCA
What supervisors and supervisees need to know about burnout and compassion fatigue. Using an ethical lens to identify how a play therapist's level of burnout might impact the play therapy relationship and process. Leading to ways supervision can help mitigate the effects of burnout.
WMHCA: Collaborative Care with Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies
Participants will be able to define psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and role of external therapist, learn how to best match clients with available options, and practice collaborative care models with psychedelic providers
Preparing for the National Counseling Exam (NCE): WMHCA
This one and a half hour live webinar will review the content and format of the National Counseling Exam, and introduce tips and strategies for maximizing score performance on the exam.
The Gentle Art of Loving Your Trauma Clients - So They Can Learn to Love Themselves-WMHCA
This will be a glimpse of a broad view of working with symptomatic clients. Whether they experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, relationship high conflict, career issues, or chronic pain, they have one thing in common: trauma. The thoughts, sensations, emotions, and behaviors resulting from our reactions to traumatic events are plea, for attention to deep, often unconscious, unprocessed internal conflict. As clinicians, we can present a gentle hand called hope, inviting an overdue conversation.
Law and Ethics of Self Care-3 CE WMHCA
In this 3 hour workshop we will address the legal and ethical implications of clinician self-care. We willalso consider what the professional literature suggests regarding factors that inhibits effective self- care.
WMHCA: Re-Visioning Gender-Affirmative Care: Centering "Gender-Pleasure"
This workshop will provide attendees with increased awareness of how a focus on gender dysphoria can limit our work with trans and non- binary clients; as well as tools and frameworks to better support clients, cis and trans, in finding "gender-pleasure" in their bodies.
WMHCA: Clinical Documentation: Considerations of Changing Federal and State Laws (2025)
Recent changes to US federal law and policy have given states’ more leeway to regulate in widely different ways.
An Introduction to Forensic Mental Health Evaluation: WMHCA
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Whether you want to practice exclusively in the specialty area of forensic mental health, want to do a little bit of it on the side, or are just curious and want to learn more, this training could be a helpful introduction into the field.
Mindful Moments for Me-WMHCA
Mindful movement is a simple practice that helps us turn attention inward, to our own inner landscape of sensations, hearing what our body longs for and needs. It can be practiced anytime, anyplace including the 5-minute break between client sessions. This simple self-care practice supports our health and well-being by strengthening the mind/body connection. Let’s explore and practice gentle stretches that care for our body and increase awareness of the present moment during Mindful Moments for Me.
WMHCA: Demystifying Professional Advocacy
This presentation will provide participants with the foundational skills for advocating for issues related to the profession of mental health counseling. We will cover the basics of the legislative and rule-making processes in Washington state along with other opportunities for advocacy in organizations, agencies, and other spheres. There are many opportunities for counselors to get involved and have their voices heard at the capital and in rule-making for our license and regulations. Participants will be guided through making a personal plan for engagement in professional advocacy using the social action model.
Filters and Associations: When the Brain Gets in the Way of Connection-WMHCA
In this presentation, important features of the brain will be explained in a practical way so attendees can clearly see the problem. A list of tips will get them started with addressing this curious brain-based issue.
WMHCA: Legally and Ethically Launching your Private Practice
Are you ready to launch your private practice? Do you feel less than fully prepared by your graduate degree to become a practice owner?
WMHCA: Law & Ethics of Washington State Mandatory Reporting
Participants will gain increased ability to implement strategies to minimize risk and to limit liability to best support their clients and patients. This course is intended to meet ethics CE requirements.
WMHCA: Navigating Washington State's New Confidentiality Standards for, LMHCs, LMFT's & Social Workers: A 2025 Update
As of July 27 th 2025, the legal framework for confidentiality in behavioral health practice will undergo a significant shift in Washington State. Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHCs), Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs), and Social Workers will now be subject to the standards of RCW 70.02—Washington’s Uniform Health Care Information Act—through its incorporation into RCW 18.225.105.
WMHCA: ADHD in Adult Cis Women, Hormones, and Sex: What Mental Health Therapist’s need to know
This comprehensive course is designed to provide a deep understanding of how AFAB (Assigned Female at Birth) individuals with ADHD navigate intimacy within their relationships.
WMHCA: Clearing Our Blocks for Connection
In this hour-long presentation we will introduce an easy to use system for uncovering and changing the limiting beliefs that keep us from fulfilling connection. The material in this course is helpful for therapists clinically and in their own lives.
Washington Law & Ethics of Abandonment, Termination, and Referrals: WMHCA
In this 3 hour workshop we will examine the legal and ethical implications of termination and referral of clinical services
From Intake to Termination: Law and Ethics of Clinical Documentation-WMHCA
Sound record keeping is a key element of effective clinical work. This 3 hour Ethics workshop will present an overview of Washington State and Federal legal standards regarding creating, maintaining, and releasing clinical records. We will also specifically discuss the requirements of the federal Good Faith Estimate of Costs.
WMHCA: Clinical Supervision: Aspirations Angst
Greg will talk about the rewards of being a supervisor as well as some of the challenges that can occur when supervising others. This will include an emphasis on maintaining professionalism when making hard decisions that may result in negative outcomes for the supervisee and prioritizing self care.
Law and Ethics of Social Media: WMHCA
In this workshop we will address the legal and ethical implications of using social media and other online communications by behavioral health professionals. We will identify and discuss the evolving standards found in state law and in the professional codes of ethics.
Clinical Supervision Training: A Law & Ethics Perspective: WMHCA
Through direct instructions, presentation of real-life scenarios, and group discussions, participants will gain an understanding of the fundamentals of supervision best practices to improve their effectiveness and skill as clinical supervisors. Special focus will be on the Washington State legal standards for supervision.
Minimalism and Mental Health-WMHCA
In this 1 hour workshop we will explore the growing movement of minimalism and how minimalist concepts and practices can assist clinicians in their own self-care or in supporting clients towards mental health and wellness.
WMHCA: Developing new skills in critical thinking and clinical reasoning to enhance your psychotherapy
Adding critical thinking to your repertoire will enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of your psycho-therapeutic treatments.
WMHCA: Suicide Assessment, Management, and Treatment
This six-hour presentation meets the new Washington state CE requirements, and provides a practical, hands-on introduction for both new and experienced practitioners. The presentation will cover the assessment, management, and treatment of suicide risk in depth.
The Journey Of The Supervisor And Supervisee: WMHCA
The developmental model of supervision, supporting interns/associates through developmental milestones regarding their development of self of the therapist.
Professional Will as it Relates to a Social Worker, Therapist, or Psychologist-WMHCA
You May Not Know it, but Your Professional Ethics Likely Require you to Have a Professional Will! You have spent your professional career securing and storing medical records and ensuring your clients’ confidentiality. What happens to these records when you retire, become disabled, or die?
WMHCA: Supervision Strategies to Intervene and Communicate around Neurodiversity
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We will explore a variety of supervision strategies to intervene and communicate around Neurodiversity.
WMHCA: Adding Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy to your practice safely and thoughtfully
Have you been curious about the explosion of Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy happening in the mental health world? Learn about this unique mode of practice- its history, its effectiveness and how to legally and safely add it to your practice.
Law & Ethics of Clinical Documentation for a post Roe World: WMHCA
Through a discussion of this new case in the historical and legal context of Roe V. Wade, we will identify the specific impacts this has on client confidentiality and documentation of clinical services.
WMHCA: Healing Trauma through Movement
By understanding the biological adaptations of both trauma and physical exercise, participants will learn to identify movements and exercises that can facilitate healing in and out of therapy sessions.
Adding Self-Care to an Already Full Schedule_WMHCA
This is an interactive workshop that encourages self-reflection as clinicians identify personal needs, barriers and explore new ways of thinking about self-care.
WMHCA: Law & Ethics of the Clinical Use of Artificial Intelligence: Implications in Clinical Practice
Participants will gain the ability to identify and implement a legally and ethically sound approach evaluating and implementing new AI technologies in clinical practice.
Supervising Counselors with Suicidal Clients: WMHCA
Providers will learn strategies to assess counselor supervisees' needs in being able to provide effective suicide prevention, assessment, and intervention to their clients. Learn strategies to increase suicide competencies of counselor supervisees.
White Trauma: Vulnerability and Dismantling Systemic Racism
Racism, at its most basic level, is a lens though which people interpret, naturalize, and reproduce inequality. We all struggle to truly see one another due to the conditioning and trauma that has been imposed upon us, which becomes the breeding ground for implicit bias and racial disconnection.
Law and Ethics of Social Media and On-line Communications: WMHCA
While social media and other social networking platforms can provide clinicians with powerful and effective communication tools, they also have the potential to create a range of challenges. In this workshop we will address the legal and ethical implications of using social media and online communications by behavioral health professionals. We will identify and discuss the evolving standards found in state law and in the professional codes of ethics. Participants will gain the ability to identify and implement a legally and ethically sound approach to online communications and social media in both clinical and in non-clinical roles. This course is intended to meet Law and Ethics CE requirements.
WMHCA: Generational Trauma and Generational Healing
This training will provide information on generational trauma and generational healing in marginalized communities.
Law and Ethics of Self Care-1 CE WMHCA
In this 1 hour workshop we will address the legal and ethical implications of clinician self-care. We will also consider what the professional literature suggests regarding factors that inhibits effective self-care. Participants will gain the ability to identify an ethically sound, empirically based plan to implement an effective self-care strategy to best support work with clients. This course is intended to meet Law and Ethics CE requirements.
WMHCA: Law and Ethics of Relationships in the Clinical Setting
This 3 hour workshop we will examine the legal and ethical standards of a range of permitted and prohibited secondary relationships with clients. Both in-persona and virtual relationships will be discussed.
WMHCA: Clinical Supervision: Expensive Formality or Sustaining Professional Collaboration?
Overview of the entities that govern clinical supervision for social workers and mental health professionals, common pitfalls in clinical supervision that impact its effectiveness and an exploration of the function of clinical supervision at its most generative.
Law and Ethics of Interacting With the Legal System: Confidentiality, Subpoenas, Depositions, and Testifying-WMHCA
In this workshop we will examine Washington State legal and ethical standards regarding releasing client information within the legal system. We will also discuss best-practices to support effective clinical work with clients while minimizing exposure to liability. This course is intended to meet Law & Ethics CEU requirements.
Law & Ethics of Personal Beliefs-WMHCA
In this 3 hour workshop we will examine the applicable Ethical and legal standards regarding working within the cultural context. Specific focus will be on apply these standards to our mandatory reporting obligations and to working with a range of diverse clients.
WMHCA: Here Comes an Election... Law and Ethics of Personal Beliefs in the Clinical Relationship (2024)
In this 2 hour workshop we will examine ways we can balance our own personal values and beliefs with our ethical and legal obligation to avoid imposing our values and viewpoints on clients.
WMHCA: Self-Compassion as Exposure
In this workshop, self-compassion is positioned as a main source for exposure and response prevention treatment for anxiety disorders, phobias and OCD.
WMHCA: Hiring a Supervisor: What to Look For and What to Look Out For
This workshop will cover some important questions you might want to consider when selecting a supervisor, some red flags to keep an eye out for.
Community Care for Social Justice Advocates-WMHCA
Participants will explore ways in which they can develop relational and community-based care strategies to bolster their social justice work.
Law & Ethics of Telehealth: 2023 Update-WMHCA
This 2 hour law & ethics seminar is designed to present an update to the legal and ethical considerations of telehealth practice. In this seminar we will discuss current Washington State and Federal telehealth laws, liability and informed consent relating to telehealth, and the range of applicable ethical codes. Particular focus will be on the impacts of the end of the Federally Declared COVID Emergency.
WMHCA: Treatment Planning for Those Who Hate Treatment Planning
This two-hour workshop will address therapists working in Existential-Humanist paradigms who feel intimated or at odds with treatment planning and working with managed care.
Are We OK? Potential Impacts of Telehealth Structural Changes on Clinician Wellness – a Research Update
Join us as we share where we are in the research process, having coded themes we’ll explore together with you for relevance and applicability to clinical practice. We will provide background information and research, all the while looking to expose gaps in the literature, especially related to how the structural changes associated with telehealth practice impact and inform clinical practice.
So, Your Client Has an Emotional Support Animal…Law & Ethics of Writing ESA Letters-WMHCA
This 1 hour law and ethics workshop addresses frequently asked questions about clinicians writing service animal support letters.
Unveiling Transgenerational Birth Trauma (TBT)-WMHCA
By acknowledging and exploring TBT, we can better understand its far-reaching consequences for mental health, relationships, and overall well-being across generations.
Self Compassion as Self Care: WMHCA
Learn about the tenets of self-compassion and how therapists can apply this to themselves and integrate practical uses with clients—pulling from the knowledge of Christopher Germer, Marsha Linehan, Kristin Neff, Kim Quinlan, and more!
The Power of Integration - Enhancing Clinical Mental Health Treatment with Interpersonal Neurobiology: WMHCA
In this course, you will learn the primary concepts of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), its nine domains of integration, and some practical & interactive examples of how to apply the insights learned to real-life therapeutic situations.
Law & Ethics of Washington State Mandatory Reporting-WMHCA
For many clinicians, patient lethality and mandatory reporting are some of the most difficult topics to navigate. In this 3 hour workshop we will examine the applicable Washington State laws and regulations regarding mandatory reporting obligations with a specific focus on how these rules apply to the delicate balance of protecting client best interest and confidentiality while still meeting the reporting obligations in behavioral health settings.
WMHCA: Washington Law & Ethics of Abandonment, Termination, and Referrals
In this 3 hour workshop we will examine the legal and ethical implications of termination and referral of clinical services. Specific focus will be on understanding the concept of legal abandonment in health care. Participants will gain increased ability to best support their clients while also minimizing risk and limiting exposure to liability. This course is intended to meet ethics CE requirements.
Building Connections Through Art-WMHCA
This course will emphasize research on how play and flow states can help alleviate stress, burnout, and social anxiety while supporting connection and attunement with others. The role of the inner critic and strategies for dealing with its presence will be discussed as it shows up in the art making process.
Reconnecting to the Pack: Addressing Barriers to Connection from Chronic Loneliness-WMHCA
In this hour, we will discuss the costs of loneliness on the nervous system including increased rejection sensitivity, and identify ways to support ourselves and our clients in normalizing and neutralizing these challenges to restore meaningful relationships.