Community Mental Health Clinician Summit: Clinical Tools for Trauma, Abuse, Addiction, Crises and More

Our first ever virtual summit designed
specifically for clinicians working in the
field of community mental health.

As a community mental health clinician, you never know what's coming next.

Clients are burdened by poverty, oppression, and lacking resources. Crises of a million different kinds are demanding your attention each day.

Burnout is high and funding is tight.

And when your caseload is so diverse that you need to do it all… affordable training on today's top clinical tools can be hard to come by.

But for so many, you are one of the only sources of support and help in their lives.

That's why we've put together our FREE virtual summit designed specifically for clinicians working in community mental health.

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Our first ever virtual summit designed
specifically for clinicians working in the
field of community mental health.

As a community mental health clinician, you never know what's coming next.

Clients burdened by poverty, oppression and lacking resources. Crises of a million different kinds are demanding your attention each day.

Burnout is high and funding is tight.

And when your caseload is so diverse that you need to do it all… affordable training on today's top clinical tools can be hard to come by.

But for so many, you are one of the only sources of support and help in their lives.

That's why we've put together our FREE virtual summit designed specifically for clinicians working in community mental health.

Live 2-Day Free Virtual Training

Community Mental Health Clinician Summit:
Clinical Tools for Trauma, Abuse, Addiction, Crises and More

December 13–14, 2022 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Central

Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the training!

*CE hours are available for an additional cost. Register for more information.

Featuring Katelyn Baxter-Musser, Megan Boardman, and 9 other experts…

…you'll get the trauma-informed strategies and tools you need to improve your work in the community setting so you can provide top-level treatment for the clients counting on you.

Broadcast LIVE over two days, you'll get a toolbox of techniques from EMDR, DBT, Motivational Interviewing and more, for addressing the most challenging issues you face in your caseload including:

Co-occurring trauma and addiction
Clients facing race-based traumas and stressors
How to safety plan for clients experiencing intimate partner violence
De-escalation techniques to protect yourself and others
Strength-based approaches for supporting clients in poverty
Treating trauma in family and caregiver systems
Working with immigrant and vulnerable populations
And much more!

Whether you're a psychotherapist, social worker, or anyone in the helping professions, this is your chance to take your community-based practice to the next level, make difficult caseloads more manageable, and know your clients' lives have forever changed after working with you.

2 days of LIVE presentations from leading experts
Interactive Q&A for each session
On-demand access to ALL summit recordings for 14 days, plus slides and clinical resources
Earn up to 12 LIVE CE hours when you upgrade to live credit
Or up to 14.5 self-study CE hours when you upgrade to unlimited access

The need is dire… and growing.

Don't miss this chance to get the most up-to-date treatment strategies so you can keep making a difference.

Live 2-Day Free Virtual Training

Community Mental Health Clinician Summit:
Clinical Tools for Trauma, Abuse, Addiction, Crises and More

December 13–14, 2022 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Central

Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the training!

*CE hours are available for an additional cost. Register for more information.

Summit Schedule — DAY 1 — Tuesday, December 13

All times are listed in Central Time

EMDR Therapy in Treating Co-Occurring Trauma and Addiction

9:00 AM – 10:05 AM CST
Megan Boardman, LCSW, ACADC, CCTP-II, EMDR-C | {719000_Megan_BoardmanWithBio}

Trauma and addictions go hand in hand. And without addressing both, stable and long-term recovery is unlikely. In this session, you'll discover how the proven power of EMDR can reduce your clients' urges, decrease their cravings and lower their risk of relapse… all while processing the traumas of their past.

Culturally Affirming Practices for Whole Person Treatment

10:20 AM – 11:25 AM CST
Lillian Gibson, PhD | Click here for information about Lillian Gibson

Effective treatment focuses on the whole person. The thoughts, behaviors and sufferings of your clients are intimately connected to the social and cultural context in which they live. In this session, you'll explore the importance of intersectionality in each client and get specific guidance on replacing negative labels that can lead to ineffective treatment.

Motivational Interviewing: End the Tug of War and Create Lasting Change from Within

11:40 AM – 12:45 PM CST
Melinda Marasch, LCSW, MINT | Click here for information about Melinda Marasch

Too often sessions seem like tug of war. Back and forth between the reasons to change… and the reasons not to. It's easy to start feeling stuck or like you need to “win.” But the harder you push or pull, the greater the discord/resistance. You need a better way to communicate with ambivalent clients. Motivational Interviewing is that way. In this session, MI expert Melinda Marasch, LCSW, MINT, will show you how the evidence-based MI process works and ways you can apply it to make those tough conversations more productive, end the tug of war, and maximize opportunities for lasting change from within.

De-escalation Techniques: Protecting Yourself and Others

1:15 PM – 2:20 PM CST
Paul Brasler, MA, MSW, LCSW | Click here for information about Paul Brasler

When you work in community mental health, you know you're going to be working with people in some very difficult circumstances. Sometimes that means working with clients who can be violent and dangerous. In this session, you'll discover how you can work through your fears, use preventative safety planning and de-escalate tense situations to protect yourself and others.

Supporting Clients in Poverty: Strengths-Based Approaches to Build Resilience and Upstream Change

2:35 PM – 3:40 PM CST
Charissa Pizzaro, PsyD | Click here for information about Charissa Pizarro

In this session, we'll challenge our own biases about poverty, discover ways we can provide our clients with skills and resources to meet their basic needs prior to addressing psychological processes, and look at how we can close the gap of inequity due to poverty, even when it means going beyond the therapeutic session.

Finding Hope: Working with Immigrant and Vulnerable Populations

3:55 PM – 5:00 PM CST
Charissa Pizzaro, PsyD | Click here for information about Charissa Pizarro

When immigrants arrive in the U.S., the journey is often a traumatic one. Many have experienced war, rape and violence. And upon arrival, many face deportation, family separation, and struggle to meet their basic needs. In this session, you'll get specific tools so you can better connect with these clients, help them process the traumas of their past, and move them toward a brighter future.

Summit Schedule — DAY 2 — Wednesday, December 14

All times are listed in Central Time

Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence: Screening, Assessments and Safety Planning

9:00 AM – 10:05 AM CST
Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, CDBT | Click here for information about Katelyn Baxter-Musser

All clinicians are likely to encounter domestic and intimate partner violence at some point in their practice. And if you fail to recognize the abuse and properly respond, the consequences can be dire. In this session, you'll get an indispensable guide for improving outcomes for those impacted by domestic and intimate partner violence.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for PTSD:
Skills to Ground Clients, Decrease Triggers and Improve Emotion Regulation

10:20 AM – 11:25 AM CST
Katelyn Baxter Musser, LCSW, CDBT | Click here for information about Katelyn Baxter-Musser

DBT transforms the way you do therapy – moving you from a change-based model to one of skill-based learning. And applying a DBT approach to trauma treatment can help you get to the very core of how your clients think about life and emotions, so they can make tremendous strides in therapy. Katelyn Baxter-Musser has taught thousands of clinicians to use DBT in their practices for improved treatment outcomes. Join her in this session and discover evidence-based DBT tools you can use to keep clients grounded, help them become more tolerant of their triggers, and increase their emotion regulation.

Family Trauma Treatment: Teach Caregivers to Respond to Trauma Driven Behaviors

11:40 AM – 12:45 PM CST
Nathan Croy, LCMFT, CFTP | Click here for information about Nathan Croy

In the community health setting, you frequently work with parents who aren't prepared to deal with the trauma responses of children and adolescents. And when they're not, things can quickly go from bad to worse. In this session, you'll learn to identify trauma reactions and get scripts you can use to make and maintain progress by teaching caregivers to respond to trauma driven behaviors.

The Unified Protocol: Transdiagnostic CBT Treatment of Co-occurring Anxiety, Depressive,
and Related Disorders

1:15 PM – 2:20 PM CST
Shannon Sauer-Zavala, PhD | Click here for information about Shannon Sauer-Zavala

The explosion of specific treatment manuals for each DSM disorder can leave clinicians and agencies struggling to find the time and money to learn dozens of approaches. Now there's a better way. Proven effective in over 70 rigorous clinical trials, the Unified Protocol allows you to target core deficits across the neurotic spectrum so you can simultaneously reduce symptomology of co-occurring disorders with just one protocol. In this session, you'll join Dr. Shannon Sauer-Zavala, co-developer of the UP, as she introduces you to the transdiagnostic emotion-focused treatment principles and strategies already being used by thousands of clinicians for improved treatment outcomes.

Racial Trauma: Effective Interventions and Options for Treatment

2:35 PM – 3:40 PM CST
Lillian Gibson, PhD | Click here for information about Lillian Gibson

Race-based stressors can leave BIPOC clients overwhelmed with fear, anxiety, hopelessness and emotional exhaustion. The raw pain and trauma of each experience adding another excruciating burden they must carry. In this session, you'll discover how you can better align with your clients' race-based experiences and more capably treat clients with trauma rooted in racism with a multimodal approach including CBT, ACT and PE.

ACEs and Trauma in Students: Identification and Reponses

3:55 PM – 5:00 PM CST
Christina Reese, PhD, LCPC | Click here for information about Christina Reese

Students who have experienced trauma often present as difficult to engage and display problematic behavior such as a low frustration tolerance, angry outbursts, or difficult social relationships. If you're a school-based community health clinician, you know traditional behavioral approaches to classroom management and a punitive approach to discipline simply are not effective. In this session, you'll take a deep dive into the ACEs study, how trauma manifests in schools, and what you can do about it.

On-Demand Bonus Sessions When You Upgrade to Unlimited Access!

Suicide and Self-Harm in Children and Adolescents:
Assessment Tools and Treatment Approaches to Help Young People Heal

Tony Sheppard, PsyD, CGP, FAGPA | {347155_Tony_SheppardWithBio}

Suicide is a leading cause of death among young people. There's too much at stake to be unprepared! In this session, you'll get specific strategies to assess, intervene and support healthy self-regulation in young clients.

Compassion Fatigue: Prevention for Professionals Who Work with Grief and Trauma

J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP | {172787_J. Eric_GentryWithBio}

Working with clients who are traumatized and grieving requires that we remain connected and engaged as we hear stories of loss, pain and horror. In his session, join Dr. Gentry—an international expert on the treatment and prevention of compassion fatigue—as he provides a pathway for professional maturation that both resolves and prevents the deleterious effects of work-related stress including secondary traumatic stress and burnout.

Live 2-Day Free Virtual Training

Community Mental Health Clinician Summit:
Clinical Tools for Trauma, Abuse, Addiction, Crises and More

December 13–14, 2022 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Central

Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the training!

*CE hours are available for an additional cost. Register for more information.

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Community Mental Health Clinician Summit: Clinical Tools for Trauma, Abuse, Addiction, Crises and More

Community Mental Health Clinician Summit:
Clinical Tools for Trauma, Abuse, Addiction, Crises and More