Clinician Trainings

These trainings are designed for clinicians who want practical, grounded development beyond theory. Whether we’re exploring suicide risk assessment or strengthening client engagement, the focus is on integration, clarity, and confidence in real clinical moments.

You won’t just learn what to do. You’ll understand how to think, how to respond under pressure, and how to stay steady while supporting others.

At this time, all training sessions are non-CE.

Current Programs

Suicide Risk Assessment & Response

What Is This Training About?

This 6-hour training focuses on developing confidence and clarity in suicide risk assessment, intervention, and post-vention.

We explore:

  • Reducing fear and increasing clinical confidence

  • Understanding attitudes toward suicide and how they impact assessment

  • Prevention strategies

  • Crisis intervention frameworks

  • Post-vention and supporting those affected, including yourself

  • This training is about building steadiness in high-stakes moments

What Will I Walk Away With?

By the end of the training, you will:

  • Develop community-preferred language that reduces stigma and fear

  • Feel more confident asking direct questions about suicide

  • Understand how to differentiate levels of risk

  • Learn various risk assessment frameworks

  • Learn how to co-create thorough safety/support plans with clients

  • Understand how to respond to moments of crisis

  • Understand how to care for yourself after difficult cases

Attendance is $60 per person

Upcoming Dates: To Be Announced

Client Engagement Strategies

What Will I Walk Away With?

By the end of this training, you will:

  • Understand what clients feel from you before techniques are used

  • Strengthen early-session rapport skills

  • Clarify your clinical positioning

  • Develop strategies for difficult engagement patterns

  • Build confidence navigating rupture and repair

  • Identify personal strengths and growth areas

  • You’ll leave with practical tools and deeper self-awareness

While examples may be discussed, all client material must remain fully de-identified to protect privacy and maintain HIPAA compliance.

Attendance is $30 per person

What Is This Training About?

This 4-hour training focuses on strengthening client engagement and therapeutic presence, bridging theory and identity.

We explore:

  • Factors that contribute to or detract from engagement

  • Building trust, credibility, and connection in early sessions

  • Clarifying your philosophy and style

  • Communicating your strengths effectively

  • Managing expectations

  • Navigating ambivalent or reluctant clients

  • Ruptures and repair

  • Preventing client burnout and clinician doubt

  • Engaging couples, adolescents, and groups

Upcoming Dates: To Be Announced

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