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List of workshops in chronological order...
HIV and Hepatitis C Prevention, Screening, and Treatment Counseling
Tuesday February 11, 2020
9:00am - 12:15pm
3 credit hours total:
- 3 NBCC approved credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS), bloodborne pathogens (HIV), and evidence-based treatment (EBT)
Description:
This workshop is the first half of the day. You can also sign up for ethics in the afternoon. Attend one or both... your choice.
The HIV and Hep C training will explore current trends, testing, and treatment for HIV and Hepatitis C. We’ll explore and practice counseling skills in client education, screening, pre- and post-test counseling, prevention, and referral. We’ll also identify resources in western NC for clients.
Objectives:
- Develop an understanding of current trends in HIV and Hepatitis C and how they affect counseling in your area of practice.
- Develop a comfort level with practice skills in client education, screening, pre- and post-test counseling, prevention, and referral.
Snacks, coffee, water, and tea are all included!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, LPCS, CCS, MAC
Recommended reading: The Book of Hepatitis C: 7 Simple Strategies to Shift From Surviving to Thriving
Ethics in Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
1:00pm - 5:30pm
4 credit hours total:
- 4 NBCC approved credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved credit hours of substance use specific (SS) & ethics (ETHICS)
Description:
This workshop is the second half of the day. You can also sign up for HIV/Hep C Counseling for the morning session. Attend one or both... your choice!
If you’ve had “Ethics” workshops before, you know how boring they can be…. Well, this one is definitely far from boring! Ethics will be specific to both mental health and substance use. Participants will explore the gray areas of ethics and submit their own past and present ethical dilemmas for the group to examine and share their feedback. Case studies will support developing a clear and concise strategy for holding professional ethics and confidentiality as well as making decisions about how to address infractions. We will draw from NCSAPPB, NASW, and ACA ethical standards and how licenses in more than one discipline will impact your practice. We’ll look at current trends in ethics violations and where ethics meet NC Mental Health Law.
Objectives:
- Identify most commonly breached ethics.
- Share and resolve real-time ethical concerns as brought forth by workshop participants.
- Learn and develop a plan for addressing ethical concerns you may encounter as well as how to support fellow co-workers and supervisees in addressing them.
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison LPCS, CCS, MAC
Recommended Reading: Counseling Ethics for the 21st Century
The Gifts of Giving: Forms of Compassion Fatigue and Alternative Outcomes for Helpers
Friday February 28, 2020
9:00am - 4:30pm
- 6 NBCC approved credit hours
- 6 hours NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and psychopathology (PSY)
We all know burnout…probably a bit too well. What we may not know are its many faces, or the numerous factors contributing to its onset. Caregiving professionals are vulnerable to a spectrum of burnout syndromes including vicarious traumatization, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress. Outcomes can be pretty dire: substance use, PTSD, impairment, stigma, loss of career, isolation, unethical decision-making, and hopelessness.
Mental health professionals could be regarded as an underserved population, if we weren’t so busy caring for highly vulnerable people! Considering the lack of research and prevention resources available, and the low priority employers sometimes place on staff wellness, the potential for suffering is great among human service professionals.
When serving individuals who have addictions, watching one more relapse can be disheartening. It can make us feel like our work is going nowhere. It’s hard to show up for clients and families in their most vulnerable state, when we often do not get to see how the story ends.
Yet we are resilient and powerful! Our experience of the helping professions doesn’t have to be this way. This talk will outline symptoms of four burnout syndromes, provide reflection time with prompts for self-exploration, and a collaborative brainstorm session to apply as individuals and organizations. Finally, a discussion of compassion satisfaction and post-traumatic growth will foster hope, positivity, and a sense of community. Come take some space for yourself and the workplaces that make your amazing work possible.
The objectives of this workshop:
- Practitioners will gain knowledge of four types of caregiver burnout.
- Practitioners will increase awareness of burnout syndromes in themselves, their coworkers, and the organizations in which they work.
- Practitioners will collaborate with colleagues to innovate ideas for individual and organizational caretaking.
- Practitioners will reconnect to their professional motivations and empowerment to enact positive initiatives in the workplace.
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Ginelle Krummey, MA, LPCA, NCC
Recommended reading: Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
Motivational Interviewing and Enhancement Counseling with Advanced Trauma Informed Skills
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
9:00am - 4:30pm
6 credit hours total:
- 6 NBCC approved credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and evidence-based practice (EBT)
Description:
Motivational Interviewing and Enhancement Counseling with the Stages of Change will utilize not only MI and Stage of Change skills but also incorporating Advanced Trauma Informed Skills as part of the assessment and counseling process. We’ll begin with 2-3 emotional regulation skills then advance to OARS, supporting self-efficacy, express empathy, develop discrepancy, and roll with the resistance, and scaling.
Objectives:
- Participants will understand the role of emotional regulation and trauma informed care in the process of motivational interviewing and enhancement counseling.
- Participants will learn and practice OARS along with the 4 principles of MI and scaling questions.
Snacks, coffee, water, and tea are all included!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, LPCS, CCS, MAC
Recommended reading: Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, 3rd Edition
Mind-Body-Spirit Psychotherapy: Using the 3 levels of consciousness for healing
Friday April 3, 2020
9:00am - 12:15pm
3 contact hours total:
- 3 NBCC credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and evidence-based treatment (EBT)
Description:
As research has shown us, accessing a client's Whole Self for healing (mind-body and Spirit) can greatly enhance the therapeutic process. Instead of simply helping a traumatized client move out of survival, what if you could also help them identify, awaken and activate their highest potential? What if you could break old destructive survival patterns and unlock you clients wiser Self which lies beyond their repetitive, thinking mind? Join Dr. Shannon South for a fresh look at techniques to heal bringing together multiple areas of counseling to awaken human potential and fast-forward healing.
Objectives:
- Summarize and list unique qualities of the unconscious, conscious, and superconscious mind.
- Explain why repetition compulsion becomes a survival pattern for many traumatized clients and how expansion patterns may be engaged in the therapeutic process to speed healing.
- Explain why symbols [positive associations] are powerful components of psychotherapy, how they may be employed to replace traumatic associations, to promote healing.
- Describe how to help clients identify their guiding symbols and employ them in active healing.
- Identify the benefits of integrating levels of consciousness in healing.
- Explain why the subconscious mind must be engaged for healing to last.
- Discover an "Introduction to the Inner Counselor Process" that integrates multiple levels of healing for clients.
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Dr. Shannon South
Clinical Supervision I
Tuesday April 28, 2020
7.5 contact hours total:
8:30am - 5:00pm
- 7.5 NBCC credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and clinical supervision specific (CSS)
Description:
This year, we will begin Clinical Supervision I with the text, Clinical Supervision Activities for Increasing Competence and Self-Awareness by Bean, Davis, and Davey. This curriculum captures a new movement of mindfulness and contemplative clinical supervision that focuses not only on clinical skills but also on developing self-awareness in the professional relationship between counselor and client.
Just a few of the topics include:
- Facilitating Clinician Development Using Themes of Personal Issues
- Exploring the Person-of-the-Therapist for Better Joining, Assessment, and Intervention
- Seeing Through the Eyes of the Other Using Process Recordings
- Discovering Acceptance and Non Judgement Through Mindfulness
- Giving a Voice to Clinicians-in-Training About Their Concerns
- Developing Supervision Skills for Resiliency and Decreased Vicarious Trauma
- You are welcome to purchase the book ahead of time or just attend and find out if this type of clinical supervision fits your supervision style.
Objectives:
1. Develop a core clinical competence and self-awareness through a self-awareness and mindfulness lens
2. Develop skills of joining, assessment, and intervention
3. Develop skills to address dual diagnosis and special populations such as LGBTQIA, the immigrant experience, victims of domestic violence
Lunch, snacks, coffee, water, and tea are all included!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, LPCS, CCS, MAC
Recommended reading: Clinical Supervision Activities for Increasing Competence and Self-Awareness
Tools for Healing Sexual Trauma
Friday May 8, 2020
9:00am - 4:15pm
6 contact hours total:
- 6 NBCC credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and psychopathology training (PSY)
The objective of this workshop is for clinicians to develop skills and tools in working with sexual trauma. We will discuss facts and statistics concerning sexual abuse and trauma. Further, we will briefly look at sexual trauma - did you know that sexual trauma survivors are 13 times more likely to abuse alcohol, and 26 times more likely to abuse drugs? We will briefly look at sexual trauma through the lens of neurophysiology, and how it affects the nervous system long-term - including predisposing survivors towards addiction and other psychological disorders. Next we will introduce and practice interventions shown to be useful for three main areas of sexual trauma: emotional dysregulation, boundaries, and shame.
Group work with sexual trauma is both treacherous and deeply restorative. Few competent resources for this work exist, and most important is a strong and secure group culture necessary to foster growth and healing for clients who have been so specifically wounded. This workshop will cover group planning and facilitation from beginning to end, including interviews for potential members, group rules and expectations, and curriculum (for example, a group topic on how and why survivors typically struggle with addiction). It will include both lecture and active practice.
Objectives:
- Develop skills and tools in working with sexual trauma
- Discuss facts and statistics concerning sexual abuse and trauma
- Develop skills and learn practice interventions
- Learn and be able to apply several group models for sexual trauma survivors
- Be able to plan, advertise and facilitate a sexual trauma group
- Develop group therapy skills and practice several group activities for sexual trauma
Snacks, coffee, water, and tea are all included!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by:
Papillon DeBoer is an LPC in private practice in Asheville, and provides counseling for survivors of sexual trauma.
Clinical Supervision II
Tuesday May 12, 2020
8:30am - 5:00pm
7.5 contact hours total:
- NBCC approved credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved 7.5 hours, clinical supervision specific (CSS), including 3 hours of (ETHICS).
Description:
This year, we will begin Clinical Supervision II with the text, Clinical Supervision Activities for Increasing Competence and Self-Awareness by Bean, Davis, and Davey. This curriculum captures a new movement of mindfulness and contemplative clinical supervision that focuses not only on clinical skills but also on developing self-awareness in the professional relationship between counselor and client.
Just a few of the topics include:
- Addressing Resistance to Behavior Change
- Teaching Self-Compassion to Decrease Performance Anxiety in Clinicians
- Exploring Personal Roles and Themes in Clinical Training
- Diversity-Focused Competence and Self-Awareness
Objectives:
- Increase Awareness of multicultural issues in therapy and supervision
- Explore and develop skills in addressing gender and ethnicity
- Develop a better understanding of privilege and disadvantage
- Working with co-occurring disorders of SA and mental illness
Lunch, snacks, coffee, water, and tea are all included!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, LPCS, CCS, MAC
Recommended reading: Clinical Supervision Activities for Increasing Competence and Self-Awareness
Seeking Safety: A Treatment for PTSD and Substance Use
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
9:00am - 4:30pm
6 contact hours total:
- 6 NBCC approved credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and evidence based practice (EBP)
Description:
Seeking Safety is an evidenced based treatment curriculum that addresses both PTSD (trauma) and substance use disorder. It may be utilized in both individual and group therapy. Seeking Safety is a very user-friendly curriculum that supports the development of skills for emotional regulation, life skills, and recovery from trauma and substance use disorder. Come join us as we learn the foundational theory, curriculum structure, and how to facilitate a Seeking Safety group. We encourage purchasing the Seeking Safety book ahead of time to bring with you if you plan on facilitating the group in your agency. It has a limited copyright, allowing the facilitator to make copies of class materials for clients.
Objective:
- Develop an understanding of how PTSD contributes to substance abuse and how basic CBT can support emotional regulation, better decision-making, and more positive outcomes in the clients you treat with Seeking Safety.
- Participate in the facilitation of a mock Seeking Safety group to learn and develop a comfort with the group structure and process.
Lunch, snacks, coffee, water, and tea are all included!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison LPCS, CCS, MAC
Recommended reading: Seeking Safety: A Treatment Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Friday June 26, 2020
9:00am - 4:30pm
6 contact hours total:
- 6 NBCC credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and evidence-based treatment (EBT)
Mindfulness Based Stress Reductions (MBSR) is a well-defined and systematic patient centered educational approach which uses relatively intensive training in mindfulness meditation as the core of the program to teach people how to take better care of themselves and live healthier, more adaptive lives. We will discuss how individuals in recovery from substance use disorders can use this technique as a positive coping strategy. The prototype program was developed at the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. This model has been successfully utilized with modifications in a number of other medical centers and non-medical centers such as schools, prisons, athletic training programs, professional programs and the workplace. In this introduction course, we will review the highlights of the MBSR program, gain better understanding of Mindfulness meditation and practice several forms of mindfulness. We will also review the benefits if this approach and ways to work with clients using Mindfulness therapy.
Objectives:
- Identify the benefits of mindfulness.
- Practice mindfulness in their own lives
- Explain the basic tenets of mindfulness
- Explain the program contents for the MBSR programs
- Begin to use mindfulness with clients
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Dr. Shannon South
Recommended reading: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
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"Linda Harrison is a phenomenal trainer. She is real and engaging. I can't wait to learn more from her. John Sanders and the FIRST team provided an excellent environment for workshops. What a great opportunity to learn and to network with other WNC providers." - Attendee 10/13/15
100% refunds are available up to 48 hours before a workshop. 50% refund in the two days prior to the workshop. No refund for cancellations on the day of the workshop or for no-shows.
